The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1867-09-24
Ghf Wfstern Yemotrat.
THE STATE ELECTIONS.
CHARLOTTE, N. G.

THE STATE ELECTIONS.
The following arc the other State elections to
be held this year:
Ohio-October S-Governor, Lieutenant
Governor, Treasurer of State, Auditor, Comp
troller of the Treasury, Attorney General,
judges, Members of Board of Public Works,
Members ofLegislature, and suffrage amer dment
to the Constitution.
Pennsylvania October S-Judge of the Su-
oreme Court and Members of the Legislature.
Iowa-October S.-Governor, Lieutenant
Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor, Treas
urer. Superintendent of Public Institutions,
Judges, and Members of Legislature.
New York-Novenber 5.-Secretary OF State,
Comptroller, Treasurer, Attorney General, State
Engineer and Surveyor, Canal Commissioner,
Inspector of State Prisons, Judges and Members
OF Legislature.
Observation-Disclosures 5.-Governor, Lieu
tenant Governor, Secretary Of State, Treasurer,
Comptroller, Attorney General, Inspector OF
Prisons, Members of Legislature, end amend
ment to Constitution.
Observation-Disclosures 5.-Consttution.
Observation-Disclosures. 5-Governor, Lieuten-
ant Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer,
Attorney General, Councillors, and Members OF
General Court.
Observation-Disclosures Ex-Governor, Lieu
Treasurer, Attorney General, and Members Of
Legislature.
New Jersey-Nov 5-Members of Legis-
1ature.
Kansas-November Members of the Leg
.islature, and amendments to Constitution.
THE AMNESTY PROCLAMATION.
Number of Persons Excluded from the Bene-
fits Of the Proclamation.
The Northern papers specializing about
the number of persons excepted by the recent
amnesty proclamation of the President. Upon
inquiry we find that there is no satisfactory
data upon which to found definite calculation;
but reasonable conjecture may be ventured.
In the first place, the President and Vice Presl-
dent lMessrs. Davis and Stephens), and the
"Heads of Department." of the Confederate
Government, are uncquivocally excluded. Ot
the latter We learn that there were, from first to
last, thirteen in all, of whom FIVE have been
specially pardoned at the instance Of distin
,euished Radicals viz: Messrs. Reagan, Mem
minger, Mallory, Trenholm and Davis, the latter
appointed Attorney General near the close Of
the war. About twenty Governors of States,
also expressly excluded, remain unpardoned.-
Five overwhelmingly, Lee, Cooper, johnson,
Beauregard aud Bragg-ten lieutenant generals
and about thirty major generals, are excluded
from amnesty by the express terms OF the pro-
.clamation, and remain unparponed individually
If the language employed in the proclamation,
however, shall be held to include brigadiers
with the brevet rank of MAJ or general, the num-
Der of the military exclusions will be largely In
.creased-probably to the extent of several hun
.dred. There were but three admirals in the
Confederate navy-one of whom (Forrest) Is
now dead-and DO rank between that of admiral
and captain existed. The persons esigrated as
tagents" of the Confederate Government Gin
foreign States and countries" will reach, per-
haps, two hundred, if it shall be held to en-
brace other than those accredited to the Govern
,ment abroad, as it doubtless WILL there being no
other construction which would admit of ex-
GLIDING particularly obnoxious persons without
specially naming them. We take it for granted,
however, that in the mass Of these cases special
pardons will now be granted upon application,
as matter of course. The above comprehend
all those excluded of the first class, and they
will not probably number practically over one
hundred, if SO many
Of the number of those excluded as belong
ing to the second and third classes, nothing like
An accurate estimate can, of course, be made.
1T is presumable, however, that nearly all who
are embraced in the second that is, those who
are chargeable with treating prisoners impro
,perly, have been either tried and convicted OF
acquitted or held to bail, and are, conse
,quently, included in the third 1t is safe, there
,fure, if this superstition be correct to infer thai
but few will be excluded under the second and
third classes.
Upon the whole, after the disposition of the
applications for pardon now on file, which we
hope will be done in the spirit which dictate
the proclamation, it is not believed that the
entire number of the excluded will finally reach
beyond few hundred.-National MtelGigencer
JOHN WILKES BOOTHS EFFECTS