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$!ie c(j)flu Carolina 'jr.ir THI-W BKKLT AND WKKKI.T BY , The Era ! Publishing Company. X&atea of Advertisinxr i ! ' One square,' one t!iriV-"ltl 00 " " two fimw,. - - 150 v' " Uixeo : times,-. - .-. - 2 00 . A square is the width column, and J inche deep. " ! ; jgSr Contract . Advertisements taken' at proportionately low. rates. ... Professional Cards, notexoeedingl square, will be published one year for lfc.- '- Xtate of Subscription Tri-WeeelT-Oes year. La advance, - , 6 months," in4 advance, 3 months, In advanoe, 1 month, in advance, Wkkklt One year, in advance, Six months, in advance, $3 00 2 00 1 00 60 $1 Oil 50 Vol. 2. - RAILEIGH, : "THURSDAY V AUGUST '29 1872. No. 11. t . i ,, , i ,i . i i i, . , r , . w : - - - ' ' ' " 1 ' i , , . - - - ; ':!":.- -...i - Gov. Caldwell His Duty. - The unanimous voice of the Demo- i cmtic Press that the election be con futed, proves that the secret circular, recently exposed in these columns, has been forwarded to the different Demo cratic papers throughout the State ; that . the advice of Messrs. liarnnger and Mason has been acted upon ; and if Greeley is elected, the farce of contest ing the election will be gone through , with, and the whole Democratic State ticket declared elected. Wheth er Gov. Caldwell will surrender i the State government to J udge Merrimon upon such action of the Legislature, we do not know. We do not believe there . were one tenth as many fraudulent - .yok'cast by Republicans as by DehvSH craU and Liberal traitors. In a contest before Impartial men, Gov. Caldwell's majority, would be Increased. But bo- fore members of the Legislature, elected as partisans, where a political advan tage is soutrht. Justice would not be clone. Every member would be gov erned by the knowledge that a defeat in a contest of their own seeking, would forevcr ruin Judcre Merrimon. and se- t riously, if not fatally damage the mon- grel party. Therefore, the returns would be manipulatedso astogive Mer- rimon a majority without regard to ceived eighty-nine thousand and, twen evidence that might be produced by ty-nine (89,029) votes for Attorney Gen- Gov. Caldwell. Believing that Gov. Caldwell, received a majority of the legal votes cast on the first day of this month, and that Justice will not be done by the Legislature, we advise Governor Caldwell to resist the Legislature if that body declares Merrimon elected, and attempts to wrest the State government from Gov. Caldwell and his brethren of the Republican State ticket. The Republicans have possession they must retain it; and if Judge Merrimon sets up a petty government of hi3 own Congress will take cognizance of the contest and decide which is the rightful government. That the Congress would sustain Gov. Caldwell we have not the slightest doubt. s- It is high time that the Republi cans of the Southern States had cast off that submissive feeling, by virtue of which, they have been brow-beaten, I ostracised, and indignities of every kind inflicted upon them, by those who claim to be the "chivalry" of the know that . Gov. Caldwell received a majority of the legal votes. They know that thieves and perjured villians were Imported into this State by the Demo cratic and Liberal Committees for the purpose of nullifying the voice of the people, to commit all kinds of frauds, elect Merrimon, and thus make fdrty capital for Greeley. With this knowl edge, where Is thoReprblican who will not sustain Gov. Caldwell in a contest with the Legislature? We do not be lieve there is a Republican in the State who would not rally to the support o Gov. Caldwell under sucn . circum stances. There is more involved in the contes so far as Republicans are concerned than office and the emoluments thereof. It is a question whether a legal major ity of more than hco thousand voles shall be set aside--the voice of the peo ple smothered and men who failed to receive a majority of legal votes, shal beorcecf upon the people to administer the affairs of the State for four years, when tho people have just said at the ikil lot-box that