Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1859 — The St. Louis Election. [ARTICLE]

The St. Louis Election.

The Republican triumph in the noble city of St. Louis is an overwhelming one, giving her the post of pre-eminence among the Republican cities ofthe Union. Chicago, heretofore, has enjoyed that distinction, but must yield it. naw to the heroic Republicans of S'. L>uis, who, though in a Slave State, hive won their way to this proud position. Filley, the Republican Mayor, has wuhin a traction ol 3 (JOO maj rity over his Democratic competitor, the exact majority being 2,925; and the Republicans carried all the ten wards for Councilmen t-xcept the filth, which th?'y l ist by but. forty-nine votes. The voting, too, exposes cleariy the irandsof last August’s Congressional election.— South Bend Register.