Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1858 — To be Contested. [ARTICLE]

To be Contested.

The JVckj York Tribune says that Frank Blair intends to contest the election of Mr. Barrett, on the ground that it was secured fraudulent votes. If he does not succeed In setting it-aside, it will be solely because party necessities are greater than the requirements of law. That Barrett was elected by illegal votes, is absolutely indisputable. One fact is enough to decide if: The whole vote of the district was 19,346; two years ago it was 13,765; in two years a gain of 5,581 has been made. Now let us «ee how this gain has been divided: In 1856 Blair had 6,035 votes; this year he has 6,631 —a gain of 596, ,or about the i at oral increase. The American candidate, Kennett, in 1856, had 5,591; this year Breckinridge, the American, has 5,658—a gain of 108, hardly up to the natural growth of a thrifty section. Now mark the Democratic gain: In 1856 Reynolds, the Democrat, had 2,181; this year Barrett, the Democrat, hau 7,51! Don’t that let a most damaging light in upon the way Barrett was elected? In two years this surprising Democratic party gains nearly 5,000, and the other parties not losing a man in the interval! This party gains the en ire growth of the whole district. That is enough to convict, if the charge were murder, instead of fraud. It would hang the whole crew, from Buchanan down, if the crime were a capital one, instead of being, as the Democrats have made it, common and venial. The way these votes were got illustrates the beauties of Government contracts. It is well known that, when any contract is given out by any of the Departments, the Contractor is taxed a certain per centage of the money, which is used to make an electioneering fund; and contractors, of course, make bids with an eye to this discount, and charge enough to cover it. Now, St‘. Louis has been the center of all the contractions growing out of the Utah army transactions, and the contractors have bled freely. Russell, Majors <fc Co. have been taxed $5,900 for t/jis St. Louis election alone! As they make, at least, one 'hundred times that snjount out of the favoritism of the Admin* iatration, they can afford to pay it. With this nwxjey, and other sums raised t»y the game Democratic means, this 5,000 Demperatic gain was procured. It. is a fair sample of th® way that party does things, as we, of Indiana, hake experienced for many years. — Stale Journal. £pT*Dr, Johnson says: “In the bottle discontent aeeks for comfort, cowardice for ''outage, an** hs«hfulne*v for confidence.”

! (KiT’The English swindle, which he took i so much pains in trying to make the people ; of Kansas-accept. has been voted down by a majority that it appears will reach about 12,000. This will make the seventh decided expression of the people against the Lecompton fraud, counting from their refusal to vote for delegates down to their rejection of this meanest form of the thing. They condemned it in advance by refusing to take any part in the election of those who were to make it. Then they condemned it in the, election of a Free-State Legislature. Then they condemned it by refusing to recognize it, or any election connected with it, on the 21st Of December, when Calhoun had ordered the “cheating submission” to be made. Then under the regular election on it, ordered by the Legislature, on the 4th of January, they voted it down, five to one. Then they condemned it again by electing delegates to enact the Leavenworth Constitution. Now, for the seventh time, they have condemned it in rejecting the threat and the bribe that the Democratic party held out to compel them to submit to slavery : and all this under an Administration professing to make obedience to the will of the people its prime article of faith! A Territory is compelled to express its detestation of slavery, and slave institutions, seven times, before the Democratic party will consent that they shall have their way; and it may be the. will not consent then. The matter is not ended yet, for Kansas is not yet in the Union with a free Constitution.and she will not be while the Domoeratic party can keep her out.— State Journal. The Southern League.—The Savana (Georgia) Republican has no doubt that the organization seton toot at Montgomery, Alabama, a few weeks ago, by Win. L. Yance and others, is a movement toward a Southern confederacy, but remarks: “It is simply a farce on a small scale, which, alter amusing its authors, will die off and be forgotten.” o^7'Re cent letters from Utah say that the Mormons have determined to make an effort for immediate admission into the Union as a State, so that they may control their do.rnestic institution without danger of interference. Teachers' National Convention.—The different railroads loading to Cincinnati have agreed to return -bona Jlde members of the National Teachers’ Convention, tree, who pay full fare going. The Convention meets in Cincinnati, Wednesday, August 11. $5*A knitting machine has just been invented by a genius in SenT.a county. "New York. One of the editors of the Syracuse Journal saw the sh ichine , knit a perfect stocking in less than five minutes.