they trill not have Judge Merrimon and his brethren o the Democratic State ticket, to manage tho affairs of this State for the next term. Such is the question that will hftvn to he decided if the election is contested. If decisive majorities can be set aside at the will and caprice of a partizan majority of the Legislature, It is time the people wrerc apprised of the fact, that they may take such steps as mav bo necessary to vindicate their rights and maintain in all their origi nal purity the Republican institutions handed down to us by our forefathers. The talk of contesting is Ku Klux ism in another form. Gov. Ilolden was Impeached, deposed, and disfrancliiscd - . a i -r-. in . because he made war upon me ivu xviu. and exerted himself to protect the inno cent and defenseless. Now, immediale- lv fhilntirimr Mr. Greeley's desertion of the Republican party, Democrats and Ku Klux who are shortsighted enougn to believe that Greeley will be elected, demand that the election be contested. The essence and meaning of this de mand isthat Judge Merrimon be de clared elected without regard to evi dencethat may be adduced by Gov. Caldwell and his friends. Having fail ed to com mi t frauds enough ; to give Judge Merrimon a majority without a contest, tho Ku Klux dodge is resorted to, and Gov. Caldwell is to be impeach ed, so to speakj and deposed from office. In other words the Ku Klux having : failed In their nefarious and damnable efforts to get possession of the State government by frauds upon tho ballot box, instructions have been issued to Democratic members of thelgislature. and the work of the various Dens, will be completed by the Legislature. : That Gov. Caldwell and those who gave him their suffrage, will quietly submit to such an outrage against tne ballot and against civil libertywedo not believe. If they do. they are fit tnhWta fhr snrh Indiemltics and out- ' a l -w man rhnnfiA Tfl US Hie XV U 1UUA . . "-- Some Facts and Figures. Inasmuch as the Democratic Journals are charging fraud In the late election, we propose to give a few facta and fig ures on the subject of elections in this Stato since 18CS, taken from the official records in the office of the Secretary of State. .. .. , The registered vote in 1868 was one hundred and ninety-six thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, (196,87(5). The Democratic papers charged that at least twenty-thousand voters In the State failed to register that year The combined vote of Caldwell and Merrimon is one hundred and ninety- three thousand six hundred and fifty- four, (193,651) or three thousand two hundred and twenty-two lesJ than'the registered vote of 1S6S, r - I In November, 1868, Grant received ninety-six thousand two hundred and ninety-three (96,293) votes in this State, or seventeen hundred and seventy-nine less than Gov. Caldwell in the late elec tion, j Seymour received at that election eighty-four thousand and ninety (84,- 090) votes, or twelve thousand and six- ty-two (12,002) leas than Merrimon in the late election. In July, 1870, Shipp (Democrat) re- eral. This was the largest vote ever polled in this State by the Conservative party, and yet Merrimon's vote this year exceeds their largest vote seven I thousand one hundred and twenty-three (7,123). Caldwell receives only seventeen hundred and seventy-nine more? votes than Grant received in 1868, while Merrimon receives twelve thousand and sixty-two more votes thari Sey mour. Last year the Republicans voted against the Convention act, and cast J ninety-five thousand two hundred and I fifty-two votes (95,252.) They Increase that vote this year by twenty-eight hundred and twenty (2,820.) The Democrats voted last year for the Convention act and cast eighty-six thousand and seven votes (86,007.1 They increase that vote this year ten thousand one hundred and forty-five (10,- 145. So it will be seen that while, the Re- paKJiwn iw only ..increased ' their. vote seventeen nunareu auu seyeniy riine since the Presidential election in 4868, the Democrats have increased their vote over ten thousand icilhin the. last year. And yet they talk of frauds ! liy reference to the registered vote in in 1870, it will be seen that twenty three thousand eight hundred , and thirteen voters were kept from the polls that year. It is well known this was done by the Democratic KaKlux, and yet these fellows prate of frauds on the ballot-box, and have the impudence to talk about the "popular will," .uvernneen tnousand persons were kept from the polls the party that kept in 1871, 'and.now them away, affect to be horror-struck at the frauds on the sacred ballot ! 