The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-08-03


States they represent. Their return to it,
will ensure Democratic triumph, in each
of these States, in November.
JUDGE DOUGLAS PROGRESS.
Mr.. Douglas left Boston on Friday morn
ing, the 10th, and his journey to Albany, was
aperfect triumphal progress. AT every station
he was greeted by crowds of people, who
were clamorous to see and hear the distin-
guished statesman. Mr.. Douglas yielded
gracefully to their demands and appeared
and made brief addresses. At Springfield
an immense concourse of people were as
sembled and the greatest enthusiasm pre-
vailed. At Pitts6eld, also, there was
large gathering. The popular curiosity and
feeling along the whole line was intense. At
Albany, Judge Douglas was received by
the military, and thousands of his political
friends. Among those who participated in
the reception was John II. Reynolds, M.
c., from the Albany district, who has acted
with the opposition in the present Congress.
One of the taking features of the occasion,
was the parade of the Little Giants" uni
formed in drab and blue.
Mr.. Douglas left Albany, at noon, on
Saturday, for Saratoga Springs. His speech
at Albany, was remarkably fine effort.
We will publish it tomorrow.
STATE ELECTIONS TO COME OFF.
In the next two or three months various
State elections come off, whose results will
be significant, as indicating the strength of
parties, fragments of parties, or combina~
tions of parties, and their bearing on the
Presidential election in November. On the
I'd of August, in North Carolina, an cleo.
ton for State officers will take place; and
in Arkansas, Texas, and Missouri, elections
will be held on the 9th Of the same month,
for State officers and members of Congress.
In Vermont and Maine, similar elections
will be held in September; and in Florida
Mississippi, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio, and Penn.
sylvania, these contests will take place in
October. AS premonitory signs of the re>
suit of the Presidential struggle, these pre-
liminary battles are highly important, and
will be looked forward to with deep interest.
In Kentucky, Clerk of the Supreme Court
is to be elected in August. There are three
candidates-Douglas, Seceders and Ameri-
can. The latter will probably succeed.
GEORGIA POLITICS.
The Augusta Constituencies, the leading
Democratic paper in Georgia, in its issue Of
the 18th inst, publishes, with an editorial
assent, a communication signed Conserva-
tive" which urges the union of the two ma
tional parties in that State-the Douglas
and johnson and Bell and Everett men
upon a single electoral ticket. The arrange.
ment is that Douglas shall have five electo-
raj votes in Georgia and Bell FIVE. Under
the law of Georgia it requires majority Of
all the votes polled in the State to choose
the electors, otherwise the present Legisla-
ture chooses them. There is danger that
the Breckenridge men, although greatly in
the minority in the State, might carry it
unless the national men combine in the man.
ner urged by "Conservative." We have no
doubt the alliance will be formed in Georgia
and in other Southern States. The Consti.
tutlonaist says:
The plan suggested by "Conservative is
directly in that line. 1t will if carried out, re-
suit in depriving the Breckenridge faction of
the power of using the vote of Georgia for the
benefit of Lincoln for it is evident that every
vote taken from Bell and Douglas inures, not
to the elevation of Breckenridge, but to the
strengthening of Lincoln's chances.
We believe the supporters of Mr.. Douglas
and those of Mr.. Bell can honorably come to-
gether on common ground, and if they can, it
is their duty so to do.
The Union men of Georgia carried the
State in 1850 by a similar alliance. Mr..
Cobb and portion of the Democrats united
with the Wings of the Toombs and Ste
phens school, and beat the disunionists by
$4,000 majority! Cobb, who is now with
the disunionists, can hardly complain if he
has to take his own medicine, which he then
administered to the dlsunionists.