The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-10-10
Fhe Long Agony over.

Well, the State ana county elecLlOnS,
about which the people of the Common
wealth have been, since last winter, so much
excited, are over, and SO soon as the returns
come in, and we know the result, the
community will settle down into a compar.
1tive calm. 1t is true that the Presidential
election will be in suspense still, but if Lane
and our State ticket should prove to have
succeeded by majority of several thous-
ands, the carrying of the State by Lincoln
will be a foregone conclusion. No coalition
between his Notwithstanding that is
likely to transpire-can prevent this con-
summation. - stt.
If on the contrary, Hendricks carries the
State, or If Lane carries it by only small
majority, Lincoln can still gain it in No
vember, but it will require hard work to ac-
complish this result In that case, the
hardest political battle ever fought in the
State will come off between now and No.
vember. All the armies will muster their
forces in full array, and Indiana will be a
common political fighting ground.
Without hearing anything at the time of
7riting, of the result, that is at all satisfac-
tory or even indicative, we still entertain
the opinion that we have already expressed,
viz. that our State ticket will be elected
by not less than 5000 average majority.
We shall not be surprised at 5000 or 1000.
We confidently expect to announce its sue
cess to our readers in due time. Our faith
is strong, and has been so constantly.
As for the result in the County, it is use
less to guess. We shall soon know who is
elected. We can say, that we have had no
doubt of the election of Wolfin and Hop
kins, and yesterdays proceedings have but
strengthened our confidence in their success.
1t can hardly be possible for the intelligent
voters of Vanderburgh to decide otherwise.
There never has been an election in this
city, probably, that has passed off so peace
ably as this, where the interest was so
great. The saloons were generally closed,
and though some of them must have sold
liquor con the sly" there was very little
drunkenness. Every person was pleased to
see so little misbebaviOr and confusion.
There was one passage at fsticufs that We
heard of, and much warm electioneering
and discussion, but little quarreling. This
peaceable conduct on an occasion that is
naturally exciting and provocative of angry
contention, is highly creditable to our city
authorities and our people generally. In no
city or town anywhere could better order
have been maintained. The effect will be
to render elections in future more calm and
dispassionate.
There is great anxiety to know the result
People become impatient to know it. We
have arrangements made that ought to give
US the news promptly, and we shall GER
tainly do all we can to satisfy the public
mind at the earliest moment. Our paper
will be left open late every night in order
to get all the news afoat, and if anything
of interest comes near the mid lie of the
day, we shall issue extras.
Our readers should bear in mind that the
ticket is very long, and the vote extremely
large and hence that the counting is slow
work. We expect to give them the definite
result in this county tomorrow morning,
and the district by Saturday We can also
probably tell the result in the State by Sat
urday, If the race is not close one The
result in Pennsylvania and Ohio can doubt
less be ascertained by that date.