The Portland daily press., 1868-11-10
The Next Congress.

Some Republican papers are conceding to
the Democrats a gain of "a members of the
lower House of Congress in the elections al
ready held, and thus acknowledging that the
Republicans have lost their two-thirds vote in
that House. The Republicans have gained but
two members, one in California and one in
New York, SO that allowing the Democrats
gain of q their net gain would be 25 But this
seems to be all wrong. After Connecticut,
New Hampshire and Florida have held their
Congressional elections, the full House will
embrace 226 members, Virginia, Mississippi
and Texas not being yet entitled to their II
Representatives. Two-thirds of that number
is 151. The present House stands 172 Repub-
licans and "a Democrats, so that in order to
reduce the Republican majority below two
thirds there must be net loss to that party of
% members. Now among their gains the
Democrats claim tDo in Georgia, where no
election has yet been held, tWo in Arkansas
and four in Louisiana, where the elections
were carried by the Democrats by the simple
method of keeping loyal voters from the polls
Besides, it is altogether probable that two
Democrats from New York and t,co from
Pennsylvania will be ousted on account of
frauds in their election. In all there are
claimed IL gains that are no gains at all, the
real Democratic gain being probably not more
than IL. The next House will contain 159 Re-
pubicans, or eight more than two-thirds.-
This, with the whole execu tive department
and nearly the whole Senate, will make a
pretty clean Republican administration. The
Democrats lose one Senator in each of the
States of Connecticut Pennsylvania, Indiana,
Wisconsin and Tennessee, and gain one in
New Jersey, one in California and one in Ohio,
so that the Senate will contain So Republicans
and only 10 Democrats.
THE TROUBLE IN FLoRIDA.-The ways of
Southern governments, some of them, are
mysterious and past finding out. All was
supposed TO be peace and quietness in the lit
tie State of Florida. But all in a moment we
hear of impeachments, proclamations, pronun-
ciamentoes and calls for troops. From the in
artificial way in which the articles against
Gov Reed are drawn, it is pretty evident that
there is state of Arcadian simplicity existing
in Florida with respect to legal technicalites.
The cause of the sudden disturbance is thus
described by the Washington correspondent
of the Boston Advertiser:
Gov Reed and Lieutenant G Governor Glea-
son were both from Wisconsin. The Govern
or is an old journalist, always Republican,
and is man of considerable culture; the
lieutenant-governor was a lumberman and a
Democratic politician at the breaking out OF
| the war. He is a man of some force, but en-
| tirely without culture. The Governor repre-
sents the moderate element and the views of
| the Republican party, while the lieutenant
governor is an extremist of the extremists.
The new constitution gives the Governor a
great deal of patronage, and the immediate
cause of the present quarrel is the fact that he
has not made appointments satisfactory to the
jenkins who bro--'' forward the articles of
impeachment is e Gleason faction
The legislature ca together last Tuesday for
the single purpose of casting the electoral vote
of the State, and whether the articles are or
are not we'll founded, it is clear that this was
not the proper time for preferring them.
THE OLD WING STATEs.-An exchange
calls attention to the curious fact that with the
exception of Vermont and Massachusetts,,
which have done nobly on the other side, most
of the old Wing States have gone for the Dem
ocrats. Maryland, which used to lead as an
anti-Democratic State,-voting against jack
son, lin part,) Van Buren,, Polk, Cass, and Blu
onsnah, -Ho" FoueS io' ooy hou ny No,ooV MA
jority, said majority being largely composed of
returned but unrepentant rebels. New Jer-
sey, whose Whigism always was of proof, sup
ports Seymour and gains Senator for the
Democrats. Delaware, another Wing State of
the stiffest sort, gives her vote for Seymour
So does Kentucky, and so do Georgia and Lou
isiana. On the other hand, the Democratic
States Of Maine, New Hampshire, Rennsylva-
MIA, Michigan, Wisconsin. Iowa, Missouri,
Minnesota, California, South Carolina and
Florida have voted for General Grant. Those
States that were occasionally Wing and &C.
casionally Democratic are now divided between
the two parties