Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-10-09
CHICAGO.

CHICAGO, Oct. 9.-The Tribune'D specials
give the following Iowa returns:
Marion gives Merrill 267 msjorsy-s rs>
publican gain Of %.
Independence shows democratic gain .:
~.
Waverley gives . republican majority Of
IA small republican loss.
Manchester gives Republican majority
Of 1874 democratic gain So.
Cedar Falls republican majority Of 1872.
Monticello gives Nearill 1913 minority.
Dubuque County. Julien Township,
gives q democratic majority Of 900 gain
26O. The democratic have gained in oil the
wards Of the city.
Fsirview Township gives . republican
majority Of 2S-democrats gaia 50.
Des Moines city gives . republican ma>
jority Of 800 gain So on the city election
| Of last spring.
The Times specials claims dem ocratic
gain Of 81 in Des Moines.
Under the head Of Victory" tho Times
ssys: IL is gloriousiy inspiring news We
| seud to our readers this morning. The
| most sanguine Democratic antici pations con-
eerning the elections o. yesterday are more
than realized. The Democracy have GER
tAinly carried Pennsylvania ndsomely and
special dispatch TO US ut late hour last
night from an intelligent source in Colum-
bus assures vs. that the universal suffrage
amendment is Overwhelmingly defeated in
OHIO, and the Democratic candidate for
Governor probably clsc.ed; while from Iowa
and indiana all our intsllivence Is of Demo.
crotc gains.
The Tribune Suns IN % follows: Re
tdias Of yes erday' ) elections are quite ,nea-
gre. but su.icisul to show that there las
been considerable reduction in Republican
majori;scs in PENNSYLVANIA and Ohio. In
the former State the only officer to be
chosen was Judge OF the Supreme Court,
and hence light veto was polled There
has been considerable Republican loss in
both Philadeiph:a and Pittsburgh There
have been Republican gains in other parts
OF the State, but probably not enough to
balance losses. The majority for Governor
Geary last year was only 7,lGs, which in
. total vote Of over 100000 10 q small mar.
gin for losses. 1t is not impossible that the
Democratic candidate fer Judge may be
elected, though the returns are not sufficient
to show tho result conclusively.
Gen. Il. d Hayes, republican is undoubt.
y elected Governor CT Ohio by = reduced
majority.
The Constitutional Amendment giving
the righ: Of suffrage to colored men is prob>
ably defeated.
In Cincinnati Ger. ST. Cary, independ>
emf republican. supported b~ democrats, 10
elected to Congress.
There is no doub. Of tho election OF Col.
Samuel +. Merrill and his colleagues on the
| republican ticket in Iowa by large rnsior.
ity. There have been serious republican
losses in large towns, caused by the tenn.
perancc issue, but these will not effect the
sesult "a the State.
Washington special says There has been
intense excitement throughout to hear the
returns, and ct midnight il il rather incress
ing. Johnson men are iD great CLEO in
Philadelphia.
Toe police are cn the nler. to discover
the whereabouts OF a woman, Mrs. Whalon
alas Mrs. Million, who is charged with
the murder of her husband, Whallon, bv
administering poison. for tho sole reason
that she might hereafter live lawfully with
her husband. Million. Whallon died yes
terday afternoon.