The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1854-10-18
CITY OF EVANSVILLE.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, :::::::OCT. 10.
The Next House Of Repro sen tatIve..

count their spoils, and to anticipate with
good degree of certainty, the complexion of
of the next Congress. The present Con-
gress consists of 233 members, as folows:-
S8 Wings, l4O Democrats, Freesoiers.
kThe Cincinnati Enquirer,an administration
sheet, covers the defeat of its party in the
following frank and honest language:
awe doubt whether there will be ten regu-
lar orthodox Democrats elected to the next
House of Representatives from the Free
States. So far as the elections have taken
place, we have only heard of the choice of
Hall in Iowa, Fuller in Maine, and Flor
ence in Pennsylvania; and we believe the
seats of the two former are to be contested!
We may pick up some stragglers in Penn
sylvania and Indiana, but at the present
writing the chances are against US obtaining
any in Ohio. Again we repeat, We shall be
disappointed if all the free States send ten
regular Democrats to Congress-"
The Congressional delegation of Ohio,
in the present Congress, stands IA Demo-
Gratis, 5 Wings, and 2 Freesoilers. The de-
legation to the next Congress are ant-ad-
ministration entire, 81 in number, showing
an administration loss eqnal to % members
in the lower House from the Buckeye State.
In Indiana, the present delegation stands
10 Democrats and Wing. The new men,
bers elect to the next Congress, stand 9 an
ti-Nebraska, to Douglasites, showing de-
pletion of the Douglas force in Congress
equal to Is members.
Pennsylvania has not elected to exceed
members at the late election. Her last
delegation stood stood Is Democrats ard 9
Wings. The Democratic strength in the
House is again reduced % points by the
change in Pennsylvania.
The changes in other States, which have
already held their elections; and in New
York, N. Jersey ,Michig an illinois, Wisconsin,
yet to spe ak in the name Of the people, will
reduce the Douglas delegation in Congress,
from the free States, below corporaPs
guard. The PEOPLE will be represented in
the next Congress, in fact as well as in
name. The victory which they have achev-
ed in this contest, is no ordinary one. This
is victory that closely approximates the
humiliation ofthe peoples adversaries. Hith-
erto, when either Of the great contending
parties sustained a defeat, they had at least
some shreds of their former platform to fall
back upon-some issues that had not been
abandoned nor superseded, upon which to
unite and rally. This defeat of the Demo
cracy differs from all others, for the reason
that it has nothing left; it is bankrupt, both
in capital and principle.
Every one of the peoples measures of
any prominence or Importance was killed
in the late Congress, that vitality might be
kept in the infamous Nebraska bill. Internal
improvements in the West, were stifed and
permitted to sumber, for the want of a little
encouragement. The Homestead, bill was
was killed by the much Democracy that
prevailed at Washington. The INDECENT
Insane bill,suffered the garrote, and the
River and Harbor bill, a measure in which
every Western man is interested deeply,
suffered an ignominious death at the hands
of the President, and the vast amount of
government property heretofore engaged in
that service, was sacrificed and sold for a
song. The French Spoliation bill, and hun
dreds OF others of greater or less magnitude
were tabled, or cavalierly thrown aside, by a
Democratic Congress, that the Nebraska
bill might be considered. Five months Of
time which Congressman owed to the in
terests of the whole nation, were spent in
worse than ideness, for the imaginary bene-
fit of few Shareholders. To the prejudices
and fancied interests of a few slaveites, of
the North as well as of the South, was all
this legislation devoted. The Democratic
administration sacrificed everything upon
the shrine Of Nebraska, to Douglas, its G cd:
and the people have inturn annihilated that
party for its folly. The overwhelming voice,
that booms up from every Democratic State,
shows that the honest masses have not been
blind to the misrule of their party. They
are now visiting the penalty of disobedience
upon thelr party leaders in an awful but just
retribution. The recollections of the causes
OF this Democratic downfall, are "cannoniz.
ed In the hearts of the American people,"
and will 60 down to posterity with the glo-
rious victory they have achieved.
0T McGoodwin, the vertable Mac of the
old Smthland Post Boy, and the mos, humor.
Gus of all Macs. talks of starting paper at
faducah, with Know Nothing proclivities.
won't he and McCarty, our Irish friend of
he Journal, have jelly time on that cues.
uon! When the two Macs are at it, all les