Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-08-09
NORTH CAROLINA.

HALIFAX county elects two Democratic Com
moners, and probably an American Sena-
tor; Northampton county gives two Demo
cratic Commoners and a Senator Bragg
gains 100 votes in Wayne, and has a small
gain in Hartford The returns generally show
that Bragg is elected Governor
KENTUCKY.
Returns from forty-ni counties have been
received, giving American majorities amount
ing to 1875. The Democratic gain is ATT.
relegrsphic Election News-Yesterday,
We had barely time to append the word /" non
sense" to the following dispatch, sent to rs in
perfect good faith, doubtless, by our agent at
the North
CINCINNATI, Aug. S-Crittenden county,
Arkansas, elects the entire American ticket.
Yell, the American candidate, is elected Gov
ernor By large majority.
Now. by way of explaining why we ex-
pressed the opinion that this despatch is but
nonsense, We have to say that Crittenden
county, Arkansas, lies on the Mississippi, i'm
mediately opposite Memphis, and votes at
most, three hundred votes. And further that
there being neither q telegraph wire, railroad,
turnpike or even a daily mail within the linn
Its of the State, it is utterly impossible that
the result of the Arkansas election can be
known in Memphis for two weeks after this
funny dispatch was sent of.
The Speech Of Mr.. Davis.-We regret not
being able to hear the speech of the Hon.
Henry Winter Davis, delivered in the House
hall or the night before last, because it has
given rise 10 perhaps more invidious CONVEX.
sational comments on one side, and 10 more va
hement praises on the other, the Republican
side, than any other oratorical effort of the
session. So delighted are the Republicans
with it, we hear. as that they design sending
forth an edition Of hundred thousand comics,
as being one Of the very best Fremont cleo.
pioneering documents evolved from the heated
cauldron Of the hall in the course Of this SO
remarkably heated session. We learn that
1t was in capital keeping with the abolition
sentiments Charged upon Mr. Davis when a
candidate before the people, and that its quod
srat dsn'onstrandnu. is simply to make Ere,
mont voters at the North ont Of Fillmore men.
1t is sincerely TO be hoped that it may OBJ
tain q circulation among the people of Mary.
land as wide as that which those who will
essay thus to strengthen their own political
positions, the aboiitionists of Congress, will
give II among their own constituents. We
have Of late been endeavorinz to open the
eyes Of the Know Nothings of MARYLAND to
the fact that Northern FilImoreism, despite
It's soft words TO them, is as emphatically bent
on aboldoniZiDg Kansas and as vehementlv
opposed to the admission of another slave.
holding State, as the most ultra Republican
psrtiIauship in the land. They (the Maryland
Know Nothings) need but read the effort Of
their own representative to DO convinced not
only Of the truth Of our representations in this
matter, but that the New York Herakd's
declaration that those at the South who in
their hearts desire the triumph Of Fremont
hght in the current contest under Mr.. Fill
more's banner.
The Burglary Trials-brousht to . close
yesterday in the Criminal Court for this coun.
ty-eKhibit career of crime On tbe mart ot
the Misguided young men Who were arrsieped
almost unprecedented in the annals Of Amer.
lean jurisprudence. They were indicted for
eighteen distinct ofences-larcenies. buru,.-
res, arson, &c.-and were convicted ON all