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The Daily Dispatch: November 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Cultivation of sugar cane in Philadelphia. (search)
e 8th inst. In some cases the army vote, not yet received, may have to decide who is elected. The Senate, however, will stand twenty-three Republicans to ten Democrats. The Harrisburg papers give forty-two members of the House of Representatives to the Democrats, the remaining fifty-eight being classed as Republicans and Union men. These latter include some who have always been Democrats, but they were nominated by joint Conventions of all parties, in counties strongly Republican, such as Chester, Lancaster, and others. It is pretty plain that neither of the old parties can claim a strong majority on a joint ballot, and from the circumstance that in important counties so many men were elected solely because of their determination to support the Government against the Confederates, without reference to old party distinctions, we entertain the hope that party spirit will not run high in the next Legislature. Proclamation of Gov. Curtin, of Pa. Harrisburg.Pa., Oct. 22. -