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«.aru‘ lu the coIU, darkly lighted roam, whose
misery aud desolation a tew expiring embers in
the rusty grate only served to disclose, was my
once beautiful, still loved Emily. She raised her
tnild, blue eyes as the noise of my entrance arres
ted her attention, and there passed over her coun
tenance a strange, unnatural tire, which made me
shudder. 1 rushed towards the couch from which
6he had started. The grasp of the aged’servant, who
would-have restrained me, was as nothing hclore
the strength of that despair which nerved my
frame. I clasped in my arms the fragile form
which months of suffering had rendered almost
shadowy. I pressed mv cold Hps on that brow,
where intellect, in ail its proud regality, had once
been enthroned—‘Emily, my own, dear Emily’-
whispered I, ‘I am here—your Gerald.’ I ceas
ed—-mind had fled ; why should 1 thus speak to
one, whom hopeless insanity had made its victim.
1 held her from ine—l gazed upon her—‘Gerald!’
murmured she, as she looked long and earnestly
info my faee—a rich glow passing over that cheek
Hcur befell before as of marble. Idid not speak—
I could not—but the tide of life seemed to have
ceased, a9 I yielded to the intensity of hope that
single word inspired—yet it was momentary—
another instant, and a wild, hollow, sepulchral
laugh burst from the lips of Emily. The old
vaulted building seemed to seize it, and fling it
hack on my heart, with a weight which threatened
to crush vitality. One moment more, and the
long, sharp nails of the slender fingers were buried
in mv throat with a fierceness, fury of which I
had uot conceived. The blood followed, and
•overcome with all I had endured, I sank in utter
helplessness oo the floor. I became unconscious.
When l recovered, I was removed from that heart
rending scene, and for many w eeks I exposed not
myself to the view of its entire misery.
•'Vet I saw her again; and as the door of her
prison-chamber was thrown open to me, I obser
ved a grate bad been added, which prevented
‘farther entrance. Emily glanced towards me ; a
demoniac scream parted her lips; fire flashed iu
her eyes. With extended arms, she sprang tow -
ards the grate. What was it struck on my ear?
1 could not mistake the dnll, clanking sound—
she. was chain'd! aud around that light, fairy form
which had oft felt the twiuings of my embrace,
was fastened the cold, heavy iron! It coufiued her
to her dreary abode, and being attached to the
wall, hindered her from reaching me. She sank
prostrate on the floor, about midway betweeu her
couch and the door.”
Gerald paused ; the big tears stood on his manly
heck ; his breast heaved beneath the avalanche of
anguish which choked utterance; while Ida,
eatung her cheek on his shoulder, wept unres
trainedly.
“If was not long before my Emilv was released
from her sufferings,” resumed Gerald; “death
came, and without one ray of returning reason
fldiug her departing hours, she was wrapped in
lie cold embrace of the tomb. For months 1
ired in that lonely and deserted house, knowing
no greater happiness than in the stillness of night
o prostrate myself in the luxury of grief, beneath
the shadows of the willows, whose long and
raceful branch** drooped in the silvery moonlight
so sadly over the grave of her I had loved so well.
But. Ida, you know not all. Listen ! That young,
bright creature, was snv sister! The sister of the
purest affection that ever sprung into life. 1 had
known no mother’s tenderness; no father’s care.
She was all the world to me; she guided my
erring steps in boyhood ; she watched beside niy
couch of pain, when burning fever scorched me ;
she shared every feeling of sadness or joyousness
which agitated my bosom; and for me, for my
improvement, for »<»/advancement, she abdicated
all those glittering pleasures to which her youth,
beauty, wealth and rank entitled her. You may
imagine with what idolatry I loved her ; how the
very poetry of affection lived in our intercouse.—
After that fatal malady had descended on liar
ilfter she was laid in the bosom of earth—l learned
mv mother’s buoyancy of spirit and brightness of
beauty had thus faded from life ! that madness was
my birthright, rny inheritance!—Wonder you
now that 1 tremble, as! view the young, fair pledge
of our loves ? that even in the enjoyment of the
happiness I now possess, Ifcoft shudder as 1 think
how dark, how stonnv a night may succeed to its
brightness—but,” added Gerald, iu a hoarse,
brokeu voice, “promise me, Ida, when the pall
of insanity shall have descended to cover the light
of intellect, when the fire of madness shall have
score bed the sources of life, promise me, you
will not leave, will not forsake me !”
