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

“THE PANDORA. Social Life Among the Denizens of the Arctio Regions, A DANCE WITH THE EBSQUIMAUX FAIR. Ungallant Slanders Regard- ing Them Refuted. The Royal Game of the Ice Drifts. ‘2 Urmenavion, August 13, 1875, We had not lost much time in Disco. Eighteen er we dropped anchor in the little bay the uddenly awakened, as if froma nap in which | the had oversiept herself, slowly turned around, look- Ing all nbout the harbor as though trying to find out whore she was, and then, having apparently discovered | her course, suddenly spread her wings and darted + rapidly outto sea, But, instead of directing her course | put into Baftln’s Bay, she turned her head up the Waigat | Btrait, which separates the island of Disco from the mainland, for the Pandora was hungry again, In spite of her delicate lines and light, jaunty ap- pearance, she has an insatiable maw, and has already cousumed nearly all the coal we supplied her with at Ivigtut, and ts greedily demanding more. We do not choose to let her encroach upon our winter supply just yet, and so we go up Waigat Strait, on whose shores coal may be obtained for the trouble of putting it aboard ship. We were no sooner fairly out of the little harbor than our old friends, the head winds, greeted us and inti- mated that we might count upon them all the way up the strait, So we hudto commence our old business ot beating again, which at last began to appear to us the natural and normal way of sailing, so long had we been | at it IN A FOG. We kept the screw going at “easy,” as we had noue too little time before us to depend only upon the per- gistently obstinate winds for getting forward, All that | day and the next until noon we worked up the strait, vither shore of which was visible nearly all the time. We met a good deal of floating ice, but not enough to Interfere with our progress except when we ran into kreut, thick, heavy curtains of fog, which at times pre- vented our seeing more Ayan afew yards ahead of the vessel, Navigation under circumstances becomes exceedingly dangerous, as it is almost impossible to see the heavy pieces of ice in time to avoid them, and it becomes necessary to proceed very slowly to preventa ugerous collision, During the whole forenoon of August 9 we were most of the time in one of these fogs, which effectually hid the western shore, along which we were searching fur an Esquimaux village where we were to geta number of the natives to show us the coal and help us to pat it on board, We felt our way slong the shore blindfold as it were until one o'clock, When the captain decided that we must have passed the place, and put the ship about. He had scarcely done so when the fog lifted and we beheld the coast ‘but a few cables’ length distant, and we were not long ju making out the village, which we had already passed ‘4wo or three miles back. We were soon opposite, the ship was hove to and the captain went ashore with a letter to the Danish Go vor which had been given him by Governor Elberg at Lievely. By this time the fog had quite cleared away and we saw the eastern shore about ten miles distant, which rose in a steep, rugged wall that appeared to be scarcely broken by a single srevice, aud curving around to the north and south teemed to meet our shoreand form a large and beautiful Inland sea. FLOATING ICEBERGS, « It was full of floating ice, not in sufficient quantities, however, to impede the progress of a ship, and there were many icebergs which rose in huge masses here ‘and there, displaying beautiful tints of blue, green and white that became so brilliant as to dazzle the eyes in the warm bright light of an afternoon sun. The wind, now that we were no longer moving, had quite died out, and the water, undisturbed dy asingle ripple, was as smooth as glass, while from time to time there was a deep, dull report hke the dis- tant booming of a heavy gun, followed, perhaps, a long lime afterward by a gentle swell, telling where an ice- | berg has split in two and turned over. These reports are heard continually among icebergs and so resemble a distant cannonade that Dr. Kane named them very aptly ice artillery. The place off which we had stopped is called Yuyarsusuk and consists of four or five houses tumbled together and inhabited by perhaps thirty or forty people, young and old, The cap- tain soom came off with the Governor, who spoke | & litte German, by means of which language we com | municated with him, To our great satisfaction we learned that the coal was dug for us and all ready to be | put on board, For this we had to thank Captain ares, who had promised Captain Young to have the coal got out, and had faithtully kept his promise in all the hurry and trouble of making the final preparations for his own departure. Closely following the Governor came an “umink,” or “woman’s boat,’’ loaded full of women and children, They had come partly out of curiosity to see the ship, partly to bring off four fine dogs Captain Young had bought, Dogs, women and children were all taken on board, and they ali seemed about equally frightened at everything they ‘the dogs were tied up and the women and chil- | dren given something to eat, which very soon put them at their ease, The Bsquitnaux have always shown | so {much kinduess to shipwrecked whalers and dis- | tressed Arctic explorers who bave fallen into their power, that Arctic navigators always make a poing | of treating them kindly and giving them little pre. | sents, which are highty prized by them, The women | were nearly all old and ugly, and there were no pretty girls among them, except two children with (wir, tlaxen hair and blue eyes, who looked very odd in their little boots and | breeches, They turned out to be the children of the | Governor, who was married to an Esquimaux woman, and he had, as we afterward learned, several more. He Informed us that all the men and several of the women of the village were up the strait, somewhere in the direction of the Kudliset, or Rittenbank, coal mine, in @ boat, and that if we went on we would find them. We | accordingly turned the ship’s head again to