All three were well established, marked by vigorous writing, well able to support their editors, and all exist to-day, under the same names, except the Herald, which was changed to the Gazette in May, 1864.

The attitude of parties in the county is best exhibited by the way in which these papers treated the question on the eve of election and immediately thereafter. The headlines of the Eastern State Journal, which we have taken as a fair specimen of the whole, and wherein the tickets were printed on the 2d of November -- the Friday before election-day -- read thus :

" Union Electoral Ticket, Anti-Lincoln, Anti- Black Republican."

No President is named. There are thirty-three electors, and W. Kelly is named for Governor. The editorial on the subject says, --

" This is the day on which the fate of battle is suspended. Let every true man do his duty. ... Be at the polls early. . . . Vote before breakfast if possible. Permit no Black Republican enemy of his country to deprive you of a sacred right, or swerve you from yotir purpose. Challenge every illegal vote. Permit no imolent, paid and drilled Wide .\ wakes to dictate the law or your duty. . . . Stand firm and defiant-- and get in every vote possible for tlie Union Ticket.

Further on, and scattered through the paper, are statements that the ' Black Republicans are panicstruck;' adjurations to 'bring every man to the polls;' ' to vote against the Negro and Black Republican ticket, next Tuesday.' ' Cast your vote against Negro Suffrage. Be true,' etc.