Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-10-19
THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL.
- .IN7.ToN. n. o.. r1oNDAY. ocT. rs. 1856:
election News.

...uu from the elections held last week comes
n With uniformity of character that rather de'rac'S
fo, ;ts interest," while it adds to the pleasure Demo
+.ke in it, The grand result may be summed ur IN
tou words The Democrats have carried all before
them. In Baltimore they have obtained majority
If about l,300 carrying IL out OF the 20 Wards OF
the CITY, This is gain from last year of about four
thousand. We regret to learn, from the Baltimore
napers, that VIM George Baker, Esq Democratic
Councilman elect, in the 10Th ward, died on the af
ternoon of the election.
The latest returns from Pennsylvania more than
confirm the original reports from that Stale. Plum
mer. Democratic candidate for Canal Commissioner
has 25l9 majority. The whole Democratic Pbila
dephia city and county ticket elected by major
tiles varying from eleven hundred to Learly three
thousand. The excitement was intense on the night
of the election and the day following, with occa-
sona private fight but no serious injury to life or limb
No doubt members of both parties did those things
they ought not 10 have done, but STILL nothing to
leave lasting regrets Bon-ires ransparencies, pro
cessons shouts screams curses cheers, liquor, &C.,
&C.. were oddly mixed up.
The returns from the Interior indicating the certain
triumph of the Democra,s-the elect on OF Plun mer
and of a decided Democratic majority in both branch
es of the Legisl lture, tended rather to increase
than alay the excitement. The enthusiasm OF the
Democrats rose to white heat, and the cha
grin of the opponents was correspondlngly great
The revolution is immense, when we bear in mind The
fact that one brief year ago, Pollock, Wing and Free
Soiler beat Bgler, Democrat, by over thirty sever
thousand. The force of the reaction must be ire
mendous 10 have nulfed that majority and thrown
have tha
in twelve months Mr. Plummer, too, had TO rur
AGAINST all the isms combined, and was &c fused
against directly and avowedly because OF his being
a Nebraska man" the pro-slavery candidate"
United States Senator is to be elected in place
Mr. Cooper Simon Cameron renegade Democrat
has been busily intriguing with all the lsns tor tn
Office, but as they will not have it TO give, Simon ma
4" hang up his fiddle and his bow"
The news from Ohio, although not equally certal
and Definite WILL we think be found, on fuller examl
nation equally favourable. There were three candl
dates for Governor. Salmon P. Chase, the orIglna
K ~ Republican anti Democratic Fusion Candidate
from Chase portion of the K Ms split off ant
ran Mr.. Trimble, Wing K. N. Medill is the Demo
cratic candidate Trimble appears to have received
a good man7 votes but the real contest is between
Medill and Chase. So far as heard from there ar
uniform Democratic gains, with every reason to be
lieve that the State has gone Democratic. The de
spatches to the associated press" say that Clncln
natl Chase's election is conceded-the private de
spatches 10 the Union say that Medill is elected b.
Is ,OOO Our own opinion is that Medill is elected
and that the Democrats have swept the State. In
De nocratic majority in Hamilton county Is NM
thousand.
Comment on such results is hardly necessary. The
speak for themselves They show the mate Vltallt!
of the Democratic party. They mark the sober sec
ond thought of the people. While Democrats can
not but rejoice them, we trust that few OF an!
party can regret the defeat Of Nicholson or Chase