The Jasper Weekly Courier

The Special Election.
Returns from counties where special elections were held to fill the vacancies in the Legislature occasioned by the Democratic members resigning, show that all the Democrats are returned.
The most significant is the result in the Senatorial district composed of the counties of Grant, Blackford and Jay. This district was set up on the legislative apportionment of two years ago as a sure thing for the Radicals, and last fall Baker's majority over Hendricks was three hundred and eighty-two.
The Radicals were confident of defeating Huey, and put up against him the strongest man, Colonel Ashbury Steele, who took decided ground in favor of negro suffrage.—In this district the appeal was taken to the people upon the suffrage amendment, and the action of the Democratic members of the Legislature in resigning to defeat its ratification. The result is a triumph, for Huey, The people sustain his action, and declare against negro suffrage in a square fight upon that question.
In Grant county, which gave Baker last October 439 majority, and is regarded one of the strongholds of Radicalism, Huey got 150 majority, and he is elected in the district by at least 600 majority!
This election settles the question as to the popular sentiment in Indiana upon negro suffrage.
Upon a direct vote upon that issue the State would give 75,000 majority against the proposed Constitutional Amendment. Every member of the Legislature who resigned has been replaced.
When is an enemy's encampment most likely to burn well? When, the tents are pitched.
The Boston Transcript urges: The hand that can make a pie is a continual loset to the husband that marries it.