The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-09-16
NEW YORK.
What the Papers Say OF the Maine
ElectiOn-A Political Earthquake.

NEW YORK, September 15.-The
Herald says a political earthquake
swept over Maine yesterday.
The Times says the Maine election
shows that the people have made UP
their minds to elect Grant and Col
fax, and is important as indicating
the drift of the popular sentiment.
The Tribune considers the Maine
election as the commencement of a
tidal wave of honesty, which will
sweep over the country.
The World says the Republican
majority is a reduced one, and con-
graduates the Democrats of Maine
on the sturdy fight they made.
The San says the Democracy have
met a serious reverse in Maine, and
considers the influence on the coming
elections will be great.
The Erl1ress says nobody expected
Maine to 60 otherwise than it did, but
if the Democrats gain as heavily
otherwheres, several States may be
carried sure for the latter.
The Post considers the election as
complete a triumph of the Republi-
can party as ever before attained.
The Commercial says the thanks of
the nation are due to Maine for her
victory of yesterday
New York, Sept. ia Wash
ington special states that q reduc-
ton of the customs expenses will be
made on the whole Northern frontier,
the force at Dunkirk and Rochester,
being to-day reduced twenty to thirty
| per cent. %
HornaroI 4 n 4
| Washington. Senator Morgan awaits
his arrival. There is no more than a
half dozen Congressmen In Washing
ton. The result of the Maine election
strengthens the sentiment against a
September session. IS
The case Of the United States
against Revenue Commissioner Rol :
Inns was up to-day, and adjourned till
tomorrow.
The Broadway Theatre outrage
case commenced, to-day at the Essex
Market Court. Wilson, who was shot
in the head aud leg, was examined,
but no new fact were elected. The
case was adjourned till Saturday.
The suit of I'll. Dawson for $50, 900
damages for libelous article printed
in a newspaper by John JOY, was be-
fore the court to-day, on a motion to
compel the latter to produce certain
letters of the late Chief Justice Joy,
by which Dawson desires to prove
that the Chief Justice was never a
hearty supporter of the Constitution,
although he signed it. The decision
is reserved.
At the book trade sale to-day very
i1arge invoice from Philadelphia
brought good prices. ~
The three days festival of the New
York Schutzenfest Corps commenced
at Jones's Wood, to-day. Delegates
are present from various cities.
Nine hundred dollars worth oil
hardware and cutlery was burglarized
from Lineschloss's factory on Cham.
bers Street last night.
In the case of Beverly Clarke charged
with being engaged, with ten others
In a conspiracy to defraud the Gov
ernment, in the POstoffice Depart.
ment, Commissioner Osborne held to.
day, that the overt act, although com.
mitted by another one of the conspira.
tors, in Detroit, bound all of them in
the crime, making them liable tC
a trial; and he accordingly ordered
Clarke to be committed for trial in the
Eastern District of Michigan, in de
fault of So 600 bail,
NEW York, Sept. ia special
from Boston says Buffers nomination
for Congress was defeated.
The steamship Alemonia sailed fol
Hamburg to-day. 7.ge 4-
Dispatches from various cities il
1 New England and other States repor
salutes and other demonstrations owe
the Maine electiOn