Litchfield enquirer., 1840-08-06
From il. Nr,r-Orlsnns Ruue,in. .

PROSPECTS OF HARRISON IN LOUISIANA. We think the majority for General Harrison in No vember next, will be larger in proportion to the aggre- non The Tsnsons oo which we SUnd ina. m ;e as follows :-In the first congressional district the Whig majority is 2045 on an aggregate of only 5559 showing gain gf ll29 over lsSS In the second district the LocoEoco candidate for congress was the most popular in that district and he tvas not wthstandng that favorable circumstance elected by the palrry majority of B. A Whig was elected in that district in 1888 by majority of 35O but that cir constance was owing to the great unpo2uarty of his opponent Those who are competent to iudge all agree in opinion, that If Gen. Dawson had opposed Judge Chinn in 1888, the ETmer would have been elected by a majority of at least 800 That has aI- ways been a strong Locnfoco dsttict and in 1886 it gave Van Buren a majority Ot 73O.
 MT Winn IS the most popular man residing in the third district and it is well known that Mir Gar nd has twice suffered himself to for congress contra " his private wishes, solely because he knew that no other individual could defeat the former. At the recent election, Mir w. was opposed by a man who is comparatively very unpopular, and yet the former has probably been defeated, or if elected his majority IS exceedingly snall although il is well known that he and his friends made hundreds of men voters by purchasing public land. In the parish of Avoyelles alone l4o votes were oh:ane in that man. ner- IL is also admitted by of boh parties, that in the parishes on and about Red River, Mir. Vim re. ceived more than 1000 Whg votes owing to the fact that he was pledged settle number of land claims and to have the mouth ot Red River cleared and the rat. removed. By deducting 900 votes from Mir.
 
 majority of 900 Wings in the third district the se- cond district is equally divided, and the first has Whig majority of over 2000. Taking these facts in- to consideration think it will he admitted that, without making any allowance for further changes prior to November, the majority for Harrison in this State will find parallel in either of the other twen- ty-tive States.
 The Loco Focos make sorry work in attempting to explain away the whitening defeat their master has e1penenced m Louisiana at the recent election. The New York Era says:
 In the first disrcf represented by E. D. White or, we might say, mIsrepreseHfed the result give no indication Of the strength of parties Judge Leonard the Democratic candidate, nominated only two weeks before the election, aud large pnrOn of e district tt not knoUn ai ke lUas candidate '
 It seems that all the party could do the ground. Globes, and all the Van Buren members of Congress have done Tn the way of franking loads of po,i. cal documents, have failed to keep the stupid Van Buren electors from voting for the Whig candidate for Congress against their own convictions of right.
 Butalo Journal. ., Shocking Ereni--There is great excitement at Natchez, from the death of Col. Jno. Thos Winn, who was inhumanlv shot by some ich, outside of the house, while the Col. sitting nt tea at the mansion of his mother, Mrs. Walton, near Washing. ton Miss. letter in the Journal of Commerce de- of gun heavily charged with buck shot, fired on the outside of window about ten feet behind him, and fell dead, with single shriek and exclamation in the presence of his youthful wife, his sister, and a circle of friends which surrounded the table, and were at the instant listening to his animated account of a fourth ot July ete from which he had just returned Jefferson CO., The most extraordinary circumsian nee IS, that trace can be found of the perperator of the arocious deed, for he was universally esteemed and by his slaves loved as a father.