Polk A Minority President

-The rr.Y. Herald has a table of the electoral and popular vote of the severa! States, giving Polk 170, and Clay 105 electoral votes, and at the same time showing that by the popular vote, Polk falls behind the untted Clay and Birney vote, nearly 15,000. - The Herald says: "it will beseen from these returns that, although Mr. Polk is elected by a majority of nearly two to one over Mr. Clay, in the electoral vote, yet he will probably be 15,000 ofthe popular vote bebïnd the aggregate vote cast for Clay and Birney unitcd. This would make him what is strictly termed a "minority President." - Yet it is no less true, that even if the great State of New York had gone for Clay, Mr. Polk would have been elected without it. For it is a singular fact that nearly the whole of the Yalley of the Mis sippi, with the exception of Kentucky and Ohio - onder the immediate personal influence of Mr. Clay and his frïends - ha gone for Mr. Polk by a large popular ma.