New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-04-12
NEW-YORK TRIBUNE.
WEDNESDAY MORNING. APRIL IL.
The Election.

The Election.
We have again lost the City. Contrary to our
hopes. VIM. +. Hsvemeyer is chosen Mayor over
Wm. " Brady, and q Loco Foco Council sup
plants tbs Wing Board elected last year. The
majority 10 not large, but sufficient
We have said we hoped for q different result
yet We were not without spprehensons also Oar
opponents in this City are immensely strong In
Charter Election when out OF power. However ui-
vided with respect TO public policy or personal pre-
ference they perfectly unanimous In their aneo'
ton for spoils. Brnborner and Honker, Free Soil
and Slave Territory. nor anything else, can H.
terpose any efec,uai barrier against tina. sppe-
tite Let them be 10 power here. with moral
certainty that very few but those in Office can lose
or gain by the result and they may divide, oppose
the ticket, or even stay at home. Bat let It be
known that If they win the Election they will have
several hundred Offices 70 rattle for. suited 10 all
tastes and capacities and they are pretty sure 70
poll all their legal votes and some over AZ they dld
yesterday.
On the other hand. the Wings went into the con-
ses. yesterday under great disadvsntages. In the
drst place lergs proportion Of our voters, esPe-
ciaIly Of the Mercantile class can rarely be IN
duced 20 vote at a Charter Election They are
ba,y, Indifferent, iDdolent, unsuited with tne
candidates, or displessed with something that
some Wing has done. All these drawbacks
opsrlted together yesterday. Oor business men
have very much to do and 70 think OF IN their
own hne; they will not realize that the duty
Of voting 10 ono of permanent obligation aud
many Of them were not well pleased with some
part of the doings Of our present Council
They bad confidently expected reduction
Of City Expenditure and Taxation, and more espe-
cially an improved aud cheaper arrangement for
Cleaning the Streets, as result Of the Wing VIC
tory last Spring; and, right or wrong, reasonably
or unressonsbly, the complaint was very general
that these expectations had been disappointed l.
% this ground alone very many votes were VITO
held from the Wing tickets, while many were cast
for our opponents. The dry weather and general
dustness Of the last ten days operated powerfully
against u.s.
There are some Wings who are so overwhelmed
with anna ement and gratitude at the nomination
Of q capable and deserving man by our opponents
that they think voting and eectioneering for him
the least return they can make. Thus the nomins-
ton Of Mr. Havemeyer, though quite distate'ul
TO many Of bis own party, was very bard one Tor
AZ to oppose successfully He took some mot
many votes fron Mr. Brad =, which were returned,
We think, from the other sde but very large
and pow erfo class who thought the good OF the
Coantry required that the running Of such men by
the Loco Focos should be encouraged were induced
TO make extrsordins exertions for bis election
The Wings had the reputation Of possessing tire
oHces while very many Of our opponents have
been kept in throughout the past year, and many
Wings dsafected thereby. And beside this, the
vast Police force of our City. several hundred
strong. well paid, much at leisure, and constantly
brought in contact with the great mass OF those
whose votes may be Influenced, were almost en-
trely against US throughout. forming compact
and powerful body Of elecrioneerers Thus oar ad-
vsrsnies enjoyed the benefits both OF Hope and
Possession, and made the most OF both.
Thst we were grossly defrauded in the vote OF
so,ne Wards. by org anized bands Of double and
ousdrople voters, we cannot doubt. The msjority
for Hsvemeyer 10 the Fourth Ward IL not an hon
est one. and 10 in some others. However, suffice
il for the present that we are beaten. We shall
not atop there.
P.S--4 O'Clock z. we have Just heard that
AID SsIrH is elected in the Sixteenth Ward,
which just ties the Board
P. S. 2d.-44 A. M.-Ald. MAYNARD
is said to be reelected in the XV1llth
Ward. So that we have WING
BOARD after all. and save all our
officers. Huzza!