The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-04 00:00:00

PROGRESS OF ELECTIOB.S.

Our first report of the Presidential vote, com-
piled from the telegraph messages, was nearly ac-
curate. We cannot understand how the compiler
of the news so erred as to send to Europe the
statement that West Virginia had thrown her vote
for Seymour and Blair by 7,000 majority, bUt no
reader of this paper was deceived by the mistake.
Alabama, which was counted for Seymour, has in
reality gone for Grant, and it is believed that
Oregon has too, while fuller reports of all the
States give increased majorities, so that they bid
fair to swell to a total never before reached.
The official vote of Pennsylvania was —for Grant,
342,280 ; for Seymour, 313,382 ; a majority for
Grant of 28,895. In Massachusetts Grant's ma-
jority stands already at 76,442 and Claflin's at
67,949. and the eight or ten towns yet to hear from
will bring Grant's majority to over 77,000, and up
to an equality with that for Lincoin at the last
election. lowa, besides giving 55,000 majority for
Grant, voted for negro suffrage by 30,000 majority ;
but Missouri, while giving 25,000 majority for
Grant, defeated negro suffrage by a decisive vote.
In Louisiana the total vote was—for Seymour,
81,742 ; for Grant 26,552 ; a majority for Seymour
of 55,170. The returns from the interior of South
Jarolina materially reduce the Republican majority
there ; but the State has undoubtedly gone for
Grant. In Georgia Seymour's majority was 50,000.
The official figures have not yet come from Ohio,
but Grant's majority is over 40,000. In New York,
also, the official figures are not yet announced, but
Seymour's majority is stated to be 10,000, and Hoff-
man's 30,000. The latest account from Oregon re-
cords the majority as 200 for Seymour. It is really
marvellous to observe how unable the Tribune is to
count. In its edition of the 14th inst. it gives 26
States to Grant and 8 to Seymour, the same as an-
nounced by us last week, with 214 votes against
80. But it counts the States for Grant as 27 and

the States for Seymour as 7, though a glance at its
table shows it should be 26 against 8. Last week
we recorded Louisiana as throwing 6 electoral
votes, when it ought to have been 7, but the table
is otherwise so far right. Alabama, according to
the telegram from Montgomery, Nov. 13, has gone
for Grant by about 2,500 majority, but in many
counties only one-fourth the;votes of the inhabitants
were polled, and in Marion county no election was
held. Minnesota, as well as lowa, adopted impar-
tial suffrage by a considerable majority, so that two
out of the three States where it was submitted have
carried the amendment. Some cities desired to
recoup themselves for the inconvenience and expense
of the elections ; thus Chi3ago urged voters on
election day to deposit their ballots to show the
unparalleled growth of that city in population. The
electors meet on the•first 'Wednesday in December
iu their respective State capitals, to cast their
ballots for President and Vice-President. It is
asserted by some that the Democratic gain of Con-
gressional Representatives has been rolled up to 33
by a district of California an•l two districts of
Tennessee, which were suppo:ed to have returned
Republicans, having really returned Democrats.
We give the list of changes, as it appeared in the
Tribune of the 11th inst

• ARKANSAS.
Dists. - Present members. Now members.
2. James Hinds *A. A. G. Rogers
3. Thomas Boles *L. B. Nash
CALIFORNIA.
3. *James A. Johnson Chancellor Hartson
ILLINOIS.
*John M. Crebs
INDIANA.
6. George W. Julian *Daniel W. Voorhees
KENTUCKY.
8. *Goo. M. Adams " Sidney M. Barnes
9. Samuel M'Kee *Jahn M. Rice
- LOUISIANA.
1. J. Hale Sypher *Louis St. Martin
3. Jos. P. Newsham *Adolphe Bailey.
4. Michael Vidal *Michael Ryan
5. W. J. Blackburn George W. M'Oraine
MARYLAND.
4. Francis Thomas *Patrick Hamill
MINNESOTA.
2. Ignatius Donnelly *Eugene M. Wilson
MISSOURI.
1. William A. Pile *Erastus Wells
6. Robert T. Van Horn *James Shields
9. George W. Anderson *William F. Switzler
NEW JERSEY.
5. George A. Hulsey *Orestes Cleveland
NEW YORK.
10. W. H. Robertson *Clarkson N. Potter
11. C. 11. Van Wyck *George W. Greene
13. Thomas Cornell *John A. Griswold
30. *Jas F. Humphrey David S,,penuott
NORTH CAROLINA.
7. Alex. 11. Jones *Francis E. Shober

13. Green B. Raum

OHIO.
1. Ben. Eggleston *Philip W. Strader
2. *Samuel F. Cary J. E. Stevenson
9. R. P. Buckland *E. F. Dickenson
10. James M. Ashley *Truman 11. Iloag
13. Columbus Delang *George W. Morgan

OREGON.
1. Rufus Mallery *J. S. Smith
PENNSYLVANIA.
3. Leonard Myers *John Moffatt
5. Caleb N. Taylor *John B. R,.tading

SOUTH CAROLINA.
3. Simon Corley *James P. Rood
4. James H. Goss *Wm. D. Simpson

TENNESSEE.
8. David A. Nunn *John W. Leftwich
* Democrats.

