Year: 1873

The Empire State in this days cleo
tions will be attended by Massachusetts,
New Jersey, Illinois, Wisconsin, Min
nesota, Kansas, Maryland, Virginia, Mis-
sissippi, Arkansas and Texas-a goodly
procession of twelve States, republ-
can. democratic and conservative. How
these elections are going in most Of the
States concerned no man can accurately fore
tell how they have gone we shall, doubtless,
be able to report to our readers tomorrow
morning.


In New York city parties, factions and
cliques are SO inexplicably mixed up,
there are so many wheels within wheels, SO
many combinations and complications upon
local tickets and candidates, that it would be
o waste of time to no purpose to attempt to
unravel them. The results may be somewhat
surprising to some Of the most hope
full politicians but. whatever they may
be, we trust that the good cause
table or postponed till the next election.
Upon the State ticket the republicans are con-
tident and the democrats are hopeful and q
probable deficiency in the popular vote of any
figure from one hundred and fifty thousand to
two hundred thousand makes the issue some
what doubtful, notwithstanding the republican
margin of their ffty-fve thousand majority of
last year. The contest for the Legislature is
marked by some cross-fring and by various
party defectiops, especially for the Senate
but the probabilities, upon the whole, are in
favor Of better Legislature than that chosen
in November last, and for one more closely
divided in each house between the two great
parties.


The republicans appear to have given up
New Jersey in advance of the battle They
have such decisive majority to overcome in
Maryland that they have evidently made no
effort even to diminish it while in Virginia,
their unlucky nomination for Governor
on the one hand, and the gen.
eral activity and confidence on the
other side, render it morally certain that the
conservatives will, by a decisive majority
recover the State In Mississippi there is q
split among the republican forces which causes
some alarm in the regular party camp, and there
has just been an extra session of the State
Legislature in reference to the constitution
ality of this election, and the controversy,
though ending in favor of the election, has
considerably demoralized all the parties con-
cerned. The results in Mississippi, therefore.
are very uncertain though the result upon
square division on party lines would be q
large majority on the republican ticket, on
account of the heavy black vote of the State.


Texas, on all sides, is conceded to the dem
ocrats, being one Of the half dozen democratic
States which adhered to the party's Presiden-
tial ticket Of 1872, when all the others rejected
it Arkansas, from the family feuds among
the republicans, carried at one time during the
last summer to the verge of civil war, is still
in q very chaotic condition, politically con-
sidered, and we shall not be surprised, what
ever the results may be in that quarter, repub
lican or democratic, peace or war.


In Illinois party landmarks have been
broken down, and the grangers apparently
hold the balance of power. In Wisconsin and
Minnesota these grangers, too, joined by the
democrats, are reported as making consider
able headway, although the republicans have
likewise tuned their instruments to the bucolic
music of the grangers. On both sides in
the great Northwest the political candi-
date whose rough coat is most thoroughly
sprinkled with chaff or hay seed, is regarded
as most likely to command the sufrages of
the people but woe to the candidate sprinkled
with hay seed who opens fire on the stump
with the apology that, II have not the power
to be practical farmer, but nevertheless re-
gard the honest yeomanry as the life and hope
of the country; for the grangers are down
upon that pretender as upon wolf in sleeps
clothing. We may have some curious develop
ments in the elections Of Wisconsin and Min
nesota.


Finally, there is old Massachusetts, which,
ing, after having safely passed and happily
survived the great agony of her late conflict
ending in her joyful deliverance from Gen.
eral Butler. Since that happy day Plymouth
Rock has remained quiet and firmly anchored,
and the ''good old Bay State" relieved of her
fears of General Butler and his s'contrabands"
of oil kinds, including New England rum,
has been calmly awaiting the day for the re-
election OF Washburn. To sum up-in re-
viewing the whole field of these November
elections and those of October last, it is evi-
dent that old party lines are disappearing,
and that new party elements are in process of
formation which may WELD q powerful infu-
ence in the elections of next year for new
Congress, especially should there be length
ened continuance of this financial pressure
upon the masses of the people.


The FRENCH SITUATION is one at present of
silent anxiety. Tomorrow the Assembly
meets and the battle between monarchists and
republicans will begin. 1t is no longer mat
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