The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-02-24

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The asbraska QUESTION ana tAs Maine Law
>6rsat Cenrusaen In tAs Elsotasa OF CHAIR.
man Fighting, Bruised Heads, Black Eyes,
Furniture smashed, dse., Aso., d.
large nAs meeting Il the German dsmosras was
held last eight st washisgtoa Hail. In Kssbsth street.
in pursuance Of the following call pubAshad In one Of
vdieasion Of hs csnssisusona RIGHTS Of Al oitssss !
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mas nsssg Of the 0srnas dsase ats ossHs ef ths city
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man democrat. q The ' - fisi LEE 1i;s
The hall was crowded at seven O'Clock BY On snthu-
sasti, crowd At half.pat seven o'clock dsputAton
from the Seventeenth ward preceded BY sbknd Of music
arrived, who were greeted with loud cheers.
Mr.. A. wNDMuIIIR, President Of the German Central
the meeting He said that the arst thing in order would
b the election Of . Chairman.
Several voices sung ont for Wndmsller NJ, Hartmann
nominated Mr. E. Richter for chairman; and then spraug
MP ocstest which battles description. Tns meeting was
almost equally divided between Windnusr and Richter
was impossible to tale vote 10 great was the con-
fusion.
Several mounted the stand and tried to speak, but II
was impossible 1t was ysls cries huszA. and uPro.I
the house. the friends Of candidate gorg side
the house. these OF the other casddAts upon the
WAS equally divided The yss louder than the rsvsy
among tbs imps Of Pantemonium prevented decision
Several tried to speak aiming to compromise and CON.
oilats All such attempts resulted only In calling forth
End grosns There vas no such thing . oonca
strike up. They did but the music was drowned ,,
the uprosr party here forced priest upon the stasd
sh1; b % oil Bss. tn:
"Down with the Pope" !" Down With him" rhs band
the lafayette a., Bind then psysd IL excellent stys
wilder than before. The company for . while forgot
their contest and loud and thuoderrs we're the cheer:
for Columbia" and "Americ. portiun operated
As the music ceased the confusion commenced
again with greater violence Little drummer Frederic
Sshuler beat toe Ievee which slsnced the crowd for
few moments bu 1t only for them to take breath
There percent about two rhousaad Gsrmaas, who
" = thu S.r
Chairman.
The platform for the speakers table IN tbs centre
Of the room around which the crowd swaysd and fro
HE solid At length I. was moved along to
end Of the hail. With Richter stanciag upon It, With
ODJ6ot l0pk0C8UO08,
applause and srosns A the table stationed
Ut end OF the hall rush made for II sni IL
upset and rmashed into pieces and Richter lLa sprawl
ing upon the heads OF the crowd.
Then began general Hght. Men we're tossed over
heads rAnplsd under foot and pulled and pumuslea in
every quarter In the midst Of the bA tile broom han
die elevated upon which was plscard reading 10
German, "No Slaves" The fsht then became terrible;
the head and brought blood from several After this
lAsec for She I'll the crowd tired themselves out
Dr. FROCH climbed Into tke balcony Of the band, and
gained the AsntoR Of the )wd long enough to propose
the nomination Of some other good German citizen be-
sicss Richter and Windmnlles.
This proposition did NO good otasr than qusl ths
fighting.
Msssfs Richter and wndmull9 then both together sp
TO speak, each fra nd Of the Others and desiring to
WITHDRAW il each Others favor.
The Understood this and would mot allow either
to speak. The bissipg groanng yelling, jsbbsng Ger
man, ras coz slant and deAfsning The drummsr beat
the role, but II did no good.
The Gt,msn Turner's then csms into the hall and
ranged into In front OF the balcony OF
the mosicisns where some OF the speakers, the
band reporters to keep the crowd nom carrying the
Doc or Fao.c H then advanced to speak upon the
question before the meeting, The crowd silent until
be spoke Of the Nebraska bill infamous, whom the up
roar was again begun
The crowd rushed for thu balcony TO pull the Doctor
6Cwa, but the Turner's kept thsm back
speaker proposed that al oppose to the Nebraska
bill should leave the room. This was rsestved vita
cheers and grosns and rome fighting.
This - have pstured 1t, lated till 10 O'Clock,
when there strong Indications that the lighting and
quatpg would reach the bsloeuy A soon a. this
'ent the speakers musicians and reporters who had
no fancy for getting thsr heads broke made themselves
soaros
when We left the hail. about 10 O'Clock, Il quiet
most OF tho audience having left With band Of muaio
to give cha'irari TO soms one somewhere.