The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-11-18

From tho Chicago Press aud Tribune.l
A successful Expsriasns.
We do not attach much importan0s 70 The
county elections for Treasurer, Surveyor and
School Commissioner, hsld IN this State on
Tuesday lest. In many counties personal
considerations oyerbore political preferences
and party rule. But The result in tke county
OF Id Sale. where tho Republicans cannot
claim more than one hundred majority ia .
local scramble for places in the Court House,
deserves special notice. The Republican
ticket in La Sale, this time, counts nearly .
round thousand majority in local contest
for county officers, against seven hundred last
fall 10 the most CLOSELY contested campaign
the State has ever known. All hands seem
TO be agreed a. to the provoking cause Of
this unexpected majority-which may be sta
ted ~ follows:
Some three weeks ago = colored man WAS
driven SUCCESSFULLY through the streets OF La
Sale and Ottawa with hawser around his
body, and half dozen g-dog loafers,
with pistols in their hands and bowie knives
in their belts, 1t his rear. The appearance
of this phenoms non Of LaSalle caused such
an excitement that the Irishmen and canal
laborers were with difficulty restrained from
tearing the slave drivers in pieces and setting
the negro free. An intelligent and sober
minded spectator OF the scene tells us that II
blow had been struck or shout raised moth
ing could have prevented the mobbing OF the
gang on the spot by those scho regularly pots
the Democratic lsclksG. Bnt the posse we're
allowed to proceed to Ottawa, where the me-
gro was again driven through the public
highway, hawser, pistols, bowie knives, loaf-
ers and all. After brief examination nj
the Court House, in which bubble got the
better OF justice, the negro xas taken in
charge by the spectators and despatched to-
ward Canada, whereat the Democratic news.
paper made . great outcry, and the Demo-
cratic orators were intensely afflicted. They
called the populAce Of Ottawa mob, -
matter OF courss. They called meeting to
denounos the mob, but straDEs 70 my, Dem !
ocrats were present TO defend the mob, and
the meeting broke up in most admired disor-
der. Then came the election, and then same
. thousand Republican majority. The De-
mocrAcy had experimental on the instinct OF
LIsKRrY in tho Human breast, and the result
surpassed their most sanguine expectations!
THE GsxAr EAsfkRk FAILuRE.--The fol-
lowing extract We take from the letter of the
London correspondent Of the Boston Post:
The Great Eastern has fummnxe1! The
l.ading journal records its trial trip ~ ssonly
| partial success We all know what that
| meansJ She rolls like . peFpoise or q log
canoe, the decks leak, the iron plates don't
it, the decorations crumble and disappear,
and--the worst remains behind-she Dan on
| iy 20 little more than half the speed that
was expected of her The very best that can
4 4 4 a.. Al @. III.
circumstances Of wind, water and coal, 10
thirteen miles an hour. So say some know
| ing enginesrs who were on board, and who
There is no Disgusting it. The great hull ID
worth all il would bring for old iron.
| 0ICol. Forney says in HE Press Of Sat-
urday:
The primary elections in Philadelphia
prove conclusively that the President 10 in
the field for denomination. His beloved
friend, his companion, his Pythias, his Ro-
meo, James Gordon Bennett, OF the New
York Herald, announces his name as the
only one that can unite the Democratic par
y, and save the country in 1860.
He expects to unite the South ct the
Charleston Convention, after . contest be-
tween others, and with the aid OF Northern
votes to secure q nomination; then by the
aid OF united Southern vote at the Noyem-
Der contest in 1860, he looks forward to the
electoral colleges Of Oregon, California and
New Jersey, to swell up his vote, 30 ~ to
leave the decision OF it to Pennsylvania
When that contingency arises,
/ "May 10 be the re to see''
I
Il. @. R.--We learn from official sourcss'
that the underground railroad, big branch
of which runs through this city, up to the
Canadian frontier, has been doing an unusu-
ally large business this year. Some days
the "train" takes doxen ct time, and the
aggregate business Of the year il counted By
hundreds. One gentleman, who 10 high.
toned conservative Denocrat--a sustsiner oil