New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-11-07
Live and Learn.

In this City, when the polls closed, there
were probably not less than One thousand
Voters standing ready to deposit their bal
lots, but 'too late! As many more went to
the polls in the morning, but found them
so blocked up that they went of to their
business without voting, some of them In
tending to return before night which they
were often prevented from doing The
fact that there were thirteen different bal
lots to be deposited by each voter rendered
the progress of voting exceedingly tedious
and annoying Seeing this, mob collected
about several polls and obstructed all in
gress, except for favorites, to the great
damage of the Wing cause. Thus our own
Ward, the XVIIIth,) which has largely in
creased in population within the past year,
poled scarcely more votes than in SO or in
AS, when its population was hardly two
thirds what it now is.
In our whole City, not more than $4,000
votes have been polled, while the Legal
Voters residing in the City cannot fall short
of 10000. Excluding the XIXth Ward,
the poll is scarcely up to that of last year,
though the number of our voters must have
increased some two thousand. There would
have been a much larger vote cast, if our
citizens could have secured chance to
cast it, The blocking up of the polls was
disgraceful, but would have been unat-
tempted or ineffective if all the officers to
be voted for had been carried on two or
three ballots instead of thirteen. We must
have this set right
The Union Safety business worked
against US throughout. In no instance did
we see one Of the Cotton ballots voted by
any but Wing, while several Wings saw
fit to vote for our Barnburner friend Randall
& Co. by way Of saving the Union. Of the
fifteen hundred or over-C otton ballots voted
in our City at this Election, we think clear
thousand majority were polled by Wings.
The electioHeerers for this mongrel ticket
appeared to be all in the Loco-Fo co interest.
If voter asked for the Union ticket
Simply, he was pretty certain to have Loco
Foco Senate and Assembly ballots supplied
with it. In the XVllIth Ward, not only was
this the case, but when voter asked for a
Wing Legislative ballot with the Union and
Safety State, he had quietly dealt out to han
For Assembly, William ID. Greene
Mir, Greene being last years Member. but
no Candidate now. By these ballots, Col.
Snow was all but defeated in one of the
most decided Wing Wards in the CITY. At
the poll near Atlantic. ST. Ferry, BROOKLYN,
brazen-lupged chap was stoutly vocifera-
ting Here's the Union Ticket when a
young friend stepped up and asked for one,
and had dealt out to him the regular. top
to-toe Loco-Foco ballot, the only Union
flavor about 1t being that Of the Union of
CIcswell aud Marcy with II. b. Stanton
ard John Van Buren, So they worked us
throughout
But We los. votes also on very different
grounds from these. The management of
cur City affairs for some time past is very
generally regarded as Inefficient, prodir.l
ard enwor'hy; and. though it is abundantly
demons'rabie that the Opposition members
OF the CoEiElon Council have been As deem
In the mud as the majority were in the mire.
yet the blame al rested, il the popular an
Prehension, os that majority. This could
not fail 10 hurt US IN the vote az an eIa,,;oo
wherein Aldermen were to be chosen.
The scenes of Primary Election ruff |
fanism, which are among the bad fashion. !