7 V J. II. Separk, the Democratic candi date for Superintendent of- Public Works said in a speech in this' city last week if the polls arepropery purged, OtlVe State, ticket Will be . . . Vie Conservative UNANIMOUSLY ELECTED.'! That's the kind of purgi ng they want. ' The Democratic party opposed giving the colored man tho right of suffrage. They now seek to deprive ignorant and illiterate men of their votes by technic alites and fraud! I The election law was framed Ivith a view of cheating men , out of their rights.' ' ' " :j '--';v- The late Democratic Legislature re fused to order a new registration, for the reason that the names of dead men and those who had removed from the townships on the old registration' lists would lead to confusion and give op portunity for fraud." , ' And now for the most trifling'omis-' sions on the part of registrars or return ing officers this precious Ku Klux'party with its hands and garments all reek- ing with tho blood of men whom they have murdered to keep them from the polls, propose to virtually disfranchise whole counties in order to maintain the sanctity of the ballot ! democratic attack bli the 1 Westi The Tarbord Southerner.' a Democrat- ic sheet, pitches Into the; white people J "IWUWUI WMUUUIUWUytlS.-r A C1T Tr- O TTATtTTVl II "We are becoming heartily tired and distrusted with hearincr about the West and the tires lighted in her mountains just on the eve.pf every electioor ' In the late election she has 'behaved most shabbily," and notwithstanding the fact that the whole of our party power in 1 speakers and workers was thrown with- in her limits. She failed to appreciate tne importance or tne occasion,! and, through .their' indifference' and luke warmness, caused the defeat of. Merri With one or. two exceptions the ex treme Eastern counties, with overwhel ming majorities,' received no outside help, yet in almost every . county the Democracy traUanUv 'held .their own: and in others, , as in., Edgecombe, they gained handsomely upon their former strength. '"" ; ?-t" So let us hear 1 no more about the West and its fidelity, Ac, If it had done as well as the East our - party would now be rejoicing over a glorious and complete victory." ; I Greeley Proscription. , Tha day after our State election was currently reported on the streets that one of our , business men : voted the entire Republican ticket. This re port" immediately , raised a howl all over pur city ; and men who had trad ed with the gentleman said to. have votedor the Republicans, went to work to break down his trade, andthus com-, pel him to retire from business. Every Greeley ite who heard that this gentle man naa voted as a freeman for the men pf his choice-fet to work ip ostra cise and proscribor him:- A direct1 at tack was made on bis business, and if the gentleman had not stated that the! report was tilmh lv- -gslncsa: would have f suffered . greatly ' from the prp- scrlption of Greeleys friendau- V ) Such attempts ias this are common in this State. NotrAiman who votes the Republican ticket is tolerated for a mo ment if he is in a condition to be made feel the iloes of patronage. The talk aboutj clasping hand3 across the bloody chasm is the essence of demagogue- ism. j The spirit of intolerance that lurks in the hearts of leading Greeley - ites, toward white Republicans, was not equaled : during the '. rebellien, when the same men hated the Stars and Stripes a they' hated Satan. But now they, raise the hypocritical cry of reform and reconciliation, and hope to succeed to power through Greeley, and their persistent cry for honesty and good government. Republicans are already reconciled." They have no dif- ferences to settle. 