The New York Herald Newspaper, November 3, 1875, Page 5

AT THE POLLS, A Big Blow to Boss Kelly and Tammany. HACKETT RE-ELECTED. A Heavy Vote in All the Election Districts. PHELPS THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE. The Laboring Men Defeat John Fox. MORRISSEY TO BE SENATOR. Tho election ts over and Tammany is overthrown. The people and the press have risen together and taken power out of the hands of those who oppressed the one and sneeringly denounced tho other. Hackett is elected Recorder; Phelps is chosen District Attornoy, and that gladiator Morrissey has been borne from tho arena into the Senate on the shoulders of the people, The indications are that those men who have disliked Tammany, but remained in her councils from base fear, will uprise, and so vigorously clamor for “Boss”? Kelly’s resignation that he will be forced to hand it in. Le Roi est mort! Vive le Roi! King Kelly dies, but the power lives in the people. Though the political campaign had developed much warmth of feeling, especially in reference to some of the local nominations, and partisans on both sides had worked hard and risked their money freely on their favorites, yet there was never scen a more orderly elec- . tion day in this city than yesterday proved. Whether from the chilly atmosphere or from police efficiency or by reason of the average good sense of the mass of cit- izens, aside from an occasional heated wordy discus- sion, the canvass throughout the city presented no fea- tures of disorder which could by the bitterest maligner of our institutions be magnified into examples of dangerous popular license, No riot or bloodshed called into use the strong reserves of police which Superin- tendent Walling had provided for instant ac tion in case of the recurrence of such scenes as that of last year, which resulted in the shooting of poor McKenna, as it was charged, by one of the highest executive officers of the county, Coroner Richard Croker. From sunrise till sunset the voters quietly deposited their ballots with the election inspectors and went about their ordinary business. No poiling places were obstructed by threatening bullies, Ro intimidation used to prevent even the most timid citizen from exercising his right by peacefully using the freeman’s franchise to indicate his preference in the choice of State and local officials. There wero cheers for favorites and groans for opposing candidates, but beyond that hardly the slightest breach of the peace occurred. A very limited number of arrests were made on charges of attempts to vote illegally, but even these were more rare than has been usual in for- mer years, Altogether the day was marked by less of violence and disorder than the average of ordinary days, In the evening anxiety to learn the fate of the several candidates drew crowds of excited but peace- able people to the various centres of intelligence, where good humor prevailed, the victors rejoicing with moderation ang tho friends of the defeated taking the result in good part and hoping for better success next time, Below will be found detailed reports from the several election districts, showing the features of the day’s occurrence in cach. FIRST ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. Tn apprehension of rows and fights in the lower part of this district the police force was increased by de- tails from the uptown precincts; but tho ordinary force would have been more than ample to preserve the peace, Only two arrests were made (other than those of an ordinary character), and they were for illegal yoting, Charles Wobner undertook to act as proxy for Jacob Droge. of No. 160 West Broadway, but, being caught in the act of voting, was committed tor trial in default of $2,000 dail, The other prisoner had changed his residence since ho registered. Justice Flammer held that he had not forfeited his right to vote and dis- charged bim. Czptain Petty, of the New street police, said:—"‘I’ve had the easiest ume I ever had except once, and that was when the politicians had me trans- ferred to the Twenty-sixth precinct (City Hull) for one day, SECOND ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. As in the First district, the Senatorial contest monopolized public interest in this Assembly district, The rival merits, claims and prospects of Morrissey and Fox were discussed as if the fate of the country depended upon the man who should be chosen to rep. resent the Fourth district in the next State Senate, These disputes nowhere provoked quarrels, and illogal voting was the only cause of arrests. At the Franklin street poll aaman was arrested because his landlord's bon said he did not live in his father’s house, but the old man proved that he did, and was discharged, Mayor Wickhain’s proclamation offering $100 a head for illegal voters was a wondrous stimulant to the Iaw-abiding. the Fourth police precinct. No eleven men were arrested there charges of violating eld. Henry Clit- on the election laws, but only ono was ford, of No. 349 Water strect, was proven to have been aresident of tho district ‘but eleven days, and was, therefore, held for trial in default of $2,000 bail. Jotn Morrissey sat in his room in the Anson Houso all day 4s cool and with as little apparent anxiety as if the bat- te had been fought and won. Mr. Fox was more rest- Jess, and was obliged to go out and take fresh air occa- sionally. Shortly after the polls closed he was seen riding up Broadway in a Twonty-tnird street stage. Within the stage were no passengers except the ex-Sen- ator and a friend But on the roof and steps and even hanging on the sides betweon the wheels were as many young ragamuffins as the Broad- way police could shake their clubs at in aday. Even here, on his own triumphal chariot, where it would seem that Mr. Fox ought to have been supreme, if anywhere, political differences raged as hot as at the polls. Some of the tatterdemalions shoutell vigorously for Fox, but their voices were neutralized by the cheers of the other urchins for Morrissey. Tho din of both parties was increased by the barking of three di- minutive “purps,” which chased mei ip the rear, barking fo furious chorus with their ine casters o8 the stage. THIRD ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. “Skirmishes along the whole line” would best de- seribe the contest in the Third Assembly district, Fourteenth ward, yesterday. ‘The Senatorial nght was mainly tho cause of those misunderstandings, which were hot of a very serious kind. The young men were very warm on thé merits of the two Jouns, Fox and Morrissey, and prosecuted the canvass with a vigor that very often resulted in black eyes, Morrise eoomod t0 be going aboad. " —— POURTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT, Last year the registration in this district was 6,780, this year it has been increased to 6,818, As some of the wards embraced run down to the East River, and a portion takes in a few streets of the Fourth ward near Eaét Broadway, where the most bitter contest waa yes. terday waged for Senatorial honors between Vox and Morrissey, {t wes reasonable to expect some trouble be. tween the factions, but the utmost good temper appear. ed to prevail during the day, and with the exception of minor quarrels, policemen informed the reporter that it was the most quiet election they had ever beheld, Everywhere through the district sensational placards ‘were posted by the friends of the candidates, warning the voters against the corruption and guile of their Fivals, and almost everywhere near the voting places the Mayor's proclamation was in plain view, offering Toward of $100 tor the arrest and conviction of every case of illegai voting. A few persons were arrested for obstructing the sidewalks, and these, with drunken brawls, were the most eerious offences that were brought to the notice of the writer, FIFTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. Inthe Fifth Assembly district the African voters took a vory lively interest in political affairs. Large num- bers of them gathered about tho booths, canvassing oud distributing tickets, Quite large proportion of them, in some election districts, deposited thoir bal- Jots for Sidnoy P. Nichols, the re nga | Senatorial candidate, under the marshalling of The. Allen; and yet Tammany canvasser at one of the booths complained in tho afternoon that they wore holding off as If for fome strong inducement Perhaps it came later in tha day, Thera were not many disturbances and such ag sid ocour were of a trivial character, SIXTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. The clection yesterday passed off quietly.’ The dis- Mlct 18 oceupted very largely by Germans, and this faborions slags of citizens ane pot so apt to indulge in Nee nT Fortteth street, and from Madison avenue to the East | Where we have put in power men who have betrayed i The population embraces all classes of society—- the residents of Madison, Lexington and Fourth ave- NEW YURK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NUVEMBER 3, 1875.—TRIPLE SHERT. lection quarrels as their Celtic neighbors in the other wards, At the Essex Market Police Court, where Jus- tice Kasmire presided, there was the usual number of arrests for illegal registration and attempts to voto without the sanction of the law. The bar onaaps of itnesses as to residence, former place of voting, &e. po made, and where ine testimony was not clear that the baillot'offered should be accepted at the polls an oath was administered by the judge, which would ren- der the party liable to prosecution, ‘not only for illegal voting, which crime is a felony, but also for perjury in subscribing to a false oath, The registration last year to this Assembly district was 4,986; this year it is 4.919, It was rumored early in the day that a number of re- peaters from Philadelphia, and New Jersey, who had already been registered, would attempt to vote in some of the wards composing this district; but it was ascer- tained this kad not been done, although the men who claimed they worked in the latter State were a majority of those arrested, Late inthe afternoon in Rivington and Grand streets there were a few booths upset, but the quarrels were mainly among drunken men, the citizens everywhere remarking how quietly the election ‘Was going on, . SEVENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. Even the four-handed contest for Assemblyman did hot appear to arouse any undue excitement, although some stir was caused by the arrest of six colored men for attempting to vote upon illegal registration, They were taken before Judge Kiibreth at the Washington Place Police Court, and held for examtnation, EIGHTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. The Eighth Assembly district, which is bounded by the Bowery, Stanton street, Clinton street, Houston street, Noriolk street and Division street, presented no features of novelty yesterday, Most of the residents being Teutons, the election enthusiasm was manifested by drinking @ very large quantity of excellent Inger, There was but litsle “scratching” of individual candi- dates, and at the time the polls closed both parties claimed to have carried the district, with the probabili- ties, however, in favor of Hackett’s victory. There were no arrests, and, with the exception of the shout- ing and romping of little boys and the innumerable miniature bonfires which they lighted in the streets, everything passed off quietly, ninra ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. The police had little to do here but strive to keep warm, and the keen wind appeared to coo! any latent belligerency that existed in the bosoms of the free and independent.voters of the Ninth, There was not even a noticeable number of drunken men to be seen, and at the polling places all was as orderly as could be wished, TENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. ‘The Tenth Assembly district, which is bounded by the Bowery, Seventh street, avenue B, Clinton street and Stanton street, is strongly Teutonic and was conse- quently, very quict yesterday, The voters turned out quite early, and by noon more than half the vote of the entire district had been polled. It was observed that Hackett received the votes of many Tammany Germans and that the better class of voters exhibited great en- thusiasm for him, — No disturbance marred the peaco- fulaspect of the district. The candidates were all per- sonally active from an early hour in seeing that their workers did their duty, and when the polis closed both parties, as represented at the polling places, claimed to have carried the da; ELEVENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. So quietly did the election pass off in this district that there was little in the aspect of the streets to dis- tinguish the day from any other. Asa rule, the voters in each electoral district voted early, with the excep- tion of the colored voters, who, for whatever reason, hung back until the last moment, At most of the polling places four boxes were observed, one having the regular republican ticket, with the one exception of J, T. McGowan, the Tammany candidate for Civil Justice. ‘There was only one cage of illegal voting in the district, that of a colored man who had recently changed his residence, TWELYTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT, In the Twelfth Assembly district the election passed off without any incident of importance, There were no arrests for illegal voting, and those who congregated about the polls seemed to have all they could do to keep their noses and ears warm. The boys began to build their election tres before four o'clock in the after- noon, and the ‘rounders’’ found much comfort in the miniature conflagrations, THIRTEENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT, This ts usually a quiet district, and it did not belio its reputation yesterday. There were the usual number of loungers around the booths, but no hostile demon- etrations were indulged in by the partisans of the can- didates, and the speculations indulged in by the nascent politicians were generally concerning the more exciting coutests in other parts of the city, FOURTEENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. In the Fourteenth Assembly district the day was marked by no disturbance of any importance, and no arrests were mado for illegal voting, Tho residents of the district, who are forthe most part Germans, cast their ballots peacefully, and, as a general thing, re- paired to their homes immediately. The ballot distrib- utors seemed to rejoice when the polls closed, on ac count of the cold. FIFTEENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. ‘Though large crowds of working men were collected all along the principal streets and avenues, and the merits of parties and candidates were canvassed with considerable vehomence, yet nothing of a violent na- ture occurred upto the timo of the closing of the polls, The agents of Tammany were very energetic all day 10 Jooking up voters, though one of them was heard to remark that “Tho workingmen had got this business about Kelly and the one man power on the brain and it was next to impossible to get them to vote.” ‘There was some drunkenness observabla, There was only one arrest for illegal voting in this dis- trict. SIXTEENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. This district extends from Fourteenth to Twenty- fifth street and from Fourth avenue to the East River, Iv is populous, and on election days turns outa for- midabdle host of voters, Except on the extreme east sido the voting 1s usually conducted with decorum, Yesterday eeveral