The North-Carolina standard., 1849-08-08
NORTH CAROLINA STANDARD.
RALHIGH:
7WEDNEsDAY. AUGUST 8. ls4e. :
ELECTIONS IN THIS STATE.

ELECTIONS IN THIS STATE.
On Thursday last the people of this State voted
for nine members of Congress, and for Superior and
County Court Clerks. In another column we pub
sh the Congressional tables, and shall add to them
receive the returns, up to the time of going to
press. The returns come in with provoking slow
ness, owing to our lack of mail facilities in this State
In the First District, the Hon. Thomas l.. Cling
man is doubtless reelected. He had no opposition.
Hehas formerly acted with the Wings. but upon the
Slavery question he is with the Democrats. His re-
election is decided ant-Badger triumph. 9a
In the Second District. Joseph p. Caldwell, Esq.
of 1redell, is in all probability elected. He is
Wing, and was opposed by Mr.. Hull, Democrat.
In the Third District, all the Whig candidates but
had Withdrawn, and the majority was too large,
we fear, to be overcome by the gallant Caldwell.
He has gained largely, however, in Moore and Lin
coin, the only Counties heard from. ipa5g SIS
In the Fourth District the Wing majority ranges
between thirteen hundred and two thousand. Our
Forsythe Correspondent states that Mr.. Shepherd
had expressed fears that he was defeated but the
intelligence is almost too cheering to be believed
The next Western Mail will determine. DIR. Keen
has gained in both Guiford and Stokes.
In the Fifth District, the tried the faithful. and
the eloquent Venable has beaten Henry X. Nash,
Esq. the Whig candidate, between seven and eight
hundred votes. This is glorious result. Mr.. pena-
BILE was a prominent member of the Meeting OF
Southern members, during the last session OF Con-
gress and Secretary to that Meeting He took, on the
stump and in Congress, the strongest ground for the
South and his opponent Mr.. Nash, Joined issue
with him, taking the side Of remonstrance against
the Wilmot Proviso and Abolition by Congress, and,
if that failed, Submission! Whigism spared neither
labor, expense, abuse, Misrepresentation
attempted ridicule to defeat this champion of
Southern rights. The Whig papers told the people
of the Fifth District that if they reelected him they
would sanction Disunion, with all its awful conse-
quences. Truman Smith wrote against him, and Mr..
Senator Badger franked to Mr.. Venable's District
$50 says the Hilsborough Democrat) what this Abo-
ionist wroe but still the people, true alike to the
Constitution, the Union and themselves, dsregarded
all these efforts and appliances. and stood nobly by
their faithful servant. His reelection is triumph
for Southern rights, and at the same time fearful
warning to such among Us as may be tempted to 60
astray hereafter.
In this, the Sirh District, the Hon. John R. J.
Daniel has been reelected over Maj. w. ]. Clarke,
Democrat. No Wing was in the field.
In the Seventh District, William S. Ashe, Esq of
New Hanover has been elected by large majority,
over David Reid, Esq. of the same County. Both
Democrats.
Up to the time Of going to press we have but little
Information from the Eighth District, but we entertain
strong hopes, from what have heard of the cleo
ion of William X. Lane, Esq. the Farmer of Wayne,
over the Hon. Edward Stanly. Mr.. Lane has made
considerable gains in Wayne and Lenoir, and we have
Beaufort. If Mr.. Lane has succeeded, he has over
majority of 500, against him in ls47. and
so turned majority of thousand given for Gen.
Taylor in November last. We calculated on this
esult with confidence, and we think we have not
,een disappointed. But whether beaten successful
ur candidate has fought good fight" and entitled
himself to the thanks of every Democrat and friend
# Southern rights.
In the Ninth District, the candidates General
Thomas ]. Person, Democrat, and the Hon. David
outlaw, Wing, the old member. Gen. Person has
abOred with zeal and ability, but we fear, from the
eturns thus far hand that he has not been success
ul. He had but brief period for his campaign,
nd the majority against him was large.
Of course it is impossible at this time to state,
nth certainty the result in this State; but think
he following will come near it any calculation
which our Whig cotemporaries Of this City may
make in their issues Of to-day:
DEMOCRATS. VINES.
Abraham w. Yenable, Joseph P. Caldwell,
Iohn r. ]. Daniel, Augustine H. Shepherd,
William S. Ashe, Edmund Dsberry,
William X. Lane. David Outlaw.
Thomas L. Clngman, opposed to the Wilmot
Proviso as unconstitutional, and anti Badger.