The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-08-06
NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1857.

true to hIs character Of tie cobbler in the old
school book fable Of 1.-THE town fearing sege,"
persisted that 'there was no hing like leather"
who is quite wsg in his way, quoted to Chol-
we'll those very appropriate lines from "the
Yelled Prophet of Khorsssan"-
But faith, fanatic faith, oDos welded fAst
10 some dear falseh Dod, hugs Il 10 the last.
Fanatic faith, according to the application of
the quotation. was typi6ed by Choiwell, and the
"dear falsehood" by his candidate.
So Murray, Hall and Brooks started together
in the race for the Commissionership yesterday.
At the fftieth ballot, Hall, the uncle. was with
drawn to make way for Hall, the nephew who
ran up to the sixty first ballot, when further
change took place.
The black republicans, on the sixty-frs vote,
dropped Oakley Hall and took up Mr.. Thomas
B. Stillman. This gentleman was the ba, *
republican candidate for Congress last election
in the district now represented by John Coch-
rane. Failing in his Congressional aspirations,
he would doubtless like to be Police Commits
the one Office as he had of the other.
The democrats thought they might as well
make change at the same time, and as
Mr.. Murray was not acceptable to the
other side, they proposed the name Of Mr.
Michael ULheftr, lawyer, and formerly a
Judge of one of our city courts Oholwell still
persisted in hugging the dear falsehood." The
race continued between Stillman, UlshGffer and
Brooks, to the Tooth ballot-when the black re-
publicans, to show that they would have none
but politician took up E. D. Morgan, the
Chairman of the Republican State Committee.
At the lO5th ballot the two Mayors dropped
their candidate, and proposed third man
Moses Taylor, prominent merchant in the West
India trade, and the very antipodes of politi-
clan. But he did not seem to suit the black re-
publicans better than any of the others named
They still stuck to Morgan. At the 208th ballot
the two Mayors proposed the fourth mau-James
| Brush. Of the Ninth ward. The inquiry then
was. "Who is James Brush?" He turned out to
| be the father in-law of Mr.. Cholwell but still
that incorruptible American stuck to Brooks
Nature, however, finally asserted its superiority
| to parry, and Cholwell, as be wittily expressed
| it, 'brushed inn to the support Of Brush. And
80 matters stood at the end of the 252d ballot,
when the game began to grow wearisome and was
| abandoned.
The proceedings of yesterday, thus hastily
SKINNED over, prove palmer than any words
can do, that the black republican Police Commits
eioners are resolved to have the vacancy in the
Board filled by none but real out-and-out po-
litician-the worst appointment that could posi-
| bly, be made.
The two Mayors on the other hand, have sup
ported men whose names are totally unfamiliar
in the political world, however familiar they
may be in mercantile and professional circles
Perhaps Nye, Bowen and Stranahan act un
der instructions from Albany. At all events
it seems pretty clear that this community
may abandon all hope of ever seeing, under the
operation of the present law, an efficient police
in operation in this metropolis