liquor stores on avenue A charged nothing to the crowd of thirsty voters that applied for drinks curly in the morning, and the result was de- moralization in the neighborhood aud individual scrim- mages here and there of little consequence. There was much animation on First, Second and Third avenues; but in the cross streets a perfect Sabbath stillness reighed. ‘The polling places were never without a clustering | throng of active political workers of both parties, each side ready to swear to the casual inquirer that it was ahead and the opposition behind, ‘‘Tammany has been gold ont by its own men,” was the significant remark of a Tammany man, on'being asked about the ces of the day. The unusuaily fino weather ght out many non-political people on the avenues to sce the processes by whch the rulors of the city government are created. Timid ladies ventured to penetrate the rude crowds and gaze in bewilderment on the uses of the curious little sentry boxes dotting the sidewalk and shrouded in flaming posters. The day in the Sixteenth Assembly district was without notuble incident. . SEVENTEENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. In tho Seventeenth Assembly district, notwithstand- ing three distinct attempts to create an old-time ex- citement in the vicinity of the polling places and in many of the “half-a mile-away-from-the-polls” saloons, the election progressed, from the opening’ until tho close, without a single serious disturbance, In ail cases Mr, Morrissey was the subject, or rather, perhaps, the material with which the effort for excitement was made, At eleven o’clock it was in all seeming nervous- ness reported that there was a “bloody riot” in the west side lower wards and that John Morrissey had been shot by one of his own henchmen and carried to the Park Hospital in an insensible condition, At two o'clock P. M. further particulars were given, not concerning the riot, but of the condition of the wounded man, At that hour it was said John had been ehotin the leit shouider, and a ball bad struck his right arm, midway between the wrist and elbow, breaking, yea, shattering the arm and rendering ampn- tation necessary, At three P. M. report was that the sirgeong wero proceeding with the amputation, and that John, in heroic verse, had declined to take ingle whiff of chloroform, declaring that if he was fated to die in the fight ont Keliy, which was the ig alone, he would go out People’s fight, not of this world in the enjoyment or all his reflective faculties. From three P. M. untit the polis Were closed there were no additional reports from either the riot or Mr. Morrissey, other than that he had been beaten by Fox by fully 8,000, There was then time to talk of the other peculiarities of the day and account for what wero supposed to be the fixed conditions, It was then acknowledged by the anti- Tammany and republican workers that Tammany discipline had boen much more effective than had been believed to be possible under existing conditions It was acknowledged that Smyth had been voted for in this district by quite a large number of republicans, for the reason that itis bis home district, and that they Were personally friendly to him; while in the case of Phelps, it was admitted that for the same reason he re+ ceived many votes which, had the conditions been otherwise, would have gone to the opposition. In tho case of Bixby, for the State Senate, as against Wheeler, tho ciaim here was that he bi been beaten badly, and for these reason: He was said to ave beet! nominated by the anti-Tammany organization because tho republicans had promised to indorse and stand by him at the polls, for which {n return Pinckney, for Civil Justice, was to be indorsed and yoted for by the anti-Tammany men. This latter agreement it is claimed was not hon- estiy carried out. Instead of ucting upon the agree- ment, they are declared to have thrown Pinckney. tickets from their packages an@bunched John dlayes, EIGHTEENTH ASSEMBLY ptsrarcr. This.district comprises nearly the whole of the Twen- ty-Dret ward, and extends from Twanty-sisth street to River. hues representing the most aristocratic and refined element in our social world, while down along Second averue and by the river front the people are very poor 4nd in some localities given to law breaking. As there had been trouble in the district last year, Captain Murphy, of the Twenty-first precinct, made extraor- dinary’ preparations to preserve the’ peace, Forty Cllicers patrolled | the streets from the | time the opened till sundown, and on the slightest symptoms of a row the ' officers were massed together and the turbulent characters were instantly dispersed. Not a single arrest was made during ‘the day, The only thing that reflected dis- credit on the police authorities was the great namber of drunken men to be seen on the avenues. The £x- cise laws were absolutely ignored. More than fifty places on Second and Third avenues alone sold liquor over their counters all day, In many instances these sa- loons were contiguous to the polls, and the blue-coated “guardians of the law” might be seen leaning lazily against the window blinds while thirsty politicians and ticket pediers brushed past them to enter the saloons. In the afternoon a young man named Wilham Gorman, of No. 234 East Forty-tirst street, was brought into the station house by a friend, who stated that Gorman had en stabbed in the abdomen by some unknown per- son while he was standing in a crowd around one of the polling places on Third avenue, near Forty-second reet. The wounded youth stated that while he was Standing among the politicians that thronged tho place he heard some one say, “You can’t play sucker on me,” and before he could turn to where the speaker was he felt himself stabbed. After waiting about two hours at the station a doctor was procured, who stated that it was impossible to tell the character of the wound without a caretul probing, and th gyouth was sent to Bellevue Hospital, NINETEENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. In the Nineteenth Assembly district the feeling was general soon after noon that there was a very serious lack of discipline, and also, numerically, of an effective force for the distribution of ballots and the encourage- ment of the timorous in both the out-and-out anti- ‘Tammany and republican ranks, while the Tammany forces were never better disciplined nor more carefully handled. Many ‘former Tammany men claimed that there were not sufticlently private places where anti-Tammany tickets could be had, and that if they tried to get them thoy were sure to be pounced upon by the alert Tammany workers, and if they showed any inclination to vote in- dependentiy they were assured that they would be marked for all future time, and might look outside of ‘Yainmany intluences for work for evermore. Even in the sparsely populated portions of the district the voters who had voted as Tammany directed before wore hunted up, if suspicion had rested upon them, and taken to the polls with a package of straight tickets done up nicely in a rubber band. In the canvass for the Assembly the anti-Tammany men acknowledged to having failed to work, as it should have been worked, the combination of the Green and Feehan strength: Through lick ot an effective working force, the with- drawal of Green was not properly understood by many republicans, who, in their anger at finding his name withdrawn,’ believed it to be a cheat on the part of Feehan’s friends, and voted for King, the Tammany candidate, for revenge. This ulso caused loss to the Hackett and Phelps interest, Tho success of the Tam- many candidates was acknowledged even before four o'clock, ‘The vote cast in the district was nearly equal to the number registered. TWENTIETH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. In this