the north | aud proceeded up the strait, In an hour we perceived & little sloop coming lazily down before the wind, the trew apparently, all except the man at the helm, asleep in the warm suashine, as indolently as if they were drifting on some sunny Southern sea, instead of “among the ice mountains of the Arctic. In ® few minutes they wore within bailing distance. The Governor spoke to them, and about twenty of them tumbled into aboat that was towing astern and came off | w us. He gave them their instructions, which wore to go with us, help us coal and bring back any letters we wight want to send to Europe, and then went aboard the littie sloop, after wishing hearty God speed on our voyage. ‘THE GOODNESS OF GRERXLAND DANES, Arctic navigators owe a great deal to the kindness of | \hese simple, honest Greenland Danes and the courtesy of the Danish government, Year after year Arotic ex- | plorers and whalers are indebted to them for assist | ance in a umber of ways, which they always offer with the most hearty and = friendly cordiality, And seamen of nearly every nation are indebted to them for many acts of kindness, They rendered us every assistance in coaling, and we had to rely upon their kindness to send our letters to Denmark, where they are always carelully mailed by | the courtesy of the Danish authorities, With the addition of sixteen Esquimaux men and women to our crow we continued our course up tl oust toward the Kudiisetvoal banks, We were not very Jong in learning that five of the six women wore | girls, two of them pure, Esquimaux, three half Danish, | and very pretty, while the other was a vigorous and | muscular old woman, sent along with them, as is | always the custom, to look after their morals, | ® precaution which, I would hasten to observe, was altogether superfluous on board the Pandora, As soon | As it was discovered that the girls wore pretty # place | was cleared away on the aeck and a danco organized | npon the instant to the music of a plaintive aecordeon played by one of the biu® jackets, whie the snip | sicamed slowly forward, The decks of the Pandora wow presented ono of those strange, preity scenos | | a contidence which we endeavored to persuade our- | therefore, made room for them at our little table and | and, to tell the truth, acquitted themselves very well | she should hay often represented upon the stage, but which one rarely looks for in real life, least of all upon an Aretic ship. She was still encumbered with the great heaps of sacks full of coal which we bad brought from England, in ad- dition to which there was heaped up in bulk on either side of the smokestack a part of that which we had | taken in at [vigtut, and which, continually trampled | over by everybody running back and forth, | had blackened the rest of the ship until she looked hike | acollicr, It was.useless to try to keep her neat and | clean under such circumstances, and the result was | that she had been allowed to go to tho dogs m her own way, and now presented @ disreputable, disorderly, | vagabond appearance, reminding one of a stray dog without an owner. In fact, the Pandora, instead of the trim, neat, jaunty, well-dressed thing she used to be,- began to have a dirty, slip-shod, draggle-tail look. But she bad gained so much freedom in ex- change for her lost respectagility, and had such a Jolly, reckless, happy look, that you could not find it in your heart to blame ber, On what proper, well be- haved ship, for instance, could you have witnessed such a scene of mirth and fun as her decks presented | this evening? MUSIC AND DANCING ON BOARD. Dogs, a pig and cats we had obtained in Ivigtut, by way of insuring fair winds, running loose about the | decks, Music, dancing; the men gathered around the | dancers, some up on the heaps of coal around the smokestack, some up on the shrouds, one man stand- ing on the nettings playing the accordeon, while six or — eight dancers kept up a patter on the deck like the rat tle of a drum, amid shouts of laugbter and a cross fire of cheers and exclamations. The great, strong, iron heart of the Pandora, deep down below, seemed to throb and | pulse with a new delightas sbe swept along through the masses of floating ice, breaking through their cold embraces as they closed around her, rejoicing in her freedom and wild dissipation, From time to time she glided past some towering iceberg, in which you could see a kind of indistinct resemblance toa gigantic hu- man face, as though some mighty old giant shut up in there were glowering down upon us through his ice window. Sometimes one of these icebergs would sud- denly commence to crumble and break when we glided past, as though the Pandora's wild behavior were too much for the old fellow inside, and as if, taken with a | sudden fit of rage, he were struggling and writhing through the walls of ice to get av her. Then | there would be a report like a clap of thunder and a terrible splash, as a great mass would drop off, and, baving lost bis balance, he would pitch over head foremost and disappear in the coid green | water with a roar. How big and round and red the sun looked as he rolled along the tops of the purple mountains and cast a crimson glow over the pure blue, green and white of the towering icebergs! How weird and sad and lonely looked the silent, desolate coast. How the water shimmered and glistened in the white, icy glare of the evening, and how warm and merry and cosey Igoked our little ship as she lightly threaded her tortuous course among the icebergs! Who would have expected to behold such a scene in the Arctic, of all other places in the world ? A TRA PARTY ON BOARD, At length, about nine o'clock, we dropped anchor off asteep, high bluif, that came sheer down to the water's edge, behind which, at the distance of two or three miles, rose the sharp ragged summit of a mountain. Along the face of this bluff, which was 150 feet bigh, we could see two or three dark streaks, that Captain Young recognized as the coal seams, It was too lato to commence coaling, however, but everything was got ready for an early start next morning, with the hope of getting in thirty or