The native American. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1840, 1839-04-20

ly amusing, and many Or them are very creditahe
to their orIginators
Eighth Uard AS usual, the entrance TO the
polls here is crowded and announcement. The
polling was brisk all day, and the wings are very
confident of a majority. The personal popularity
of the wing candidates for Alderman and Assistant
Messrs. Barnes d Mnurn, is very great, and
there appears not much doubt that they will be
elected. One Young man came up to vote and
was challenged.
DO you live in the ward?'
Il was born in it,
DO YOU live in it 2
No
Where do YOU liver
No whece-l am starving in this ward
DO you sleep in the ward!'
\ 4 do when my wife and children will let me-.
Are you married.
Il have three children!'
80 has many a man. Are YOU married..
Yes, and the father of three boys
Are YOU 81 years of age
No
y on can't votc-stand aside.
The wings expect to carry the ward.
Ninth Uard. The arrangements at this poll
are bad; the polling is brisk, the vote good, and
the ward certain for the locolocos.
TENTH ~ ard. The polling place here, has been
removed from the spacious building where the
bao Jig was carried on last fall, to miserable
shanty not big enough to swing cat in. The
locos mustered in strong force at an early hour,
and in the front ranks they had placed cohort of
'Du!chlanders,' many Of whom could not under
stand the American language and scarcely one
could tell if his ticket was the rrcM or the mcht.'
Their anxiety on this head and their fears of be-
ing bamboozled by 'das gericM' were highly
amusing. and made many bye-slander laugh ill
his ribs ached again
Eiercmh Uurd. This ward is locofoco to the
back bone, and therefore they could not resist
qnar"clIing among themselves TO who should
possess the honor of representing it. 'Conse-
kence vas, as loco said, these cunning Wigs
Jump IN and put their paws in our broth. Ave,
then, replied decent looking hard working me-
chanic. who by his dialect evidently born in
Scotland. mon, We should steer clear of the drink
in yoar committee rooms-for, as the poet says,
"sas"s their solemn cen may steak
An raise phtlosophic reek,
An physically causes seek,
In cline an season:
Hnt tell me whskey's name in Greek,
Ill tell the reason
for all yonr chickering's and backslidings from the
rue faith
.Ah, but says the loco, DON'T YOU know, Don
aid, that
Freedom and whiskey gang thegither''
and SO let us go and Il
Take off dram
With tllisw wise saw as the conclusion of the ar
gunent, that all adjourned to the next bar, and
there we left them.
yhjrteeruh U1urd. A hard fight here; the
wings say they only want fair field and no IA
vor, to give their opponents a sound drubbing
"a tal tp
respected Office holder. and who of course is
great advocate for things they are, we were a
little amused at conversation carried on, soto
roce, by a couple Of ''natyves," who ust emer-
ged from the polling place:
First Voter: Well now, Jenny, did you vote!
Second Voter: Shure and it was myself that
did that same thing.
First Voter: Well, did they swear you?
Second Voter Shure and they did, and a nigh
~ Reasonable oath it was; may the divl fly away
wild me if could see any thing in it to object to
by any Reasonable man.
First Voter: Blood and tunder though, Jimmy,
told We not to vote if they swore you.
Second Voter: Shure and you did that same
but the gentleman was mighty civil, the oath was
a reasonable one, and he gave me a Draw new
blue ticket, instead of the dirty one you gave me
to vote.
IL IS neeaeSS 10 say tnat Jenny nad Deen DIT
ten, and voted the wing ticket instead of the gen
uine locotoco.
Fourteenth Udrd. We were unable to get in
to the polls, although we waited for an hour; the
officers are uncivil, and the arrangements infa-
mously bad: the bar-room is thronged and the
liquors are very exciting. This ward, for seve-
raj elections, has been most notorious for disgrace
full scenes, all occasioned by the miserable man
agement of the inspectors, who do not provide an
easy access to the polls. Rie was standing out
side, and a gentleman thus accosted him:
'Ah, Riell, SO you've filled your house with
bcds!'
Rie: Not quite; want TO get few more
mattresses. The fact is, I've opened boarding
house on the Joe IIoxic plan. couldn't see
any left in the Custom House to plumber, after
Price left, and as my salary wouldn't support me,
was obliged to open a boarding house fair and
above board; I'll take any body in-rl take you
in, though you are wing.
NO doubt; butt shouldn't like all the live COM
pany | should meet in your mansion
Ha! ha! hal
Fifteenth Uard. Quiet and gentlemanly as
usual; inspectors polite; arrangements good; Off
GERS civil; polling brisk; and the wing majority