district general quictness prevailed during the day, Several of the boxes whence the anti-Tammany tickets were distributed had been adorned with cartoons of the Tammany magnates, taken from the illustrated papers, These exhibitions frequently excited the ire of the “unterrified,”? but beyond a few angry words no trouble was experienced. ‘There were three cases of alleged’ illegal voting in the district. These were by Messrs. D, Curtin, DeSmith and A. Jenuine, The lav. ter’s vote Was pronounced a genuine one and he was dischargo., together with Mr. Curtin. Smith, who had attempted to vote under another regularly registered yoter’s name, was held for trial. TWENTY-FIRST DISTRICT. In the Twenty-first Assembly district everything passed off quietly. There were no disturbances of any kind about the polls. The various station houses in the district report no arrests for illegal voping, and only a few for drunkenness or disorderly conduct. TWENTY-THIRD WARD, In tho Twenty-third ward therelection was marked by quietude and good order throughout, the streets having a more than Sabbatarian stillness, At cach polling place the rank and file of tie rival parties seemed to have been “kept well in hand” by their men- tors, there being little or uo “scratching” practised revious to depositing the ballots. In the vicinity of Har jem Bridge, and also at Melrose, 1t was noticed that many ofthe drinking saloons wero Open, and in two or threo instances that glaring violation of the statute occurred ‘within easy hailing distance of the poiling places. There ‘was but ove arrest for intoxication up to a late hour in the afternoon, The only other arrest made during the day was that of a colored man, named John Sullivan, on a charge of illegal voung; but, as it subsequently ap- peared that he erred through ignoranco, he was released from custody. TWENTY-FOURTH WARD. ‘There was no disturbance whatever in tho Twenty- fourth ward, and not @ solitary arrest was made during the day. The vote polled was unustally large, At about four o’clock in the afternoon word was sent to the Thirty-fourth precinct police station that Patrick Trainor, one of the poll clerks in the Sec. ond Election district, at West Farms, had al sented himself at two o'clock, and had not re- turned. A telegram was at once despatched to the Chief of the Bureau of Elections, asking for advice in the premises, and about five o'clock an answer was ge- ceived, setting forth that the place was so far away another poil clerk could not be appointed last night, and that the other remaining poll clerk, together with the inspectors of election, must make up the returns of the district, This may possibly furnish grounds on which to contest the election in that ward, TAMMANY’S FUNERAL—CHIEF-MOURNER KELLY’'S WAIL—HE ABANDONS NEW YORK TO ITS FATE. One of the most ttghtly-packed mobs that was ever crowded within the four walls of any building on this round globe was that which filled Tammany Hall last night to celebrate the political funeral of John Kelly, They did not know it was to be a funeral when they first came—not a bit of ik They came smiling to a feast; but went out as if each one wero a personal rela- tivo of the corpse, Athalf-past six o’clock John Kelly lef— the committee room, whero he had spent the greater part of the afternoon, and accompanied by Order of Arrest Clerk Quincy, General Spinola, Aldermen Cole and Lewis and other personal and political friends proceeded to the hall, where ho took aseatat a small tabla The meeting was organ- ized with General Spinota as Chairman and ex-Judgo Porter and Shafer Storms as Secretaries, The returns camo in but slowly, anda band in tho back part of tho room was brought into requisition to keep the audience in humor. One bold adherent of the Boss called out, “Three cheers for Jobn Kelly !’? but his voice awakened no response from the audience, and, frightened at the sound himself had made, he subsided, so that tho last of this threo cheers was scarcely more than a whisper. As the returns began to come in rapidly they were placed on the table before John Kelly, who scanned them through his gold framed eyeglasses, while Mr. Quincy leaned over his shoulder and whispered in his ear, As bundle after bundle of written slips were handed in and scrutinized the faces of the “Boss” and his friends grew more and more solemn, and the audience grew more and more impatient at not hearing the news. At length, in despair of anything better, the crowd began to cry fora speech from Colonel Fellows, The gentlemen on the platform paid no attention w the cries, and Mr. Kelly engaged in an earnest con- sulbation with Messrs. Storms, Quincy, Spinola and others over the latest batch of returns. The cries of “Fellows! Fellows!’ redoubled. One old_Irish- man in front cried out, “Come out, Kurnel, an give uz a rub of yer tongue,” In trying to stop the disorder General Spinola rapped with his gavel 0 heavily — that he knocked his tall. hat clean off tho table, and in trying to catch it before it fell h@ stumbled and almost impaled himself upon one of the spikes of his hietoric and unique shirt collar. The incident moved the assemblage to hearty laughter which ro- stored their good humor and while they were in tuis mood Mr. Fellows came forward and said! — COLONKL PRLLOWS? SPEECH, Fairow Crrizexs—I have no very encouraging words to speak to you, Tho indications thus far received, point to a deleat of the entiro Tammany Hall ticket in this county—(A voice, “Good!”)—and_threat- ens with diss r the democratic ticket In the State at large, Now, although this is not the feast to which wo mvited ourselves to-night, 1 imagine that the stout- hearted adherents of Tammany Hall will bear up very bravely under this temporary dtsaster. (Applause), My own couvictions mre very firm that Taramany Hall was never 80 powerful in this sovaty ss it now in the hour of its defeat. (Applause,) Never was a theket presented by any organization within the limits of our metropolis #0 utterly unassailable as that which was given Lo the olectors ‘in this campaign. From first to last in the contest not one single disparaging word has been uttered of any man on our ticket, It was the determinatton of Tammany Hall to present an array of names which would challenge the closest scratiny and investigation, The combination which was got up with odds and ends of political fetions—which has embraced within its folds all the treachery and malig- nity, joined to a vast deal of the honest purposes of this city—hag suiliced for the overthrow of Tammany Hail, What shall we de now? (A voice= “Put Wick- ham out.’’) ‘This sally called forth the wildest applause of the au- dience, which was silenced with great difficulty, and Colonel Feliows continued:—There is one thing to do, fellow citizens. Where we find that we have made mis- takoa with ap honest purpose wa must correct them, | the trust confided to them we will teach them that as they have violated the obligations we placed upon them, 80 henceforth we spurn them forever from our counsels, At least Tammany Hail has ascertained by the result of this contest who its friends are and where wisdom lies, and we sball be powerful to avail ourselves of | that knowledge. One thing let me say, speaking for the tens of thousands who have borne the banner of this organization inthe hard fought fight—speaking in the name of the honest democracy of New York—I promise you here and now that Tammany Hall will never willingly deprive itself of the counsels of the tried and trusted leaders whom they have cherished tor three years past, This announcement was received with hearty ap- plause, and when it had subsided Mr. Fellows went on to assure his hearers that Tammany Hall would next year be in a position to overcome her enemies and punish those who had, as he said, treacherously de- serted her, When he concluded, in response to long and loud calls of “Kelly! Kelly!’ the crestfailen Boss’? approached the foot of the platform and said: — KELLY’S SPEECH AT TAMMANY MALL, Fenvow Cirizuns:—Whatever have been the motives that nave actuated the people in deciding this political contest, I myself feel precisely as I did the night I pre- sented the record of Recorder Hackett to the Judiciary Convention in this hall, (Very taint applause.) Now, the people of New York can’t say that they did not know anything about the record of ‘that man. The pamphlet that was prepared by this organization has been sent to nearly every voter in the city and county of New York, and if the people of New York will re-elect Recorder Hackett with that record, Jet the responsibility rest upon them- selves. (Cries of “Good, good.”) You cannot blame me; I have presented to you all the facts, and in the face of those facts you have re-elected that man. (Ap- plause and hisses.) And you have re-elected him for | fourteen years, too, Now, in the fuce of what that sen- Ueman has done as a judicial officer of this county, I say it 18 a disgrace to the people of the city and county of New York. (Applause.) And the democracy of this city and county have aided and assisted in re- electing Benjamin K. Phelps. My God! is it possible? Is it possible, where there is so much | intelligence, go much foresight and so much sagacity that the people of New York will re-elect a man like that in tho face of the examination made by the com- mittee of the Legislature appointed last winter to inves- tigate the causes of the increase of crime in this city? Let the responsibility of that act fall upon the ge le of New York. You cannot blame Tammany all You cannot say that Tammany Hall hos had any act or part in perpetuating this monstrous iniquity, now, since the re-organization of Tammany Hall three year and a half ago, You, gentlemen, are intel- gent enough—and all the’ people of the city ot New York I hope intelligent enough— to know that whatever reforms have been accomplished in remedying the abuses that exist here are entirely indebted’ to the Tammany Hall organization. I am perfectly willing to accept the condition of things as they are. My conscience isclear. I know that my motives wero pure (cries of “Hear, hear!” and applause); and if the people of the city and county of New York who have decided this question are laboring under the idea that [ want to be dictator of the city and county of New York, they are sie 2 mistaken. I have nothing to ask from anybody. I have nothing to ask from the people of the city and county of New York. I havegiven them my time and labor in assisting in correcting the mons- trous abuses that exist in our New York government. (Applause) Now you have decided against me, Iam pertectly willing to accept the issue, and I assure you ‘that I will always do and assist so long as I live in giv- ing to the people of the city of New York a good muni- pal government. (Applause.) It is not pleasant or ceptable to me that I should be looked upon as the head of any party. Iwas chosen by the gentlemen connected with this hall. They were perfectly willing to accept ay advice and to allow me to lead them. It was not of my own seeking, as they know. Now let me again say—and I close in saying it—that though we are defeated now, this organiza- tion will revive and be as strong as it ever was in this county and city. If Oakey Hall— (hisses)—who was Mayor of New York, can dictate to the people of the city and county of New York a nominee like John K. Hackett, why, let the responsibility rest with them, as 1 “said before. Now, gentlemen, I have done. Whether I lead or follow. my posi- tion shall always be in favor of reform government, (Hear, hear.) My position shall always be with the democratic party, because I believe that if the liberties of the people of this country are perpetu- ated they can only be perpetuated by that democratic party. “The frauds committed by the officials ap- pointed by the republican party should consign them vo the City Prison. I know it. 1 have had experience of it, and I, with other good citizens. in this organization, have attempted and have failed in trying to give you good government, Now, you have allowed your prej- udice—1 don’t mean to say pel gentlemen, but 1 mean the people of the city of New York—to control your judgment and reason; and I hope now, when these ‘things pass over, they’ will have no causo to ro- pent it. Irepeat again that the District Attorney’s office of this city, is @ monstrous iniquity, and I say that Recorder Hackett’s ix a monstrous record. And yet the people have returned him as their Recorder! Now I have done, gentlemen. I have performed my act and the people of the county of New York have performed theirs, I am satisfied with my position, and I only wish that after a full examination ey will be satisfied with theirs, When the applause which followed Mr. Kelly’s speech had subsided the audience were addressed by Captain Rynders, George W. Morton, Order-of-Arrest, Clerk Quincy, would-be Recorder Smythe, Colonel William R. bert Timothy J. Campbell, Thomas Reilly, Abram 8. HeWitt and others, and the gathering mournfully dispersed, THE ANTI-TAMMANY HEADQUARTERS, About sundown yesterday ‘the headquarters of the Anti-Tammany General Committee, at the Everett House, presented anything but a lively or encouraging aspect. Only a fow of the stanchest opponents to Tammany Hall were to be found chatting. around the Secretary’s desk, lounging on chairs and sofas or closely conversing in confidential tones, A little be- fore six o’clock the order came to close the committee rooms and transfer bag and baggage to Irving Hall, For fully an hour afterward the gathered anti- Tammany element did not exceed a dozen persons in their new meeting room, These, however, were the standard bearers of tho party, and among them might be noted Ira Shafer (presiding), ex-Judgo Curtiss, Rafus F. Andrews, James O'Brica, Judge Van Heuson, Benjamin Wood and others, These leaders did not seem to entertain any very positive hopes that their ticket would be successful, and it was only when the hall had been lighted up at a quarter after seven o’clock that things began to assume a moro cheerful aspect. Soon after this timo the rumors began to wear a taugible form, and partial reports from sev- eral districts indicated a turn of the tide in faver of Tammany's foes. Tho tolegraph was epecdily put in use, and returns commenced to flow in from various parts of the city. The gathering, too, became at onco more numerous and cheerful, seeming, as a matter of course, to instinctively find their way in at tho heels of the good nowa, The hall filled apace; and by nine o’clock a goodly crowd was present on the floor and about the platform. As the telegraph announced the astonishing run of Recorder Hackett and District Attorney Phelps bursts of applause broke from the’people. It was now found that “Recorder Hackett Lat only what was true m stating that tho people would sustain @ fearless and uncorrupted ju- | diciary, as well nish pny attempt at a dictatorsh: pomallor hele ethno bah Soon after eight o’clock Mr. Emanuel BR. Hart an- nounced that he had just been over to Tammany Hall, where the immense assemblage were clamorous for turns, but that none appeared to be forthcoming. Re- ports were now received that John Morrissey was lead- ing Fox in the Fourth Senatorial district To cap the climax, it was announced by the Chairman that a gentleman present had just | returned from a flying visit to the Wigwam. He had heard Colonel John B. Fellows in a doleful speech publicly announce and acknowledge the defeat of Tam- many Hall along the entire line. This news was re- ceived with vociferous applause, All looked lovely now, and in the enthusiasm