The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-11-06
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NEW YORK., November l.
Th.s week closes up the political canvass
and the politicians are doing their lVeliest
work. MANY of the candidates for local offices
have rooms, denominated Headquarters, Yin
buildings on the more frequented streets,
where working committees sit In perpetual
session, and the business of the campaign is
laid out. If the candidate is liberal he fur.
nishes whiskey, champagne and cigars. On
the sidewalks, in front OF these headquarters,
gangs of lazy-looking men stand all day long,
industriously chewing and e1pectorating.
Mora target companies than ever fill the
streets. To day the places for the registry OF
voters are open. There are nearly four hund-
red of them, employing an army of twelve
hundred inspectors, FIVE hundred policemen,
and fully three thousand canvassers OF the two
parties, to conduct the business of recording
the names.
The reform movement Is bringing numbers
0lne-long political opponents together on tne
same platform. At the mass meeting at Cooper
Institute tomorrow night among the speakers
announced are Horatio Seymour, Franz Sigel,
the leading German Republican Of New York;
Sam. Tilden, chairman of the Democratic State
4 (nAral committee; William n. Evarts, the
the leader OF the rural Democracy; Mr.. Steb-
bins. chairman of the committee Of seventy,
and Joseph q. Choate, nephew of Rufus, and
Republican lawyer of this city. No such ming
ling of black spirits and white in politics has
taken place within my collection.
Across the East River, 10 Brooklyn, there Is
au interesting triangular fight for the mayor.
atty. Brooklyn Is troubled with Ring" and,
like the New York Ring, 1t Is composed OF the
most active politicians OF both parties. These
men make pretence of opposing each other
on political issues, but are really IN league to
highest taxed city In the Union, and Boss
Tweed even is not growing rich with greater
rapidity than the magnates over there.
The present mayor Is old Martin kal6helsch,
Hoander by birth, and tie head Of the
great chemical manufacturing house In Fulton
wealthiest men In Brooklyn. For several
years he has been thorn In the side OF the
IsR;ng" The aldermanlc ring passes bills to
put money In Its purse, and Kalb6elsch vetoes
felsch illustrates them. Consequently, he is
very much hated in those quarters, and every
body has known that there would be deter
mined effort to prevent his renomlnauon by
either of the political parties this fall. The
''honest old Dutchman," as he is Familiarity
called, expected the Democratic nomination; ION
but the ring manipulated the primaries, ana
when the convention met, Kalb6eisch did not
receive single vote. Samuel s. Powell, an
ex-mayor, was nominated. The Republicans
nominated Samuel Booth, the present Federal
postmaster of Brooklyn. The 'honest old
dependendent candidate. He will carry the
entire German vote and probably the larger
part of the taxpayers belonging to the Demo-
cratic party. Ifyou hear on Wednesday morn
Ing of the election OF q Republican mayor In
the third city OF the Union, you wlll please
bear in mind that 1t was due to Democratic
dIksions, and not to any change OF political
sentiment there.
The outrages OF the Federal soldiery in the
outlawed districts of South Carolina are ex-
citing general attention and much indignant
comment here. Most Of this mornings papers
contained leaders on the situation. One of
them remarks "We are concerned against
thieves In New York who are stealing our
money. A thief Of another and worst sort.
at Washington. Is stealing our liberties.
There Is growing feeling Of restiveness and
alarm, even here at the North, over the eager
use of bayonets whenever an excuse appears
to offer. The eloquent voice OF Carl Schurz
may be heard already In the West laundering
against these usurpations. Mr.. Grant will
lose more than he can possibly gain IN popu-
larity by his South Carolina raid.
One of the Brooklyn Chadbands, the Rev.
Theodore L. Cuyler, has been stirring up 1T
tie sensation by giving an account Oh a Visit
he has made In company with police oncer
and an EBglish clergyman 10 the groggeries,
in the sluils OF New York. The relation was
given In sermon at his church on Sunday
night, and the reverend (who is rabld Radi-
cal, OF course, or he would not preach politics
in the pulpitl indulged in the facetious obser-
vation that sin every one of these degraded
holes he saw hung up somewhere political
poster, and in all cases they represented one
no.itlcal party, showing that there was q
unity OF political sentiment running through
all these dens Of drunkenness and de-
bauchery." 1t is evident thai the friendly
policeman did not take Cuyler ana his Eng.
proprietor of tie Infamous st. Bernard
House, on Mercer street. Allen Is the
leader of gaGg of thieves and
has been in the State prison. and has
brother there now. He Is also leader OF the
Republican roughs, and stands high In the
confidence OF the men who run Grants party
In this city. He Is IN attendance at all the Re-
publican conventions as striker or ballot-box
manpulator, and on election day does pugi-
listic service for the government. II Cuyler
had visited the st. Bernard and kindred slums
in that nelghborhood, he would have discover, Tsc
existence of "The" Allen, and his connection
with the Republican party of New York, are
30 notorious, that Cuyler must have known all
about the facts, aud he therefore proclaimed
himself again, and LOT the tnousanotn llme,
y hSIholg and hypocrite in prating OF the
superior morality OF the party of Bowen, Whit.
temore, Butler, Tom Murphy and Grant.
The English preacher who visited the slums
with Cuyler was the Rev. Newman Hall, who
came to this country to study public opinion
and kept COMPANY with Radicals only, while
he was here. Alter that eveaing's inspection
of the Fourth Ward dens, according to Cuyler;,
he declared that he should 60 back home and
tell Mr.. Gladstone that he had seen the govern.
ing classes of New York, and that universal
outrage would never do for England. On the
strength of this fearful threat Mr.. Cuyler went
on to exhort his congregation to stick to the
marty of Bowen and "Then Allen If they would
advance the cause of freedom and Republican
ism in the world.
The master work of the greatest of the mas
ters. MozarL's ''Don Giovanni" Is to be given
at the Academy on Friday night with an ex-
traordnary cast. Nilsson Is 10 sing the part
of Zerlina, Bricnoli is to be the Don Ottario,
Barre the Don Giovanni, Janet the Leporelio,
aud Hermanus, the great German 6asso, the
Commendatore: and so perfect will be the rep.
reservations, even in the details, that Ronconi
has been persuaded to take the small part OF
Nasetto. In some respects this Is the greatest
operate combination made here since the
DAYS Of Grisi and Mario. The pecuniarS sue
cess of the Nilsson season continues to be pro-
! AdiojOus All the seats are sold days IN aQ.