forty tons. In the meantime the dancing had ceased, and we had all gone below to take tea, We had just set down to the table when the girls all came aft, and we invited them all down into the wardroom to take tea with ug, an invitation which they hastened to accept with- out the slightest hesitation, This we considered a touching proof of the confidence with which the polite and kind treatment of the officers had inspired them, selves was not altogether disconnected with our pre- possessing looks and superior accomplishments! We, invited them to sit down, but, although they had come down fast enough when invited, once they were inside our messroom they stood timid and abashed, with downcast eyes, before the splendor and magnificence that burst thus suddenly-wpom them. They had probably never seen but one or two such ships before, | and certainly had never been aboard one, and our little ward room, ten feet square, probably appeared to them as the very height of magnificence and splendor, It was amusing to observe their timid, half frightened | looks as they watched us pour out their tea and heap | up their plates with strange looking viands, the like of which they had never seen before, and which, per- haps, even appeared to them very unsavory, In- | deed their position must have been altogether | very embarrassing. Imagine four or five of their breeches and boots, who have never seen any- thing but their own poor little village of five or six huts, and who suddenly find themselves ina mess room of aman-of-war ship at table, surrounded by Strange faces, strange things and strange ways—a strange world, in short, with five or six polite, affable | and distinguished but strange young gentlemen, who flatter temselves that their blandishments are not, as arule, altogether thrown away upon the fair sex, and | all heaping up their plates and doing the polite in the | most approved style, and you can form some idea of the position of the poor little - girls. Nevertheless, I must say that ‘they got on very well, considering the circumstances, and showed them- selves very quick to learn, They had never even used a knife and fork before, and declined to touch the ones we gave them until they saw how we managed it, It ‘was amusing to see the sly way they watched us out of the corners of their eyes handle our knives and forks, and how, when one of them, having apparently mas- tered the theory of it, took up a fork and carried it toher mouth, the others looked at her with a droll, inquir- ing expression, as though asking her if it was a suc- cess. Apparently, the result of this eye telegraphing was satisfactory, as two or three more of them pro- | ceeded to imitate her in a very grave and demure way, | | | little barbarians, very pretty and very girlish in spite | | | indeed. ABOUT KNIVES AND FORKS. Please do not, reader, turn up your nose at these — pretty little barbarians and imagine yourself vastly superior to them simply because you know how to eat with a knife and fork. Do you think Cleopatra used a, | kuite and fork? or the cold, pale Octavia, the sister of Augustus? or the Queen of Sheba? or Rebecca? or Rachel? or Ruth? Just remember that there is a people who once were nearly masters of the. world, distinguished alike for their reflnoment, music, poetry and architecture as well as their chivalry and feats of arms, and princes before whose splendor and riches the magnificence of modern western monarchs pale | and grow dim, who never knew the use| of knife and fork, Just try to eat ao pilaof with your fingers and see what @ mess you will make of it, spilling it down your sleeve, scattering it over the ground and committing & most outrageous breach of manners; and then watch an Arab and see how neatly he will take up the rice and mutton in bis hand without dropping @ grain, and you will seo that good breeding may be shown as well by eating with your fingers as well as with a knife and fork, Do not, therefore, think you bave any right to look down on our little friends simply because you know how to use instruments that by 700,000,000 or | 800,000,000 of the earth’s inhabitants are considered ridiculous and absurd inventions, ‘To return to our friends, we found they were very fond of tea, sugar, biscuit and pickles, Preserved meat they did not seem to relish much—a fact we did not flud at all strange after baving ourselves learned to like seal and bear, As soon as the one who sat beside | me had somewhat recovered her presence of mind, f proceeded to open a conversation with her and she | told me her name was “Akushta,’? which we soon dis- covered to be only the Danish for Augusta. The names | of the others were Carolina Wilhelmina, Julietta, Marie and 80 on, Which rather disappointed us, as we would have preferred to hear unpronouncable Esqui- maux bam es. Julietta was the prettiest of them, and, it may have been quite accidental, bat it struck meas singular that taken a place at table beside “Tromp,” and that Carolina Wilhelmina shoula have gone wtraight and sat down beside our naviguting ofticer, ‘The trath is, I was considerably grieved and pained at the conduct of these young gentlemen, and must say that their levity and inconstancy were really shocking. No sooner had they discovered that the girls were pretty, than, forgetting all aboys Disco and the ton | mind when he wrote his immortal poem of the ‘‘Wal- » / der glances given and received there, and the gentle squeezing of hands and mute but eloquent — protestations of love, they commenced making tho most violent love to these girls with a cynicism worthy of Don Juan bimself. Betore the evening was half over they bad wormed themselves into the good graces of the old,woman, who had follawed the girls below, by plying her with Tum and tobacco, and she now sat there complacently smoking a pipe, with her legs crossed like a man, aud grim smile on her vulldog face, while these two double dyed Don Juans sat each beside a girl, with her hands claspea in his own. It ts trae that some palliation may be found for their conduct in the fact that the hands im question were very soft, smail and delicate and that they