We received yesterday evening copies, of the New York
Herald and
Tribune of Friday, the 14th instant.
We give a summary of the news they contain:
The election in
Pennsylvania is still in doubt.
The New York
Herald says:
‘
The all absorbing question is the
Pennsylvania election.
Both parties still claim it on the home vote by from three to five thousand majority.
The returns come in slowly.
We are without any returns from several counties, and in a number of others only a small portion have been heard from.
The later and more complete returns increase the
Democratic gains in nine cases out of ten.
If those sections yet to hear from show anywhere like the
Democratic gain in proportion to the returns already received, the
State has gone Democratic on the home vote.
The indications are that we shall have to wait for the official returns to determine it. Nothing has been received to show any change in the list of Congressmen given yesterday.--The Sixteenth district is in doubt.
’
The
Tribune says:
‘
We have endeavored, by the light of
Philadelphia papers and later dispatches, to give an idea of the probable majorities in all the counties of
Pennsylvania.
We make out over 3,000 majority on the home vote, and it is likely to be as much more.
To attempt to cipher out a Democratic majority would be an insult to the nine digits.
Of Congressmen we have sixteen, beyond doubt — a gain of four; and we may get one or two more.
’
The War news.
There is very little war news.
The situation article in the
Herald says:
‘
Affairs remain quiet before
Richmond and
Petersburg, the rebels showing no disposition to attempt a dislodgment of our forces from the strong positions they now hold on the north side of the
James since suffering the severe repulse inflicted by the Tenth corps on last Friday. --Large numbers of deserters from the enemy still come into our lines.
General Birney has been compelled by a severe attack of fever to relinquish temporarily the command of his gallant corps, which will be held in his absence by
General Terry.
Polities has been recently quite an element in the army, owing to the efforts of the two parties to secure the votes of the
Pennsylvania,
Ohio and
Indiana soldiers.
Firing between the opposing pickets on the right wing has entirely ceased lately, and officers can now ride along the front in perfect safety.
Rebel veterans have supplanted the raw troops at one time manning the works in front of the Tenth and Eighteenth corps.
’
From the Shenandoah Valley there is no new movement to report this morning.
Though we have no fresh dispatches from
General Sherman's headquarters to give this morning, matters will doubtless soon assume an interesting and decisive phase in that region.
From
Missouri we have nothing additional relative to the raid of the rebel
General Price.
General Rosecrans left
St. Louis on Wednesday night for the front of the field of operations in his department.
Natchez, Mississippi, advices of the 4th instant state that
Colonel McCable, who, with a small force of Union troops, left
Vidalia on the 26th ultimo on an expedition, had returned, having captured the rebel
Colonel Wilkins, four captains, several guerrillas, fifty horses, one hundred and fifty mules, four hundred cattle, large quantities of cotton and woollen cloths, arms and ammunition, and several rebel recruits.
Miscellaneous.
Gold in New York ran up five cents on the 13th, and was quoted at 208.
Two citizens of the District of Columbia, tried and found guilty of uttering disloyal language while the rebels were menacing
Washington, have been sentenced to five years imprisonment at hard labor.
The election in
Nebraska resulted in the success of the
Republican delegate to Congress.
The vote on the new anti-slavery constitution in
Maryland is close, with a prospect that the soldiers' vote will determine it.
Admiral David D. Porter took command of the North Atlantic squadron on Wednesday of this week as successor of
Admiral Lee.
The event was signalized at
Fortress Monroe by a salute from the steam sloop-of-war
Brooklyn.
Burbridge's defeated troops have arrived at
Mount Sterling.
Kentucky.
