Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-09-08
ELECTIONS.

1t is not yet ascerIained who is elected to Con-
gress from Illinois: in Is counties Duncan has
22IS, and Cook 1891. For Governor Edwards
has 2I69, and Sloo 2063.
In Indiana, MeSsrs. Thomas II. Blake, Jona-
than jennings, and Oliver II. Smith, are elected to
Congress: Mr.. Blake in the place OF Boon, who
is said to have been warm friend of Gen. Jack
son.-Tke friends of the Administi alton also claim
the two latter
AT CINCINNATI, in Chic, the friends of the
Administration have determined TO run Mr.. David
Morris of Clermont, against MIR. Findlay, an "a
vowed Jacksonian. 90 Every just and honorable
effort (says that most liberal Editor Master Ham
mond) :" will be made to give Mr. Morris the full
vote Of all who are prepared to fall down and
! tUorship the Slave drivers Offhe South" (And
this denouncer of Slave drivers Is of the most
unbushng and devoted instruments of Mr.. Clay,
also slsve-driveTD
In r. Island, the election of members of the
State Legislature has taken place. 1t has princi
pay turned upon the choice of an IT, S. Sena-
tor; whether it should I've Mr. Potter, who is not
considered up-to-Ihe-hub-man, Mr.. Robbins
the present incumbent, one OF your men pledged
and bonded to support the Administration. So
strong has the current in favor Of the Adrnin-
isiraton, that az caucus meeting in Providence,
for the nomination Of candidates to the Assembly,
resolutions unanimously carried, expressive
Of their confidence in it,, and Of their determi-
nation TO elect such men to both houses of
Congress, as shall be able and willing 10 render
their efficient aid TO the administration. 49,
-Four gentlemen were then put in nomination
in the full confidence that they would trul,
represent and promote the wishes of their con
sttuents" A motion was made to require Of
these candidates pledge 10 vote as desired but il
was not passed. When the election came on, next
day the said candidates were elected to the exclu-
sion too OF some Of the old members of the I.egis-
lsture, who were suspected OF leaning towards Mr.
Potter. In this election, says the Newport Mer-
cury,) notwithstanding the excitement in relation
to the choice of u. s. Senator, in October next
only new members appear TO have been elected (:
of these, six are by designations, and three cho-
sen in oppoeition TO the former members"
A meeting of more than 500 Democratic cu-
zens Of the lst Congressional District of Penn
syiUonio, held At Southwark on the lst. Inst have
nominated Colonel VIM. Duane as a Candidate to
Congress.
A miserable wretch by the name of Pluck, was
some time since commissioned the Colonel Of
the s1ih Regiment Pennsylvania Militia; he was
groom in Philadelphia and BY one Of those strange
freaks IN the public mind, was nominated 10 the
Governor; who in vain attempted 10 stem the cur
rent, but finally was compelled to yield From
that momeut to the present, he has been the stand
ing Jest Of the city-at all military psrades hooted
and laughed at, squibbed in the newspapers, des-
pissed by the intelligent; yet with an earontery
which defies description, keeps bis ground. Some
weeks since, what must this contemplate creature