The elections in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Indiana, and the territories
of Nevada, Nebras'ca, and Colorado, have resulted in a great triumph for the Republican party, and show a very great reaction from the Democratic majorities of last year. In Ohio the Republican majority over Vallandigham is 52,000, without count- ing the volunteers' vote, who are permitted to vote in camp, and who will probably vote almost unanimously for the Republican. In Pennsylvania the Republican majority is 20,000, out of a total vote of near 90,000, or between one-quarter and one-fifth. Every- where the Republican party has very great majorities ; but the .curious thing is that the Democratic Congress elected a year ago, has not yet had a session, and when it meets two months hence the country will have changed its mind, and proved that it has done so. When it represented the country it could not deliberate ; now that it does not, it begins to speak. The Congress will be the expression of an obsolete state of feeling, for which the legislative provisions of the Federal Government seem anxiously to provide.
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