Rhode Island American

THE AMERICAN.

PROVIDENCE,

TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 21, 1824.

VOTES FOR PRESIDENT.

The long sustained interest of the public in the important question who shall be our next President, has subsided, so far as the votes of the Electoral Colleges are concerned. No choice having been made by them, speculations on this subject must now be directed toward the decision to be made in the House of Representatives, between Jackson, Adams and Crawford, the three highest candidates, the ballotings for which will commence on the 9th of February. The Louisiana Courier states that Mr. Adams will receive two of the votes of the Electors chosen, and General Jackson 3. The following result of the votes may, therefore, be considered as ascertained.

Mr. Calhoun is elected Vice-President by a large majority.

No further official returns having been received since our last, we omit the table under that head for the present.

Richard I. Manning was, on the 3d instant, elected Governor of the State of South-Carolina, vice J. L. Wilson, who was no longer eligible, by reason of having served out the term limited by the Constitution—

Mr. Gaillard, the President pro. tem. of the Senate, has been re-elected to that body, from the State of South-Carolina, for 6 years from March next, when his present term expires.—Mr. G. is considered the Father of the Senate, having first entered it in 1805, and continued a member a longer period without interval than any other member of that body.

Mr. Newton, for 3 or 4 years has been the Father of the House of Representatives, being the only remaining member of those who were in the House at the time of the passage of the celebrated Embargo laws.

Mr. Senator King of New-York, is in fact the Father of Congress, being the oldest member, and having been a Senator from Massachusetts in the first Congress (1789.) The next oldest to him, probably, is Mr. Senator Smith, of Maryland, or Mr. Senator Macon, the latter of whom has never been out of Congress a single session since he entered it thirty years ago.—Had he not been transferred to the Senate, he would of course have been the oldest member of the House of Representatives.

For Gen. Jackson.	For J. Q. Adams,
New-York	1	Six N. E. States	51
New-Jersey	8	New-York	26
Pennsylvania	28	Delaware	1
Maryland	7	Maryland	3
N. Carolina	15	Illinois	1
S. Carolina	11	Louisiana	2
Alabama	5
Louisiana	3		84
Tennessee	11
Indiana	5
Illinois	2
Mississippi	3
	99
Henry Clay.		W. H. Crawford.
New-York	4	New-York	5
Ohio	16	Delaware	2
Kentucky	14	Maryland	1
Missouri	3	Virginia	24
	37	Georgia	9