New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-11-06
TIE CITY AND TIE POLLS YESTERDAY.

Thanks to the Metropolitan Police, the city
was generally quiet throughout the day and evening and
instead the odfashioned murders and felonious
sauts we had only and there those Godforsaken
Wards surrendered TO gin and the Demo-
cratic party election dispute two and in the stygan
Fourth Ward solitary homicide. Our reporters detail
the circumstances Of the latter IN another column The
dram shops WERE everywhere within the metropolitan
District nomnally cosed-closed as they are on sun
days. when favored few who have been duly indicted
into the mysteries OF Democracy quench their thirst
at will But the ee,tually closed against the
mob OF sots who made election day n season OF
Bacchanalian revel, and the result n scarcity OF
drunken men the streets. This through the day
After shutdown the police relaxed their grip and the gi-
shops opened wide their DOORS but the time between their
hour reopenng and midnight was too short for the utter
maddenng OF their customers even with the chain
lightning" that is nearly everywhere dispensed The
vote as our figures show, heavy and yet IN only
few election districts any disturbance attempted
In the uptown wards the ballots were IN telr boxes ioh
before noon, and thence until sunset the r9ssds anu
clerks, policemen and ticket distributors, nad hothlhs
Whatever 10 do. In the downtown wards however
mprs kept up low grow about THE TRBuNEs lmpu'
deuce publishing the names OF telr reporters ana the
tyranny of the police IN keeping those , ao ,
IL may here be- incidentally remarked, rs result OF IHE
empIated by the tools OF Messrs Oakley Hall Co.
very few of the persons who had registered fauduenty
made their aupearance a the polls In the lNth election
his ballots and described himself as resident OF No lh
Westst.; but policeman who knew the occupants Oh
mat hon challenged him and threatened To take him
into custody If he dared swear his vote in and he lie
sisted Nevertheless the officer arrested him. the charge
heinz that he had attempted 10 vote illegally. In the
Fourth Ward Democratic politician OF the lower sra
nm boosted early in the day that he had registered IN
~ districts no wisely cast all his ballots IN the one
i'm which he had an undsputed right to vote. III
NAV also be mentioned az noteworthy cir
cumstance that Justice Quinn, sitting at the IomDs,
released several repeaters because the Inspectors oil
election did personally appear before him TO swear
that the prisoners had attempted Illegally To vote
Justice Kelly nt the YOrtyile Court on the contrary
held every prisoner Of this class in $500 bail ana Justice
smith, AT Essex Market required bail IN the same sum
In Brooklyn, Jersey City. Ioboken Norris
I'm al the suburbs the bulk OF the vote was III the DoAs
before 10 o'clock. aud the remainder OF the day III the
vicinity OF the booths drcaTy enough Inc elcOou
as aSrceW contested i'm Jersey City, aud the cry OF
'Nigger' was frequently repeated by the caityateu
Democracy. Five candidates were IN the n,,hDhohco
he sDirt Of the canvass In Wiamsburgh the Democ-
racy abortively undertook to get in the ballot OF Fellow
who had just completed term IN state rrnon, Vtt my
ignomniousy failed and their dupe was turned over 10
Police Captain WogOm.