Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-11-04
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
EIeetiOn Of sen. GraRt 8 Ne. Colfax.

Election Of Gen. Grant d Nj. Colfnz.
A Philadelphia special dispatch to the Ma
tiOnal Intelhgencer says The following seems
to be the result from returns received up to .; 80
this morning =
For Grant-Maiue, 10000 majority New
Hampshire, 5000 majority; Vermont, $4,000
majority; Massachusetts, 10000 majority
Connecticut, 5000 mojority Rhode Island,
$500 majority; Pennsylvania, $4,000 majority:
Ohio, 10000 majority Indiana. 10000 major
ity; Iowa, $4,000 majority; Illinois, 10000
majority Michigan, $4,000 majority; Wis
consin, $4,000 majority, Minnesota, 10000
majority Kansas, 10000 majority; West Viz
GINA, s 900 majority; Tennessee, sc, 600 ma
iority; California, 5000 majority; Nebraska,
5000 majority Missouri, 5000 majority.
The following States have gone for Seymour:
New York, 5000 majority; Maryland $4,000
majority; Delaware, $500 majority; Kentucky,
10000 majority; Alabama, 5000 majority /;
Georgia, 10000 majority; Louisiana, 10000
majority.
New Jersey aud Arkansas are doubtful.
Few returns from Southern States generally
[Itis hsrdIy necessary to give the partial re-
turns from counties in the States above named
as the general result will amply suffice Tor
the present.
DETAILS OF THE ELECTION YESTERDAY.
The Legislature of Florida met yesterday.
and chose Grant electors by vote of 10 to 8
The State has three electoral votes.
Returns from New York indicate that the
State has gone for Hoffman by 1000, and for
Seymour by $500. Grant received in New
York city 1921; Seymour, 10S,025 Hoff-
man S majority in the city will be nearly 0,000.
The following Congressman are elected In the
city Fox, Morrlssey, Cox, Calkins, Brooks,
and Wood. The Democrats elected stWenty
Assemblymen and the Radicals oue-the same
as last year
Returns from Pennsylvania indicate Radi-
cal majority in Philadelphia of some 5000 or
1000 and in tho State of 10000 or %, 700. A
dispatch says Philadelphia city has given Grant
800.
The Radical majority 10 Ohio is estimated at
80, OOO-and the Northwestern States, Indiana,
Illinois, Iowa, Michigan have given large Rad
ical majorities.
In Massachusetts Grant has made heavy
gains over the Radical vote OF last year, and
his majority will probably be in the neighbor.
hood of 75 000 Every city gives large Radical
maiorities Boston gives between 5000 and
1000. Butler has large majority in every
city and town heard from, and his total will
largely exceed that Of his last election. Banks
AID Boutwell, are re elected by very large ma
lorities. Adams's vote for Governor shows 4
heavy decrease from last year.
San Francisco has gone Democratic, but Cal
iforuia has gone for Grant.
Returns from twenty towns 10 North Carroll
ma show Radical majority of l,074. Returns
! from the Congressional districts are meagre,
but the First, Second, Third, Fourth, and
| Fifth Districts are conceded to the Radicals -
The returns are not sufficient to warrant def
mite estimate but the indications are that the
vote will be close 10 the State, with chances il
favor of the Radicals.
A dispatch from Indiana says that the Rad
ica gain is general; looks as if the State would
give over ten thousand Radical majority The
| Indianapolis Sentinel gives the State to th(
| Radicals by from 10, 900 to 1000 majority.
| Returns from twenty towns in West Nirgini:
| show large Republican gains, and indicate tina
the State gives Radical majority of 5000.
Returns from Maryland say that Seymour
majority 10 Baltimore city will be r. 594, anC
all the Democratic candidates for Congress are
elected throughout the State. Mr.. SWAMI
majority in Baltimore for Congress is more thar
| 1000. MIR. Stone has been re elected from Tx
Prince George district by a very large majority
There are conflicting accounts as to the re-
! suit In Alabama--both sides claim the State.
In South Carolina the State is conceded t
| Grant, but the Democrats claim two out 0
| four members of Congress.