The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-13 00:00:00

MR. DICKENS.

A letter appeared the other day in a contemporary
purporting to be addressed by Mr. Charles Dickens
to Mr. Pope, the secretary of the Printers' Alms-
houses. It contained an offer to devote the pro-
ceeds of one of his entertainments to the funds of the
institution, accompanied by a compliment to the
printers, and an acknowledgment of what Mr.
Dickens owed to them. Now it turns out to be
a forgery. If meant for a joke it is an
extremely pointless one, and if for a hint it is
utterly undeserved. Mr. Dickens has never forgotten
those who have been the means of communicating
his thoughts to the world, and requires no such
reminder. Mr. Dickens's hand is rather a remark-
able one, and it must have been a clever imitation
to deceive our. contemporary, or else the letter did
not receive a sufficient scrutiny.

PROGRESS OF ELECTIONS.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

Our intelligence under this head has lost nearly
all its interest excepting as a story which we are
bound to tell for the benefit of those who file this
paper and refer to it when events now progressing
are matters of history. If the cable has its uses, it
acts on mail news in something of the same manner
as if the alcohol were extracted from your mint julep.
Of course Andrew Johnson waited before he finally
." pronounced," till he felt confident he was running
counter to the general opinion of the country, when
he forwarded the following letter to Governor
Seymour :
Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C.,
October 22, 1868.
Hos. Holum) SEYMOUR,-1 see it announced in the
papers this morning that you will enter the Presidential
canvass in person. I trust this may be so, as the present
position of p iblic affairs justifies and demands it. It is
hoped and believed by your friends that all the enemies
of Constitutional Government, whether secret or avowed,
will not be spared, and that their arbitrary and unjust
usurpations, together with their wasteful, profligate, and
corrupt uses of the people's treasures, will bo signally ex-
posed and rebuked. The mass of the people should be
aroused and warned against the encroachments of the
despotic power now ready to enter the very gates of the
citadel of Liberty. I trust you may speak with an in-
spired tongue, and that your voice may penetrate every
just and patriotic heart throughout the land. Let the
living principles of a violated Constitution be proclaimed
and restored, that peace, prosperity, and fraternal feeling
may return tp a divided and oppressed nation.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
It is believed that in West Virginia the Republi-
cans have carried at least two Congress districts,
and probably the third, and with a working majo-
jority in both Houses they will elect a United
States Senator in succession to the Hon. Peter J.
Van Winkle, whose term expires next March.
Duval, Republican, is elected for Congress for the
First District by a majority of 1,000. The Second
District Republican, over ,000 ma-
jo
the gi vTe s
ofh Nisrlod`
oGDistricttot
was believed to have given
a majorityi ty ;
also Republican. As
the Legislature is said to be three-fourths Republi-
can,
the United States Senator to be elected for
Iklarch is secure to that party. The nominations were as
follows :--Governor J. M. Camden, Democrat ;
W. Stephenson, Republican. Secretary of State
S. V. Yantis, D. ;J. M. Pipes, R. Treasurer G.
J. Walker, D. ; J. A. McCauley, R. Auditor D.
Mayer, D. ;T. Bosgess, R. Attorney-General W.
P. Willey, D.;. T. Melvin, A. Appeal Judge M.
Edminton, D. ; IL L. Berkshire, R. Cong., Ist
District, H. S; Walker, D. ; J. H. Duval, R.
Cong., 2d District, W. 0-. Brown, 1). ; J. C.
blacrew. Cong., 3a District, C. P. T. Moore, D.;
T. S. Whitcher, R. Governor Boreman (Rep.)
was elected two years ago by 6,644 majority. The
local elections last year showed no material change.
The States of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana
polled in the aggregate-it the election, Oct. 13,
1,500,000 votes. As John Covode has been defeated
for the Twenty-first District of Pennsylvania by
Henry D. Foster, the Republican aggregate loss is 9
Congressmen, that party return being 16,...and
the Democratie 8. The new State Legislature will
consist of 18 Republicans and 15 Democrats in the—
Senate, and 62 Republicans and 38 Democrats in
the Ifouse. Galusha A. Grow is likely to be the
new Republican United States Senator they will
select.

The official returns of the Philadelphia election
give the following majorities :—Mayor, Daniel M.
Fox, Democrat, 1,838 ; District Attorney, Fiirman
Sheppard,- Democrat, 1,275 ; City Comptroller,
Geo., Getz, Democrat, 724; Solicitor, lhomas J.
Barger, Democrat, 892 ; Receiver of Taxes, J. M.
Melloy, Democrat, 238 ; Commissioner, David P.
Weaver, Democrat, 953 ; Prothonotary of Com-
mon Pleas, Albert Fletcher, Democrat, 681 ; Pre-
sident Judge, J. I. C. Hare, Republican, 25 majo-
rity ; Associate Judges Thos. Greenbank, Democrat,
125 majority. On the State ticket, Boyle, Democrat,
receives 175 majority ; and Ent, Democrat, 266.
Fifty Republican citizens have been appointed to
'contest the election on the charge of fraud, it being
as3erted that of the 120,000 votes in the city alone,
over 20,000 were fraudulent. The walls were pla-
carded with appeals to law-abiding citizens against
the triumph of villany.
Baker's majority for Governor of Indiana, the
returns being nearly ,all official, is 1,020. John
G. Reid has filed a protest against issuing the cer-
tificate of election to the Hon. George W. Julian.
He desires the board of canvassers of Wayne
county to be compelled to return the vote of the
south poll of Richmond, thrown out for alleged
violation of the registry law ; and Mr. Hendricks
intends to contest Baker's election before the Legis-
lature, pending which the Sentinel advises the De-
mocrats not to pay their bets. The official vote of
85 counties of Ohio gives Sherwood, the Republi-
can candidate for the secretaryship of State,