The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-11-10
THE ELECTION IN NEW YORK.

The election held in New York, on Tuesday, un-
der the Metropolitan Police system and the Regis
try Law, passed of most quietly. All attempts at
disturbance were promptly suppressed by the
police, who confined themselves strictly and rigid
ly to the discharge Of their duties as conservators
of the public peace. But few persons attempted to
vote Illegally, and they Immediately arrested,
even in the 'Boody Sixth" ward the nest of the
"Dead Rabbits and "Bowery Boys" strict order
was maintained, the barrooms were all closed, and
no illegal voting was attempted. This shows what
can be accomplished by police force who act with
vigor and impartiaity.
As an indication of the strictness and fairness
with which the Registry Law was carried out by
the Judges of Election, give two incidents which
we find narrated in the New York Post:
In the First district of the Eighteenth ward at
halfpast ten O'Clock, two hundred votes were poll
ed, seven OF which were sworn in. One of them
made his appearance at the polls not less than four
times. His name not being on the registry, he
went in search of person who knew him to be a
resident OF the ward and voter; but as he was not
householder, he was compelled to start off again.
and arrived with one who lived the opposite
side OF the street. but he resided in another dis
trict, he was refused. and the disappointed voter
once more started off in search of a householder
who resided in the same district, and who would
take the trouble of going with him to the poll, and
At another poll the Post says Two persons ap-
peared this morning and attempted to vote, but
they not residents of the district last year.
and their names not on the registry this, they were
told what steps were necessary, when they went off
in high dudgeon, declaring that they would not
vote at all.
RELIGIOUS FANATIcIsM.-The ''irrepressible con-
hict' and "John Browns rebellion are staple
topics with the sensation preachers of New York.
We have seen report of DR.. Cheever's sermon,
preached at the church of the Puritans on Sunday
last in which he palliates Browns offence and de-
MES that he has been guilty of treason. lie hurls
the widest anathemas at the Shareholder, and the
government which protects him, and declares
plainly that the laws ought to be disobeved He
intimates that Brown belongs in the category of
those whom oppression has made mad; tributes
his acts to the cowardce and treachery of church
and ministry which have failed to denounce sla-
very as they should have done, and closes with the
declaration that eff the ofpeace will not apply
Gods law against the sin of slaveholding, in the
shape of argument and earnest truth, and the male
dictions of God against it, the men of war will
put it in the shape Of bullets and fight it out; and
God will let them do it as his own scourge of awful
wrath, terror and desolation to an insensate and
hardened country"
At the Charles street Presbyterian church, Rev.
H. Blair drew parallel between Moses and Old
Brown. He did not, however, endorse the ultra
Abolition and revolutionary sentiments of Phil
lips and his coadiutors, but regarded Browns at
attempt as rash and unjustifable.
ABOLITION MOVEMENTS IN VmGINIA.-We learn
from the Fredericksburg Recorder, that in Culpep-
n Of how
to their masters that they have been approached
by white men who offered them inducements to
run away. The citizens are exercising the utmost
vigilance to ferret out the incendiaries at Rich
mOnd and Lynchburg Two men suspected of being
Abolition emissaries, and sympathisers with Old
Brown have been arrested
A correspondent of the Richmond Dispatch
writing from Lynchburg, Va, October '28, saws:
"Oitcer King, of Campbell county, went to Jack
sontown, very small village in said county, yes
terday, Tor the purpose of arresting a negro man
for some trivial offence. An old negress informed
the officer that gang of negroes were in the habit
OF assembling at the house OF this A search
was made, and the books and papers of society
were found, which was organized in 1854 The
books showed that they now have $3.50 in their
treasury. 1t purported to be a benevolent institu-
ton. thorough investigation of the affair will
be made"
DELAY OF THE GREAT EAsrERN-The news
brought by the North American, that the trip of
the Great Eastern to Quebec had been indefinitely
postponed, is confirmed by an official letter ad-
dressed by Mr.. Cumberland, the American agent
of the Great Eastern Steamship Company to the
Mayor of Portland, in which he announces the
postponement Of the trip and says:
The directors have been influenced in arriving at
this conclusion by the fact that the unfortunate &C
cident which occurred between the Thames and
Portland has delayed the departure of the ship
until the American season has been lost; it has
therefore been thought advisable to complete the
equipment the ship in every detail, instead ofde
aft nrt he ratu from Auna