The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1867-10-31
A. II. IRWIN, Sec'y.

lhOMAD IRWIN IrcS I.
a. II. IRWIN, Sec'y.
The Republican, newspaper to be pub
lished at Cory, will be printed from the
materials now used in the publication of the
Union Mills Star.
john Minor-Botts was defeated in
Culpepper county, Virginia, for dele
gate, by Many, Conservative.
in Henrico county Virginia, Swami,
Radical candidate, was elected, although
he received onl y four white votes.
AS usual large number of the ne
gro voters in Virginia forgot the names
by which they were registered, when
they came to vote.
The Asiatic cholera of a malignant
type have been prevailing for some days
on board ihe Potomac at the Philadel-
phia Navy Yard. Twenty deaths have
occurred.
nA- The Tenth Congressional District
in Ohio, now represented by that prince
of humbugs, Ashley, who has been ac-
tive in the impeachment OF the Presi.
dent, has been carried by the Democrats.
Will Ashley obey the voice Of his con-
stituents
r6- Ben Wade has been delivered of
an opinion respecting the Ohio election.
Saic the pious Senator "The id
nigger, and the Cd id bonds have
given the State to tie id Copper.
heads" This is trife on the profane
order for a God aud morality" leader.
n@. The Republican papers and
speakers are putting a good dea! of
stress on what they will do next year.
&" Wen show you !" say they. Our
victories are satisfactory at present.
Perhaps they may learn that revolutions
never go backwards.
n9~Returns from thirty.four coun-
ties in California render it certain that
both Sprague and Fitzgerald, the Dem
ocratic candidates for Judges, are chos-
en- by handsome majorities. The Radi-
calls have not redeemed the State, as
they said they would, after the contest
for Governor resulted in their defeat.
reA-The Ohio Democracy have car.
ried nine of the Congressional districts
represented by Radicals According to
this changed condition, that State
should now have IL Democrats to 7
Radicals, but, until next Congressional
election, the delegation must stand
Democrats, 8 ; RAIDS, II.
The Bangor Wig gives an account
OF man named Edward Page taking
fire from having benzine about his per-
son, and, though water was freely used,
the flames could not be extinguished
until the benzine was consumed, burn
ing one Of the mans legs quite severe
ly.
The Berlin correspondent Of the
London Times confirms the report that
an understanding had been come to
between Bismarck and Galibaldi. This
rapproachen,ent was the result of Ma
poleon's determination to protect the
Pope at all hazards, and will last until
the September Convention is revised.
Horace Grcely declares, through
the Tribune of the 18th, that " the
Republicans are bound to 90 under if
they don't enfranchise the blacks" aud
that " the Republican party ,cW en-
franchise the blacks or die in the eff,
fort" This " splitting against the wind "
of the popular voice is ludicrous. There
will be no tears or regrets, however,
when the Republicans come to " die in
the effort"
The Cincinnati Gazette, whose
chief editor is defeated Radical candi-
date for Congress, says I" No one need
deny that there is reaction against the
Radical policy of making black States
in the South" 1t is only in insulated
cases that this important truth has
dawned upon the Radical compIehen-
sion. We have yet to hear of single
instances Of the kind in this State. From
" Frank Jordan, Chairman" down to
the controllers of our local black and
tan, the narrow minded blockheads
insist that sundry little unmentionable
" side issues" with " general apathy "
as primary, were at the bottom of the
Radical defeat.