The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-10-20

nearly three days only shout 1850 Of majority wal
claimed The omniscIeDt Peanyronafan itself ciaimet
no moro than abou, 1900 yesterday morning; but late
on Thursday evening" for the frs tmc, II began 70 be
sumored among knowing locoecos that the majority
would be three or four thousand. And enough the
Bord Of Return judges, shamoerstc concern, met tue
exrncies Of me parry promptly and ran up the MAORI
nias enough 70 carry the s.ate and elect CASSIDY
msjorh ssre, as general rule, too h,zh and ocal
turns generally cut them down But here where there
more cnnnce than 10 rural couaes the prepos
ferrous Of the Reurn Judges would mako II out that
the whole sy has been mistaken by more than six hun
dred Such An error Night have occurred in sparse
phia county very limited extent tho election officers
always make out set Of aggregate returns for
cnon which furnishes them TO the press Of the city;
these returns ere published in morning papers, and tnen
in ofernoon papers they read noted and
thai mistake OF six hundred votes should never be de
tected suspected Until the midnight before the riee
In fact, the traces Of fraudulent voting, Fraudulent
counting, fraudulent allynR, fraudulent alterations, and
hour pr moro sns anq Tbc eSs5y G
Of the people has been overcome by deliberate report
tion Of the California game of ballot box stuing and
wholesale fraud will not win-Noycmber Is ap
preaching. The people, orewarned, will be forearmed
They III viz dictate themselves in Nosember and mean
down npor the fclon perpetrators abettors and
prompters OF the frauds Of the 18th inst.
The Effect Of Fusion in.tIo Recent Elections.
tFrom the Cincinnati Commercial, Oct. II
In short, fusona fusion with the Know Nothing party
has been from the beginning grand central idea Of
their policy the object OF ali their socitude and the cause
OF all their msfortunes Those who should const
uted thu mselves the especial guardians Of the republican
fath who Should like ves,al virginia have watched
with eeepess vigilance and laid down their lives rather
than permit the purity Of the sacred hane suled
by contact or dmmtd by neglect uumindul OF the high
trast that had faben into their hands, and ltpoor In
spirit to gain an adequa conception oft eess value
actually threw IL into tho open politca Market like
common thng-bartsred away for dross that scarcely
Rit:ered when they received It, and at the first assay
turned TO worse than dirt upon their hnuds There
is great justice In this thlng-God's justice, who
never fails TO let fall signal punishment upon tho
beads OF those who make merchandise OF the
truth, and barter their principles for personal
gain The party with whom they made their compact
the one TO nfict the penalty. basely deserted them In
the bour OF trial. defeated and destitute Of tie conscious
that they bad deserved by their conduct better
iate 1t will not do TO complain Of this. IS right and
men know IT,
We this thing early In the history Of the republican
organization, and even then felt presentment Of Its
deadly Effects II Is matter Of chance, would the
peo ,le ever have demanded such arrangement.
The rGy fact that the rplblic0n setneA II its purity
N the Ncrthern portion Of the United Sats politically
Tipent rightly uadesood ariU teach thot diluted deorad-
ell alleged, IS as sce0x otherwise oud De o0erfA
Great principles jealous, and truth intermlxed il
alsebood where parties in the wrong the falsest
is usually successful and where desire conquer
BY the truth, they must be content to live in its light