New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-10-22
Philadelphia Letter.
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MATTERS AND THINGS IN AND ABOUT PHILADELPHIA,
Correspondence of tbt g1sstfnt.
PHILADELPHIA, October Is.
The election which took place in this city yes
terday was a singular affair. Though there
we're candidates, without number, representing
every particular stripe of individual opinion
and advocating every imaginable local interest;
the election was essentially tame and uuspirit-
ed. The people did not at all participate in the
excitement held up by the candidates, and the
vote was not more than three-fourths vote
The result in the State is undoubtedly in favor
of the democratic ticket; but as this was every
where anticipated nobody is disappointed In
this city the triumph is divided one. The
whfgs elect their Mayor, and the democrats
their Marshal of Police The City Council is
still whig by large majority The candidates
elected to the Legislature are all in favor of the
Consolidation Of the various Districts which nov
compose the city into one Municipality. Tn
other offices are pretty equally parcellel GU
among the wings, democrats and 1pformers tn
Native Americans alone getting nothing Thei
candidate for Marshal of Police, keyser, wa
defeated by a small majority; much to the re
gret of many who preferred him, account o
his former energetic and honest discharge of the
duties of the office. The wings succeeded in re-
olectlng their favorite, the Hon Vim, B. Reed,
as State Prosecuting Attorney.
Considerable excitement and bad feeling has
been induced by charges which have been
brought against Joseph r. Flanigen, editor of
the Daily News, and one of the whig candidates
for the Legislature, of having received bribo to
use his influence in favor OF obtaining a charter
for one of our insurance companies. The charges
were so strongly sustained that the North Ame-
rican, the chief whig journal here, indirectly
recommended the wings to erase his name from
their tickets. Notwithstanding this, however,
he was elected, though by diminished major
ity. The alleged bribc is said to have consisted
in a credit for an nsalment on stock, which
was never paid Flanigcn has sued writ out
in the Supreme Court against Edward NJ. Davis,
who supported the allegation by letter pub
lished in the Register and Bulletin, claiming
$50 600 damages.
The election day and night was disgraced by
a vast amount of fighting, roting and other
awlessness. Nearly dozen persons were
brought to the Hospital for medical treatment,
who had received in juries more or less severe in
these encounters. One of the reporters of the
Ledger, while collecting election returns in the
suburbs of the city, was surrounded by disor
dcrly gang, who forced him to spend his loose
change in the way of treats before he was al
lowed to enter the tavern i'll which the polls were
held 1t was g liquor or fight and he took the
more peaceable alternative.
Inquiry has been making in the city for some
days past for an aged. gentleman named John
Cummings, who left Brandywine, Delaware.
nearly two months ago, with the intention of
proceeding to Illinois, having a considerable
amount of money i'll his possession. Nothing
has since been heard Of him, nor have his rela
tivea b. II able to trace him beyond this city,
and sc fears are entertained that h has
been l.ully dealt with.
The Homeopathic practice of medicine is
growing rapidly into favor here The College
tablshed hcrH two years since, ls now firmly
sustained, an recent introductory lectures
by its facult. ltracted large and intelligent
audiences The list of matrieuiltes for the
present season is numerous, and comprises stu
dents from the most idistant sections Of the
Union Many of those who graduate Mt the
regular schools, afterwards take degree in
Homeopathy
Numbers of the curious among our populatio
were attracted this afternoon to the Schuylkill
to witness the mechanical spectacle of the eleva.
ton OF the stand pipe of the West Philadelphia
Wafer Works. 1t is, perhaps, the largest struc-
ture of the kind that has ever been erected in
single piece in this country. The column is o
thick boiler plate iron, s feet in diameter, and
about 1870 feet high, and when raised on its stou'
base will have an altitude Of about 226 fec
above the rivers level.
The agents of Messrs. Harden's Express yes
terday took from the mint such "hrick' us on
would not mind carrying in his hat, provide
his neck was stiff enough to bear the burden
1t was Of gold, of about the size and proportio
of an ordinary brick, and valued at sic ,256 7i
Mcssrs, Wells, Fargo & Co. were owners of tn
specimen, QuI2.