The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-01-07
Great Democratic Triurnp: in the Old
Dominion.

/
DoIainion.
! The Richmond Examiner gives the following
/ accou It Of the manner in which the everlasting
! and interchangeable Democracy Of Virginia have
/ sc!arged their Stewardship. Are they not
entl ID to the sauta,ion of faithful scrvan,s'
! We C ,ngraula'e the Examiner, and al
hands, that Virginia has again, and finally we
trust forever, joined that ''qnarctte of glory
t. wh;ch the Examiner cloquently aspired-
hut we hope The editor will not sing his nunt
dimtttis vet--his Johnstoniads are too necessa
ry in THIS age of ''Poltroonery grown truculen
and iransccndant." !"
The following is the Examiner s statement ol
the result of the election:
"THE UNPARALLELED REsuLT:-In the
other columns of this days paper, the reader
will find the record of victory such as was
never yet before the reward of patriotism and
of industry. The Democratic State ticket has
been clec:ed by at least ten thousand majority
and we will have a majority in both Houses OF
the Legislature e'cven greater than the extraor.
dinary prepnndcrance which we enjoyed there
at the last session
The Wing plrty no longer exists. II car
never raise It's head again in Virginia, Thi.
election, as we have always said, decides the
political complexion of the State for twenty
years 10 come The only fear that we now
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i. will become too strong, and fall to peices from
the want of that compression from without
which Federalism has hitherto afforded it,
! We will now give rough estimate of the
majories in the principal counties heard from
up to this tine-reterFing the reader to our col
umns elsewhere for the full report
Col. Johnson, the new Democratic Govern
or, has the f,llowing maiori,ies:
| Rockingham gives him 20G0 to begin with
Shcnandoah 1870. Spoisylvana Is, Stafford
! I1J, Kinr George ~, Madison go, Greene 334
King & Qnccn 125, Halifax Ais, Sussex $50
K ing Willilm 1l2, Chesterfield 45O, Amhers
100, Powhatan and Cumberland 100, Portsmouth
800, Isle of Wight 407, Fredr.ck 275, Berkeley
223, Prince George 80, Middlesex s2, Hanover
! 20, Fuaquier 33, Rappahanncck 100, Pulaski
| 10, Prince E!ward 76, Roanoke 96, Clarke Co.
Bedford 50, Warren 235.
The following count ics give ma iorities fol
Summers, the defeated Wing candidate. Buk.
ingham 10, Essex 6l, Jefferson "a Southamp-
ton SO, Augusta ia, Alexandra 264, Fluvanna
SO, Norfolk 1913, Campbell 300, Nanscmond 76
Loudoun 100, Richmond S73, Albemarle "a
| Charlotte II.
| These estimates are ronghly made out, and
some of them may be slightly erroneous. But
the error cannont be great either way. They
show maoritics 81 far for johnson Of :, ,453 for
J
| joriiy from johnson, leaves to the latter bal
ancc Of FIVE THOUSAND, FOUR uuxDREE AND
roErr-rivE, in the forty.three counties named
GbOrr.
We cannot trust ourselves TO an extended
comment these results at present. When
the returns have arrived in fall from all the
State, we shall endeavor to inform our readers
upon the prospects they present.
TIE MESSAGE AT WAsuIxeroY-A gen.
ileman writing from Washington to the Boston
Post, in regard to the estimation in which Mr.
Filllnorcs message is held there says;
at is considered more reac'lonarv more an
! tdcnocrat;c. than ever Louis Napoeons late
message is. Nay, this is not all. The denun.
ciation Of foreigners, who have a righi, under
the laws. TO come to this country, rs mere ruest.
