The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TB CJIBDAY EVENING, 110 V VAIBER 12, 186 g.

FOREIGN NOTES,_

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hereby appointed for the meeting, of the said Peers
to proceed to such election.
Witness Out selves at Windsor, this eleventh day
of November, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-eight, and in the thirty-second year of
our reign.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

At the Court at Windsor, the 11th day of No-
vember, 1868 —present, the Queen's Most Excellent
Majesty in Council—this day,Sir Augustus William
Frederick Spencer Loftus, G.C.B. (commonly
called Lord Augustus Loftus), the Right Honour-
able Sir Joseph Napier, Bart., and Sir James
Fergusson, Bart., were, by her Majesty's command,
sworn of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy
Council, and took their places at the Board
accordingly.

THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

( From the Anglo-American Times.)

The result last Tuesday justified the general anti-
cipation ; and what we, in particular, among Euro-
pean journals, had all along predicted. There have
been changes of feeling during the contest ; a
swaying to and fro of the hostile lines. There have
been "Democratic Suicide" and frauds, Republi-
can forgeries, and skilful piping on the " New Re-
bellion" tune. GRANT was a drunkard, SEYmoun
a lunatic, and BLAIR an incorrigible ass. WADE
HAMPTON brayed aloud " down South," and was
answered in chorus by BLAIR'S followers North
and West. BUTLER presented himself like PECK-
SNIFF to his constituents in Massachusetts as if
he had never seen a silver spoon, while the De-
mocratic chief wept in his dairy. The true and
the untrue, the probable and the impossible, the
audacious puff and the lying slander, were all
mixed up together. Such a contest, ranging over
months, could not but vary, and at times sway so
as to deceive the most practised eye; yet those who
turn to our issue of August 8 will see a carefully
compiled table, extracted from the New York
Nation of July 23, wherein nearly all but the South-
ern States are accurately calculated, the predic-
tion giving GRANT 205 votes against SEY-
MOUR'S 89. From Philadelphia a telegram on
Wednesday evening announced GRANT'S triumph in
these words:—" GRANT has secured 25 States,
giving 206 electoral votes ; SEYMOUR nine States,
giving 88 votes ; three States not voting." There
is au error in the detailed account by telegraph
which contradicts the above message; and we feel
persuaded. that West Virginia has, in reality, cast
its five electoral votes for GRANT, notwithstanding
the following statement in the despatch :—" West
Virginia, which has five electoral votes, and ia
1864 gave LINCOLN a majority of 12,000, has now
given a majority of about 7,009 to SEYMOUR and
BLAIR." As, however, West Virginia is thus
clearly enumerated among the States which voted
the Democratic ticket, in the following table, we
concede it to SEYMOUR :
FOR GRANT AND COLFAX.
NEW ENGLAND STATES. .

_
Total.
Maine... 7 New Hampshire ... 5
Vermont 5 Massachusetts 12
•..
Rhode Island 4 Connecticut 6-39

MIDDLE STATES.

Pennsylvania ... 26-47
WESTERN STATES
13 Illinois

8 Kansas 3
11 Tennessao 10

Michigan 8 Nebraska 3
Minnesota ... 4 Wisconsin ... 8-81
PACIFIC STATES. _ _

California Nevada ... ... 3 8
" RECONSTRUCTED" SOUTHERN STATES.
North Carolina 9 South Carolina ... 6
Arkansas 5 Florida 3-23

Total 201
FOR SEYMOUR AND BLAIR.
NEW ENGLAND STATES.
None.
MIDDLE STATES.

New York New Jersey...
Delaware ~. Maryland ... 7
West Virginia 5 --55
WESTERN STATES.

Kentucky ... ...
PACIFIC STATES.

Oregon... ... 3
" RECONSTRUCTED" SOUTHERN STATES.
Georgia 9 Louisiana ... 7
Alabama ... 8 —24

Total .. • ...
"UNRECONSTRUCTED, AND THEREFORE NOT CIUNTED."