of the moment a band of tousic was brought into requisition and a display of fireworks attempted outside of the hall. Colonel Gildersleeve, tho anti-Tammany candidate for County Judge, spoke briefly and to the point, after | being repeatodly called upon. ‘Tho other speakers were Messrs, U'Brien, Creamer, MeMahan and Morrissey. This last nated candidate for the people's suffrages entered the hall fifteen minutes before ten. Ho was cheered and almost carried from the door to tho platform, and when he came forward to address the meeting —_ deafenin, applause greeted his sturdy form. He did not Took upon the result as a democratic dofeat; no, it was a les- son to Kelly and to those who ¢urrounded him. It isa bitter lesson, which thofdemocrats must profit by. Mr. Morrisey considered himself elected by a majority of When, finally, tt was announced that the entire anti- Tammany connty ticket,had beon elected by a majority of probably more than 20,000, the joy of those present knew no bounds. At alate hour rumor was gainin; ground to the effect that the republican candidates carried the State, THE NEW-OLD RECORDER, Recorder Hackett was earnestly sought for last night by many who desired to congratulate him upon the splendid victory which he and the people for him had won. Ho waa to be found, however, neither at the clubs, nor atany of the hotels, It was finally learned that he was in no condition to actively participate in the congratutatory performances. His yy was too sore to permit him to leave his house dr to speak to any considerable number of visitors. It was, therefore, determined to postpone the jubilation in which some of his friends had proposed to indulge before his house. AT MORRISSEY'S HEADQUARTERS, There was great enthusiasm at Morrissey's head, quarters in the Anson House, corner of Spring and Crosby streets, as the returns came rolling in, about ten o'clock, indicating the defeat of Fox, Jobn Morrissey sat at along table at qne end of the sitting room, sur- rounded by half a dozen secretaries who opened the en- velopes, announced their contents and entered them on a sheet of paper. The room was full to the doorand beyond it, and when finally it was given out that Mor rissey was ahead of Fox, according to a despatch sent by the HeRALD, 4,123 votes, the cheering was great A speaffer seemed to be now in order. so Mr, James D. McClellan was called on and made a brief but vigor ous address, pointing out that the victory just achieved was the emancipation of the people of New York from the trammels of a vile despotiam as person- ifled in Tammany J This organization, originally great, honest and national in its aims, had come to be Managed like a conspiracy raised for purposes of Plunder. It no longer represented the people, but in- Bead Jot of small ward politicians who were connected with it for their own personal “ggrandizement and the robbery of tho people. Later on when another announceneut was made of a Ml bigger majority for Morrissey, Mr. Schnaubel stood and made a short, stirring speech, that was re- ceived with thunders of applause, He, too, dwelt on the tyranny of Tammany and its utter misrepresenta- tion of the honest sentiments of the New York dem- ocracy, He wanted to see the workingmen given @ representation in the councils of Tammany in place of barroom loafers. It was the workingmen that made the foundation of the country’s great- ness and prosperity. Without her working- men America would be poor and wretched to-day. ‘These men had risen that day im their might and de- clared that the barroom loafers of Tammany should no longer control them. They were about to look to their own interests in the future, and they had just demon- strated by their action in’ electing the man who had championed thoir cause and who placed hitself in an- tagonism to a powerful organization that they had the power of themselves to elect their own candidates whenever they felt so disposed, After the speeches John, who was quite self-possessed, despite the excitement by which he was surrounded, stood up and retired toa rear room, where he had sup: per, the audience in the meantime ‘waiting impatiently for the complete returns of five remaining districts. About eleven o'clock these came in, and after Mor- rissey had heard the story of the entire vote he started for home. The moment he reached the sidewalk, where a great crowd had already assembled, everybody rushed to grasp his hand, and with some difficulty he managed to reach his carriage. He then drove off amid the wildest cheering. RECEIVING THE RETURNS AT HEADQUARTERS. Very early last evening anxious politicians began to gather in the corridors of the Central Police Office and the rooms of Commissioners Disbecker and Smith, the republicans, of course, drifting to the desk of Mr. Disbecker. Between six and soven o'clock the trial room of the Police Department became the place of in- torest, for there the results of one of the most hotly contested elections that has ever occurred in the city were to be promulgated. At ten minutes pofore seven o'clock Superintendent Walling took his seat to call the first returns. ‘There were present Commissioners Matscll and Disbecker, and soon after they were joined by Commissioners Smith and Voorhis, It soon became evident to all the eager listeners that a breach had becn made in the Tammany ranks, and when the figgres showed that in nearly every election district Hackett and Phelps, against whom all the strength of Jolin Kelly’s legions were marshalled, wore ahend, the Tammuny retainers began to. show great uneasiness, When 120 districts gave Hackett nearly 6,000 majority the Tammany men showed great alarm, which was visibly increased as the majority grow tll it was over 11,000. Then it dawned upon the Supperters of Boss Kelly that Tammany had expe- rienced a crushing defeat at the bands of the people. By ten o'clock the Tammany men had ascertained that the day was lost, Many of them left the room in utter disgust to carry the unwelcome news to Kelly and his wirepullers at the Wigwam. Among the democrats present were Congressman Meade, Commissioner George Starr, ex-Assemblyman’George W. Clark, Alder- man Gilon, “Jimmy”? Hayes, John Morrissey, Judge Koch and Judge Clancey. The republicans wero represented by Alderman Morris, Morris Ellinger, Senator Booth, Jacob Hess and minor politicians, who, with Commissioner Disbecker, exulted over the defeat of Kelly & Co, Mr. Disbecker characterized the result as a Waterloo for Kelly, from which he would not soon recover. By eleven o'clock the leading politicians had departed, with the exception of candidates who re- mained to watch the returns of their yotes. The police arrangements, which were under the charge of Captain Byrnes, of the Broadway squad, and Killale: of the Central Office, were all that could be desired, an: there was none of the crowding ana confusion that have characterized similar occasions in previous years THE HERALD BULLETIN BOARDS. An hour or 80 afier sunset crowds of people anxious to know the results of the election wended their way down town in the direction of the newspaper offices, By ten o’clock the breadth of Broadway in front of the Herat office was one dense mass of human beings. Two illuminated bulletin boards, one directly over the main entrance to the Heratp Building and the other at a similar elevation to the left, made the great attrac- tion of the occasion, A stroug calcium reflector fixed in an upper window of the Astor House, on Vescy street, threw astream of light over half the facade of the building, bringing out the Ogures that momentarily appeared on the clean white surface of the bulletin boards with sharp distinctness. The board to the left of the entrance gave “misceliancous returns” for county and State officers as they came to the office in in- completo form