Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-07-25
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
The Frauds in the Late Washington Mu.

| '0i III viz O'S""o VI ehe Jay DeIore yesterday ::
To the Editor Of tie american Organ:
Sir: The report is generally prevalent in the
community that 1 was to be indicted by the
grand inquest of the nation, for a violation of
law in reference to permitting q voter, and that
voter my son, to cast a ballot at the election in
June said voter was born in this city up
wards of twenty years before said election;
had scarcely ever been out of said city, resided
| IN the ward In which he offered to vote was
registered by the assessor, and had paid his
school tax; and 1ras a free sOttfe male cittz zen
| OF me united States, icGS neither a UaSranf
| meT non coDppoS D1eRtts, or had been coRrsct-
e9 OF an infamous CRIME, and, might add,
| nerer bore the name Of % rotcdU
| In accordance with the rumor. on Fr;day
last was arraigned as foreshadowed have
IN my capacity as justice Of the peace, made
| many arrests, and assisted in arrestjnp nersons
when sticks, stones, pistols, guns and knives
nave been brought in requisition, but never be-
lore had L any fear; this time | admit that I
Yuaued before my adversary. In the other
cases, knowing my men, boldly met them ::
buzz here was sneaking cotcaroIv rnHfau
cronching behind the grand jury, sending a
strip OF paper, with the name of the witnesses
thus endeavOring to stab my reputation in the
dark, and send forth to the world that I was
indictA I'd for frauds at the election; but thanks
TO .Nst ice and right, L came off unscathed not
wi1hsti lnding the feeling of portion Of the
wiIress es arraigned against me. As l am en-
deayor1ng TO ferret out the man who moved in
this matter, In which L have hopes OF succeed
iIg, will at present defer any other remarks,
but shall At some future time come before the
connected with my acts a. commissioner of cleo
s.cn, the result of which fear not
THOMAS G. DoNN
The writer Of this letter has long held his
present office ofjustice of the peace in this COM
md hos hafnr
commissioners of our municipal elections 1t
will therefore be evident to all that he must
have known the qualification with reference
| to age necessary to make one Offering his bal
| lot legal voter here. That qualification, in
the plaia letter of the law, is, that he must
have been twenty -one years Of age on tie 3lst
Of December n ert preceding the elecfiou There
is no question whatever as to this requirement,
no one having ever disputed it legally, and it
having been affirmed time and again by all le-
| gal authorities.
1t will be perceived that the writ er of this
| letter avoids the true issue, and talks about
| his sons having been /" born in this city I'D
wards of swenty-onc years before said cleo
| ton F" Those familiar with the plai n REQUIRE
ments Of the charter in this ma tier, will
| understand az glance that thus to attempt
| to change the true issue, is to essay to deceive
| the public, u whose sympathy the appeal is
made. We are curious to know who had the
youth in question fraudulently returned to the
| assessor as eligible to be on his poll list His
name never would have been found there, as
a matter of course, but through misrepresen-
| ;ation Of his age, which (his agc) the father
| must have known we'll. To believe that the
father did not know that the fact that he had
been SO returned on the poll book did not make
him legal voter in Washington if not twenty
one years of age on the 3Ist Of December next
preceding the election, will be to believe him.
| under the circumstances of his CO INJECTION with
| the Administration of the law here and of his
previous service a commissioner of elections.
| utterly non cODspos DsentIS.
" congratulate him on the adjournment Of
the grand jury before, rather than after the ap-
pearance of his letter printed above; other
vice, the effort to indict him of which he
speaks so indignantly, might have resulted We
~ differently indeed. Whoever the person
may be who called the attention of the grand
jury to the case in point, after the appearance
of this singularly impotent effort to justify his
reception of his sons vote under such circum-
stances, that person can hardly fail to receive
the thanks of the most Of those n this commu
nifty whose good opinion is worth having, how
ever much Mr.. Thos G. Doun may be enrared
against him. The letter itself tells the tale of
the manner in which the Know Nothings car
ried the recent election here, in terms practi-
cally quite as strong as any we have felt it our
duty to since the fourth Of June, ultimo.
II is to be hoped that more of the Know No
thing commissioners of the late election will
make q clean breast of it, after the same fash.
ion.
The Fever a. Portsmouth, va.-Since the
Star went to press yesterday, we have ascer.
tanned that there need be no dread Of the
spread of the yellow fever now existing at
Portsmouth, Va, beyond the limits Of the por-
ton of the (Gosport) ward Of the town in which
II prevails. The cause Of the disease-the pro-
Peller Ben Franklin-was promptly sent back
t. quarantine as soon as il was discovered that
{ she continued to be infected, and the streets
or street wherein those attacked were, were
at once 50 blOckaded as to prevent all not all
solutely necessary communication from with
out Some half dozen persons have died with
the disease, all of them being of the very
poorest and most exposed class, residing, hud-
died together in filth, in immediate proximity
with the ship when it imported the infection.
In such season as the present there is no fear
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around Norfolk, where the physicians and
sanitory boards have much experience in its
management.
Our Lahors Telling.-We present the read
: ers Of the Star with two letters that reached
us yesterday. They are samples of class