Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-10-17
The Autkrille Gnqnirer.
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JAS. z. WILSON. ...... ...-.JAS. F. HART.
YORKVILLE. s. c.:
THURSDAY MORNING, OCT. II, 1867.

. YORKvILLE. S. c.:
THURSDAY MORNING, OCT. II, 1867.
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THE LATE ELECTIONS.
The reports from the Northern elections forcibly
remind us of those dread days when the news OF
great battle was flashed over the wires to all parts
of the country. First comes the news Of the bat
tie; then the conflicting statements Of the conten
ding parties, both claiming the victory; and finally
the full details of the struggle, the list Of the losses
and the grand result In like manner, the dispatch.
es from the North told of Democratic gains and
triumphs, which were by turns contradicted and
affirmed, till the reader ceased in disgust But as
the smoke rises from the battlefield, the defeat OF
the Radicals is more and more clearly to be seen.
It is almost certain that the great States OF Penn
sylyania and Ohio are lost to the Radical party,
while in the States of Indiana and Iowa, which are
supposed still to belong to them, their majortles
have been greatly reduced. We give the gartlcu-
lars so far as we are now able to CLEAN them.
In Pennsylvania, the election was for Judge
of the Supreme Court, member Of Congress, one
third of the State Senate and the whole OF the
lower House of the Legislature. The Republican
party entered the canvass, backed by majority OF
27, ,l2S votes, poed at the election last year. at
the latest accounts, both parties claimed to have
carried the State by small majority /; but the
probability is that the Democrats have elected the
most of their candidates GEo. ", WOODWARD,
Democrat, is elected to Congress, and SHERsWooD,
Democrat, is probably elected Judge Of the Su-
preme Court. Philadelphia has gone Democratic,
and in Lancaster, the home of THAD STEVENS, the
Democratic gain is 200 votes.
In Ohio, the election was for Governor and
Legislature. Here the last Republican majority
was over 10000: yet THURMAN, Democrat is
elected Governor over HAYES, Republican, and
the Legislature elect is Democratic by small ma
iority, in both Houses This last result is partic-
ularly important, as it efectualy defeats the re-
election of BEN WADE to the United States Sen
ate. WADE, being the President Of the Senate, is
acting Vice President of the United States, and
the successor of Mr.. JOHNSON, in ease the latter
is removed by death or impeachment. His time
for stepping into this high position is now limited
to the end of his term of Office as Senator, at
which time there is good reason to hope that he
will retire to private life, to make way for VAL
LANDIGHAM or some other Conservative states
man. The negro suffrage amendment was defeat
ed in Ohio by $4,000 votes; result which shows
that many who still cling to'the Republican party,
voted against it. This class of voters thus ap-
prove of negro equality at the South, and, at the
same time, disapprove of it at home.
Tn Indiana and Iowa, the probabilities are in ia
vor of Republican victories; but the maorities OF
last year, respectively 2s,S33 and 35,4l2, are ma
terially reduced. The Indiana election was for
State Legislature and county officers; the Iowa
election was for the same offices, and also Gov
ernor.
Such are the results, as we get them from our
exchanges. We believe the Democratic victory is
much greater than it appears to be; but the pres
ent mail arrangements are such, that we will hard
y be able to present our readers with fuller details
in this issue The significance attached to these
elections atthe North, is best exhibited in the fol-
lowing brief remarks of ex-President Pierce, made
at Concord, N. H., to crowd who had serenaded
him, when the news from the elections had reach
ed that city,
II warn you, my friends to note the fact that
those triumphs whatever they may be, are no par
ty triumphs The people have risen in their maj
esty with consciousness of their power, and dis
carding party lines, and party aspirations, have
been silently considering what belongs to them,
battle has been fought and won. If the results are
significant in nothing else, they are in this, that
the white race, our race, the German, French, l.
Italian, Irish, Scotch, and Anglo Saxon people are
still to be the controlling power on this continent
Since the above was in type, the mails bring US
the news that dispatch from Columbus Ohio
of the l4th instant, says HAYES, Republican, is
elected governor by 5000 majority. AS the re-
suit of the gubernatorial election could not be
known there positively before the 18th, we doubt
the truth of this statement. The contest is very
close, and few votes from counties not yet heard
from may change the result as hitherto ascertain
ed. At all events, the Republican loss is heavy,
their majority, whatever it be, being cut down
from 100000 Nothing further from the other
States or the Ohio election for Legislature, &c.
POLITICAL NEWS.
The next National Republican Convention,
for the nomination of a President and Vice-Presi-
dent will be held at Chicago. The members Of the
National Executive Committee have been cores
ponding on the subject, and a majority have ex-
pressed themselves in favor of Chicago
The Raleigh Progress learns from an official
source that sixty-four counties have been heard
from, which shows the registration of 60,2S0
whites and 52,29s blacks-a majority of !, 1882 for
the former
Gen. Ord has called the election in Mississip-
pi under the Reconstruction act. Commencing on
the first Tuesday (5th) of November, the commits
soners of election are to travel their circuits open
ing q poll in each precinct at ten A. NJ. on con-
secutive days if possibe) until the circuit is COM
pleted Then the returns are to be duly certified
to headquarters. The number of delegates to a
Convention is fixed at 100.
The reported registration of Arkansas shows
a majority of more than Is, 900 white voters
The New Orleans Times gives the following
figures Of the Louisiana registry: 'There were in
all registered l27, ,5ss, Of which number 1928 or
nearly two-thirds, were colored. As all the ne