nestled in yours so gently and softly that itis almost impossible to resist their charm , and I would not have been, upon the whole, inclined to look with disfavor upon it had it not been for the proceedings of those same young gen- tlemen at Disco ouly two days before. We had some music during the course of the even- ing. The old wheezy accordeon was brought aft and produced much astonishment and delight. The girls even fayored us with some songs, very sweet and plain. tive, to which the Doctor played a lamentable accom- paniment, It was now eleven o’clock and we went on deck. Tho | sun was still shining brightly above the horizon, and it was broad daylight. The moon had risen, bnt she was only the faintest shadow. She had faded eway to the merest ghost of a | moon, as though, seeing herself supplanted by the sun and finding she was no use, she had deter- mined to pine away and die, [t seemed to me that Humpty Dumpty must have had this scene in his rus and the Carpenter,” where he says: The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might, He did his very best to make ‘Tne billows smooth and white, And this was odd, because it was ‘The middle of the night, ‘The moon was shining sulkily, Because she thought the sua Had_no business to be there “To somo and spoil thefun,” It was now bed time, The women brought their blankets alt and spread them down on the floor of the chart room, We improvised pillows for them out of | cushions and overcouts, tucked them in amid’ much | Jaughing and giggling on their part, and then turned in | also to get afew hours’ sleep before commencing to | coal the ship. . COALING. At five o’clock next morning we were all called up to commence coaling, and after the unusual luxury of a cup of coffee a number of us got into the boats and rowed off to the beach, 800 or 400 yards distant. A bright, unclouded sun and the soft, warm air, romind- ing one of the approach of spring in more southern latitudes, gave promise of a beautiful day, and as the boats touched we sprang ashore on the wild, strange coast with a keen feeling of delight only to be under? stood and appreciated by those who have been a long time on board ship. We found a smooth, sandy beach, very favorable for the boats. It was thirty or forty | feet wide and extended like a narrow shelf along the — foot of the rugged, perpendicular cliff, which appeared to be 160 or 200 feet high, At.one place there was a break in this gigant! erall where an avalanche had — torn over it, carrying © Fiy a mass of loose stones and | earth, over which .®*Sscade of the purest, clearest | water now came fymbling down, foaming and spark- ling in the bright invraing sunshine. Out on the still, shining water lay the ship, looking, among the white, glistening icebergs scattered about in every direction, like some dark, unnatural monster ‘that had wandered out of 1t8 own world and lost its way here, It wasa delight merely to live and breathe | the soft, warm, springlike air, to run along the beach | or scramble up the face of the steep, rugged cliff and | trace the opposite shore of Vargot Strait, that stood ‘up dim, distant and misty in the shifting vapors of the morning. The coal lay in three or four different seams, which could easily be seen at some distance out to sea. ‘The first was nearly ona level with the water; it was | about eighteen inches thick, very black and bard, and, as it was immediately covered by a sandstone rock ten or fifteen fect thick, was difficult to get at, although the Valorous, which had been hore only a few days before, had evidently been working it. The next seam cropped out of the face of the bluff sixty or seventy feet above the level of the water, and it was on this seam the Esquimaux had been at work, while still above this could be seen two more black streaks that appeared likewise to be coal, The cliff seemed to be composed, as nearly as we could judge, of alternate strata of coal, sandstone rock, containing in many places iron, slate, soapstone and irregular layers of loose earth and stones, The Esquimaux had simply uncovered the coal by cutting away the soapstone and loose earth that overlaid the second seam, leaving a bench or shelf from two to six feet wide running along the face of tne bluff a distance of a quarter of a mile or more, We had only to plunge a crowbar into the | cracks and crevices and pry it out in great blocks and lumps, and roll it down the face of the bluff to | the water’s edge. Never was coal more easily got. The only difficulty was in climbing up to it in the first place, | | | but after that was once accomplished we ran up a | | couple of lines, which we fastened to crowbars driven | into the ground, by which means we were enabled to | scramble up without much difficulty. ‘The getting down | was easy enough. We had soon thrown down a great | heap of loose earth and rubbish, which formed a mov- | ing inclined plane that slid down with each step so | rapidly that only about two steps were required to reach the bottom. The fine voal was filled into large sacks on the ledge where it was got out and tumbled over the precipice, while the blocks that came out were rolled down. Coaling, such bard work under ordinary | circumstances here, afforded the greatest sport. There | would be a ery of “Heads!” as a massof half a | ton, perhaps, was launched on its mad course, down the steep, while the crowd below engaged in getting the sacks into the boats drop everything and scatter in all directions, and the block rushing down the steep bank, gathering new force at every instant, | suddenly strikes the bottom, breaks to pieces and flies | inall directions like an an exploding shell, It was not altogether unattended with danger, either, for some- times those above maliciously delayed singing out, “Heads!” until it was almost too late to escape, and more than one of them received a piece of coal about the legs or shins that made them call down loud male- dictions on the heads of the guilty oues above. The girls employed themselves in picking up the pieces and filling them into the sacks, and they appeared to enjoy the sport as much as | anyoody, evidently