Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1848-10-19
PENNSYLVANIA ELECTION.
S.ansbury's maj.

The few Official returns from counties Of
this State received, says the Baltimore Sun,
have greatly reduced the majority by which
1t was supposed on Friday that Johnston
the Wing candidate for Governor would be
elected, and some have even anticipated the
possibility Of his ultimate defeat by the of.
fetal returns, and the election of Longs,re,h
but such is evidently not the case The
following are the corrections of the report
ed majorIies made by the official returns,
of such of The counties as have been re-
ceived:
Johnston's .Majorities.-somerset gives
Johnston .243 instead Of 300; franklin
no instead of S36; Delaware 495 instead
of 493; AIegany 2.643 instead of 1855 !;
Montgomery 573 instead of $50; Chester
755 instead of 1877; SchuylkiI 725 instead
of 759; Lancaster 4.2l2 instead of 4,300 !;
Philadelphia city and county 4,96l instead
of 5,O75.
Longstreth's yMajorities.-Berks county
gives 1904 instead of 4.276; Susquehanna
gives 800 instead Of 100; Bedford l6l in
stead Of l2l; Weslmoreland 2,lOO instead
Of 2.4C0.
The reduction made in the Wing vote
bv correction OF these errors sum up as fol-
lows:
Wing loss 1858
Democratic loss 474
Net Wing loss 1879
The Pennsylvania, Of Saturday morning
makes all these corrections except West
moreland, and figured out the following re-
suit:
Mai'y for Johnston in all the counties bu,
four 1,l9l
The four counties to hear from gave
Skunk in 1914 727
Probable majority for Johnston 1854
The Philadelphia Bulletin, Of Saturday
evening, makes q number of corrections
from official returns, and fools up as follows:
Johns,on's majority as far as heard
from 2,S47
Six counties to hear from gave Skunk 937
Probable majority for Johnston 1850
All the corrections Of the reported ma
orties above enumerated, except. West
moreiand and Somerset counties, are made
in the Bulletins table, and exhibit The re-
suit above stated. With regard to Somerse,
county, which shows a falling off on the
previously reported returns of 700 for John
s,on, the Bulletin contends that The MAORI.
~ Of 1910 IS only in two-lhirds Of the
county, and that the remaining districts gave
at the last election Wing majority of 40
which, if correct, reduces the Wing loss, by
the official returns, to 1859.
Cambria county is reported to have given
225 majority for Longstrelh, being gain
of 65; and Jefferson county 200, being a
gain of 80 votes.
dispatch from Philadelphia received a,
8 O'Clock on Saturday night, says:
"Four counties to hear from. Johnston's
majority SO far, 92l. Painter, Democrat,
elected Canal Commissioner by 5000"
P.S.-Ater the above was in type, the
editor of the Sun received another dispatch
from his Philadelphia correspondent, which
follows:
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 15-S P M.
The officisl returns Of several of the
counties which came in yesterday. reduced
Johns,ons reported major'Ies considerably,
but to-day the official vo'e in other coun-
ties has been received, which increase his
majority, aud from present indications II
will be over 1000 votes in the entire Slate.
Mr.. Middlesworth, the Wing candidate
for Canal Commissioner. runs pretty much
with Johns,on,a and u.s. think, elected, though
some think that Painter the Democratic
candidate, is elected
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