Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1848-10-23
TIE ELECTIONS.


Pennsylrauin-Ihe corrections made By official re-
turns have somewhat reduced Johns s majority from
that first rnmoed OF his election tn re seams no doubt
Notwithstanding the extraordinary eyertions Of the party
in Washington to mystty IT. subject The Represen
tation 10 Congress stands Is Wings, Democrats,
Naive American-being gain Of one Wing member
The Legislature is Wing, in bQih branches, BY ovei
Wholmnn maiories. and the election Of Whir to the
Senate Of the United Sta:es is thus secured.
oti"-We d moi think he election Of Ford abs lutte
!; certain, though it seems be generally c6nceded-
His majority will be small. In the Congress- onal Rep
reSeniaton the Democrats have gained member A
more important point than the success Of Ford is
that the Wings have obtained majority in ca h Hoase
of the Legislature and thus secured he United States
Senator.
Ge0I'2n.-ln spiteof he boasts OF an increased Demo
cratic majority that by which Townes was elected
1t turns out that the late Congressional election shows
great falling off The Augusta Sentinel Of lie 2,b
says that the returns from 90 counties nearly all M .ia
show that the vote stands Dem c,sc &c 73O-Nhio
36637 ,-Democrlfic m.irity %. Three c,nn,ies vet
to hear tT'rl, Which gave Tuwnes 246 majority Sup
posing change, the excess Of The aggregate mi rtes
Of the Democratic members elect those of the Wing
members would amount bn $780,. So much for the
confident assertions that Georgia had increased her
Democratic majority.
The Sentinel says
This is glory enough for day, and the State nav
Be set down certain for Taylor and Fillmore in
November. The popularity Of Old lack will carry
him far in advance oany Wing candidate for Congress- y
Forida-All the arts Of Justification employed by the
Union and Enquirer and their echoes have failed 10 de
cpiva The fact adj oil hat has
he Wings by, relatively, very large maj rity Flori-
da is Wing all over. Cab9s majority is between and
500 and Browns. for the Governors office still larger
Both branches Of Legislature Whig-and thus Wing
Senator secured.
In the Union of Tuesday last read
Gas we pfeparlng for press, friends, the de-
mocracy OF Washington are firing 200 guns and hold
ing large and animated meeting in honor Of Pennsy 81
valia and Ohio.
The wings, too. nave had procession of their own
but it appeared 10 neither very numerous nor bril-
ant.'
1.-two hundred guns are fred in honor of the defeat
of their party in PeDnSy lvana by the ''Democracv of
Washington we should like know how many parks
Of artillery and tons Of powder wond have been neces
sary manifest the delight of the said pllce-hoding
but voeess democracy, had Longsreth been elected by
the majority Of ten or twelve thousand which
fdently claimed for him2 1t may be inferred that on
Monday night there prevailed in the city, based
upon aanetc dispatches. which favored the idea Of
Longsreih's Success There were such desp achcs
but they credit by those who received Them
Mr.. Buchanan received announcing Longstrehs
election by 5000 majority. OF course lie did not credit
it-but the got abroad and the lococ office ho
ders bet largely and Of course, list. Potomac" says
their benedicOns upon the oily Premier tervent
and emphatic.
We nothing more indicative of the desperation of
the party than is readiness to fire the Tower guns,
upon the false report Of The election BY or two hun
bred majority, of man whose success by many thous-
ands, was considered ndisputlbe. Had Longstreth
been elected BY maj rity Of one or two thousand it
would have been virtually Democratic defeat The
Wings Of Pennsy vans had uniformly sail they could
hope to carry he State, by zeal and energy, for aypr,
if Longs reh did beat johnston more than 5000 votes
Any majority of I.ongsireih short of this would have
been Of fortune to the Democratic cause. What
then the election Of Johnston be, though has been
effected 5u; by small majority?
In Letter, addressed the Democracy Of New Hamp-
shire, by Mr. Edmund Burke,-who is in the receipt Of
salary Of $500 for experimenting the Patent Office
but whose real duty Be frank Democratic
documents and to direct the OF his patty from
Washington, we find The following:
sWhen Gen. jackson was candidate fir the Pres
dency. who had not been in the army or near twenty
years and thea but occasionally. the Wings affected
great horror the election of military chleain, &c.
sc.
Is this evidence Of the profound ignorance Of the
wrier-or Of his disposition to presume upon ha of his
aders? He tells that. when Gen. jackson for
the first time candidate f,r the Presidency he had not
been in the army for twenty years What VS. chrome
logy2 Gen. Jackson resigned his cunmssiun as Majr
General in the army. in 1921, On his appointment to
the Governorshp OF Florida-an oce which he as ,re
signed very after Withina year of his quitting
the army viz: en The 20th August, 1922. tile Legsla
ure Of Tennessee nominated him a can9 dae for Tie
Presidency and within period Of eight years he drew
the pay ct Mair General and Of President So much
for the historical accuracy Of Mr. Burke As to Gamer
al Jackson being bu occasonaifv in the army the as
serilun lie nlinuay in the ar ny from
his first appointment Brgadier General to his resg
nariou period OF seven or eigtr years. fheso are
inet 3 samples If Nh. Bl:ko's Accuracy.