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For Lieutenant-Governor. Samnel W. Headlee ; 

 ,te., William R. Leflet; for 

 Ainlitur. Kwui C. Hale; for Treasurer, John 

 II. l-'i--. i ; for Attorney-General, Daniel 8. 

 Twitch, 11; lor KiviMcr of Lands, Colby T. 

 Quisenborry ; for Superintendent of Schools, 

 John Monteith ; for Jndge of the Snpr. m.- 

 C'ourt, Samuel Knsworth; for Judge of Su- 

 l>:vmo Court, short term, Peter E. Bland. 



The election took place on the 8d of No\ m- 

 ber, and resulted in the success of the Demo- 

 cratic ticket. The total vote for Governor was 

 '-'<, i,r.70, of which Hardin received 149,566, and 

 (i entry 112,104, making the former's majority 

 37,462. The majorities for the Democratic can- 

 didates for other offices varied from 87,670 for 

 Mr. Colman, for Lieutenant-Governor, to 47,- 

 '217 for Mr. lloyt for Judge of the Supreme 

 Court. At the same election thirteen members 

 of Congress were chosen, all of whom were 

 Democrats. Seven of the thirteen were mem- 

 -f the Forty-third Congress. The Legis- 

 lature of 1875 consists of 28 Democrats and 6 

 Hi-publicans in the Senate, and 91 Democrats 

 Mini 40 Republicans in the House, making the 

 I 'emocratic majority 22 in the Senate, 51 in the 

 House, and 78 on a joint ballot. The question 

 of calling a convention to revise the constitu- 

 tion of the State was also submitted to a vote 

 of the people at this election, and was decided 

 in the affirmative by a majority of only 288 out 

 of a total vote of 222,815. In accordance with 

 this decision, the Governor ordered an election 

 for delegates to the proposed convention, to 

 take place on the 26th of January, 1875. 



CHARLES H. HABDIN, who was elected Gov- 

 ernor of Missouri on the 3d of November, and 

 inaugurated January 12, 1875, was born in 

 Columbia, Boone County, in 1820, whence he 

 moved to Fulton in 1848, and began the prac- 

 tice of law. He was elected attorney of the 

 third judicial district in 1848, and held the of- 

 fice four years. He was first elected to the 

 lower branch of the Legislature in 1852, and 

 served several times therein. In 1855 he was 

 one of the commissioners appointed to revise 

 the State laws. In 1860 he was chosen to the 

 State Senate, and was chairman of the Judiciary 

 Committee. He voted against the secession 

 of the State from the Union, and in 1862 left 

 the Legislature, and retired to his farm in Au- 

 drain County. At the close of the war he had 

 resumed the practice of law, and was living 

 near the town of Mexico. In 1872 he was an 

 unsuccessful candidate for Circuit Judge, but 

 was elected to the State Senate again, and was 

 a member of that body when chosen Gov- 

 ernor. A female college, near Mexico, bears 

 Mr. Hardm's name, having been endowed by 

 him with real estate valued at $80,000. 



The past year has seen the completion of 

 the great bridge over the Mississippi River at 

 St. Louis. A brief statement of this magnifi- 

 cent work was given in the volume for 1873. 

 It was constructed for the Illinois & St. Louis 

 Bridge Company, of which Charles K. Dick- 



son, of St. Louid, is president ; Robert Lennox 

 -dy, of New York, vice-president; Jamet 

 II. Mritton, treasurer. A large amount of 

 the stock is held in England. It is the most 

 costly bridge in this country. The conntnu - 

 tion has lieen directed from tin- t.c/inniiig by 

 Captain James B. Eadn. The bridge has three 

 spans, each formed with four ribbed arches, 

 made of cast-steel. The centre span is 520 

 and the side ones 500 feet each in the 

 clear. The four arches forming these spans 

 consist each of an upper and lower curved rib, 

 extending from pier to pier, and an horizontal 

 system of bracing extends between these ribs, 

 tt the purpose of securing the arches in their 

 relative distances from each other. The two 

 centre arches of each span are 13 feet 9J inches. 

 apart from centre to centre, and the upper 

 member of one arch is secured to the lower one 

 of the other by a system of diagonal bracing. 

 The roadways are formed by transverse iron 

 beams 12 inches in depth, suitably separated. 

 From the opposite ends of the iron beams, 

 forming the roadways, a double system of diag- 

 onal, horizontal iron bracing binds the whole 

 together. The original estimate contemplated 

 an extreme width of 50 feet for the bridge, but 

 this was afterward increased to 54 feet 2 inches 

 for several reasons. The upper roadway is 84 

 feet wide between the foot-walks. The latter 

 are 8 feet in width. The railway-passages be- 

 low the carriage-way are each 14 feet 6 inches 

 in the clear, and 18 feet high. The railways are 

 carried over the wharves on each side of the 

 river on 6 stone arches, each 26 feet wide, and 

 are inclosed throughout the distance by a cut- 

 stone arcade of 20 arches, supporting the upper 

 roadway. They are then carried on brick 

 arches into the tunnel on Third Street. On the 

 Illinois shore the railways reach the level of the 

 East St. Louis railways by a descending grade 

 of H foot in 100 for a distance of 8,000 feet. 

 The carriage-road at the eastern end descends 

 with a grade of 4 feet in 100, and on the Mis- 

 souri side the grade is nearly level. Its strength 

 is so enormous that, if the bridge was loaded 

 with people from one end to the other, the 

 arches would only be taxed to the extent of 

 less than one-sixth of the ultimate strength of 

 the steel of which they are constructed. The 

 piers and abutments were designed with a view 

 to sustain either span when thus loaded, even 

 if the others were entirely unloaded, and to 

 sustain either span entire if, from any cause, 

 the adjoining ones should be destroyed. The 

 arches were designed with a similar end in 

 view. The three arches are capable of sus- 

 taining 28,972 tons before giving way ; so that 

 it will be seen that the bridge could sustain a 

 vastly greater load than could possibly be 

 placed upon it. The greater part of the stone 

 composing the masonry is a firm magnesian 

 limestone, yell -wish in color, and was taken 

 from the quarries at Grafton, Illinois. This 

 material was used only under water. From 

 two feet below low-water mark to two feet 



