Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1858-11-05
The Elections in Now York New Jersey
- Delaware Massachusetts Michigan
-WiaconRin-I Illinois

The Elections in Now York New Jersey
- Delaware Massachusetts Nj chigan
Wisconsin Illinois.
NEW YoRK, Nov. 3.---,iouyeneur kcmble is said
to lie elected in the 9th district. in place Of Has
kin. Full returns from twenty-five counties show
nett Republican gain of % 900. The Albany
.Ionrnul estimates Morgan's (Rep.) majority for
Cove nor in the whole State at 20 900. The n.
!. Tribune estimates IL much smaller mnlority.-
The Congressional delegates will probably stand
e Reps, 10 Denis. In the 81 district the
vote is close: Williamson claims majority of
% over Sickes, who was reported elected yester-
day.
NEW JERSEY.
In the LIST district Nixon, Ecp., in tho I'd
Stratton, Rep. and in tho 9th, Pennington Rep,
are elected. In the 3rd, Adrian, and in the 4th.
Riggs, both Independent Dems., are probably
elected.
MASSACHUSETTS,.
The entire delegation to Congress is Rep. Re-
turns from all but Is towns give Banks u MAORI
ty over all Of about 1900.
The Democratic State ticket is elected; the Legis-
lature is Democratic, and Whitley is elected to
Congress-.
As fur M heard from Dunn Dem, for Congress,
was 935 ahead
ILLINOIS.
The lines were imperative from the storm this
morning but arc now working: yet the returns
are confused and scattering The struggle is en-
trely between the Douglas Democrats and the
Republicans Scarcely any minority for the Adj
have been reported; neither any
thing definite in regard to the Congressional dele
CATION.
CHICAGO Nov. 3.--OAirial returns give n Rcpub-
ntu III
representatives for Congress elected in the State
M far a. heard from Private dispatches here say
that there are large Douglas gains elsewherc--un-
reliable.
LATER.
CHICAGO, Nov. 3.--Thc Administration ticket,
in the city, gets DAG votes out gilmore than $4,000
polled
In Sangammon county, Douglas gains two mem
In Port st. Clair, Baker, Rep, elected to Con-
gress by 200 maj.
Scattering returns from IL counties give 1850
Rep majority, large reaction upon the majori-
ties OF 1856
STILL LATER
CHICAGO, o p. Mas far as heard from the
Legislature stands ftrty-six Republicans to
forty-thrcc Democrats ten of whom nrc doubt
full
RnILADELPmIA.9 ~ =. M.-Forney's dispatches
state that Douglas has triumphcl, having u ma
jority in the Legislature,
Convicted for Killing Slave Fourteen
Years Ago.
The once celebrated and long protracted case Of
the State of Alabama vs. Francis J, Cobin, for
whipping a slave to death. was at length decided
about two weeks since in the Circuit Court of Hen
ry County at Enfala
More than fourteen years ago; in February
1911, in Barbour county, John, slave of Dr.
Alexander p; Crawford was most brutaily whip
ped to death. The prisoner, who was then Dir.
Crawfords overseer. being immediately after the
whipping, and while John yet alive charged
with 1t and thrcated with prosecution, fled from
the neiahburhood. Two years after he was ar
rested by Mr. Thomas Cargile in the city of Mont
gomery, passing under the name of Boyd: and.
being brought back to Barbour county, the grand
jury at the Spring term. 1916; found true bill
against him for murder. Tho venue was soon
changed to Henry county, where the prisoner had
formerly lived, and where he had some relatives
and many friends, and trial being had at tho
Spring term. lS49 before the Hon. Samuel Chap
man, he was found guilty Of murder and senten-
ced to the Penitentiary Tor ten years, the Jury,
however emitting i'll their verdict to ascertain tho
degree of the murder. On account of this omis-
sion the judgmed was reversed by tho Supreme
Court and the prisoner remanded for another trial
Various oontinuances were had sometimes at tho
instance of the State and sometimes at that Of tho
prisoner.
In the meantime the defendant, having obtained
ball. married in respectable family, and had
several children. The protracted ordeal through
which he had passed, the interest felt in the fami
ly to whose fate he had sngularly linked his own,
aud the influence Of prudent and correct deport-
ment ON his part, excited a sympathy in his behalf
50 strong a. apparently to set at defiance and, in
the opinion Of everybody, to put conviction out
Of the question.
| The inevitable hour Mt length, however, rolled
around and the trial commenced. The drawing
of the jury consumed day and half So many
had fixed opinion as to the guilt or innocence Of
the accused that only five were selected out of the
original hundred, and the other seven were OBJ
tanned from an additional eighty who had to be
summoned.
The testimony was brief Dr. Crawford. the
main witness for the State and who testified on
the first trial, having died years ago proof of his
evidence was given by one of the jurors who sat
upon the former trial The defence offered no
testimony but the good character Of the prisoner
and the bad character of the negro.
The jury, about 4 o'clock Saturday evening
having retired, and deliberated about three hours
and half, returned a verdict of manslaughter in
the first degree, with a unanimous recommends
ton Of the prisoner to mercy.
So intense was the feeling. and so high the ex
citement manifested by the people, that the Judge
when the jury came in, and before the verdict wa.
announced, declared from the bench that he would
rigidly punish any man who might hiss or ap
|plaad.
The case Of the State Of Alabama vs. Clay vii
li,.ms, to, killing young Ashley. was tried in th'