We have received, through the kindness of an esteemed friend, a copy of the Philadelphia
Inquirer of the 13th instant--one day later.
We give a brief summary of the news it contains:
The returns from forty-five counties in
Indiana give the Lincolnites twenty thousand majority, and they claim that the remaining counties will give them five thousand more.
There is a small Union majority in both houses of the Legislature.
They have elected eight Congressmen, and the Democrats have two, with
Voorhees's district still in doubt.
Ohio has elected sixteen
Lincoln members and three Democrats.--The present delegation stands, fourteen Democrats to five Republicans.
The election in
Pennsylvania is in a fog, and what is quite remarkable, the
Inquirer does not mention it at all. We find the following telegram, which is very significant:
Harrisburg, October 12.--The general impression here is that the
State has gone Democratic, on the home vote, by from three thousand to five thousand majority, but that the soldiers' votes will give from ten thousand to fifteen thousand Union majority.
The following letter from
Harrisburg tries to explain the great falling off in the
Republican vote in the
State.
After conceding that it is likely the Democrats have carried the
State, the writer says:
‘
But the indications are strong that the Unionists will gain three Congressmen —
Smith Fuller,
George F. Miller and
George V. Lawrence — making our representation in Congress fifteen Union to nine Democrats.
They will also have a large controlling majority in the Legislature, so that there is really little for the Democracy to crow over.
’
We must have a large Union report from the army.
The only drawback to this is the fact that our commissioners to take the vote of the soldiers have failed to reach
Sherman's army.
They sent their rolls and documents back, announcing that, owing to the advent of
Forrest between them and
Atlanta, they were unable to get through his lines to
Sherman in time to poll that army vote.
This will have a most important bearing upon the army returns, as there are many thousands of Pennsylvanians in
Sherman's army.
A painful report prevails that the commissioners also failed to reach the army of
Sheridan in the
Valley; that the rebel guerrillas had effectually obstructed their passage to
Strasburg.
This if true, would indeed be unfortunate, as there are at least twenty-five thousand Pennsylvanians in
Sheridan's army.
How true this "painful report" was, the following telegram will show;
Harrisburg, October 12.--The election commissioners to the Shenandoah Valley have returned.
They report that they were unable to reach
Sheridan's army.
The New York
Would, in an article headed "
Pennsylvania Redeemed, " claims that the
State has gone for the Democracy.
Philadelphia, which gave the Republicans fifteen thousand majority last year, this year gives a Democratic majority of two thousand.
The
World, in its comments on the election, says:
‘
The Keystone State yesterday declared her choice for
McClellan by fifty thousand majority.
’
Ohio, too, feels the swelling of the tide; and although there, too, the same unscrupulous gerrymandering of Congressional districts may lose us in the
House some of our best members, the dispatches from Republican sources, garbled, false and partial as they are, disclose a vast Democratic gain on the popular vote.
We shall be surprised if the
Republican majority of one hundred and one thousand is not cut down to twenty-five thousand or less.
From
Indiana we have no trustworthy dispatches.
Those which we have received are from Republican sources, and are doubtless supervised and doctored by the military authorities in
Governor Morton's favor.
We hope to have private dispatches from credible and responsible parties in that State to-day.
We will have to wait for later advices to determine what the truth of the matter is. All that we have had, with the exception of the above from the
World, has been from
Lincoln sources, and may yet prove to have been a sample of the war-lying of the
Yankee nation.
Stanton's War bulletin.
The following is the war bulletin of
Stanton:
Dispatches have been received to-day from
General Grant,
General Sherman and
General Sheridan, but no military movements since my last telegram are reported.
The following details of the cavalry engagement last Sunday are furnished by
General Sheridan:
"I have seen no sign of the enemy since the brilliant engagement of the 9th instant.
It was a square cavalry fight, in which the enemy was routed beyond my power to describe.
He lost everything carried on wheels, except one piece of artillery, and when last seen it was passing over Rudes's Hill, near
New Market, on the keen run, twenty-six miles from the battle-field, to which point the pursuit was kept up. The battery men and horses, etc., were captured.
The horses were all in good condition, and were all exchanged by our cavalrymen for their broken- down animals.
"The casualties on the 9th will not exceed sixty men. The one hundred men of the Eighth Ohio dispersed while guarding the bridge over the
Shenandoah have come in, except the officers. "
Affairs in Tennessee--repulse of Yankee troops.
In the two dispatches given below the
Yankees acknowledge a defeat; and then, to make up for that much truth, tell a lie which they themselves can hardly believe:
Nashville, October 12.--
Colonel Hoag, of
Washburne's command, with thirteen hundred infantry and a battery of four guns, on board of three transports, convoyed by two gunboats, at 3 o'clock P. M., on the 10th instant, met the enemy under
General Forrest, commanding in person, at
East Point, with two batteries, and was repulsed with a loss of twenty killed and twenty-six wounded and missing.
All the guns of the battery were lost and two of the transports disabled.
Two caissons were burned by the explosion of
Forrest's shells.
Forrest is supposed to have crossed the river.
Colonel Hodge, with the balance of his force, had reached Johnsonville river.
There is eight feet of water on the shoals, and the river is falling.
Clarksville, Tenn., October 12. --
Lieutenant-Colonel Weaver, with ninety colored soldiers, was attacked yesterday morning, five miles below
Fort Nelson, by two hundred rebels, under
Lieutenant-Colonel Lowry.
The rebels were whipped, with the loss of
Lieutenant-Colonel Lowry and
Captain Gardy and twenty men killed.
The Federal loss was one lieutenant and three men killed.
The following telegram, dated
St. Louis, October 12th, is all we find relative to
General Price's movements in
Missouri:
The rebels destroyed the
Lemoine bridge on the Pacific railroad, one hundred and seventy-five miles from here.
Price is still reported in the vicinity of
Booneville, with
General Sanborn harassing his rear and flanks.
Miscellaneous.
Chief Justice Taney, of the United States Supreme Court, died in
Washington on the night of the 12th.
Gold was quoted in New York on the 12th at 2 to 3 3-4.
Chapman (Republican) has been re-elected
Mayor of
Baltimore by eight thousand majority.
