Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1859 — Good Signs. [ARTICLE]

Good Signs.

We remarked yesterday that the indications afforded by the late county elections in this State were cheering to Republicans. The more returns we receive, the more sure and encouraging these indications become. We have no doubt at all but the Democracy can be beaten in this State nextyear. Certainly the revulsion of 1856 was not half so clearly marked by the local elections of 1855 as is a revolution next year by the elections of this. The following Democratic counties have either been carried in whole or part by Republicans, or the majorities greatly reduced: Brown, the old “steadfast,” always good for 500 majority, elects an Anti-Lecompton Democratic Clerk, Mr. Adams, over the regular Democratic nominee, and elects a Republican Commissioner, Mr. N. N. Morris, by 200 majority. DeKalb, always Democratic by 100 or over, elects the whole Republican ticket this year. Clay, always Democratic by a good majority, elects the whole Republican ticket. Carroll, always Democratic by a small majority, elects the whole Republican ticket by an average of 100 majority. Cass, Democratic by 100 or more majority, elects the Republican ticket by HlO to 200 majority. Hancock, Democratic by 300 majority, elects half the Republican ticket. Miami, Democratic by a small majority, elects the Republican ticket by 150 to 200 majority. Johnson, Democratic by 400 elects a Republican Auditor, ami is reduced to 120 on the Democratic Judge. Dorter, Democratic by 100 last year, elects the whole Republican ticket. Tipton, Dem-

ocratic by 150, is cut down to 70. Shelby, Democratic by 500, is cut down to 120. Noble, unreliable, but usually Democratic by a small majority, elects tiie whole Republican ticket except the Clerk, which is yet in doubt. The Wabash Express reports that Sullivan, the heaviest Democratic county in the State, except Allen, has elected the whole Republican ticket. Bartholomew, Democratic by 500, elects a Republican Clerk. Knox, Democratic, elects Republicans to about halt the countv offices. Now this, we submit, is a very pretty record of Republican gains. Let us add to it the following counties which the Republicans have carried: Elkhart, Laporte, (except Recoi der,) Tippecanoe. Marion,Wayne, Henry, St. Joseph, Decatur, Hendricks, Warren, Hamilton, Yigo, Morgan, Parke, Fayette, Union, Jefferson, Marshall, (after a hot contest,) Kosciusko, Wabash, Jennings, Switzerland by 200 to 300, Floyd, Clarke and ; Lawrence. | Against these are to be set off the loss of Boone, always Democratic till last year; Putnam, just like Boone; Howard, lost, in part, by personal quarrels; and Rush lost by apathy, we suspect, and some personal difficulties. The Democrats can show no gains that deserve the name in any other counties so far reported. Now what does this exhibit promise for 1860! Sure success to the Republicans if they only work steadily, faithfully and unitedly. The omens are good—better by tar than we expected—and, taken in connection with the victories in Ohio, in Pennsylvania, in lowa and Minnesota so far | as yet reported, show us that the cause of j Freedom will he triumphant for the first time in 1860, if its friends are only true to it and 1 to each other.