Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1827-11-15
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We give below the latest reports oil
the New. York Election. The following
is from the New.York Daily Advertiser
Of Wednesday-it has refeIeD to the
Second Days poll:
Election The number of votes Ia
ken in all the wards yesterday, was
COOS, which, added to those taken on
Monday, make Ia ess. Last year the
number OF votes taken was about 10,
600, and only on one occasion have they
ever amounted to $4,000. From, the
number Of votes already polled, il is
believed the whole canvass will exceed
seve nteen thousand. At the Administra-
ton Committee room last evening, it
was stated that the Adams ticket was
ahead"
The following paragraphs are from
the National Advocate:
The news from all the wards except
the i2th, was received last evening, and
the prospect is a GLORIOUS YICrO-
RY for the friends of the Administration
and the Nation. One steady pull more
this day, like that of yesterday, and
Jacksonianism sinks to eternal rest in
New York!
Let our friends-let the friends of the
National welfare, but do their duty
THIS DAY, and the polls will close
upon ONE THOUSAND majority for
the Administration ticket
On the New York way-bill of Wednes.
day evening, was endorsed-"ADAMs A.
HEAD."-Niat. Int.
The commissioners for settling the
boundary between New Hampshire and
Maine, commenced running the line at
the outlet OF East Pond, between Wake
field and Shapely. They there found
the variation of the needle to be nine
degrees, but before thew had proceeded
thirty miles it increased to ten degrees.
When the line was traced in l74o, ten
degrees were allowed by order Of GOV.
Belcher. -
The following i, an extract from Mr..
GADIsoN's farewell Message to Con
gress. February 10, 1915. 1t will be read
with interest at this period
"There is no object that can enter
with greater force and merit into the d.
alterations of Congress, then a conside-
ration OF the means to preserve and
promote the manufactures which have
sprung into existence, and attained an
unparalleled maturity, throughout the
United States, during the period OF Eu-
ropean wars. This source of national
independence and wealth, | a~nxiously
recommend to the prompt and constant
guardianship Of Congress-"
On Wednesday last was sold in New.
York, at auction, ~agreeably to public
notice, 100000 of 5 per cent state
stock, issued for account of the Della
ware and Hudson Canal Company, in
pursuance of a law of the last session of
the legislature; and we learn that it
brought liz per cent. or Sll,50O ad.
vance or the amount sold, thus showing
the high standing OF the credit Of the
state. -
The Legislature of New JERSEY has
Adjourned, to meet again on the 10th of
January next The attempt to divide the
State into Districts, for the purpose of
choosing Presidential Electors, has failed
for the present, and will probably not
be revived during the present contest.
New York, Nov. 6-The Hon. Daniel
Webster arrived in this city on Saturday
last, to attend TO the great land case Of
John Jacob Aston against this State
MIR. Webster, it will be recollected, was
retained by the State as associate coun
sci with Mr.. Van Buren, and the Attor.
ney General, 1t is of a piece, however,
with the habitual meanness of the Jack.
sonpapers, that Mr.. Webster should be
attacked as on a political mission. What
can be more despicablei Nothing
FROM II DELAWARE GAZETTE
The Presidential Ierm.-We re.
gard the present contest for the office OF
President Of the United States, at the
expiration of the present term, as one
OF vital interest to The People of this
country fit were simply a question
between two individuals, and their
friends, which OF the two should be
elevated to the staten, it would be a
question of comparatively no impor
lance. But it is one which strikes al
the root -four free institutions, and de,
mands at the hands ofthe citizens of The