The result had, as generally anticipated, a sooth-
ing influence, as well on political asperities in the
North as in the fierce animosities of the South.
Murder ceased in the latter, abuse and slander in
the former, all threw up their caps, declaring that
Grant was the man of their choice, that they had only
run Seymour as a joke and to keep up the excitement,
that the assassinations and the rest were only their
playful way of carrying on an election. It is cer-
tain that no country could haye been more orderly
than the United States on the day when this fierce
fight was consummated. Every man had done his
best, and they all were then prepared to accept the
result. Had it not been for the reign of terror in
the South, this great election, after Lincoln's first,
perhaps the most important the world has yet seen,
would have reflected a high degree of credit on the
institutions of the United States, displaying a
wonderful machinery for ascertaining the opinion
of a great people, and working more smoothly and
harmoniously than even the restricted and les3 im-
portant elections of the mother country.—Anglo-
American 7inzes.

A telegraph cable was laid across East River,
between New York and Brooklyn, Nov. 9.

At the request of several trustees of the Antietam
Cemetery, who are trustees also of the Gettysburg
Cemetery, the president, Mr. Jay, has called a meeting of
the board of Ebbett's Hotel, Washington, on Wednesday
evening, the 9th of December.

T. llembold, of 594, Broadway, New
York, who doubled the $20,000 given to forward the in-
terests of the Republican ticket by sending a cheque of
$40,000 to the Democratic Committee, is reported to have
gone mad. It was a mad thing to do, but not so mad in a
man who had made a large fortune by a liberal method of
advertising, as it would have been in another. Mad or
not he gave an elegant supper on the 11th inst., in L el-
land'sbest style on there-opening of his drug establishment,
and his friends declare the rumours touching his insanity
to be incorrect. lie certainly was taken from his store
on the morning after hisgeast by order of his doctor, but
later reports assert that it was a mere temporary ab3r-
ration.

The Canada Scotsman says—" The funds so far
transmitted by the GOvernment in aid of the Rad River
settlers have Wen sent to ba distribUted equitably by the
Roman Catholic Bishop, the Episcopal Bishop, and Mr.
MLGillivray, Governor of the Hudson Bay Territory. A
message has been received from the Government agent at
St. Paul's, that the proceeds of the contributions from
Nova Scotia have been applied towards purchasing provi-
sions, to bo forwarded forthwith to Fort Abercrombie,
to be distributed by the Roman Catholic Bishop, the
Episcopal Bishop, and Presbyterian clergymen there."
With reference to tho Hudson's Bay Company, the Cana-
dian News states that so far as the Canadian delegates are
concerned we believe we aro authorised in saying that
the position they have talon pp from the beginning of
the present nogo&ations has not in the slightest degree
been altered. They have made certain suggestions for a
settlement of the whole question, but they will not con-
sent to any present payments being made either in cash
or in Dominion Debentures. The Canadian Government
is prepared, in assuming the territory, to incur the neces-
sary outlay for the establishment of a Government in Ru-
pert's Land, and for opeuipg up proper means of commu-
nication between the Red River and the Dominion, but
beyond this no further pecuniary liability can ho assumed
by Canada.

DUNVILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest
holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re
commended by the medical profession in preference to French
Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exports,
tion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunville and Co.,
Belfast; or 4, Beaufort-buildings, Strand, London W.O --(Ad
vortisement.)

A YEAR'S CRIME. 1N THE WEST RIDING

4,.