regarding it asa grand holiday, I must say that I think that everybody was greatly as- tonisbed at the neatness these girls displayed in their | dress, and the trouble they took to keep from getting stained aud soiled with their work, We have been so long accustomed to hearing the terms “dirty” and “pithy” applied to the Esquimaux that the very word | has come to suggest something unsavory and offensive. | ‘The truth is that the majority of travellers always and | invariably pronounce evorything—customs, manners, | dress, ideas, cookery, ways of life—everything, in short, to which they are not accustomed or which they haye never seen before, as either “dirty” or “oarbarous, ’!” These girls, hko those of Disco, wore white starched linen tops to their boots, and ag it was impossible to keep them from get- ting blackened with the coal dust they changed them, and put on clean pairs no less than three times during the day—a fact which is alone @ sufficrent refutation of the slanders that have been heaped upon their devoted little heads. As fast as the boats wore loaded they were towed of | tothe ship by the steam launch, and the work pro- gressed so rapidly that at noon, when we went to din- ner, we had already got in twenty tons. It was not, | however, very good coal, for although it burned very readily and made little smoke, it produced scarcely | more than balf the steam produced by an equal quan- tity of Welsh coal, Butit had every appearance of growing better as it was worked deeper into the hill, aud we really could only get that which, cropping out of the steep face of the bluff, had been exposed ta | the action of the frost for centuries, and had, of ecours, | been more or less decomposed. We had no means of | comparing it with Welsh coal. | From the top of the bla the ground, which ap- peared to be covered with a rich carpet of grass and | flowers, rose in gentle incline to the foot of some mountains about three miles distant. Behind these, | again, a glacier could be seen, for the interior of the | Island of Disco, like that of Greenland itself, appears _ to be, summer and wiutor, one solid mass of ice and | snow. | probable that when the various districts of all the | Majority will be in the neighborhood of 12,000. | Nicho! 3 NEW YORK HERALD, RIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1875.-TRIPLE SHEET. THE HLRCTION BATTLE The Majority for the Democratic State Ticket Increasing. SENATE AND ASSEMBLY REPUBLICAN. The Result in the City and the Candidates Elected, TAMMANY AND HER DOWNFALL. FOURTH DISTRICT. Galvin, Tam. | Sullivan, anti Thoinpson, rep. Gaivin's majo Betts, rep.. Cavanagh, Tam..| | Paige, anti-Tam Betts’ plurality Patten, Tam. Healey, anti-Tam.. Labr, rep. Patten’s majority SEVENTH bISTRIC Hayes, rep. Bartett, Tam. Gugel, rep... Gaussman, Gugel’s majority, Campbell, rep. Vosburgh, Tum. Mortimer ,anti-Tam| Campbell’s majority. . TENTH DISTRICT, Hoflman, rep. Guth, Tam, ‘The returns from the interior of the State continue to come in slowly, and many districts in some towns have not been heard from as yet atall. ‘Those which have come to hand since yesterday have materially in- creased the democratic majority, and it is more than counties have been heard from the democratic The vote for Senator in the Twentieth district is very close, and the democrats in the district confidently be- leye that Loomis, their candidate, has defeated Gilbert, his republican opponent, al- though the counties ot Herkimer and Otsego, of whi it is composed, have, combined, apparently given Seward, a small majority. Stephen H. Hammond, democrat, is undoubtedly elected in the Ontario dis- trict, There 1g no longer any doubt about the other districts, and if Loomis is elected in the Twentieth the next Senate will stand twenty republicans to twelve democrats, It is said that the Democratic State Com- mittee still cling to the hope that the democrats have secured & majority in the Assembly, | Monks, ant-Ta Hoftman’s Jacobs, anti-Tam, Peubody’s majority .....scececes » TWRLOTH DISTRICT, Watts, rep. Newburger, Watts? pluralt Strahan, rep. Daly, Tam Gallagher, Struhan’s majority. YOURTERNTH DISTRICT, Carty, anti-Tam Foley, Tam .... Carty’s majority. 2 VIPTRENTH | DISTRICT. Killian, Tam, Tretjen, rep. Costigan, anti-Tam. | Killlan’s plurality SIXTEENTH DISTRICT, Whitson, anti-Tam, believing that John J, Hanson Hamilton, A. H, Crosby in Lewis, George Perry in Madison, Isaac M, Maynard in Delaware, and Judson C. Nelson in Cortland, democrats, have been elected. The latest returns from these districts, how- ever, do not affurd the democrats much comfort, | and it now seems pretty certain that the republi- cans will have a majority of sixteen in the Assembly. There is yet some doubt about the election of Brown, republican, in thé Second district of Cayugg and of | Olark in the First diztrict of Wayne. Deckér, demo- | crat, is defeated by Townsend in Richmond county. ‘or Secreta: of State, Sew- | Bige Counties, ‘Albany. =) 883 | Allegany. 2,300} =— | Broome.. 800) ml | Cattaraugus a Cayuga... 1,700] | Chautauqua, 6 tl Chemung. —| 813 | Chenango 500 | Clinton. 400 — | Columbia. —| 824 Cortland, 385 _- Delaware 500 -| 46} — | 2,60, —| 600} goof =| 500 — | 750) | —| 800 500) — 600} — —| 7,965 100) = 500) 1,500; pel 2,100) Pe Montgomery. — lool) — New York. —| 42,528 —| 30,401 Niagara 46)" —|| 600) pit Oneida. 851 - —| 200 Onondaga. 2.2301 = —|| 3,000! — ‘Ontario Ce —|{ 200 Orange —| 559 —| 5468 Orleans, 680) soo) — Oswego 1,140] US ees Otsogo, pad —| 500 Pumam = 800) Queens. 700 noni — —| 526 Rensselaer. - 200) — Rockland — —| 400 toga. 1sn} —|} 1,808) = — Schenectady . —| _ s85{| ‘200 — Schoharie —| 1,833) —| 1,500 Schuyler, —| ‘1éo}/ 300) — Seneca. —| 633) —| 540 Suifolk. cP es | es —) 616 —| 800 5,240} || 5,000) — —| 1,887] —| 1,100 265] 7 || aso) — “| acto] =| 2,600 19 —| 2 =| *%eal] _ 300 _ 64] = — || 1,800 bat 1,086) ae 4,000] oes 1,018) Sains 1,118 = Cor) en | a) Total majorities......