Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-11-25
THE ELECTION IN MEMPHIS
Fuu Returns.
HEAVY VOTE FOR LINCOLN AND
JOHNSON.
Mcclellan Receives Three Formal
Votes. '..-. ....
HOW THE SOLDIERS VOTED.
From Memphis paper of the eth.l

| FROM u MSiitpniS paper ol Tue VtH
The election in this city for President
and Vice President of the United States
passed off quietly yesterday. We did
mot learn of single incident calculated
to breed disturbance. 1t was an earnest
election; every man seemed to feel that
il great responsibility rested upon him,
and acted accordingly. There was no
handying of words or drunken quarrels;
each voter walked directly to the ballot
| box. deposited his vote, and then retired
to make room for the next. 70 those
who Witnessed the Presidential election
of four Years ago. there must have been
q great contrast between it and the elec-
tion Of yesterday.
BY order OF the military and civil au-
thorities, business was suspended, that
all might have an opportunity to vote,
and the city was almost as quiet as on
1.-THE sabbath. Al each polling place,
groups OF citizens congregated and qui-
etly discussed general topics, as they
watched the progress OF the polling
There were some who came with no in
tention of taking any paN in the elec-
ton but on seeing the interest mani
tested by their friends and neighbors,
lthey, too, became interested, and, hav
ing registered their names voted for the
maintenance Of the Government, the
Suppression of the rebellion and the
restoration OF the Union.
| Before noon, the heaviest part of the
election was done, but from that hour
until the closing of the polls, the officers
in attendance had as much as they could
| attend TO, and even at the last minute
voting was brisk. il 49,.
Early in the day it was evident that
the vote would he almost unanimous for
Lincoln and Johnson; seeing which,
many who were disposed to the contrary
, turned and voted with the great major
! ity rather than to vote uselessly.
The heaviest polling seemed to be at
the house of Engine No. 3, corner of
Adams and Second streets, where
large crowd was all day congregated.
The following are the correct returns
of the election:
Fifth Civil District--Engine House
! No. 3, corner of Adams and Second
streets:
Mhols ;ho,, number 81 votes cast e!
Fourteenth Civil District - Engine
House No. :. DeSoto street, between
l'eal and Linden:
Whole number OF votes c;,st................ .as
Llncnili 2H
Mcclellan (form:t
Fifteenth Civil Observation-Disclosures House
in Chelsea
Whole number of votes NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 81
George B. Mcclellan GnforinaD ....... .... /
Thirteenth Civil District, at Jacobus,
on Horn Lake road. No returns re-
ceived.
Fifth Civil District-First Poll, May
0r's Office:
Whole number OF votes csst....~..... -
Abraham ;jji
George 3. Mcclellan, (infornaD .....~....~....,
The voters of the Thirteenth Civil
District live mostly beyond the lines,
and it is presumed that, if any election
was held, very few votes were cast.
Total vote of Memphis:
For Abraham Lincoln ..... - 1904
For George b. Mcclellan u
All but three of the Mcclellan ballots
were rejected. Twenty-three of the
number he received were without the
names of electors, and were consequent
ly informal.
VOTE OF MISSOURI SOLDIERS.
y poll was opened by Capt. Russell, of
tn Tth Missouri infantry, commanding
Irving block, at the barracks, on Sec
ond street, between Jefferson and
Court, at which the 7th Missouri and
ments on detached duty voted. Ther re-
suit was as follows:
Iincoln
3tct E,ii Al
Only ten men of the 7th voted for Nc
Clellan.
The official vote of the "destroying
angels" detachment 10th Missouri cav
airy was thus:
iincoln |,
Hctjietstii IL
The vote for Governor Of Missouri in
this regiment was 305 for Fletcher, and
1 for Price.
VOTE OF OHIO SOLDIERS.
A poll was opened in Ayres Block, at
which the Ohio soldiers in this city vo-
ted Us follows:
Mcclellan ....... 81
Ditiih
VOTE OF ILLINOIS SOLDIERS.
Illinois soldiers are entitled to the
banner. The following is the full vote
of the 9Th Illinois cavalry:
aiIlciiti.. none
v0rE OF PENNSYLVANIA SOLDIERS.
The following Was the result of ote
held at the camp of the 10Th Pennsylva-
Mia cavalry:
Hctieliah...... 81
Considering the fact that copperhead
agents, with bushels of ballots and piles
of green backs, have been at work in
their camp for some time, the Pennsyl-
vania boys have done n0bly.
VOTE OF IOWA SOLDIERS.
A combined vote of detatchments of
the 18th and 35th Iowa infantry, and
"a Iowa battery, was thus:
.inco!1 y LIT
AcIielIfi ...... N
The vote Of the Sth Iowa infantry, as
near as could be ascertained at the hour
OF writing, was as follows:
Lincoln 4N
Mctieiiah. %
VOTE OF WISCONSIN SOLDIERS.
A detachment of The sSth Wisconsin
infantry voted:
Lincoln n................. 6s
A detachment OF the 14th Wisconsin
infantry voted:
McCieiiah
A detachment of the 33d Wisconsin
infantry voted:
McHIeIan ~
Soldiers Vote.
The following votes of Iowaregiments
in Sherman's army will give the reader
an idea how far Mcclellan worship ex-
tends among our Western soldiers:
Lincoln. Mcclellan.
9Th sth Iowa Y Inf 'sas 81 3 8
18Th 3as 3
zotn . 10y 70
jlst " 2}9 - RS
9otn " 229 81