“Never! never!” ejaculated the weeping wife,
as she flung herself into hie arms, pressing imr
cold cheek to the colder one of her husband ;
how her heart suiote her for having so wronged
him, by nurturing one suspicion of that noble
nature. That heart clung to him with renewed
idolatry, and who can kiow the passionate fervor
of the prayer which arose from its inmost depths,
that God would avert from her hearth a curse so
hitler, so blighting!
• • 4 4 *
It was but four years from the events recorded
above, and a group, in which the very spirit of
grief seemed dwelling, were assembled in a cham
ber of that mansion which had seen so forcibly
portrayed the perishableness of life's gifts. It
was night, and the howling of the tempest with
out, the heavy, monotonous pattering of the rain,
the melancholy sighing of the wind, seemed un
heard by the sorrowful occupants of that apart
ment, in which perfect stillness reigned. A soli
dary taper thing its sickly and flickering rav6
athwart a couch on which rested the form of a
mau apparently but in the noontide of life. In
the restless and unqiet rolling of the large dark
eyes, there beamed no mind, yet there was beauty,
sfaange beauty, in the finely chiselled lips, in the
high, pure brow, which seemed imbedded in the
heavy masses of black hair clustering around the
countenance of deadly paleness. A small, fair
hand, was twined iu those sable locks, and over
the bed of insanity leaned the form of a female,
painfully attenuated. In the depths of her lan
guid eye, there lay a history—a tale of love, ten
derness, suffering, and blighted happiness, but
the unmurmuring spirit of the Christian reposed
there also—-that spirit, which yielded not to tha
blast as it swept over the treasure-house of the
•flections, but which even in the bitterness of des
olation, could exclaim, “the cup which my fat her
hath given tue, shall I not drink of it!” Who in
that premature wreck of all that was most beauti
ful, could recognize the once brilliant Ida V ,
the creature of sunshine ?—-The stream of life,once
mirroring nought but happiness, had been imbit
tered and troubled. Though she felt that the
billows of anguish were breaking over her soul,
as 6he watched beside her inauiac husband, her
sorrow was voiceless, and even the sigh, w hich oft
-struggled to escape its piisou-house, was hushed ;
the eye wgs uplifted to heaven with renewed fer
■eriry. the tins ’irfoved In prayer with unabated
frequency, as she sometimes almost yielded to the
passionate impulses of her grief. At the foot of
the couch, over which his daughter bent, stood
yj r . V . with folded arms, a rooted and stern
sorrow depicted on his venerable countenance ;
and kneeling beside him. her dimpled arms em
bracing bis keees, her young, bright head lowed
ou her bosom, was a fair child, whose few years
seemed to preclude the possibility of her appre
ciating the peculiar and moving scene on which
she had been looking. Yet her childhood had
nurtured in affliction, and on her young and grace
ful brow, thought had descended prematurely.—
She knew her father was dying— that father she
had been taught to love passionately—and when
she gazed on his sunken and emaciated face, she
wept convulsively. Ida wiped away the chill
damps of death, which had already begun to col
lect on the brow of the sufferer. Suddenly the
storm without ceased,—'the dying man moved—
“ Heaven,” lejaculated he, as with supernatural
strength he started from his pillow, and a smile ot
ineffable sweetness passed over his pale counten
ance—“ Heaven is gained! In Zion is no sutier
ing.no tears! Ida, my own beloved!” and the
next moment she is wreathed In his embrace.
Reason had returned—though in his departing
moments. She had prayed that he might not die
in fearful insanity. That prayer was heard—an
swered and she was happy, even while the fitful
brea'hings of her husband passed fainter and fain
ter over her cheek. “Hush, Ida! mine own
one!” whispered he. “Glory is opening ttpou
me—the Redeemer—precious—peace—” The
tones, grew indistinct—-Ida heard no more. Slow
ly, the arms which were twined around her neck
fell from their resting place. His spirit had pas
sed, even while words ol peace lingered on his
colorless lips. Gently the stricken wife arose,
lest she might disturb the beautiful repose of the
dead—tremblingly she passed her hand over those
lids which drooped over the glazed eyeballs—
carefully she put aside the long, dark hair, which
shaded the serene face of the marble-like corpse.
