The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-15 00:00:00

PROGRESS OF ELECTIONS.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)
In Indianapolis, Sept. 24, General Frank P. Blair
and lion. G. P. Pendleton made speeches to an im-
mense mass meeting of the Democracy. A letter
from the latter gentleman, addressed to Somers
Kinney, Texas, has been published in the Galve-
ston Bulletin. It was dated Aug. 21, 1868, and ran
as follows In reply, I have only time to say that
you cannot urge too strongly our brethren of Texas
to stand by the National Democracy and resist all
Radical attempts to abase you. My heartfelt wish
is that you may succeed in your new undertaking.
We are making a last fight for constitutional liberty,
and the signs of the times indicate a Democratic
triumph hitherto unknown. Yield not a scintilla of
your honour. There is no room for compromise.
About your being allowed to vote, be not alarmed ;
we shall see that Texas is represented. Vote by
all means." As Texas is excluded from the Elec-
toral College by the Act of Congress, this advice of
one of the leading Democrats to break a law not
constitutionally set aside does not tend at the pre-
sent moment to lessen Northern distrust. The
exact returns from Mine are thus officially given :
—Chamberlain, 75,835 ; Pillsbury, 55,431. Cham-
berlain's majority, 20,404. Prominent Democrats
assert that Indiana will give their party a majority
of 5,000, and they affirm that both that State and
Ohio being abandoned to the Conservatives the
great political excitement centres in Pennsylvania,
which the Radicals believe they can carry. The
Nation of Sept. 24 thinks Pennsylvania safer than she
was a week ago, and will probably show next Tuesday
a Republican vote of from 5,000 to 10,000 majority.
"Ohio is perfectly sure, and Indiana, Senator Morton
says, will give the Republicans a majority of 10,000."
The closeness of the contest may be gathered from
these figures, neither party claiming such a State
as Pennsylvania, with its six hundred thousand
voters, by more than five or ten thousand-majority.
Governor Baker spoke at Portland, Indiana, the
other day, and propounded something new about
the payment of 5-20's in greenbacks. To listen to
Governor Baker one would suppose it was the
easiest thing possible to turn the six per cent. paid
on the national debt into four per cent. without
loss to any one, and through the action of the
holders, the only result being that the United States
would save from forty to fifty millions of dollars
per annum in interest. We know not what value
is to be attached to the predictions of General
Grant's father ; but they say that in 1860 he was
right in every instance but in that of California.
This year he thinks that Seymour will receive the
vote of Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, half the
rebel States, and Oregon. lie leaves Connecticut
and New Jersey doubtful, and says Ohio will give
40,000, New York 15,000, and Pennsylvania 25,000
majority for Grant and Colfax. lle expects all the
other States to stand by the Union and Ulysses,
and he certainly gives plumpers. There was to be a
grand gathering of soldiers and sailors at Phila-
delphia, October 1 and 2, in the interest of the
Republican ticket, when perhaps we may hear some-
thing of the " Singing Soldiers." Two papers have
been extensively utilized by the Republican party
in the campaign : the one is a letter from General
Dix, upon which we elsewhere comment, and the