The New York herald., 1872-08-01
| NORTH CAROLINA.
The Tar Heel State Ready for
the Battle To-Day.
CHARGES AND COULTER CHARGES.
Republicans Discovering Sticking Plaster
Ballots in Conservative Hands.
DEMOCRATS ALL, "YOU LIE p
Culled Bredren Caught at
Tammany Tactics.
SUMMERS LETTER TO SAMBO UNHEEDED.
Uncle Sans Troops in Line to Receive All
Rioters at Short Notice.
SCHURZ AT COMPANY SHOPS.
Wilmington Prepared for Amy
Emergency.
Bloody Fight Between Soldiers and
Citizens at Greensboro.
SUMMERS LETTER TO SAMB0 UNHEEDED.
Uncle Sans Troops in Line to Receive All
Rioters at Short Notice.
sCHURz AT COMPANY SHOPS
Wilmington Prepared for Amy
Emergency.
Bloody Fight Between Soldiers and
Citizens at Greensboro.

OAUAAOIA6 dI GIS0L1SOOrO.
RALEIGH, N. O., July 81, 1872
| The excitement which has characterized the
campaign for the last three weeks is now at fever
heat. There Is some reason, 1t is alleged to appre-
hend disturbances at the polls in many localities
morrow, but after careful inquiry among all parties
l am inclined to believe the fear is not well
founded. There Is no doubt whatever that the pas
sions and prejudices of the negroes have been
greatly excited and inaamed by incendiary speak
ers, white and black, so much so that the attempts
Of conservative challengers to prevent fraudulent
voting OF negro minors are met with open defiance,
often accompanied by threats This, how.
ever, is the greatest extreme to which the
election excitement will be carried. II there is any
disturbance the responsibility must fall upon the
administration officials In the State, who boldly
proclaim that they cannot afford to lose the State
and that the election must be carried at all
hazards. 1t is due to the conservatives TO state
that, while they are Arm and determined to cast
their votes, every precaution has been taken by
them to prevent fraud and to secure o
peaceable and orderly election. The indica
tions this afternoon are that very
large vote will be polled, by far the
largest that has been p0ed at any
time since the war. It is confidently predicted by
conservative politicians who profess to be thor
oughly informed that ten or fifteen thousand white
men in the western counties who have not voted
since the surrender are now registered and will
vote the conservative ticket tomorrow.
CONSERVATIVE HOPE OF SUCCESS.
Basing these estimates on former votes and
adding this increase, and II the already accom-.
pshed frauds are not more gigantic than can be
| reasonably supposed, they predict with apparent
confidence that the conservative State ticket will
be elected by decided majority. II these state
ments and expectations prove unfounded the
contest will :, be very close. In ,.any
cea ta ae Siae e Il
win carry the Legislature and majority OF the
Congressiona,l, -, delegation. In the absence Of
State Central Committee and OF Senator John Pool
who has gone home to Pasquotank county to vote,
and managing the affairs Of that party He does
not speak as confidently as did Senator Pool week
ago, and could not help thinking that there was
an evident effort to convince himself as well as me
committee counted upon for the State ticket were
| from eight to ten thousand majority They claimed
the First Second, Fourth and perhaps the Filth Con-
gressiOnal districts and the Legislature by q ma
THE DIvIL FIGHT AT ALL EXPECTED.
| Mr.: Young emphatlcally disclaimed any appre-
hension OF disturbance to tomorrow unless nc
nounced the telegram from GoldsbOrO, disclosing
plot to seize the polls by deputy marshals, as
prejudice the minds OF the whites against the me-
| grOeS.
not less than fifty mass meetings. all Of which are
largely attended On all sides are heard the busy
and decisive struggle tomorrow.
Men OF both parties look anxious and unsettled
and the republican Ofiice-h0ders seem excessively
nervous Judge Merrfmon, the conservative nom
nee for the Governorship, returns here tonight
having concluded the labors of the campaign by a
| speech at Company Shops on the North Carolina
sANGUME OF VICTORY.
The radical leaders express equal confidence in
betting taking place. 1t Is conceded by the Grant
leaders here that II North Carolina goes conserva-
thousands wS in November; and It viii have the efect
of virtually deciding the Presidential election. All
the enthusiasm seems to be with the conservatives;
many moderate men among whom seem half
inclined to give up the e,o 6Sa,s,.,o state, but
am credibly informed by members OF the COnserva-
tive State Committee that large importations OF
negro voters have been made nom Virginia and
Tennessce, and also that huge registration frauds
have been attempted; but the vigilance OF the con-
servatives has detected them, and active measures
have been adopted to counteract them.
sAMBO WILD WITH EXCITEMENT.
Up to this evening the negroes continue to be
ranging from sixteen TO twenty years Old, who
have registered have been challenged and will not
be allowed TO vote tomorrow. They are standing
in little knots about the streets, except at the
Market House, where there Is quite crowd dis
Cussng in angry tones what they deem to be a
fresh Ku Klux outrage and rebel effort to deprive
them Of their rights.
SUMMERS TORNADO NOT GREATLY FELT.
Senator Summers letter, synopsis or which
reached here to-day, has no visible effect upon
them. Indeed, 1t is the common impression that
time alone will change the negro IN political con. con-
viCtions, which have been so well drilled into him
that he regards them with more religious zeal than
he does the Gospel. Even senator sumner, one OF
the apostles OF negro equality, Will ind his inlu-
ence with the race imp0tcnt to change single
yOte and they will probably assail him now, as
they DO Mr.. Greeley as q turnc0at rebel democrat,
who would put them back into slavery again II he
could. -,
bly, welded to republican doctrines which, with
them, means opposition to the mass OF the white
and proscriptive beyond conception. Just
the other day Samuel q. Cross, one Of
the negroes recently mObbed by his colored
| brethren because he espoused the Greeley cause,
white people, was IN court: HIS Prosecutors or
rather the leaders, have all been bound over to
appear before the United States District Court by
Commissioner under the Enforcement act.
CROSS IS A NATIVE OF HARTFORD.
Conn, who was sent here six years ago by the New
York branch Of the Freedmen's Union Commission,
Of which Chief Justice Chase is the President, to
teach the young negro idea how to shoot. In 1865
he was appointed magistrate, for Granville
county, by Governor Holden, and up TO the time he
espoused the liberal movement he was leader
among the negroes.
"Are you in any fear OF being again molested ~ /
asked him.
| Eyes, when pass along the streets hear slurs
and curses often hurled after me, and don't Rno"
| what time may be attacked in the dark" ,
"What caused you to Join the liberal movement"'
Because the other party was corrupt anu mon,
esty thought reform was needed IN Do,n .ny S'ae ~
and national governments; had connucns w., 10 III sne
| and made my mind up to act independent and
support them"