The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-29
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From Our o,on Correspondent

III Is characteristic or
HORACE GREELEY
that he declines to run for Congress in the Fifth
District, and leaves the di'putatiou of that
honor between General Nelson Taylor and John
Morrissey.
He accepts, however the nomination OF the
Republican County Convention for the office of
Register, and has for his opponent the Hon.
Michael Conolly.
His conduct needs no explanation. It's aim Is
simply TO strengthen the Republican ticket, as
IL will cer,ainly do, by an increased number Of
voters.
The attendance at the iDve 'tigation of the
ROSENBERG NATURALIZATION FRAUDS.
in the room of the United States District Attor-
ney, before Commissioner Osborn has been
crowded daily.
On the part of the defense an attempt was
unsUccessfully made TO obtain dismissal of the
case, on the ground that the act I'M der which
the proceedings was instituted applied only to
seamen and their naturalization papers.
Meanwhile arrang gemeu,s have been made to
arrest under warrants from the United States
Court, every person presenting a fraudulent
naturalization paper.
Aside from this system of fraud, the names
four thousand persons have been discovered
who do not live in the localities whence they
were registered.
Consequently, au extensive force has been
organized, whose sole business 1t will be TO in
quire into the right to vote OF every person
registered.
On Tuesday evening
UNION SQUARE
and its surroundings were occupied by abou
twenty thousand people assembled to listen TO
the utterancGs Of the great and gifted General
Frank r. Blair, Jr.
He arrived rather late but was received with
violent screams, which seemed like endeavors
to choke off that tall talker, Mr.. James N.
ThaYer.
The tall talker, however, refused TO be choked
of, and talked on until he had had his say out.
and the orator of the evening came forward.
Perhaps there are no such things as onens.
Otherwise it woul seem a little singular that
jut as he did 80 the great calcium light should
be extinguished, and tue gas-light spres d-eagle
should 'go out" all except his bill, and stead
fastly refuge all attempts at leilumination.
The trappings inside Tammany Hall and out
side, around Union square, were expensive and
lavish. All that binding lights, Haunting
streamers, deatening bells and cannon, and
brazen music could DO was done until midnight
came.
Before The meeting broke up specimen Brick
Pomeruy soiloquzed aloud.
ca the same evening the
BROOKLYN BOYS IN Blue
bad magnificent turnout and we're joined by
those from Jersey City, Hoboken, and Newark.
The line of the procession was indicated by
those intermittent fire spouts, IN the shape of
rockets and Roman candles, which are the
universal expression OF political emotion,
Superintendent Kennedy, by-the-by has for
hidden any election bonbres to be lit and has
ordered the con6scation Of all boxes barrels
bOosbPa1a
The
POLICE COURTS
are at present busy with batch OF burglarles
fOrgeries, laCCenies, hOmicides, malicious prose.
cutlOns, and what NOT. 10 WL:-
On Tuesday afternoon u number of deputy
collectors, among whom was Frederick Is.
Lawrence, visited lEish,oWn, IN the Filth ward
Brooklyn. tor the purpose OF making rad upon
some illicit dislilleries there. Au improvisoed
crowd attacked them with sticks aud stones
and Lawrence, dIing pistol IN self defense,
accidentally though 1t is believed not fatally,
shot woman who was taking no part in the
affray.
young 0lackguard, aged fourteen, who was in
the habit of applying the lthiesL epithcts in the
Eve Points dictionary to the vile OF coal barge
captain at one of the East river piers. She put
an end 10 it and him by shooting him dead with
Sharp's revolver.
Mr. X. q. Alexander has been running up
bill at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, and presenting
forged check in payment thereof.
John Spicer, accused OF completely in the lar
ceuy of S45,000 worth of United States bonds
from the Sub-Treasury last July, will receive his
doom this mornlDg at the hands OF the TombS
magistrate.
trunks belonging to Mr. Black, of the firm OF
Ball & Black, jewelers. All the trunks except.
ing four aud tin box whose con tents are valued
at $4,000 have come to light in whimsical
manner. at different hours Of successive nights
they we're discovered by the police, abandoned
at q dozen different points along Fifth avenue
and Broadway, and most OF them repanted and
the articles of dress transferred.
A thief named Cough has been Initiating the
audacty of the Ball Back thieves by Gu
tering The bedroom of two ladies living in
Bleecker street, and snatchiDg and making Oft
with watches aud diamond rings 10 the value OF
several hundred dollars, while their owners
were en- desh06Me and III bed
six thousand dollar burglary in Canal street
has likewise been frustrated. The burglars, two
in number, had hired the unoccupied basement
of the premises, under pretense of opening a
trunk store. During the night they concealed
themselves in their newly hired basement. aud
from the store above conveyed six thousand
dollars worth of fieathers and satlns into a small
instalment OF trunks. As they were removing
these at eiX o'clock next morning, one of the
few Argus-eyed NJ. P.'S chpped stopper on
them.
In the Brooklyn Supreme Court Mr.. Leonard
q. Klinck in his suit against Charles l.. Hard
ing ana Others for $780, 600 dam ages, has received
verdict of S500) in his favor his suit grew
out of the detalcaton OF Folger d Tbbs, two
years ago, when that firm boughtSlOO,00 900 worth
OF goods on credit, and Immediately disposed OF
them below cost TO various Western firms.
Some OF them were traced TO the store OF a
Cincinnati aucuoneer, to whom they had been
consigned by Mr.. Klinck. One of the results OF
the prosecution instituted against the firm oil