The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1857-10-24

Leavenworth City, 523 213
Delaware City, 80 So 100
Easton, 46 maj.
Wyandot, 66 6
kiast asg;ss Pro. SLAYER, mai. maj 4 $50
This county is entitled to three Senators
and eight Representatives.
The Free State men will contest the cleo
ton as immense frauds were practiced at
Kickapoo, Missourians and soldiers both vo-
ting in large numbers.
SHAWNEE COUNTY.
Precincts. Free State. Nat. Dem.
Topeka, 1874 4
Tecumseh, l29 IS
Brownville. 81
Wakarusa City, 81 .s 5
Free State majority GOO.
Council City, strong Free State precinct,
not heard from. ...s. e.. ....
precints. Free State. Pro-Slav.
Osawatamie, $50 none.
Stanton, lra 81 4
Bull Greek, % So
Miami, IS II
Total Vote, 355 u
Lykins elects two Representatives-both
Republicans. -r. ....s.. s..
FRANKLIN COUNTY. ..... II
Centropolis, l08 Free State mai.
aia COFFEE COUNTY.
Burlington, Ks l32 F. S. maj.
JEFFERSON COUNTY.
Grasshopper Falls, 176 F. s. to l6 Dem.
DoNIPHAN COUNEY.
The town Of Doniphan gave Democratic
majority Of 30, Troy 20, Wathena 40; total
80. Palermo gave Q Free State majoity of
81. Two precints to hear from, which it is
believed will give Republican majorities.
! One dispatch says that the Democrats car
ried the county by IS majority; another that
the Republicans have it by % votes. We
think the Bordsr Rufians imported enough
votes from across the River to secure it.
. ATcuIsoN COUNTY. .z.-.
The town Of Atchison gave o Democratic
majority Al, according to the st Louis Re-
publican. A later dispatch says the aver
age Democratic Majority in Atchison county
is sixty, insuring them three members in the
Lower and oncin the Upper House.
Calhoun county has gone Republican by
"a majority. 1t elects one member.
Jefferson county Republican by $50, giving
two members to the House and one to the
Council. r..
The above returns are all we have been
able to collect, from which it appears that
Border Ruiian Democracy have carried the
/ four counties Oh the river adjoining Missouri,
viz: Doniphan, Atchison, Leav enworth and
johnson. The majority in the latter, how
ever, is overcome by the splendid Republic
can vote of Douglas, in which Lawrence is
located. The other three gives the Ruffians
l6 members in the Lower House, provided
they have carried Doniphan, which is in
doubt. But in the Council or Upper House,
they are sure Of four members. Doniphan
having been attached to four Republican
counties, for the purpose of swapping them,
got swamped herself Chicago Tribune.
From the St. Louis Democrat.
Earthquake ut 81 Louis.
On the morning of the 9Th inst, at twenty
minutes past four clock, nearly the whole
population Of this city and region, were
startled from repose by the roar and COM
motion of a violent earthquake. The first
premonition is said to have been given by a
slight conclusion about midnight. But at
the time stated, those who were awake,
heard low and distant rumbling which
failed to arouse attention, till it rapidly in.
creased to the volume of the sound of heavy
trains Of cars laundering through every
street Of the city. Some Eken the noise to
a protracted reverberatng explosion, others
to the mere passing of market wagons-but
all agree that it was tremendous. When at
its height the buildings began to rock ap-
pallingly. Thousands sprang from their
beds in alarm, and rushed into the streets.
The northern sky was clear, but from the
southwarda heavy mis-. was swiftly advanc-
ing, and in moment nearly obscured the
street lamps. In many instances the lamps
were in an instant unaccountably extinguish-
ed. The violent shock lasted full three
fourths of minute, and was instantly sue.
ceeded by second roar and attendant shock
of less severity. Many describe both as one,
and even that the heavy shock lasted full
three minutes. In about FIVE minutes af-
terward the noise and conclusion were re-
peated with comparative mildness, but very
perceptibly.
We conversed with many on the occurrence
and their statements, of course various, at
test and corroborate the above. citizen
living on Gratiot and Fourth street, in a
heavily built house, whose walls are of
eighteen inches thickness, and who was
sleeping on the first floor, describes the
shock as excessively violent, and the motion
as horizontal vibration from east to west.
A mirror hanging on north and south wall,
swayed from and towards the wall, through
an arc of several inches. He ran into the
street, expecting the fall, if not Of his own
house, of Trailer wall near, and found
dense fog swiftly rolling from the south
ward, and shortly enveloping everything.
An intelligent gentleman, living on Cen
ter, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth
streets, states that the heavy rumbling, as if
by host II coal wagons, proceeded from
the southwark, that the things shook from
north to south, and with an appalling vio-
l,nce, that then dense mist appeared, and
in ten minutes occurred another shock, the
accompanying noise bearing more from the
eastward. A well-known physician in his
vicinity, was affrighted at hearing the brick
walls of his residence positively cracking
and swapping around him.
We are appraised that a slight shock was
felt on Monday, the court house being per-
ceptibly Jared, though no vehicle was at
the time, passing.
At hotel on Third Street, a thief was
engaged in extracting the sum Of thirty
cents from boarders pocket, when the COM
motion so agitated his conscience and per-
son, that he dropped the dimes and called
upon the waking owner Of them to fee, for
the house was falling. lie, of course, fed.
A gentleman from Bridgcton, fourteen
miles from the city, says that the shock
there was also excessively violent, and that
the motion was an undulating one, accom-
panied with vertical vibrations of the earth.
The river OF course was not exempt from
the commotion. Waves several feet in
height are said to have suddenly risen and
dashed upon the banks, rcceding and again
returning.
Literary Enterprises.
The New York Herald predicts that the
present revulsion Of financial affairs will be
the death of hundreds of literary enterpri-
scs. 1t says:
...Harper's Weekly will be sure to lose
half OF it's subscribers; and Harper's Maga-
zine cannot expect to fare any better. As
for our neighbor-the New York Ledger
we give that paper six months to die ont
altogether; perhaps with careful manage