Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-05-01
ELECTION RETURNS.
By Mail.
BEAUFORT.

latter
that Nash gives a majority of 3O7 against
tho Constitution. The Conservative can
aidates have much larger majority.
CAMDEN.
The Conservative majority is forty.
CURRITUCK.
This county gives handsome Conserva-
tive majority.
The Radicals have a majority in Pasquo-
tank of more than 800.
RICHMOND.
Majority for Constitution 546. Ashe re-
eeived 669 and Holden 1876. NJ. J. Nc
Sween for Senator 673.
BLADEN.
Majority for Constitution 800.
ANsoN.
The vote in this county is close, the Rad
icals, however, are thought to have small
majority.
This county gives a Radical majority of
about 800.
Reported Radical by about 600 majority.
DAVIDSON.
Radical majority about the same as in
Wilkes.
Rumored to have gone Conservative by
upwards of 100. This is remarkable re-
snlt, the negro registered majority being
five or six hundred over the white regis
tration.
GUnFoRD.
This county gives 300 instead of 400 ma
iority, as previously reported, for the in
famous Constitution.
Has given nearly 300 Conservative MA
jority.
The supposed majority against the Con-
stitution in CASTOR Dave Jenkins county,
is between $50 and 200.
BURKE.
This county goes Radical by about 100
majority It went for the Convention by
500 or more This time, too, it is said, it
had the aid of large number of negroes
from other counties, brought there by the
Contractors on the Western n. G. r. r. as
laborers. The negroes are said also to
have committed wholesale perjury In re-
gard to age, &c. The aCAite Radical vote in
Burke is wholly uncomfortable, the coun
ty having been carried by negroes.
MCDOWELL.
This county is doubtful, having voted,
like Burke, large gang of imported rail
road hands.
Notwithstanding first rumors Chatham
is reported to have gone Radical by some
200.
GREENE AND PITT.
Both these counties go largely scallawag.
GRANVILLE.
Here the majority for Radcalism and
the Infamous Constitution is between 400
and 500 gain of about 900 over the last
vote. r. w. Lassiter was the only white
man (so-called) in Oxford who voted the
niger ticket.
Gives 1882 Radical majority-on the
whole, a Conservative gain.
WASHINGTON.
The scallawags and negroes have sue
ceeded in obtaining ASP ma ority for the
Constitution in this county.
GATES.
Is gloriously redeemed and gives 231
majority against the Infamous Constitu-
ton.
PERQUIMANS
Gives 200 for the Constitution.
CHOwAN.
Has decided in favor of RadicaGsm by
$50 majority A correspondent writing the
Sentinel from this county says that it is
generally believed the boxes were tamper-
ed with on the night of the 23rd
BRUNSWICK.
By TIE official count, we learn that this
county is declared to have given a majority
of for the Constitution. No doubt Regis
trar Morrill, had his own way, and having
registered negroes at his residence before
and after the appointed time, would scarce
ly have honest scruples to prevent his tam
pering with the boxes.
CUMBERLAND.
Reports by the river last night confirm
the rumor that this county has given over
500 Radical majority.
Chowan, 252 Radical.
Pasquotank, sos 60
Cumberland CO.. &"
BERTHE, $50 s.
Northampton $50 &c
Martin. The result is very close.
Hyde and Onslow are both reported to
have gone against the Constitution and
elected Conservative members of the Legis-
lature.
Caswell, with a registered negro majority
of 700, has given majority of % against
the Constitution and elected full Con-
sentative ticket.
A New Constitution the Omitted Satra-
pies The Best Satire of the Age,
The New York World, of Tuesday, gets
off capital satire en- Radicalism, in the
shape of a burlesque constitution, purport-
ing to have been presented in caucus in the
first month of the New Era, by Thaddeus
Stevens, for the people, and unanimously
adopted; The preamble reads: