The New York Herald Newspaper, November 6, 1872, Page 4

CHNTING THE DI and in the Streets of the City Yesterday.+ OY 2 SEER The Ubiquitous United States Mar- shals Making Arrests. POLICE PARTICULARS. The Wonderful Quietude, Peace- fulness and Order of the Election. THE NEWS AT NIGHT. Excitement at the Liberal, the Demo- cratic andthe Radical Headquarters. Reception of Returns by the Multitude in Front of the Herald Building and at the Herald Up- town Branch Office—At the Clubs and the Leading Hotels—Jubilations of the Successful and lLamenta- tions of the Sorrowfal. Gloom, Gnashing of Teeth and Gratulations Among the Respective Friends of Grant and Greeley. . Apollo Hall in Weeds of Mourning and the Tremendous Tammany Wigwam Echoing to Alternate Notes of Woe and Merriment. AFTER THE BATTLE. The People Calmly and Coolly Canvassing and Accepting the Results of the Fight, and Discussing Facts Posi- tive, Probable and Possible. Twenty years ago “Election Day” was one of the most maddening excitement—a season of con- tinual émeute. Great crowds gathered in the strects, filling them from curb to curb with a black swaying mass, where the use of deadiy weapons ‘Was more frequent than pleasant, and which was 88 susceptible to the influence of passion as a nerve of the human frame, bared by the surgeon's knife, to the keen edge of tne merciless blade, Popular impulse ruled the conduct of the ballot and determined what portion of its voice should be audible and potent. Affrays and tumults filled the day with alarme, and when, as the shades of twilight would Jal, the last votes were deposited, @ scene in Paris, on the eve of a fresh revolution, would not have had More elements of grandeur, danger, anger and ‘nxious excitement. The force of muscle was then supplementary to the instrumentality of the franchise, and the mobs of New York had much to do with deciding the nation’s destiny, which, bya strange chance, or mischance, still continues a sub- ject for conjecture. As darkness deepened the storehouses of the oil merchants were frequently attacked through the roofs, and barrels of tar and pitch were freely appropriated by the crowds. All manner of wooden débris was piled on the street; the combustible stu’ was lowered down the dark outer walls of the buildings by means oi ropes, and huge pyres were erected and ignited and their red fame leaped up in hot, hiss- ing, forked tongues to the sky to glorify success, while the black masses of people, with lurid faces reflecting the restiess fire, waved eagerly in the gloom and sent up intermittent shouts that fliled the very air with a continual tremor of emotion and excitement. Yesterday, in the most striking contrast with that period, or with the election of 1860, when Lin- coln was elected, despite the madness and fury of the mobs of all the cities of the Union, was more peaceful than a day of the Olympic or Athenian games in Greece. Before noonday it seemed like a Sabbath; after noonday, for about two hours, it was like New Year’s Day, only it lacked the {rigidity of winter; and only an nour before the closing of the polls was there palpable much of the excitement which has so long been considered as characteristic of the use of the privilege of franchise by the citizens | of a great, free Republic. The morning dawned Peasant and cold, the air biting witha shrewd- ness that favored the exercise of one’s wits by effectually arousing most of his facuities, physical and mental, which might otherwise be dormant. The habit of early voting was vot so much prac- tised as it was at times when to be at the polis late in the day was to endanger one’s life; but people went lazily and easily about the perform- ance of this great duty and right (considered by a large majority to be a great bore), and the tide of voters depositing their ballots in the glass padiocked receivers was quite steady in its flow until the hour of closing the poils, when the great wave was but momentary, and ebbed away a8 soon as begun. The peculiarity of yesterday's election was that it partook more of the nature of a cold business transaction than any previous one in the history of our city. In all the wards an unusual and almost unnatural quiet prevailed, and not a single fight of any consequence occurred to annoy the peice, Illegal attempts to vote were less frequent than ever before, and the era of ballot-box stuffing has apparently passed away. When the last ticket was cast the booths speedily vanished from the side- walks, which they had encumbered with their ugliness, and the small boys, who had gathered in motley groups, grasped ea- gerly the fluttering bits of useless paper that were then thrown regardiessly to the wind. In many places pyramids of old barrels were built and fired, and late into the night they burned, without re- gard to the success of any candidate. Around the Herap building the crowds of Inquisitive and Anxious people began early to gather, and as the figures were placed before them on the huge transparencies they were repeatedly greeted by shouts as they excited the pleasure of different sections of the multitude, Betting continued up to the latest hour of uncertainty and suspense, and in ll the hotels the excitement raged at its highest a8 the night waned into the wee sma’ hours, First Ward. There was no disturbance of any kind whatever in this ward during the day, despite the excitement occasioned bythe triangular fight over the Assem- bly nominees. It was rumored at one time that Judge Hogan and John Fox had determined to “paste” Lawrence, on the Tammany ticket, and give O’Brien a “show. The Tammany rank and file were highly indignant over the report; but in- vestigation showed that there was no foundation for it, and so the voting went on merrily without ar between the factions, It is satd, however, that A good deal of Boraci.dg Was uone by the Teyuiar sawmany wirevullers, notwithstwadiag Jonn Kefty's resolution of Convention agaiust all back second Ward. Havemoger’s friends made a good turnout in this sliders, ‘There were but two election districts, and | whole the day wan bre like it of course the excitement over the Mayoralty ques- pene SS ans 5 eed those who cared to enjo) . ¢ First ward, every paased off uletiy, Most of the stores in the var were closed, and the streets in the afternoon were iu great part almost as deserted as on a Sunday, Third Ward, day. All day, from early morning until the polis were closed, 'tis true, groups of interested men gathered around the places where the ballots were casi; but there was no disturbance 01 so desperate @ character as to call into requisition @ police officer. Many of the larger provision and grocery stores which abound on Greenwich and Washing- ton streets were closed early in the day, and it seemed like Sunday, except in the localities men- tioned. The great feud, and which displayed the most bitterness, was between the friends of the rival candidates for Alderman aod Assembly, “Healy” and “Maller” being on many tongues and the cause of many wagers. Occasionally certain sceptical and enthusiastic admirers of Muller would banter a Healy lad, and then there would be much brotaalty ead decidedly original “chin music,” but not a blow was struck that the HenaLp re- porter could learn of by the most persistent, searching and diligent questioning. (One or two .Deputy Marshals, full of zeal, arrested & citizen on the of giving # false lence, but examination proved his innocence and he was at once At the Astor House there wis &@great crowd investing their money in the Paris Matuels. One or two inveterate sporting gentle- men starting the betting on Connecticut and New Jersey, brought Grant tickets by the handiul, aud Greeley adherenta were found to make the pool alarge sum. The Mayoralty pool was also quite popu nd O'Brien stood even against the other candid: The police were very vigilant, and ward detective McDonald was particularly efM- cient. Fourth Ward. The excttement in this district did not run high, contrary to expectations; in fact, there was more general good humor displayed than is usual on such occasions. Previous to the polls Cpa, 4 there were no arrests, no fights and but iittle of what the muititude would consider Fiith Ward. The same story in general must be written of the Fifth as the Third ward. In ali the ten polling places there was but one disturbance demanding anarrest. The larger dry goods establishments, which are counted by scores in this part of the metropolis, were closed all day, and, beside the men employed in them, the horses had a rest and a “holiday” indeed. Now and then one or more of the political workers full of “gin and seltzer.” would make a short and disjointed speech; and ae were the utterances of joy and congratulation when the polls were closed, as some of the “boys” ele assured that their frends were elected, but that was all. During a moment ot ex- uberance after dinner time one James Hogan, livdng at 341 Greenwich street, went into the po ing place, 419 same street, and kicked over a ballot box, when he was at once arrested ant taken to the Tombs. He was Riechanred: and went his way rejoicing. In a word, the Fifth ward until night- fail conducted itself with great propriety. Sixth Ward. During the day no event of sufficient importance to merit recording occurred. The chronic “bum_ mers” imbibed “free whiskey” until they were un- able to tell whether they stood on their heads or their heels; and at one time there was a livel; probability of a tight between the Italians an emigres trom the Emeraid Isle, [t ended insmoke, however, and peace was proclaimed along the gut- ters of the city’s Potomac. Seventh Ward. The Seventh ward—the favorite sphere of Wil- liam Tweed and the arena of the many noble deeds of bis early life—was unusually quict ‘yesterday during the hours of polling and up to six o'clock in theevening. A faint spirit of the old leaven, however, was manifested on a few occasions, but no disturbance, as far could) be learned, arose from any source connected with politics, It is true the violation of the Election law by saloon keepers was plainly visible. tn almost every instance they re ded to excess, but the Bachaualian enthusiasts seemed to joy their nourishment in a quiet and friendly manner, The captains and suordinates at the polls were very busily engaged during the day in each election dis- trict. During the jorenoon a reporter could understand nothing from the various rumors afloat and the answers elicited, except that each candi- date was going abead “like tury;’ but at turee o'clock in the afternoon the judgment of the popu- througiout the twenty-six election districts oto make up the Fourth Assembly district and which comprises the seventh ward, | was becoming more and more definite. O'Brien =way far ahead of his competi- tors, and James Ryan, it was admitted, was fast gaining on the Assembly ticket, though the friends of Joun Galvin had also polled a very favorable vote. Several who yoted the regular re- publican ticket tendered their suffrages for O'Brien in preference to Haveme: which tor some time placed Lawrence and O'brien on an equal footing; but towards the closing of the poils O’Brien men poured in their votes quick and strong. Though the entire police for f the ward were on duty they had pretty hard w to keep order at the polling piaces without making arrests. Around the polls of the Fourth Election district there was a short encounter between two voters of opposite factions about haif-past three P, M.;_ but crowd which collected around them. had a fair in the vicinity, rated the exasperated pugilists. all the streets were crowded with persons of every grade apparently under che influence of drink, and | things began to wear a more dangerous aspect. Little bontires were set up at every corner and the urchins of each vicinity played their usual pranks around them. Yet the Seventh ward, on the whole, was comparatively peaceable yesterday | during the hours tor voting, aud gave every evi fight, no poitcemen being creased common sense. Kighth Ward Not one arrest, save one for disorderly conduct, | occurred in the Kiglith ward yesterday. The reign of peace in that. precinct was the most perfect known for months, up to four o'clock. M., when the polls closed. Ninth Ward, tive American ward of the west | side ofthe city, and ts inhabited chiefly by spring cartmen, butcbers and people who live in three story brick houses and are ifted with moderate means. Occasionally this ward goes democratic, but the odds are always against such ¢ | tion, and it is whig, iree circumstances may locally govern the distric Seldom or ever S$ Waid been as quiet as it was yesterday. y