The October Elections

We are without definite returns irora the eleotions held on Tuesday last, but may sum up the latest advices as follows : Pennsylvania - Themajority for Goudon, Rep., for Judge of the Supreme Court, is estimated at 18,000. Majority for Hartkanft last Ootober, 35,629 ; and for Grant in November, 137,748. No details as to niembers of the Legislature. Üiiio - The vote on the Governor and State candidates is close, but the chances are in favor of the election of Allen, Deinocrat, and the whole Democratie ticket. The Eepublicans concede the Legislature to the Democrats, which insures the re-election of Senator TilUKMAN. Two years ago Noyes, now dofeated, was electefl. Govornor by a majority of 20,168, and Gkant's majority last year was 37,531. The farmers' moveinent and the salary grab are responsible tor tne change. Iowa - The rnajority for Carpexter, Republican candidate for Governor, is estimated at about 10,000, a falling off of "2ö,000. Tho Demócrata and anti-monopolists carry the House and the Republicana the Senate. California- An election in this State was held on Tuesday for a Judge of the Suprenie Court, there being three candidates. McKenzie, new party or independent, is reported elected. Indiana - In this State the election of Tuesday was only for local offices and the sc&ttering returns havo no political significance. - Has tbe " tidal wave " cornmenced to roll in V Last week we took occasion to criti3ise the Eiley amendment to ihe Univorsity section of the Educational Article - new. Consütution. It seems thut we were once more misled by a misprint, and not exactly by a misprint.mth&T, but by a rather shabby trick perpetrated upon the Commission by one of its members, and not detected until the day'a proceedings were in print, and of which trick or its rectification we were unadvised at the time of making our critcisms. The amendment or rather addition which we discussed, read : " But all moneys appropriated by the Legislature to the TJnfversity upon condition, shall be applied as provided in the condition accompanying the appropriation." Private advices assure us that the amendment offered by Mr. Eiley, and which the Oommission supposed it agreed to, had the words " if accepted" inserted or incorporated after the "shall," but that they were quietly if not secretly strieken out by a member of the Conimission, at the Clerk's desk, and without the knowledge or consent of the mover or the Commission. 'As soon as the tainpering was discovered the words were promptly ordered reinserted. It is questionable whether tms was tne mu auty oí tne Commission : in fact it seems to us that a severe rebuke should have been administered to the offending member. A motion to re-consider the vote by which the Article was passed wal made and lost on Tuesday, so that it may be considered settled, as far as the commission is concerned, that the Eegents are to be vested with the exclusive supervisión and control of the University and of all its funds, unless specific conditions are attached to appropriations, which appropriations may be declined if the conditions are found unsatisfactory. This is as it should be : the Legislature will hold the purse strings : the Regents will alone be responsible for the internal and practiworkings of the University. The Rev. Dr. Payne Smith, Dean of Canterbury - the metropolitau cathedral of England- and one of the greatest lights in the church of England, shocked the Episcopal and startled the non-Episcopal world on the th inst., by attending service at a Presbyterian church - that of Dr. ADAMS - in New York, partaking then and there of the holy conimunion, himself assisting non-Episcopal divines in the adininistration. His action called out a letter from William George Tozer, late Missionary Bishop at Zanzibar, Central África, addressed to Bishop Potter, severely censuring a " breach of ecclesiastical order so grave," and intimating that the offense of the Dean will be certified tohis superior, tho Archbishop of Canterbury. And before the wondering religious world was perinitted to relapse into either quiet or forgetfulness, Bishop Cummins, of Ky., assisted at another couimunion service in another Presbyterian church - that of Dr. Hall. This on the 12th inst. And besides this, Dr. Muhlenburü, an eminent Protestant Episcopal divine, and chaplain of St. Luke's Hospital, read a paper at one of the Evangelical Alliance meetings, developing and advocating a plan of union or mixed communion services. Biehop Potter has declined to tako any notice of the offense of Dean Smith or the complaint of Bishop Tozer until it becomes his duty to act ofiïcially ; but Bishop Cummins comes to tho dofense of both himself and the Dean, and denies emphatically thiit either of thom has " violated the ecclesiastical orders of the Church of England or the Protestant Episcopal Church in this country." Xhe sun rises in the east each morning as heretofore. An ttnoïTICIAL announcement of tho President's views ïuakes him responsible for an indorsement of the visionary and centralizing scheme of a postoftice savings bank syBtem. If Congress shall be of the same mind wo may look for legialation taxing all savings banka now doing business under State laws out of existtence, the same as State banks of circulation were done by the National Banking law. Is there any limit to the the grasping demande of the cormorants at Washington ? and is any business interest too sacred or personal to escape them ? Ir is probable that the Coustitutional Commission concludod its labors yesterday and adjourned. Soine very important changes have been agreed upon, which we shall point out, and perhaps disouss - though discussion will be scarcely worth while before the document runs the gauntlet of the Legislature - after the revised article shall be published in consecutive and intelligible form. ïo HELP make times easy : pay jour debts instead of hiding your money.