New-York tribune., 1875-11-03
PRICE FOUR CENTS.
ELECTION SCENES.
A DAY OF REMARKABLY QUIET.

DAY OF REMARKABLY QUIET.
LITTLE VIOLENCE AND FEw rCESEs or HOT Ex'
CrTEMENT GROUPS IN TIE slREt1s-ovEh'
TrRYs 10 VolERs-PoIiCE pREcsuIloNs-AN.
TIcIPATToN5 Al TAMMAsY HsIL-fnE hfTUR1
Al POLICE HEADQUARTERS.
tIor Cly Fiction Returns in Juli S>s Eigkn Psssl
The voting, which had been looked forward
to with tho most eager authorization for many weeks.
and the probable results OF which had been dis-
cussod In advance with the utmost seai,
did not cause the excitement and sr yesterday ~beb
might have been anticipated The election Was one OF
the quetest in this city. Below CsnaLst New
York had q thoroughly holiday appearance. The city
departments closed, ss w'ro also The
Custom house, Post Oflse, and The various ex-
changes Throughout tho First Ware there consider
able animation around the polls In consequence OF tho
rivalry between tho friends OF Fox AID MJssey There
portions III the Fourth, sixth, Seventh and Four
teenth Wards where there small excitement dis
played but In tho main there was An absence OF the
manifestations Of angry and excited feeling that charsc.
terze hoy contested election. There f.w scenee
Of violence. Even in closely contested districts there
was little i'll temper shown The lesdero and benehmcn
Of both sides bent themselves TO the task Of bringing out
all the voters possible.
The streets had look OF hustle aud e, especially In
the immediate neighborhood OF the voting places. from
an early hour IN the morning Tho distributors of tickets
were active and wellngh ubiquitous They were some
persistent bat yery rarely nsOant in their efforts
persuade voters 70 accept little Slips which bore the
OF the candidates Of the party which they served
Groups OF men, good-humorcd and Soh'r IN The main,
thronged the polling booths all day. and passed
their time in alternately challenging and chatting the
passersby. Ii amusing 10 witness the indignation
with which rescue but elderly VOTERS rejected the
overures OF those whc proered them tickets opposed "
their chosen candidates. At a West side corner on
Thirty ninth st. robust dame who did not
fear 10 e1pose her uncovered head TO tho
n b.r
her. She taunied them with being bought body and
by Jimmy OBren" An enthusiastic Republican Of
the Twenty second Precinct after having cast his vote,
called ont in voice slightly moisencd with something
stronger than water Three cheers for the Custom
housed" The cheers given, and mnment after hs
called out, "WhOeyr wants 10 dIink good luck TO the
Republicans come along" 1t asoDishug to nee how
speedily the Of Fortyifthst. was cleared The
advocates OF tho rushed five abreast at the
aperture OF saloon that would hardly admit ono
at time, and the street corner vacant for long
tmo after.
Invitations 20 the thirsty no. so frequent and
pressing n the bbulons quarters Of the city wont
TO be tho case in years before enforced economy had
reduced tho lavish expenditure Of politicians But
trenchincnt did not lay any blight upon tho
small hoy who searched diligently In all
sorts of possible and impossible places for
terials for street fires Miniature eonisgraons were
in places all the city during the day.
III they reached the proportions Of aldasoDed political
bclres around which gathered hundreds Of idly nth,.
siastc young and urchns who shouted for sniost
anybody anything in an amlcss sort of way.
During the hours se apart fo- voting yesterday every
thing was very quiet at Police Headquarters, In Mni-
bcrry-st. A large forco Of policemen. aDder capts-
Byrnes, Yule, and KlIlaea was held in reserve, ard
stages were kept in readiness at the front o'
tho building, for the purpose of transporting
officers TO eny point at mJmcDts notice.
Hourly communication was kept mp by telegraph
vitn every precinct until long after The closing Of the
polls The Commissioners of Police announced hour by
hour the condition Of the city being very quiet and
lerly Mayor Wickham in c0Dsulsatan with the
Commissioners dniing the greater part If The day and
left Headquarters about p apparently satisfied that
would DE serious trouble in an! part OF New
York.
SENTIMENTS OF THE PARTY LTADLRs.
At Tamma1y Hall were assembled John Nelly aud
several ~ the Tammany leaders who oiued later
in the day by the Mayor and other prominent Ia the
party. All pro,ossed 10 feel confident tbat yammaDy
Hall had won, although it admitted by some
that the vote for Oincy, snytho, ard Sppocnt
would probably. be considerably less than for
the rest of the ticket. The most interest csDtrred
the contest in the lvth Senatorial District. "Is
Fox or Morri.scy leaGnsP tho question
asked hundred times or moro during the day. Mr..
Kelly said quietly that he was confident Of success.
when asked hiopinon he invariably replied that be had
no doubt Of the victory OF the Tanmany county and w
dietary tickets ami the defeat OF HorTissey
The Republicans and anh-Tamulany leaders IN the
main struggled nanfuly to insure triumph. During
the day they claimed that they polling all The votes
they had expected 10 have and that the chances OF the
success OF the combination tcket fa,crng There
were rulnors durng the day that Of The anti Tam
many leaders in certain districts had sold out several OF
the candidates on their ticket. IL is certain that
in some parts OF tho city ticket we
hepr no NJ M
the Court OF Common Pleas, in place Of George NJ Van
Hoesen, the anti1ammany candidate. u Was asserted
that in other districts certain anti Iammany candidates
we're being traded OF FOR woes for District
Aldermen senators, and Assemblymen. The cleo
ton returns will he closely scrutinzcd, in order detect
this alleged trrachery. Much curiosity expressed
10 the popularity II Phelps aud acCtt IL was believed
by many that the former would lead the Recorder from D.
600 250On the city, while the friends ,h latter
equally confident that he would lead the combination
ticket largely
READING TiIE REIDRSS AT POLICE HEADQUARTERS.
FIRE scene ani around Police Headquarters last eve
ming marked BY the absence of The usual number
oi politicians who, w former timss, collected IN the
room whero the returns being read by the
Police superintendent. At the henin,ing OF the
rea1Bg last evening, superintendent Mailing wss
seated between President 3atseI ard Police Consnio-
sioner smith, but The successive rcturn- from the if
ferent election districts in ell parts III tho city showed
falling on % 35 10 cent the ID
ticket compared with The Democratic state ticket,
Commis soncr Smith exhibited uncasncss AMI al
y. he resigned his seat 10 Commissioner D,ecker and
retired to his on bo second floor President Ma
sell, however, remained during the hole r,ing vb,o
Commissioners Dl.Dcckcr and yOorlis TIM. in
their m. second floor Of tho huldns and at
other times In the courtroom where The hgures we're M
nounced 4 Few Tannany politicians were pres mt in
the courtroom fora few Minutes about o'clock bnt
soon retired mlrmuring that "TanuaDy Hal had sis
tanned 70 Waterloo"
During the early par, Of tho evening Ioh. Morrisscy
visited The for short time, M; from the tIium.
phsnt expression is face be entered il evident
that he did not there 20 hear the figures. lilo smoke
fo few persons only, and then merely announced that