New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-20
THE TAMMANY ELECTION.
THE WESTCHESTER TICKET CHOSEN.

TIE election Of Sachems and officers Of the Tammany
Society for the next year took place ast evening al the
old Wigwam and the struggle resulted IN fearful pot
cal slaughter An eSpectsnt Governor, hopeful be.
lever in the possibility OF achieving L. s Senator
ship, and third who had been aecSriei the arrange
pent of the NewYork delegation 10 Charleston 10 1850
killed. and. in the apsuage of the lrishman,
they breathei their laat all hope of their re-
covery was given up. Their scalps are among the
trophies Of tie enemy, who hold the w Wgwam undis-
putej. Fernsndo Wood, Augustus Scheu and john
Vanderbilt Were the three victims. The first osn
retire TO the bosom OF his family, where ne is appe
ciated and priced, the second reflect upon the
rgrat,tude of Administrations and the third can 20 to
that unosteutatioUs retiremeLt for which the West
che jups consider his talents eninently qualify
bin.
The turn out of the aborigines great, the vote
exceeding by about CO the vote Of ss year which
gresteI than lad been eat far many years previous
Over twenty members were present who ha1 rot been
pes.It at an election for twenty years, AMI a still
lager number who had not voted for ten years. O-e
lriun came ficm Cincinnati two, NJ. Dayton srd Ge).
SsrdeIs from WsshiI gton, and with them the Hon.
Dan Si,bels 10 H. un-e matters From Albany cane
Controller Chmch, Secretary OF State Tucker, aud
Me srs Wine and Chandler and others of the Assem-
bly, were also present. Three fossil Iojuns were ex-
humed from Hudson and il was expected that Martin
Van Buren, himself would be present to cast h' vote
but the soil of Undertook refused TO yield up the po-
ltcsl corpus. But at any rate the excitement was
interse about the wigwam. Old Iriurs, young To- ans
lame Iniuns and blind Irjws, wounded lrjuos and
whole Inups, Ipjurs With gold headed canes and In
iups with red shirts on whisky lnjuus and nuns who
c,me in cs rsges Inuns with political aspirations, In
juns without political aspirations, and ipjuns with no
SEPARATIONS except aspirations eteIDs-in short, mpos-
sble Inurs of all varieties turned out and congregaied
within the bounds Of the wigwam.
At all early hour in the evening, the Grand Sachem
of the tiibe, DANIEL f. DELAyAN, called the meeting
to order and was determined at once 10 go into the
election. William Mirer, Westchester lrjun, snd
COL Voeburgh an Ipiun from Mercer street, were ap-
pointed teeis and IL. +. Aubrey and l.. F. Harrison
haiing respectively from the same localities were aP
pointed cerks.
But there were other arrangements iDjen-ously con-
tlived by each contendng party to AID its especiil
cause. The Westchester il uns had the ladies' recep-
ton room their rayipg point ard the Mercer-street
ipuDs had their also where it is said that The
Visible Grand jun administered solemn oath to each
Melcer-street Ipjun who would take it, that he woad
support the ticket which the aforesaid Visible Grand
Irun gave to him. Thus armed and equipped with
his paper tomahawk, each Ipjun went boldly in, and
formed in iun file and in bis turn deposited his ballot.
Two chalengers were allowed. The late dethroned
Car of all the ewYorks, Fernando the First, in be.
hsf Of Mercer street and the Foresers and Nelson of
Waterbury in behalf of the Westchester tribe.
The voting went s supposed satisfactorily,
but a. none except those who had etacei their steps
rom civilization to ipjun life were admitted, and the
reporters not beirg cham abOngnes, were not a.
owed to honor the scene with their presence. The
pcl was closed at ten o'clock, and the teers CON-
mel ced at once to canvass the votes. The whole
number cast was 37S.
Annexed are the two tickets, and the number Of
,n.eI ,aot snr oaob candidate.