SOUTHERN STATES.
Virgiula. 10. Mis3issippi
Texas._ 6
••• — 23

The contradiction as telegraphed from Philadelphia
is in one State counting 5 votes, as according to
oar table, compiled from the telegraphic details,
twenty-four States only casting a tot it of 201 votes
went for GRANT agtinst ten for SEYMOUR—casting
a total of 93—transfer West Virginia to GRANT and
the whole agrees. It is, too, scarcely credible that
West Virginia should have swung round to the
Democratic side, when by the last mails the result
of the election on the 22d October, not a fortnight
before, Republican majority of four thou-
sand fo showed
ticket, the return of the three
r thest a
at e
Republican candidates to the House of Represen-
tatives, and the assurance of a Republican suc-
cessor to Senator VAN WINKLE on the 4th March
next. We have always said that General GRANT
would run ahead of the State tickets, and.the
truth of this will be seen on examining the majo-
rities. Vermont gave on the Ist September a Re-
publican majority of 27,000. For the Presiden-
tial Election last Tueslay the majority was 30,000.
Maine, on the 14th September, gave a Repub-
lican majority in round numbers of 20,000 ;
last Tuesday, 28,000. Pennsylvania, on the
13th of October, 10,000; last Tuesday, 13,000.
Ohio, on the 13th Oct., 17,000; last Tuesday,
35,000. Indiana, on the 13th Oct., 1,000; last
Tuesday, 5,000—all showing gains ; and it would
be strange, indeed, if West Virginia in exception
to a well-ascertained fact in American elections
should have swung right round in a fortnight from
a Republican majority of 1,000 to a Democratic
majority of 7,000. There are some points worth
noting in the returns. All the New England
States, even to Connecticut, went Republican, the
last by a majority of 3,000. We may here notice
that the telegraphic despatch announcing the elec-
tions puts Connecticut down as counting for three
electoral votes, while at this moment three Democrats
and one Republican member sit in the Federal
House for that State, with one Democrat and one
Republican in the Senate, making a total of 6; and
we may add that on the State Legislature depends
the election of a successor to the Democratic
Senator whose term will be up next March. The
next point observable is that SEYMOUR'S strength
lay almost wholly in the Middle States, all of which
he carried except the two great ones of Ohio
and Pennsylvania. The Western States, except-
ing Kentucky, cast a vote as solid for GRANT
as did the New England States. The Pacific
States were thought to be Democratic, and Cali-
fornia was conceded to SEYMOUR, although, could
the Republicans reconcile their differences and act
together, it was thought they might carry the
State, and this they appear to have done. But
what is most instructive is the result down South.
The two States always calculated upon by the Re-
publicans were Alabama and Louisiana. The for-
mer was a pet Republican Reconstructed State. It
had caused more trouble than any other, and it ac-
tually betrayed Congress into something like an in-
fringement of its own law. It had led the way in
Reconstruction, and set an example by adopting a
" model" Constitution. Yet Alabama, with its
eight votes, is found in the Democratic ranks. But
what shall we say of Louisiana with its seven
votes? Georgia was expected to go Democratic ;
but if there was a State which might reason-
ably have been counted among the supporters
of the Republican ticket, it was Louisiana.
There the negroes predominated in number and
in the Legislature, and there riot and bloodshed
prevailed in the contest between the races so as to
make that State conspicuous, even in the South.
The Louisiana vote can only be accounted for by
the Radical prediction, that the negroes would be
frightened away from the polls by armed violence.
If so, the Southerners will learn another lesson, that
all this ruffianism is worse than worthless to further
their cause, for for every negro shot or frightened
away fifty Northern men transfer their votes from
the Democratic to the Republican box. It would
not be expected that the Reconstructed States could
complete their elections without some personskilled;
but, strange to say, Savannah was the only scene of a
fight between the races. It is stated that the negroes

