, 1857-12-18

Offices is mentioned for which the candi-
dates respectively were intended to be des-
ignated. We cannot determine, therefore,
from the face Of those papers, for wba. Of
flee any one Of the candidates was suppor-
ted. The uniformity in this particular Of
these pretended returns from three sepa-
rate and distinct precincts, especially as the
forms are not made up in the same hand
writing, nor-wth certain exceptions,
which only add force to the argument-on
the same kind of paper, renders, with 9th
er circumstances, conclusive TO our minds,
the conviction that they are, as above sta
ted, fictitious and simulated. 1t is most ex-
traordinary, also, that not a single vote ap-
pears to have been given for any county Of
fcers.
In rejecting these papers we do not go
behind the returns, because no legal or val
id returns are made. Neither in the form
er instance nor in this have we claimed the
power to judge of the qualifications of vo-
ters, and to exclude votes deemed to be il
legal. What constitutes return is defined
BY the Territorial statutes; and to reject a
paper as spurious or fictitious, or because,
10 points of vital Importance, it deviateS
from the acquisitions of the law, and there
fore is not return in legal parlance, is not
going behind the returns, us we have been
uniustly charged with doing"
His action in the premises seems to have
given offence to some ullras, and it was
thought that the President would supercede
him; but such has not been the case. 1t
will depend on his confirmation or rejection
by the Senate.
ST. Lours, Nov. 4, 1851.
Kansas letters of the 29th state that on
ly thirty three of the sixty members of the
Constitutional Convention were present,
and nothing Of general interest had been
done.
New York ELEcrloN-The NtW York
Herald of the 9th November, says of the
election in that state:
The election was held on Tuesday, the
Sd of November, and he returns, as far as
received, gives assurance Of the success OF
the Democratic State ticket, by majority
of 10000.
The NtW York Times computes the
Black Republican loss since the Presiden-
tial campaign at 1862. In New York
city the Democrats have plurality on the
State ticket Of ten to fifteen thousand over
the Blacks. Tho new glass baloi-boxes
were used for the first time.
OFFICIAL Returns OF PENNsYLyANIA.-
The Philadelphia Press (Forney's) publish
es the official returns of Pennsylvania, from
which, we compile the following totals: d,
Packer, Democratic candidate for Govern
or, received l8S,s63 votes to l46,l4 for
Wilmot Black, and %, 100 for A. Halle
hurst, American. The votes for Canal
Commissioner and Judges of tho Supreme
Court, vary but little from the vote for
Governor.
MINNESOTA Complete returns from Min
nesota give Sibley Democrat, for Govern
or, l23 majority A large number Of In-
dians voted in the Pembna District.
MASSACHUSETTS ELEcTioN-0f the 326
towns in Massachusetts, returns from 3l3
have been received, as follows: Whole num-
Der Of votes, l27, ,7G6; n. F. Banks { Black }
had GO,2O6; H. J. Gardner American, }
36,916; e. d. Beach (Democrat,) 30,4ll.
MARYLAND Maryland has
gone Know Nothing. There was a great
deal of rioting and boodshed at Baltimore.
MISUNDERSTANDING decisive is known
Of the election in Wisconsin, and both par.
ties are quite sanguine OF victory. The
Democratic gain over the Presidential elec-
tion will be quite large.
INDIANA-The election in this State was
for member to fill the vacancy in the Tenth
Congressional District Case, Republican,
has been elected by 72O majority. The
struggle was severe.
OHIo.-Chasc, the Black Republican
candidate for Governor has been elected
by the Insignificant majority of 1917. The
Legislature is, however two-thirds Demo
cratic.
Hon. o. p. Nicholson has been elected
to the U. S. Senate from Tennessee.
The states of Tennessee, Mississippi,
Georgia, Louisiana, &C., have all gone
largely Democratic, as heretofore reported.
GEN. Scorr.-The latest missive from
General Gideon J. Pillow has called out
Card No. 2 from Lieut. General Scott in
rejoinder General Scott again denies, and
this time in the most pointed manner, that
bribe Of ten thousand dollars was paid
to Santa Aua, and takes occasion to review
certain passages in the history Of the war,
in which General Pillow bears no very en-
viable part.
CAMELs.-The Washington Star thinks
that in FIVE years, camel trains will be well
nigh as common in the far West Of the
United States as on the most travelled
routes of the East. By this time nrxi
year they will doubtless be imported on
private account, and be in actual use by
citizens crossing the great North American