Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-05-11
TaF WILMINGTON JOURNAL.
The Reaction Progressing.

The returns of the municipal elections held III
pb;sde1nhia on the 1st inst, for City Commissioner
r,itv Treasurer, Common and Select Council &C.,
differ SLIGHTLY in their Details one account giving the
majority for Treasurer TO MIR. Hagert antl'Know-
Nothing; another account giving it TO Morton the
K NJ candidate; but in either case the me- ority is
almost too tring TO count, and to here it makes
little odds as to which of these gentlemen happens to
git in. The substantially important fact remains and
it is this, that last year the Know Nohings swept
everything by or les of eight to twelve thousand
and that this year all that majority has vanished
they are substantially defeated if by accident
they may have succeeded in carrying one or two
names on their ticket by hundred majority. They
have had their year in power-rope has been gwen
unto them and they have hanged themselves. They
have been tried and been condemed-so far as that
City is concerned they are done for, and the only
wonder is that instead Of loss of eight 10 twelve
thousand they have not lost everything, for in good
truth the set of rulers that city has had for the last
year appear to fully merit the application to them
of the language put into Mr.. Wises mouth, when he
is said to have characterised some of his opponents
as lousey, Christless, Goddess sinners" Out of
New England Philadelphia has always been the
city most prone TO be carried away by this ism. OF
carried by this sect under another name in 1874.
Their total ncompeency not to say dishonesty, dis
gusted the people that the next year the recedIng
tide left them high and dry, where they staid until
all sorts of isms combined again set them ahoat in
1854, and this year they are stranded once
more. So it will be all Every day but the
more clearly exhibits the correctness of the remark
which nearly every man of sence has made" this
thing can't last
The Philadelphia Ledger independently says:
The second annual election OF the Cohsolloa'eu
city was held Yesterday The contest was splneo'
and the result rather curious Last year. the Amer-
can ticket carried nearly every ward IN the city, elect
ing nearly all the select and common council the city
commissioner, the city treasurer, prison inspectors
board of health school directors &c nearly every
ward Yesterday, things reversed again, and
the Americans have been beaten in fourteen wards
out of the tv entyfOur. The democrats and reform
ers have carried eight of the eleven select council
elected, and have elected thirtyeight OF the common
council, equally dividing that BODY between tnein ana
the Americans.
"The election for city treasurer ard city commls-
sioner close; but the figures show that Mr.. Rag,
ert the whig candidate for treasurer, who received
the support Of the democrats, is elected by small
maiority-l5 6-over Morton, the American candi-
date Mr. Sherry, the democratic candidate for city
commissioner, is elected over Hill, (American) by
majority of l44 supposing the figures to be strictly
accurate In close vote, the official count may
make a material difference in the result In the as-
gregate vote, which gives this result, the sixth pre-
cinct of the twenty-frst ward is not included.
"The votes for guardians of the poor, health OIL
GERS and school directors not counted when we
went 10 press They are believed to have gone much
the same the council ticket. The official count
may make difference"
Ng-The difference between promise and pertor-
NANCE profession and practice has been often remark
al b,,tb ,es hoo, illustrated
in practice as has been by the order rather
disorder, where they have attained power. Begin
ming at Maine and coming down to Pennsylvania, not
single Legislature has failed to render itself con-
temptible Look at Massachusetts. Look at New
York Look at Pennsylvania. Venality, corruption
and profigacy are not only charged but sbelieved-
A legislature of New York came down on a visit to
the Empire city, got beastly drunksole spoons, or at
least stolen spoons were charged in their bill, and
the charge not disputed and then went back again to
Albany and passed the Main Liquor La2c. They
talked about nationalsm and elected Seward, and af
ter it was done made fuss about it, to gull the
South. In Massachusetts the whole affair is mat
ter of Kissing and scorn. They have Frustrated
the independence of the Judiciary in the person Of
Judge Loring. They have outraged decency and thu
constitution in the nunnery nvestigatlons-thel
committees for that purpose had liquors supplied tt
them at public Hotels, the chief of them the notorious
Hiss carried along woman of undoubted (bad) char
acter and had her bill charged to the State pref
ty censor of morals but just the man and just th
crowd to insult unprotected women and children
Hiss out of pure shame did resign his seat and h
seems to have been the only still capable of feel
ing ashamed of anything.
AS for Penusy lvania. the thing IS out there. 1t
dead. Died of It's own corruptiors. Half the tim
of the Legislature during the last winter, has bee
taken up in the investigation of charges of brlber
and corruption, which have been clearly proved
the public mind so clearly indeed that even the or
gnal papers of the order forced from very shame
TO lift up their voices and pray to be delivered fro
such a scourge.
Ten months since, the disjointed municipalitie
forming what known Philadelphia
were consolidated into one city. At the first ele
ton under the charter, the order swel
everything by average majority of about te
thousand. A worse governed city, or OF
whose finances were more cOrruptly administers
the Union never contained. Wing, Democrat al
original " native American" papers all join in gi
ing expression to an opinion borne out by the fac
of the case. Last Monday an election was held
that city. The ten thousand had melted into tn
air. One or two of the K. n. officers got in by Il
skin of their teeth but the preponderance of streng
was plainly with the opponents OF that Sect La
year the X Ms. carried the interior Pennsylvan
town of Lancaster by 600 majority. An election he
there on the ID inst. shows an anti-knoW- n othil
majority of 1870.
Last year the Know Nothings carried Cincinnati
5000. This year they got badly beaten spite TIT
attempt to destroy the ballot boxes and their part
That attempt has done for them in Cinc
natl and elsewhere.
Our former Wing contemporaries in this State
nounced with much satisfaction the triumph of "Sa
Connecticut Well the Legislature chosen