The Presidential election.
The election for
President and
Vice President of the
United States takes place to-morrow.
Among the requirements of the election law are the following:
- 1st.
In a Presidential election, the poll is taken one day only.
- 2d.
Polls must not be opened before sunrise and must close at sunset.
- 3d.
Every person offering to vote must have been a resident of the State two years, and of the county city or town, one whole year immediately next preceding the election.
- 4th.
All persons voting without these qualifications and other legal ones, are to be fined in the sum of thirty dollars.
- 5th.
Both the poll-books and tickets must be returned to the Commissioners at the Court House within five days. It is hoped they will be returned, duty certified, on the day after the election.
the vote in
Virginia in 1856 stood,
Fillmore, 60,131;
Buchanan, 90,352.
majority for
Buchanan 30,221.
in 1859 the vote stood,
Letcher, 77,650;
Goggin, 72,321.
majority for
Letcher 5,329.
we publish the majorities in the election of 1859 as useful for reference during the reception of the returns:
the following table shows the popular vote for
President in 1856:
| States. | Dem. | Rep. | Amer. |
| Alabama | 46,739 | | 28,552 |
| Arkansas | 21,899 | | 10,795 |
| California | 53,365 | 20,691 | 36,165 |
| Connecticut | 34,995 | 42,715 | 2,615 |
| Delaware | 8,004 | 308 | 6,175 |
| Florida | 6,358 | | 4,833 |
| Georgia | 56,581 | | 42,439 |
| Illinois | 105,348 | 96,189 | 37,441 |
| Indiana | 118,670 | 94,375 | 22,386 |
| Iowa | 36,170 | 43,954 | 9,180 |
| Kentucky | 74,642 | 314 | 67,416 |
| Louisiana | 22,164 | | 20,709 |
| Maine | 39,080 | 67,179 | 3,325 |
| Maryland | 39,115 | 281 | 47,460 |
| Massachusetts | 39,240 | 108,190 | 19,626 |
| Michigan | 52,136 | 71,762 | 1,660 |
| Mississippi | 35,446 | | 24,195 |
| Missouri | 58,164 | | 48,524 |
| New Hampshire | 32,789 | 38,345 | 422 |
| New Jersey | 46,943 | 28,338 | 24,115 |
| New York | 195,878 | 276,004 | 124,604 |
| North Carolina | 48,246 | | 36,886 |
| Ohio | 170,874 | 187,497 | 28,121 |
| Pennsylvania | 239,772 | 147,963 | 82,202 |
| Rhode Island | 6,680 | 11,467 | 1,675 |
| South Carolina | Pres. Electors chosen. | | |
| Tennessee | 73,636 | | 66,117 |
| Texas | 31,169 | | 15,689 |
| Vermont | 10,569 | 39,561 | 545 |
| Virginia | 89,706 | 291 | 60,310 |
| Wisconsin | 52,843 | 66,090 | 580 |
| Total | 1,838,232 | 1,341,514 | 874,707 |
Mr. Lincoln, if he obtains all the free States, will have just one hundred and eighty-three electoral votes, while (the whole number being three hundred and three) one hundred and fifty two would be a majority of the whole.
Then, it appears, he could only spare thirty-one, and should he lose New York, (thirty-five votes,) must be defeated, even with
California and
Oregon on his side.
Losing those two States, (having seven votes,) he could not lose
Pennsylvania, (twenty-seven votes,) as he would then have but one hundred and forty-nine, or three less than a majority of the college; but carrying either
California or
Oregon, with all the other free States, he would have a majority without
Pennsylvania; or he might lose
Ohio,
California and
Oregon, (thirty-one,) and still be safe.
New York is the only single State which could defeat him.
