Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-06-12
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

NV
The Tally.-The convenient election oom-
missioners Of the Third Ward, smartiug under
the pressure of public sentiment with refer
ence to their share of the means by which the
Know Nothing candidates were enabled to
obtain the certificates of election as the (bogus)
result of our late municipal contest, resort to
the columns of our talented, courteous, ami
able, modest. entertaining. truthful, and
knowing neighbor, in which to essay to break
the force Of that public opinion, SO far as they
are concerned. They seek to get up an issue
Of vsracisy with US. We do not intend that
they shall escape the consequences of their
completely with the circumstances of the 70.
cent election, on the Know Nothing side, by
thus aiding them to lead the public of
from the true issues involved in our account
of Captain Goddard's tally. They got some
one to say in another of our talented,
modest, amiable, truthful, entertaining, and
knowing neighbours columns, that he Captain
Goddard) denies the correctness of our state
ment with reference to himself on Saturday
last Now, We have to say that no author
ICES us to declare that he told these conve.
nient commissioners no such thing az they say
he did, through this agent Of theirs. He told
them that he had been careful to note down
every vote pulled at the window in the Third
Ward, and that he found that according to his
tally, 6oS votes had been received there, with,
perhaps, two more that had escaped his oh.
servation, and only two more. This reiteration
to them ofhis declaration to US was not repeat.
ed honestly and fairly to their parsgrsphist
AS for the discrepancy between his tally and
their recollection, as all the parties TO the con.
troversy are we'll known in Washin gton, we
need make no comments upon it, leaving their
fellow citizens who know them-John II. God.
dard on the one side, and VIM. C. Zantzinger,
ct al, on the other-to judge as to the amount
Of crodence to be given to their contrary 40
counts Of the manner Of conducting the elsc-
lion at the Third Ward polls
They essay to make another point with us
that is, with reference to the number Of anti.
Know Nothing voters waiting to deposit their
ballots when they closed the window, nomin-
ally at ?. m but really before that hour, as
will DO proved before the Circuit Court Their
allegation, that there were by actual count"
but 81 in all who had not deposited their votss
when they closed the window, as essayed to be
substantiated, reminds as Of the thiet's effort
to rebuff the testimony Of the witness who
swore that he saw his thiefship steal the sheep,
by producing witness On his side who swore
that hs did not see him steal the animal! BY
the count CT some 90 brother" as convenient
for the purposes Of the lodges in the lats cleo
ton, as the Know Nothing commissioners were.
there we're but 80 voters waiting to deposit their
ballots. Really, the eyes of this counter lin
the face of the fact tnet from three to Eve hun
dred citizens Of Washington know of THAR
own knowledge that there were from 100 to
$50 anti-Know Nathings depri ed Of their
right to vote at the Third Ward polls (by
closing the window before they reached ~
were as sadly at fault, as we're the ears Of the
Know Nothiag commissioners at all the polls;
fox il will DO recollso;e1 that svory body In
Washington but themselves heard of the de.
cisicn rendered in the Grouen case, within an
hour after the court rendered it.
All the mock Indignation of the Third Ward
election commissioners against the
editor Of the Star, for the manner in which
he has discharged his duty With reference to
tho shameless, prensditated and disgraceful
frauds perpetrated in this election, will nct
suffice to divert public attention, from the facts
that when they shut down the window in the
face Of q large number Of anti Know Nothing,
voters, they had received but 712 votes in all
against S24 taken At the same ward polls at
the last election, and against l ,044 taken at
the Fourth Ward polls on this occasion Our
talented, courteous, amiable, modest, enter
tanning, truthful, and knowing Deighbor, (srde
the Virginia election) unfortunately, for the
success Of the mock heroics of these oonve.
nient commissioners, let the cat cut of the bag
in declaring, shortly after meridian, on the
day of the election, that all the votes could
(vould) not be got in. Perhaps if it had anti
oipated that the vote received at the Third
Ward polls, would have been go much less
thar at tie last previous election, it would not
have thus bleated out in advance, Of the man
ner in which those convenient commissioners
designed doing their share of tho work carved
out by the lodges.
Iutsrest ting Telegraphic Statistics Our
little sister Republic of Switzerland, it ap-
pears according 10 statistics, has greater facil-
tiles for telegraphic communications than any
other country. Switzerland has atclegraphic
station to every 10000 of her inhabitants
England has one to every Sc, coo. Sardinia to
every 20 0OG. Belgium to every 10000
United States to every 24O,0 900. France to ey-
cry 29O. 900. Prussia to every 320, 900.
California. arrivals from our far west
render it certain that the era of the true pros.
perity of California is already dawning. That
ia they tall of the imnrnvenso. of tba he hits