The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-11-07
TIE HARD sHELLs-wHERE ARE THEY2

TIE HARD SHELLS-WHERE ARE THEY?
This branch of TIE democ party not to be
found anywhere las: evening One Of reporters
visited their headqu p expectation OF hearing the
announcement Of the returns, but the room in which
ty are accustomed to assemble vacant and there
were signs OF ling. They had, it appears, decided
t. remain sieut few days, and then, If the result
proved favorable, to hold grasi johcaton meeting
sSWhat has become Of the haras night asked our
reporter q a strong adherent az the party
Wei, guess they're around, looking after their
cbances " he replied; and matters stand now they
look SOMEWHAT slim 2
But where are they aSsembledf'
''They amt assembled at all. The committee didn't
call any meeting for this evening, and the boys
gone to the other head quarters to hear the news.
After few moments further conversation, this, the
only representative of the hards left intensely Disguised
with the turn politics had aken but expressing the hope
that every thing would made right next year and
that the hards would up at the top of the heap
TAMMANY HALL LAST NIGHT.
THE LIGHTS OF THE OLD wIGwAM ExTINGUISHED--
JUVENILE ROwDlEs IN THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
sI0NAL POLITICIANS NOWHERE.
Last evening GLOOMY one for Old Tammany. The
Cade of Demccr acy left without of its regu
Lar nurses and abandoned to the tender mecies Of
crowd of the hardest of juvenile wdies The COM
mttee down stairs indeed in the early part OF
evening,
they all looked emphacaly blue and as their apprehen
sions of the result of the contest the arr
val Of new Corners strengthened they began slowly and
sadly to stink away. There music, no banners,
no marching Of wards Examinations no roar Of ar
tllery from the adamantoe lips of the sixpounder OF
the Empire Guard oratorsin fact nothing to remind
one Of the palmy days of the old temple.
The hall itself indeed lighted up and some enthu.
siastic individuals, who still kept hoping against hope
those present, numbering not two hundred in all was
composed of precocious voters Of tender age but evil
IDENTIFY of the toughest sor. of moral material These
young sovereigns smoked cent segars and many OF
them go,ied in discolored eyes and battered counte
nances the marks of the days trays
They amused themselves in the Of the evening
by knocking each other the head aud indulgng in
similar playful tricks, One gentleman on the platform
answering Familiarity to the Of Frank and who ap-
peared to be preparing to secretary Of the meet
ing was occasionally nonplussed by the questions,
Frsnk, what's the news' Frank, how has the Fourth
ward gomez" FIank you tell anything about the
Sixth ward But to Of these could
that gentleman give any satisfactory reply.
About hal-pa eight the two hundred became i'm
patient to know the worst siyned that feeling by
continued stamping. Frank, noby rushing into the
breach said Gentlemen, we have yet got reliable
returns" SWELL what returns you gots" asks one
OF the impatient. "Noue al sir, )" he replies, "but
think il looks to be rather Know Nothing dodge and
Disguised Irishman acknowledged the gloomy aspect
Of affairs by the forcele Confession 'the Know No
things have carried everything by is"
Nine O'Clock comes but still organization speak
ers, no returns The disgust of the Irshman to
be participated in by most preent-except the juveniles
before mentioned who don to how things 60
land Tammany begins to thin out perceptbly. There
are few calls for oKeefe two for Rynders and
Others and few faint cheers for Howard But no one
IL desperate enough to respond Go these calls essay
speech in the gloomy circums ances surrounding. No
wonder that another Hibernian in tlouse should cry
cut "What's the matter with Tammany HALF We don't
hear music out Of 1t the used years
ago." The question pertinent, and the good
Of the interrogation provoked shouts from those
Of hearing speech to send tina. fellow up" "Iet us
hear what he has to sayn But all that "that fellow
bad to say expressed in the pi.hy remark "Gad,
suppose they think we're all dead
One or two incipent begued the time for another
quarter of an hour when the gas lights began to grow
faint and presently Mr. Brown appeared step ladder in
hand and quietly set to Dirk turning off the gas cocks
This was hint enough and the few persons who had the
courage to remain so long, quietly streaked off, leaving
Mr. Brown in the attitude of the in that celebrated
hall deserted
Whose lights He'd, whose garands dead,
And all but him departed