Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1860 — SPRING ELECTIONS. [ARTICLE]

SPRING ELECTIONS.

“Coming events cast their shadows before,’’ says an old saw, which his been very i forcibly exemplified in tho late elections of j the various cities throughout the West; fori vv l o have never seen “a shadow*’ cast ’before • more plainly than is that of the corning na-; lional triumph in November. Chicago, urt-i tier ordinary circur. stances, gives an average Republican majority of about 700; this year! it gives a majority for Long John Wentworth ; of 1248, and an average majority, after a thorough canvass of the city by tho best speakers of the West, 'in each party; and over the jnost superhuman exertions of the Democracy to carry the city previous to,the Chicago Convention, of about 15,000. MOLINE. Moline elected Republican Municipal officers on Tuesday throughout. Majority h r Mayor, 204; Treasurer, 96. The Democratinsisted upon having a political issue in the election, and they got it, witlV the above .result. UOLDWATER, MICH. The Republicans of Coldwater, Mich., ejected their entire municipal ticket on Tuesday last, by an average majority of 182. »being a Republican gain of 100 since last year, QUINCY, MICH. Corporation election in Quincy, Mich., on Monday last resulted in the election of the Republican ticket by n fair majority, against a “Union ticket.”

EAST SAGINAW, MICH; ! The charter'election in East Saginaw on : f Monday last, resulted in the complete tri- 1 I, un.ph of the Republican ticket by majorities' : ranging from 50 to 250. The majority for; ; Mayor is 80. The triumph is more complete ethan eyes the Republicans anticipated.) b . si CLAIR, MICH. | The city of Sfc. Clair elected Republic sn 1 officers complete, at their charter election, j hold on Monday last. The majority for • Mayor is -17. and the other majorities ran arc t from 12 to 92. In Rock Island last year the Demo- * crats elected their Mayor ho 30 majority, this "year tho Republicans eßct theirs by 210inajjoflty. • Such elections, and such triumphs will do ’ until this fall when we shall record the triI umph of the Republican party in States in- * stead of cities—the substunce of which this j is tho “shadow.”

! Ocj/"In a recent sermon upon tho training ."of children, Henry Ward Beecher gave the Hollowing stern advice to parents: “Never a child upon tho head. Providence tha3 supplied other nnd more appropriate plaices for punishment.” (jUjTMra. Crocket, the widow of Colonel Crocket, who fell at tho Alamo, says tho Texas Jeffersonian, lately died in her 74th year, in Johnson county, Texas, ot appeal JX. Vcertain Irish attorney says: “No 'printor should publish a death, unices apvn?od of 11,0 fact hv the parly deceased ”