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\vliich 10,901 wore Democratic, and 7,630 Rc- 

 |iu!ilic:in. Th<- I.'-^islaturo, which consists of 

 Senators and seven Representatives from 

 of tin- throe counties, is unanimously 

 cratic in both branches. 

 '1 here were several slight disturbances at 

 the elections, owing to a disposition in HUIMU 

 pl.-i.vs to intiniidato the negroes from v.>t'm'_r, 

 aii'l t!i.- presence of United States officers at 

 ;M)Hiug-placos to secure them in the exer- 

 cise of that privilege. Both the enfranchiso- 

 of the negro, and the interference of the 

 Feileral Government at elections, have been 

 stubbornly opposed by the dominant party of 

 Delaware from the first. Governor Saulsbury, 

 in his message to the Legislature of 1871, ap- 

 parently expresses the sentiments of his party 

 when he says: "In disregard of constitution- 

 al obligations, Congress and the Federal Ex- 

 ecutive have sought, by revolutionary means, 

 to centralize and consolidate all political power 

 in their own hands by attempting to control 

 elections in the States. Without the power by 

 direct act to amend the Constitution or alter 

 its provisions, and unable to secure the volun- 

 tary consent of the number of States requisite 

 for that purpose, they have forced some of the 

 Southern States to consent to proposed amend- 

 ments of the Constitution as a condition to rep- 

 resentation in Congress, and have thereby 

 nullified the legally-expressed will of other 

 States whose consent could not be secured, and 

 whose proper and legal relations with the 

 Federal Government had never been inter- 

 rupted. Such action is a fraud upon the non- 

 consenting States, and upon the people of the 

 whole country. It is a subject of congratula- 

 tion, however, that the people in the late elec- 

 tions rebuked these acts of usurpation and 

 tyranny, and we may well indulge the hope 

 that the spirit of true patriotism will assert 

 its superiority over party subserviency, and 

 remove from power the representatives of a 

 political organization which has failed, during 

 a period of five years of profound peace, to 

 bring the country back to the healthy con- 

 dition in which it found it at the time of 

 its advent to power in 1860. Until recently 

 no political party in the country has ven- 

 tured to claim for the Federal Government 

 any authority to determine the qualification 

 of electors in the States, or to interfere with 

 the just rights of the people of every State 

 to determine all matters connected with 

 their own local elections. The fifteenth 

 amendment, adopted by fraud and coercion, 

 and in opposition to the will of the white peo- 

 ple of the country, has been condemned by 

 the popular voice in almost every State of the 

 Union, and in none more signally than our 

 own. Its effects upon both races must prove 

 injurious, and it is to be hoped that its con- 

 demnation by the people of the country will, 

 at no distant day, lead to its repeal as a part 

 of the Federal Constitution." 

 DENMARK, a kingdom in Europe. King, 



Christian IX., born on April 8, 1808; sac- 

 ceodod King Frederick VII. on November 15, 

 Il.-ir, Prince Frederick, born Juno 8, 

 1848 ; married to Princess Louisa of Sweden, 

 on July 28, 1869 ; oldest son, born at Copen- 

 hagen, September 27, 1870. A new Cabinet 

 was appointed on May 28th, composed of the 

 following members : Holstein-Holsteinborg, 

 President of the Council ; RosenOrnlehn, For- 

 eign Affairs; Haffher, War and Marine, ad in- 

 terim ; Fonnesbech, Interior; Krieger, Jus- 

 tice; Fcnger, Finance; Hall, Public Worship. 

 Area of Denmark Proper, 14,698 English 

 square miles ; of the dependencies, Faroe, 

 Iceland, Danish settlements in Greenland, the 

 islands of St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. John, 

 in the West Indies, 40,214 square miles. Min- 

 ister of the United States in Denmark, M. J. 

 Cramer (November, 1870). Minister of Den- 

 mark in the United States, F. E. do Bille, ap- 

 pointed in 18G7. According to the official 

 census of February 1, 1870, the population 

 of Denmark was as follows : 



Zealand MOen, Samsoe 636,500 



FQhnen Lnnjjeland, Arroe 2S;.2f!U 



I/illimcl, Fallster 91,017 



B ..rnholm 81.R16 



Jutland 787,927 



Total 1,783,565 



The population of the Danish dependencies 

 was, in 1860, 108,983. 



The population of the largest cities was as 

 follows in 1870: Copenhagen, 180,866 (with 

 Fredericksburg, 197,151); Odense, 16,970; 

 Aarhaus, 15,025 ; Aalborg, 11,721 (with Norre 

 Sundby, 12,330); Randers, 11,354; Horsens, 

 10,501. 



In the budget for the year 1869-'70, the 

 revenue is estimated at 22,039,391 rix-dollars; 

 the expenditures at 22,358,024. The public 

 debt, on March 31, 1869, amounted 119,141,- 

 100 rix-dollars. The army, in 1869, was com- 

 posed as follows : 



On a war footing the total army numbered 

 52,656. 



The fleet, at the close of 1868, consisted of 

 30 steamers, inclusive of 6 iron-clads, with 

 an aggregate of 312 guns, 2 sailing-vessels, 

 27 gunboats, and 21 transports. 



The imports in the year 1868-'69 amounted 

 to 20,010,000 hundred-weight; the exports, to 

 7,270,000 hundred-weight. 



The emigration from Copenhagen has been 

 active only during the last few years. In 

 1869 it amounted to 12,141 persons (against 

 5,600 in the year 1868) ; among the former, 

 4,860 emigrants were Danes, while 6,514 were 



