Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1859-11-17

A LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
From our special Correspondent
zRe result Of the Eyechion-Registry
La,os Keeping asoay Votes - The
M0mmoM Balloon again - WaA
Street and its iSurroundings-Amer-
ican Bank Note Company, de.
New York, Nov. IL, 1859.
The battle in this State is over. Al
though number Of days have elapsed
aimee the struggle and strenuous efforts
have been made by all interested in pick
ing up the dead and wounded, yet the
smoke of the battle has not cleared
away enough, up to this Saturday
morning, TO tell which side has gained
the victory. The vote in the State has
been exceedingly small, showing great
apathy on oil sides. The vote ON Sec
rotary Of State is very close, so.much 90,
that Thurlow Weed expresses some
doubts As TO the election Of the Republi-
can State ticket. There would have
been no doubt as to the result if the
workings of the Registry Law had not
kept hundreds in this city from voting.
In those wards where laboring men and
mechanics reside, large number lost
their votes, owing to the fact of their
names not being registered. Most Of
these persons applied at the polls to vote
between the hours Of IL and o'clock.
Many Of them, finding that their names
we're not registered, started in pursuit Of
househol Ter to testify to their being =
resident of that district. Very few,
however, we're able to find those that
knew them whose testimony would be
taken by the officers Of election, during
their short cessation from labor At the
middle Of the day; they were therefore
compelled either to loose their votes, or
their afternoons labor, as we'll as to pay
= commissioner for taking their affidavit.
A large proportion Of them preferred to
loose their votes to their labor, which
the necessities Of their. families demanded
should be CONSTANT to meet their cravings.
In one ward alone two hundred votes
were in this way crowded out, entirely
by the workings of the Registry Law.
1t effected the mechanics and laboring
men more than any other class, they
having less time to loose in attending to
the requirements of that law than their
aristocratic ncighbors. There is no ques-
ton but that at least one half of the
Democratic State ticket would have been
elected, had it not been for the fact of
hundreds of voters, who were 10 every
way entitled to vote, with the exception
Of q fsw technicalities, were kept from
depositing their votes, because it would
not answer to take from their families
the bread which the wages of one hall
day-would provide. The lower classes
in New York are so bound down by the
exactions and tyranny of the wealthy
class, that the loss of the wages of even
one half day is q serious affair, often re-
sulting in the loss of food to satisfy their
appetite. 1t is not therefore to be won>
dered at, that hundreds preferred loosiug
their vote, rather than an afternoons
wages.
Now that the State election is over,
the politicians are laying their plans and
organizing their forces for the Charter
Election in December. There is every
prospect Of an interesting and lively
time then. Many Of those who took the
trouble to get their names registered, it
appears, did it for the purpose of being
ready for the Mayors election. There
is every prospect Of decidedly warm
time ahead.
The Mammoth balloon met with quite
an accident yesterday. A strong wind,
almost to hurricane, passed over that
locality; the balloon being about halt
full caused it to sway to and fro, the
sand bags and weights holding it down
dancing about like so many puppets.
10 its jumping and dancing about, en-
deavoring to break loose, as if anxious
to start on its voyage without waiting
for the passengers to get aboard, it
swayed against the end of pole, which
broke hole through the canvass, letting
the gas out with rush. 1t needed but
few minutes to take the restless spirit
out Of the monster, when it collapsed
into pile Of canvass and netting, leav-
ing pile of ruins in the place of the
proud and defiant balloon. The tent
under which was deposited the caloric
engine, life-boat, basket, fuel, furs, and
the equipments for the voyage, was also
upset in the gale, scattering to and fro
the implements Of the Professor. The
rent has been stitched again, and the
Professor, not the least discouF ragged at
the heavy loss by the gas escaping, has
commenced its imitation, determined, if
nothing prevents, to start on his trans
Atlantic voyage on Wednesday next,
the 10th inst. He will 90 up in q small
balloon to take survey Of things above
the first fair day, and then, weather and
all other circumstances permitting, he
will, on Wednesday, cut the anchors OF
the City of New York" and travel for
Europe, for the purpose Of seeing what
the English are doing with their mon
ster steamship which they have been
gassing about for the last three years.
Let us, from this mammoth gas bag,
turn our attention . few moments to
Wall street, the head quarters Of bal
looms, gas bags, and air vessels OF anoth-
or nature. A person standing at mid
day in front of Trinity church, and look