The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-11-06
TIL e N z w S .
THE ELECTION To-MoRRow.

The election throughout this State will be held to.
State Judicial and local officers and members of both
houses Of the Legislature The officers to be voted for
the state ticket Secretary Of State Comptroller
Attorney General CaLa Commissioner, State Treasurer
State Engineer Inspector of State Prisons two Judges
of the Court of Appeals and Clerk Of the court
Besides all the officers to be chosen the electors to
decide by their ballots whether the State loan of thirty
millions of dollars contracted to pay bountesto volunteer
soldiers shall be made debt payable in twelve years.
with interest, whether by the levyng of special
tax the whole Of 1t shall be discharged next year.
Every man entitled to vote, and who wishes to
ercise his right tomorrow at the polls should not fail
to-day to visit the place In his district where the board Of
registry meets II he has not done already, to DO
that his 10 on the poll list The various registry
places throughout the Metropolitan Police District will
b. open again to-day and this Is the last chance for all
koters by tho law Of the last Legislature the old
Dem OF swearing in votes election day is abolished
t the closing Of the registry places Saturday eighty
Dour thousand nine hundred and names had
Den put the lists in the entire city during the four
days that they had been open, and no doubt this will
be very busy day with hem the number still lacks
over twenty-five thousand Of reaching the vote poed by
this city tho Presidential election In 1864 which
one hundred and ten thousand three hundred and
nnstyAvc On the second, third and eighth pages Of
to-day HERALD viii be found complete LIST OF the regis
try and polling places besides large collection Of other
information of importance voters In both the forms
Of news and advertisements.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Tho steamships City OF Cork, Captain Bridgeman,
from Queenstown on the 2lst and the Germana, Cap
tain Ehiers, from Hamburg the ed Of October ar
rived this port yesterday Their news has been anti
cpated by that Of the steamship Java from
on the 22d published in Saturdays HERALD. The Ger
mania brought newspaper files, as she came as an
extra vcssel. direct from Hamburg.
The steamship Marathon, Captain Ingis from Liver
pool wa Boston; tho Columbia Captain Barton, from
Havana on the s1 ult the Evening Star, Captain VIM
pcnny, from New Orleans on the 2sth; tho Key West
Captain Hawthorn, from Key West on the 10th; the
Idaho Captain Crowel, and the weybpssett Captain
para nom Savannah on the 3st ult and LIST inst re
secsively and the Emily souder, Captain Lockwood
from Charleston the I'd inst, also arrived here yes
terday % ~ ata t1esW
rouiz,ana elects State officers and members OF Con
srea to-day.
Alabama elects Governor, members Of the Leg sla
sure aud other State officers to-day
Both tho Mississippi legislature and the Georgia Con
venton have memoriazed President johnson for tn
uardou Of JEFF Davis Tho petition OF the Mississippi
somewhat eloquent terms greeted during It's read
Ing with enthusiastic demonstrations Of approval
and was adopted unanimously In both houses
Il says that though tho civil war no
terminated though the state has resumes
her allegiance and though many OF those engaged in tn
srfc have returned 70 their homes the people sill mis-
IN their midst and long for tho presence Of Davis with
on, whom they are inconsoabe. as he has cndearc
himself 70 them by his purty and integrity OF cha
actor devotion 10 principle, fortitudc when sufcrp
and generosity when successful tina, his has b
come with thsm "a household word They maintoi
abs, Il W. no Iswless spirit that plunged them
xo,, that he was merely their representative in the
ee,ou and that ~ they have been forgiven he shou
Ia .lso and BE- allowed to return them the
.prc,en toll and labor rcorganzing tho social sr
,urer IN conclusion they that the gulf betwe
the North and the South has not yet boon bridged
tla Il cannot be until Jcr IL Internationally pardon'
The oeorssns include with Jen in their petition Al'
ander n stephens and number Of other rebel ieade
named and all other rebels now imprisoned.
Tho political issues Mississippi arc described by
Jackson correspondence ~ rapidly becoming more d
t,nc,iy defined One party favors granting to the FREE
men certain civil rights including that OF tessifyng
the courts whilo the other wishes TO allow them
greater privileges excepting their freedom than tn
they had while In state Of slavery. The Torn
marty, a. IL well known, ranks as one OF its en-
ieadsrs Provisional Governor Sbarkey, snd has
majority In both houses Of the Legislature
among the people Of the State at large the other pa
n said 70 DO numerically the stronger Mr. Alec
vho hes been elected az Governor sharkcys colleague
mo Uutcd States Senate, recently made an address
aha members Of the Legislature In which he took grou
An favor Of admitting negro testimony the courts,
maintained that the action Of the late State conven.
no. only swept away slavery, but all the old laws mi
for tho roycrnweus and restriction q the soloed pee
under i. Tho rebel ex-Govsrncf Clark lately relea
from confinement by President johnson, also mad
speech 70 the Legislature on The 9Th ult The mont
passed bill allowing him SALARY a. Governor for The