but yet sufficiently full to give the eagerly awaiting crowd material for speculation. These miscellaneous returns were rapidly inscribed by @ young man standing on a platform in front of tho Ddoard and writing, orrather printing, as fastas the despatches were dictated to him by the telegraph boy, ‘The board over the entrance was neatly arranged in red and black lines and letters for the returns by Assembly districts of the vote for Bigelow-Seward, Hackett Smyth, Olney-Phelps and the State vote for Secretary of State. A separate board adjoining the one marked “Miscellaneous” was devoted to the returns from the Fourth Senatorial district, contested by Fox and Mor- rissey, This had a special attraction for a considerablo portion of the assemblage, the more so as nobody could give any idea of how the struggle had gone, and while some guessed that Fox had swept the district others maintained that Morrissey was by long odds the win- ning man. The Sun improvised for the occasion a white window screen and erected a calcium light out on Printing House squaro, which illuminated with good effect the written returns placed upon the screen, At the World office the returns were written up and affixed to a pillar at the counter. Neither the Zribune nor Times made any display. THY NAME OP MACKETT was on every tongue. ‘Ah! sure he's elected; nothing could bate Hackett, with the papers and everybody else at his back,” cried one enthusiastic Hibernian. “I don’t care a button how the county goes, so long as the Stato is safe,” eaid a democrat, who furthor supplo- mented his remarks by adding that the ene man power was “about played out.” A current of easy, contented controversy rap through the crowd, and the dofeat of the principal names on the Tammany county ticket was taken in the best of humor by what was Clearly a democratic crgwd. JOY AT MORRISSEY’S RETURN. The assemblage remained in a fever of pleasant ex- citement while the first returns concerning Morrissey’s district were being recorded, Finally, when thoy wero permitted to see them, and the inscription stated that fifteen election districts of the Fourth ward gave Morrissey 432 majority, ibe cheering broke out in the iddle of the crowd, and was again and again repeated. Rul‘there was a small Fox element present at fire tat derided the cheers and told the Morxissey beck le hold their horses and walt a bit; that the Fourth ward was hig st ronapoid and thatthe First had yet to be heard from. But the believers in the star of Fox were ahandful in comparison to the host of lusty-lunged voters who fairly roared with delight as additional re- turns announced that Morrissey had a majority of 1,143 in twenty-three election districts of the same ward. Eventually, when the returns placed it beyond a doubt that Hackett and Morrissey were elected, three cheers wore given, and hundreds dispersed homeward, satis- fied that the day had brought soot fruits. : a UP TOWN. THR BULL At Twenty-third street and Broadway, and sur- rounding the lowe énd of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, the people were packed thickly, and the Hxmaup ‘gram dulletins revolved continuously, showing tae majorities for Hackett and Phelps) When oS poe was going to press the crowds were still standing and cheering, regardless of the chill winds that were ve gy Tn them and making them fee uncomfortable, There was even a larger crowd at the Heratp branch office, cheering for Hackett and Phelps, and the bulletin on Broadway received as mueh atten- +| tion as the Telegram bulletin on Sixth avenue did. When grown men got hoarse shouting there was a great yell from the boys that made the weikin ey? As the election arcists who were engaged to paint the Nguresand describe the details of the fight came out, and, after having done their work, hoisted and lowered their ban- ners of victory, there was great cheering again and again, Every person present in Sixth avenue and Broadway seemed to foe! that he or she for there were some few ladies in the crowd had won a personal vic- tory. The gallant fight made by Morrisscy against Fox and the tremendous exertions made by the Tammany chiefs to win the battle had strung the people up to a terrible fooling, and as the returns came in there was a shout of joy which only too plainly told bow the citizens of the met lig had been agitated and how they had done thei? duty. The assemblage which stood latest was at Twenty-third street, for revolving bulletin has a fascination when thero is o light that will make people stand and gazo and wait for the last fi It was by 4 late this morning when the crowds disporsed, but they all went homo with a cheerful feeling thatthe city of New York was right and is always right when the people are called upon to do their duty as voters. ‘The annodncoment that the Heap would give the election returns on its bulletin board corner of Eighty. sixth stroct and Third avenuc brought to that point last night a motley crowd. At eight o'clock the cal cium hight was turned on the white canvas spread gee’ of the Kast Side building, and forthwith there bled a colony of anxious men, who shivering and gaping at the blank sheet, wondering what tale it would tell, A murmur from the crowd was all that tne first announcement made on the board, which was to the effect hat Thurlow Weed claimed a small ma- jority for the republican State ticket. The report waa Wiscredited by many, and discussion was rife when tho announcement was made that Phelps, in 104 election districts, was ahead of Olney. “Hackett is elected by 7,000 majortt; ‘Morrissey’s “Hackett is running even with the democratic iy majority i estimated at 1,200” and rae ticket’? wore placarded {n quick succession, and th crowd manifested much Interest, cheoring loudly as each announcement was mada It was ball-past nine, and the crowd was immense, As the Third avenue curs went by many of the Harlem ngers alighted to study the bulletin. The su ing announcements regarding the certain defeat of Jobn Kelly’s candidates on the county ticket came in such rapid succession that the Tammany element in the crowd became totally disheartened, and many went home satisfied that the one man power was no more, ‘The hopes of the remaining democrats were cheered somewhat when the placard announcing that Bigelow had majorities in Kinderhook, Watertown and Corning was posted up. The crowd rematued around the bulletin board unt after midnight, aud then dispersed, THE POOL ROOMS, The neighborhood of Twenty-eighth street and Broadway looked very lively yesterday morning, as crowds of people lounged on the northwest corner, taking a little fresh air as they passed from one pool room to the other. The election was the general sub- ject of conversation, and rumors of all kinds were fly- ing from mouth to mouth bearing upon the chances of the different candidates. Business in Johnson’s com- menced at an early hour, and at the opening there was some Spirited bidding on Fox and Morrissey, the friends of the latter evidently trying to make him first choice;, but they failed to carry their point, as the Fox men , took everything that was offered. The betting closed! on Monday mght about 100 to 80 on Fox, andi yesterday morning it started at about the same figure; but, before two P. M., the current price was 100 to 50! on Fox, and his friends never seemed to weaken, buti handed their money in at the above figures as if they! had gotacertainty. Hackett opened a strong favorite, but the Smyth men had plenty of greenbacks and} wore not afraid to put them up, so that before noon thes betting became nearly even. ‘The report was industri-} ously circulated about that time that the republican: were cutting Hackett from their tickets, and it certain! intluenced the betting, as at three P. M. a pool was soldt in which Smyth brought 125 and Hackett only 