Alexandria Advertiser And Commercial Intelligencer

COLUMBIA, (S. C.) December 5.

We are informed that the Electors, appointed by the Legislature of this state, to vote for a President and Vice-President of the United States, met on Wednesday last, the 3d inst. as follows:

John Hunter, in the Chair.

Paul Hamilton,
Robert Anderson,
Theodore Gaillard,
Arthur Simkins,
Andrew Love,
Joseph Blythe.
Wade Hampton,

The above Electors having been previously officially notified by his honor the Lieutenant Governor, of their appointment, at eleven o'clock in the Forenoon, they convened at the state house, conformably to the act of the Legislature of the State, in that case made and provided.

The constitution and laws of the United States, and the aforesaid act of the Legislature, as they relate to the election of a president and Vice-President of the United States, were read--after which the Electors proceeded to ballot; and upon counting the Votes, it appeared that Thomas Jefferson, of Virginia, had eight votes; that Aaron Burr, of New York, had also eight votes; and that no other person was mentioned on the Ballots of the Electors,

The Electors then proceeded to sign and seal three certified lists of the persons voted for, and the votes for each. One of which lists, with the certificate of the Lieutenant-Governor to the Electors, and a copy of the aforesaid act of the Legislature, was transmitted to the president of the Senate of the United States, by Mr. George M. Brown appointed by the Electors express for the purpose. A second, with the same accompaniment, was deposited by the electors, in a body, in the Post-Office at Columbia, directed to the president of the Senate of the United States. And a third was delivered, with like accompanying papers, to Mr. Theodore Gaillard, one of the Electors, who undertook to lodge the same with the Judge of the United States, for the district of South-Carolina.