Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1840-12-11
NEW HAMPSHIRE SENATOR.

CONCORD, Dec. AT 3 o'clock this after
noon Hon. LEVI WOODBURY., Secretary of the
Treasury, was, on the part of the House of Re-
chosen Senator in Congress for
6 years, from the 4,h March, lS4l, in place e
Hon. HENRY HUBBARD, whose term of service
will them expire. The Senate Immediately af-
forwards concurred in the election by the House
I to 5. In the House, Mr.. Woodbury. received
l45 votes, Gen. JAMES WILSON u, and there
were from 10 to Is scattering.
In reference to this election the Boston Atlas
holds the following language:
"Mr. Woodbury., il resident of the District
of Columbia, and has been such for many years.
He is not, and has not been for eight years, an
inhabtant of New Hampshire. lie is, there.
fore, ineligible, and has no right to take his seat
in the Senate of the United States on the Fourth
of March next. That an inhabitant of Washing.
ton is not eligible to Congress has already been
decded,--once in the case of John Bailey, who
was chosen a member of the House, from the
county of Norfolk, in this State, when an in-
habltant of the District of Columbia, and refused
seat; and again in the case of Mr.. Grundy,
who, when elected to the Senate from Tennes.
see, was compelled to return to that State, IN
order to gain residence, and was then elected
a second time. There consequently has been
no legally elected Senator chosen in the place of
Mr.. Hubbard, and we trust until that is done no
one will be permitted to take his seat.
NORTH CAROLINA.
WIG U. S. SENAToRs.-The Raleigh Star
OF the 25th instant states on the preceding day
the Hon. Willie p. Mangum, and Hon. VIM
A. Graham, speaker of the House of Commons,
were elected Senators to the Congress of the
United States-the former for six years from
the 4th of March next and to fill the unexpired
term of Mr.. Brown; the latter to fill the unex.
pred portion of the term of Mr.. Strange, which
is two years.
VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE.
RICHMOND, Dec. 2.-Valentne w. Southall Esq,
yesterday elected Speaker of the House of Dele
gaies. Mr.. Southall was nominated in very neat
speech, by his colleague, Mr.. Coles. Mr.: Goode, Of
Mecklenburg, was put in nomination for the same of
fce by Gen. Chapman. The General rallied at a
round rate against what ne termed Caucus dlclation
and stated, that although TIN re was no chance fol
the election of his nominee, be would nevertheless
psesent his name.
The vote stood Southall 67, Goode 56. Fou,
Wings and two Feds absent. Three seats vacant
one from Fairax-both contested on the return-ano
one in Louisa, where the Federal member elect has
resigned.
There being tie in the Senate, the Wing majority
in the House EXHIBITS the Wing majority on JOINT bal
lot. Mr.. Booton, of Madison, the only mem
Der of the Administration party who voted for Mr.
Southall
G. w. Munf I'd, Esq, a.. F,) late Clerk of the
House of Delegates, reappointed unanimously tc
that place under the nomination of Mr.. May O.
Petersburg.
Organisation Of The Senate.-The Senate WI.
yeste dav full with the exception of one Wing, Mr.
Good, Of Wheeling; and the late Speaker, Mr.. Nash
was consequently re-eect d without a hr sh the par
ties, by Mr.. Good absence standing l6 J.ocos to L
Wings We hone NJ III, xt sess on, and do no
doubt 10 that hoiv under Whig o"g1niznron. A.
it is they are nj least deprived of the capacity or in
icting the mischief which sgnalized their last year
ascendancy.- Wig,