The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-10-19


We gleanthe following from the Des Moines
Register:
The Bloomfield Guard, in an Extra, issued
on the 18th, glorifes over the result in Davis
county as follows: "Old Davis Redeemed.
Regenerated and Disenthralled- The Quarter
OF Century of Democratic Misrule at an end
-lSO majority for the Union-The People
have cleaned out the Augean stable-Not q
Cop remains in Office to tell the tale-the
doors of Old Davis ara open to Yankee i'm.
migration u
w. Hartshorn, the wide-awake editor of
the Corydon Monitor, writes of the result in
Wayne Co., ave have returns from every
township and our ticket is elected BY maio-
rites ranging from 20 to 100. Wayne was
the only county in the South tier, which voted
in favor of the amendment ofthe fourth reso-
luton. All our County candidates endorsed
It, and the canvass vss made on that issue
What County in the State can show a brighter
record than that? The soul of John Brown
is marching on.p
A Republican friend in Mills County
writes as follows: s'The election passed oif
yesterday quietly and to the satisfaction of all
Union men. Stones majority in the county
is lis. All County officers on the Union
ticket are elected. The Copperheads had but
one candidate in the field for county Office,
viz: that Of Sheriff. They expected to elect
him, as three sore headed Republicans had
declared themselves independent candidates,
but the people showed their adherence to par
ty and principle by voting for the regular nom.
inee on the Republican ticket, who was
elected by handsome majority
Henry County gives Stone a majority of
1,050! II has been thus far reported as hav-
ing given only $50. The Mt. Pleasant Home
Journal says of the result: A full vote was
not polled in the county, but the Union ma
jority is large NEVERTHELESS. Stone will have
majority in the county over Benron Of aDost
one thousand. The entire Union county
ticket is elected, there being no opposition
except an the case pf NJ. Wpolspn, who was
opposed to Mr.. Palmer, independent candi-
date. Mr.. Woolson's majority, however. will
amount to six hundred and p5ebsbly more.
Delaware county gives majority of about
400 for Stone and the Republican nominees
county Offices.
Hon. James Wright is in receipt of letter
from Green county, saying that as far as
heard from the footings Of the returns in that
county are IS follows: Stones majority -,
Cues 81, Wrights SO, Fayille's 90, Addison
divers for Senator) l55, A. r. Mills for
Representative 90.
The Hardin county Sentinel saws the Re.
publican majority in that County will be, on
the State ticket, about $50, and that oil the
Republican County candidates are elected
except Mr.. Cusack, nominated for Treasurer.
fayette county casts majority of about
500 for the Republican State ticket This is
one of the counties which the 'possums and
Cops counted on to give Benton majority.
Jones county rolls up a clean majority of
about 500 for the Republican State ticket.
A friend at Fort Leavenworth. Kansas,
writes: :" There were Al votes cast by Iowa
officers and soldiers at this Post to-day Gov.
Stone received SO votes, Cue 3s, Favile 80.
Wright Al. Two votes were east for man
called I'm. II. Benton, probably intended
for Thomas II. Benton,) and two each for
Hamilton and Sennett. Upon three of the
ballots there was no name for Governor.
There was but one Polk county soldier here.
He, like the Ir,shRan, wanted The d-d
ndour to suffer, and voted the regular Union
ticket throughout
We learn from b. N. Orwig, Esq, who has
Just returned from Fort Kearnev. that the
Iowa soldiers at that place polled one hun
dred votes on the day of election. of which
Governor Stone received sixty eight, and Col.
Benton thirty-two. The regiment was COM
manded Ly Col Summers, the Comprehend
candidate for Senator inthe Ottumwa District.
and 1t is due to the Colonel to state that he
received one rote in his own regiment against
fifteen for Hon. +. H. Stiles, his true Union
competitor.