Railroad Elections

These are becoming very common, and th resul ts are hernlded nbroad as important. A ! respectfng them may not be amisa. n electh on a Railroad car, or a Steamboat may det mine ihe Bentiments of (he persons present b noihing more. Yet if the aggregate of J were f-ut together, thcy would form a tolerabl fair index of the political feeling of the travellin ponton of communiry, and if an equal proportioï of each party travclled, it would be a fair teat party Btrength. But we suppose this is not tho case. Th farmers travel on steam routes, proportiónatcly less than professional men and and foreigners less than native Americana. He ihe real strength of a party whose voleare draw chiefly from the farmers, as are ihose of theLib erty party, or a party that embraces most of th roreigners,8a do the Democnusin thissiate will U but imperfectly ascertoined by a stenmboat or rail rond election. Still, however, the resuít of the elections is highly favorablo to the Liberty pnrty The proportion of Liberty voters n the Pre' States to all others last fall was about one in 30 - wherèas the various railroad elections we havo seen give us far more than that proportion A gentleman travelling from Jackson, Mich to Rochester, N. Y. reporta in anAlbany páp8r sundry elections which resulted for dav 14fi Polk 76, Birney 32. Y '