Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-06-01

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and the nD Inn &c 10 us.t
stances the chat .stetiy. In one or two ia
ties who vote .eag-rs took the names of par
,esaily .sertasuine whether or not they were
r oses % the hour named afo votes cast,
,%pe~,Sss 10 tell A sa,ca out ,,css, WAS WAS
ahead, At the second precinct there had
been reeived the votes of 67 whites and Al
% ooiored had voted, and It was ssssed that
cne-shird of the vote was in. la the fourth
precinct, "a whites and So colored had voted,
lone-thrd Of the preciact vote., asd in the fifth
precinct, 1t5 had been cast, the most of the
voters here being oolored, aad half Of the
vote in.
SEVENTH WARD
The tickets in this ward are: -a--
RepebhcnR.-FCr atfermen-H. N Knight
donE tsrml and s; 5 Baker. For Coanc,l men
&c. 5: Bates, T T. Fowler, and L. q. Hine.
Conserrdtire.-For Atdernen-Geo. Wright
ana Jonas b. Ellis. For Common Couucil--
Rooert v. Goodman, B. F. Lloyd and George
Bauer. For Assessor-John II. Bird.
TINS having been the banner ward Of the Re-
publicans last year. was looked to with inter.
tst At the first precinct at 9H O'Clock, l4s
the line EXTENDED at that honr on + street from
sth 10 TIN. At the second precinct same
hour, 2s6 votes had been pol'ed, of
which there were but IS. or 20 white
vota rs, ana there hut small line then
AT the third precinct 200 had voted. Of whom
but 30 were whites but the Conservati yes were
eathing in the line rapidly making rally. In
the fourth precinct 19i votes had been cast, OF
which is were whites. In the fifth precinct
i3l votes had been case, and the line was ia the
Language Of one of the Island boys becoming
fairer; the whitos coming up more rapidly,
In this ward the colored men had concerted a
plan to be at the polls in phalanx at half past
natives got together and took the first pos,tons
half an hour before that time at the va.
nous precincts. In a short time afterw wards
t ,i eoiored men appeared, and the two par
Ties remained at their posts until the OPEN
ing OF the polls, some of the whites hav-
ing camp-stOols and others using few
short boards at the different precincts, but
the majority had to s.sauat'' or stand
The same set of tin horns were used on this
occasion by the colored Republicans as were
used last year to wake up the voters, and Fred
ton. -
SCENES AND INCIDENTS
About hve o'clock yesterday afternoon, a
large crowd was attracted by an individual
named U Donegan, (well known in temperance
c1rcies,) VINO commenced a political haraugue
from the steps Of the Patent Office, but was
The secretaries of the Board of Registration
Were at the corner Of 9Th and ID streets day
ior the purpose OF issuing certificates required
by reason Of orthographi cal errors in the poll
lists, and Were kept busy all the morning max.
ing corrections the crowd at times numbering
over hundred
"a1of hicudFuS na0 an ample p0llce force al
the different precincts and the mounted police
Were busily engaged in patrollIng the city
Opto noon, as far as we could learn, there
had been arrests made
RCMoRED DISTURBANCE IN THE SEVENTH
WARD.
Just as We go 70 press with this Extra we
learn that the mounted patrolman have baen
been summoned to the Seventh Ward in con-
sequence of a disturbance there, but we have
not yet ascertained the particulars
ROW ON THE AVENUE.
O'Clock n cnln rad
who had voted the Conservative ticket, was
attacked near the corner OF 9th street and the
avenue. by nSlaber of colored Republicans,
tensions of riot. The police soon made their
appearance, however, and dispersed the crowd /
before any one was in iured