The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-06-13

A QUIET ELECTION DAY NEW ORLEANs.-The
New Orleans papers all concur in remaIking that
the day of the late municipal election remarka
bly, quiet, and so We suppose it was for New
Orleans; but in any other place the following list
of disturbances, stabbing afrays, and bloody en-
counters would be regarded as highly exciting
occurrences. We copy from the Crescent of
Tuesday:
Nobody was killed on account of yesterdays
election; a gratifying fact to brgin with.
We heard of some knock downs at some of the
precincts in different parts of the city. The only
of which got the particulars that of
John jenkins, First District police officer, who
overdd his orders so far as to knock down quiet
and unOtfending man who had the audacity to 90
up to vote the Citizens ticket.
worse thing took place at or near the voting
precinct st. Joseph street. A young man
named Theodore Watson, at or about l o'clC ok,
stabbed in the breast and taken to Charity
Hospital, where be was believed to be dangerously
wounded. We went to the poll and were informed
by the Commissioners and other officers that there
had been nobody stabbed there and that there had
been no disturbance Of any kind. We went to the
Hospital where the young reported as
having been brought from the of Tchoupi-
toulas and ST. Joseph streets. He in too
much suffering to give information to anybody.
There frac1s near the above poll, in " hich
face with a knife.
At about o'clock in the evening Robert W al.
lace was stabbed by Michael Burns, at the corner
of Calliope and Bacchus streets; this being a
voting precinct Burns was arrested by officers
Hudson and Marshall-JOhn Wells making the
charge against him.
At about Z o'clock in the evening, Patrick De-
vine was dangerously stabbed by Alex. Johnson
This was Tchoupitoulas street, but we did not
hear that it was near poll or about the election
johnson arrested by officers Duvlgneaud and
Watson-Thos. Owens making the charge.
Martin Werling arrested on Gaienne street,
charged with drawing knife James Meeham
and cutting the hand of officer Bulger, who arrest
ed him.
About o'clock, two sailors, named James Con-
don and John McGrath quarreled over game of
cards, in sailor boarding house. on Victory street
between Elysian Fields and Marigny streets
McGrath drew a knife and stabbed Condor in the
neck, severing bis carotid artery and killing him
almost instantly. McGrath, who is Irisnman
and quite youth, was arrested. COndon was 81
years of age, and native of Buffalo, New 1orK
DIR. Delery held the pOst-mortem examination yes
terday The investigation will take place to-day.
Last night at about 10 o'clock policeman Peter
McMulIen was shot through the left thigh and bad
clair and Allen arrested John Ford as the shooter,
and his brother Peter Ford as an accessory. 1t
started in a row between the Fords and some Others
in the market and after Mcmillan had come to
Sinclair's assistance to quell the disturbance
McMullen was taken to Charity Hospital. He was
n partner with SOmers, who lately murdered
by Mulholland on the levee, and took the lead in
arresting Mulholland, with his companions, when
he murdered SOmers and Congdon. The Fords are
said to be vagrants or market house rats.
At about IL o'clock last night when Barney Con
molly was talking with Margaret Twiggs, at the
door of her residence or Perddo street, between
Liberty and Gironde, Dennis Sullivan came up,
and as it reported, without words or other
at the time, assaulted Connolly with a knife
and stabbed him four times. The latter taken
to Charity Hospital, believed to be mortally wound
ed. Sullivan subsequently arrested by Ser
geant Williams and Corporal Wilson; he was found
hid under a house on Lafayette street. Margaret
Twiggs was also arrested as witness.
The New York Courier and Enquirer saws that
the Niagara is undergoing thorough overhauling,
and will be ready for sea by the lst of July.