Elections This Month

Town elections will be beid in Connecticut on Monday, Ootober 4. The pcopla will also vote on a proposod amendment to the state constitution, whictí amendment provides that hereafter judges of the supreruo court of errors and of the supreme court shall, upon noTaination of the governor, bo appointed by tho legislature. On Wednesday, October Cth, the pcoplo of Georgia will elect state officers and a legislature which will choose a United States senator. Representativos to congress will be chosen at the election to be held Tuesday, November 2. Indiana will hold an election on Tuesday, Ootober 12, for stato officers, congressmen and a legislature whieh will choose a United States senator. Ohio will vote on Tuesday, October 12, for minor state officers and Representativos in congress. On Tuesday, October 12, West Virginia will clect state officers and a legislature which will choo3C a United Statoa senator. Two amendments to the constitution will also be submitted to the pcople for ratification, the one rclating to courts and the othcr to the riglit of trial by jury in certain casos. Colorado which ucrotofore has boen an üctober state, will tuis year hold its general election on Tuesday, November 12. It is sad to relate tliat after all of Wade Hampton's dodging and cquivoeating, that bc has not been able to femedy or cxplain iway liis speech at Staunton, Va., in which this now infamous senteirce was uttered : " Consider what Lee and Jackson would do were they alive. These are the same principless for which they fought for four years. ltcmembcr the men who poured forth their lifo blood on Virginia's soil, and do not abandon them now. Ilemember that upon your vote dependa the success of the democratie ticket" That he said it was proven by numerous democratie hearers, who made affidavit to that effect, and at last hc had toacknpwledged the "corn." The utterance, as traitorous and damnable as it was, wrought no good to the democratie party as intended, either, for the Virginians are in a fight among ihemselves, and will not listen to the fancied tcachings of dead men. And hundreds of good union men in the north have been warned by these words and will vote for the principies of Lincoln and Seward and Garrison, insteadj