The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-07
Democratic Politicians Counting
on the Caldwell Side.
GROWING ROSTERS SILENCED.
Neither Steam Nor Telegraphic COmmu-
nication with the Blue-Noses.
The Of1icial Vote of Eighty
two Counties.


The agony OF suspense is not yet over. Doubt
darkens every countenance and the pain Of sus.
pense, metaphorcally speaking, looks out OF every
eye. Public interest has become fatgued and six
days OF watching and waiting have wearied the
politicians as well as the people, Just think of
It'll SIX days gone and the result In North Carolina
still unknown. Speculation blunders in hopeless
confusion and sleep finds the weary watcher In that
state OF perplexity that he dreams OF fabulous
majorttles and heavy losses In the same connec.
ton.
THERE rs NOTHING CERTAIN
but that 1t requires the oflcial count to determine
the result and nothing but the officially ascertained
vote can eXtrcate the returns from the utter con.
fusion In which exaggerated reports and lying
dispatches have involved them. All the ciphering
thus Ear has been done on hypothetical basis,
and no two chalk the same result.
The fact is, they have been making re-
turns too much to order, and the political
complexion OF the party figuring has had much to
do with the figures set down. For example, the
Chairman Of the Republican Executive Committee
figures out handsome majority for Caldwell Of
from fifteen hundred to three thousand, allow.
Ing for probable democratic gains and repub-
lican losses In the counties not yet heard FROM and
in no event, he declares, can the majority for Cald
well fall below 1900 let those absent counties 60 az
they may.
DEMOCRATIC MAJORITIEs CLAIMED.
On the other hand, the democrats continue to
make Merrimon majorities, and so contradiction
keeps confusion worse coniounded. l begin
to send you the ofNcial votes by counties
as they come In So far l have received
thirty counties, which 1 send In these
dispatches. Although thirty counties have
been heard from officially, all but the
following have been heard from through one
tauga, Macon, Cherokee, Jackson Transylvania-
eight counties, which in 1870 gave Shipp, demo.
cratic Attorney General, majority OF 1920. Polk
a strong republican county Of the West, this year
comes up with democratic gain Of 12e, and Hyde
in the east, separated from civilization by the
classic waters Of the Tar and Pamlico Rivers and
their tributaries, has just been heard from, and
brings democratic gain OF nftyfve over the Shipp
majority Of 1870
CONSERVATIVES COUNTING CALDWELL IN.
According to the counting at democratic head
quarters Caldwell is now ahead $50 votes, with the
eight above-named counties to hear from, which,
If they give Merrimon Shipps majority of 1870 will
elect Merrtmon by 7sl majority; but this result Is
figured on wild and totally unreliable speculation
born OF reports commendable only in that thoy
''strive to please" but not founded on fact, like
Ned Duntlne's "Blood for Blood; Or "the In
fatuated Dog"
NO TRANsMOUNTAIN INTELLIGENCE.
The train from the west having failed Of news
yesterday, everybody stood on the tiptoe Of expec
tation to-day. but nothing That inaccessible
nest Of counties known as Transmountain, North
Carolina, are as silent and indifferent TO the laver-
sal anxiety and interest here as that cool people
are innocent Of the national II not universal polit
cal Importance with which the times have sud-
denly invested them. Finding that the trains and
oph fro taya
graphed all the nearest and most accessible
POINTS IN EAST TENNESSEE.
In the hope that some intelligence had escaped
across the border but these points responded to
me with the unwelcome intelligence that they had
nothing whatever. am quite sure that an elec-
ton was held In the transmountain counties, as
all the returned summer tourists from that altl-
tude of civilization agree In their accounts that
the country Is inhabited; and as the tendency OF
the average American Is to vote, they must
have had an election, but when and wherefore is
past finding out, even by HERALD enterprise, and
so leave 1t to time and chance to determine.
rely with faint hope on the train from the noun
tains tomorrow but If nothing comes shall insist
that you send me the Livingstone discoverer, and
let his instructions be "On, Stanley; onr AS the
result has suspended betting has gone on, and
hear OF considerable sums taken at a distance by
republicans Of this city by telegraph.
NUMEROUS DEMOCRATIC BONFrREs,
In solemn and melancholy readiness, await the
torch at a hundred points In this State and vr-
ginia but not one has been lighted. The historic
democratic rooster was numerously displayed in
the pages OF Wilmington daily few mornings
since, but he has ceased to crow, and
the radical organ here has sent to have
the feathered lordlng fetched up for their benefit
against the announcement Of the result which they
now confidently assume must be In their favor 1
cannot hazard the prediction, but the appearances
tonight are more favorable to Caldwell's election
while democrats concede 1t, and are blue accord
ingly.
The following is the of1cial vote for Governor as
far as heard 'front.'
1870. 1872.
Counties. Phil Crld- Merit