The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-08-15
NORTH CAROLINA.

The Raleigh Register gives returns from 81 coun.
ties just one-haf of the State) from which it APP
pears that the democrats have gained fire members
viz: one senator in Davidson, and four common.
ers-viz one in Orange, two in Halifax, and one in
Moore. They have lost three members-viz: one
senator in Granville, one senator in Franklin and
one commoner IN Person.
In the last legislature the Senae was equally d.
vided, and the whg majority in the Commons was
twenty -two-Richmond Enquirer
From the Raleigh Standard, OF yesterday morning.
GOVERNORS ELECTION.
We refer our readers to table of the governors
vote in appetizer column, contrasting the present re-
turns with those Of 1874 Mr.. Shepard, it will be
seen, has fallen behind Col Hoke's vote in Warren,
Wake, Stokes, Stanly, Sampson, Rowan, Rocking
ham, Richmond, Randolph, Person, Orange, New
Hanover, Lenoir, 4uilford, Granville, Edgecombe,
Frankln, Davidson, Cumberland Chatham, Cas-
well, Cabarrus Brunswick, Baden, and Arson; and
he has run ahead Of Col. Hoke's vote in Wayne
Nash, johnson, Halifax, and Duplin. Mr.. Ora.
ham has run ahead of his former vote in Baden
Brunswick, Cumberland, Davidson, Dupln, Frank
lin, Edgecombe, Granville, Johnson, Lenoir, Nash,
Person, Randolph, Richmond, Rowan, Sampson,
Stanly, Warren, and Wayne; and he has fallen be-
hind his former vote in Wake, Stokes, Rocking
ham, Orange, New Hanover, Halifax, Guford
Chatham, Caswel, Cabarrus, and Arson. In the
counties contained in our table, according to the
best calculation make Mr. Shepard has fal-
len ABOUT TOUR thousand Deninu COl. f1Oke s vote,
and Mr.. Graham about thousand behind his
former vote. If all the counties had done well
for the democratic cause Halifax, Johnston,
Greene Nash, Duplin, and Pasquotank, Mr.. Shep-
ard would have been triumphantly elected.
The reasons for this defeat too palpabe and
obvious to be overlooked-they may be discovered
by the slightest glance at he votes Of certain coun-
ties. In our next we shall 60 at length into the
causes of wing success in North Carolina As our
friend, Col Norris, would say upon the stump, 'Ie
this suffice" for the present: Base secret and abom
Unable whig lies and wing ISLANDERS; the resignation
of Senator Haywood; the existing war with Next
CO; and the apathy of democrats in certain sec
tons, owing to causes that had their origin mainly
in the circumstances which preceded the nomination
of Mr.. Shepard.
THE LEGISLATURE.
In the last legislature, it will be recoeced, there
a Whig majority of % in the House of Com
mons and tie in the Senate In the late election
we have gained thus far two commoners in Halifax,
one in Orange, one in Moore, and senator in
Davidson; and we have lost one senator in Gran.
vile, one in Franklin, one in Stokes, and one COM
moner in Person. Gain in both branches, five; loss
in both branches, four. Ii we have elected the
senators in Carteret and Jones, in Gates and Chow
an, and in Craven, and if we have defeated Messrs
Francis and Mcmillan, we have carried the Senate
by one vote; but there is much doubt about this
We have lost the senator in Franklin by divisions
among our friends; lost the senator in Granville
by only IL majority; we failed to gain the senators
in Orange and Northampton by four votes in each
case; we lost the senator in Stokes by the i'm ru-
dence Of the gentleman nominated for that post and
we lost the commoner in Person by the personal
unpopularity of our candidate; while in Johnson we
failed to gain a commoner by majority against us
Of four votes. This very close voting shows how
important it is for our friends in every instance 10
turn out and it shows also that we might have gain
ed where we have lost.