Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-10-17
From the Philadelphia Inquirer, Oct. Is.

WYG VICTORY ~ PHILADELPalA.-i ne gene
raj election took place throughout the State OF
Pennsylvania Yesterday. The UhigS haee
arhiersd a glorious rictOrJ in the clty-haVe
elected their trhole ticket by an average MAORI
~ of eighteen hundred votes. When II Is re-
membered that last year the Wing ma jority was
less than two hundred votes, the value OF the
result may be correctly estimated.
Tue CouNrY.-We have not the complete re-
turns from the county, but sufficient to render
certain that both Ash and Sutherland Jack
son) have been elected to Congress.
Sutherland and Ash (the Jackson candi-
dates) are elected by IL or 400 majority each.
The Jackson triumph in the I'd and Sd Con-
gresSional District is complete.
SCENES OF THE NIGHT.
We regret to be compelled to state that scenes
Of the most alarming character occurred in
Moyamenslng last night, after the polls We're
closed Several persons were shot-elghteen,
tits said. aud we fear more than one life lost
Aperson who was on the ground states that he
saw one fireman carried of apparently dead,
anda number of other individuals borne from
the ground severely injured. Ii is impossible
for Us al this time to give correct account oil
the origin of the affray, so contradictory are
the reports that have reached us. Neither will
We attempt at this time, with the public mind al
ready iniamed and the passions of hundreds
greatly excited to cast censure upon either par
IT, The object of all good citizens should be to
aIay rather than eXaSperate the eXcltement--to
restore order and decorum, and then to inves-
tgate all the circumstances and punish the gull
V.
Several houses were burnt to the ground the
furniture scattered through the streets, and bro
Zen into fragments. At one time there could
nothave been less than FIVE thousand persons IN
Inc immediate vicinity. The events we have
mus hastily recorded, occurred Immediately IN
mont OF the MOyamcnSing Commissioners Hall,
Ihe place where the election was held. We be-
Neve that the houses DESTROYED were inhabited,
dnd the inmates were compelled TO escape Tor
their lives
We torbear to add Il word Of comment. The
SUBJECT must excite the most melancholy feel
"s' ncyery patriotic bosom.
POSTSCRIPT.
| HdH Past Three 4 M-Wc have just left
m' scene ofriot Five three story brick build
"lSS nave been burned to the ground. There
~e ABOUT two thousand persons assembled to-
se,uer al this time. They are not engaged IN
at! scenes OF riot, but seem rather as excited
T,Wy'aIofS Of the ruins before them.
we trust that there will be no further disturb
S Su1r> The city authorities are on duty, and
| ~ d"en all proper measures of precautlon 10
f'e>efVe the peace and property of the city.
Tue following returns were handed yesterday
%Ue captain of the steamboat at Chester, and
''OuSNt on by passenger
pEhAwARE CoUNrY-Complete Returns.
Uhig. jackson
harrington 1921 Dick 1913
SENATE.
''''eS 1928 Hunt lO4|
ASSEMBLY.
""'eson 1858 McKeever lO2S
D. SHERIFF.
eh 1919 Baldwin Ills
ii Chester County, the whole Wing ticket has
Succeeded
YORK COUNTY
Inc report from York County is, that the re-
.'V'uon Of MIR, Barnitz, the present Wing men,
vi, has been defeated by Jackson majority
Disk hundred.
M CHARLES JAMES FAULKNER, of Berkeley,
| ui De supported as REPRESENTATIVE for the