Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-10-19
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP,
THE sourH.-The developments of the strength
OF the parties now contestng in the South have ct
length been such az to enable the calm and well
informed observer to draw something like def.
mite conclusions as to what 10 to be result IN that
section Of the Confedefacy, Of the approaching
Presidential election. Not long since we be-
leved It probable that Bell mi ght carry two or
three slaveholdng States; but that prospect has
entirely faded away, It seems TO us Thanks to
an efficient police force, Sieidly abstainipg from
partisan Interference In politics. the absolute free
dom Of the citizens Of Baltimore to vote an they
please, without let or bindrance, which they
joyed In their recent municipal election, has
demonstrated the fact that the city, instead Of
embracing q majority Of six thousand for the
American party, really contains a majority Of
eight thousand against IL; making difference
there, alone, Of fourteen thousand votes from the
calculation upon faith in which the State has
been set down as likely to vote for Bell and
Everett True, perhaps a thousand or two of
the anti-American party vote In that election will
be cast for the Douglas electors; but that deduc-
ton from the strength Of Breckenridge will be
more than compensated by the vote which the
Lincoln ticket will abstract from Bell Through
out the rural districts Of Maryland the strength of
the Breckenridge cause has been daily increasing
since the opening Of the canvass. Thus 1t has
achieved very heavy accession of strength from
the planting interest in the American party; un-
I'll, on the whole, we anticipate Breckinrdges
triumph in Maryland by at least ten thousand
majoiity.
In Louisiana Douglassm has no substantial
existence out Of New Orleans, where IT may pos
sibly poll coo votes though do not antici pate
that on election day II will be able to command
more than half that number there. The causes
that have operated to strengthen the Breckenridge
cause in the rural districts Of Maryland, have
operated In the same way througho Louisiana,
(and elsewhere Throughout the South,) out of
New Orleans, to an extent that will insure for the
Breckinridge electoral ticket gain from the reg
ular opposition ranks as large its loss can pos
si5ly be from the abstraction Of the Douglas vote
So we anticipate that Breckenridge will carry
Louisiana by as large majority as though there
were not two nominal Democratic tickets in the
field there. As for Georgia and North Carolina
all pretense Of a serious contest Is over In these
States; Douglas being found to have no strength
sufficient to endanger the triumph Of their Breck-
inridge tickets over Bell. We may say as much
also of the state Of affairs in Tennessee where out
of the Memphis district, there literally exists no
Douglas party whatever. We question whether
the Douglas vote out of that district can possibly
average more than fifty, per county. In square
contest between the Democratic and American
parties In Tennessee, at this time, the former
would carry the State by nine or ten thousand
majority; and 1t is utterly impossible that the
Douglas detection can lessen that majority more
than i've thousand, If as much.
The managing men Of the Democratic party In
Kentucky, upon whose representations we know
confidence may be placed, write with perfect GER
tainty concerning the prospect in their State
They explain the recent triumph OF Leslie Coombs
there upon grounds having no connection what
ever with the triumph Of Breckenridge In Ken
lucky, next month. They are sanguine that he
will receive the vote of Kentucky by handsome
majority; and we are very sure that no others are
more competent to judge in the premises than
those gentlemen.
In Virginia, the Douglas faction is more active
and better organized than In any other lavehold
ing State. In single district only, however,
does 1t make pretensions to respectable strength
and in but one county-Rockingham-is 1t DOS.
sble that II can fairly divide the Democratic vote
with Breckenridge. Our own belief is that by
the first Monday Of next month, the Douglas vote
in that county will not be more than third of
Brscknridge's vote there; and that his vote IN
the whole district will not reach 1850 His
ticket must poll 800 votes out Of that district TO
endanger the success Of the Breckinridge cause In
Virginia II 10 utterly impossible that he can poll
the required SEQ votes .lsewhere-utterly impos
sible. In halt the counties he will not recei We an
average Of twenty votes, and In none out of the
Rockingham district will he receive more than
100 votes, even including the neig hborng county
Of Alexandria, where he yet has some strength
among the foreign-born voters. Wise carried the
State by some ten thousand majority, with nine
tenths Of the natives Of the State who now support
Douglas, voting agains. him; for Douglass Ameri
can-born Virginia friends were, almost to a man,
members Of Know.Nothing lodges until Wise,s
election them that they must try some other
dodge to get on the winning side. In every county
Of Eastern Virginia Brectinridge will poll con-
siderable number Of Old-line WING votes that
were cast agains. Buchanan-an accession OF
strength resulting from the fact that his cause is
regarded as the SOuthern-righ.s cause In this
way his cause will be strengthened to the extent
Of perhaps five hundred votes-making differ
ence Of at least thousand against the prospects of
Bell In Virginia. Under these circumstances. we
cannot at present perceive that Bell has the least
chance Of carrying Virginia.
In Delaware, Lincoln Will certainly abstract az
many votes from Bell as Douglas will abstract |
from Breckinr!dge thus assuring the states vote
to the latter, beyond peradventure.
On the whole, therefore, we now believe that
every slaveholding State electoral vote will be
cast next month for Breckinridge and Lane
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