Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1856-02-13

ELECTORS FOR President AND VICE PRESIDENT,
AND DELEGATES TO CINclNNATL.-As the period for
nominating Electors and appointing Delegates to the
Democratic National Convention is not very far dis.
tant facts and observations on the subject may
be of service
Under the existing law of this State as altered
and revised by the last General Assembly, the Con-
gressonal and Electoral Districts are the same-that
is, composed of the same Counties There are eight
Districts, the State having eight members of Con-
gress but the States entitled, under the consti
tuition, to number of Electors equal to the whole
number of Senators and Representatives in Con-
gress-consequently, North Carolina will cast ten
Electoral votes. The Electoral and Congressional
Districts follows: First District-Currituck,
Camden Pasquotank, Perquimans, Gates, Chowan,
Hcrtford, Northampton, Halifax, Martin, Bertie,
Washington, and Tyrrel!. Second District-Hyde,
Beaufort, Pitt, Craven, Jones, Lenoir, Wayne,
Greene, Edgeccmbe, Onslow, and Carteret. Third
District-Ncw Hanover, Brunswick, Columbus
Baden, Sampson, Cumberland, Robson, Duplin,
and Richmond. Fourth Dixtrict-Wake Franklin
Warren, Granville, Orange, Nash, and Johnston
Fifth Dist'ict-Perso::, Caswell, Alamance, Chat
.Sirh District-Stokes, Forsyth, Rockingham, Da-
wilson, Davic, Yadkin, Sury, Iredel, Alexander,
and Ashe .Serenh Dist,1ct-Catawba, CASTOR,
Lincoln, Mecklenburg Rowan, Cabarrus, Union,
Anson, Stanly, and Cleaveland. Eighth District
Wilkes, Watauga, Caldwell Burke, Rutherford, Nc
Dowell, Henderson, Buncombe, Yancey, Haywood,
Macon, Cherokee, Jackson, and Madison. 1t is fur
ther provided, that the State at large shall be the
ninth and tenth E ectoral Districts-the vote for
President and Vice President being by general ticket
1t will be necessary, therefore, to appoint one Eec
tor for each District for the State at large
The last Democratic National Convention adopted
the following resolution as to the number of Dele
gates to be chosen:
Rexolred That. in constituting future national
conventions of the democratic party, in order to
cure the respective rights of the States their rcla
tive representation i'll such conventions, each State
shall he entitled to twice the number of delegates
that it has votes in the electoral college, and no
more and that the Democratic National Committee
in making arrangements for the next National Cen
vention, provide such number of seats therein for
each State, and secure the same to the delegates
elect
The Democrats of Tennessee, Alabama Ohio, and
other States, have held Conventions, and appointed
Delegates accordingly; and some of them have ap-
pointed alternate Delegates both for the Districts
and State to the full number of Delegates. Under
this resolution, North Carolina will be entitled to
twenty Delegates in the Cincinnati Convention,
which is to meet on the first Monday of June next.
Sixteen of them will be appointed by the Districts,
being two to District, with alternatcS, if the Dis
trict Conventions should so decide and four will be
appointed, presume, to represent the State at
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next. The Congressional and Electoral Districts be-
ing the same, the Conventions which will be held
appoint Delegates to Cincinnati, can also nominate
Electors to be voted for, and sub Electors to aid
them in their abors before the people, and the State
Convention will nominate the two Electors for the
State at large.
MEDICAL SOCIETY OF NORTH c. CARoLINA-We are
under obligations t" friends for copies Of the "Trans
actions of the sixth annual meeting Of the Medical
Society Of North Carolina, held at Salisbury, May,
1855" The pamphlet contains, besides the regular
proceedings, Report of DIR. n. j. Pittman on Sur
gcry-,he Address. delivered by Dr., Pittman before
the Society at Salisbury-a Report by DR.. w. IL.
Mckee, on small pox, scarlatina, &c.-and the Vale
dctory Address of DR.. James II. Dickson. We
have read these papers with interest; and far as
we are competent to Judge OF such matters, they ap.
pear to TO evince much research and learning.
There are ninety-six permanent members of the
Society, and nineteen honorary members The.ofh
GERS for 1S55-56 as follows: President, Charles
E. johnson, Raleigh Vice Presidents, Marcellus
Whitehead, Salisbury, E. r. Gibson, Charlotte,
Johnston B. Jones, Chapel Hill, and o. F. Manson,
Granville; Secretary, S. S. Satchwell, New Hanover;
Treasurer, James B. Dunn, Wake. The Society
formed in 1s49. DIR. Strudwick, of Hillsboro
President lor two terms DR.. Williamson, Of
Caswel, two terms; DR.. Dickson, of Wilmington,
two terms; and DR.. johnson is now in his frs;
term.
The Society will hold its next annual meeting in
Raleigh, OIL the second Tuesday in May next.
Judge Wells, the newly elected Governor of Maine,
in his Message to the Legislature, admits that slave
ry is evil, but thinks it is not the part of wis.
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