The Portland daily press., 1874-10-16
ELECTIONS,

majority IN Onlo to III, O00, and gained o number
of congressman, they claiming IA out of the 20
to which the state is entitled, though this is
probably an over-estimate. Garfield is re-
elected. The election was much complicated
with temperance issue, the Republicans favor
ing the enforcement of the present stringent
liquor laws, and the Democrats more liberal
law or none at all. Commenting on the result
the Cincinnati Gazette says:-"On the plat
form of reputation, initiation, anti-temperance
and general cussedness the Democratic party
has carried Ohio and elected IL out of 20 con-
gressmen."
Z The indications are that the Democrats have
carried the state ticket in Indiana by from 5000
to 1000 majority, considerable increase over
the majority for Gov Hendricks in 1872. The
legislature is in doubt, both parties claiming it.
The complexion of this body is important as a
d. Pratt. The Congressional delegation is in
doubt, but it will probably stand about the
same as at present.
In Iowa the Republicans have swept the
state with perhaps the exception of of one
congressman. an aut-monopoly candidate. The
majority for the state ticket cannot ibe given
with accuracy.
Nebraska is certainly Republican, thus secur-
ing theelection of a Republican Senator in the
place of Upton. ,.-.--..
In Dakota the Republicans elect their dele
gate to Congress. aE $50
In Arkansas the conservatives are doubtless
successful, though returns are meagre.
The returns from West Virginia are too mea-
gre to indicate the result with any certainty.
FOREIGN. 30
A letter in the New York Tribune gives an
interesting account of the Austrian Arctic ex-
petition as told by Capt. Weyprecht at ban
quet given in his honor at Hamburg. Their ves-
sci was frozen in the autumn of 1872, and the
summer bringing no release they were COM
PEELED to abandon her. They claim to have dis
covered land hitherto unknown which they
named in honor of the Austrian Emperor,
Franz Joseph's land. On the 10Th of last May
they finally left the ship with boats drawn by
sledges, and after much suffering reached the
open water. Once on the sea they made their
way southwark, rowing about forty miles per
day, till they were picked up by Russian fish
ing smack. The fate of this expedition again
compels the question: Do Arctic expeditions
pay? 9 zs4
The Won Arnim arrest still excites much
comment in British and Continental journals.
There is little doubt but he possesses certain
secrets which Bismarck don't want disclosed,
though he says he has none. He has been re-
moved from prison to sanitary establishment,
on account of ill health Bismarck claims that
the arrest was purely Judicial one, and that
politics had nothing to do with it.
The government of Spain has presented a
long note to the French government complain
ing that open aid to the Carlists on her frontier
is allowed, and demanding that stop be put
to it, -sitiit$ sH
Advices from China of the oath ult. are to
the effect that the difficulties between that
country and Japan are still unsettled, and both
parties are concentrating their forces on the
island of Formosa and at strategic points on
their respective coasts A settlement of the
question is thought to depend upon the result
Of the negotiations of the Japanese embassaT
dor to Picking.
The Carlist cause appears to be on the de-
cline. Don Carlos has just suffered to severe
defeats, and his best general, Gen. Dorregaray,
has resigned because Don Carlos refused to
make certain changes in officers as suggested
by him. Meanwhile there are dissensions in
their own ranks, and nineteen mutineers have
been shot.
The French elections in the councillor dis
tricts are concluded. The following is the to-
tai result: Republicans elected 672; Monarch
lists 604; Bonapartists 155. The Republicans
have majority in 80 councils, the Monarchists
in A, and in thee departments the councils are
equally divided.
The old Schleswig Rolstein question is
assuming some prominence. Arbitration is
talked of.
More soldiers have arrived in Cuba and still
more are coming in November. ~
t BRIEF MENTION. " =
Rev. DR.. T. M. Eddy is dead.--Gen. Bah
cocks estimate of the appropriation necessary
for the improvement of the public grounds
next year is $500, 00O.--Ex- President John
son denies that he favors repudiation.-
Thomas Cahill, tina murderer of Bridget Lam
dergan has been arrested in Ireland and
brought back to Boston.--The first colored
jury ever .called in Virginia was empanelled
male applicants for clerkships.-The Lord
Mayor of Dublin has gone home.--The fire.
mans convention meets next year in New
York.--The yellow fever patients at Pensa-
cola are recovering. Expeditions for the
Black Hills are fitting out In Dakota and Wy
oming. Williams has sued 1.-THE New
York Nation for libel in charging him with
sailing the Little Emma river. Defence is
that Sailing" does not imply crime. Rath-
er thin!-The Right Honorable William E..
Forster has arrived in this country
Maryland balloonist went up in a hot air bal
loon the other day and in his dissent lit on a
flagstaff. He was uninjured.-In the Big
lin-Ten Eyck boat race the former .won.-The
danger Of the overflow of the Nile is over
Rudolphe, the French expert, beat Cook, the
English champion at billiards last week.
France has officially accepted an invitation to
the Centennial.--rhe Catholic Total Absti-
nence Union at their session in Chicago re-
ceived the benediction of the Pope by tele-
graph.-The Direct Gable Company have de-
cided to abandon 30 miles Of their cable
Rev.W. H. H, Murray has resigned the pastorate
of the Park Street Congregational church,
Cause: The society wouldn't furnish an asso-
ciate pastor.--Weston, the walking humbug
has again failed to walk 500 miles in six days.
"A Paris letter states that Madame Perkins
princess de Bourbon) is begging in Paris.--
Gen. Shaler is to organize the Chicago fire de-
partment.--Minister Washburn has returned
to .Paris.--The Centennial bonds are being
engraved.--The Porto Rico story, which new
er did have any bottom, is again denied, this
time by the Spanish ambassador
Grant has been invited to visit New Orleans.
Mayor Havemeyer has made another state
nent. This time he says Kelly stole $99545-
AZ. ..--.- ---
IN GENERAL.
The temperance party of New York have
withdrawn the nomination of Judge Groo and
DR.. Sutton for Governor AID Lieut.. Governor.
and have decided to accept the regular State
Prohibition ticket, headed by Myron Fl.
Clark.
More fraudulent South Carolina bonds have
been discovered.
Gen. Mckenzie has defeated the Cheyennes
in Texas and captured most of the horses and
war outfit. Gen. Grant has been visiting the
Indians this week and has been formally re-
ceived by the Cherokees, Choctaws and Creeks
to whom he made sneecaes