Of the nation, enjoying hospitality, which
may be Withdrawn at p!casure-thc justification
of the murders of the Dcmoniac Concha, of the
! fifty ono braves under Crttenden-the heartless
and cold condeccn sion exhibited to the one hun.
drcd and Sky sufferers in Spanish mines and
dungeons-thc Scrnpnlous care and concern fol
the preservation of Cuba to the Spanish crown
and to the dominion OF dcspotism-the fasrica
vndca.ion Of American vessels from til" rirh
Of search, after invt:nr, BY the proclamation OF
! last a pril, the exercise of that very right-the
adopting Of the Spanish version of the landing
Of he Lopez patriots in Cuba into an American
pnIlic dacu,nrnt-thc impndent denial Of the
right of American citizens to do anything fol
.!ir the spread Of American free institutions
and the base admission Of the right of dcspot
sms to do what they please to put down libert,
arc one and all sufficient to rouse the indigna
| ton OF the peop,e rainst the admi lisration tn
has proved to be such traitor to the p:inci pies
and doctrines, and practices of American dem
ocracy. Capital Reporter
A Liverpool Journal hints pretty strongly at
serious rupture in the British Cabinet in conse
a,rnce of Lord Palmcrs,on's conduct and an
swrrs TO the addresses presented to him in re-
| gard 10 Kossu,h. 1t states that Baron Bruno
the Russian Minister, has made representation:
which called for interference, and Earl Grey
| positively declines to continue associated as
colleague with Palmerston.
! disruption is almost inevitable unless Pal
meI ston rctir,s. The Journal looks upon Lord
Clarendon in such an event as the most likel,
successor. The same paper, in reference to tht
accounts Of Louis Napoleon, more than suspect
a foreign agency in this French Revolution, an
nbsolutism being Tic motive power. Th'
French Refugees in London transmitted yer.
strong manifesto to Paris against the conduct o
Louis Napoleon; it denounccs him in th
cd into few hours more crime than it woult
have been thought possible to include Ill tn
lifetime of man.
The steamship Hermann, which left Souil,
ampton on the Sd of December, arrived thi
| morning with G3 passengers. For twelve day
in succession she experienced the most tremeT
duous galrs, aud on two occasi ,ns tosnadoes G
In.arly four hour, each Her news is of cours
al antc pajcd by the Europa.
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INTERESTING FAcrs-Gas has been solidif
cd in Manchester by MIR. Young. The che
] mist Lebig, sometime since, declared this resu
! TO be one Of the great wants Of the age.
In airing a room, both the upper and lowe
oars nf The window should be opened, as II
: bad heated air, vi hch from lis lightness alway
$ ascrnds. will pass out of the top, nd the fres
cool air come in at the bottom.
SEASONING TIunrR Newly cut timbr
: p,accd, twelve or fourteen days entirely undt
water. and then dried III the sun and wind,
rendered less liable 20 warp and crack. Part'
t immersion is destructive, and steanIng or boz
, i,, IS DANGEROUS. for Int water or steam has,
some extent, the power Of dIssolvlng the fibre
but the proportion Of an hour 10 an inch
thickness is the usual practice for boiling
steaming ir The dockyards.
Gr,ss VyprR Trces.-By sowing nitrate
soda in small quantities in showrry weather vi
der trees. n most beautiful verdure VIII be oI
tanned. have ,cd 1t under the beec h-trees
nv grounds, and The grass always looks gree
!, HAVING succeeded 50 well on small scale, ha'
G now sown nitrate of soda amongst the lor
: grass in the planta'ions, which the cattle new
could cat now find that the hrrb'ge Is pr
} tcrrcd to the other parts Of The field
). WHEY DocToRs DISAGREE VINO SHALL u
icrnr,-Thc Tribune of the 3lth, contains Il
!. following comments upon the Hon. Is. HEM
n In o-ran.z;ng the House of Representative
ilsnn. the Dodge Incoloco who represents t
' lst District in Congress of Iowa, moved I'll
Of chaplans shonld not be allowed pay out OF |
Treasury, but the motion did not win
The "Fairtield Ledger" (wh'g) OF the ~
~, contains the following which Is the on
,o,,mcnt necessary upon this subject
NJ Hos. B. HESS.-We see by the Wasiingt
- CITY papers, that our fellow town 'man, the ii'
to Bernhart Henn has pulled of his coat and go
: to work III Congress, inst as an industrious a
II true representative of the people should. '
rn have no doubt but that Mr.. Hem Will pro
10 himself all that his most sanaune friends
al