Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-09-04

mocrncy.
Our returns of the election of delegate
this morning are necessarily incounlete
There seems 70 have been no election what
ever in many of the wards, each factibr
claiming the victory and neither being en-.
titled TO it. The following details of some
of the more violent measures that were taken
in some of the wards, viii give our readers
good idea of the manner in which the
primary meetings were conducted.
In the First Ward the crowd was quite
large and the confusion intense. The nolls
were thronged, and the friends of the dif-
terent candidates for Sheriff behaved them
selves in a shameful manner The ballot
boxes were carried of and the election thus
rendered null. We print the ticket. how
ever, which is said to have been elected. al
though the truth can not be known.
The Fourth Ward was transformed into a
Pandemonium, and for three hours seemed
to be wholly under the control of fiends.
Meetings were held at the corner of Race
and Watersheds and at the Engine-house
IN Vine-street. At the latter place, pistols,
dray-pins, clubs, shillelahs and knives were
used quite freely. Hugh Lambert was shot
IN the knee, infiicting a wound which will
MAIN him for life; Hugh Kelly was stabbed
IN the back, although not seriously, and half
dozen persons we're knocked down with
dray-pins and clubs. Both the tickets were
declared elected, and the seats will, of course
be contested to-day.
In the Sixth Ward, party of men sta
toned themselves at the polls and amused
themselves by knocking every one down
who approached for. the purpose of voting
me ticket to which they were opposed.
A1ter lndulging in this very agreeable pas
time for about an hour, they seized the bal
lot-boxes and broke them to pieces. thus
rendering it impossible to elect any one.
The contesting tickets are given below.
The Eighth Ward was the scene of a sim
liar transaction. The ballot-boxes were
carried off and the tickets scattered to the
winds. Both factions claim the victory, and
both will claim their seats in the Conven-
tion to-day.
Strange as it may seem, the Thirteenth
Ward was comparatively quiet. To be sure,
there was no election, but then there was no
tight. The. Democracy of the ward could
not agree, but then they did not on this
account break each others heads, The con-
testing tickets are given below.
In the Fifteenth Ward the different fac
tions had different voting-pIaces, and persons
could.
The Sixteenth Ward was q grand battle
ground, the Waterloo of the Myers faction.
The friends of each of the rival candidates
INDUCED in knocking each other down pro-
and some of the delegates, II is
said, will visit the Convention this morning,
if at all, with cracked heads.
In the Second Ward, the ballot-boxes were
carried off, but not broken. The polls opened
an hour and a half before the advertised
time, and closed when they should have
opened. There were more votes polled, it is
said, for delegates to the Convention than
there are voters in the Ward, including all
parties, and the utmost confusion prevailed
during the entire evening.
All this trouble was caused by the friends
of Myers and the supporters of Armstrong,
the rival candidates for Sheriff. No such
thing as harmony could be found in the
party, and in almost every ward the same
diabolism seemed to be rampant.
The streets were thronged; the newspaper
offices besieged; the night made hideous by
shouts. yells, curses, both loud and deep,
while the firing of pistols and the sending off
Of rockets lent kind of deep base to the
disharmony, and red glare to the city in
different localities, that would suggest the
possibility of Tophet to the most un-
and disbelieving.
In every part of the city there were fights
and although no very serious
injury was done, save what we have related,
many persons were badly beaten. The pu-
gilistic propensity among the members of
the party seemed all aroused, and wherever
1t could find vent there were knock-downs
and rows.
The following list of delegates, so far as
they could be ascertained, together with the
expected contests in the Conventions, will
give these who are posted in regard to the
politics of the city and political leaders of
he party, avery good idea of what will be
lone to-day.
First Ward--W J. Flagg, Daniel Bailey,
]. W. Fitzgerald, Jacob Gardner, William
burger, D. ]. Moore, Patrick Fox, Dennis
Williams, Richard Corcoran, NJ. Stephens.
Executive Committeeman, Henry Bigger.
Second Ward-Oharles Mullen, ]. w. Rich
lrdson, j. W. johnson, William Harvey,
John Coyle, M. Jourdan, John Carney.
Executive Committeeman, J. Bell Pollock.
Third Ward-Thomas NJ. Key, Patrick
Rogers, A. Cline, @. Leppart, George Corne-
mus, L. NJ. Hazen, John McKernan, B.
]. Flanagan, Thomas Butler, s.
Y. Hammer John Connolly. Executive
Committeeman, j. Kiersted.
Fourth Ward-Corner of Race and Water
treets-John Moore, Frank Ruhiing, J. w.
3urke, Martin Dickman, John Murray, J. H.
I. Greene, Michael Foy, John Carr, John
Mccarthy, Thos. Roonan, Joseph Bunker
Executive Committeeman, Timothy Cronin.
The following ticket was elected at the
Iine-street Engine-house, for the same ward;
William H. Glass, D. McGfven, L. .McDermott,
J. Bright, J. Longshore, P. Neal, H. @. Jack
on, John McDermott, John Bunker, D. Nc
Joy, John Cranly. Executive Committee
nan, D. Mccoy.
Fifth Ward-SMichael McCaffrey, F. Kirch-
ler, John Schaffer, Joseph Bushcamp, Philip
Delaney, Charles Weise, James Ferril, Joseph
)eickman. Executive Committeeman, John
Voesner.
Sixth Ward-R. R. Quinn, Henry Vessel,
'eter Murphy, John H. Taphorn, John BEN
on, Theodore Derker, Matthew Kelly, P. F.
lurrin, ]. F. Frommeyer, j. e. Hsckett,
rank Hartmann. Executive Committee
nan, John Mcdonald.
The above ticket will be contested by the
Samel Froome, Bernard Schwien-
eT, Timothy Maher, o. N. Noble, Joseph A.
Wise, Edward Gallagher, j. Hedgelin, G. H.
leckmann, John Kelly, j. H. Nunningmoller,
ohm Crane. Executive Committeeman,
Eighth Ward-w. NJ. Cameron, William
sender, John G. Kelly, Jacob A. Remley,
Ienry HELLER, Thomas Hanahan, Anton
'ley, NJ. Rodgers, Barney Miller, NJ Fineran,
Ezekiel Howard, NJ. Crotty. Executive
B. lyman. vi. .T..I
The following is contesting ticket: Peter
acobs, Andrew Ross, A. Broering, j. H.
iesr an, H. Stall, R. Smallwood, John An
nan, B. Crone, A. Furst, Thomas Roberts,
acob Aul, James Mccoy. Executive Com
w. W. Cones.
Tenth Ward-William Dickman, jacob
liehl, ]. II. Lohr, II. II. Cohorst, William
,uhn, P. Miller, @. F. Blockbaum, J. II.
licermann, Sylvester Stevens, O. Stevens.
Executive Committeman-Joh Bunker.