, 1872-10-25

4uo o11c1al tuto u 1no1aut1, 10f IOFeruor,
compares with the preceding election as follows:
Hendricks 19s Bs. Hendricks '93a e. -.
Baker, Rep. ,575l Browne, Rep. 1se,Nd
Total vote Total Tote. $751;. s77,s72
The total in 1872 includes 1s2 Bourbon votes
There was election in Baltimore. Wednes-
day, for members Of the First Branch Of the
City Council. and the Liberal Democratic candi-
dates were elected in seventeen Of the twenty
wards. The vote was small.
The Maryland Republicans support three
Bourbon Democra.s for Congress, for the East
ern Shore and Baltimore Districts.
Returns nearly complete make the Reppbli-
can majority in Nebraska, on Congressman
1000, and on Governor 5000. The new Legia-
lature will have but two Liberals in the Senate
and ten in the House.
The registration-books" at st. Louis close On
s8,246 names, and the country precincts will add
about 5000. This is fnel, There being no
s'swearing-in" votes On election-day.
Tho returns Of the Georgia election Oct. 2,
still incomplete st lest accounts, give Governor
Smith 57,361, which the eight remaining coun-
ties will increase The vote indicates that the
entire delegation Of nine Congressman will be
elected by the Liberal-Democrats in November.
George A. Gray, Of Linn County, has been
substituted for the Rev. /. z. Fuller, on the Lib
eral Electoral ticket in Iowa.
Judge Jackson Temple, Of San Francisco,
an influential Democrat has held aloof from
politics this year, but forbids the use Of his
name On the O'Conor Electoral ticket.
The Municipal Reform Association OF Phila-
delphia feel confident that they will obliterate
the II, 400 Hartranft majority, and Gust all the
Ring candidates for city and county Offices who
claim election by virtue Of it. In every ward
whose returns are scrutinized, they find altera-
tions of figures and transfers of votes from the
BucEalew to the Hartranft side, by the LOO, 900,
800, Or 400, and, in one case, 1,o00 votes. The
election officers acted under instructions that
are now understood by the uniformity Of the
fraud, and the work Of detection will be the
more easy. It vas not until Hartranft Was
known to have enough, and, as it has proved,
too much majority, that the word went forth to
stop. The sstop" was at Is, 600. It might a
oasily have been $4,000, and, at o'clock on elec-
tion evening, it was intended to be $4,000.
ID. R. Carr, the third Grant candidate for
Congress nominated in the Bowlinggreen Ry.)
District, has withdrawn, and the faithful adhe-
rents to Grant must understand, by this time,
that all their votes have been sold to Golladay,
the Bourbon and cadet-selling candidate.
Dewitt c. Littlejohn, OF Oswego, ls Lib
eral candidate for the New York Legislature.
The Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention
will be one Of the ablest bodies ever convened
in the country for the revision Of constitutional
Law. It is proposed that one Of the delegates-
at-large Of the Democracy resign, to make room
for the appointment OF 11r. Bucka1ew. The Re-
publicans have majority Of five.
The Rochester (N.Y.) Union saya:
The most extraordinary act ever passed by any
Legislature is the act Of last winter submitting to the
people the question whether debt Of the State shau
not be created mainly to pay for overapproprtatoua
by the last and previous Legislatures. It vas doubt
less supposed by those who controlled the last rotten
Legislature that the people might be cheated into m
approval of this act under the excitement Of Pres
dental election but they likely to come to grief
The indianapolis Post Office lays it's hand
upon its heart, and declares that Mr. Morton's
committees had to rake and acrape to get to-
gether money enough to meet their legitimate
expenses. Also, that they peremptoriIy re-
fused to apply money for political experiments
or to uses Of doubtful propriety, on the ground
that their resources required husbanding."
Owing to 3 rnisapprehension OF the law, 600
Indians in North Carolina were not allowed to
vote at the August election. They would have
voted, to man, the Conservative ticket, and
would have reduced Caldwell's Illegal majority
Of 1000 to 1,40o.