Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-11-12
Political and WA News
mud RumorN. etc,

Political and w News
and Runners, etc.
Congressman are already beginning to
arrive in Washington for tho winter
session, though it does not begin till
November 81, and nothing will be done,
probably, till after Thanksgiving which
occurs in most of the States the week
after. Some committees are already at
work, however, like the part of the
House Judiciary Committee that is in
vcstigating whether or not Maryland or
Delaware have Republican forms Of gov
eminent, the R~etrenchmont Committee,
which is looking into affairs at the
treasury department, and Gen. Buffers
special Committee to investigate the
completely of Mr.. johnson with the muir
der Of President Lincoln. But if any or
all Of these committees have discovered
anything valuable they keep 1t thorough
ly to themselves, and furnish the cor
respondents but scanty material from
which to make up their daily batch Of
rumors. Hence these gentlemen confinc
themselves mostly to guessing at the
opinions Of Gen. Grant, saying one day
that he has written u Radical letter, and
tho next that he has written no letter ut
all trying to keep up IN interest
in impeachment, which is very hard
work since the late elections settled that
question in the negative in the minds oil
all but q few impracticable Congress
men. The Impeachment Committee
meets, November l3, and there is strong
evidence that the majority Of it is against
carrying tho matter any further will DC
| stronger than ever. There are no more
| changes in the Cabinet, and none will
be made before the November elections,
Mt least. Secretary McCulloch has taken
the pains to deny, however, that he in
tends to hold on to his Office by the help
| Of the tenure of Office bill, and says his
| resignation is at the disposal of the
| President at any time. Postmaster Gen.
| eral Randall, who has been hesitating
| between the President and Congress,
| thinks he has discovered that the wind
blows towards the former, and has writ
ten II letter to his old constituents in
Wisconsin, expressing the hope that that
| State, us well rs New York, will follow
the lead Of Ohio and Pennsylvania. The
| indications are that the trial Of jeff.
Davis at Richmond next month, is really
to come off. Both the government and
the defendant profess to be ready for it.,
and William NJ. Evarts Of New York,
associate counsel for the government,
has been at Washington, this week, to
assist in arranging the preliminaries.
There were some limitations that Chief
Justice Chase meant to shirk his duty
of presiding at the trial, but he announ-
ces now that he shall be present.
The following are the latest returns
from the October elections: in Ohio the
official votes from all but ten counties
give General Hayes, the Republican
candidate for Governor, 2,s52 majority,
and indicate Il majority of about 5o,o Oo
against the suffrage amendment to the
Constitution, MS before understood; in
Iowa, Colonel Merrill, the Republican
candidate for Governor, has q majority
of 1924 in seycnty-two counties, or
10, 900 more than Governor Stone had
in 1865; in Indiana the Republican ma
jority is about %, 900, or 10, 200 greater
than last year; and in Pennsylvania the
Democratic majority for Judge Of the
Supreme Court is only 922. Complete
returns from the late election in Mon
tana give Cavauaugh, Democrat, LAO
majority over Saunders, Republican, for
Delegate to Congress. Political inter-
est is now conferred in the State elections
that occur November 9th, in Massnchu-
setts, New York, New Jersey, Delaware,
Maryland, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan,
Minnesota, Missouri and Wisconsin.
Only three or four of these States elect
Governors at that time, and in most the
result is not doubtful. But in all there
is active campaigning and vigorous pre-
parntion going on, and in New YORK,
where the chief interest centers, and
where the contest will be closest, there
will be very lively work in the little
more than q week now preceding the
election. The Democrats want the State
to follow the lead of Pennsylvania and
Ohio, and claim that it will; but the
Republicans are determined that it shall
not. Some of the best orators in the
party arc engaged in the State, includ-
ing Speaker Colfax, who addressed an
immense meeting at Cooper Institute,
Wednesday evening. Calvin 7. Hull
burd, the Republican candidate for
Comptroller, having declined to run,
the State Committee has re-nominated
Thomas Hillhouse, the present iucum-
bent of the office. Declarations for
General Grant as tho Republican candi-
date for President continue to be the
order of the day in oil parts Of the coun.
try, Radicals and conservatives"
vieing with each other in expressions
of confidence. Philadelphia has the
credit of taking the lead in the Grant
movement; the Union Club Of that city
having declared for him, all the Repub-
lican organizations have followed suit,
and meetings in his favor have been
held in nearly every Ward in the city.
The Executive Committee OF the Ma
tional Republican Committee met at
New York on Wednesday and called a
full meeting Of the Committee at Wash.
ington, December llth, to decide on the
time and place for holding the Presiden.
tial Nominating Convention next year.
Springfield Mass Republican, Oct. &c.