kept steadily and shehtly | ahead of Grant during the forepoon | ‘This ts the old n was hardly any scratching name of Francis Kernan, steady and solid vote for the “Mayoralty, and ub little thusiasm for O'brien or Havemeyer the district. TI foreign born population who inbatit the rivi election districts divided their votes between Havemeyer and O'Brien, There was not a single arrest reported during the day for violence or dis- orderiy conduct, and the United stutes Marshais made hut two arrests for iegal voting. Tenth Ward. This ward, which is the stronghold of the German citizens of the metropolis, during | te day was perfectly quiet. After the polls were closed imuititades of small boys might be seen capering about the street and utter- ing distractingly shtil! noises like the wild spirits of a fairy book ; but their depredutions were of the playful sort, and, while they tracted crowds and excited laugh they caused no trouble to the , Who were in a very amiable and tolerant The latter fact, perhaps, accounts more hything else for the orderly aspect of all the streets in the vicinity of the polling bootns. Eleventh Ward. Nothing could have been more orderly and quiet than was the election in this ward. eh individ. ual seemed to consider that he was on his good be- havior, anddemeaned himself accordingly, When the polls closed, at four o’clock, not a single arrest had been made by either the police or the United States officers, and Captain Garland stated that he had sekiom known so quiet a day in his precinct. Of course the mate population of all ages Was on the street, and the great majority gathered around the booths and polling places, discussing the rela- tive merits and demerits of the several candi- dates, but in but one or two instances were blows struck, and then no serious damage was done to the phystognomies of the rival combatants, Asmall reserve force was held in readitiess in the station house; but, happily, a8 above stated, their services were not neet Tweltth Ward. An air of serone quiet prevailed throughout ail the day. Nothing—not evea * drunken brawl— happened to ruffle the smooth surface of society. Joe Covurn was in the ward all day, doing good bch Aye Fernando Wood. In Manhattanville eke’ toau electors were given to untutored CONGR bos Latium Ol bie Ly Uien: " | | the police sent each quietly away and scattered the | but the sober portion of the crowd sepa- | | connect’ Mr. | \ | | | | | 4 sores in the ward’ wore closed with tho bed doors wal imisonse,. No arrests, were made in ‘and on the than election ware boselped 6 @ multitude of citizens, anxious y s Thirteenth Ward. The staid, easy-going Germans who comprise the This ward, which embraces one of the busy por-| Majority of the dense population of tho Thirteenth tions of the city and has a very peculiar popula- | Ward conducted themselves yesterday as becomes tion, was never so quiet at an election as yester- | law-abiding citizens, and in every instance re- frained from committing any breach of the peace. It is true many of them entered into pretty warm discussio “f i ‘ciate of their suffrages, fe; Not ono arrest was made by the it one by the United States oMicers. freely cx ‘course, but a8 it ts not @ fighting bever- age, no Vamage was done or even attempted. Fourteenth Ward. The right of franchise was exemplified by the citizens with remarkable order and sobriety. One of the principal points of interest was a polling place in Houston street (first, district), a block or twe from the celebrated ‘Muraerer’s row.” In this locality Willoughby, the candidate for the Assembly, is quite popular, and go is Byrne, the candidate for Assistant Alderman on the other ticket, Things were very much mixed, and no. man could say that ho had voted “straight.” The Opposing local nominees’ m most instances were frieuds and neighbors, so that little ani- mosity or bitterness was displayed; but the an- tagonistic parties carried on the contest with great apparent good humor. In the interest of O’Brien, however, there was here stationed a “gang’’ of very suspicious-looking men. ‘They were ovidently taken trom the very dregs of crime. Hardly a face among them was there that did not bear the marks of former and recent fights, and ‘the expressions of eye and tip did not bespeak very high or patriotic 4 incentives in their approach to the sacred privile; of tne ballot. One or two attempts were made by these creatures to press their way in a body into the room where the votes were being ‘cast, but the frm and manly attitude of the ice prevented both the accomplishment of their object, which was to overturn the ballot boxes, and the occurrence of a row. In Mulberry street, at the corner of Jersey lane, where the negro “element” is in the ascendant, there were booths guarded by dusky “workers” urposely provided to allure'the votes of the en- ‘anchised colored citizens by the more cunning candidates, ‘the descendants of all the Africans were out in great numbers, darkening the cheerful Bry t with the shadows of their dusky forms. Poli discussion ran high. A highly imagina- tive elector, with @ compact personnel, glittering black eyes and a spow-white row of teeth, re- counted’ to a. fellow, who was not at ail of & credulous disposition, an outrage which he said had been put upon a bigek citizen in another ward. The little game of the “worker” in this instance was evidently to prejudice public opinion by slanders against the opposition. The vic- tim at length exclaimed, intensely excited :— “Now, see hyere, ‘ou Sambo, y’ can’t do nuimtin dat sort. No, sah; don't b’’eve nufin y’ say.”” “But hold up. It’s so—tell you. Dar's Gawge Glumber, dar is, an’ the same thing——” “Can't help it, Sambo! can’t help it. Now, see hyere; don’t want nuffin to do with you., Your lect aint mates—no they aint. Don’t want nuffin t’ do With Gumber either, His feet aint mates, nohow, Wouldn't b’Peve neither of you on yer oath. I votes for O’Brien, I does,”’ He was a gigautic Ethiop, and walked of with heavy strides; whereapon a ee, feller’ of the more mercurial race of Hibernia said confidenually to the grinning policemen :— “Look at the feet of the two of them—iook!” ‘The crowd looked and laughed. In the lower part of the ward—in Baxter street, near Canal—was another polling place where ap- prehensious were forme of some possible