seized the polls, but the whites drove them away, and
several were killed and wounded. In Louisiana the
fighting had been done and the negroes thoroughly
cowed before the dayof the election. South Carolina
escaped, because the Legislature there elects the
electors, and North Carolina is beyond the pale of
the extreme violence of feeling which has tended so
much to outrage. The most interesting election is
that of the Empire State, where SEY3IOUR was vic-
torious by 8,000 of a majority. The State census
for 1865 gives the number of voters as 823,873,
which had perhaps increased last Tuesday to nearly
a million, which shows how equally divided the
parties are. What we expected occurred ; the city
cast a Democratic majority of over 50,000, which
was worked down to 8,000 by the State outside
New York. That GRANT runs ahead of State tickets
is seen in the election of JOHN J. lloFF3tas, the
Democratic candidate for Governor, who carried
the State by a majority of 18,000 ; that is, 10,000
in excess of the vote cast for SEYMOUR. lu the
strug;le between HOFFMAN and FENTON for the
Governorship in 1866 the Republicans polled
366,315 and the Democrats 352,526, FENTON
being elected by a majority of 13,789. We may
presume that besides HOFFMAN, ALLEN C. BEACH,
of Jefferson, is elected Lieutenant-Governor ;
OLIVER BASCOM, of Waahington, Canal Commis-
sioner ; DAVID B. M‘NEIL, Inspector of State Pri-
sons ; and EDWIN 0. PERRIN, Clerk of Court of
Appeals. HENRY W. SLOCUM and DELOS DE WOLF
Presidential electors at large. Out of the 31 Con-
gressional districts the Republicans have carried 17
and the Democrats 14, which is a Democratic gain
of three on the present number. The term of the
New York United States Republican Senator,
EDWIN D. MORGAN, expires next March. The only
personal items by the cable relate to the re-election
of MORRISSEY, who has defeated GEORGE FRANCIS
TRAIN, as well as HORACE GREELEY, in the Fifth
New York Congressional District. BUTLER, too,
has been successful, as the latest accounts by
mail assured us would be the case, the De-
mocrats showing an intention of furthering
his election. In Massachusetts, Michigan, and
lowa all the Republican candidates have been
elected. Illinois gives them 10 out of 14 ; Wiscon-
sin, 5 out cf 6 ; and Missouri, 5 out of 9. On the
whole, however, the Democrats have gained 27
members by the autumn elections in the Congres-
sional House of Representatives, by which the
Republicans have lost the two-thirds majority
they formerly possessed there, while the Senate has
become almost solidly Republican.

Our correspindeut thus writes from Frankfort on
be election of the President :—The city of Frankfort-on-
the-Main was very much excited on the news of the elec-
tion of General Grant for President. Everybody who
held American bonds consider the doctrine of repudiation
as set forth in the Democratic platform as dead and buried,
Several houses of American citizens were illuminated, and
as well also as tho offices of the Consul-General of the
of the United States, American flags are flying in various
parts of the city, and there is great rejoicing over the
result.

(COLLISION.—As the steamer Continental, which
leaves her berth in New Haven for Now York at eleven
o'clock in the evening, was coming out of the harbour at
an early hour, she collided with and sunk the propeller
Northampton, Captain Stanuard, of the opposition line.
Captain Bowns, of the Continental, and Mr. James L.
Amsden, of Westfield, Mass., a passenger and an eye-
witness, gives the account :—The bows of the Continental
passed completely through the starboard side of the pro-
peller cutting her nearly in two, and reaching the state
rooms on the opposite side. In the collision the steam
p'pe of the Northampton was severed, and the steam rush-
ing out filled the hold and state rooms. The fireman of
the propeller was so severely scalded that his life is
despaired of ; the engineer, Mr. Beach, and one Jame-
son, a coloured waiter, were also slightly scalded. Im-
mediately after the collision the passengers and crew
of the Continental, finding that their vessel was not
seriously damaged, jumped aboard of the Northampton
and gallantly laboured to re 3e11t3 the wounded of the latter
vessel. All who could be found after a diligent search
were taken off. On a hasty investigation being made it
was found that .the Northampton was in a sinking condi-
tion, being only held above the surface of the water by
hanging a dead weight on the bowof the Continental, which
was still closely wedged into her hull and upper works.
The stateroom struck by the Continental was occupied by
Miss Carrie E. Brown, of New York, and was alninst
d ,molished, so that she was driven with the debris into
one corner, whence she was with difficulty .rescued,
having suffered a few slight bruises. A steam tug,
with a barge in tow, arrived from New Haven, while the
passengers of the iVortlianzpton were being reseiled,
and, on the request of Captain Bowns, of the Continental,
remained near and took off some of the passengers. The
coloured waiters on board the Northampton are reported
to have boon very much frightened, and to have made a
rush at once for the life-preservers, all of which they
secured. After great difficulty, the bows of the Continental
were extricated, and the vessel backed off to some distance.
Immediately the Northampton sank to her main dock, and
as the steamer put about for the return to Now Haven,
was rapidly sinking in four and a half fathoms. The
wounded were landed at New Haven, where they received
medical care, and the Continental then started, at 3 o'clock
in the morning for the trip to New York, where, she
arrived three hours late.

