THE IMPORTANCE OF A VOTE.
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Notwithstanding the largo democratic ma jority in each branch of the Pennsylvania le- gislature, the majority in the house would have been sic more than 1t IS, had only l4 of the democrats who stayed at home, voted. The democrats appear to have had all the bad luck, where the vote was at all close, losing three members of the house, by an aggregate majority of eieren votes. Thus Tn Milllin county, Mr. Postlcthwaite, the demo- cratic candidate for the legislature, Is beaten by seven majority--while Mir. Prick, III Bcd- ford county, and Mr. Hibbs, in Bucks, (demo- crats) lose their election by two votes each. Three more democratic votes in each of these counties, and eight more in Mifflin, (and there are more than enough in these, counties, who did not vote at all, to have turned the scale) would have elected three more demo- crats to the legislature, and have made six difference on test vote. As 1t happens, they are not wanted to secure the house; but i, might have been otherwise, aud in fact the house lost by mere remssness in the exercise of the elective franchise.

 So in one, at least, of the congress dis tiicts, the result of the omission of democrats to vote is seen, ill the election by mere