The Bedford Gazette

The Vote for Congress.

The following is the vote for Congress in this Congressional District:

Coffroth, Dem. McPherson, A.
Adams, 2969 2517
Bedford, 2332 1686
Franklin, 3147 3124
Fulton, 292 maj.
Somerset, 877 maj.
8740 8204

Coffroth's maj. 536

The Vote for Senator.

The vote for Senator was not counted on Tuesday last, as required by law. Somerset did not send a return judge, and the judges from the other two counties did not act. We are, therefore, at a loss to know how the official vote stands, or whether a Senator was elected or not. So far as the action of the return judges is concerned, the vacancy occasioned by the death of Mr. Wharton, is not filled. An unofficial statement of the vote is as follows;

Noble, Dem. Stutzman, A.
Bedford, 2393 1628
Huntingdon, 1838 2470
Somerset, 1397 2498

We would have been rejoiced to have had the army vote taken, (for it would have been largely democratic) had not the Supreme Court through the motion of John Thompson, the Republican candidate for Sheriff of Philadelphia, decided that the law under which the soldiers last year voted, is unconstitutional and void. The Democrats considered themselves bound by this decision and did not forward tickets to their friends in the army. Notwithstanding, when the Democratic soldiers found their Abolition friends voting, some of them wrote their own tickets and also cast their ballots. For instance in McPherson's company, from Adams county, (the company which he raised and afterwards deserted) Gen. Coffroth had 2 majority over his competitor, the ex-Captain.

Congressional Election Laws.

By the 81st section of the Election Law passed 2d July, 1839, the Congressional District Return Judges are required to meet on the seventh day after the Election. In the act of 1st of May, 1861, districting the State for Congress, it is enacted that the district return Judges shall meet in pursuance of the 81st section of the Act of 1839, referred to above. By the Act of the 10th of April, 1862, reorganizing the Congressional districts, it is prescribed that the returns shall be made in the same manner as directed in the Act of 1st of May, 1861. And in neither of the Acts of 1861 and 1862 are any of the provisions in regard to the "Army vote" adopted! There is but one day fixed BY LAW for the meeting of Congressional Return Judges, and that is THE SEVENTH DAY AFTER THE ELECTION! How will the Abolitionists get over this?— They have got the Return Judges into a beautiful snap!—Gettysburg Compiler.

Just previous to the election of 1861 Gov. Curtin issued a proclamation authorizing an army vote. Subsequently the law was pronounced unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Therefore the Governor did not issue a proclamation for an army vote at the election of Tuesday last. Did McConaughy's Return Judges think of this when they followed his lawless lead on Friday ?—Gettysburg Compiler.

The Patriot & Union, of Saturday, says: "If the Abolitionists dare to use a partial army vote to change the result of Tuesday's election—or resort to any other base trick to defeat the expressed will of the people there will be REVOLUTION! * * We warn these miscreants that if they persist in their infamous and lawless work, an outraged and indignant people will assert the majesty and supremacy of the laws, by visiting on their heads the most fearful retribution."

The Other Side of the Picture.

Who is prepared to say what a day may bring forth? Wednesday our morning and evening Abolition cotemporaries, were as jubilant as though they had succeeded in securing the command of the army for Fremont. To-day they are as desponding as though they had not a friend on earth. Good news travels slowly, but it comes along at last. Little by little the clouds which overhung Democratic skies floated away, and to-day all is glorious sunshine. Democracy has triumphed, and Abolition is defeated, routed, demoralized. Pennsylvania has spoken and Abolition cowers at her thunder tones.

It is amusing to read the watery lucubrations of the Bulletin upon the results of the election. Yesterday they were as jubilant as was John W. Forney, when he called for that song on Tuesday night—to-day it has "apprehensions" that all is not right. It finds an excuse for the defeat of Galusha A. Grow, in the stale lie that the Union men of Grow's district had all gone to war. It palliates the defeat of Mr. McPherson by saying, "that the geographical position of this district naturally creates more of sympathy with secession than is to be found in other parts of the State, and besides the recent rebel raid diverted the Union men from political labor while it encouraged Democracy to renewed efforts." The people of Grow's district defeat him because their district is in the extreme northern part of the State, while the people of McPherson's district defeat him because his district is in the extreme south! Sound reasoning that—worthy of a Dogberry But what has the Bulletin to say of Schuylkill and Luzerne, and Northampton and Lehigh, and Carbon and Wayne, and Monroe and Bucks, and Montgomery? These counties are neither on the extreme north or south. They are to a great extent removed from either influence, and yet they are overwhelmingly Democratic. "Cease, vipers, you are gnawing a file !" For once in your lives come out like honest men and own up to the fact—that you have been defeated, woefully, unmistakably defeated, and that your defeat is not attributable to geographical positions, nor to local causes, but to that most unholy of all unholy political causes—the prostitution of the country and all its best interests to the base purpose of Abolition. Constitutional Union.

It is now conceded that the Democratic State Ticket is elected by about 3,000 majority Iowa is reported for the Abolitionists.