Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1859 — Republican Victory in Oregon. [ARTICLE]

Republican Victory in Oregon.

From the California correspondence of the St. Louis Democrat yesterday, we 1 am that the Republicans have carried the election in Oregon. The letter came by the Overland Mail on Saturday night, and is, of course, the lntes news from the Pacific. This is almost too good news to b * true, but we have no reason to doubt it further than that it is better than we hoped. If it should prove true in the end, it will put “salt eel” in Joe Lane’s Presidential banquet to a certainty. Here is the letter: San Francisco, July 15, 1859. The greatest piece of political news which has left the coast for many months leaves it to-day, no less than the election of a Republican member to Congres from Democratic Oregon. The returns are not all in yet, but the last footing up show Lansing Stout, the Lecompton nominee, to be fortyfour ahead of David Logan, Republican, with Coos and Curry counties to hear from. We have since received by an arrival this morning the vote of the last two counties, announcing 70 majority for Logan, which leaves a majority of 26 for the Republican candidate; but whether he gets the certificate or not, he is entitled to the seat, and will probably obtain it. There was the usual Amount of fraud in,the strong Democratic counties, and it is Capable of proof that in several precincts the voting was altogether informal and illegal. Be assured this is a great triumph—indeed the first Republican victory on the Pacific. It was a death struggle with the Democracy. Jo Lane and Delusion Smith both stumped the State, calling on the masses to support the regular nominee; but it wouldn’t go down. Lane and Smith said that every vote against their candidate was a vote against them,and relying on their personal influence to carry Stout through, worked night and day to secure his election. The people have spoken out against it. Oregon is redeemed.