The Albany Register

Hopeful.—A correspondent of our cotemporary, the Democrat, writing from Roseburg, says: "The Democracy will make a clean sweep of this county next election." Whereupon the Roseburg Ensign remarks as follows: "That same prediction has been made before every election since 1864, and with a more encouraging prospect than is now presented. Junius' is evidently a very sanguine individual. He says he is 'assured that Douglas county is now Democratic,' and we suppose he gets that assurance from the tendency indicated by the majority given at the last election. At the last election, upon a strictly party vote, the Republican majority was 106, being the largest average majority in the county since 1864. The Republican party have certainly lost nothing by the changes that have taken place since last election. A Democrat who can see a gleam of hope with such facts before him, will never be likely to know what it is to despair.'"