The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-08-09
THsE NORTH CAROLINA ELECTIONS.
Speeial telegram to the Dispatch.

RALEIGH, n. G., August S.-ThiS merning
the result Of the election is more doubtful
than ever. Corrected returns increase NIer-
rimon's gains, and reports of Illegal votes
are constantly pouring in. Congressman
Waddel reports to General Barringer heavy
frauds in the Wilmington district, which
alone will give the State to Merrimon il
established. In one precinct in Brunswick
county S3 votes were counted that were
neither registered nor cast. One hundred
illegal votes were cast in Bladen. Northamp-
ton sent Il sutficiency of negroes, after voting
there, into Hertford county to carry the lat
ter for the Republicans. At Rolesville, in this
county, nearly 300 illegal votes were polled,
and in Caswell, Gultord. and Rockingham
large numbers Of negroes were imported
from Virginia, who voted.
The Secretary of State says Caldwell will
not be elected by the official vote.
Second Dispatch.
RALEIGH, n. c., August S.-The result of
| the election still continues to be in doubt,
| tho1@h the Democrats have generally COR
ceded that Caldwell is elected by small ma
iority, which the fraudulent votes poled in
some OF the negro counties could easily over.
| come if successfully established. In Halifax
county, in the east, the census voting popu-
lation, aS shown by the official returns, was
| in 1870, 4,4jJ. The vote in that county the
same year was 4,517I, or l22 in excess Of the
voting population. This year the fraud there
is still greater, the whole vote poled being
| 5,307--an increase Of T30 votes over the vote
of 1870, and of So votes.
At the election just held, over the voting
| population now here is Il most palwble
fraud, which, according to my present csl
mates, would easily neutrlize the majority
| Caldwell will probably be elected by an est
mate just made on sixty counties officially
heard from by $50 majority. The remain.
! in. lhirly-two counties still to be officially
heard from gave Shipp DemocraD in 1876
Il majority Of ,l23, leaving Caldwell 227 ma
j0rity to be overcome. But the unofficial re-
| turns received from nearly all the countie>
foot ups majority for him Of from 500 tC
900 This latter estimate is by no means tc
| he relied upon, and | consider the result n
much at sca lis ever, until the full official re
| turns are received, with all the chances il
favor OF Mcrrmon, owing to the imnenS,
amount of fraudulent votes reported. Scy
eluI districts are reported as having polled
like Halifax county, a larger vote than wa
registcrcd; and some of them are said t.
have counted more votes than were actual,
cast.
The Secretary of State, who is in receip
Of the official returns as they come, and wht
complies the vote and gives the certificate 0
election, is OF the opinion that Caldwell's ma
jority will not exceed 300, if he is elected Il
all.
In one precinct in Brunswick eighty mor
vote, were east than registered. In Harnet
township, New Hanover, one or two Degr'
companies, with arms, marched to the poll
in First Ward, Wilmington, and other pre-
cincts in that county, and were registered
after shutdown, and on the day Of election
having Radical county commissioners. TIL
voters Of these precincts were of course no
thrown out.
There is no doubt Of frauds in CoIumbi
and Bladcn. They are believed to be genera
throughout the whole congressional district
and, in fact, throughout the State.
Oihcial-Bcaulort: Merrimon, ,33l Cald
well, 1866. Wilson: Merrimon, 1919
Caldwell, ,l52. Carterct Merrlmon, ,062
Caldwell, 73l. Dare: Mcrrimon, 232 Cald
well, 20; Casswcl; Mcrrmon, ,i15; Cald
well, 400.