Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-03-01
NEW YORK c0RRESP ONDENCE.
New York, FEBRUARY 81, 1s45.

New YORK, FEBRUARY 81, 1645.
Another remarkable report from the Commits
sioners of our Amshouse was laid before the Board
of Aldermen on Monday last. Ii was in reply TO
resolution of inquiry offered week or two since
by one Of the Locofoco members of the Board, Mr..
HAsBRoUcK; but the facts contained in it appeared
to be extremely unpalatable to that gentleman.
They showed, by abundant evidence, that on the
night previous spring election three Locooco officers
Of the prison Blackwes Island with eight
under their charge left the Island that the convicts
dressed in citizens Clothes and suffered go and
drink liquor They slept the city that night and voted the
day the poll the of Mercer and Spring
after which they round to the different polls and oec
tonecred in behalf Of the Locofocos One Of them
rested for attempting to vote second time The keeper Of
Blackwers Island went to the prison and claimed him
runaway convict
These disgceu facts win Of course be denied by the party
which has long been notorious for similar abuses but they
supported by Of testimony which of jus
ce could reject nvadae In the Board of Aldermen the
report received with great show of indignation by the
Locofocos All that they could say in combination of the dam
ming facts adduced was that the Amshouse Commissioners
had been taperng with the witnesses and that the report
eectioneerng document But the commissioners
of high standing and unmpeachable character and all
their be fully substantated 1t pointedy
worthy Of credit that strange that gentlemen who could
receive eagerly the oahs and Of paupes and criminals
at the po should refuse receive the testimony Of the
class and denounce them villains and false witnesses
Strange may SEEM abuses like these winked at,
and will probably be again. by the party which manages get
the power in this city nine times out of ten. fair instance
Of the humane spirit Of New York Locoocosm was made
manifest last evening petition received by the Board
and read praying that the place Of holding the polls in the
Fourth District of the Fourteenth Ward might be changed
The for the change was that the last election one OF
the anLocooco inspectors driven from his post guar
dian of the balot-box by ruan with upled axe, who
only threatened his % but showed every disposition
take it. msomuch that the inspector obliged to make
his escape through window Indsposed to be subjected to
such treatment while exercising the privilege OF eemen,
number Of in the Ward pconcd to have the place OF
holding the polls changed While the motion to grant the
petition was under consideration Locofoco Alderman oppos
ed in very excited and when the iact OF ne ,
fan with the mentioned, the Alderman ,epheu %
the inspector ran a,pav like co,odrdt u was but sgnt
objection to the place. according the spnt OF ms REMARKS
that was liable to the irrupors Of rufans with axes IN
secors sooth ought stand their ground under such Gu
cumsances notwithstanding they might be ounumbered IN
the proportion Of fifty to one
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in possession Of the Library Of Congress