distur! ance. One or two altercations heré occurred in which men gave and received blows. A short time alter twelve o'clock quite a violent fight com- menced, and a young man named Feeny at length ventured to interfere between the combattants, trying to separate them. A policeman, named Walton, at this moment becoming aroused to a sleepy idea of his duty, struck in the crowd at random and hit Feeny, the peacemaker, on the head. Feety’s heroic passions arose, and he re- tallated with a vigorous blow in the oficer’s face. He was arrested and taken to the station house, but was soon afterw#td discharg “Reddy the Biacksmith,” with’ x party of follow- era and friends, promenaded about the polis in this part of the ward, and he afterwards held a levee in Smith’s saloon, on the corner of Baxter and Hester streets, where tlie most diabolical looking compone: of the crowd were treated with trne rafmfian: hospitality poisoned liquor and bad cigars. “Reddy” was much intoxicated when, erty & before four o'clock, he swaggered up town, under the admiring gaze of the “work- ers” who hung about the booths. Fifteenth Ward. “ ‘The election of yesterday in this ward, like that in the Eighth, was the most quiet ever known. The only sensation of the day was ete that occurred at the polling place opposite “the Golden Swan." Here a noted char- acter of the ward, a Dr. Melville, famous as an elder member oi the Digby Club, appeared at half past two o’clock in the aiternoon, and a hed e the funniest scenes imaginable occurred. Doctor's long gray locks were first observe with hat removed, in old time courtier-like way, he approached the ballot box, At once a murmur arose on all sides; and, anticipating the reverend Doctor, the crowd cried, “Andrew H. Melville!” The Doctor was not in the least embarrassed, but ad- vancing, said:—“Genticmen, your antictpations father my action. You have given tongue to my At the | poor name. Would that { had ten thousand votes corner of Madison and Scatnmel streets two roughs | to cast for that honest man, Horace Greeley! His name will rival that of Washington. One gave us liberty of action and of conscience, and the other After five o'clock | will give us peace, progress and reconciliation.” An inspector here began a mysterious attempt to Greeley with the Woodhull-Ulafin | company, and added, ‘There is @ mystery that en- shrouds a woman's motives, Her will ts feeble and her ways are devious, while her faith is unfathom- abl THe Docror—Ah! but, my good friend, Cervantes tells us in Don Quixote that itis impossible to de- dence of good feeling, appreciable order aid in- | gine the secret motive of woman at all times. After some specious but surreptitious quotations from the vocabulary of the Woodhull, Claftin & Co. case (he Doctor quoted all the classi¢ aud poverty: stricken poets, and ended with that verse in Gray's “Elegy” be ing ‘Fall many 4 gem," No arrests were made in this precinct up te four o'clock. Sixteenth Ward, This ward gave a strong support to Havemeyer, and he had a good numerical vote from the lager beer saloons and from the high-toned old Knicker. bockers who live on the line of Fighth and Ninth avenues from Fourteenth to Twenty-fourth streets. Kernan was rnoning well in the upper part of the ward tn and around Sixth avenue, and 8. 8. Cox did well for the oftice of Congressman at Large. Judge Bedford was warmly supported for City Judge and Charles Donohue ran ahead of Law- ce. It was thought that the election of Charles Blackie for Assemblyman in the Thir- teenth district, comprising part of this ward, was assured at as carly an hour as two o'clock in the afternoon. ie i% the republican here, and th y competitor the democratic ranks to permit of the Mr. Christopher Fine. ‘here wereno disturbances whatever in the eenth ward, although there was a bitter feeling in regard to the Assembly can- didates. Seventeenth Ward. ‘The election in this ward was productive of no incidents of interest, The United States Marshals arrested some four or five voters whose registry was supposed to be trav lent; but only one man was detained by the Commissioner. At all the O'Brien booths the Greeley ticket was bunched with the Apollo Hall, and oniy a few O’Brien tick- ets with the Grant electoral t ts among them could be found, Eighteenth Ward. Tn this ward people acted on the principle of “voting early,” though the new election arrange- ments have utterly prevented the possibility of carrying out the remainder of Prince Van Buren’s humorous advice, and “voting often’ as well. Scarcely had the polis opened when the voters be- gan to stream in, and by noon by far the greater namber of the ballots had been successfully cast. The election proceeded throughout with un- broken quiet, and, though discussions as to the merits of the candidates were not unfrequent, sf were conducted with admirable temper, the disputants generally parted with a@ good-natured remark that “we shall see the whole story in to-morrow’s HkRALD.”' It was no- le also that the poils were rarely very crowd- ed, and the voting was carried on, with very few [Ese hong with very little inconvenience. The election, indeed, for a Presidential year was por. larly tame in incidents, and it seemed clear that public interest in the result was not of the excru- clatingly Garnest character that the party organs would have us believe. More excitement was felt over the prroralty than anything else on the ticket, and O'Brien was first and last favorite with the masses of the voters. Nineteenth Ward. ‘There was never a quieter election in this ward than that of yesterday. At not one of the forty- two election districts in the ward was there any- thing roaching a ight, or even a single com- bat, Lie polloe did WoL avrest # Single drunken Man—AOt because there Were not plouty of ‘pom irty-ninth stree severe blow on the Duggan, of the Twenty-first pre- cinct, about this time arrived and felled Corcoran 1 the ground with his club. While Teg peoatsese. Rooney attempted to shoot Corcoran, ey arrested and taken to the Yorkville Police court, where he was heid for examinatton. Twenticth Ward. | Since the ward was established no election has Passed off as quiet as yesterday. Notwithstanding the turbulent element of the Tenth, Eleventh and ‘Twelfth avenues was let loose, owing to the legal holiday, and a fearful amount