| 30,072] 80,389|| 40,167] 51,798 Dix’s majority, 1872, + 64451 Tilden’s majority, 1874. + 60,3817 Bigelow’s majority, 1875, 11,641 SUPREME COURT JUDGES, The following are the successful candidates for the Supreme Court Judgeships:—Jackson ©. Dykman, in- dependent, in the Second district; A. Nelson Osborne, democrat, in the Third; Aug. Bockes, republican, in the Fourth; James Noxon, republican, in the Fifth; James CO. Smith, republican, in the Seventh, and George Barker, republican, in the Eighth. CONGRESS. Nelson I, Norton, republican, is elected to Congress in the Thirty-third district, im place of Allen, liberal, | deceased. THE CITY VOTE. The vote for the various city and county candidates has not yet been thoroughly canvassed at the Bureau ot Elections, where matters are somewhat confused, owing to the vast labor which the recording of tho returns from the election districts has entailed upon the | officials, So far as can be ascertained the following is ‘the correct vote cast in the city for tho candidates be- low mentioned :. POR SECRETARY OF STATR, Bigelow, dem Seward, rep Majority for Bigelow se VOR RECORDS! Hackett, rep, and anti-Tam. Smythe, Tam,. jajority tor Hackett FOR DIS Phelps, rep. and anti-Tam. Olney, Tam........006 Majority for Pheip: vin, Tam..... a fajority tor Van Séhaick POR COUNTY JUDGE, Gildersleeve, rep. and anti-Tam, Spencer, Tam..... Majority for Gildersiveve POR © Ellinger, rep. and auti-Tam. Morton, T Majority for SENATORS, , URTH DISTRICT. FIFTH DISTRICT, Booth, rep. MoCle! SEVENTH DISTRICT, Gerard, Tam, Laimbeer, rep. Monheimer, Gerard’s plurality, RIGHT Bixby, anti-Tam,... Wheeler, Tam... Bixby"s majorit DISTRI ASSEMBLYMEN, FIRST DISTRICT, Maller, Tam... Madigan, anti-Tam.... Muller's majority. SECON! D DISTRICT, Murphy, anti-Tam, Kirk, Tam....... Murphy's majority Tl Slevin, Tam,, Grave in Fulton and | Churehill, Tam. Whitson’s majority ‘SRVK: Graf, rep Plunkitt, a Kennedy, Tan. Graf's’ plurality O'Hare, Tam. Biglin, rep. Murphy, anti-Tam O’Hare’s plurality. NINETEENTH King, Tam....... Feehan, anti-Tam. King’s majority Engelhart, rep... Stewart, Tam... Engelhart’s majority ie TWENTY-PIRST DISTRICT. Fallon, Tai Cowing, re p Fallon’s majority DIsTRICT ALDERMEN. POURTH DISTRICT, Lysaght, Tam, Sheils, Tam, 10,547 10,309 Robinson, rep. 5,900 Reilly, anti-Tai 7,295 Wild, anti-Tam 6,268 Morris, rep... Wade, rep. ..... Gilon, Tam. .... Gumbleton, Tam, Howland, re Purcell, wnti-Ty Brucks, anti-Tam RIGHTH DISTRICT, Twohey, Tam McCarthy, Tam Purroy, Tam Cudlipp, rep. Simonson, rep, Beyea, rep... at “The Aldermen elected are Lysaght, Sheils, Reilly, democrats inthe Fourth district; Morris and Wade, republicans, and Gumbleton, democrat, in the Fifth; Pinckney, republican, and Guntzer and Keenan, demo- crats, in the Sixth; Seery and Sauer, democrats, and Howland, republican, in the Seventh, and Twohey, McCarthy and Purroy, democrats,,and Simonson, re- publican, in the Eighth, OTHER CANDIDATES ELECTED. The civil justices positively elected are John Cull ban, anti-Tammany; in the Twelfth Judicial district . M. Clancy, Tammany, in the Second; G. W, Parke republican, in the Third; J. A, Dinkel, republican, the Fourth; . J, Campbell, Tammany, in the Fift W. H. Kelly, republican, in the Sixth; W. 8. Pincknoy republican, in the Seventh; F. G. Gedney, republican, in the Bighth; and H. P, McGown, Tammany, in the Ninth. The Aldermen-at-Large elected are Samuel A. Lewis, | William L, Cole, Magnus Gross, John Reilly, Tammany democrats; and 0, P. C. Billings and Jacob Hess, re- | publicans, The correct vote on’ Aldermen-at-Large and the co- alition candidates for the Marine Court, Superior Court | and Judges of the Common Pleas is not yet obtainable. A late return last night from the Twentieth Assembly district gives Engiehardt, republican candidate for As- sembly, 383 majority, instead of 80, over Stewart, the | Tammany nominee, TAMMANY'S DEFEAT. in IZED AND KELLY REMOVED ?—RUMORS OF A SUCCESSOR TO THE FALLEN ‘‘noss.”” ‘The democracy of the city are now devoting them- which is “What is to be done to reorganize Tammany Hall?” The second problem to be solved is contained in the question, “Will John Kelly resign bis chairman- ship of the Tammany Hall General Committee, or will he be removed from power?” Kelly, whose nature is stubborn, hard and unyielding, does not evince any dis- | position to retire, and he wili, it ts said, hold-on until Tammany Hall shall fall to picees, carrying his weight. There are in tho Tammany Hull Gon- eral Committee, which is in fact the active working body of Tammany Hall, 657 members— one from each election district, this number resigned their membership just previous to the election, although there were a great many more | dissatistied who did not dare to admit or publicly assert their dislike for Kelly’s bigh-handed dictation. At present the Tammany Chiet finds himself in the most difficult position, and cannot tell what his General Com- mitiee may do, against m the Kelly. General make effectual any movement can be dono Com | tions are held for delegates to the General Committee. In each district there will be three inspectors, and these inspectors, who are to count the votes at the primary elections, will be “given,” as it is called in pofitical slang, to the politician most powerful or successful in the district, ‘Then it will be seen that this loca! leader will have his own (riends chosen in the primuries, and in the city who be- Jong to the anti-Tammany party have been in a meas- ure successful in the late elections, they will so far be amajority of the local leade enabled to return a General Committee hostile to Kelly. ‘THR MYSTERIOUS TAMMANY SOCIETY, Let {t be assumed that the last week tn December has arrived and that a majority of the General Com- | mittee have beon elected as hostile in their feelings to Jobn Kelly, who is chairman in the present committee. | There isa meeting for orgunization of the committee immediately after January 1, and an attempt is to be made to oust Kelly and place another leader at the head of the committee. But bere will come the drst hitch in the progratnme, and this hiteb, the ant-Tammany leaders are fully cognizant, will be a very serious ob- sacle in their way. The Tammany Sachems, een in number, of whom John Kelly is one, {hirtecr amd Sachem. being