New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-05

WHERE VOTED AyD How NoTED.-IfI had read
an account of Kansas election held Just such place
as tina, at which voted the straight out Republican
ticket on the fourth of November, 1856, should not
have been much surprised; but confess that l am
little asionished to hnk that city that taxes its peo-
pe 10 the amount of seven millions of dollars, cannot
furnish the quiet respectable people OF one OF its uptown
wards with place to vote in, equal in respectable ap-
pearance to respectable farmers pig pen. II there
is any branch Of reform n the affairs of this city thai
peedsrefomDg than this, in giving the ope de-
cert places in which to caat their votes, should like
10 be told what that branch is To me it looks Like
mud, ing the stream the very fountain head, to lead
us into dirty shanty that would not be considered req
pectabe along side of Irish polling booth Shall da-
guereoype Ncw-Yok City polling booth After wait
ing out.ide of it three hours standing in the mud, and
dripping in the rain waiting at the tail of procession of
two hundi ed voters chance to deposit ballot TOR
freedoms holy cause, think shall BE- able to make
the picture, without the aid of solar light. Fancy
rough board shany-a solt of "lean-to against rum
shop only one very low story high, with very ragged
looking front orpamented with one broken window
and surrounded with host of ragged, dirty, drunken
noisy black guard men and boys whose native ro"dy-
inn could onl, be- kept in check by the clubs ct e OF
policemen and you will have faint idea of the outside
appearance of one of the places where votes are
polcd IN this city. To get inside, | was obliged,
though sck enough TO be in bed to take portion the
end Of the procession and wait till at length | was at
it, head having been showed up by those behind, be-
tween The walls of the buildings upon side and a
line Of policemen the other and so into the interior
of this place for exercising the right of suffrage afterlong
suffering. The OF getting in really reminded
Of a saussge-stuiiDg machine; true the meat not
swiues flesh but Of 1t very swinsh in character
About score Of voters admitted at charge,
and then the stream stopt by the policemen at the
door until that squad could be put through and passed
out at the back door into very dirty yard among piles
of brick, mortar and lumber, to find their way again to
the street, through narrow, muddy alley. The inside
Of the voting shanty, where we had TO wait half an
hour more almost without fresh air but in company
with men staggering drunk and stepped in and
tobacco smoke had just been pastered the soft mortar
adding to the dampness and unhealthy atmosphere OF
the room. Such is faint description Of the inside of
a New-YOik City polling booth, which, wretched and
uncomfortable as il may appear, is ncomparably supe-
nor to many others, located in barrooms, where ballot
boxes and bottles stood side by side and where
decenily dressed man would not 90 without exciting
suspicion that be came TO vote against the Denoc-
racy, and if he dared to express that as his intention,
H' "V"'" NC NcI hhcJy ~ Dt huHA'h Ibto tb' Su'ct'
Such some of the difficulties that men who would
gladly vote for City Reform, have to encounter before
they can deposit their votes in the ballot boxes. A
greet many persons in feeble health are unable and
great many others are unwilling to encounter the
pells, and dsagreeable things surrounding the polling
places. and thus lose the right Of suffrage. great
many persoDs who earnestly desired to vote for FIRE.
mont and Freedom at this election went TO the polls
IL
pose, gave up and went home in sorrow This may be
free country-a country Of univ ersa sufrage-but in
tls City, at least, that right cannot be freely
exercised.