1 They buried their animosities when the rebellion"" was crushed. Since that time they, have exerted themselves to organize a stable government in this and other Southern States,3 with "charity for all and malice toward none." They; have been resist ed at every step by t the i Democratic party, and even now, with' the cry of ''reconciliation" on their Ups, an organ ized attempt ia proscribe .every ;busi-f ness!mari who. votes the Republican ticket,' Is .one of the' fiercest political weapons used by Greeleyites. . dor people are becoming more inde pendent, and after Grant's re-election, and j. the infamous coalition of Demo crats and Liberal traitors has been de stroyed root and branch, the Democrat ic prty scattered to the four winds, saKe win cease, ana every man-.wiu vol as his judgment dictates, and no attempt to injure personally or to ruin his lousiness, will be indulsred in. In oth& Words we shall have a free coun frv j Thorn m now ten thousand white in the Democratic ranks who woijdd vote the Republican ticket, but for J,he social ostracism they know. they would have to encounter if they did so. Thalt Greeleyites should cry "reconcilia tion" at one breath and proscription at another, shows that a deceptive game is being played. The, cry, of "reconcil iation", is used to catch all who are stupid enough to take up .with it, and ostracism .and proscription will serve to keen all Democrats in the ranks of tha&party. - --; !: ' s- ' Negro EquaUty Scene bii 1 tlie 7 jji , Streets ! or Bateigli; : 7 jyii f aiiaujuau vw .iu tv cud. c An old aristocrat, -who .was. a firo; 6ece3alonlat but.kept.oui of the nU t, who joined the .'.'white man's party" in 1867 and abused -all Republicans for bef ng In 1 favor of : Vnegro equality," iuis a union man auu ajpuuncau, anh the following dialogue takes place : - - -T--r . 9 - I ' Republican-" Well, Mr, Democrat, hokv do you stand on the Presidential question?" I)einocrat" Vm for that honest man , Horace Greeley;" Mrr ' ' - , ; Republican" Ah, T thought your parw neiauiat au itepublicans were dishonest." ' ' Democrat u Well, I believe most of them are." ifRepublican " Ain't llorace Greeley a Republican ?". . , : bemocrat-" Yes, he has been, bnt he'is for Amnesty' Republican u Didn't' he niake a speech at Poughkeepsle, New York, in May, 1872, in which he advocated the mixing of white children1 and colored children in the same schools ?" ' Democrat" I believe he did, Jjut lie went bail for JeftV Davis.? ;t j -r7l-:".' ' ' ' Republican-"- Didn't you1 and your party try, in 1868 to defeatto adoption Ti -'-'r- - -. J.. tvharvrTntv that. whHn, onrlronlAi tlLt rfren i would be forced - inlollhe same1 schools byfltrVvf:;:, U ,:::4H ; y Democrat ef QUk J)lr. Greeley Js lor: ,shaking; hands .across ; the bloody i IPwiAiwrn-." a int. Oiwiav tn rv of Sumner.'s bill forcing the colored arid & aZn-w- Win rAW."; A-a.-j White . races into .the same churches, schools; railroad i carsr steamboats arid hotels?" r v y ., : t t: Democrat ".Yes, but he is opposed to carpet-baggers,". j .liepuoacan y anq so you and: your, party are. running a man .for President Who is . in favor of .,negroreeraalitv.,-; '..- ... I. . ' . ' T? I'M- ., Simply because he Vwerit ball for ! Jeff. J want to make him Piidcnt., - ;YouarQ nice set to abuse Republicans' for be ing in favor of negro-equality.";" n f I; I . Good morning." ' ' " "t ' Greeley Reformer. . it . The Greeley , organs are continually I prating about reform, and nodding up . Greeley to the people as the man-; who, if elected President, will inaugurate ;a millennl unf of honesty and efuciency - in the Civil Service of the Government, Mr. Greeley may be honest, but a great many of his supporters are .dishonest! men of the vilest cnaracxer. i? or in stance: Wm. M Tweed, great -Demo cratic thief who robbed New York City of ttccnty'milZions qf dollars, 13. a; loud-, mouth supporterpf jQreeleyand Brown. There is not oner of the. .original New Yprk Tammany Ring, Twhich robbed the people of New York! City ; ffmor Ithan'Aidalfanof xJoUdsfcyfixb I is .not openly for Greeley"and rents the j air with pathetic cries for reform. 