Then kneeling beside the couch of death, her
child nestling with sobs beside her, Ida gazed her
last on the one who had been dearer to her than
aught else earth held.
4 * * * *
Ida lived many years after the golden link in
life’s chain had been shattered. She was not un
mindful of her remaining blessings, and in the
education of her daughter, in teaching her to
tread the paths of holiness, in administering to
the comforts of her aged father, she enjoyed se
renity and composure. Yet the memories of her
youth—the sacred remembrance of Gerald, tlie
husband of her deathless love—were never dim
med ; and her chastenings drew her more closely,
more tenderly to that Father, who hath s id unto
his redeemed children—“ When thou passest
through the waters I will be with thee; —and
through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee;
when thou walkest through the fire, thou shah
not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon
thee.” «. c. M.
Nelson County, Ya.
SCENES IN CHARLESTON.
All who can sysmpathize in human suffering,
will read with painful emotions tiie picture of
miserv and desolation that is sketched in the fol
lowing extract ol a letter from Charleston. It is
from a native of New England, who lias long been
a resident of that city, and was written at a time
when the epidemic was at its height, ihe testi
mony which he bears to the efforts of charity and
benevolence exerted by her citizens, is richly mer
ited, and long may it be beture they are again
called into requestion by so painful an occasion.
“Charleston, Sept. 29.
“I have been all alone this week, xcept my
oldest sou, who stays while lgoto get something
to eat. Yesterday, we did not think my clerk
would live through the day, but a good change
has taken place, and strong hopes are now indulg
ed of his recovery. \esterday was last day; 1
went to the City Temporary Hospital; forty-five
sick were in it, men and women, the women up
stairs, and the men down. It is a shocking sight
to see the poor creatures all stretched on cots in
one long room, writhing under the powerful arm
of this fell disease. Some have died in twenty
fours; some in forty-eight; but they usually die
the sixth or seventh day. Among them are Ital
ians, Irishmen, Spaniards, Frenchtneu, English
men. Germans, Ac. as w ell as Americans. Here
a poor fellow from some town in Massachusetts or
Connecticut, lying next a swarthy Spaniard ora
heavy moulded Dutchman; there the late polite and
agile Frenchman or Italian, receiving support,
sympathy, and all that money, science, ami reli
gions consolation can provide; from the warm and
noble hearted Sc uth Carolinians. Asa patient
convalesces, he is taken next door, to the Medi -
cal College, where they have all the littie nice
restoratives and attention.- they require. Bishop
England (Catholic) has a hospital iu which tiiere
are a good many. To realize what death aud
disease are, most visit such a place, where the
blood is oozing in streams lrom the mouths ot
some, and the sheets and bedding saturated
with it as it flows from their bodies, and the dread
ful metalic smell of tiie calomel that penetrates
your very brain; and the strong and weak men, as
helpless as infants, some calling on their distant
friends whom they never will see more, crying
in their agenv— this , this is death ! r l his is a
sight sufficient to melt the stoutest heart.
“1 am almost proud that my children w ere born
in Carolina. There is a noble spirit of humaiity
here that will ever make them proud, and most
justly so, of there native State. 1 do not believe
there is a city in this known world, where there
is more practical religion, or so much Samau an
like conduct, as I find here. There are pe*nle
going about all day, hunting up the sick and des
titute, pouring oil inte their wounds. In our very
small summer population (this summer) most of
our richest citizens are absent. Notwithstanding
which,,near four thousand dollars have been rai
sed in the different churches in a single Sabbath,
out of a white population not near so large as
your own.
“When you take into consideration that scar
cely a citizen but what has suffered deeply by the
great lire, and has also been taxed and taxed, a
gaiu and again, subscribing for the poor suffer
ers by the lire, building churches, Ac. and that
rents and living have increased so much, and all
to transpire within a few mouths, (and besides at
this season; too, when no business is doing,) and
then for them to give near $4,000 for the poor,
sick, and and destitute stranger, is noble in the
extreme, besides private donatious ot money, food
and clothing, to a large amount, l challenge, most
fearlessly challenge, the universe tor an instance
of superior benevolence. Among our first ladies,
an, many noble Episcopalians and Catholics, who
go hand in hand with those ot other denomina
tions. While some poor being is throwing up
the black vomit, they are calming their wounded ’
j spirits and smoothing their dying pillow.