Augustus Schell, are th of April, and conse- I next April among the ning body. These thirteen of the Tammany Society, and Some of the suchems are un- ot suatain him probably mmany Hall against @ s there is now mbered between time past, it is elected annually in, the quently Kelly hiolds* over rest of the mysterious ge sachems are the trustee hold all its real estate, | friendly to Kelly and would in closing the doors of retormed General Committe a serious trouble, which Kelly and Wickham for probable that democrats might lind among the sacpems at least five members who would sustun their elforts to purity the orguniza- | Heaoy, although he hus been expelled from the General Cominittee, 8 yet a sachem of the Tammany Society, and has a good personal strength among the democrac. still, if Kelly can only get a majority of one in tl Board of Sachome, it will be impossible lor aay some the auti-Tammany WILL THE GENERAL COMMITTEE BE REORGAN- | Twenty or thirty of It te quite difficult for a handful of members of the Tammany General Committee to Nothing mitte until its reorganization, which occurs generally in the last week in Decomber, when the primary elec. Wiliam Walsh, a devoted follower of Joba Mor. | nization to get admission to the building as ® Two years since the Creamer- nocracy attempted to get into Tatn- many Hall as a General Committes, but the pohce were rgai Ge | ordered to drive them Yet, for all that, they made a gallant’ = but ansuccessful attempt afterward to elect .@ Board of Sach | favorable to their projects, through the sa despotic is the power of the Board of Sachems that they etforts of their friends in the Tammany Society. can, if they desire to do 80, disorganize a newly elected eral “Committee, declare its action and | formation null and void, and call for 4 new primary election to choose a General | Committee. It is understood that an attempt will be made in the next Legislature to have the charter of laninany Society repealed, on the ground that the s have acied iiegally and in excess of theis 8. If this is done, then the present Board of 3a ns can be remoys d the people will really have 4n opportunity to » part ip the management of the! own juterests as democrats? But until that is done the despotism of to-day will be held as binding as ever over | tho General Committee, who are merely 567 sh @ | recone he wishes or orders of the sachems and big indians, the SUCCRSSORS TO KELLY | Already there are a number of candidates for tht | succession mentioued who would like to step into tht | shoes of John Kelly and lead the lately defeated hosts | of Tammany. Among the names mentioned are thost of Robert B, Roosevelt, Neison J | J. O'Donoghue, Benjamin Wood, | even Jiminy O'Brien and Mayor Wickham are talked ol Hut the laboring men are not likely to forgive Wickham for his cutting down of uh Benja- min Wood, it is believed, must ine to be @ | leader, from the fact that he thinks it a very thankless place where there is nothing but hard criticism and open rebellion to be encountered. Robert B, Roosevelt 18 a mun of cultivated literary taste and of leisure, and never seemed to care about anything more difficult than to be Congressinan, as far as politica were considered. Nelson J, Waterbury would not bé relished on account of his little sympathy with the and his strictly Jegal training. Mayor Wick- declare openly, has no arena ruined his politieal prospects by his |, injustice und folly toward workingwen, Frank Bixby, a very active and successful politician, does not desir | the “position of leader as he ‘has ; cted to the State Senate by # magnificent jority. “Jimmy O’Brien’? “cannot — expect 4 following of auy great extent since he bas not been able to elect bis own Assemblyman in the district | which he used to carry by a large majority ; and besides, | his very serious defeat as a candidate for the May of the ity ty of New York two years since inakes fim: for him to do anytiing with the aggregate tie vote of this nietropolis. There then re | mains, according to those who profess to know politics, | only two or three available persons for leaders an | who would be quite acceptable to the large number of vowrs in Tammany Hall. These names are narrowed n to Fernando Wood, Joseph J. O'Donoghue and Abram 8. Hewitt, Mr. Hewitt is well knowg to democrats as the son-in-law of Peter Cooper, a mart of Jarge wealth himself and at present a member of Congress trom the Bighth distri Fernando Wood it even better known than Jou Kelly and has a record extending thirty years back to the palmy days of polities when Henry Clay's sentenecs of silver were dropped ta admiring thousands, Mr, O'Donoghue is a very large tea merchant in Front street who is said to be worth $4,000,000, and a very hberal giver to the Tammany or- Banization in all its needs. Mr. Wood has many sym- pathizers in the wrecks of Tammany whom he led t¢ Victory filteen years ago. Mr. O’Donoghue is a Conv | missioner of Parks and a relative of Denis Oo Dapebyy ell Known silk merchant who refused the office Charities and Corrections from Mayor ; Wickham, | THY KILLED AND WOUNDED. There is great mourning and discontent among the | candidates in Tammany Hall who have been led to slaughter under the leadership of John Keily, and the | anguish of these candidates is increased by the fact that this year the assessments have been unusually heavy. In the Fourth Senatorial District, where there are over 100 election districts to be furnished with money, Joba Fox sent to each district $50, in addition to vast suma of money that are said to have been given to in- dividual voters, making his expenses run to over $40,000. Morrissey ouly sent $25 to each election district for expenses. Beside the pools sold on the | election amounted to over $500,000, and of this sum, it is said, Jolin Morrissey won in’ pools at least $200,000, | A very tucky thing for him, Some candidates for Civil | Justice haye had to spend as much as $5,000, and Sena- | torial candidates have had to expend in several in- | stances as high as $10,000. Assemblymen, Whose salary is but $1,500, have spent variously from $1,000 10 $2,500, and