The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-11-02
NEW YORK.

The New York Times spe,,ks very hope
fully OF the canvass in that State, ana sayl
| that the eepperheads are despon ding.
John a. Green, the notorious copperheae
who norAaaa&ed Sloeum in the New ori
democratic convention, and vouch,,d for hi
political souadness- is a chief en~fneer o
Syracuse democracy. Last October, a gene
raj assemblage of the reptiles, called a dem
ocratlc mass convention, was held at Syrs cuse
AT which the following sentiments were dis
played on banners and transparencies:
"A despos has his parasites, and liberty hati
her arenger."
american soil scourged by an aacon,iiti oaa.
| despot in Abraham Lincoln
"No more victims for slaughter pens. Not a
| man--not dollar.
'sThe constitution We will obey but arbitrary
arrest we viii resist unto DEATH
''The people are ready to take vengeance on the
advocates OF civil war"
Lincoln has murdered three white men to free
one negro."
Free ballots or free baliets. CrusA aAe tvran,
| Lincoln before he crushes you"
| PENNSYLVANIA.
The returns of the Pennsylvania election
have all been received at the Office of the sec.
retary of state, and stand as follows: Union
majorities in thirty one counties, forty six
| Thousand one hundred and sixty-six de,no-
cratic majorities in thirty one counties, twenty.
FIVE thousand three hundred and seventy FIVE;
Union majority, twenty-five thousand three
hundred and seventy-five. In 1860, the Un-
ION majority was fifty nine thousand six hund-
red and eighteen. In 1882, the democrats
carried the state by majority of three thous-
and FIVE hundred twenty -four. In 1864. the
| Unionists again elected their candidate by a
majority Of twenty thousand and seventy
| FIVE.
| The Union state central committee OF
Pennsylvania have issued congratulatory
address upon the brilliant Union victory in
| that state. The majority is three to Eve
| thousand larger than for president Lincoln last
fall. With the soldiers vote, it will exceed
$4,000. There is forty-two Union majority
on joint ballot.
The result of the gubernatorial contest in
Ohio is as follows: Union majorities in fifty
six counties, Al, ,459; Democratic majorities
| in thirty two counties, 18, 998: Union state
majority, 8,464. In 1860 the Union MAORI
| ty was 20, ,779. Last year Mr.. Lincoln ma
jority was 1886. The proportionate major
ity of this year is quite equal to that of 1864
| "A very heavy falling off in the vote having
occurred in the strongest Union counties,
where the colonization letter of General Cox
had made him unpopular.
: The contest between John Sherman and
Gen. Schenck, for majority of supporters
in the state legislature, with view to the
United States senatorship, has been very
| close, and the friends of Schenck claim that
Sherman is beaten.
| NEW JERSEY.
/ The republicans are fairly alive. Their
speakers are as thick as blackberries, and the
little state resounds with the ringing tones o.
loyalty. There are over eighty republican
speakers in the field, and to this formidable
array of talent we notice the important addi
ton Of General John A. Logan, of Illinois
Meantime the g Rip-Van- Winkle'' democracy
are demoralized and discouraged Havini
been thrown off and disowned BY their breth
rem in New York, and their .'Jerry Black
friends in Pennsylvania having been defeated
they are laboring under great difficulties, and
feel that they are already defeated. The Ur,
ion men press their advantages at every poin /
and are confident of breaking the enemy /
lines on center and flank, and scattering III,
| foe to the winds.