4 ' Henry Clay tWarmouth, carpet-bag j Governor of Louisiana, the most dis- nonesi oi au uovernors, wno roDDea his State , of a million of , dollars and ibisted upon her a debt . of several mil- lions the proceeds of which went into the pockets of Warmouth and his ring, this man, T. thp f Prince : of ; Swindlers, 1 was a 4elegate to the-Cincinnati Con vention ; aided Greeley's nomination and is now " hail fellow well met" by the chivalry ".of Louisiana and. the South, because j he successfully robbed his adopted State, and is for Greeley ! Gen. W. BJ Stokes, formerly a ; Su pervisor of Internal Revenue for Ten-1 nessee, .defrauded the government of $68,000 ; was convicted of the offense j escaped the penitentiary by virtue of his age.t Notwithstanding this consist ent record of Greeley men, TheN- Y I W&tiw ofAugust 4 7th, made this an nouncement:! , . ,.t : , v "Gen. Stokes, of Tennessee, is out for, Greeley and Brown." ; : ' -7-There is not a man, discharged from office by President Grant for stealing,' butjWhat is now for Greeley and reforms That the Civil Service or any other .branch of the .government? will be re formed by Mr. Greeley, aided as he will be. by .men of infamous, character, such. as Tweed, Warmouth, Stokes, and I a host of Greeley ; reformers of like ilk, is absolutely f preposterous ! and to ask the: people to believe any such thing, is to. insult every, i man who has intelli gence sufficient to knowr his right hand from his left. , , Convert. ' At Greensboro', on Thursday the 22d, in front of the Benbow House, about 11 o'clock in the day, while theside- , walks were filled with busy citizens, another distinguished Greeleyite an nounced his conversion by numerous hurrahs for Greeley, hurrah for Leach, and bully for Merrimon ! . This enthusiastic Liberal, we learn, was no'onedse-but "white? Sam Frank- lin who wo? pardoned put of the Peni- tentiary ; recently by Gov. . Caldwell, where he had been imprisoned for steal ing a horse. As soon as he was Vsot" free by Mars Tod, Sam renewed his'Demo- cratic connections, and is stumping for Greeley in Guilford r and Rockingham the Ku Kluxof hat region on this distinguished accession, and nominate him for HonrlrenTiAr npvf TVlntar for r - -" - f - - ' - - their Senate chamber Ro !rf SAmnel: tKA Go hiSamuel, there's a chance for yot alpng . with $XX , Bobbins and letter m ' Josiah, jr. "Birds of a feather will flock together.'; u v. j Grant , and Wilson Clubs. In' every: township throughout the State, there should be organized at once.' zation should be -made more perfect, Because we defeated Von Moltke (Hon! D. M. Barringer,) and all his co-work--ers, such as Wood, the thief and Blumj enberg, the perjured villain and ex-penitentiary convict, we'should, not grow apthetic, and allow our organization to become inefficient. Our fight from now until the November election is over. must be aggressive and decisive. We must not allow the enemy to. reorganize and prepare for another conflict, but we must charge them now while they are disorganized and dispirited. Therefore organize clubs atr pnee. Enroll as many members as '.possible,,., Get up clubs of 8ub3cxipers and extend the circuJatiQn of Titje Era. , - See. that i organIzatIdn:id nerfectedih everV township. andGraht will carrytiefetabylteh thousarid!:Vj Mi. lilt 4,ir.1aM WtonnlillnMll'Pan-wt: 1 wviuoi, ayuv. . wl,v. f MBepuH(&n , friettds throlighout the different, c counties ' cap, effectually I aid the election of : Grant and Wilson by 'increasing tho i; circulation pf -Republican.