Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-11-11
SCENE AT THE ELECTION POLLS.

The New York Courier relates the following scene as
having of the polls in the upper part Of
the city of New York early hour in the morning Of
election day:
The voters not yet fairly commenced to their bal
lots In their pine board cadels covered with huge emba
zonings of the great chiefs of the political
miles, the ecctioneerers stood silently holding large packages
their paper bullets which they watched for opportunity
to discharge straight into the heart and affections of all free
and Independent who might chance to become lost in
the of flaming posters embracing every pest and pillar
around and sand-bag tightened flags falling from all the
skies above Within the where the poll was held there
like naction The inspectors stood solemn and
behind their ballot boxes the clerks appeared to have sine
cure the police officers leaned lesurey their saves and
several seedy individuals with compilations
looked stesy The whole business OF voting was mo-
nopozed by few substantial looking citizens who in
slowly after the other deposited their votes If they
knew what they about, and then passed out with
quiet remark how the election going And thus
continued for time hustle crowd; excite
ment challenging; nothing to laugh at and nothing to
get politically angry about But at length the dead calm
broken and something like the breeze Of an election 70
al votes" said m individual with sort of Kossuth hat
and immense goat of sandy coored hair his Chin
senng himself before the ballot and deposng the
centre five tickets.
votes" he repeated the inspector bent upon him
look Of doubt /" Yaw, votes."
And the third he made the gave
his chin emphatic projection towards the inspector which
brought both the and his vote directly under the
shadow Of the wilderness Of hair which ornsmencd his chin
"But, my friend said the inspector, sweeping up the
tickets from the top Of the box 'hese tickets all the
all State tcken cannot vote five times for the
man."
"Yaw knows noting about it. votes-I votes for Mr.
Gorerneu!"
"But there's Mr.. Goveneur You mean you want to
vote for Governor"
The political friend Of Mr. Gorcrne here looked puzzled
moment, gave his goat slight up and down movement,
sroked it in doubt looked inqung around, then back
at the Inspector aad again made known his intentions.
!" I votes-I votes for Mr.. GoUerneur~
Here of the seedy individuals with the highly colored
complexion made side towards the friend of Mr.
Gosrner and suggested in under tone that he probably
wished to vote for Seymour.
al votesI votes for Mr. Gorernsur" was again the
Of the with the goat and being the only
that could be obtained from him. the inspector went
into concerning the residence and other
qualifications Of the candidate for the privileges Of suffrage
The examination ended in the the friend Of Mr.
Gorern to Of the pineboard ctadels the sidewalk
in search Of correct set Of tickets Armed with these the
friend Of Mr. Gorere returned and the voice of the nspsc
calling to the clerk whole ticket" the several slips
dropped into the box conveyed the information to the
bystanders that votes " had voted.
Ii observed that when the slips dropped into the
box and when "whoe ticket announced to the clerk
that the with highly complexion smiled sereney
The smile had not vanished from his when the
with the goat plunged down cellar over the pora
Of which was inscribed !" Lager Bier