Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-10-17
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

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WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
The Elections. Long Agony IS ovsr'
The Day IS Ours ,,
INDIANA.
We have carried Indiana by from o,ooo
TO I 600 for Governor certainly. At the hour
at which we write, the Baltimore o"" sum
marv of the result for Congress there Is sup
rossd 70 he more nearly correct, as whole,
than any other similar information within our
rsacb. We accordingly adopt it, as follows !:
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct Is The Congressional
delegation stands seven Democrats and three
Republcaps, one uncertain, as follows
First District-James Lockhart, Dem. 200
mai over James c. Veach, Rep.
Second-Wm H English, Dem elected by
about 2 500 over John NJ. Wilson, Rep.
Third-James Hughes, Dem, elected by
LEO over John Hendrick, Rep
Fourth-James Foley, Dem, elected by
about !, 200 over VIM. Cumback, Rep.
Fifth-David Kigore, Rep, elected by
about 900 maj over Edmund johnson, Dem
SIXTH NJ Gregg, Dem, elected by about
200 over John Coburn, Rep.
Seventh-JOhn g. Davis, Dem elected by
about 600 over John P. Usher, Rep.
Eighth-Jam es Wilson, Rep elected BY
some $50 over D. w. Voorhees,, Dem.
Ninth-The vote close and uncertain.
Tenth-Robert Lowry, Dem elected by 800
over Samuel BrentOn, Rep.
Eleventh-John Petit, Rep reelected over
VIM. Carver, Dem, by small majority.
Our private dispatches claim that We have
elected a majority Of both branches of the
Legislature. We feel very sure that the lower
House is ours.
The Republicans have certainly carried
their State ticket in Ohio by large majority,
but, for Congress, they have met heavy losses.
The Union claims nine.
PENNSYLVANIA.
The aggregate of the corrections in the origi
nal (first) reports by telegraph from the Penn
sylvanis election continue to show considerable
gains for tho Democrats, as we anticipated
We shall publish no more details until the
official report from Harrisburg reaches US,
which will be somewhere within forty eight
hours. Suffice it to say that We do not per
ceive how with the information al hand that
now lies before us) cur total majority can be
ltSS tHdh HFt tuOusdHu on the State tlcKet
there
We ask to be INDUCED in saying a few
words, however, concerning the result in the
five counties wherein We worked for a month
as never before, though all who know US well
are aware that hard labor is our forte. These
were Centre, Northumberland, Union, Mifflin,
and Snyder. In those fiEe counties ct the
election Of Canal Commissioner last year
NichOlson's majority over Piummer dem
was l63-nOt vote being thrown in them for
either of the other candidates for that office
At tbs election on Tuesday last they gave an
aggregate Democratic majority Of S25. Or, in
other words the Democrats gained in them 93s.
In the whole course of our experience in
politics, we never knew our friends to labor a.
they did throughout those counties, every
man putting his shoulders to the wheel and
keeping them there under dead strain until
Tuesday night last To give the reader some
idea how such result was brought about, we
may instance the glorious county of Centre,
composed of rich and beautiful vallies, laying
around and between four distinct ranges e
rugged and dreary mountains. For a fort
night before the election at least two, and
sometimes four, meetings were held daily and
nightly in its various townships, which were
addressed by one, two or three speakers; the
county containing some Of the most promis.
ing young Democratic orators in the Union, as
we'll as not few veterans worth their weight
in gold in such a contest. On one occasion,
in that county. we rode 30 miles by stage over
the Seven Mountains and Brush Mountain,
and then ~ miles in buggy to a point in
the very lap of the rugged Alleghanies,
to address n handful of farmers Of German
descent by the light of single tallow candle
On another Occ aston after addressing meetings
for some days FIVE hours per diem two day.
We were 50 exhausted as TO require to be as
sisted by man on each side up hill, to
where some two hundred farmers awaited US,
whom we addressed for two hours and half.
On the Saturday before the election We spoke
for two hours in the open air at Aaronsburg,
aad then had barely time to drive rapidly
over fifteen miles of mountain road to Potter's
Mills, where another large audience awaited
US. On reaching that point We were unable
TO get out Of the buggy without assistance.
Yet We spoke after half an hours rest for two
hours and half more. We mention these
facts by way Of illustrating how Pennsylvania
Was carried in this remark able canvass, near.
ly all engaged in it on the Democratic side
Iaboring after the same fashion as far as we
could perceive
Arrival Of the President Enthusias-
tic Reception The roar Of cannon at p. N,
) yesterday, announced that the President was
On his way to Washington, and again at
clock salvOs of artillery gave confirmation Of
bis arrival by the evening train.
The President was received at tho station
BY the Committee of Reception by Colonel
Hickey, and other officers Of the District Regi-
neut, and by the large assemblage Of cit-
:ens, which, as On tho previous evening, com.
oletely filled the station house The full
uarine Band which was presenf atruck nm