Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1846-09-02
STATE ELECTIONS.

STATE ELECTIONS.
| !. .NoiM Carotina.-'rhe Wings have sue
ceeded. in elecling a majority of both
branches Of the LegisaIure-4 in The
Senate, and 16 in the Commons. Gov.
Graham has been re elected by a majority
of about 5000 votes.
Illinois. The election in this Stale has
resulted in favor Of the democrats. who
have large majority ir The Legislature.
The Congressional delegation consists Of
6 democrats and whie.
Arkansas. The democrats have elected
a ma iorily Of The Legislature and have
also elected Col. r. W. johnson to Cou.
gress, withou, opposition.
Kissouri.-ln This State the democrats
have elected the entire delegation to Con.
gress.
kentucky Election,-FuII returns of the
members elect to the General Assembly
| OF hen!urky show the following result {:
In The Senate &c Wings and l2 Demo
Gratis; in The House of Representatives
% Wings aud 81 Democrats; being an
Increase over the Wing majority Of last
year Of eight.
COL flaming. Of Ibe U. S. Army. died
very suddenly a, Cincinnati on the 18Th
inst. The Commercial says Col. flaming
has been in t'centy Sir battles, wherein he
distinguished himself for soldierlike quail.
ties. He has been at The EIenrie House
for three months past. When The gong
sounded for dinner The Col was sitting be
fure The donr, us well as usual. lie then
went into bis room, and was taken with
an apopletic fit. and before medical aid
could arrive he was dead.
! Secretary Bancrott.-The Washington
! correspondent of the n. Y. Herald, states
Ion Ihe most credible source" that it is
no longer doubtful thar Mr.. Bancroft will
retire from The Navy Department on the
81 October, ensuing. :.
Coz. DoT.-Gov. Dorr. it is stated, is
lying dangerously i'll a, he resideuce ol
Hon, Henry Ballon, al Cumberland, ahoul
fifteen miles from Providence.
The Independent Treasury The new
! Treasury law went into operation in The
Treasury department on Friday last. A
depositc in gold and silver TO The amount
Of some $4,000 was made. by Mr.. Burke.
tie Commissioner Of Paleals end some
$4,000 of treasury nores by Maj Nourse,
aching register. An emission Of about
S2OO,O0O in notes of $50 and 500, Will
be made as rapidly as the officers eau
sign their names.
The new Constitution which was sub
mitted to The vote Of the people of Mis-.
souri,, has Jeen rejected by decisive ma
! jori'y.
Fate Of California Expeditions is
feared that Capi. Leavitr, and his friends,
eleven in number. who started TO CaIirur-
MA last April. have been murdered A
party of hostile Ca,nanches have been
seen III possession Of their guns and other
arms and the traders of Little River,:iu
The Seminole couulry, believe them 10 be
! murdered.
Il ls-mnniOned as remarkable coinci
dence, hat one vote carried The tariff OF
1924 lone vote The Iatifl of 1928; one vote
in each house carried The talir of 1912;
and by Que vote in the Senate tic tariff OF
1918 became a-law.
Earthquakes Ia Massachusetts, The y IS
ton Traveller. cl' The 25;h insl.. states lba,
Oh tina, morning little before ) O'Clock an
earthquake Of very considerable violence
IVA, experienced in Boston aud its vicinity.
Houses were shaken, windows AMI door-
raitled, bells We're ruMs, aud The slnmbrr
ing were walked up. The vibrations dn
not appear 10 have been preceded or al
tended by that rnmhlins sound which
sua'y accompanies earthquakes. hi! ralh.
or like thai produced by the sudden and
violent motions Of a person in an adjou-
inS room. or III The chamber overhead.
Some persons ,hough, they fell two or
three successive shocks, but the Editor of
the Traveller ihinhs there was bui one
The shock was felt IA, Cambridge. New
ton Lynn. Nahant. Salem. Beverly, Yves,
bnro' and Worcester The masne,ic in.
Icnsily n, the Observatory al Cambridge,
was greatly disturbed by the shock. The
vibrations appeared TO be in direction
north and south, and to have continued for
a second or two
1t is exceedingly probable that this is
bun The slight consequence of severe
earthquake thai has occurred IN South a
merca, the accounts of which we may be.
gia sJon 10 look for.
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For CoMMIsSIoSERs OF THE PaoR.
COLIN RHODES.
HENRY II. HILL,
RICHARD GREGORY.
JOHN &. ALLEN.
JAMES SHEPHERD.