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Show THE ELECTIONS YESTERDAY. The October strugglo ia over, and tho result?, so far as an estimate czn be made from very mixed and unoer-tain unoer-tain returns, are anything but encouraging encour-aging to tho supporters of Mr. Greeley. Gree-ley. Tho G.nht has been a fierce one, and it is evident a very larc voto has been polled in the lending States. There is little doubt that Pennsylvania and Ohio bavo gone .Republican, aDd the prnhability is that Indiana has gone Democratic; ftill, wc wou'd recommend enthusiastic partisans not to burn too much ponder rashly until fuller and more correct returns are received. As a matter of course, much of ihfi fiiiurtrg published pub-lished this mornii is Rucss work, and somo of it very wild guess work it wo test part of the Ggurcs received. For example: Tho Republicans cluim to have carried Pennsylvania by any majority from twenty-five to thirty thousand, and Philadelphia by nearly twenty-thousand. Yet the majorities ma-jorities for thirteen wards of Philadelphia Phila-delphia have been teletrraphed, and accepting the Ggures as correct they show an aggregate majority of 3, SSI for Hartranft in theso wards. The ether five waids in Philadelphia not reported tho third, sixth, seventh, sev-enth, thirteenth and fccventeenth last year gave a Republican majority of, ninety-two, which would fall a long gS7lS"rtow0,f oAU'a' feh of that number. Everything points to the struggle being a fierce one and a close one. If cither Pennsylvania or Ohio have given Republican majorities larger than, or even equal to, those of last year, it is not yet mado clear. It is likely that Hartranft is elected in the former by a majority running anywhere any-where from 10.000 to 15,000; and that in Ohio the 20.000 majority of last year is out down probably a fourth, as the State Republican committee claim no gain. While Indiana may have gone Democratic with just enough of a majority to swear by. |