The Elections Of Tuesday

Th3 rosult of the elections of Tuesday is a surprise to " all the world and the rest of mankind " - especially to the Republicans. Returns are not f uil and complete, but latest reports indícate that Democratie tliunder was heard all long the line - unless it was the groans of an oft dead and always dying party. New York - An overwhelniing Democratie victory in the city; over 10,000 Democratie majority on State ticket, and the Legislature almost a tie. Good enough for one day. "Wisconsin - The Eepublicans wiped out. The opposition State ticket elected by from 8,000 to 10,000 majority, and the Legislature anti-Eepublican. Vat next? Virginia - Kemper, Conservative, elected "Governor by greatly increased niijority, and no Iiepublican successes in any part of the State. Marylaxd - Local and Legislativo elections all Democratie. Massaciittsetts- Washburn's majority reduced to about 12,000, and large Democratie gains in both branches of the Legislature. Minnesota- Bepublican, but nothing to brag of. Kansas - Au opposition majority on joint ballot in the Legislature claimed, Hurrah for " bleediug Kansas." New Jersey- A Eepublican Legislature. Mississippi- Election of Ames claimed by 14,000 majority, Detroit- Moffat, Republlcau, re-elected Mayor by about 1,400 majority. Democratie Pólice Justice and Justice, and a gain of Aldermen. The Fifth District - Election of Comstock, Democrat, over Williams, is claimed by from 3 to 6 majority. One will answer, considering that Foster, Eepublican, was elected one year ago by over 8,000 majority. Bully for the Fifth. A lively corpse : that's all. Being in Uolumbus, Ohio, last week we incidentallv learned that the manufaoturers of all classes of goods and wareswere generally discharging their pmployos and cloeing their factoriea and shops. No demand for goods, and no currenoy to supply stock sni pay running expenses were the reasons assigned, coupled with a natural desire on the part of manufacturers to protect theinselves, that is to stop, if stop they must, before the " last shot in the locker " was fexhausted. We also learned another fact : that while this general curtailment and discharge was the order of the day, prison contractors were working their contract force full time. Kernarking to a gentleman regresenting a company working sixty convicta, and which was that day discharging nearly hundred "outside" hands mostly girls, that " wethought it rather hard that honest and needymen andwomen should bf thrown out of work at the approach 'of winter, while thieves and burglars, etc, were taking their bread from their mouths," we were answered that " contractors had the contract wages of the prisoners to pay whether they worked them or not ; that the prison authorities had no discretion and could not modify their contracts or release them from their engageinents ; and, therefore, no other course was open to them than the one adopted. And so men and women,.boys and girls, were " walking the plank " by scores and hundreds, or we might say by thousands, If this stagnation is to continue long the Legislature of Ohio may find it a duty to próvido something for the occupants of the penitentiary to do that will not compete with honest labor and starve the laborers. Let them all be set to quarrying and dressing stone for new asylums or other public institutions to be built some time away in the future, though taxation be increased, and labor and food not parceled out as a reward for crime. The same problem may also needs be solved by other States than Ohio if the pauic and its consequent stagnation shall be prolonged. Michgan mechanics have long feit the injustice of compulsory competition with prison labor, and if that competition is to be followed by the prolonged idleness of honest mechanics and the suffering of their families, while the prison labor continúes to supply the market with all sorts of manufactured fabrics and wares, the feeling that they are being wronged will give way to indignation. Prisoners should be worked and that regularly and continually, but at something thut will least compete with the outside laboier or mechanic. Secretary Kichardson's fivc-dollar-insilver paymeut scheme excites the joker both at the East and in the West, and all sorts of squibs are fired at the Secretary regardless of his dignity. The Boston Post characterizes it as the " dime policy," while the Cincinnati Commercial speaks of it as the " homeopathy in fluance." That horny handed laborer Wendell Phillips is to preside ut the Boston weieome to JosRph Arch, the representative of the English workingmen uow " doing" this countryGov. Bagley has issued a proclamation designating the 27th Lost., aa "a day of Public Thanksgiving :" an adoption simply of the day pieviously set apart by the President.