Mayor Havemeyer not being pliable enough for the Wigwam leaders, they nominated and elected, in the Spring of 1846, Andrew H. Mickle, by a vote of 21,675, the Whigs receiving 15,111, and the Native Americans 8,301.[27] Mayor Mickle was regarded as “one of the people.” He was born in a shanty in the “bloody ould Sixth,” in the attic of which a dozen pigs made their habitation. Marrying the daughter of the owner of a large tobacco house, he later became its proprietor. He improved his opportunities, business and official, so well that he died worth over a million dollars. FOOTNOTES [1] The statement was made at a reform meeting in City Hall Park on April 11, 1844, that from 1841 to 1844 not less than 11,000 foreigners had been naturalized at $1 a head, though the legal fee was $5. The Judges, the speaker said on the authority of Judge Vanderpoel, signed their names to the papers without asking questions. [2] This was the first election in the city occupying only one day. Before 1840 three days were used. The vote stood: Varian, 21,243; J. Phillips Phoenix (Whig), 19,622; scattering, 36; total, 40,901. [3] The Whigs had formed committees in imitation of the Tammany organization. [4] Election of 1841: Robert H. Morris (Tammany), 18,605; J. Phillips Phoenix (Whig), 18,206; Samuel F. B. Morse, 77; scattering, 45; total, 36,93. [5] Election of 1842; Morris, 20,633; Phoenix, 18,755; total, 39,388. [6] _Documents of the Board of Aldermen_, 1839, No. 29. The _Weekly Herald_, February 15, 1840, stated that official documents showed, for the previous ten months, a total of nineteen riots, twenty-three murders and nearly 150 fires, the latter involving a loss of about $7,000,000. [7] See _Documents of the Board of Aldermen_, Vol. VIII, No. 35, and No. 41, 1843-44, for extended accounts. [8] Mayor Morris’s _Message_, July, 1842. [9] _Documents of the Board of Aldermen_, Vol. VIII, No. 22. [10] _Ibid._, 1842-43, No. 5. [11] _Ibid._, Vol. IX, No. 69. [12] _Ibid._, Vol. X, part 1, No. 46. [13] _Senate Documents_, 1842, Vol. IV, No. 100. [14] _Ibid._ [15] _Message_ of Mayor Morris, 1843. [16] _Message_ of Mayor Morris, 1843. [17] _Ibid._ [18] _Report of Commissioners of the Almshouse_, _Documents of the Board of Aldermen_, Vol. XI, No. 40. [19] _Ibid._: 400. [20] _Ibid._; see also _Presentment of Grand Jury_, _Ibid._, Vol. X, part 1, No. 53. [21] About this time the general committee was enlarged. Until now the delegates had been selected from each ward. In 1843 the practise was begun of sending them from each election district. [22] Sixty thousand of these entered the port of New York yearly. The total immigration rose to 154,000 in 1846 and to 427,000 in 1854. [23] _Documents of the Board of Aldermen_, 1844-45, Vol. XI, No. 40.