- newspapers.ilOuri State pa pers4 should be vell susiairied arid wide ly circulated. j Send a hundred - copies of a vigorous Republican paper to each t county, aridlhe next election will show I tern out and see - If. they cannot secure one- neio 'subscriber' ' If '.our friends .would hestir themselves, Jourdrcula tlon epqld bo doubled in . a montn or wo ; h To smoke is a .tDemocratic virtue r to chew, i3 that virtue lntensineti j to drink rum is that virtue in the superla? tive." Horace Greeley. and The Daily Kacs says' the returns from Caswell and Gates were thrown out in 1870 "because- the returns from these counties were not received in the time provided by law." We were present at the opening of the returns that year, " and the returns from Gates "were in, but as the Demo cratic Sheriff of that county certified that ever 'eighttkousand votes had been casi in -.tnat. county, mat vote was thrown out because it was known to be a false return, and the Secretary of State was directed to write 1 for a cor rect return. -Nd-returrrwere-r . . iVi well, but the . Republican - Council of of State twhich counted the vote, on motion of that awful carpet-bagger, S. S. Ashley, moved that the Secretary of State write to Caswell for the returns which was unanimously carried. ; : The Democratic Sheriff, of Person , in that year certified that Phillip's receiv ed 1092 and Shipp 765, and yet because the same Sheriff in a subsequent return certified that Shipp had received 1092 j and Phillips 765, the largest vote was given Shipp by said Republican Board. The Democratic " Sheriff of Rocking ham certified that Shipp received five hundred and ninety votes in that coun ty, but because he gave the vote in figures at 1590, and the latter was known to be the correct vote of the county, that thousand votes were given to Judge Shipp in the. count. The law under which that election was, held required! the return of the vote for Attorney; General to be made on or before the 15th of August. A large number of counties failed to make return by ' that time, and if the returns received after that date had been , t " thrown out,'!4 Mr. Phillips would have been, elected .by several thousand votes. 1 1 ,v . , But the Republican officers did not throw out the returns which ; were not received within the time prescribed by law. -The people had voted,, and al though thousands : of , Republicans had been kept from the polls by Ku Klux intimidation, those officers scorned to take advantage of legal technicalities. They called in that great lawyer, Gov.. Bragg, and consulted with him . He said it was not just that the; people. account of informalities. - The Repub- lican Council of State agreed with Gov B. and Judge Shipp was declared elected. Look Out Oscar Eastmoiid. The , apostate Secretary of State, H. J. Menninger, who cannot see the dif ference between Tweedledum and Tweedledee," has recently made a vis it to Western - North Carolina,: and while in Asheville was offering to bet that Judsra Merrimon is elected Gov- ernor, although at the time official re turns had not been; received frond a dozen counties. This is ominous.' aa. this Secretary is the man to whose cus-' tody the official returns of-tbe election are committed - until tne 'luegisiature convenes. In quick- time after his re-5 turn from the West,: and before his tracks are washed out by the mountain showers, one Oscar Eastmond,' a Yan kee of Freedman's Bureau notoriety, claiming' to be a; Grant manl but in fact a Greeleyite in disguise, has been forwarded from Washington City by the , Tammany , Ring; and is now en route to Ashevjlle, , filled up to, the throat, .with slander against Grant and his friends, to be retailed by him in the mountains of the West. in order to make his mission more effective, he is to hold himself out as a Grant man and pretend that he is dreadfully mortified that facts are as -he. represents them, and hopes that some way may be de vised to counteract their effect. ? We hope The Pioneer and and other friends will look after this f ' wolf , i n, sheep's clothing,'? and will ventilate him thor oughly throughout the bill country Wonder if, Mr. Eostmond has a sick daughter, in Asheville wliom he. is going to see Eh ?; Bah jr. SOUTH CAEOIaINAKU KLUX TBIAIiS. ." Nobody can--say ,that;these. trials, nave - not Deenu;, iairiy conuuciM The prisoners were defended, oy suchv eminent lesral counsel 'as1 the Hon.. , Henry Stanbery, exAttorney General of the. fUnited. , States, ! and the: Hon JReverdv i Johnson. . But the tes timonv rbrouatit ' out overwneimed aii . -. .. . - . argument, and forty-seven- 6I "these? wretches confessed their crimes in open court ; six others , were, convicted, and sfivfintv-two :t indictments.v' embraciner over five htmdred persons, were found. The story of brutality, crime,' violence, and moral degradation Smade up from the revelations of t the witnesses 4is too : revolting for recital ; ' it is a dark chap ter in the history of civilization f it is a finvninn iienrroXt ' tft'.'t.hft TMirt.V Whllh organizeduie , corispiracyi aided and 12. 