New-York daily tribune., 1843-11-13
Election Returns.

and mistaken returIS ITOIn tQe Fest, anu dS oui
friends were ashamed to send any, our first &C
counts from that quarter were worse than the
truth They are bad enough at best, as we long
since perceived they would be, but not SO bad as
they have been given Monroe Co. elects two if
not all three of the Wing Members and gives
Wing majority on Senator. Wyoming is now
reported to have elected all Wings, but the Sheriff
Niagora has elected one Wing and one Loco to
the Legislature. Erie gives over 900 Whig ma
jority, and Genesee about 500: the Wing ticket
in the latter was very unpopular In Chautauque
the coalition ticket has succeeded by few votes
over the regular Wing: the Sheriff, Clerk, and
one Member Wing two Members Locos.-l4OO
Wing majority on Senator, electing DR.. Backus
by $500 in the District. Cattarcugus is proba-
bIy Loco. Aueganyis reported 400 each way
we think the Wing report is correct. Lrplngston
gives 700 Wing majority. Yates is 200 Loco
Broomc has elected the Whig Member and given
majority Tor our Senator, but the Sheriff and
Clerk are lost by Is and 20votes. Onthc whole,
we have just about as many Members OF Assem-
blv as last year but have lost four Senator'S The
explanation is simple; The Election took place
in a violent snow-storm; the People did not feel
that anv thing was at stake worth determined
effort, and while about seuen-cighthS ofthe Locos
voted not more than threc. .fourthS of the Wings
went to the Polls. That is the whole story
The Abolitionists have increased their vote 10
something like 100000
~" SO much for Protcctioa !" exclaims the
Plebeian after stating that the wages OF work
men in the naiI-factores at Pittsburgh had been
reduced twenty per cent. But what has Pro
lection done in the promises If foreign-made
nails were admitted free would that secure higher
wages How
- But where is the evidence that any such re-
duction Of wages has taken place We have
none. Who knows what rate OF wages was
formerly paid, and what Is paid now? Without
these data who can Judge whether any change
was reasonable or otherwise Nails are made
and sold in this country cheaper than any where
else and if the Pittsburgh nail-makers were pay
ing higher wages than rival producers of the same
article, they would very naturally be driven to
reduction of wages. Yet tnobody can tell whether
this reduction-if such there were-was general
or partial. what the standard at which 1t COM
menced or whether the reduction were based on
a dminution of hours of labor, an improvement
of machinery, which enabled the workmen (by
the piece to earn moro at the reduced prce than
they received before, or what was the reason OF
the reduction. 1t is enough that somebody has
said that somebody's wages has been reduced
that is so much for Protection
We are ashamed of the necessity imposed on
us of exposing the fallacy of such arguments
against wise and benefcent National policy,
yet this must be done, SO long there shall be
knaves capable OF making such appeals to popu.
lar ignorance and alas! dupes to heed them.
B OLp MASSACHUSETTS holds her Election
to-day. Let those trembe who deserve defeat.
u MANE tries to-day to choose four Members
of Congress in Districts which effected no choice
at the State Election.
I" A story has been going the rounds of the
Loco-Foco papers that Hon. SAMUEL w. KING,
Ex-Governor of Rhode Island is III prison for de-
fraudinc corporation of which he was an officer I.
The Providence Journal Of Saturday denounces
this as most infamous fabrication, without even
color of justi6cation--one which no paper IN
Rhode Island would dare utter.
Mr.. King was Governor Of Rhode Island
through the year lS42-a year memorable in her
history, glorious in his. The momentous duties
of his office required an entire devotion OF his
time and energies, for which the State paid him
S4O0. OF course, he went out OF Office bank
rupt in al but honor.
" Major NeAu having killed Tylerism by
supporting it, is now doing the same good service
for Van Burenism. When Henry Clay is inau-
gurated, he will walk on to Washington and
claim The best office that may be going, on the
ground of the aid he has given to the Wing
cause by pretending to be Loco-Foco!
u The Baltimore Sun says that GEO. W.
TYsoS OF Philadelphia has been appointed Second
Assistant Post Master General, vice John 4.
Bryan of Ohio renopeG. We fear this IS not
true. John Tyler has seldom done so wise
a thing as favor an old and (of him) really de-
serving friend at the expense of Loco-Foco
DaIgetty Of no account whatever.
u Hon. THoMAs CoRwis, late Governor of
Ohio. has opened law-office IN Cincinnati
ITDastmouth College, N. H., has 27s students.