100, Itdid not stand very long at that figure, as, at five . M., Hackett men were betting 100 to 50 wherever they could find any takers. There was not much demand on the State ticket, bat a bet of $500 even was made by a weil known politician that Bigelow would be elected by 15,000 majority. Gildersleeve and Phelps both kep® strong, selling at about 100 to 50 over their opponents, ‘The betting kept very brisk throughout the day. At @ rough estimate the pool sellers have taken in $500,000 since they commenced to sell on the election, The basement occupied by Johnson was crowded from morn- ing to dusk, and at times it was difficult to get near enough to the pool sellers to make a bid. The husky voices of the latter gentlemen plainly showed tho amount of business they had been doing, and they wasted no time waiting fora raise, but sold right along, taking inon an average about $10,000 or $15,000 an how Kelly's Turf Exchange was packed during the after- noon and quite a large business was transacted. Thomas? large hall, noar Thirty-first street, was also crowded, and the bidding was kept up with spirit, but onasmaller scale to what was being done in Twenty- eighth street. Late in the afternoon the spectatorg commenced to bid rather wildly, as they were influ- enced by the reports that were brought in every few minutes. Some men from down town came up with ‘the news that Fox was polling three votes to Morris- sey’s one, and correspondingly Shox ink ancthel mart abead, gelling at 100 to 45. Toward evening the news was spread that Tammany had carried tho city, but tts supporters did not appear to be willing to wager much against Hackett and Phelps. During the day Johnson gold about $100,000 worth of pools, mak- ing in all about $250,000 awaiting the result of the offi- cial count. There were no disturbances during the day, everything passing off quietly, The following pools were sold about five o’clock P. M.:— STATE SENATOR, Johnson, Kelly. ‘Thomas. 150 100 50 50 80 26 27 Hackett . 200 «60 40 60 Smyth. Ss 05 24 (23 a7 DISTRICT ATTORNEY, Phelps. 100 100 100 100 50 50 Olney... 145 60 «40 «42 «(21 3 COUNTY JUDGE, ' Gildersiéeve...cs...+++ 100 260 100 100 60 50 40 75 88 40 18 20 he time of closing the polls and half- seven o'clock the betting in the pool rooms fell off somewhat. At the latter time crowds began to flow into the rooms, and very soon they were packed almost to the suffocation of their inmates, The betting becamo more and more spirited as the number of speculators increased, and it was from time to time urged on by the reports from the election districts. The greatest interest was manifested in the result of the election in the Fourth Senatorial district, Mor- rissey and Fox were the only names in the mouths of the people in the pool rooms for several hours, Tho betting was all the time in favor of Morrissey’s election, and with every report from down town the amounts of money staked on Fox lessened. The betting was at first 100° on Morrissey to 70 on Fox. The 70 gradually dwindled until it was 50, and then with one ‘awful drop upon the receipt of news that Morrissey had won the fight, it touched 20, and then the Tammany men, with many bitter re- marks, forsook the betting. Afterward bets wero made ‘that Bigelow would have 12,000 majority over Seward in the city. The pools were all in favor of Bige- low, at 100 to 70. ‘This betting was kept up with but. few’ changes, until the betters tired; and then Hackett and Smyth were taken up About this time some intelligence of tne ter- mblo downfall of Tammany leamed into tho minds of some of the sportsmen, and from their increased confidence in the betting others gained an idea of what had occurred. Hackett was soon dropped by the Tammany favorers, and they conceded’ that he had been elected Recorder. The knowledge of Tammany’s overthrow soon spread, and after somo pools were sold in favor of Phelps’ election the bet was given up and tame conversation was indulged in, ‘The anti-Tammany betters were jubilant and the Tam: many men became depressed. ARRESTS FOR ILLEGAL VOTING, James Brown, Arthur Taggart, William J. Fullen John Fisherand Henry Knubel were brought before Judge Kilbreth, at the Washington Place Police Court, on charges of attempting to vote illegally in the Thirteenth Election district of tho Fifth Assembly district, Thoy. were all held in $2,000 bail to answer, with the excep. tion of Arthur Taggart. Arthur J. Delancy, Tammany candidate for Civil Justice in the Third Judicial district, preferred a charge of Wegal voting against Isuac P, Smith, John Randolph, Charles Brister, Garrett Jackson, Amos Dobson and John Powell, before Judgo Kilbreth. These men, all ot whom were colored, were charged with registering from the Unity Club rooms, No, 80 Sullivan street, They wore held for examination, Marcus Schoenfeld, of No, 283 East Third street; James A. White, of No, 16 East Broadway; Benjamin Spters, of No, 24 avenue C; Patrick Crowley, of No. 608 Water street; Henry Maddon, of No. 11 Norfolk Street; Joseph Robinson, of No. 174 Cherry street; John Nevins, of No. 181 Cherry street; James Doyte, of ie 122 Henry street; Samuel Moore- head, of No. 173 Monroe street; Johu Woods, of No. 24 Jackson street; Samuel Goldstein, of No. 22 Broad- way, and William H. White, of No, 16 East Broadway, were all brought before Judge Otterbourg, at the Essex Market Police Court Fags ov) ona rag ot attempt- ing to vote illegal ia James Doyle, John Woods, Samuel Goldstein, William H. White, Joseph Robinson, Jobn Nevins, Benjamin Spiers and Marcus Schoenfeld yrerg discharged, tho rest were held in $500 bail each to answer, James Doherty, for voting illegally in the Thirteenth Election district'of the Sixteenth Assembly district, ‘was committed by Judge Du! at the Fifty-seventh Street Police Court for examination when he should be sober. Daniel Dickson was arrested in the Fighth Electior district of the Eighteenth Assembly district for alle; iilegal voting. He a Nga his innocence and was charged by Justice Duffy. David Curtin, of No. 334 Rast Forty-eighth street, who was arrested on a similar charge was also dis charged, Daniel Smith, an old German, seventy years of age, was cl d with voting illegally in the Twenty-seventh Election district of the Thirteenth Assembly district, under the name of Poter Hofman, in whose house lives. The old man 18 unable to speak or understand English, and was induced, he admitted, to do as he did by Gustave Golnawein, of No, 969 First avenue, who had acted as interpreter for him atthe poll. Golnawein ‘was also arrested, and both were held for trial before Justice Daily. A SONG OF THE PAST. The following poem was written by Charles G. Halpine, the celebrated ‘‘Miles O'Reilly,” on the occasion of @ great controversy between Tammany and Anti-Tammany in New York. Although written at least ten years ago, it shows that the same state of affairs still exists, and has a singular significance now, sounding like the lament of John Kelly :— ST. TAMMANY’S TERROR—BY MILES O'REILLY, Ab! Lsicken contemplating Next election — Sicken with a sad forewarning That, when comes that fatal morning, Ba | thousand freemen waiting, All will block the way; ‘es, my heart sinks contomplating Noxt election day. Ah! my heart grows full of terror— Terror of the fray— And my mind is busy shaping Some small loophole for escaping— ‘Scaping from the fatal error, Of. vy with terror, such es, my blood ‘Thinking of that fray. Abt my heart ts sore with sighing “Were I safe away |”? But my wish must fall unheeded, Fs my gt if ie ays mi lo my pul ba) y heart is fall of sighii is fall o: cewero Teale away!’ ™ Ah! my heart ts patned with thinking=. muinking ste oly pondered, in| ofa it Par bends ‘und thendstips ‘sundered ; = | the ee ae shrinking 16 away; ve | rp hea is pt with thinking ‘Ot ext election dav.