New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-05-15
PVBLIO MEETINGS.
EIGHTEENTH WARD KNow-NorHINGs.

EIGHTEENTH WARD KNOw-NOTHINGS.
Our reporter hes Of late been circulating more
promseuously among the Counch in hopes to increase
his usefulness to them and to the public; Also 70 aay
q growing jeaousy for his long devotion to Council
No. 5. man can. write well when ne feels that ne
is not doing full justice to his subject
On Tuesday evening last a. he whirled around the
corner Of Second avenue into Twenty third street in
one Of the cars Of tina. road he was aroused from
painful revere liz was dream Of course of stormy
future for the Brothers, BY the dim gmmerngs which
struck his eye from the muHled windows Of Council
No. g. Eagerly he rushed up to the green bsze door
gave the alarn--saw tie usual big come TO the
the wicket-whspered the cabalistic word into that
esr-but 10 that ear was replaced by dreadful eye,
an eye which said by locks, who are yen = Now,
Jimmy Haswel is not one OF your careless sentinels.
Jimmy did not quite catch the watch word, and SO
Jimmy ven.ured his eye on it. One look suficed.
The door came open. Arrived at the top Of the next
fight of stairs and refreshed by drink Of Croton from
tin dipper our reporter first looked about the ante
room TO zee Il the Alderman of the Ward had come in
to be initiated Finding there, he pushed for
ward through picketed door No. Q to the scene of his
abors Being Of polite department he declined seat
until he had saluted Bro Edney, the President, aud
Bro Mcneil, the VicePresident, in the Sign of the
Order. Then Ike pebble dropped into still water,
be quietly gded to place Of observation near Bro.
Whitaker the Secretary. Bro. Whitaker is one Of
your Sociable Know Nothings-spen, frank and gener
Gus. He mourns, deeply mourns the absence of Bro.
Oliver. Showed the dark spot on the minutes which
records his departure. Says they have no such Broth
ers as Bro Oliver.
While on this agreeable chitchat, Bro. HAMLIS
(envious Hamlip) asked Bro Edney, if he was salts.
fed with the style in which the last brother meaning
the reporter made his entree Bro. EDyEY replied
that he did not whether the bow made right
or wrong. Noticed the brother looked well, though
not so well as himself, and that satisfactory to
HIM This lucid explanation, done with emphatic
ierk brought row among the handsome" ones. It
would not have been thus had Bro Oliver remained.
His conceded prominence in beauty kept down all
pirations His departure has loOsened the eternal
bung' of pride. Under this impulse men fight hard
Do their worst of fighting. dozen got the floor at
once-a dozen roared simultaneously -swore freely,
loudly, longy, strongy-heir incoherent wrangliny,
in spite of the gavel, or Bro. Edneys loud calls to
order or of Bro Mcneil (who rather sailed in with
the growlers), lasted full FIVE inmates. Nor did it
wholly cease then but sho we'd itself all through the
evening in occasional snars as do dogs worsted but
crashing for vengeance. Above the din could be
beard only scraps and snatches, such as Music
Teacher" Lunatic Asylum" {" Street Inspector"
Dhtcarts," "Poys WELL" Clean profits What
these mean is Of course best known to the brothers,
Like the slang Of the Board of Aldermen it can inter-
est those only who interested At the restoration
of peace, Bro. BANTER expressed condemnation Of
such conduct-thought Alderman Valentine, if
he should hear Of it, would refuse in toto
to ioin the Order. Bro. SyEEDEKER suggested
to Bro Baxter that after getting the nomination for
Alderman in the way he did last Fall---it would DO
quite as well TO keep his mug shut Bro. REED
thought neither Of them ought to say much about
Alderman matters since they had been instrumental in
electng man TO tfiice whom the Order had black
balled Bro. Mcneil thought all hands ought to rest
satisfied after eectng every candidate except Bro.
Sterling. Thought few mere Greeks" to vote
prepared tickets" would have elected him also.
." o, yes" said Bro. Lent, Its all very well for
Bro Mcneil to want quiet. He's got his bone TO pick
" from Joe Taylor, and makes g., 600 year, beside
" leisure to his Line Of steamers to Coney Island"
Bro MCNEIL said some men were sharp naturally, but
some did not get sharp till their eyeteeth were cut;
thought Bro Lent harbored ll.w al the Street Com.
missioner for some unredcened promise. Finally
Bro EDyEY put an end to this cross fencing by calling
for collection; remarked that Jimmy the outside
guardiap) was clamaIous, and the treasury empty.
Bros. Adams and Bucklin after passing round their
hats, capszed them ON Bro. Whttakers desk. From
their united efforts was realized the round sum of "a
cents-a portion Of which was set apart to the Fill.
more sinking fund, and the residue to Jimmy.
A proposition to adjourn to the Second Degree was
lost, because there to instate and bust
fol that degree. Wherefore they rushed for the
Third Degree. Bros. Weeks and CRAsTo sounded
the broth and found the whole seventeen to be all
straight. Bro. WHITAKER pulled out the National
Flag Bro. EDSEY said: brothers, the Union De-
" gree is Low open. Does any one know anything for
" the good of our Order?"
Much dsoursve conversation followed. Impressed
with their burdensome duty-a duty of which they
were remiLGed by the Flag of our Union; duty no
less than "to save the Union they very naturally
looked about at the prospects Of their doing it. This
being field for solemn contemplation, for careful de-
Liberation, inquiries not few passed. around, as to
where the old standbys of the Order were; whether
they had gone forever. 1t wes, indeed feeling
sion. Both officers and brothers caught the Infection
Dignity Of place became lost in unrestraned inter-
change Of mutual forebodings. Adjournment came to
their relief The brothers jumped for the door the
moment the piercing notes Of the gavel proclaimed
the Council closed.