Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-08-10
THE LATE ELECTIONS.

The returns from the recent elections in
North Carolina, Kentucky, Missouri and Ar
kansas, are still incomplete, though enough is
known to indicate tie probable result in most
of them.
In North Carolina, Ellis, the Breckinridge
candidate for Governor, is elected by consid-
erable majority over the Bell candidate, who
received also most of the votes Of the Douglas
men. There is, properly speaking, no Douglas
party in the State and the result seems to
clearly indicate that Brcckinridge will receive
/ The electoral vote, though the friends of Bell
! regarded it as certain for him.
In Kentucky there seems to have been fl-
sion i'll most Of The counties Of the Bell and
Douglas men against the Drecknriges and the
result has been the election by toleraby
large majority of Coombs (BeID as Clerk of
the Court of Appeals, the only State officer
elected.
10 Missouri the result for State officers is
not known. In the ST. Louis Congressional
district Blair (Republican) is elected to Con
gress fot the long term by about 1900 MAORI
ty, and Barrett (Democrat} fer the short term
by about ! 80 majority.
In Arkansas the regular Democratic cand-
Date for Governor Ia Breckinridgcr) is elected.
and the State Is certain. TO go the same way in
November.
Ohio will during the present season produce
an immense corn crop, i'll addition 10 the other
abundant products of the soil There is a
probability too, Of "a good market for it, as
there must be heavy demand from most Of
the Southern States. which are now accessible
by railroad. Throughout; IA large portion of
the 5onth the irouth has been terrible, utterly
destroying their corn, and as this grain con
stitutcs the cIIi:f article Of food for both man
and beast in that region, their supplies must
to a great extent come from the north western
States. We copy couple of paragraphs,
which exhibit the extent of the devastation
causcd by the want of rain The Brandon
Miss RepubIicnn of the Goth ult has the
! following
WHAT WILL WE DO FOR BREAD.
One Of our most intelligent planters, who
has just returned from "a trip through the
northeastern portion of the State, informs us
| that he saw thousands Of acres of corn that
will not make peck to the acre; it is not on
! ly small neighborhoods, but whole counties
| that have not had drop of rain since their
crops were planted. The sweet potato crop
will also be almost an entire failure so that
the people will have everything to buy that
| they consume He says he frequently Travelled
twenty five ard thirty miles without being
able to get corn enough to feed his horse
| The people have spent every cent they could
raise to keep themselves in provisions up to
this time, and now that the crops have failed
entirely, starvation stares them in the face
| What will become of them? Something must
! be done to keep them from starving, for they
are bound to starve unless they get assistance
I from some quarter. If they had the means
| they could buy it in the northwest, but they
have not got it, and nothing to make it ont Of
! If this was the case in few neiehborhoods
only, provisions might be supplied by the vol
untarv subscriptions of other neighborhoods.
| but ii exists in nearly half the State, and un-
! less the State renders the Necessary aid We
believe hundreds, yea thousands of families
are doomed to perish.
! We call upon Gov Pettus to stop spending
money for guns to fight our Northern brethren
with, and buy corn from them to feed our citi-
zens and keep them from starving. Call a
meeting of the Legislature, and advise them
! TO, .l,ni, a. 1,y,t