The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-10-14

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| ELEcrIos REruRXs.--A friend upon the
Des Moines Valley Road gives us the follow
ing election news. The official returns may
cause the amounts to vary somewhat:
Davis county IFS Union majority.
Appanoose county 150 to 200 Union ma
jority.
| Wapello county 131 Union.
Black Oak Township, Mahaska county, IL
Union majority
Knoxville AZ Union majority.
Red Rock 40 Union majority.
Pella S04 Democratic.
The Keosauqua Republican gives partial
returns from Van Buren, county, BY the
which it appears that the Union majority in
that county will not vary far from 45O
We gather the following from the Des
Moines Register:
The city of Clinton, Clinton county, gives
Stone majority of las. De Witt, in the
same county, gives the Republican ticket 40
majority. Nevada, Story county, gives Ben
ton majority Of A.
Council Bluffs gives majority of 100 for
Stone. A copperhead dispatch was received
by somebody, announcing that Pottawattamie
county had given a small majority for Ben
ton. We place no confidence in such dis
patches.
Union Township, Dallas county, gives Stone
1876 votes, Benton 10. Reed, for Senator
1877: Willard, 20. Abbott, for Representa-
tive, llS; McLucas, Is. Sheriff, Byers, 1876;
Rickerson, u. Graham, for Treasurer, lB1;
Whitman, 26. Adel Township gives, as we
learn, a Republican majority Of over 60 all
around This is large Republican gain,
county has given over 800 Republican majori-
ty. Hurrah for the unquenchable patriots of
| Dallas.
G. W. Jones, Esq, gave us yesterday the
result in Washington Township, Warren
county. This is the township which includes
Indianola. The vote stands, Stone, 266; Ben
ton, 131; Grifiths Republican, for Repressn-
tative, 265; Todhunter, l26. This is the
heaviest Republican majority ever given in
that township. and if the rest of the county
has done as well, Stone will be 700 ahead.
Blackhawk county gives Stone 300 ma
Ijority. Cedar Falls gives 221 of this ma
ljority.
A dispatch from Davenport states that the
local Republican candidates in Scott county
are defeated, and that the State Republican
ticket has received small majority. That
has bad look for the banner Republican
county. 1t is melancholy to say the least
of it.
Peter Melendy, of Cedar Falls, corrobo-
rates the statement in another column, that
Blackhawk county elects the whole local and
State Republican ticket bya majority of 800.
w. c. Newton writes to Captain Brownell
that Centre township, Madison county, which
includes Winterset, gives the Republican State
ticket l36 majority, q gain of so over last
year. That's gloriously good, much better
than Scott.
J. A. Lamb of Newton writes us that New
ton gives So majority for Stone; Cue, "a
Wright, lib. Jasper county gives Stone 300
majority; This is hardly as good as we had
expected, but still it will do.
We learn from Captain Chester who came
in late last evening from the east that lows
City gave Benton majority. The general
and local Republican ticket, except on Stone,
received majorities.
The following is the Des Moines dispatch
to the Chicago Journal. The more recent
dispatches to last evenings Journal had moth
ling further from our State election:
The city has given the Republican ticke,
over one hundred majority. This county
POLK gives Stone about two hundred and
fifty majority, and the entire county ticket
from two hundred and fifty to three hundred
and twenty five. The Republican majority
in this city was given by the West Side-Des
Moines township. The East Side-Lee town
ship-giving FIVE against Stone, and scatter.
ing on the county ticket from five against te
fifteen for us. The home of the gallant Crock
er has Endorsed the great democratic doctrine
Of mans equality of rights, and Iowa sus
tains the President she helped to elect, and
the cause of universal liberty and perpetual
peace and Union, founded upon impartial suf.
frage for which her sons have fought.
Returns from Dallas, Cass, Pottawattomie,
Madison, Warren, Jasper, Story, Marshall
and other counties indicate the success Of the
Republican party, and new triumph of its
principles. Copperheads with soldiers clothes
on are dropping with no demand, and quota.
ltions are nominal.
4 johnson county gives 15o Republican ma
jority.
| Blackwawk county gives the Republican
ticket 800 majority.
Warren county gives our ticket 600 ma
} jority.
i Dallas county gives Republican majority
of 300.
One dispatch from Council Bluffs, Potta.
wattomie county tBentons home) says thai
county has given Stone $50 majority, and an
other says Benton has 20 majority.
). The vote of this city shows that it has q
population of not less than 5000, which is an
increase of 1000 in the last four years.
The city of Wintersett gives 1856 majority
for Stone-a gain of 80.
The report that Pottawaatomie county gives
Stone $50 majority is confirmed.
We lost heavy in Scott county.
Burlington, Oct. 11.-This city gives Stone
% majority.
Des Moines county, two townships, estima.
ted Stone 800 majority.
| Mt. Pleasant city, 5O4 majority for Stone
Union loss since 1868 of II.
Wapello county, Stone la malority-U Uniou
gain of III.
Clinton, lows, Oct. 11.-Clinton, In this
county, las majority for Stone.
Lyons, "a for Stone.
Dewitt, 40 for Stone.
Camanche, 90 for Stone. {
Centre, about 80 for Benton.
This county about 500 for Stone. The vote
has been small. Stone viii have about 20,
600 majority.
Muscatine, Oct. 1l-ll:S0, p. m.-Return.
from tho several townships Of this county
show Republican majority ON the State tick
ct Of between 200 and $50, about half whai
Il vna lat wear Tho entire Union ~c,,rt,