Litchfield enquirer., 1834-10-23
From c Philadslphia paper.

Wkig Victory in PhiLGdelphia.-The gene ral election f0SIk place throughout the State of OfPennsylvania yesterday. The Whigs have achieved glorious victory in the city-have elected their whole ticket. by an average ma iUrity of eighteen hundred vOtes. When it is remembered that last year the Whig majority in the city was less than two hundred votes, the value of the result may be correctly esti- mated. The OfTice-hOlders struggled despe- rately--resorted to the most desperate tricks -circulated the most unreasonable islanders. But the great body of the friends of the Con- sti iutiOn and the laws were not to be intimi- dated, and pressed forward in the spirit of Greemen, who knowing their rights deterInin- ed i0 maintain them.
 Under all these circumstances, the triumph is the most important and gratifying that has ever been achieved in Philadelphia. Up to the last moment, our opponents believed they would carry the cty-sO deIuded were they by the misrepresenlatiUns Of their leaders.- But they have been defeated-shamefWlIy and sigaAlly defsatrd-and any attempt On their ! part to carry the city of Philadelphia hereaf- ter, will be utter and incorriSibIe madness. Scenes ofL Night-We regret to be com. pelled to state that scenes of tine most alarm 1 ing character occurred in Moyamensng last 1 night, after the polls were closed. Several
 persons were shOt-eighteen, it is said, and we fear more than "ne life lost. person
 who was on the ground states that he saw one 1 fireman carried off apparently dead. and a
 number.Uf other individuals borne from the ground severely injured.
 l 1t is impossible for US at this time to give a
 correct account ofthc origin of the affray. SO
 contradictory are the reports that have reach ed us.-Neither wil! we attempt at this time, 1 with the public mind already inRamed, and
 the passions Of hundreds greatly excited to cast censure upon either party. The object 1 of all good citizens should be to allay rather ] than exasperate the craftsmanship restore ] order and decOrum, and then to investigate all the circumstances and punish the guilty. Several houses were burnt to the ground, ;; the furniture scattered through the streets, and broken into fragments. At one time there could not have been less than five thou sand persons tn the immediate vicinity. The events we have thus hastily recorded, occur l red immediately in front of the Moyamensing Commissioners Hall. the place where the election was held. We believe that the hOus- es destroyed were inhabited, and the inmates
 were compelled to escape for their lives. Possscripf-Ha!f past Three. 4. M.-We J have just left the scene of riot. Five three ]
 ground. There are about two thousand per
 sons assembled together at this time. They
 are not engaged in any scenes of riot, but
 seem rather as excited spectators of the ruins
 before them.-Philadeiphia paper.
 We give the following information, which { we received from a passenger in the stage
 which left Philadelphia ut U'clock yesterday l morning. who states that he was present and
 witnessed what hs has described as having taken place.
 1 After the clearing of polls, between 10 and II o'clock. party of fifteen or twenty
 quarters in Southwark, and commenced l throwing bfick hats and stones amongst a eel
 lection of Wings, who immediately, in self defence, resented the assault. and drove them l from the ground. The Wings then cut down l the hickory tree in front of tent where the Jackson head quarters were held, and destroy ed the tent. The Jackson party in the mean time reinforced, and returned some 500 strong, and commenced stoning, and succeed ed in driving the Wings into their quarters A gun was then fired from the upper story of the house, which contained nothing but a blank cartridge and was said t0 have been discharged by the owner of the house iD hopes of intimidating the mob and protecting his own prOpeTtys usS WdS IHmcUSHtc1y bctuSU. ed. and 15 or 20 shots were exchanged, by which six or eight were wounded, but none killed. The guns, we are assuI ed, were load ed only with shot. Alter the Whigs were driven from the house, the furniture was taken by the Jackson party, placed around the lib- erty pole and burnt. They then commenced destroying the house, and finally set it On fire, which was completely destroyed. along with three others adjoining. The fremen, who were prompt in arriving for the purpose Of extinguishing the fire. were driven from the ground by the tory party. and several were injured seriously in endeavOring to do their duty as good citizens. The Jackson men kept possession till the work of destruction was completely fnished.-N. Y. Ado.
 From the Commercial Heraid.
 THE RIOTS-BURNING OF HOUSES.
 We have taken some pains to see the ruins of the houses demolished on Tuesday night in Moyamensing, by the mob that attacked them, and also to ascertain, as near as prac- ticab!e, the facts in relation to that disgrace ful outrage. We have cOnversed with seve- ral men Of responsibility. iO whose veracity we have perfect confidence, who saw the whole transaction from beginning to end. and from whom we gather ths following state- ment That until twilight there had been comparatively very little disturbance at the poll in that District that at dusk party of Jackson men came tO MOyamensing from Southwark, when rush was made upon the Whips the;r la,nns demolished. and them.