The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-09
The Result Of the Election Not
Officially Decided.
ADDITIONAL FRAUDS UNEARTHED
More Votes Cast Than the Registered
Population in Some Districts.
Statement of the Secretary Of
State.

RALEIGH, N Co. August 8, 1872.
The result OF the election still continues to be In
doubt though the democrats have generally con-
coded that Caldwell Is elected by small majority
which the fraudulent votes polled in some OF the
negro counties could easily overcome II successfully
established.
MORE VOTES CAST THAN THE NUMBER OF PoPU-
LATION.
In Halifax county, In the east the census ofvoting
population, as shown by the official returns, was in
1870 1855 The vote In that county the same year
4,577, or 122 in excess OF the voting population
This year the fraud there Is still greater the whole
vote polled being 5,307 increase OF 72O votes
the vote of 1870 and OF s52 votes at the election just
held over the voting population. Now, here is
A MOST PALPABLE FRAUD
which, according to my present estimates, would
easily neutralze the majority Caldwell will have
probably been elected by. An estimate just made
on sixty counties officially heard from shows Cald-
wells maj GRITTY to be 1862 The remaining thirty
two counties still to be officially heard from gave
Shlpp democrat), In 1870 majority OF 1.123, leav-
ing Caldwell 227 majority to be overcome. But the
unofficial returns received from nearly all the coun.
ties foot up majority for him Of from 800 to 600.
This latter estimate is by no means to be relied
upon, aud consider the result
AS MUCH AT SEA AS EVER
until the full official returns received, with all
the chances in favor of Merrimon, owing to an i'm
mense number of fraudulent votes reported. Sew
eral districts are reported as having pOlled, like
Halifax county, larger vote than was registered,
and some OF them are said to have counted more
votes than were actually cast.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE,
who is in receipt Of the Official returns as they
come in, and who complies the vote and gives the
certificate of election, Is Of the opinion that
Caldwells majority will not exceed three hundred,
II he Is elected at ALL In precinct In Brunswick
eighty more votes were cast than were registered.
In Harnett township, New Hanover, one or two
companies, with arms, marched to the polls. In
the First ward at Wilmington, and other precincts
OF that county, men registered after Sunday and on
the day Of election. Having radical county COM
missioners the votes Of these precincts were. OF
course, not thrown out. There Is no doubt OF
frauds in Columbus and Baden. They are believed
to be general throughout the Third Congressional
district, and, in fact throughout the State.
REPUBLICAN CELEBRATION IN RALEIGH.
The republicans are celebrating their alleged
victory tonight. They claim to have carried the
State by 1000 votes. There was torchlight pro-
cession and speaking in front Of the Court House.
The crowd was composed almost entirely Of blacks,
and addressed by Governor Caldwell, Judge Settle,
Collector Young, James Harris (colored) and
others.
Caldwell claimed his victory to have been the
greatest ever obtained in the country and that his
election would insure the election of Grant. There
was much enthusiasm among the blacks.
The Greeley Club will celebrate their part Of the
victory on Saturday night.
The democrats cannot acknowledge that they
have been honestly defeated.