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THE STATE ELECTIONS.
TRIUMPH OF THE DEMOCRATS.
LIVE RPM) f„ SUNDAY.
The Royal mail steam ship Australasi al, Capt.
Cook, from New York on the sth itAt., reached this
port this morning at eight o'clock. She brings 46
passengers and 281,806 dole. in specie.
In importance, the result of the elections ranks
first in the order of news by this arrival:
Horatio Seymour, the Democratic candidate,
carried the election in New York city by over
30,000 majority. His majority in the whole State
is estimated at from 8,000 to 10,000, and he is
elected governor of the State.
The.full Congressional Democratic ticket was
chosen in New York, Benjamin Wood and Fer-
nando Wood being both elected to Congress.
In New York State, 19 Democrats and 12 Re-
publicans were elected to Congress. New Jersey
has voted the Democratic ticket by a large majo-
rity. Governor Andrew has been re-elected in
Massachusetts. Michigan has elected the Republi-
can ticket.
The elections which took place in New York are
thus described by the New fork Herald of the
sth :

" The election, notwithstanding all the dreadful
forebodings that were entertained to the contrary,
passed off yesterday with a degree of quiet truly
remarkable, considering the intense excitement
existing among. the frie_nds of the opposing can-
didates.
"There was not a single disturbance worthy of
record from the time the polls opened until sunset.
Of course there were numberless small affairs, re-
sulting from a diversity of opinion regarding the
claims of Seymour and Wadsworth, Walbridge and
Ben Wood, Conkling, and Chamier, &c., but, as a

general rule, these rows were promptly quelled be-
fore the intervention of the police was called for,
and resulted in no more extensive bodily injuries
than a bloody nose, a blackened eye or a concussed
cranium. The weather was clear and bright, the
atmosphere pleasantly cool, and everything favour-
able to the development of a large vote. So far as
could be ascertained by a single person taking a fly-
ing glance through the various districts the num-
ber of votes cast was very heavy, and the Demo-
cratic gains proportionably large. Seymour's
strength was undoubtedly far away and beyond
that of his Republican opponent, and the Democratic
nominees for surrogate, supervisors, Congress and
Assembly, seemed to run with wonderful success in
all the districts.
"A novelty at the polling-places was the presence
of a metropolitan policeman supplied with a list of
the exempt aliens, and comparing the names of
suspected voters with those on the list of draft com-
missioners. Notwithstanding this ridiculous species
of terrorism there were hundreds of unregistered
voters:who stepped up to the scratch and sustained
their claims to the elective franchise. The police
proved very efficient in preventing illegal voting,
and made a large number of arrests in the lower
wards. The prisoners were principally aliens who
had previously claimed exemption from the draft,
and in many instances the exemption certificates
were found upon the persons of the accused. Un-
usual quiet prevailed through the city the entire
day, and it was not until the closing of the polls
that there was any disturbance whatever. In the
4th, 6th, and Bth wards, which are usually turbu-
lent, there was little or no trouble, and at sundown,
when the polls had closed, and all the stations were

telegraphed to by the central office, the reply of all
quiet' was received from every ward in the city,
except the 21st. There was a row in this ward it ap-
pears, growing out of the presence of some intoxi-

catea porsous at one of the polling places which soon
merged into a riot. The
Preserves from the 17th and
29th precincts were early on the ground, and soon
succeeded in quelling the difficulty. A number_ cif
arrests were made, and several broken heads was.
the result; but the police reported that no serious '
casualty occurred,"

Large and enthusiastic public meetings were held
during the evening at Mozart and Tammany Halls
and the Central Committee Rooms, Broadway, the
two former being the head-quarters of the Demo-

crat, and the latter of the Republican party. At

.hese meetings the election returns, as successively

obtained from the different wards, were read to the
people by various prominent party men, by whom

also many speeches were delivered.
The proceedings, did not terminate until a late
hour.

