New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-04-15

We visited the upper Poll OF the XVIIIth Ward
On Tuesday morning, and saw the Paupers brought
up from the Aims House in omnibusloads, and their
votes fred of by plstoons for Browneh, Leonard
and tho Ward Ticket headed Moses w. 8. Jack
sop. There were but two Inspectors present one
of whom insisted that these were good voters and
the other acquiesced. Their attention was called
70 the article of the New Constitution which ex-
prsssly declares that
sPor The purpose Of voting. person shall be deem
Cd to have gained lost residence, BY reason OF bis
prsseucs or absence while kept In any Aims
kouse or other Asylum a, the public exPepse-Art 2
sse 3
All in vain The leading Inspector declared that
this only debarred from voting those who had been
put in the Aims House since the Netc Constitution
ras adopted This decision il directly in the teeth
Of the Constitution. Had this been the true mean.
ing the clause should here read No person shall
hereafter gain or lose" &c. But in truth the sub
stance Of this very clause was copied from the
Elscsion Lac Which had 5een force for years be-
fore the Nep Constitution ras formed. Remon-
STRANGE was idle, however. Power was all on one
side, and the psuper votes were crowded in by
hundreds and would have chosen the Ward Ticket
but for the division In the Tammany party.
AT our Poll (lst Of Xllth Ward two or three
psrsons were set upon at different times, when the
Wings were considerably in the minority, and
roughly handled for voting our Ticket. About
o'clock 0eman-named Charles Smith, if We
uistake not--who had just voted the Wing Ticket,
end was standing inoffsnsively in the barroom.
was quietly surrounded by gang Of Loco-Focos'
rapidly hustled thence into the middle Of the street
and struck and kicked dozen times on the way,
20 fsrociousy that by one blow he passed out at
the door his blood was thrown upon the side Of the
house and imprinted there. He was very badly
injured, and obliged to 90 home as soon afterwsrd
q he was able. The assault was so timed that no
WING was a witness of its commencement, or
could SEQ anything afterw ard but mob confusedly
end vocifsrously hurrying out into the street The
sufferer was blinded by the FIRST treacherous blow,
Cd essld nothing until he lett bruised and
NEEDING IL the middle of the street There were
ic,s Of oar beautiful pollce in the room and about
bat hey of course could not tell who woe the
actors in the Array no no one can be punished
for it.
The only excuse for this was the allegation that
Smith had promised to vote the Loco Foco Ticket,
and then voted Wing. But this could not have
been surprise, for he openly voted Wing last Fall
also. to our certain knowledge. And all day long
70 cite but one instance among several-the chsl-
isnger on the Loco Foco side at that poll was
who had been for weeks profsssedly working for
the Wing ticket and getting money of Wings on
that pretence-who received considerable from us
he very day and night before. on account of hi.
pretended services to aud sacrifices for the Whie
cause. Thus he stood with as late on Monday
night the next morning early we met him as Lo-
ooFooo challenger, at the poll But no Wing laid
finger on him. nor manifested the least dispose.
ton to do %. No Loco Foco can say that he was
injured, by Wings. No Loco. Foco was ever brow
beaten or bullisd in strong Wing Ward or Dis.
trict or fels any serious apprehensions of i'll treat
mens from Wings. 1t is not 50 on the other side.
In the xvIlth Ward. it was noised at the close
u the Poll that the Wing Alderman had been
chosen. At oncs the poll OF the strong Wing Dis
sret Second wa surrounded by gang of bullies.
pretending TO be much drunken than they really
were, who com ed iostling and pushing until
they had broken ne barrier ~sldsd 30 sepa-
rate the lnspscsos> . cro~ ben they
made rush Scr the bsss seof seized
the Mayors box and earn 'o,ou rect,
and Ne sndestsnd that thspo IN could not
haze sivm Brady less then ~ity, were
sssssessd snd lost They tried > session
y M Cbsster box--and il they b. ~yed
AID. croliuf would have been swn.a II
..s election, a. his majority here was lc4, we =
rest Of the Ward gives 20 against hiDo--ou' s1sf