Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1868 — The Election. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Election.

PEACE TRIUMPHANT. PRAISE GOD FROM WHOM ALL BLESSINGS FLOW. PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO, INDIANA & NEBRASKA. PENNSYLVANIA 15,000 JORITYOHIO 20,000 MAJORITY. INDIANA 5,000 MAJORITY. NEBRASKA 2,000 MAJORITY. The great State of Pennsylvania on Tuesday pnljM theJorgest vote ever cast there, and gave a Republican majority of Hi,ooo. The Democrats have carried Philadelphia by twelve hundred majority against twenty-four hundred last year.— The Republicans have elected tho LegisMßFre, thus securing a United States Senator in placo of Buckalow, (Democrat.) Ohio gives a .noble Republican majority of 20,000. W r e have gained one Member.of Congress, Stephenson m the Second District over Cary, and have lost three, Eggleston in tho First defeated by Strader, Gibson in-the Ninth defeated by Dickenson*, aßd Cooper ro- the Thirteenlb defeated by Morgan, lo the Tenth District the contest is close • between Ashley (Rap.) and Ho&g (Dem.) and it is feared the llopubTTCajifhavß pigiiU bC&tfeh. achonck, 1 Bingham, and Garfield havo been reelected by hftndsotao majorities. Schenck’s opponent was Valaudigham. Indiana has been the most closely contested ofeilher of the States in this campaign—in fact more closely than qver before. The Democrats placed at the head of their ticket a man of great personal popularity, a party pet of national reputation nud marked ability, with a political reoonl Jess offensive to those who sustained the North during the war than any other preinincut member of his- party in the Northern States who- opposed Mr. Lincoln’s administration. To secure the State the Democrats have lavished money by the thousands of dollars and imported thousands of I voters from Kentucky. The India-1 rimjmiifcJsnswn/ slaiins Bukei s elec-" tion by 8,000, tho Chicago Tribune says 5,000 and we put these figures at the head of this article, although it is possible it may not come quite up to it. We have probubly gained one Member of Congress. The Legislature is uudoubtedly Republican, which seoures a United States Senator in place of Hendricks. The returns are unaocountably slow in coming in, and it is impossible to give anything like a close estimate on Congressmen. Tho First and Secoud Districts have elected Democrats, the other nine have probably all elected Republicans, although the-Democrats claim, that Yoorhees has beaten Carter sh the Sixth.—-, Packard has probably beaten Farrand 1.500 to 2,0001 Newton county gives him a gain on Colfax’s vote in 1866 of 35, White a gain of 13, Porter 50, and Marshall, it is said, gains still more! On the other hand in Jasper the majority is 54 lees and in La Porte and South Bend it is said to have been decreased. Nebraska gives a Republican majority of 2,000 against 145 last year. later. The papers last night decrease the Republican majorities in Ohio and lndikna. Pennsylvania is still estimated at from 12,000 to 15,000 Republican. Democratic papers concede the State has gone Republican by fri>m 10,000 to 12,000 majority. Nebraska increases her vote. Iu Ohio the Democrats have probably gained four Members of Congress. It baa gone Republican by between 15,000 and 20,000. Indiana i 6 doubtful. Both parties claim it by 1 ,500 to 2,000. Returns from 86 counties and an estimaleupon the counties of Crawford,•

' llurriaon, Jasper, Martin, and Starke, yet to hear from, loot up Our the jp dianapolis Journal 2.000 Republican majority,'and the same counties give Democratic majorhyywben figured 'btj'lhe Indianapolis Sentinel. Tho Tribune says we have certainly elected Baker, and places tho majority at 2,000. The fuct is, tho vote in ludiaua bus been so dose that it will require the official vote to decide absolutely. The Journal Jbinks tho Democrats havo elected our of the eleven Congressmen— Niblack in the Frst District, Kerr in the Second, Ilolmnn in the Third, and Yoorhces in the Sixth; this givee them a gain cf one; but the Sixth District will require the official returns y to determined Our Legislature will probably stand 22 Republican majority on joint balldt, thus securing a Republican Senator to succeed Mr. Hendricks.