The Wheeling Daily Register

The President on the Mississippi Elections.

Senator Thayer, of Nebraska, had a conversation with President Grant yesterday on the subject of the Mississippi election. He called the President's attention to a published telegram to the effect that Judge Dent was represented as saying that the President sustained him as a candidate for Governor. The President said he had himself seen the statement, and had enclosed it to Judge Dent, asking if he had been correctly reported. To this inquiry he had not as yet made a reply.

The President further stated that in August last he addressed Judge Dent a letter, advising him not to connect himself with the Conservative movement against the party now supporting Alcorn, the former being, he said, the enemies of the Administration and Government. While he was on good personal relations with Judge Dent, he nevertheless felt bound by public duty to oppose his election and desire the success of Alcorn. These views he unqualifiedly and emphatically repeated to Senator Thayer. He believed from what he had heard that Alcorn would be elected.

Conversing on the subject of the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, he expressed the hope that the Nebraska Legislature would be convened this coming winter in order to ratify the Amendment. The sessions of the Nebraska Legislature are biennial, and the next regular session will not take place till January, 1871.