Muscatine Weekly Journal

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1857.

OUR VICTORY IN KANSAS.

The news from the election held in Kansas on the 5th inst. is cheering to the true friends of Free Soil. The latest advices state that Parrott, Free State candidate for Congress, is elected by from 5,000 to 8,000 majority, and that the Legislature will stand Council, Republicans 9, Democrats 4. House, Republicans 24, Democrats 15.

This is a great triumph, when it is considered by what means the dominant party endeavored to keep the ascendancy over the Free State men. They cut off the present year's immigration, which was mostly from the Free States, by the six months registry law. They invoked the aid of Missourians to cast illegal votes, as at former elections, and even the United States troops, at the instance of Gov. Walker himself, voted the Democratic ticket.

In view of all these facts, and in the face of the telegraphic account itself, which states that the "Northern and Southern Democrats were united against the Free State men," and also the distinct announcement that "the Republicans" have a majority in the Legislature, the Enquirer trumpets the result as a pro-slavery Democratic triumph! What an insult to the intelligence of its readers!

But truly appropriate and heartfelt were the shouts of joy which ascended from the Republican meeting last night when Mr. O'Connor announced the final triumph of the patriotic Free State men of Kansas.

The Enquirer Crazy, Crazy, Crazy!

We regret to inform our readers that the Enquirer was found this morning in a state of raving lunacy. It is supposed that sudden remorse for the lies it has told and the nearer prospect of defeat to-day, were the causes of this melancholy derangement, though several symptoms of mental disease have been noticed lately by its friends, such as an increased tendency to lying, and an obscurity of its reasoning faculties, amounting almost to idiocy. The editor was confined this morning by his friends and committed to the custody of the County Judge until he can be removed to the Lunatic Asylum. The latest freak of madness was the publication of the following contradictory statements, side by side in this morning's paper:

"Republicanism
KANSAS ELECTION.
is dead, dead, dead."

Jefferson County
"Parrott, the Demo-
has gone largely Re-
cratic Free State can-
publican.
didate elected to Con-
gress by 6000 major-
ity."

Douglas County
has gone Republican.

Doniphan County
has gone Republican
--23.

Atchison has gone
Republican 44.

Douglas County
has gone Republican
1600.

Topeka, Republican
can 190 majority.

Calhoun, Republi-
can 159 majority.

LEAVENWORTH
COUNTY IS THE ONLY
ONE SO FAR HEARD
FROM GIVING A DEM-
OCRATIC MAJORITY.