The West Riding prison authorities have just
issued a tabulated return for the year ending
September 30, from which we gather the fol-
lowing particulars as to a year's crime in the West
Riding. There were 5,330 males and 1,308 females
committed during the year, making a total of
6,638. Of these 1,347 males and 418 females were
committed to assizes and sessions as felons, juvenile
offenders, or summarily convicted for larcenies ;
588 males and 150 females as rogues and vaga-
bonds, 207 males and 20 females as vagrants, 191
males and 5 females for neglect of family, 240 males
and 32 females as disorderly paupers, 155 females
as common prostitutes, 735 males and 101 females
for assaults, 120 males and 4 females for ag-
gravated assaults, 119 males and 14 femaLs foe
want of sureties, 82 males as military offenders,
and 10 for breaches of revenue laws, 120 males
and 16 females as inisdemeanai-as, 181 males and
41 females for wilful damage, 731 males and
276 females for drunkenness, 39 males and
ono female for neglect of work and as
disorderly apprentices, 94 males for offences
against the bastardy and 188 against the
game laws. Other summary convictions make
up the total. The re-committals were 2,177
males and 672 females ; and first cori-
mittals, 3,153 males and 636 females. Of the
6,638 prisoners received; 22 were under twelve
years of age, 204 twelve and under sixteen, 1,008
sixteen and under twenty-one, 2,502 twenty-one
and under thirty, 1,534 thirty and under forty,
827 forty and under fifty, 352 fifty and under
sixty, and the remaining 189 were sixty and
upwards. Their birthplaces were as follows :--
West Riding, 3,704 ; North and East Ridings, 81;
Lancashire, 512 ; other English counties, 1,193 ;
Wales, 43 ; Scotland, 96 ; Ireland, 944 ; colonies
and East Indies, 15 ; foreign countries, 37 ; un-
known, 10. Their degrees of instruction are
tabulated as follows :—Neither read nor write,
2,402 ; read only, 968 ; read and write imperfectly,
3,205 ; read and write well, 61 ; and superior, 2.

A TIGHT FIT FOR A VOLUNTEER

OFFICER.

The unspeakable agony which misfits inflict upon
volunteer officers was strangely shown in. a case that
came before Mr. Sergeant Wheeler, at the Liver-
pool County Court, on Tuesday. Major Bousfield,
a well-known and deservedly popular volunteer
officer, was summoned at the suit of a Mr. Roberts,
who was acting as trustee of
,Mr. Atkinson, tailor,
Liverpool, for £7 7s. the price of a volunteer
uniform tunic, and 15s. fur work done. The de-
fendant paid the latter sum into Court, but declined
to pay the seven guineas oa the ground that the
tunic did not fit him. It was statei that the gel'
ant major ordered Mr. Atkinson to make a tunic for
him. After the garment was sent home the major
placed it in a drawer, and did not put it on until
he was going out to dine with the officers of
his corps. When he first pat on the unhappy tunic
he had a misgiving that it did not fit him. la
short, although the mtj nr is far from being a stoat
man, the tunic was far too tight for him. After
dinner he retired to a sofa, and while sit-
ting upon it—and no doubt hoping that the
worst was passed—he was startled by his new
tunic bursting in two places under the are'
What the major's feelings were under the cirewn'
stances was not stated to the Court ; no doubt they
were of that melancholy kind whisk are so fro'
quently alluded to as being easier understoA
thau described." However, h 3 seems to haila
had a prescience that some untoward catastrophe
would occur in regard to the tunic, for VI h e
it " burst" he told a fellow officer that he
" expected it." His advocate contended that the
~
major was not liable, inasmuch as the coat hal no'
been made in a proper way, and that there had bee°,
no acceptance. His honour held that there WI
been an acceptance, and gave a verdict of £5 41*
in addition to the amount paid into court.—Lieer-
pool Mercury.

There are more than 1,200 varieties of the post'
age stamps of all nations.
Letters from Oregon state that the Legislature
intends to establish a Bureau of Statistics, Labour
Es-
change, and Immigration. An agent will be sent to the
Atlantic States to make known the resources and advalr
Lagos of Oregon. The Williamette Valley, 150 miles fe
length and 40 miles in width, produces all kinds of cereal°
in profusion. and it is asserted that during the last tweet}"
five years the wheat crop has never failed. Mill sites
aro numerous, the forests supply lumber in abundance,
and coal and iron in heavy deposits have been discovered'
The smelting works at Oswego, eight miles above r°rt-
land, produce largo quantities of metal. Two railroads
running south from Portland are in course of construc-
tion, ono to connect with Sacramento, California, the
other with the Union Pacific Railroad, at 11urnb01‘14
Nevada.
At the 115th session of the Society of Arta
in
London, last Monday, Lord Henry Lennox thus cies%
his inaugural address : " The Isthmus of Suez 118'1.1
rapidly disappearing, and it might interest them to 10°.,,
that the Admiralty had already sent small vessels frc";
Alexandria to Suez by the minor canals. From the Ne
York journals they learned that a scheme for piercing tea
Isthmus of Darien had been submitted to and sanction 1,
by the New York Government. All through the East rid
way extension was making the most rapid progress ; aIIb
rapidly wore things moving that he confessed—thong..
as a Conservative ho perhaps did not go so fast as 0001
people—(laughter)—he did not see why a man should /4:6
expect, even in his own lifetime, to circumvent IA
northern hemisphere in a ship and to travel from I.,°°`
to Pekin in a railway carriage. (Great applause 4

laughter.)"
Americans are great consumers of British 5 1
During last year 161,295 tons wore sent to the Igne

States, and 84,806 tons to British North America.
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