The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-16
GENERAL NEWS.
United States.


of the attention of the public On the WHOLE appears
be something very like drawn battle between the Republ-
and Democrats We unable to that either party
very much better very much worse in point of position
and power than it was before.
From Massachusetts have returns which indicate the
reelection of Governor Bullock and the Republican State
ticket by $4,000 to 10000 majority The Legislature is
largely Republican in both branches while the license and
antprohbition have secured twohird majority in
the same body.
In New York city, the Democracy have voted ad
hbtun carrying the city by than 900 maorty-an
increase upon the vote of last year The aggregate
vote is nearly large last year. when it the largest
ever polled Brooklyn gives democratic majority of 10000
The Tammany faction of the Democratic party in New York
have elected their candidates for county offices both the
Mozart wing and the Republican candidates The Legisa
ture remains Republican by small majority.
Wisconsin does better reeectng Governor Farchd and
the Republican State ticket by majority somewhat dmin
lshed compared with the of 1865 The Legislature
will no doubt be Republican Also
Minnesota probably ranges itself beside Wisconsin,
eecting Governor Marshall by diminished majority and
sustaining the Standard of Repubcansm in the Northwest
Enough has been received from Kansas to indicate the
defeat of the female and coored suffrage amendments to the
Constitution by eight to ten thousand majority The Legs
lature, however, is largely Republican.
The Democracy gain largely in New jersey but the Legs
lature remains Republican on joint ballot
In the State of Illinois, the election has excited but little
interest and the vote has generally been light In the
city of Chicago and county of Cook the election turned out
expected, square, oldashoned Republican victory
at the polls and such to be accredited handsomely
Republicans who have stood by their ticket and carried
the city with about thousand and the remainder
of the ticket with thrysx hundred 1t is late waste
regrets any who mistakenly threw themselves in the path
of this movement 1twas felt to be time to sacrifice great
and general interests to personal preferences Whatever
meaning, therefore, attaches to Repubicanm is reafrmed
the sentiment of Chicago in the election of the 9Th instant
with better and striking result reserved for any
future OCCASION stirring in its appeals and less comp
Gated by local and personal questions.
President Johnson who has never yet been disturbed by
the organization of Governor Swanns rebel militia in Mary
land is in CONSERVATION account of the ceored volunteer
companies in the District of Columbia and has ordered that
they should be disarmed and disbanded The wicked it
is said, flee when no man pursueh."
1t is promised that both the majority and minority reports
of the Judiciary Committee the Impeachment Invesga
ton will be ready be submitted Congress the opening
of the adjourned session. the 21t instant and will prob
ably occupy the attention of Congress to the beginning Of
the regular session.
General Schofeld has instructed Governor Perpont
to members of the Virginia Legislature that the
session of that body during the coming winter will be dis
pensed with.
The majority for sharswood Democrat for Judge of the
Supreme Court in Pennsylvania is officially announced at
937 votes.
General Sherman has issued order officially announcing
the conclusion of treaties of peace with the Kowa Comanche
Apache, Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribes of Indians He
instructs the military forces to hostes and directs
commanding officers to restrain of violence towards the
Indians and to their safety long they peace
full The right guaranteed to the Indians to hunt in the
unsettled portions of Kansas Nebraska and Colorado 1t will
be of rejoicing if shall be made permanent
Among the many enterprises which have distinguished
our age ana country here is none Whlch has Deen more
remarkable for its Vasess of plan and rapid progress than
the Union Pacific railroad Commenced less than years
ago. it has already advanced five hundred mes-one-thrd
of its entire lenghfrom its initial point the west bank
of the Missouri towards the Pacific The remarkable valley
of the Platte river and its tributaries presented natural and
easy grade to the mountains which have almost been
reached Its further progress through the mountains will
require vast expenditures of money and labor but the work
will advance during the year, with the increased acili
ties in the hands of the company with scarcely less rapy
nan during the last Deposits of coal and iron have already
peen found along the eastern base of the Black Hills which
Will soon be brought into in the manufacture of rails and
ohe materials for the construction of the road in the heart
OF region which few years ago almost inaccessible.
Inc report that the Government of the United States has
effected purchase of the Danish West India islands is con-
radcted IRON the State Department Washington but in
terms wlcn IMPLY that negotiations the subject of
given to the report by dispatch from Copenhagen stating
that the island OF Santa Cruz not included in the renored