Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1830-12-02

@fN N(N W ~ uOANl NNFnAN- NrEUmuI
Congress, takes place ia New JERSEY on Tues
day and Wednesday, the ssth snd 2eth Of
December, agrecabiy to the act passed al the
last session of the Legislature.
From the .Nes FORK .fmericon, Me-. 10.
The late election for Governor in this State
has turned out TO the surprise Of all parties
The majority for Mr. Tbreop may, we pre-
sumo, according TO the table copied to. day
from the Albany Argus. be set dowa al about
eight thousand fire Hundred We know OF bets
having been made that his majority would be
thirty thousand. On the other hand, we
ourselves, in common with many others, en-
tertained the opinion that MIR. Granger would
succeed. These facts sufficiently shew how
little the anticipations on either side have
been realized. Political estimates are always
uncertain; but generally speaking. they APP
proach to something like probability, and are
grounded upon something like calculation.
All calculations, however, nave been set at
nought by the result of the late election. In
the hrst place, some 80 or 40, 900 votes less
than were polled in 1923 were cast on this
occasion; and Of this deficiency, according
to the statement in the Journal ofCemmerce.
ftcelre thousand sir hundred may be traced 10
the LIST and Sd Senate districts, which com.
prises this city and Albany, and the counties
around both.-fhe only clear and indisputa.
Bile fact illustrated by this election is, that
Masonry, and Anti masonry were the anita
gonist forces, and that each became a strictly
marshailed and highly excited political body;
50 excited as that all other questions were
merged in the one absorbing one, of being
for. or against FSeemasonry This may sound
eddy. and not very creditably TO us in other
4 nta 1"A 49, = a. Fl ~ -
one voice almost went fer Granger, as an
AntI-mason-the centre as unanimously al
most for Throop, as opposite to the Anti ma
sons; and Jackson, Clay, the State and the
country, were alike forgotten in the fanati
cism. equal on both sides, of this strife. The
South, less fanatic, was nevertheless indifer
ent; and men could not be rallied to the com.
bat under a banner not their own, or under
an independent banner
The great changes were in Columbia, AL
bany, Rennselear, Montgomery, Washing.
ton, and Oneida counties, heretofore denoun.
csd by the Regency and its organ as old
"Federal countess from which nothing was
to be hoped, Without the vote ofthese Fe-
deFal counties-now, as heretofore, opposed
to the Rcgency-its candidate could not have
succeeded. Hence there can be no cause Of
triumph to that party, as though it had gam
ed stength, nor any reason for dependency
on the part Of its opponents, as though they
had lost it. They have thrown away their
fire; or, 10 speak more accurately, a portion
Of them, rather than fight in a cause they
disliked, have made common cause with the
adversary. We condemned, as we still do,
such tactics. We believed the great object
(which with united effort we knew to be at
tainable) Of overthrowing the corr,ptiag
power OF the Albany placemen, paramount
to all minor questions; and we must, there
fore, still believe, that the victory, which was
in our power, has been thrown away from
ILL considered and inadequate motives.
New YoRx, Nov. 10.
The returns of The late election for Gov
ernor, are fast approximating to accuracy
aud certainly. The Albany Argus, received
this morning, gives returns from all the
counties, which, with the exception Of Frank
lin and Rock!aLd, where the majorities are
for IIiroop, and Allegheny and Cattara"
gus, where they are for Granger, are official,
the majcrities for Throop are 81 500; those
for Granger Is, DISCRIMINATING TROOPS major
ity 1906, -
The delegation Of New York to the next
| Congress is said, by the New York Amcri-
| can, to consist of 80 jackson and IL Anti
| Jackson members.
( The wholesome reproof which has been
| administered TO the editor of Washington
telegram for bis implied promise that some
individual OF tie a2d Congress should amuse
the public with impairment questions to MIR.
ADAMS, has not been without effect; and we
find the editor now attempting to smooth o.
yer the matter.
The people made no mistake in their esti-
mate of the paragraph; they understood its
import and intent, and treated It accordingly.
II is a proof of the high mindedness OF the
jackson party, that none Of its respectable
editors have copied the disgraceful threat OF
the T~elegraph-at least we have noticed IT
in no other jackson paper than in the official
organ, aud we can testify, that a large mum
Der Of the administration party in this city,
expressed disgust at the indecent paragraph.
u. s. Gazette
HusTsvILLE, Ala. Nov. 6.
aaother Tiolaiion Of La,r.-A rencounter
occurred at a grocery in this town on Mon
dav last. between James Martha of this place,
and a man by the name of William Burton,
who resides we behave in the county. In
which the latter received the contents OF a
pistol, U8 or 30 shet) in his left side and
back. Barton is esteemed 10 be dangerous
" wounied-but may survive the injury -
Martin is the son OF the old man, who was so