South Branch Intelligencer

From the National Gazette.

It is represented to us from very respectable sources, that the results of the recent elections in Connecticut and Rhode Island should not produce discouragement among the good citizens of any State who prefer Mr. Webster as a candidate for the office of President. Those results have been occasioned by local party divisions which, it is affirmed, would cease, or be inoperative in the question of the adoption or rejection of the first statesman and chief boast of New England, when presented solely and finally to the New England communities. It is still thought that he would obtain the suffrages of a large majority in both Connecticut and Rhode Island. The case of the late elections is quaintly explained as follows in a letter from Providence to the Boston Courier:

"Here, with every thing at our command, and with the ability to succeed, we have suffered shame and disgrace, because many of our party stopped by the roadside to quarrel about masonry, anti-masonry, anti-slavery, anti-brandy, gin and cold water, orthodoxy, heterodoxy, Fanny Wright, Belzebub, and railroads. Thus we quarrelled split and divided; the well organized forces of the administration marched up in the mean time and carried all before them. We have thus lost our Senator and the State beside."