Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1870 — New York Election Frauds. [ARTICLE]

New York Election Frauds.

The United States census for 187 Q. in New York, is likely to verify the charges of election frauds which have been made for the last few years against that city. The following returns of different wards published in a leading New York journal, gives an astonishing exhibit of the population and voters oi said wards: I‘opoUtloD. Election District. 1870. Vote. Ninth ward. Fourth dlstrlet...... 8,200 8.888 Ninth ward. Tenth district 2 700 4JUB F.ftoonth ward. Fifth district 1,(70 8.870 Seventh ward. Third district 3 4T9 0,859 Seventh ward. Fourth district 8,806 8,997 Seventeenth ward. Fourteenth district.... 8000 #,160 Twenty Oral ward. Seventh district 700 _ 7,8J9 Tenth ward. Ninth district 800 4,001 First ward. Sixth district. 957 8 018 Eighteenth ward, sixth district... 9.500 4.W1 T0ta15....'... .22,400 47,015 Here is a great need for the operation of the new Naturalization law which has just been passed by Congress. Although it is thought there must be some mistake about these results, yet there is such a general harmony in the returns from the wards—each taken by a different census taker—as to impress us with their general truthfulness. New York has been the scene of more fraudulent voting than any other city ,in America. It is strongly Democratic, and the majorities it rolls np for the great ‘-unwashed’’ party are probably due to fraud, wherever fraud can be perpetrated. While there is generally one voter to every six inhabitants, where figures are reliable, we find, in the districts referred to, that there are two refers to every inhabitant. It is to be -hoped that the Naturalization law will be sufficient to - reach frauds of this nature, which are growing to such magnitude that-ill large cities jt is quite impossible to hold an honest election.—Chicago StpubUeait, July 18. A dasxT contested will case, has been hanging in the Arkansas courts for over thirteen years, seemed recently tp be on the point of decision. The arguments had been finished, the Judge had given his charge, and the jury, after a short absence, had returned to their seat# with a verdict sustaining the Will The opposing counsel, however, demanded that the jury should be polled, which the court ordered. - Three names had been called, and the usual question, “ la this your verdict?” was just being addressed to the fourth, when he was suddenly stricken with apoplexy. His recovery was very doubtful, and, in case he dies without answering the question, the whole case wSI have to be tried over again. —There are two farms in Turner, Me., from each of which *I,OOO worth of wood is sold each year, and yet It Is said , not even the annual growth of the wood an the farm is cut!