The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-11-08

Comptroller the Commissioner Of Streets and Of Repar
and Supplies Is unknown to outsiders but the patriots
who fail IN the occupations Of everyday life and there
fore seek their country by aking fat cerkshps
are very well informed upon Very frequently these va
gabonds have supposed to have great deal Of po
htcal influence In the district where they nve and fa
tering inducements held to them before election
They go in for the work-they spend the csnddate's
money-they continually drinking bad liquor and
coasng or bullying refractory electors On election day
their aoors are tremendous. II they employed in
any legitimate calling they would work half hard
AT night they bang around the newspaper Offices and
eagerly catch at the returns they prnklng in
They 60 home late, exhausted and uncertain
Tie stakes they play for yet in doubt.
Notwithstanding the htgues Of the great day they
up hetmes in the morning. the Herald at breakfast Is
eagerly scanned. Still nothing definite arrived at
They must still watch and pray only that they have for
gotten all about the latter exercise long ago.
In other quarters the produces equal excitement
from different causes Conservative Of all parties
especially delighted the a Of the Seward black
republican, womens rights free love faction. For the
time yesterday, stocks neglected 'Change"balls
and bears" joined in congratulations They we're not all
pleased because the Know Noshngs had done we'll but
they intensely graaed the manner 10 which the
city had condemned the Seward fanatics the Van
Buren soft Shells At the Corn Exchange the only topic
was the election and the feeling of general JOY
The great commercial interests Of the city and country
are all injured by the Seward, Greeley and Raymond
faction Therefore the merchants reoced at their down.
fall.
At the City Hall the heads OF the departments we're
everish and uncertain The county ticket still some.
what in doubt The newspapers eagerly scanned
the probabilities warmly Observation-Disclosures was
Suspended such the intense anxiety to know how
pUs had
retired early and everybody made rush for evening
papers. The Custom House was melancholy in the ex
treme. The softs had become so far sortened that all
their consistency had melted out and away the gen
temen who had submitted to the fifteen per tax on
their salaries gloomy and desperate What was the
use Of throwing money in that styef What did John
Van Buren by bullying the administration aud talk
ing so much about the platform of 184sS What we're
these-(profane exprcssions)-Know Nothings aboutY
Truly the Custom House looked gloomy.
About the streets great many people thought they
would give another day to their country, and talk politics
instead Of attending to their affairs. You would
meet little shoals Of men and experienced city survey
would notice that each shoal Of different poIiti
cal combination. One set wouii eagerly discuss the
chances for the Know Nothing county cte-they cried
juha'e 10 hiunJhe, and only afraid about their
County Clerk who, II generally said, had himself to-
blame If he was not elected great many clerks ami
others who had been annoyed by Fiagg delayed in
getting their just dues for labor performed were very
glad that Flagg def tod The hard shells generally
although defeated, particularly pleased with the
idea tha, they had wipes the sots In the city aud
ihus improved thes prospects before the Cincinnati Con
ven,ion.
In hotels, at the festive board in the salooas, an
Change, in the workshops, in the warehouse couat
tgroom the only topic Of conversa,ion the election
which q safely gurprised every one A great
many wise people said they knew al about IL beforehand
but there be doubt about the fact that
Know Nothings themselves and the hard shells we're
both surprised at their achievements. The Broad
way House wings nearly all went the X ~ ticket and
left their candidates without a show unless they ran
upon the American ticket
The greatest excitement visible about the ne wspa
per Offices The candidate and their friend, struggled
for the first returns. Some times wilIet was Sheriff.
sometimes Toone-sometimes jolly Dick Connolly was
County Clerk sometimes the injured but innocent.
neatty The rush for the evening cton OF the Herald
was immense Our publication Office was blocked up an
hour before the paper issued and our st presse.
could not supply the demand The nevsboys re,pei
rich harvest and advertisers proGted by some thirty
forty thousand extra circulation. Groups Of fur or
five looked each others shoulders and read tho
paper. BY fair estimate million Of people read
the HutAI yesterday.
II generally acknowledged among the politicians
that the departments would be pretty generally In good
bands. The county ticket split up that the best
led. great many bets made-the odds being
generally two to that the whole Know Nothing ticket
city and State, would be elected There considerable
betting Cowles and Whiting Tor the Supreme Court
with the odds in favor Of Cowles.
Altogether, yesterday a very exciting time Young
America was perfectly happy and with good reason