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DOINGS AT THE MUNICIPAL STATION-HOUSES
FIRST WARD.
The men of the late Municipal force in
the First Ward were assembled at the Station-House over
Franklin Market yesterday afternoon at 3’oclock, and the
notice of dismissal was read to them, whereupon they proceeded
to vest themselves of “city property,” stars,
batons, buttons, belts and caps. They next gathered up
such traps and baggage as belonged to them and mostly left.
They evidently took the decision and
the mayor’s acquiescence in it rather hard; but they
found some consolation in the bright idea advanced by one of
them, that the station-house would be wanted again for
“Wud’s Watch force.”
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SIXTH WARD [the Five Points]
At the Sixth Ward Station-House, Capt.
Dowling read the order of the Mayor at 4 o’clock.
Alderman Clancy made a speech in which he stated that he
had been to the
Last evening the Station-House
presented a very deserted appearance, it having been left in
charge of the doorman. A few of Mayor Wood’s dupes
were hanging about, probably from force of habit, and looked
like stray sheep just shorn of their fleece. The blinds
were closed; the lamp over the door was shrouded in darkness,
and on the whole the old Sixth reminded one of a house of
mourning. Capt. Dowling, upon leaving the Station-House
and passing along the streets, was greeted with cheers by the
“boys,” who were also lavish in their denunciations
of the Metropolitans, and intimated that some of them would get
“licked” if they came around.
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METROPOLITAN POLICE
COMMISSIONERS.
The decision of the Court of Appeals
drew together a larger crowd yesterday than on any previous
occasion. The Commissioners were employed during the
whole day in making appointments, in order to have the Wards
properly protected.
A flag was stretched over the street
in honor of the decision. The crowd conversing upon the
all-absorbing topic, and all were well pleased with the result.
During the day a large number of Mayor
Wood’s deluded men, who had clung to him to the last,
made their appearance and reported for duty. These men
had repented too late, and having been dismissed, the law
explicit declares that they cannot be reappointed.
A large number of special policemen
were sworn in to assist in preserving order to-day, and the
following permanent appointments were made:
[Listings of names is presented here
for each of the Police Precincts]
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ATTACK UPON METROPOLITAN POLICEMEN. – Yesterday morning Sergeant Van
Orden of the Twenty-second Police Precinct, made the following
report:
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HOW THE METROPOLITANS
BEHAVE.
The Eighth Ward Metropolitan Police
force had a collation and otherwise made merry in honor of the
decision of the Court of Appeals in their favor, and in the
Sixteenth Ward the police illuminated their headquarters at
Knickerbocker Hall, corner of Eighth avenue and Twenty-third
street. In the Ninth Ward, the Station-House in Jefferson
Market building was decorated with flags and streamers.
Every Station-House of the metropolitan Police was
visited by large numbers of respectable citizens, who expressed
great gratification as regards the decision of the Court of
Appeals. The captains and sergeants of the respective
Wards kept busy yesterday shaking hands with their friends who
called to congratulate them upon the successful termination of
the police question.
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[Note: Here ends the first part of
the FIVE POINTS articles. The next installment will be
the bloody riots of the city gangs on July 4, 1857 ... among
them the Bowery Boys and the Dead Rabbits]
--Gregory J. Christiano
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