Smyrna times., 1859-11-24
Political On Dts.

MOST OF the Reform candidates in Baltimore
intend to contest the election of their opponents
upon the ground of fraud and violence.
In the Sixth Congressional district of Illinois,
at the recent election to supply the vacancy
caused by the death of Hon. Thos. l.. Harris
McClernand, Democrat, received 4,670 maj iori-
w. the eleven counties of the district having all
cast majorities in his favor.
The Richmond Enquirer calls negrophilsm
a Northern endemic. That's well put, for it is
worse form in the South. There it seems to be
almost epidemic.
| IT is said that owing to probable absences at
the coming together of the next House, III,
instead of ll9, votes will be likely to constitute
majority. Two members did not attend for
several weeks in the protracted struggle of the
thirty fourth Congress.
THE States and Union, at Washington, clas.
SITES the Opposition members of Congress from
Pennsylvania and New Jersey as Peoples
Party" and says it has been assured that none
of these gentlemen will participate in a Repub.
lican caucus. Messrs. Grow, Hickman and
Moorhead are classified as Republicans The
same paper says Messrs. Bocock and Grow will
almost certainly be the opposing candidates for
Cne OpeaKershlp.
The Opposition press are widely copying
Mr.. Bates views, of st. Louis, on the slavery
question. The Baltimore Patriot is entirely
willing to submit to the decision of the Nation
al Convention upon Mr.. Bates claims The
New York Times says Mr.. B. proves to be
:" more nearly a representative of the conserva.
tive Northern sentiment on this subject than he
has hitherto been regarded" The Tribune is
in ecstasies over the document. and says it EN-.
bodies "the soundest, the clearest, the most
torcbe expressions yet put forth of the genuine
conservative sentiment of our country"
The st. Nicholas Hotel, New York, lust
now, is an ante-chamber TO the capitol at
Washington, and metropolitan correspondent
has heard fully canvassed the claims of two
score or more candidates for the places in the
gift of the next House. The Speaker, it is
generally conceded, will be either Mr.. Corwin
or Mr.. Sherman, of Ohio. For Clerk, there are
over dozen of ex-M.C.'s in the feld-Under-
wood of Kentucky and Hoffman of Maryland
rather ahead.
KENTUCKY PoLITICs.-Democrati meetings
have been held in twenty six counties. Four
teen have instructed for Mr.. Guthrie, and II
have left the delegates uninstructed
He IlOH' JOnI L. OalneS, hentucRy State
Senator, stated from the stump that when a
Southern man made an apology for Slavery he
could bear with him, but when he heard
Northern man apologize for Slavery, he locked
his smoke house
THE Texas Legislature organized on the 7th
inst. The officers supported by the Houston
party were elected.
PARRoTT's majority for delegate to Congress
from Kansas, will probably reach 1000 votes.
The Republicans have majority in both
branches OF the Legislature.
| Ir is now coming to be pretty we'll settled,
says the Penlnsuar NeWS, that the next Re-
publican national convention will take the po-
sition of colonization. If so it will be wise and
the people ofthe whole country, South as we'll
as North, will sustain them in it. America
for t0hite men and Africa for negroes g" is
likely to be the rallying cry of the Republican
Party in the next campaign.
THE New YoRK ELEcTIoN.-It now appears
that several, and perhaps all, of the candidates
for State officers, at the recent election in New
York, who were supported by the Democratic
and American parties, were elected. This re-
suit indicates that the Americans of New York
hold the balance of power between the Demo-
Gratis and Republicans.