The New York 7imes sums up the elections as
follows :•—•

"The election in the city and state of New York
yesterday resulted in a complete revolution in the
ascendancy of parties, as far as the State and Con-
gressional tickets are concerned. The Democrats
carried the City by over 30,000, King's County by
5,500, and the State by a majority not yet ascer-
tained in its extent, though there is no present rea-
son to doubt that it will be decided. The Congres-
sional delegation will stand 16 or 18 Democrats to
13 or 15 Republicans. The Legislature is Repub-
lican in the Senate, elected for two years in 1861,
and probably Republican in the Assembly.
" The returns from Massachusetts are very full,
and ensure the re-election of Governor Andrew by
a very large majority.
" The following are the latest election returns
from other States :
" DELAWARE.
" WILMINGTON, Nov. 4.
Wilmington gives 650 Union majority.
Pencaden
Brandywine
Christiana „ 250 Union ditto.
" MISSOURI.

"The election here to-da ST. LOUIS, Nov. 4.
y passed off very quietly.
The returns of the city are still incomplete, and
nothing definite can be ascertained. The vote of
the 6th. 7th, Bth, and 10th wards stands—Blair,
1,930; Knox (Republican), 1,954; Bogy (Demo-
crat), 932.

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in carrying on this war, and a peremptory demand
ford the adoption of one better adapted to the awful
emergencies of the case. The President must not
hesitate an hour to respond to this demand.
"Let the populAr verdict just announced dispel
whatever of hesitation or timidity may have ham-
pered his movements.
"There must be an end of apologies and delays.
The country will no longer tolerate half-hearted
counsels in the Cabinet or half-hearted leadership
in the field. The fate of the nation must no longer
be committed to generals who, like Essex in the
English revolution, next to a great defeat, dreaded
a great victory.' The Government must no longer
be content with defending itself against a rebellion.
It must act upon the offensive—and act with the
vigour and determination that ensure a victory. If
the recent elections shall inspire the administration
with this spirit and prompt it to such action they
will be of more service than results which might
have betrayed it into a delusive and fatal confidence
in the fruitless policy it has hitherto pursued."
The New York, Tribune partly ascribes the defeat
of the Republicans to the .absence of 100,000 voters
at the seat of war, two-thirds of whom it estimates
are ardent Republicans. But the cause of defeat
on which the Tribune lays meet stress is the—
" General dissatisfaction with the slow progress,
-or no progress, of our armies, and a widespread
feeling that, through the incapacity, inefficiency,
or insincerity of our military leaders, the blood and
treasure of the loyal millions are being as
vain."

The Tribune concludes by saying :
"We tell the Administration most earnestly that
the country cannot endure another month's inac-
tion of our armies—that a Fernando Wood dictator-
ship at the North in thorough sympathy, if not in
open alliance, with the Jeff. Davis rebellion at the
South, will inevitably result from such inaction.
Th 6 war for the Union must be fought out speedily
and resolutely, or it will die out. Defeat would be
calamity, but delay is ruin."
The New York Herald considers the triumph of
the Democratic party as most complete and over-
whelming, but states that this popular demonstra-
tion " does not mean that the war shall be ended
in an ignominious and ruinous peace, involving a
division of the Union into two independent confe-
deracies, but that the war shall be prosecuted for
the maintenance of the Union, and nothing else;
that the malign Abolition influences have brought
defeats and disasters to our armies where we should
otherwise have been crowned with victory, and the
Radical Marplots who in Congress and in the Ca-
binet have caused the squandering of hundreds of
millions of money, and the needless sacrifice of thou-
sands of our brave soldiers, shall be henceforth re-
pudiated by President Lincoln."
But as the new Congress cannot, unless specially
convened, meet until December, 1863, the Herald
suggests that to enable the new representatives
" fresh from the people," to give their counsels to
the President, they should hold an informal meet-
ing, after the fashion of the late Altoona conference
of the governors of the loyal states, " in order that
they may agree upon a series of recommendations
and declarations of the general policy which they,
believe would meet the cordial support of our loyal
people."