“The City Guard, out of eighty men has alrea
dy lost twenty -ix. r ! lie Citadel Guard has lost
many. Four or five English Captains have died
and a great many American seamen and officers.
These principally die in the Marine * Hospital.
There are seven four story brick stores at one
point in King street where a few weeks since a
hundred men were employed For ten davs past
there have been but four or five. The rest have
gone away, died, or are sick. It is the gloomiest
time 1 ever saw in Charlesion. Only thirteen
passengers have come down on the railroad from
as far up as Branchville, Aiken, ml Augusta,
for four weeks past. The few passengers who
come here from the north, are immediately sent
otl in extra cars. Almost all who were subject to
it are gone, got well or have died. A poor Jtw
arrived from Now \ ork a few days ago and died
with the fever in three or lour days. Several oth
ers have met tiie same fate in a few days alter
their arrival.”
Charleston herself again /--We believe it to be
perfectly safe for the inhabitants of Chari ston to
return to their homes, without ant fear of being
assailed by the atrauger’s fever. Our reasons for
this belief, are that we are assured that ICE was
observed yesterday morning, by the residents of
Catmonsborough and Hampstead, and that we are
assured that a heavy white frost, of sufficient
volume to enable a person to scrape up a consid
erable quantity, was seen within the city. We
state this fact for the simple reason, that informa
tion has reached us, that numbers still what the
announcement that the epidemic has disappeared,
and as we have taken rather a prominent stand, in
making remarks upon the health of the city, which
atone period, was considered premature, but alier
wards, most unfortunately proved otherwise, our
paper is looked to by some as bound to redeem our
promise of being prompt in the announcement of
the return of health to the city. We therefore
repeat, that, in our opinion, there is no lougerthe
least danger to any, either citizen or stranger, iu
coming to Charleston, in which opinion many of
our physicians fully concur.— Courier.
Grand Texian Expedition. —We learn from
the New Orleans Picayune, that an expedition,
composed of 250 men, is fitting out in Texas, for
the purpose of trading with Mexico and supplying
the inhabitants with merchandise, made scarce by
the French blockade. The company has agents
in New York and other parts of the United States
and from the rapid ty with which preparations have
been made hitherto, it is expected that the expe
tion will get oft’some time in November.
The main object of this company, says the Pi
cayune; is to establish a road for wagons from
Galveston Island, through Chihuahua to Montery
—not the Montery of New Leon, near the Rio
del Norte, hut a town of the same name situa
ted on the upper part of tne Gulf California. In
this pioneering expedition, which is expected to he
more extensive operations hereafter, it is in con
templation to take along from forty to fifty thou
sand dollars worth of goods—-and, as there will be
250 men in the company, well armed and equip
ped—-it is also to be presumed that the caravan
will proceed to its diminution without much mo
lestation from robbers, banditti, Ac.
The leader of the expedition, Maj A Le Granda
an enterprising gentleman ot Texas, who has led,
several similar expeditions,
The following account of the gathering of the
Pottawatamy mbe of Indians for removal furnish
es an interesting picture of frontier scene*. It ;s
from the l.ogausport (Indiana) Telegraph of the
15th ultimo :
A small military force left Logausport ou
Wednesday tiie 2(ith August, and, having been
reinforced on the route, reached the Indian Chap
el an Twin Lakes, in Marshall county, jbout 11
o’clock on Thursday. Here the principal chiefs,
with several other Indians were found, aud sur
rounded, to prevent their escape. General Tip
ou then heid a council with those present, and
our chiefs, appearing somewhat refractory, were
taken and placed under guard in one of the rooms
ot the building which had been occupied as a chap
el. The Indians present were then told that they
must prepare to emigrate —that iu three days they
must be ready to go West; that they need not
hope to remain on the lands which they occupied,
for they would becoinpelled to leave them. They
were further told that wagons would be provided
to eonvey their furniture and utensils into camp,
to be carried tor them to their homes in the West;
that their co, ifieids be appraised by disia
; terested persons, aud that they ( the Indians;
i should receive the amount of then valuation; that
the Government would tmuisii them with provis
ions and clothing, and farming utensils for the
term of one year lrom and after their arrival upon
the lands assigned to them beyond the Mississippi;
; that they would not again be compelled to remove,
and that the Government would protect them in
the»r new homes.
