Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-10-17
THE NEWS.

The following is in answer to dispatch from
Washington. asking whether proposition Tor
q change in the Democratic Presidential can
didates was prompted By the Democracy in
New York: ,oeo
To Jonah d. Hoover, Washington:
No authority or possibility TO change mont.
All friends consider it totally impracticable,
and equivalent. to disbandine Of our iorces'
We in New York are not panic stricken.
AUG. BELMONT,
AUG. ScHELL.
Mr.. Voehees has telegraphed that he Is elee-
ted for Congress by 100 majority. and that Mr..
hendricks has been defeated for Governor Of
Indiana by probably 100 votes.
Only four Senators and eleven Representa-
,iyes were present yesterday. Officers Of each
branch of Congress have announced an ad-
journment until November lo.h.
Official returns for Congress in Pennsylvania
give the following majority: First District
Randall tDemocrat. 1887; Second District.
Levi tRepublican). 1s55; Third District, Mof-
fat Democrat), III; Fourth District, Kelly
(Republican), 1859; Fifth District, Taylor
fDemocrat). Al. Coke Republican,, is elected
TO Congress in the Tenth District BY IA major
ity. FIN. Kennel Democrat, for Congress,
has 326 majority.
For's majority for Mayor of Philadelphia Is
1870 emitting the Nineteenth Ward and three
precincts of the First Ward.
Further official returns confirm the success OF
the Republican State ticket in Indiana by 100
according to the telegraph accounts.
The Democratic Executive Committee OF
Georgia published preamble and resolution
declaring unoquivocally false the representa-
tons made by the Republican speakers In the
present canvass. that the Southern people are
in favor of the re. establishment of slavery ;
referring to the ratification of the amendment
of the Constitution forever abolishing slavery
and involuntary servitude except for crime
fudorsing the address Of Robert e. Lee and
Others in response to the letters from General
Roseerans, and that they acquiesce in the
present status Of the colored race among them,
and will protect them to the full extent Of their
power in the right of suffrage, secured to them
by the Constitution Of the United States and
the Constitution and laws Of the State.
The South Carolina State Central Executive
Club unanimously adopted resolution. pre-
scented by Wade Hampton. indorsing letter to
Rosecrans that the sense Of the Club is de-
sadedly in favor of qualified negro suffrage. An
address TO the people will. doubtless. be issued
in few days.
The New York Commercial reported yester-
day that Seymour had sent a letter of declina-
ton to Belmont. The Democrat says Governor
Seymour has written letter placing himself
In the hands Of the National COMMITTEES.
The Congressional COMMITTEES continued
their Investigation into the whisky frauds yes
terday. Several witnesses were examined.
Three hundred thousand dollars in gold wa
awarded yesterday by the Assistant Treasure
at 1877 5s-lO0@lS7 57-lOO. Government stock
active and buoyant, with an advance Of on
per cent. throughout the entire list.
Both wormald and 0'Baldwin were arreste'
early yesterday morning as they were abeu
leaving for Wrecker's Island, to engage in thei
contemplated prize fight.