hour of opening the meeting the City Hall was packed to
suffocation, 500 of the audience, at least, being ladies.
The first business was the choice of a moderator, and in
this the ladies may claim a victory, as the candidate a
majority of them supported was elected in the person of
ex-mayor John Kimball. After this came the reading of the
report of the board of education, which was strenuously
objected to by the male supporters of the ladies. In this
they were beaten by a large majority. The reading completed,
the meeting commenced to ballot for three members of the
board. The scene then became one beyond the power of the
reportorial pen to describe. It was an old-fashioned New
Hampshire town-meeting, with the concomitant boisterousness
and profanity subdued by the presence of the ladies. A line
was formed to the polls and a struggling mass of humanity in
which male and female citizens were incongruously and
indecorously mixed, surged towards the ballot-box. The
crowding, squeezing and pushing were severe enough for the
taste of the masculine voter, and were harsh enough to make
it extremely unpleasant for the dear creatures who were
undergoing so much to cast their maiden vote. To add to the
delay the Hon. Nathaniel White had planted his somewhat
corpulent form directly in front of the ballot-box and
stayed the surging tide to shake hands with every woman that
voted. Having voted, the men were only too glad to leave the
crowded hall and let the anxious crowd rush in. The vote was
at last all in, and the work of counting completed shortly
before 11 o'clock. It was found that there were some ten
different tickets in the field, and forty-two candidates
voted for; but from this mass of votes there was no choice,
though the regular candidates, the outgoing members of the
board, who would have been elected had it not been for the
new element in the election, were ahead, having a plurality.
The meeting was then adjourned till next Saturday evening,
when the scenes of to-night will be intensified by a larger
attendance and still greater interest. The meeting to-night
obtain