not a few who have made large outlay have | been deteated, if TAMMANY GENERAL COMMITTEE, { | WHISTLING TO KEEP THEIR COURAGE UP— ANOTHER SPEECH BY JOHN KELLY—A BID FOR IHE LABORERS’ SUPPORT. About 400 members of the General Committee of | Tammany Hall attended the usual monthly meeting \ last evening at Tammany Hall, The appearance of ‘John Kelly, who entered afew minutes before the | hour for the convening of the committee, was the sig- nal for an outburst of applause that continued for some moments, and was acknowledged by the ‘Boss’! | with modest smiles of recognition of the promizent | actors in the late election gathered in the room. The chair was taken by ex-Assemblyman Daloy, who called | the meeting to order amid cries of ‘A speech!” “A ee oa ‘volte Olnoy, Vice President, then took the chaid as presiding officer, The Committee on Resolutions of the Committee on Organization offered a preamble and resolutions, the substance of which was as follows:— | Resolved, That ace tho result of the recent election | as one inthe Jocal and removable causes, we congratulate the democracy of the nation, and expecially of the State, on the election of the eundidates placed in nomini tion, | “Resolved, That by the election of tho democratic State candidates the democracy of this city and county of New to tle democracy of the of selfish and corrupt strength to the opposle on in the recent eo uurcity which are pledged in common to war effort and determination of this organization to | ! icul bodies aud to purity the administration Kexolve given by th dat pose iple the blessings and benefits of wn en= stration, combined with hon- Hightened a | esty and goo i} Kesol will hereatter e to | Ing point whore will be found all who believe in and up! | pure aud undefiled democracy, JOUN KELLY'S SPERCH. | The resolutions were adopted amid great cheering ny Hall as at presont organized we, as it hus ever been, the rally. id selves to the discussion of but two questions, one of Mr. Kelly then took the floor and explained that he | wished to speak of some of the causes of the recent de- feat. ‘Tho main cause was the prejudices created in the laborers’ minds. The feeling prevailed through all | classes of working people in the city and county | of New York, and our enemies took advantage of it, It was continually presented to the people o this city that we were the ones who should be held re neibie, Some ot the public press urged it continu ly before the people and failed to do us justice. Now we all know that we are not guilty of the charge laid atour door. We have done ail we could, as an orgauk vation, with the Commissioner of Public Works and other heads of departments to re@onsider their action, but they would nat hear us. Now it is unfortunate thal auything of the kind should occur, aud I can only re- peat that the people of this city should understand it, and not be governed by their biases ana prejudices and not hold us responsible for acts that we are not guilty of. Mr, Kelly here reterred to the large number Of laborers out of employment and the suffering likely to exist among them this winter, deciaring that, while the party canuot relieve them, it becomes the duty of the people to do everything they possibly can to relieve them. Mr. Kelly then proceeded to berate the pres for not exposing the disereditable acts of the candidater opposing Taintmany Hall and ignoring the merits of i candidates. They were continually hammering at lire as the one man power and his system, He expressed the belief that Defore three months the people would discover their errot and then would denounce these men they had sup: ported, He denounced Francis Bixby as the party who perpetrated the Seventh avenue pavement job, and could not see why the people rushed w yolls to elect him over such aman as Mr, Wheeler, Ke spoke of John Morrissey as the keeper of a garm- Viing house in this city, and a man who was in the lotiery business, “Why,” said Mr. Kelly, “when be was elected to Congress he took an oath to engage i no other business, and the first thing he did when he got to Washington was to set up 4 gambling house, on the corner of Thirteenth street and Penusylyw nia avenue, We know these things are rj vi that he bas every year at Saratoga the large gumbling place im the State, where the youth of the lund are corrupted,” Mr. Kelly charged “that the re- publicans in re-electing Mr. Phelps as District Attorney desired to protect themselves {rom prosecution for their acts of the last fifteen years that will not stand investigation, For this reason they bent every effort to cover up their acts, fearing that a aemocratic Dis. triet Avtort i lay bare ther irregularities. He expressed the belief that the time would come wh the people would regret its action and hang them heads in shame, He be gery to his hearers to not despair, but’ to go forward with a stronger determina. tion thaa ever to Win the battle next year, “Our flag,’* said he, “has been trailed in the dust, but it will ris¢ ain.?? Here General Martin T. McMahon called for cheers for John Kelly, which were given three times over, all the inembers rising, Mr, Kelly then exclaimed, “Let ex, Times \nyesiigate the character of their leaders, Willitdo it? Idety it. The character of this paper it known in this community, It isa libel upon the State, ‘The editor of it isu hbeller and does not deserve the association of gentiemen. He can do us no harm, Now Jet me say to the press, if they want good government they should unite with the people to give it--they should tell the trath and not talschood.” General MeMavon here called again for three cheers for John Kelly, which were enthusiastically given, He then proposed three cheers for the centennial year ob | the State of New York with Jobn Kelly as its leader, Abram 8. Hewitt, being called for, made a vigorous | xpeech, declaring that the defeat wus due to the fac that Tammany had preferred principle t policy—goud | men to bad ten, eulogizing John Kelly a8 an honest leader, who is ‘unsellish, He advised that the com | mittee should pass resolutions to put the public mind CONTINUED ON TENTH PAGR