The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-11-12
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2 CaARLorfEsyfLLE, Nov. 0, 1851.

= CBARLoTfEsyfILE, Nov. Q, 1851.
herewith Eend you the official vote of Abe
marie county:
For President and Vice President, 1850,
unanimous for Davis and stephens.
Leake 362, r g. II. kean g. Holcombe's
majority over LeaKe 2o4, do. over Kean 4s7.
In tho Everett Artillery, on the Peninsula,
cavalry. at Leesburg. Holcombe 65. Leake 3,
kean 4, Nineteenth Virginia Regiment, COL
strAng's, including Latham's battery and
some OF Pendlston'. battery, Aoicombe had
mens, Col. & ,riand. Hoicom oe o3, Leake II,
Ke Ia l53. Mr.. Holc. mbe received 100 more
majority in Aibemarle over mr. Kean than
the latter received over Mr. Holcombe in the
counties OF Nelson, Amherst Campbell, On
the CRY OF Lynchburg. There arS several
other companies liz western Virginia and in
the Army OF the Potomac. to hear from
which viii add to the majority Of Rir. Hoi-
com be. The counties OF buckingham and
ftuyanna will also give several hunared ma
jority for Mr. HolcoIahe over kIr. ke.th, ard
if is quite prcba5ie that his mrjority iii
amount TO TOO in the District.
The law requires the polls taken IN he
army to he returned to the place OF NEE .rng
of the Sheriffs in each Cong essional Dist sict
within fifteen days after the election. I.Als
may be very important where the contes,. is
close.
IA poll was opened at the hospital in >lis
place; Il votes were Cast tor president sor
Ii =,
Tyler 2, and few for other Congressional
Districts. Some ten or twelve refugees sE.vm
Alexandra voted at the Eonrt- House.
To fill the vacancy i'll the II ouse OF Dele
gales by the resignation Of thomas Wood,
Esq, there were two candidates DR.. M.ri-
wether Il. Anderson received III, and Lient.
VIM. @. Darlington lS5.. Anderson's ma
jsrity 636.
To-day a serious accident occurred 1T the
railroad depot IL this place. As the Orange
and Aiexandria train was backing down the
track, a negro man belonging to Mrs Macon
drove his team across the track, when he was
killed and his wagon mashed mp the mules
and horses were borne down but not killed.
The team was returning from the West
where it had been i'm pressed 10 aid in trans
porting provisions for the army.
The Mayer and Aldermen of the corpora
| tion have appropria' ed $50 for the benefit of
the Aihemarle kifies and M on nticello Guards
two OF our towE companies now at Centre
Vile.
The Monticello House, late Baptist Institute,
has been rented for the sick South Carolina
soldiers; the "MidWay,' *nd several of the
boarding houses near the University, are Oc
cupied by sick soldiers from the same state,
aud there are also many of the South Caro-
lima soldiers ia the hospital at the "Delavan -
| DIR. NJ. Mckenzie q TO. have a sword fac.
tory ere, which turns out some twenty per
week. They are made for use and nor for
show, and are of superior workmanship. At
| the wooien factory CT Mr.. MsIchart about
| 900 yards Of linsey and osnaburgs are turned
out weekly.
| We have q depot for louisiana and cre for
South Carolina, where soldiers are supplied
with clothing and other articles of necessity,
free of exp pense. Soldiers from any part OF
| the tonfederacy are cheerfully supplied.
Upwards of Eo hundred soldiers have died
in The hospitals here since the 18th of July
| last. MosTIcgLLo.