Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-08-03
POLITICAL.
NORTH CAROLINA ELECTION.
noth slides claim lhc state.

NEW YORK, Aug. 2.-The Wortd's.. Ral
eigh, North Carolina, special puts Merri
mons majority at 5000
The Herald editorially says it Is unsafe
to hazard prediction, as the result, from
meagre returns, is at a stand still, and
that, after all, it is possible that the negro
counties may give the State to the Repub
| licans.
The Tribune editorially thinks the re-
turns do not warrant any positive state.
ment as to the result that the gains in the
cities may prove deceptive, being caused
by the return of the negroes to their coun-
try places of registry.
| The Times specials claim that the State
has gone Republican.
The DISPATCHES received in the city indi-
cate avery quiet election everywhere. Re-
turns were awaited with anxiety here, and
the headquarters of the different political
parties were crowded until late hour. NJ
merous dispatches. were received and read
from both sides, claiming the State. Ia.
Greeley goes to Rhode Island on Satur-
| day, to remain a few days.
RALEIGH, y. c., Aug. 2.-Returns from
q counties indicate positively the election
of MerrimOn, Conservative candidate for
Governor, and six out of eight Congress
men, and sixty majority on joint ballot
in the Assembly, thereby electing Con-
sentative United States Senator in place of
John Pool, Radical Republican. The Re-
publcans give up the election, the only
question being that of majorities.
The election passed off quiet and orderly
throughout the State. The contest in the
fourth District as vet is doubtful, with a
chance in favor of Rogers, Conservative, as
also in the first District. The probability
is that the same Conservative Congress
man will be elected.
Returns come in slowly, though
it is considered that Merrimon, Democratic
candidate for Governor, is elected by about
eight thousand majority.
The contest in the Fourth Con-
gressional District, is very close, with equal
chances of success for opposing candidates.
Leach, Ashe, Vance, Waddell and Rob
bins, Democratic Congressional candidates,
are elected. The Legislature will have
forty majority on joint ballot.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., August 2.-Settle
telegraphs to the Postmaster General that
he is elected.
Many wild contradictory dispatches have
been received from North Carolina. Indi-
cations at this hour are ten thousand ma
iority and seven Congressman. A dispatch
from Greensboro reports gains froml the
west. Agents have been cautioned to be
ted 2 o'clock may be regarded as safe
CINCINNATI, Aug. THE Democratic
Convention in the Seventh Ohio District,
after 163 ballots, nominated Il. L. Neal for
Congress.
MEMPHIS, Aug. The county election,
yesterday, passed off quietly in this city.
The Democratic ticket, with Doyle for
Sheriff, was elected by about three humid
red majority. In one of the country dis
trcts there was some fighting, and two
men reported killed. Mcfarland for Su-
preme Judge, has two majority.
The dispatches received at the Liberal
and Democratic headquarters
here to-day, confirm the news of Democratic
gains, and estimates Merrimon's majority
at ten thousand. Gain three hundred in
county, securing the election
of Leach over Settle in the Fifth District.
WILMINGTON, Aug. buckingham
and COtrell counties gave Conservative
gains.
The Republicans gained in Caswell
The returns indicate the defeat of
Settle for Congress.
The probabilities are the conservatives
have carried six out. of the eight Congress
siOnal districts.
At Kinston, in LenOir county, Mcrri-
mon gains siXty-twO votes.
There seems to exist no reasonable doubt
of NJ errimon's election by large majority.
DIES MONIES, Iowa, Aug. 1.-The DEM
ocratic and Liberal conventions have
agreed upon joint candidates except for
Governor and Lieutenant Governor.