The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-06-06
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te" Vot'"g and Rioting.-The election held in
washington on Monday for Mayor and other muni-
''p"i oilcers, was very closely contested and re-
suited IN the reelection of Col. James G. Berret
I " ,'e Nay"ralty. lie was the regular nominee
VI ."e Dem"crauc and anti-Kuow- Nothing party"
ana was opposed by DR.. Wm B. Magrndar late
m"J"'' anu o' the same party, and by Richard
| Wallach, Esq, who was supported as an indonon
dent candidate. The party which was ouoooa,e,,
in choosing the Mayor also elected six opt of tho
! seven Aldermen, and twelve out of the twertv-oro
members of the Board of Common Council. The
following the returns for Mayor Berret 3 ,434
Wallach, 3,410; Magruder, l47. A telegram from
Washington states that the election of Mr. Berret
will be contested the ground of fraudulent
voting. The Star of yesterday evening says
Already proof has been rendered to Mr. Wallach
OF more than a hundred votes fraudulently or H.
legally cast against him, or illegally excluded-tbe
latter being votes of his friends. We learn that
IL IS Ms purpose to carry the matter promptly
before the Circuit Court of the Unitad StatoS
c.aIming that he has been legally elected Mayor of
Washington. ~
p. S.-As we 60 to press we hear that tho
amended returns reduce the nominal majority for
Berret to fourteen, some say-others, to eighteen
There is no pretence to-day that the eleven persons
who voted in the first precinct OF the Seventh
ward on naturalization papers taken out since the
5ist OF December last were legal voters at this
Judges refused to purge their returns of them
The Circuit Court declared such vote illegal long
since.
At2P NJ. to-day the indications were that by
nlght-tall Mr.. Wallach would commence the con-
test test before the Circuit Court with proof of quite
200 illegal or fraudulent votes cast against him.
and good votes in his favor rejected
The Star also gives full accounts of several dis
turbances and fights that occurred during the day
at the first precinct of the fourth ward Voters
were driven from the polls and otherwise intmida-
ted there in the old Baltimore style. Of the last
fight at this place the Star says:
About 615 O'clock while the voters were quietly
depositing their votes at the first precint, a crowd
numbering in all from two hundred to three hun
dred, came up, some by way of Fifth and others by
way OF Sixth street, hurrahing for "Berret," and
eXclalmlng, "Down with the Wailach s--ns of
b-hes, 'Kill em." &c. The police officers went
in among them and failed to prevent them from
approaching the polls. The citizens in the vicinity
seeing they were likely to be surrounded bv these
rufans land have the balOt-bOx taken ifthev did not
resist them, determined to keep them back all ha-
yards, which they succeeded in doing until the polls
! were closed. The crowd then again commmenced
shouting for "Berret," and at the same time bepan
| firing into the Waach GATHERINGS These rioters
were armed with pistols, short mu ,kets clubs &c,
| while the other party, anticipating such attack
| were altogether unarmed. 1t is estimated that Mt
least one hundred and fifty shots were fired from
this crowd, who were finally compelled to retreat
AS an instance of how the police conducted them
selves on TINS occasion, we will state that while a
respectable citizen was leaving the spot he was shot
by ruliian Just behind him, when A police off
Ger, who was standing not ten PAGES distant from
either party, and witness of the whole affair." al
lowed the rulfian to escape, while he approached
and arrested the gentleman shot.
In the evening mob attacked a number of Mr.
Wallach's friends who standing in front of
his residence, and drove them in the house. follow
ing after them with yells and imprecations.
THE ANTtDUsr Cars ON the NEW YoRK CEN
TRAL.-Ihn AubUTn uiv nf
the "anti-dust cars" which are being constructed
for the Central Railroad in the car shop of that
village Six had already been finished, and five
more would be ready for use by the first of June.
The feature of hese is the enclosure of the en-
tire space below the body of the carriage to within
a few inches of the ground, with wooden case
Not only the sides, but the ends of the cars and the
platform between them are thus enclosed, and a
train Of any number of cars is connected that it
constitutes, as it were one mammoth car. Another
great advantage of this improvement is the certain
preventive of those frequent accidents which occur
from persons falling between the platforms, and
being crushed beneath the train. Il is impossible
for one to get between the platform of these cars
and passengers walk from one car to another
with the same and safety if walking through
of the 1t will be thus seen that by open
ing the doors of the different cars a current OF air
will be constantly passing through the train, free
from dust, pleasant and refreshing to the weary
passenger, entirely doing away with the most un-
pleasant features Of travelling in the heat of
summer.