of vile rum was P toaepe Rot a solitary arrest occurred mp to the ur of closing the Captain John ivaine, of the Twentieth precinct, had bis men Judiciously distributed, to quell any disturbance. Besides his own, the Superintendent ed thi additional men for duty im the Twentieth P rt. At about two o’clock in the afternoon a report was brought to this station house that one of the jpectors of Election of the Second district, ‘ifteenth Assembly district, was.so drunk as to be wholly incapable of attending to his duty. The matter was telegraphed to Police Headquarters and another ins; pointed at once. At the ‘Twenty-ninth precinct, to which @ portion of the ‘Twentieth ward belon; drunk and disorderly A. M. and four P, M. Twenty-First Ward. ‘The Twenty-first ward was one of the liveliest wards in the city yesterday, though the interest seemed mainly to spring from the question of the Mayoralty, and the general belief prevailed that O’Brien would certainly carry this section of the city by a heavy majority. His friends only one arrest for beng ppened here between six were certainly the most active at the I and not @& vote was lost that ait mately belo! them, or that could nged to be turned to that side. Rumors soon be- ou to Paspee spout that raeney. was ben need e negroes some of n'B friends; but when was thers an election where similar rumors were not current? The great fact about the wenn this ward was that it passed off without the slightest breach of the peace or even of temper. Even the ctors seemed to bein the most ecstatic state of good nature and jested among themselves in the intervals of voting, “without regard to party.” Even ly in the afternoon the voting grew slack, most of the bal- lots having been cast early in the day, and people amused themselves by speculations over the result. It is needless to add that such speculations were in all cases colored by the personal proclivities of the speakers, Men easily believe what they wish to and hold on to hope until the last, Twenty-Second Ward. Had it not been for the large crowds of people around the booths, contiguous to the polling places, loudly discussing politics, a stranger would have thought the day was Sunday, as bysiness generally was suspended. At the T'wenty-second precinct station Captain Killalea had only two arrests recorded up to the closing of the polls and the victims had to thank fighting whiskey tor their incarceration. Owing to the efficiency of the police, numerous fights were prevented, which, if allowed to get under headway, might have as- sumed serious proportions, as the roughest crowd congregated: between Ninth avenue and the North River and Forty-second and Fifty-ninth streets. As it was, the day passed off exceedingly qtat. SCENES AROUND THE HERALD OFFICE. pasts AR SST ELSES, A Crowd Far Surpassing Any Gathered Here on Any Election Night Before— Watching the Herald Tel)-Tale Bul- lectin. : There was great excitement last evening about the HERsLpD oMce—a degree of excitement that has not shown itself before in a politic® campaign in this city for many years—an excitement, how- evem that wae tempered by the best possible humor and the calmest moderation. The crowd began to gather early in the evening, and it was not long before the street in front of the HERALD building was a compact sea of faces, with eager eyes upraised to the record of the election returns as they were being rapidiy. transferred to the pieces of canvas prepared for this purpose, covering a good share of the lower story of the Broadway facade, and under the bril- lant blaze of a calcium light in front, capable of being read across the street with the same case as under the effulgent rays of the midday sun. Every grade of politician was represented—solid business men, millionnaires merchants and bank ers—the great exponents of our commerce and trade and vast business enterprises were here. Smaller tradesmen, mechanics, the sooty workers in shops, the bone and sinew of our city population, were here. Men in office and men out of office were here. Custom House men stood cheek by jowl with those having longing aspi- rations to serve their country in aiding to collect the city customs. They had come, too, from the slums of the city, the repeaters, the mus- cular roughs, who under the old poliiical régimé were proudly imperial at the pails. Conspicuously noticeble among the crowd—for one could read the fact in their faces—were those having bets pending on the election. All knew that here was the place to see THE ELECTION RETURNS. as fast as made up, and in this they were not dis- appointed. The first entry on the canvas bulletin, which was made a little after seven o'clock, wi “102 out of 618 districts heard from give Greele: majority of 4,000." The welkin gt with cheers upon this announcement. Soon followed ‘235 districts heara from—Greeley, 19,277 ; Grant, 11,557."" A most deafening shout rent the ai ther additions were constantly pe made, and other shouts filled the street with their reverberating peals. Meantime the crowd kept constantly in- creasing. By nine o'clock it had extended in solid column to St. Paul's church and widened its fanks, an unbroken mass on either side to the Astor House and Fulton street. There was NEVER SUCH A CROWD before in front of the HeRabp ouilding, and rap- idly the bulletin fille d up. Oi course all sorts of comments followed each addition, and new bets were offered. That feverish reslessness of the betting fraternity, eager always in their efforts to satisfy their ingatiate cravings for excitement, proposed all sorts of odds against those who had been the favorites during the day. At # quarter to ten o'clock the bulletin record had enlarged itself to quite a formidable array of figure columns. The announcement of the Presidential vote in the city how was:—‘415 election ‘districts give Greeley 66,464; Grant, 45,644; Greeley’s majority, 20,810." At the same time there appeared this announce- ment :—‘Returns at headquarters for Mayor—Have- meyer and Lawrence close; O'Brien badly de- feated.”’ The previous cheering was nothing to the wild tumult of voctferative yells following this latter announcement about O'BRIEN'S DEFRAT. “O'Brien gives up. I told you so," exclaimed ne. one. “I knew it,” said another. fou knew nothing of the sort,” added a third “Wait till the fall returns come in—they’ll different story.”’ “Will you bet on O’Brien?" spoke up a fourth person, quietly, and, as he spoke, pulling out his pocketbook, “I'll bet two to one lie is defeated.” don’t care to bet,” answered the person addressed. “Bet you $20 to $10; will you take that ?”” ‘am not betting I tell you,” “Bet $50 to $10,” and he added, ‘will any one take the bet?’Land he called out the bet ina tone of voice lond enough to be heard two blocks away. “There's no better but knows better than take the bet,’’ was the only echoing response. Some even bets were made on Havemeyer and Lawrence, but evidently many of them by previous betters on O’Brien, anxious to hedge their bets. ond those for Mayor were not talked of much. re was nothing, in fact, yet_ upon which to base a ealculation of victory or defeat, The main talk was about GREELEY BRATING GRANT. “That bulletin tetis a queer story,” said one gen- tleman to another. “A story that pleases the most here,” quietly answered the gentleman addressed, “But to think of Greeley getting the democratic vote in this city for President! that's the queer part of the agg OM a the first gentleman, who evidently felt in a moralizing strain; “the Whirligig of time never produced such a political el ; “A complete political somersault entirely, it is,” interrupted the second gentleman. * “And @ most glorious One at that,” continued he of the moralizing strain, “The battle began glori- ously tn Louisiana, and 1 hope to-morrow morning ee show that the battle @etending on alt the it Oimoe Blatos oF tue UuIOG, use Wen so wuwrioualy | WoKnlein Wee doomed, At this stage of the evening local candidates be-- NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 187Z.—TRIPLE SHEET. anathema passed in the | from O’Brien 8 So etree 4 drm! the importance of mt the atthire of come under his direction, have been * you for tne correction... Such imbecility of mismanagement was never before shown.” “But do sincerely think Greeiey is golng to be elected is “T certainly think so.” “I hope so mostsincerely, but [ have my doubts.” CITY VOTE FOR PRESIDENT. The conversation was interrupted by the follow- ing pecans oe the bulletin :—“Total vote in the fora, isg0%8+ Grocley's majority, 2 ; Gree! jority, record elicited the llnex of cheers, “Three cheers for Greeley,” cried out a stentorian voice, and they were given with a will. “You can all cheer now, but you will all howl most dismally in the morning,” said an individual of the Grant persuasion, but in a voice almost sotto voce, It was twenty minutes past eleven o'clock when the last Presidential announcement appeared on the bulletin. Quickly following it was an addi- tional statement regarding THE MAYORALTY VOTE. This statement was succinct and explicit and gave the following telitale stot jinety-nine districts ve Lawrence emeyer 9,602, O’Bren 976." This was sufficient to evoke cheers for lavemeyer, the disposition of the crowd being evi- dently to take sides with the man foremost in the race. But for all this there were many pain- fully lugubrious the faces of those who had labored through the canvass for O’Brien—who had voted for him during the day, some of them pos- sibly early and olten, and who had , and some even still hoping, that he would come out abead in the iy eet ght. Ty such the proa- cts of their chieftain'’s defeat was a severely dis- artening blow, HOW THE CROWD STAYED. — And still the crowd lingered—that anxious lingering, forming such a strong characteristic of our American people, which is never satisfied to go away, as the pore oP tees is, till the last canine is suspended, id if there was not a literal sus- pension of canines there was still a suspension of many hopes—a suspension, moreover, deeply, though not exquisitely painful to a few upon whom the being in or out of office depended on tie summing up of come in. As the . clock steeple out the hour of midnight there was no diminution in the crowd—no diminution in their enthusiasm—no diminution in the vane com- ments—no diminution in the progress of the wildest sort of bets. An hour more passed, and still an other, and, with scarcely any perceptible decrease, that same sea of upturned faces was still to be seen in the street with like intent eagerness upon each addition to the bulletin, on At the HeRALD uptown office, on Broadway and ‘Thirty-second street, last night the greatest in- terest in the elections, Presidential and municipal, was manifested. A iarge crowd of persons thronged the pavement in front of the office at so early an hour that even prior to ten o’clook it was deemed necessary to station a police- at the door to bar the advent of intruders, A My glaring caiciam light shot down its lurid, silvery rays upon & surg- ing sea of upturned faces. Men who had betted ore than their moderate incomes could permit them to wager waxed pale with the fear that they might lose, while those who thought their money was “safe” appeared jubilant and only too willin; to risk dollars upon the election of their several favorites. The crowd—and it was a large one— somewhat resembled a swarm of bees clusterit around a honeyed hive, As the hours progresse: and the night wore on ‘THE RXOITEMENT became intense, and at intervals Front ringing shouts would surge from out the throats of the maultitude and echo peans of praise or snarls of derision in favor of or against the candidates whom they affected and who were ly ce to be “heading the ticket.” Near‘ he = midoight hour the . feel that Wwrence would be the next. chief magistrate of this city grew strong, and the Tammany nominee’s ticket went up like @ rocket. Then there was a luli—the calm which precedes the storm, and men seemed to hold their breaths and await results. Then came the stirring news that Havemeyer, who had long been considered out of the Mayoralty race, was leading by a large jority. “This thing is getting 150 much mixed for me,” muttered a mustached gentleman, who had been mingling with the spectators in the hope of “roping in @ spare bet or two.” “Lawrence is bound to win.’ “He won't. Havemeyer’s next Mayor; he's 2,000 ahead already.” 