The Mexican Resurrection Plant is now being
exhibited and sold in Broadway, New York. The plant
is to all appearance dead, but unfolds loaves of an emerald
colour when watered. It flourishes in Southern Mexico
during the rainy season, but in dry weather curls up and
appears to die, but when placed in water revives to its ori-
ginal brightness and freshness.

Mrs. Lincoln, widow of the late illustrious Mr.
Lincoln, Presid.mt of the United States, will spend the
winter at Frankfort-on-the-Maine. Her son Fred will
attend Professor flohag,en's famous school for boys. Few
cities present such inducement for the education of boys
and young ladies as Frankfort.

The Welsh colony in Patagonia is suffering great
anxiety from the anticipated loss of part of its resources.
A small vessel lately purchased by the colonists, sailed
from Patagonia in February last, and up to the end of
July had not been heard of. She had en board sixty sacks
of flour, a largo fishing net, parcels of clothes, some cattle
and six persons.

At a meeting of the French Republicin citizens
held at the Club R3OMS, No. 636, Broadway, Oct. 23, ad-
dresses were delivered by Mr. Victor Faider, M. Constant,
and Mr. Tuffer. Great enthusiasm prevailed for Grant,
Union, and victory.

Among the passengers by the Germania, which
arrived at Southampton last Saturday, were the Rev. E. S.
Thomas of Minnesota, and 0. Uoettel of Philadelphia.

General Banks, Hon. John Quincy Adams, Post-
master-General Randall, Hon. G. A. Grow, of Penn-
sylvania and ex-Confederate General Longstreet, have
lately arrived in New York.

Mr. Washburn, the American Minister in Para-
guay, had arrived at Buenos Ayres.
George F. Edmunds, who has been elected
United States Senator for Vermont, to serve from March
4th, 1869, to March 4th, 1875, was born at Richmond,
Vermont, February Ist, 1828. He received his education
in the public schools, and also was assisted by the instruc-
tions of a private tutor. He than studied law and entered
on the practice of his profession. He served in the House
of Representatives of Vermont from 1854 to 1859, having
fur three years been Speaker. He was next elected to the
State Senate, of which body be was President pro tem , in
1861 and 1862. On the death of Senator Solomon Fo .t,
Mr. Edmunds was appointed by the Governor, and subse-
quently by the Legislature, to fill the vacancy, and took
his seat on April 5, 1866.
Judge Williams has accepted the position of
Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, to succeed
Justice Strong.

Upon the-recommendation of the Chief of Ord-
nance the knowing changes in the stations of officers of
the United States Ordnance Department have been made
—Brevet-Nlajor J. M. Whittemore from the Watervliet
Arsenal at West Troy, N.Y., to the Watertown (Mass.)
Arsenal; Brevet-Major Buffington from Watertown to
Watervliet, and Capt. Phypps from Watertown to the
Washington Arsenal. First Lieut. M'Giunis is detached
from duty in the Ordnance Bureau at Washington, and
ordered to the Springfield Armory, and Second Lieut.
Isaac W. Maclay is detachedfrom the Springfield Armory,
and ordered to report to the head-quarters of the depart-
ment of the Platte.

Mrs. Ex-President Tyler has published a card
thanking •° her generous and distinguished counsel,
William M. Evarts and Judge Edwards Pierrepont, for
their untiring devotion of time and patience in the prose-
cution of her defence" in the "Gardiner-Tyler will case,"
which has just been decided in her favour
It is rumoured that Garibaldi is about to quit
Caprera for America, as he is disgusted with the present
state of Ita'ian affairs.
R. S. Sevens, of Attica, New York, has bar-
gained for the territory back of East Boston, known as
Breed's Island, for $200,000, but there is som trouble
about the title, to which several people in England hold
an inherited claim, and the Supremo Court has notified all
of them to " prove property" before the sth of next Ja-
nuary, or relinquish their claims.
Ex-President Pierce has so far recovered hie
health that he is able to ride out.
Benjamin Cutler, Surveyor-General of New
Mexico, died on Sunday, September 18, at Santa Fe. Mr.
John M. Butler, senior partner of the firm of Butler awl
Carpenter, engravers, of Philadelphia, and a director of
Girard College, died on the 20th of October. Ex-Chief
Justice Staples, of Rhode Island, died in Providence, Oct.
19. The Rev. Father O'Keefe, Catholic clergyman, of
Clinton, Massachusetts, died oil Sunday, Sept. 18.