"Let a meeting of this character," continues the
New York Herald, "be held in this city before the
re-assembling of Congress, and it may contribute
much to aid the President in the recommendation
of the annual message, and in the important work
of a'reconstruction of his Cabinet."
The New York Herald of the sth inst. contains
the following summary of military matters :
" Oar army is making rapid advances into the
different gaps of the Blue Ridge, heretofore hold
by the rebels, and we are now in possession of all
the gaps as far as Ashby's, our force being in front
of that position. Yesterday General Stahel, with
a portion of Sigel's command, drove the enemy out
of Thoroughfare Gap, and noneral Carl Schurz
immediately occupied it. General Bayard's force
meantime holds Aldee and all the country between
that and Sigel's front. Buckland Mills is alse in
our possession. Thus the rebels are pretty closely
outflanked, hemmed in, and cut off from Richmond.
General M'Clellan is 50 miles nearer the rebel

capital than General Lee's army, and a vigorous
movement—protected of course by a cautious atten-
tion to his rear—may at any moment put him in
possession of that place.
" Among the most melancholy portion of our war
news to-day is the announcement of the death of
two of our bravo generals—O. M. Mitchell and J.

B. Richardson ; the former died at Beaufort of
yellow fever on the 31st ult., and General Richard-
son died of the wounds received at the battle of
Antietam, at Sharpsburg, on Monday night.
" Some of the rebel cavalry made an attack on our
pickets near Bolivar Heights yesterday, and cap-
tured three of them, whom they sent to Charleston.
The rebels were observed in some force yesterday
between Charleston and the river.
" General Banks in a few remarks which he
made from the platform of a railroad car in Boston
on Saturday last, said the approaching winter was
not to be lost in inaction. The Government was

determined now to put forth its strength. Nume-
rous expeditions were on foci that could not, if
vigorously pressed, but be fatal to the revolted states.

" The second edition of the draft in Connecticut,
which was to have taken place to-day, has been
postponed until the 19th inst."

The following are the latest dispatches from the
army of General M'Clellan

" Head-quarters of the Army of the Potomac,
Bloomfield, Nov. 3.
" The advance of the army of the Potomac up the
valley, on the left side of the Blue Ridge, is being

pushed forward with all dispatch.
" General Pleasanton occupied upperville this
afternoon after a spirited engagement with the

enemy for about four hours.
"We had none killed, but several wounded. The
rebels
Ashby's left three of their dead on the field. Upper-
villb is four miles from Gap, which the
rebels are endeavouring to hold., Oar troops hold
all the gaps up to Ashby's, v7;th °."-u- r---r
waving Lila to-morrow. There was some force of
the enemy to-day in front of Snicker's Gap, on the
left bank of the Shenandoah, to dispute our passage

at that point.
"The rumours of the invasion by way of Downs-
ville are not believed at these head-quarters. The
last report from the rear shows that these reports
are unfounded.
ready, and prepared to fight a
" The army is
general battle when the rebels may see proper to
The army is in better condition than
it them. with the exception of the Want of
it has ever been, ant of
more cavalry—a want that is greatly felt,'
"Harper's Ferry, Nov. 4.
tfAbout daylight this morning a squad of rebel
cavalry surprised and captured h t ree of
within two miles of Bolivar Heights, our pickets
rail-
road track, and carried them off
Charleston. The rebels continuedprisoners to
them-
selves in force in the neighbourhood to show "
Longstreet is at Pari
of Charleston.
through Ashby's Gap, s. Jackson just passed
p, and Hill is close on him.
"The general impression among the Federal offi-
cers rebels are fast retreating to Gor-
donsville, all their movements are only feints to
cover this movement. They told the people of Fur-
cellvill e several days since that 'they
Wintering in the Shenandoah Valley.
"It has been beautiful Italian summer weather
for the last three or four days, but this morning is
cold and cloudy, denoting rain. The Potomac is
still low, but a sudden and great rise is universally
expected."

THE WAR IN THE SOUTH-WEST.
" Louisville, Nov. 4.
4 It is reported that Bragg's army is at Mateo-