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The " elections" in Pennsylvania have g one a g ainst the Repub-

licans, and their majority has been diminished in several other States. These elections, however, are not to Congress, and are greatly influenced by local questions, especially the propriety of prohibiting the sale of liquor. The New England Republicans, in- fluenced partly by an idea and partly by a fact, —the exceptionally bad effect of drink in their climate,—consider the consumption of alcohol a crime, and strive to put it down by law. This irritates not only the Democrats, but men who, like the Germans, are Republicans on all other subjects, but who will have beer, and costs the party in the cities an enormous vote. The same dispute before many years are over will decide English elections.