Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1858 — Kansas ekeetion. [ARTICLE]

Kansas ekeetion.

The election in Kansas was for tnembers of the Legislature ami location of countv seats. _ Leavenworth countv effuse Leavenworth for the county seat, ami eight Republican members. Douglas county. Lawrencc-lor the county scat, and elected Republican members. Jefi'-rson county, Oskaloosa c.<u»u,v seat, and Anti-Democrat'e Representative. Johnson county. Olathe the countly seat, voles witlr Lawrence for Representatives. Lykins county, Kiiole Republican ticket elected. Doniphan countv, Democratic ticket elected with one exception. Atchison county, Atchison the county scat, Democratic ticket elected. The Republicans have a majority in the Legislature. Overland Mail Route To Cali for.nia. ■On Saturday, President Buchanan received a telegraphic dispatch from John Butterfield, President of the. Overland Mail Company, dated St. Louis, Oct. Bth. informing him that the great overland mail arrived there to-day from San Francisco in twentythree days and tour hours, and that the stages brought through six passengers. Thb President replied as follows: “John Bullerfeld, President, <^c — Sir: Your dispatch h-as been received. 1 cordially congratulate you upon the result. It is a glorious triumph for civilization and the Union, Settlements will soon follow the Course of the Road, and the East and the West will be bound together by a chain of living Americans which can never be broken. James - Buchanan.”