Parries of dragoons were then despatched in diff
erent directions, with orders to bring the various
bands of Indians into camp. The dragoons were
also ordered to treat the Indians kindly, to pre
serve their moveable property, and to buru their
wigwams.
These orders were executed in a summary man
ner, and the business of collecting the liidiaus
progressed w ith a rapidity w hich seemed to aston
ish those who understood u. Such was the ictivi
ity displayed that o» Monday, the dd of Sep
tember. tiiere were in tin encampment about eight
hundred Indians, apparently (with a few excep
tions) satisfied with tiie prospect of immediate em
igration.
The encampment occupied a space about one
i hundred yards square upon the banks ol the Twin
Lakes. This area was almost completely filled
with ludian tents, ponies pigs,public officers, dogs,
cats, sentinels, wagons, Ac. Throughout the
whole proceedings great decision, euergy aud ac
tivity were displayed, accompanied by very little,
if any, cruelty—that is, viewing the whole as a mat
ter of national policy.
Alabama.—*-' The Huntsville Democrat, one of
the ablest and best informed papers in Alabama,
says:
“The late election in Alabama, we have reason
! to believe, has resulted in opposition to the Sub
j Treasury scheme of finance, and, so far as that is
• a test, in opposition to the leading measures of
Mr. Van Buren’s administration,”* *
“Public sentiment in this State is steadily pro
i grossing and settling down against the measures
of Mr. Van Buren, who, without the aid and in
-1 flueoee oltlte ‘great Nullified,’ would even now be
left almost without friends among the People—
-1 the office-holders and spods-men adhere to him
fas a matter of course.'’
a* • ■'7 —
As we anticipated, cur attic.c v te’v • j,i j .
adv;si.r« our iiiemts ot the pro- i
. ... 0.ti,,.
ot our opponents ;n ti,e i.e r . • e, ; 0 relj ,
she t Runes Dntbiu'
ister and pearile resolutions. A , reference* *
the >ub i rct-Muy; tire United f- esßank (
and Van Buteu if thit
proved anvthing but savory to ti - \ p, *
press i.i the state. Fully aware ‘ the a,7
opement of tin i sinister attemj .( c
iridicatmito uiriihv those attem
tiling but i abatable to our op *
quite prorate t to pa -s nnr.oticec : u the cant wu'i
we knew our remarks would « a forth lrom U
Federal mocrats of their press. W e had ( Ul 6
determined likewise, to let tht-it oservations i-,
regard to the ■consistency of our party iu the late
election, pass for what it was worth, Knowing tn
with our party as well as with ourselves] tli e
judgment of our opponents iu regard to our con
sistcncy with our principles, would not be cousid'
ered as of any great validity. And we now only
refer to this subject, on one point, for the purpose
of preventing some cf our political friends, w |„j
may have just become entitled to a vote, aud W [ UP
may not be very conversant with the course ofthe
[tarty in times past, from being led into error by
the constant reiteration of such stuff by our n o j
itical opponents, uncontradicted by the press 0 f
their own party.
The point then is this: Our opponents pre
tend that our course, in opposing anything |,(.
proscription in our own party, on the subject old
United States Bank, is wholly inconris cut with
our principles, and an ..baiiilonment ofthe uniform
course ofthe party, They say, that a fundamen
tal principle of our party has ever been not only
in opposition to a National Bank, but thefproscrip
tion of those who (littered with us on this point
We positively deny both nsseitions. Nor aie\, e
content with a bare denial, we will prove it. R av .
more still :we will demonstrate that (hose
are inconsistent , and grossly inconsistent, wlm
would at this day begin a course of proscriptim
on this topic; and w orse, much Worse than ireen
sistent—for the only object in the dibit that
can perceive, is solely to bohstrv up :! - *• P ,
Van Buren in Georgia—-a man who ha* t. -* ;• ij,
offices and patronage of the Gov- r "orient’‘to
our party in the dust. \V him all e ~wan r, :
this paper is now, and ever has b en against tin
constitutional power of Congr -
Bank, or any other corporation, even a u. , , ,
university-—yet we know that this paper,and **.,•*■.
other paper ofthe party in Georgia. a-> well as the
party itself, has always y ielded to their fellows the
right cf private judgment on the subject, and hay,
never r, fused, on this account their hearty srr,
port to those of their friends who differ with tie ;.,
in regard to it.
