Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-11-23
The Election In Loulslana---A most decisive Dem
Ocrntlc Trlumph.


rant the confident belief that the democracy Of Lou
siana have nobly justified the confidence repcsed il
their rmness, ardor and answering devotion to du
ty. The victory which they have glorously, but
not Unexpectedly, achieved, full complete and de
cided. The city of New Orleans, which gave a ma.
ority of nearly three thousand for the know -nothngs
last fall gives for portion of the know moth.
ing ticket nominal majority of only four h,tnd red
and siI which majority was secured by fraud vo-
lence and murder.
The Louisiana Courier of the 7,h instant thus no.
tices some of the election in New Orleans and
their consequences
"With the exception of an occasional knock. .down
at several other polls nothing of very serious ma
turr took place until after they had been closed
The result so far as the leading patriots and sons
of the soil could ascertain. was, we should Judge
i from what subsequently took place, anything but
satisfactory There was actually danger that they
had failed TO carry the city by any majority at all
much less by their boasted one II was necessary to
TO save the credit, prophets of their orators and
organs; and hence the immediate question was, how
10 effect that great end We think there was but
little time occupied in deliberation before it was re-
solved that the seventh and ninth precincts doubt
less contained larger anti-know- nothing maiorites
than any others, they should in turn be stormed and
their vote thereby, if possible, destroyed The at
tack was begun at the ninth precinct and took place,
we hear, about 81 o'clock, p. m. Everything was
perfectly quiet, and the commissioners and clerks
were engaged in counting the votes, when all at
once number OF men who, according 10 inform
ant were genteely dressed, and who were not row.
Dies In the usual accepta0n of the term, made their
| appearance in the room After several of them had
had some conversation in under tone, with one of
the commissioners, two of them rushed at the bal.
lot box, while their acquaintance was STOPPING over
1t, seized it, threw it into the air. and when fell,
joined with their companions in trampling it to pie
ces, and kicking the ballots which it contained about
the room. The box contained 405 votes, of which
there was average democratic majority, according
q ~ w Of he n
about l3O for the democratic candidates No loud
words were used the thing had evidently been con-
cer!ed, and so soon as their work accomplished
the valiant patriots retired. The destruction of this
ballot box secured, as the performers thought, the
election of Messrs. Eggleston and Devali (xnow-
nothings) to the house of representatives. Mes
srs. Gordon and LIE Blanc (democrats y but of lhis
we hear, the legislature will have something 10 say"
The destruction of the ballot boxes in the 7th and
9Th wards is thus noticed in the Delta
"Our readers are aware, as matter OF course that
the ballotb boxes of two of the precincts which give
small democratic majorities destroyed Mon.
day night 1t is we'll known that in the seventh pre-
cnct Wcklife had majority of 2l3, and Bells ma
jority was 234 The majority in the ninth precinct
was at least 81 for these candidates, and say it
was as high as go; but we doubt this, because the
votes for justice of the peace and constable were
counted and returned to the sheriff, and they show
only Fl majority Counting the votes cast in these
two precincts, Mr.. Bells majority Hufty, for
sheriff, is 26O''
In the first district Eusts Cknow nothing) is elec-
ted by small majority. In the second district Col
Hunt know nothing) is undoubtedly defeated. His
nominal majority IN the city precincts is only forty
but, with the true count of the 7th ward he is in
minority in the city of one hundred and Seuentythree
votes AS we have already stated the delegation from
Louisiana in the next Congress will stand three dem
ocrats to one know nothing.
The democrats have secured d decided majority in
both branches of the legislature.
1t is difficult with the tables before u.s. to estimate
correctly the democratic majority in The State. The
whole of State ticket is elected. beyond all doubt
The from such of the parishes have reached
show large gains for the democratic party. Our
mai jority in the State will be at least two thousand
and may possibly be double that amount.
Sam has no foothold in Louisiana!
WONDERFUL SNAKE Story. Singular Ocular
Rockingham county, N. c., on account of snake
having been seen which has human head. The an.
imal was only seen by son of Mr.. o. B. Stone
He first it his fathers turpentine [whisky still
His father to whom he attempted to point the monster,
able it, though the boy declared |
that it was under his feet. Several attempts were
made by the boy to shoot him, but the different guns
he used would never explode when pointed in the di
re,ton of the snake though they would fire if turned
anothe- way.
The father, in a letter to the Madison N. C., Dem.
ocrat says:
Some of my neighbors came in again TO see the
snake, and TO if they could find any mark it made,
so we sprinkIed ashes all over the Still House, and
in the hole where ii always in, and tied my
fast, so be could not make the track himself, in
auy way whatever and then we left him tied in the
Still House, by himself, and went away and it was
but few moments before he let us know that the
snake was III the Still House again, and went to
see If there was any mark and behold there was
mark as broad as my hand where it came in and
went out, and they confirmed il was something;
did not suffer Alfred to stay about the Still House
but little, for whenever he goes there he to
see it, and It also appears to him in ditec parts of
the farm, but not It does at the Still House and
he told to talk to it, and it would tell him what
il wanted and he says he asked it in the of
the lord what did it want, and he says it said to him
that it wanted 10 destroy the Stilng, and sneaked
Oft then, to be convinced, tied Alfred in the
Still House again, and he told clover in
his hat, and then he could see what was, and
while he tied in the Still House he had clover in
his hat, and he saw the snake and peep in the
house, having face, eyes, mouth, tongue and all,
precisely like man he perfectly knew, and all but
the head precisely like rattle -srake and it
scared him prodigiously. Then on Sunday las 28th
Oct. there was great many persons who came to
my house, who doubted the reality of the mark of
tn. snake, came to see if they could find the mark
land tied Alfred again, order that they might be
convinced, all OF them respectable men, saw the
mark distinctly, and were convinced of the mark ofI
the snake
The truth Of the statement contained in the far
mer's letter to the Democrat is attesed by dozen
of the prominent men of Rockingham county, who
saw the mark of the snake in the ashes, and knew
that the boy tied too securely to have made it
himself The Democrat says that the boy is very
much alarmed and his health is fast giving away un-
der the mental effects of thi horrible deluson. This
snake bids fair to rival the great Silver Lake Serpent
DESPATCH OF COMMODORE PAULDING TO NIcARA-
GUA.-A despatch from Washington states that CON-