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

PROGRESS OF ELECTIONS.

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 28,898. 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
Carolina 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 amendmeat. Some cities desired to
recoup themselves for the inconvenience and expense
of the elections ; thus Chi ago 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
in 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 and two districts of
Tennessee, which were supposed 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. New members.
2. James Hinds *A. A. C. Rogers
3. Thomas Boles *L. B. Nash
CALIFORNIA.
3. *James A. Johnson Chancellor Hartson
ILLINOIS.
13. Green B. Raum *John M. Crebs
INDIANA.
6. George W. Julian *Daniel W. Voorhees
KENTUCKY.
8. *Geo. M. Adams Sidney M. Barnes
9. Samuel M'Kee *John M. Rice
LOUISIANA.
1. J. Halo Syphor *Louis St. Martin
3. Jos. P. Newsham *Adolphe Bailey.
4. Michael Vidal *Micha,el Ryan
5. W. J. Blackburn George W. M'Craine
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. Halsey *Orestes Cleveland
NEW YORK.
10. W. H. Robertson *Clarkson N. Potter
11. C. H. Van Wyck *George W. Greene
13. Thomas Cornell *John A. Griswold
30. *Jas F. Humphrey David S. Bennett
NORTH CAROLINA.
7. Alex. 11. Jones *Francis E. Shober
01110.
1. Ben. Eggloston *Philip W. Strador
2. *Samuel F. Cary J. E. Stevenson
9. R. P. Buckland *E. F. Dickenson
10. James M. Ashley *Truman 11. Hoag
13. Columbus Delano *George W. Morgan
OREGON.
1. Rufus Mallery *J. S. Smith
PENNSYLVANIA.
3. Leonard Myers *John Moffatt
5. Caleb N. Taylor *John B. Reading
SOUTH CAROLINA.
3. Simon Corley *James P. Reed
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 have 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 less im-
portant elections of the mother country. —Anglo-
American 7 lines.

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.
Dr. H. T. Hembold, 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 Lel-
land's best style on the re-opening of his drug establishment,
and his friends declare the rumours touching his insanity
to be incorrect. He certainly was taken from his store
on the morning after his!feast by order of his doctor, but
later reports assert that it was a mere temporary aber-
ration.

The Canada Scotsman says—" The funds so far
transmitted by the Government in aid of the Red River
settlers have been sent to be distributed equitably by the
Roman Catholic Bishop, the Episcopal Bishop, and Mr.
M'Gillivray, 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 be forwarded forthwith to Fort Abercrombie,
to be distributed by the Roman Catholic Bishop, the
Episcopal Bishop, and Presbyterian clergymen there."
With reference to the Hudson's Bay Company, the Cana-
dian News states that so far as the Canadian delegates are
concerned we believe we are authorised in saying that
the position they have taken up from the beginning of
the present negociations 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 Laud, and for opening up proper means of commu-
nication between the Red River and the Dominion, but
beyond this no further pecuniary liability can be assumed
by Canada.

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