The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-30 00:00:00

ing the great issues of the day, Judge Abbott had
been telling his Democratic friends how many pen-
knives each member of Congress has. He has
nothing to say of Forrest, nor anything about
the victorious Grant and the Union armies.

Not a word was to be heard about justice to
the men who fought our battles, or about
the soundness of our National Debt. Such things,
Gen. Butler thought, showed the utter paucity of
argument upon their side. He would not compare
the number of pen-knives of each Congressman
now with that of good old Democratic times, but
he could show them that the Republican Congress
had reduced the estimate of Government expenses
$80,000,000 below what had been stated by the
Secretary of the Treasury, who has recently de-
clared himself in favour of Seymour and Blair. This
same Congress had also taken from the manufactur-
ing interests of the country a tax of $45,000,000, and
to one penknife of extravagance mentioned by Judge
Abbott, he could show a million dollars retrench-
ment." At the last Congressional election in Colo-
rado Geo. M. Chilcott, Republican, was elected by
108 majority over A. C. Hunt, Democrat, the total
being 3,529 against3,42l. The advices from Denver
to September 9 announces the election of Allen A.
Bradford, Republican, as delegate to Congress.
That city gave him 211 majority, and in every
county heard from there was a Republican gain.
From St. Louis the news was of a despatch from
Santa Fe, dated Sept. 8, to the effect that " the
Legislative election yesterday (Sept. 7) resulted in
a Republican victory. The Legislature will be
two-thirds Republican."
We have been under a misapprehension, having
overlooked the fact that the California election,
which ordinarily takes place on the first Wednes-
day of September, was this year postponed to No-
vember, by a special act of the Legislature. Mem-
bers of Congress, presidential electors, and minor
officers will then be chosen. The Springfield Re-
publican, of the 12th instant, says :—" A.good deal
of activity now begins to be visible in the presiden-
tial canvass, and if there has ever been any doubt
how the election would go, there is none now. The
greatest political demonstration of the campaign,
so far, was made by the Republicans of Indiana,
at Indianapolis, last week Wednesday, and like
meetings are soon to be held in other parts of the
country. Mr. Pendleton says the result in Novem-
ber will depend on the October elections in Ohio,
Indiana., and Illinois, and there is no doubt those
States will elect the Republican ticket by increased
majorities. In Indiana the Republicans claim that
they shall carry nine of the eleven Congressional
districts, and in Ohio they mean to carry sixteen
out of twenty-one, and profess to be able to increase
the Republican majority in the whole State over
15,000. Pendleton acknowledges the desperate
condition of his party in his own State by cancelling
all his engagements elsewhere, and confining all his
efforts to home." At the Nevada Democratic State
Convention, W. F. Anderson of Landley county
was nominated for Congress, and R. 11. Taylor and
P. H. Clayton for judges of. the Supreme Court.
Presidential electors were also nominated. Among
the Republican nominations are Amos Paul
of Newmarket, New Hampshire, for Presidential
elector for the first district, and Jason IV. Tap-
pan for the third district. At the Democratic State
Convention held at New Haven, Connecticut, on
Wednesday, Sept. 9, the following Presidential elec-
tors were nominated :—At large : Governor James
E. English and General William B. Franklin ; first
Congressional district, Alfred R. Goodrich ; second,
Henry G. Hubbard ; third, Lloyd E. Baldwin ;
fourth, Nathaniel Wheeler. The next day the R -
publican State Convention nominated the following
ticket for Presidential electors :—At large : Joseph
R. Hawley of Hartford, and W. Fitch of New Ha-
ven ; first district, Clark Holt of Vernon ; second,
Luther Boardman of East Haddam ; third, Henry
Bill of Norwich ; fourth, Geo. Dudley of Winstead.
In Maryland the Democrats nominated for Coa-
-1 greys Frederick Stone, Fifth District, Stevenson
Archer re-nominated from Second District, Go-
vernor Swan Third District, comprising thirteen
wards of Baltimore. The District of Minnesota
have nominated Captain Eugene Wilson, of Min-
neapolis, for Congress. A. S. Wallace, of New
York, has been nominated as the Republican can
didate for Congress from the Fourth District of
South Carolina.