New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-11-14
Disgraoeful Canrnssing.

Yesterday was the day after that on which the
Boards OF Supervisors are required by law TO oan-
vass the votes Of their several Counties having
FIRST corrected any errors and supplied any de.
fcencies therein. Yesterday every Board which
had not been able to do SO on the preceding day
/ completed its canvass and declared the result
all except the Supervisors of New York and Kings
Counties. The Supervisors of broad and wide
Steuben, st. L awrence Chautauque had no diff
Guilty in completing their respective canvasses on
the day designated by law; but here, in this cen.
ter of intelligence and refinement we appear to
have on either side of the East River inspectors
OF Election incompetent to state so simple fact
az the number of votes polled for each candidate
at an Election returning officers so unfit and un-
faithful as not even at all to send in their returns
to the Supervisors. and Supervisors who know
not how to supply deficiency promptly, and have
no resource but to adjourn over in stupid perpleX-
ty till such time as the returns shall see lit to pre-
sent themselves corrected
We are speaking directly OF the ouperyl.
sors of Kings County, and especially OF w llhams
burgb. who adjourned over for a second time last
night, without making declaration Of the result
the returns were imperfect But this was Ger.
tanly known at the meeting of Tuesday, and
should have beenE thoroughly amended that day
The Board should not have adjourned without
making sure of correction that night and then
to an early hour of yesterday. But they adjourn
ed over to fire P NJ yesterday, and on meeting
their returns were still defcient-W hamsburgh,
where the error seems to have been committed,
being some three miles at iurthest from the place
of the canvass. In consequence OF this and the
failure of our City canvassers to declare the re-
suit on the State Ticket in our City the anxious
suspense and feverish anxiety respecting the re-
suit of our Election for Governor, which so I'M
wholesomely pervade our whole State, and affect
to greater or less extent the whole Country, are
indefinitely protracted and aggravated
For this continued excitement, and the gam
bling. living and other immoralities which will in
eyitably flow from it, the Supervisors Of New.
York and Kings Counties are to great extent
RESPONSIBLE The result OF the Election in our
City, so far as State o aoers are concerned, might
have been, and therefore should have been, sscer-
tanned and declared on Tuesday, but yesterday at
furthest We believe VIC give the actual result
in our columns this morning, but the People an
fortunately await the official declarations and
nothing else will satisfy them Every hours un-
necessary delay in making it is public mischief
md public wrong The Kings canyassers are
more excusable because of the defects in the re-
turns laid before them, but they ought to let the
public know by whose fault it is that this mischief
is done, and why it was that one day did not sui
flee for the correction Of the errors at Williams
burgh The whole Board were guilty OF gross
unfaithfulness in adiourning over from Tuesday
to so late an hour as five O'Clock yesterday, and
the Supervisor or other officer who neglected to
have his returns corrected oven then should be
designated for public Reproduction. By nothing is
the proverbial good nature of our people more
taxed than by the lazy, shuffins, dilly,dallying
manner in which public officers perform their duty.
especially when paid by the day. We mean to
do our part toward reforming this aud we trust
others are ready to help US.