5 “The State's going for Grant.” “Nothin’ o’ the sort.’” “Dix leads Kernan, anyhow," Cheers, hisses and general merriment. A noticeable feature was that very little ant- mosity was displayed, and both parties seemed de- termined to conduct the little of election in @ most amicable spirit. No one seemed to feel like fighting; not a blow was struck and everything as went “merril; a marriage bell. THE PRESIDENTIAL HEADQUARTERS, wa ee Scenes at Grant Republican, Liberal Republican and National Democratic Headquarters—Great Sorrow, Great Joy, Great Fun and Great Folly—The National Democratic Headquarters. Bright and early Mr. Tony Gallagher, from the Seventh ward, Secretary ofthe National Democratic Committee, of which Mr. Augustus Schell is chairman, assembled himself at his headquarters on the first floor of the Spingler House. Anthony was hopeful of an overwhelm- ing success for the democraticparty. The success of all its candidates in the city he was ready to make affidavit to; that Kernan & Co, would carry the State he had not the least doubt, and he SCORNED THE INSINUATION that Greeley would not be elected President of the United States by a.tidy majority. He hugged this comforting prospect and enjoyed it all alone by himself until the HERALD reporter broke in upon his meditations, and then he lightened his manly breast of a portion of its delightful weight by confidentially allowing the reporter to share his grand secret. About eleven o'clock A. M. he was further _ relieved by the entrance of a number of friends of “the cause,"headed by the well-known curly front of George M. Sanders, and tailed off by a mild-louking gentleman named Lewis, from Philadelphia, To them Tony imparted his impressions, and was rewarded by Mr. Lewis—who is a liberal repub- lican—expressing his doubts as to the FIDELITY OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY in the present crisis, ‘Hoot!’ exclaimed Tony; “if it only depends on the democrats we're sure to carry the day. Oh, if the Unton would only follow the example of this great State of New York to- day!” About one o'clock, Augustus Schell made his appearance, and through the day the place was visited by a con- siderable number of leadi politicians, who entered quietly and hopelessly, and so departed. At and after half-past six in the afternoon the re- turns and despatches began to come in, crawlin, hopefully at first, increasing less promisingly, an finally rushing in even more hurriedly than bad news generally does, FACES BEGAN TO GROW BLANK, and lugubrious, the corners of various interested mouths drooped dreadfully, until, about nine o'clock, neither Mr. Gallagher nor his chief, Mr. Schell, felt able to announce the sad news to the ever-increasing crowd of inquirers. All comers were then directed to proceed at once to the Cooper . Institute, Tammany Hall or some other centre of intelligence, where the feelings of neither Schell nor Gallagher would be hurt by unwelcome announcenients and where the democratic knell might be sounded without grating on the ears of the democratic chief and his faithtal staff oilicers, The Liberal Republican Headquarters, The HERALD man «allied at the Liberal Republi- can (Greeley) Headquarters, at the Glentiam, about eleven o’clock A, M. yesterday. Mr. Evarts, the secretary, sat at the head of a long empty table chatting cheerfully to a few surrounding hangers- on. There was nothing on the table but a profusion of ink stains, and nothing in the room but another table and a few chairs, The whole place had been CLEARAD, FOR ACTION for the evening. Throughout the day the place was as deserted as @ graveyard, except when one or two lonesome-looking “liberals” came in to shake hands over the bloody chasm which Louisiana was said to have made in the line of Grant’s march to universal success. In the evening came Colonel Ethan Allen, who was soon surrounded by an immense crowd of desperate but half hopeful liberals craving madly for consolatory scraps of news. Alién was in a sublime “fx,” but it must be confessed he was equal to the occasion. He laughed like a man who was winning all before him, and he lightened his labors and avoided an- swering unpleasant and inopportune questions by encouraging excited APTER-DINNER SYMPATHIZERS to make speeches, Which he turned into great fun. Very funny speeches most of them were, and very loudly Colonel Alten and his friends laughed at them; but the cool observer could easily see that Degeneres Later in the evening the dreadful truth broke in upon even the most persistentiy hopeful that the wad irrotrioy: lost, that borat re democracy buried and the The Grant Republican Headquarters. Up to seven o'clock in the evening was very quiet at the Grant National and State Headquarters, both in the Fifth Avenue Hotel. About that hour the leading politicians began te Make their appearance, and for the remainder of the evening the scenes there were lively in the'ex- treme, Ex-Governor E. D. Morgan entered the rooms oooupied by the National Headquarters LIKE A KE BROK. He read the despatches, aunlied, ‘and everybody Parlor, went out into else, not having space in the the bar to do their smiling. The parlors of the State headquarters, occupied by . Chairman Corneil and Collector Arthur, were full of enthu- siasm and great joy, General b. F. Burke standing at the door ana shouting the tidings 1 the crowds who filled the halls corridors snd extended away into the middie of the street. As : the despatches from the various parts of the and the nation came in and cheer after cheer went up, until at last of twenty thousand people assembled in around the hutel became fully satisfied that champions had won everywhere, and dispe: soon after mitnight. : 3 g i latest National, State, and City must be confessed that the intelligence, so far as it has gone, has fallen with a most depress- ing effect on the leaders and supporters of Tam- many. At one period of the evening, when it was announced that Abraham R. Lawrence nad car- ried the day in the city as the successful canaidate for the Mayoralty, the cheers of the audience knew no bounds; but in a. short time after, as Mr. John Kelly stepped for ward to say that the previous report was incorrect—that Havermeyer headed the poll and that James O’Brien was at the foot of it—the disgust of the spectators was expressed in a ter- rible groan, which seemed to come from each man in the crowd, as if he had received abiow of a heavy club across the stomach. In fact, it was too much for them to stand and there was a regular stam- pede from the hall which, would