The Phoenix herald., 1879-11-14
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rHE NEW YORK ELECTIONS.

excitement lS greater thnn oelore election. Both parties claim victory on their tickets below Governor. The Tribuas still keeps up it's fire of ridicule on scratchers, while the 7un.s denounccs the candidacy of Cornell as being brought about by Conkling. and the World lashcs TAmmany unmercifully.
 The Sun says the prospect of re- union of the scattered forces of the Democratic party in this State in time to be available at the next Presiden- tial campaign, is moi, we are sorry to say, very brilliant
 THE ELECTION IN CONNECTICUT.
 HARTFORD. Nov eth.-1h net Re publican gain in the Eleven I Sena- to.ial diGrict is nearly two thousand
 MISSISSIPPI.
 VIcKsBURG, Nov. 9th.-By the of hcial count the Democrats elect Ssnator and Representative. The Republicans elect the balance of the ticket in this county
 vtnaISIA MIXED.
 RlcHMoaD, Xpv sia--The Demo crats cisiln sal, .ii-y have elected 47 delegates with chances for five others, and 19 Senators with chance for three others. The Republicans however. still maintain that they have 23 Senators out of 70, and 55 Delegates out of 1O0.
 EXECUTED.
 GALVESTON. NJy. St!I.-3ill DIvis WIS execu;el at Lockport for the murder of Mpllie Hldspeth- H. made comics sion but manifested no emotisn.
 THE LAST SAD RITES.
 CINCINNATI, Nov. Slh.--Tne funer al of Gen Hooker took place today The church was appropriately drap- ed, and rich floral tribates covered the caaket The remains were de- posited in vault temporarily.
 BY WIRE FROM SAN FRAScIsco.
 SAN FRANCISCO, N,v. S.-Tas re- ceipts of the Authors Carnival amount to $t3,O)), and the exp.a ,es were $a3.OOO. leaving quite surplus for the charitable purposes for which it was projected.
 NOT GUILTT." In the United States District court F. J Baldwin Plesd not guilty. on the charge of defrauding the Internal Revenue.
 WORK RESUMED ON THE S. P- R. R.
 Track laying resumed on the Southern Pacific R. R., eastward from Casa Granda. II is intended 10 reach New Mexico by March 1st, and Mesilla on the Rio Grande, 346 miles east of its present terminus, by the end of 1880.
 NEW YORK ELECTIONS. NEW YORK, Nov 1.-The 7r.Juno says it has made special efforts to se- cure complete returns from counties where they were still lacking, with returns thus far obtained and with | careful estimates in a very few cases where they were necessary. Ward 1 for Attorney General has majority | of over 5000. Wadsworth for Comp ! irolIer has majority of more shan . 5000. Carr for Secretary of State ! has a majority of 4.5O0. and Hoskins | for Lieutenant Governor one of some ] where about 1 400.
 NEWS FROM THE PACIFIC WHALING
 FLEET.
 EAx FRANCISCO, Nov. 10--The bark Sea Breeze, the first of the fleet, arrived this evening. Onthc night Of September 2, when tif,ysniles south of Herald Island, latitude. fifty degrees north, she saw A sail ahead which was supposed to be a brig, but next morning found it was a steamer. Both vessels were along the edge of pack ice to west ward, and lots of ice from eastward WAS setting towards them. and also from the northward. The wind was fresh from the snntnward, with strong southsrlf current. The Sea Breeze hove-to that day, fearing 10 go fartGer ncrsii aea saw lhe steamer, supposed ,e he tae Eesnnette, which seel1e1 .e make .:t;ie progress, all day 1hss zIgilt fog set in thick and coniinued all next day, the 4th, until P. N-, when it cleared, but the steamer was not in sight. The pack ice tended to the northeast, from the latitude of Herald Island. 4 few days after the fleet came up, and worked to the northward inthe wake of the loose ice Captain Wye, off 8ft. WooIarten, thinks he saw smoke in the offing, thirty miles from Her ak Island. The ice has been nov ing in the Arctic in large quantities all through the summer, and vessels have got DO farther north or east than Icy Cape.
 MORE NEWS OF THE JEANETTE.
 SAN FRANCISCO, November H. The whaling bark Dawn arrived to-day from the Arctic whaling ground On Sept. 3, when within g miles off Herald Island, she saw the smoke of steamer supposed to be the Jeanette, About September 25th ice began to open rapidly to the north We saw tae Herald Islands in Octo- : bcr; could go all around it on the 7th of October. The captains report continues We saw Wrangle Land, distant less than 25 miles, the east line showing very lit,le snow but the