Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-11-29
EDIToaIAL CoRREsroNDENcE.
RALEIGH, Y. c.. NOv. ~, 1872.

RALEIGH, y. c., Nov. 10, 1872.
Dear Journal The organization of
the Senate and House Of Representa-
fiyes on yesterday and tAe comparing the
leturns from the several counties in tie
State of the votes for iEovcrnor, Lieutenant
Governor and other State officers to-day,
have constituted the all-absorbing topics
Of conversation.
believe it is generally admitted that tie
Two Houses have been especially fortll-
nate in the selection Of their presiding
officers. Colonel Morehead and Captain
Robinson are Well worthy Of the high
positions to which they have been called
The comparison of the returns from the
various counties is an exceedingly tedious
job. The Jaw requires it to be done in
the prese4se of both Houses. When it is
remembered that there were sixteen can
ii lates. and that each one received over
niEety-fye thousand votes in all Of the
counties, it will be seen that it is no light
thing to compare the returns. | said there
were sixteen candidates, it would have
been more accurate to say there were
seventeen, for there were two persons
voted for for Superintendent Of Public
Instruction. beside tie Conservative caLdi-
1a!e, Mr. NereUs Mendanhall, and, strange
TO say, bo'h were named Reid, James Reid
a ID James c. Reid. The result is, the two
Reids having split up the opposition, that
Mr.. Mendenhall is undoubtedly elected
have no doubt that our Radical fliends
i'll claim that James Reid ard James G.
Reid were one and tie same man. just as
they claimed that Neill Mckay and Neill
A. Mckay were the same individuals i'll
tte late Congressional election.
The interest in the approaching Senate
rial election is increasing and WILL doubt
l.ss, rise to fever heat Ivy the close Of the
week. John Pool is here, and his fiends
pretend to believe that he will Ee elected
OF course all sorts Of rLmors are alloat, put
forth with view to demOra!iz1 and scatter
our people, SO that Pool may take adyan-
tage Of their confu>ion. The game he is
E1w playing is desperate one, and his inn
ders Of the age,
Commodore Stanly, OF the L nited States
Navy, brother of the late Edward Stanly
Is stopping at the ! Iarbornugh, and is,
iearn, quite z6alous in advocating the re
election Of Mr.. Pool. The Commodore
seems to think it would be a very ipjudi-
cious thing for North Carolina to send a
Democratic Senator to Washington, and
that John Pool would exercise great influ-
encein divelting enriching streams from the
Federal Treasury Fountain to the poor
and arid lands Of North Carolina.
1t seems that if Pool shall only be sent
Pack to Washington, canals will be cut in
tle eastern part Of the State, and our
MYERS and harbors improved, and to our
western friends, the hope of Pacific Rail-
road IS held ont ou. debts will, doubtless,
epaid. Indeed, if we were to listen to Rad
ical representation we should think the mil
leonlum had come, and all because of John
lool' 1t certainly has never been our for
tune to witness bolder or more barefaCed
hpudence than this attempt to coax and
sSJoie and bully Democratic Legislature
10 elect John Pool United States Senator.
t. Is AGO urged that President Grant is very
kindiy disposed toward our State. In proof
pl which the rtlpored appointment of
Thomas Settle, as Associate Judge of the
United States Supreme Court, and of Sam
uei +. Phillips to be Solicitor General, is
ulumphantly pointed to. 1t is needless to
say that Pool is reckoning without his host
lie can neither buy nor intimidate this
Legislature.
The Trustees of the University were in
session to-day and meet again tomorrow,
out thus far they have accomplished moth
ing The great question under considera-
tion' it is said, is proposition to reorgan-
ne tne University. Here, also, the inev-
"aoIe Fool rises up in the way Of the
prosperity Of the State and of her people.
MS time, however, 1t is not John Pool,
WI his brother Solomon Pool, who is the