Lynchburg Virginian

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

From the National Intelligencer, Oct. 22.

LOOK ALOFT

The corruptionists, so lately trembling under the apprehension of impending justice, revived by the recent news from deluded and duped Pennsylvania, again raise their heels, and pat forth the song of triumph. They have gained, at the late election, one State, (Pennsylvania,) which they always claimed, by a less majority than they ever claimed; and, by the clamor which they raise to keep their spirits up, one would suppose they had carried the General Election, at which, in the next month, they may, as likely as not, lose the vote of that very State. On the other hand, they have lost, irretrievably lost, another great State, (Ohio,) which, only one short week ago, was positively and unqualifiedly claimed by their highest authority, as certain for them.

We invoke the opponents of the present administration, in every part of the country, to be firm, faithful, and fearless in the discharge of their duty as good citizens. Instead of looking down into the abyss below their feet, let them look aloft, with some confidence in themselves, but a great deal more in the beneficence of a wise Providence.

Hitherto, whilst they have not suffered themselves to be betrayed into a childish exultation by the almost ludicrous dismay of their opponents at their defeats, let them not be depressed by results such as those in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, which were foreseen by most of the politicians who do not suffer their wishes to outrun their judgments.

With the proper resolution, and combined exertions, the defeat of the administration is demonstrably within the power of their opponents, with or without Pennsylvania, which State we are willing to allow to be doubtful. With this allowance, however, or, instead of wailing and fretting because we have not carried every doubtful State, let us again cast up our account of probabilities. Judge by the elections as far as they have progressed, and be ruled by the demonstration of figures rather than by fears, the querulous utterance of which is calculated to unnerve the arms of our friends and encourage the presumption of our antagonists.

Allow, then, how stands our account current of calculations, founded upon elections which have taken place thus far? Here it is:

FOR MR. VAN BUREN
In all, sixty-four,

AGAINST MR. VAN BUREN
Louisiana, Five.
Alabama, Seven.
North Carolina, Fifteen.
Kentucky, Fifteen.
Indiana, Nine.
Maryland, Ten.
Vermont, Seven.
Ohio, Twenty-one.
In all, eighty-nine.

So, that, give the Spoilsmen New Jersey and Pennsylvania—and we should be very sorry to believe that they have bagged either the one or the other—and we still beat them twenty-five electoral votes.

And, as for the remaining ten States, the chances are at least equal in our favor. Look aloft, then, we say, and thus look to the winds all vain regrets and needless apprehensions.

Illinois,	Five.
Missouri,	Four.
Arkansas,	Three.
Rhode Island,	Four.
Maine,	Ten.
New Jersey,	Eight.
Pennsylvania,	Thirty.