The RICHMOND CoNvENTroN-The Washington
correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer says:
The coup dc grace has been given to the Richmond
Convention, by the election of Mr.. r. Barnwel
Rbett and company, to represent South Caro-
lima. The delegates who appeared at Charleston
have been repudiated and rejected because tbev
were moderate and UniOn-loving men, and are sue
ceeded by some of the most radical ultras who
have been preaching secession for thirty years and
whose highest dea of patriotism has been to per-
petuate discord. The State Convention which
chose these delegates, was almost euualy divided,
and as much feeling Of antagonism exhibited
as between the Union men and nullifers of the
olden time. Mr. Rhett and his followers were
voted down and condemned in South Carolina
upon fair test in 1851, and whenever the issue
shall be distinctly presented again. they may ex-
pect similar result 1t is easy to foresee that the
Richmond Convention must end in signal a fail.
ure as that at Nashville did, if the leadership of
Messrs Rhett and 1ancey should be recognized
No political association survive their control
Under present crcums tances no more interest will
be attracted to that BODY than is felt for the
three tailors whom Swift describes as meeting in
Iooey street. and protesting against the action of
Parliament, as eve, the people of England
THE CHAMPGoNsHlP.-A correspondent Of the Lon
don Morning Post says:-''If Savers were equal to
maintaining the position of Champion be ought to
have upheld it, as he has led the public to expecthe
would. 1t, however, he finds that his arm is per-
manently injured, or that from anv other cause it
is desirable that he should give up the
belt he should have done at once and
e
tired with honor to himself and satisfaction TO his
countrymen. As it is at this moment Heenan is
Champion of England. Sayers has retired and
Heenan defends the belt against all comers This
is tantamount to an acknowledgment of defeat by
Sayers. It he had made it a little earlier the
people of Engand-lords and ladies', tinkers and
taiors-wOuld not have subscribed $4,000 for the
petted hero of the prize ring"
IMPORTANT GRANTS TO AMERICANS IN HONDURAS.
The famous clipper bark Carib, Capt. Hopkins,
from Omoa April 2Sth, and Truxillo May llth, ar.
rived at Boston on Saturday, and brought as pas
sengers Messrs. Raymond X. Weed and W. c. Bur-
chard, of New York These gentlemen have OBJ
tanned from the Government of Honduras a large
grant of land in the District of Olancho, for the
purpose of establishing colony, and the exclusive
right for forty years to the navigation by steamers
of the three largest rivers of that country. They
will organize company in New York to carry out
their part of the agreement with the Government
of Honduras.
The merchant ships Castilian, 800 tons, and
Hemisphere, ,023 tons, have been chartered un-
der the auspices Of the Colonization Society, to
take the captured Africans from X ey W est to Lii
IBERIA. The price to be paid is understood to be
Sl2, 900 for each vessel.
The two belts which have been before mentioned
were presented to Heenan and Savers on the night
of May 30, at CremOrne Gardens, London. Geo.
Wilkes presented Savers with the belt which had
been subscribed for him, and Mr.. Bowling present
ed the belt to Heenan.
Brigham Young with several of the dirnitaries
of his church. but With fewer if any, of his wives,
has been in Philadelphia for the past ten days.
He is negotiating for the purchase of paper mill,
which he proposes to set up in his city.
1t is reported that during the first week in which
the officials from Washington took possession of the
New York Post office, the receipts to
$4,000, or about $4,000 more than the ordinary
average.
A London letter-writer says that Mr.. Ten Brock
won $50 900 on the great Derby race, in which his
hOr mi IVA hpnfa ITmn haH haa ba
first tavOrite in the betting, but in the race he
out the eleventh.
The artesian well at Toledo, Ohio, was completed
on Monday last, the augur having penetrated the
ineXhaustble reservoir underlying the citv, and
letting out the water in strong and copious
stream.
Col Cross has been again arrested in Philadel-
phia, this time charged with forging a check for
$40, which presented at the Consolidation -
Bank on Saturday last to be cashed for man
named Cassidy. The Colonel is out on bail.
Charles Kingsley has been appointed to fill the
lhulr pf MnAa Ta,,,h hid Ennl