Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-11-06
SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS.

The BpteIiGeneH says OF the elections Of
the current month
"Ths public will look with no small degree
of interest to the elections now in progress
and which will close the years canvass In
Louisiana and Mississippi the elections were
held yesterday Tor Governor and other State
ofieers In each, and for members Of Congress
and Of the Legislature. To-day the States of
New York, New jersey, Massachusetts,, and
wisconsin vote for State officers and members
of the Legislature. Maryland will vote on
Wednesday for State officers, members of Con.
gIess and Of the Legislature. In each State
the several parties are sanguine of success,
but their calculations can scarcely rest upon
any other basis than an underlined hope.
- In Massachusetts, alone have the Wings 8
regular ticket; there are three Others the
Democratic, the Republican, and the Know
Nothing. --..
In New York there are four regular tick
cts, the Hsrdshell and the Softshell Demo
crats, the Republican, and the Know Nothing.
'In Louisiana and Mississippi only is the
contest narrowed down to two parties, viz:
the Know Nothings and the anti-Know Moth
ings"
The Union se.s at rest the Know Nothing
election story that saw the light yesterday
(fOr effect on the Maryland election to-mor-
row. that the contract for the stone work Ct
the extension Of the Treasury building, was
unfairly awarded to Messrs. Besle d Dickson.
The Know Nothing allegation ia that the bids
of N. g. Emery and ]. B. Emery were lower
than that Of those who obtained the contract.
To give color to the charge, few items in
their respective proposals are published-those
on which the Emery's were lowest; willis the
fact that they were much the highest on all
the other items comprising at least two-th;rds
of the whole job,) was concealed. The Union
concludes its refutation of the roorbaek IS fol-
lows:
Unfortunately for this transparent cleo
pioneering trick, both the figures and infer
enees Ct this silly calumniator are equally
fa'se, as We are prepared to demonstrate from
vouchers which can be verified by examining
The theial record Of the Bureau of Construc-
ton oil the Treasury Department. The prices
gwen by the Know Nothing paper alluded to,
viii, when applied 70 the quantities required,
amount to as follows:
Beale Dickson ............... s1ll,O49
M " Emery .................. 81 203
d Emery .................. 65,S0
Tue balance of the materials bid for by
the parties, but not alluded to- amount as fol-
lows:
Beale q Dickson ............... $685.
ID. G Emery NATURALIZATION. 47S 227
y. D. Emery ................... So, 1S6
The aggregate Of the several bids, when
calculated fol the quantities required, amount
to
Beals 4 Dickson ....,........ S43,557
ID u Emery .................. 559,490
d D. Emery ..'..'.......,..... 400, 800
Z" IL thus appears that the aggregate bid of
the Messrs. Emery, for whom the sympathie.
of the citizeps Of Baltimore are solicited lust
on the eve of an election, is more than twice
the amount Of the bid of the gentlemen to
whom the contract was awarded
We may not inapprOpriately add that but
one CT the Messrs. Emery proposed to use
Maryland material; the other offering, instead.
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