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D l'l<e Ezec1 - ~ Kentucky.
4 very <nrIou< hnomaly has presented
itself In f1o IaSt loca llectIon throughout Ken
li1cky. III very few Instances have the SAG.
Nicllts rdnIona Of fllef number In any county
creat many Independent American and Wbie
candidates have been III the field In all the
american strongholds. The Sag NIGHTS have
already commenced claiming the foremost can.
ddates, whether Wing Or American, and It il
very veil that they should hare q crumb of
comfort, ID November there will not be =
crease. spot left of them. The American Or
der has been charged with Introducing parlv
politics into the judicial elections. The recent
election shows this 10 be f1lse | In sevefat of
the judicial districts, in which there Il beyond
doubt, large American majority, the Aineri-
can party declined 70 nominate Candidates Tor
judicial Offices. and the Americans hnve cast
their votes In the election without any refer
ence whatever to parties, Whilst such has
been the course OF the American party, the
Sag Nichis have invariably voted In solid COL
umns for one Of. their own number. This has
been most evident III the contest between Du.
vail and Marshall The Americans had no
nominee Ia the field. The Sag NIGHTS to a man
have voted for Duvall, and the Americans hay-
ing no nomination 10 bind them, have not only
in part voted for Duvall, but o prominent mem-
Der OF our party, from pefsonal considerations,
has eIectioneered for him throughout the dis
trict. Consequently In q district which last
year gave Morehead l,6u0 majority, Judge Du-
vail is doubtless elected. and the Sag
have the impudence to claim this as great
falling off from the American party. We can
assure our friends everywhere that such is not
the case; the Sag NIGHTS have polIed their ea-
tire strength, whilst our party, not considering
it party contest have divided their votes be-
tween the candidates, and thousands have not
voted at all
In JUDGE Kincheloe's district member of
the American party was an independent candi-
date against him. Though we have there $500
majority, the Americans would not make
nomination. It was not party vote. Judge
Kincheloe is Wing and supporter Of Mr..
Fillmore. Doubtless the Sag NIGHTS will also
claim q very large gain in that district, as the
race bids fair to be very close; but We presume
| they will entirely overlook such instances as
Marion county where the Independent candi-
date for sheriff. supported by the Americans.
has beaten the regular Sag-Nicht nominee in
the county in which Clark beat Morehead 74D
| votes.
Judge Pryor was not nominated by the Amer
ican party, but ran as an independent candi-
date against the regular nominee of the Sag
NIGHTS. His district went for CLARK last year
and it was to be presumed that he would be
beaten, If, as they had done, that party should
uniformly sustain their nominee.
In the Mason district our opponents have
claimed the foremost of two Wings, who were
running for Circuit Judge, and doubtless would
have claimed the other if be had been success
| full. In Hart county two Wigs were candidates
for clerk, and we shall doubtless find the Antics
claiming the successful candidate. In Judge
Goodloe's district, the American party held
convention and declined to nominate a candi-
date for Judge. Goodioe became an indepen-
dent candidate forre-election. Capt Hawes,
a Wing, was also an independent candidate, but
finding that he would be defeated, he withdrew
and left the course clear to Goodloe If Capt.
Hawes had continued a candidate, although
Goohloe 10 member OF the American Order,
we should have found the Sag NIGHTS proclaim
| ing his success, as an independent candidate, to
bean anti American triumph.
| Ike party lines have been strictly drawn in
lverysfew counties in the State. Wherever this
has beenSdene there have been large gains for
| the American party. There have been more
Whig candidates in the field than Sag NIGHTS.
That here shall be no misapprehensinn on ths
part Of our friends Elsewhere, we tell them that
this selectioncan show the relative strength
| Of the parties, and that however great q gain
the Sag-Nichts may clam. aud chuckle over,
our party IS stronger by many thousands than
/ it was last August, and in November VIII give
an overwhelming majority for Fillmore and
4 Donelson- II sa -.aS 81 )
/ A Jusr EuLoGY.-The North Carolina Signal
quotes the following eulogy Of Mr.. Fillmore from
the Western Democrat, OF 1852: -
"Mr. Fillmore, our present Chief Magistrate,