But »o the proof: It wih no'jbe necessary •
presume to trace th” course of the partviu-th-.
hack than thirtv years ago, and thence down
the present. some thirty years o t o < nr ;■ r
tv ackuowiledged as its chief TnUr, Wn. H.
Crawford. They rt stained h:i:: tor the Chip
Magistracy, with all their v-.-or.. and sustainr
him throughout t.i ■■ poht
knows that Mr. Grawfurd was ?h ablest champ
on of the United
po'iticnl career. Was any inconsistency,
then or ever, cl oe ' upon tb- party for support
ing Mr Crawford The ['arty sustained for eve
ry political office, so long as he remained with us,
John Forsyth; notwithstanding his advocacy ol a
National Bank, and notwithstanding he voted
for it. No inconsistency in this.—The party
with pleasure sustained Mr. Elliot in the Senate,
notwithstanding his preference, as we believe, for
a United States Bar k. The party ever sustain
ed Alfred Cuthbei t. as a member of Congress so
long as he remained one of us, notwithstanding
he was in favor of a I Triterl States Bank, and voted
for it. The party sustained in Congress, until his
death, Mr. Te!fa*r rv.t.withs , and>ng he advocated
ami voted for the Bank r l i<• party sustained Wil
son Lumpkin in fori ; .i -s. so h-ng as he remain
ed one of us, albeit he supported th*- United States
Bank, and voted for it. The party has ever sus
tained Joel Crawford for Congress, ay, and but t
year or two ago, offered him as their candidate for
Goveruer, against Wilson Lumpkin, and did
their utmost to elect him, notwithstanding his
preference for a United States lia.tk The party
sustained, as long as thev were able to sustain
any body, Richard H. WT’. , notwithstanding his
uniform advocacy of a T uito.i h rates Bank'. Ihc
State Rights party candidate for Congress, bin.
two or three years ago, av, and the especial favor
ite candidate was he, of tlie out and ou* Nulhfiers
was Mr. Chappell m twiths mil n • : ’
in favor off Tates Bant
the par ist .
ed and highly sustain m, for Cot
gross, notwitb -landin bis idvof-H'Y o’ • 1 nttfd
States Ba.T and a pure) patriot, an.: lionester
man, w.; never si st inn’ b; any party- Shahwc
go in w'>th the list, ft s rhi‘ ek> rated enough **t
present, for the time and patience c the r ' SL - er
\l'c!! ; to till ‘ ’
as far harp a w can remember downwards tot 1
pres* nt time, t l -re has been t;o charge ot watt
sisteiicy o* abandonment of princij le ivt 1 *•’*•
at the end of thirty years friendly, 'ibeia! and hat
ruonious action a- we have shown, vie are to>a.
that to <b as ws h. v e ah' avs done, allow our triet o s
to think on thh subject for themselves, is vastly
inconsistent, .nd an utter abandonment ot the
principles ofthe party. Faugh 1 Those only
are inconsistent with the uniform course of the
party since its origin, who would now attempt to
dictate to tlie party on this subject, and to drive
them into a departure from their uniform cour se
of action, to a course of proscription ; and all, so
laras we can see. for tlie worthy object of breaking
our old party into fragments, and allowing Martin
Van Buren to become the lord Dictator of Geor
gia. A worthy object doubtless ; and the in«a DS
as worthy as the object. . .
We have thus hastily ran over a period of tn* r
tv years’ action of tiie party on this subject, to
able those who may not have made th miseries 3
well acquainted with our party in yetrs go tc by a
we are, to refute the absurd and faU f''eg atiu
of inconsistency on this point, whi > DClW in
much in the mouths of those who would g! 0I 7
the ruin of the party, and who canonly effect tne*
object by dividing us. We leave it to the tx a
whether we have not satisfactorily reade out ot
case.— Sothern Recorder.
New -Jersey Election.—The Ne i :
nir.g Star of "the 17tli instant conta is ibe c
cial returns of the election in New DrsvjG _
which it is ascertained that »he whol . ’Y iig y
gressional ticket has succeeded by t majority
95 votes: and that there will be in iho U e S ls
ture, on joint ballot, a Whig majority ui