Negative. It was Baltimore. Are you sure you're researching your stories correctly?

From PBS: "As the story goes, one rainy, nasty night of Oct. 3, 1849, Joseph Walker, a pressman for the Baltimore Sun, was making his way to Gunner’s Hall. The occasion was election night and the hall was the polling place for Baltimore’s old 4th Ward. On his way there, Walker found a man, lying in the gutter, confused, bedraggled, and under the influence of some type of intoxicant." (Source: https://arc.net/l/quote/nqsfjych)