have cleared it out in a few minutes if.the President’ had not, by loud knocking of the hammer upon his desk, restored something like order. In the various speeches that were made, every allusion to what was termed the treachery of Apollo Hall, and the union, or supposed union of O’Brien with the republicans, was received with hisses and ‘oans, emne meeting was called to order under the presidency of General Francis Spinola. REMARKS OF CAPTAIN RYNDERS. Captain Rynpgrs said this meeting seemed to him like the old times, when he could say that honest men ruled Tammany Hall. Some persons had de- serted democracy and Tamm: all; but where were they now? (A voice, “In hell.”) He he they were not in hell, but wished that ic sins were forgiven. In the old time there hae been shameful detections from the party. Tammany Hall was now regenerated, and they could move on to victory. The men who had renounced democracy would never again be heard in that hall. Those who had kept themselves in wer by fraud and ‘alee would never be reinstated in position, Grant was nol much to blame as the democrats who sur- rounded him and sold themselves for office. Men upon whom they had depended had sold themselves to Grant. Ben Butler had said that New York would go for Grant; but it was easier to steal a dozen silver spoons than 20,000 democrats. (Great laughter). There were honest men now at the head of Tammany, and these would help to defeat dishonesty and corruption. trusted that repeaters would no more heard of in this city. Repating had been inaniget in until last Fall, when Tammany was rou! horse, foot and artillery. (Cheers.) Ben Butler New York would be carried for Grant hell wouid how!! but who ever hi aking of heayen ? He would not be tet a mile of tll tes. (Laughter.) It of Butler 8) within gal ( would be wonderful if, with the defections in their own party, and the money spent by the Grantites, Greeley would have in the city a majoriiy of more than twenty thousand. He had not heard of the returns about Kernan, who was an honest man, but if he should be defeated now he would come up again triumphantly on another oecasion. (Cheers.) ‘At this stage of the proceedings it was a@larea that 315 election districts of the city gave Greeley a majority of 15,000, (Cheers.) REMARKS BY MR. ACKERT, Mr, Ackert on coming forward said he believed) that from the returns so far received they had) elected Abraham R. Lawrence. (Cheers). Apolia! Hall, flying the Democratic banner and voting lor republicans had been taught a lesson which they would long remember. (Cheers). REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT. General Spinola, President of the meeting, spoke} at some length. He said that the English Times of this Cag ne ld under English influence—had as-| sailed Mr. Kernan on account of his religious belief! Gees) nd had Gragged down the hangs of the) ristian religion with the dregs of politics, (Hisses,) When Homa ag A wae rea hia) h brigade w ie heights. Merk (ks. iy ees aot to himto halt to learn the| igious belief of his brigade, (Cheers.) Whem Shields was whipping Stonewall Jackson down in| the Valley there was no_ question n the Ei nh Times as to what his re ligious lief was, The government of thi: country was saved, in the war of the rebellion, both| by Catholics and Protestants. If their nobie stand. ard bearer, Francis Kernan, had fallen in this strug: gle, they could only attribute it to the prejudice excited t him by the English of New The Apollo Hall people were the traitors that had assassinated him in his own house. He trusted the democratic party would re-| sent this in the way that democrats only could re-| sent it. (Cheers,) The General concluded by say- ing that a despatch had just been received the Associated Press, stating that Mr. Gr carried the city of (Cheers.) ADDRESS OF ISAAC J. OLIVER. Mr, Isaac J. OLIVER said that the liber republican party had stood true to Mr. Greeley this contest, and that tong | Hall was not generatly and honest men. They were si in favor of giving to every State in the Union th coniormeda to the laws of the United States the right to manage its own affairs. (Sheers) ‘The President said that a despatch had just been 3 ry had New York by 20,000 majority.| received to the effect that Alabama had gone I Greeiey. The majority in that State would prot bly be 10,000, (Cheers.) CAPTAIN RYNDERS AGAIN SPRAKS. Captain RYNDERS said that while they had cheer- ing news from Alabama, which had beeo cou sidered doubtful, and from Connecticut; whil they had news from other States in favor o Greeley, in the State of New York, whe the democracy had in yed¥s gone by been trit hant, the democratic party had been slain b reachery and rascality. (A voice, “Apoilo Hall.” (Hisses.) if Frank Kernan had been defeated b treachery—by men who professed to be his [rien could they ever forgive such a deed of treache: and rascality as that? (Cheers) At twenty minutes past nine o'clock it was nounced to the meeting that a despatch had bee recetved from Police Headquarters to this e(fect : O'Brien... . 33,0 Havemeye Lawrence. A burat of cheering Pr gathering broke out with all the force of a stor and continued for several minutes. ADDRESS OF MR. J. W. CHANLER, i Mr, Joun W. CHANLER then addressed the a alente at. some length, ‘congratulating them the victory they had just obtained, and assurin them that by the return of Mr. Lawrence the; u have a well-ordered government in the city, from the intrusions of United States Co missioners who might be disposed to tnterfer with the liberty of the citizen. There would be strict lookout kept upon the expenditure of public money, “Sp pe Sap hour forward let the d mocracy of New York cry out the 3 exercised over the people of ae ontth who we kept down at the polis by military, The Soutne! States were held down by military force tik} Poland, and like Ireland, which wus treated as tributary province by the British parliam (Cheers.) ‘These States should be restored to rights under the constitution, and if democt did their duty perfect liberty wes ty everyw restored bs the land. = (Cheers,) A report was here made that 463 election dint of the city had given Grant 47,796 votes aud Gro ley 69,400, (Cheera.) ADDRESS OF MR. SULITVAN. Mr. Serntvan made some remarks. stim ting fot WOROUCLY badd dived PEC ssaanurnatens 1m Km crv