The weekly Ottumwa courier., 1860-11-29

The Davenport Gazette thinks the Ottum-
wa Courier wrong to rejoice much over the
election news, becluse there is small d .mo-
cratic gain in the county! We undertake
ts say that no set of men in the State work.
cd harder for the Republican party, from the
vsy commen ,cm ,nt of the campiign t. its
close, than did the gallant Republicans of
Wapclio county. They are entitled to
large need ofpraiso. And now, after they
have lahored long aud well, and against all
hop, of success, t. deny then the pleasure of
rejoicing at the general good fortune, is eX-
ceedingly lll.natured. The Gazette ought
to know that new importations of railroad
hands, at work on the Keokuk road. caused
the Democratic gain. But f,r these the Re-
publican gains off tn, railroal hlc would
well nigh have carried the county.
The Glsette is IN the banner R"pibl;can
county, which has d me npby, as has the
Gazette itself We can tell it, however, that
where men fight well, and that az inst cd l.,
they are deserving Of even more lrasc than
those who are cheered hy prospects of sue
cess. II the Gazette wants to see hard work
ing Republicans it can find ihrm in the Nor
rises, the MitchcllS, th, Wardens, the
Haynes, the Summers, the Ivescs, the Ali
sons, and others, not few, all over Wapel
10 county.
Nor are we certain that hid there not
been gross frauds pcrpctrated by the Demo-
Gratis Of Wapello. 1t would have gone Demo-
cratic. BE thataS it may, there. as in many
other strongly Democratic coun ies-Davis,
Wayne and Marion, for ins'ance--the Re-
pul licans worked harl and long. That they
have failed Of success is t'reir misfortune, not
their fault. Especially do we regret that
Joseph Hay ,e has been dcfeltcl for the
Clerkship cf Wapello ty.-Iora State
Reporter.
Our talented and warm hearted friend,
1 lngersoll, whom we set down aS the author
of the above, viii please accept the thanks of
the Republicans Of W,pello, for 50 prompt
ard generous vindication of his old friends
in Lower Egypt. He has done it al in right
handsome terms, and we hold ourselves IN
debted to him for this and numerous other
favors.
But, to the raScally Davenport Gazette, we
have to say, that ifhe has any objections to
our rejoicing over old Ab,'s election, he n ay
object and b. darned. He lives away up in
/,
and nobody in these parts knows, him or
want to know him. We should like to see
him objecting to our celebrating! Why we
have done little else since the election, and
we intend to keep ~ celebrating fr the
next four years.
But we didn't give old Abe quite So much
minority as Scott County (that is the coun,
ty where the Gazette fellow lives That is
Fact ; but we gave him all we could, ana
VIC did quite as well, underth the circumstances,
as any other county in the State, as well in
commenced the canvass with about 800 ma
jority, they soy 500. They had from 800 to
1000 Railroad hands to operate upon, AMI
keep to vote, AMI they did keep 800 of them,
who actually voted, making some 900 maj,
to overcome, and the hardest kind of a sla-
iorty too. Well the result shows that they
gave Cole 3l2, and Douglas 2S7 majority ex-
actly, and Joseph Hayne was beat only 129.
Now if it is considered that Wapello county
has been regarled, and has been, the most
reliable and obstinate Democratic county in
the State that the moral night and darkness
which broo is over the minds of the kind of
Democrats which inhabit this county has.
been the most profound and inpenctrable
perhaps on the dark surface Of our political
ocean, constituting it the very heart and
centre of Lower Egypt that the leaders of
the county are notoriously the most lying,
unprinriplel, nscrupu'oIs, and at the
same time the most active set of managers
in the State when all this is taken into
the account, the result in Wapcllo, to reason,
able, sensible people, viii not appear to be
one at which any Republican of Wapello need
blnsh. In fact, the result was victory,
great deal better than we could hope under
the circumstances, and one most surprising
to the Democrats, who had calculated upon
at least 600, enough they imagined to turn
the nearly even political balance in this
District in favor of Cole.
Now if tie Editor Of the Davenport Ga
sette, Who role out the, storm upon his 1860
majority, chooses to call in question our right
simply to unite our voices with the shout
which is going up in con- memoraton Of the
election of Honest Old Abe, all we have to
say is, that VIC think he is unkinl and un-
generous, and that we should have expected
something different from the Home orRusch.
Price AMI Thorington We are inclined to
think that the Editor in question has become
insane over his 1860 majority, and the proba-
bly, rich fruits Of a splendid local victory,
and is disposed to turn up his nose at those
who hay'nt any majority, nary patronage,
and who have been fighting against odds
for the fun of the thing-save the pleasure OF
rejoicing over Old Abe's victory, which latter
we hope the Gazette will come down and
conclude to let lis do
Financial matt ,rs are no worse, to say the
least, 'han they were last w,ek Sven Iii
nois B in'ls, t, wit: The Btak of Aurora.
the State Bank, Slawactown; Blnk of tn.
Commonwealth, Corn Eychang, Bank,
American Exchange Bank of Raleigh, and