Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-02-09

nominating Electors and appointing Delegates to the
Democratic National Convention is not very far dis
tant some facts and observations on the subject may
be of service. stts4
Under the existing law of this State, as altered
and revised by the last General Assembly, the Con-
eressonal 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 const-
tuition, to ga number of Electors equal to the whole
number of Senators and Representatives in Con-
consequently, North Carolina will cast ten
Electoral votes. The Electoral and Congressional
Districts follows: First Observation-Disclosures,
Camden: Pasquotank, Perquimans, Gates, Chowan,
Hartford, Northampton Halifax, Martin, BERTHE,
Washington, and Tyrrell Second District-Hyde,
Beaufort, Pitt, Craven, Jones, ,Lenoir, Wayne,
Greene, Edgeccmbe, Onslow, and Carteret. Third
District-New Hanover, Brunswick, Columbus,
Baden, Sampson, Cumberland Robson, Duplin,
and Richmond. Fourth District-Wake, Franklin,
Warren, Granville, Orange, Nash and Johnston.
Fifth District-Pcrsoa, Caswell, Alamance, Chat
ham, Randolph, Moore, Guilford, and Montgomery.
Sirth District-Stokes, Forsyth, Rockingham, Da-
wilson, Davie, Yadkn, Surry, Iredell, Alexander,
Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Rowan, Cabarrus Union,
Arson, 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 Electoral Districts-the vote for
President and Vice President being by general ticket
1t will be necessary, therefore, to appoint one Elec.
tor for each District anG two for the State at large
The last Democratic National Convention adopted
the following resolution as to the number of Dele
gates to be chosen:
" Resolred, That, in constituting future national
conventions of the democratic party, in order to Sc.
the respective rights of the States to their rela-
tive representation in such >entiOns, each State
shall be 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 Con-
venton, 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
Dele gates accordingly; and some OF them have APP
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 alternates, if the Dis
trict Conventions should so decide and four will be
appointed, presume, to represent the State at
large by the State Convention to be held in April
next. The Congressional and Electoral Districts be-
ing the same, the Conventions which will be held to
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 CARoLINA.-We are
under obligations to friends for copies Of the "Trans
actions of the sixth annual meeting of the Medical
Society of North Carolina. held at Salisbury May,
1866" The pamphlet contains, besides the regular
proceedings Report of DR.. N. j. Pittman on Sur
gery-the Address. delivered by DR.. Pittman before
the Society at Salisbury Report by DIR. w. Ii.
Mckee, small pox, scarlatina, &c-and the Vale
dictory Address of Dr. James H. Dickson We
have read these papers with interest and, far
competent to judge Of such matters, they ap.
pear to us to evince much research and learning.
There nincty-six permanent members of the
GERS for 1876 are as follows President, Charles
E. johnson, Raleigh; Vico Presidents, Marcellus
Whitehead Salisbury, E. R. Gibson, Charlotte,
Johnston B. Jones, Chapel Hill, and o. F. Manson,
Granville; Secretary, S. s. Satchwel New Hanover;
Treasurer, James B. Dunn, Wake. Tie Society
was formed in ls49. DR.. Strudwick, of Hillsboro',
| was President Tor two terms; DR.. Williamson, of
Caswell, two terms; DR.. Dickson, Of Wilmington,
two terms; and DR.. johnson is now in his first
term
Raleigh, on 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 lit is not the part of wis
dom, to remove evil to bring upon ourselves an
avalanche of evils" lie believes that when the own
of slaves desire to relieve themselves of the in
stituton, they will adopt gradual emancipation, and
points Liberia as the scene of the future great
ness of the negro race He acquesces in the abro-
CATION of the Missouri Compromise, and sums up
the subject of slavery follows:
''The Southern people arc subjected to the bur.
den of slavery they know how to treat it better
than We d. and it is alike alien to patriotism, and
true sense of religious duty to nAame the minds
of Southern citizens and aggravate their condition
by constant course of censure and unnecessary
interference with their affairs"
Gov. Wells is Democrat, and the successor Of
Gov Morrill,, abolitionst, who was elected by
bnation of Know Nothings, fusionists, and Maine
law men. No Know Nothing Governor in the free
States has ever advanced sentiments as favorable to
fhoC o,,klo tboco or CnvW Walls