The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-04-12

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Gloceater and Foster. Glocester elects Demo
Gratis TO the General Assembly by twelve ma
Jority Foster elects Wing Senator by one
majority, and Democratic Representative by
four majority. All other members of both
Houses are Know Nothings.
The vote for Governor Hoppin. the presen,
Wing incumbent, is 1896, and for Mr.. Potter
his Democratic competitor, 2,3O6, giving Hop
PIN majority of 1904. The majority for
Mr.. Rose, the Lieutenant Governor, is 1925.
de was only upon the Know Nothing ticket
In the eastern district, Mr.. Durfee is elected to
Congress by majority of 3,7OO. In the west
ern district, Mr. Thurston's majority will be
near 1000.
Cohnectiem.-The Wings and Know Moth.
ings elected eighteen of the twenty-one State
Senators, and about two-thirds of the members
of the House of Representatives Mr.. Dutton
was tie Wing candidate, Mr.. Ingham the Dem.
ocratie, and Mr. Minor the Know Nothing can
date. There being no choice by the people, it
is supposed that Mr.. Minor will be chosen by
the Legislature. The vote stood thus: Dutton,
9,2l2s Ingham, 26,992; 26,5l5.
THEE towns are not heard from. Four An
ti-Nebsaska and Know Nothing members of
Congress are chosen, viz: Ezra Clark, jr., in
the Isl district, by 55l plurality over James T.
Pratt, the late member John Woodruff, I'd, by
1915 plurality in the I'd district; Sidney Dean,
by large majority in the Sd district; and VIM.
w. Welch in the 4th district.
The Democracy of New Haven fred one hun
dred guns in honor of the election of two Dem
Gratis to the State Legislature, from that city
st. Louis, Mo.-The municipal election at
st. Louis, on the I'd instant, was conducted
with order and quietness. The Know Moth
ings were generally victorious, having elected
all their nominees but two, the City Marshal
and City Treasurer. They elected Mr. Wash
ington King to the office of Mayor, by large
plurality. The number of votes received by
him is. 1924. John Hogan, Wing, received
1000, and J. II. Lightner, Dem, 3,l7l.
Jacksonville, Fa.-On the I'd instant, the an.
nual election for an Intendant and six Council
men came off. One hundred and eighty-three
votes were poled for Intendant. of which Phil
ip Fraser, the Know Nathing candidate, re-
ceived ia; his opponent, F. Livingston, 65
and scattering. The six Councilmen were
elected by the Know Nothings by about the
same vote.
Richmond, Ta.-The Know Nothings here
on the 9Th instant, elected their candidate for
Mayor, carried both branches of the City Coun-
Gil, and also elected all of their city officers.
The vote for Mayor is as follows: Joseph Mayo
Know Nothing, 1871; Col. Manford, Dem,
LIS. The vote for the other officers is about
the same.
Columbia, S. C-The election for Mayor
on the Sd instant, has resulted in the choice Of
Mr.. Arthur, said to be Know Nothing, by I3C
majority.
Portsmouth, Va, april I'D. D. Fiske
Mayor, and the entire Know Nothing ticket for
Councilmen, were elected here to-day by Isl
majority.
Io,od.-The returns show that the Wing
State officers have been elected by larger
majority than was received last August.
LouisciUe-The Know Nothings have swept
the city by tremendous majorities. Barbe, their
candidate for Mayor, and all their other NUM-
cipal officers, except one School Trustee and
two Councilmen, have been elected. The cleo
ton passed off quietly.
ContusiOn.-It is stated that the Grand State
Council of Know Nothings met at Lancaster
Pennsylvania, on the Sd instant, but broke up
in confusion the following afternoon, the cause
of the difficulty being opposition to an open
organization. Public opinion runs counter to
secresy and oath-bound conspiracies. Messrs
Cameron, johnson, and Gen. Irwin, left in dis
gust.
PmYying!-A Democratic Convention was
recently held at Philadelphia, and those dele
gates suspected of Know Nothingism were ex
amined under oath, and witnesses were also
examined in relation to the accusations against
them. Those who refused to testify, or against
whom the charge was proved, were expelled
Among those expelled was William S. Allen,
Democratic Commissioner. On his refusing to
depart, he was forcibly expelled.
At at entertainment given to ex-senator
Cooper, of Pennsylvania, on the 26th of March,
that gentleman delivered an address, in which
he said that "whilst he had been faithful to
Freedom, and endeavored to vindcate it against
its assailants, he nevertheless embraced every
opportunity to cultivate and establish kind rela
tions, political and social, between the North
and the South" Mr.. Cooper is unquestionably
a courteous gentleman, aad sustains kind rela
tons with his brethren of the South, but the ev
licences of his faithfulness to Freedom are yet to
be presented to the judgment of the people of his
State. They do not exist in the record of his
| Congressional career.
Neal Dow is at last elected Mayor of Port
Ia ld and the Prohibitory law may thus be re
gi,rded as triumphant.
Iowa has, by popular vote, confirmed the
action of her Legislature in favor of the Prohib
tory law.
A public meeting at Lexington, Mo-, on the
10Th of March, resolved to raise 900 to assist
emigrants to Kansas from the slaveholdine
States. But we suppose they did not really
raise more than enough to keep a number o
men in Kansas until after the elections.
James HI. Thomas and William II. Polk are
candidates for Congress, in the Sixth Congress
sional District of Kentucky.
Peter Sken Smith is addressing the Know
Meanings of Pennsylvania, in favor of an open
| organization.