1872, in iV. K Tribune: " THE OP; THE. DEMOCRATIC : "If the Democratic party were called, upon to decide between Grant and my-v self,. know, that their regard for .what they, must call principle ? would induce nine-tenths ot them to vote against me: Why ? I am a decided enemy of that party, even in its most respectable as pects." Horace Greeley, in 1871. : Misstatements v. Corrected ; Facts Given. -: . North. Carolina Its JLosson. The glorious Republican victory just acnieved in JNprth Carolina- as of pro found significance..' It demonstrates to the country the Important fact that despite the unparalleled exertions of the .".anything- to beat Grant" party. the , honest, . patriotic masses of the country t, will stand inflexibly by, the Union, the Constitution and the' Re publican party. For seven days : the air has been made to reverberate with the shouts of victory'? from the , De mocracy. Every. Tammany thief, ev ery jsji jttjux, and every itepu oilcan with an inflamed scalp have been sim- iy wild witn joy, -over tne very relia le ,?) AE30ciated Press; reports.1 and other Democratic .reports of. the success Aitnougn tne union. men are Known the Democrats were coiiIlflenTBrperaty"11 'ftyta.i v..thn .KyCiijlican the Democrats" were coidenTDrbemi able to commit fraudsr enough to over come this majority. They miscalcu lated a tnousand votes. J ust what the the Republican vote in North Carolina is.' we shall never know. The -Infa mous and unconstitutional election law, by which the grossest frauds were perpetrated on the people bv the Dem ocratic managers, the throwing out of iwpuuiican votes wnen printea on col ored paper, or if there were a device on tne ballot: the use of four ballot boxes: the annoying of voters, by challenges, to confuse them so that they would de posit their votes in wrons: boxes, when they were thrown out in the count : all these things cost the Republicans tnousanas oi votesnow many cannot be ascertained and that .loss had to be overcome. .v. . . Then there was the Democratic ma-1 jority 1870, of five thousand, and about two tnousand amnested ex-confeder- ftfflS. TriftVf Tier t train '. ef eavan 4-irtticiori1 necessary on thl part of the Republi- can party to bring us even with our opponents; We have not only covered tnose ngures, out come out of the con test with one thousand majority. 1 ' The vote is of national significance, because it was forced on the adminis tration as a test of the strength the new alliance between the Democracy and the "Liberal" Republicans. The base assaults on the .President during the winter; the Cincinnati Convention, the purchase and ! sale Of Greeley ; all this had given the opposition confi dence that by 'their combination of the disloyal, disaffected and disappointed elements of the country, the , Republi cans Could be outnumbered. . To this end, Schurz, Sumner, Trumbull, Tip ton, (iov. Walker, and many others exerted all the influence of. their popu larity to stir up discord and bitterness in tne hearts ? of the people. These apostates from the loyal Republican party shook hands affectingly with the ex-Confederates and the Ku Klux as sassins across the 'bloody chasm." The thousands of Tammany flowed like ourgs, vvoods, ana tneir.emissarvaa, federates thronared .the doIIs to bribe. brow-beat, challenge, and teach the les sons of JNew York tricks and trauds to their Tar Heel brethren. To offset this, the ReDublican party sent some of our best men to tell the people the truth; to exhort .them to stand by the party of liberty, of loyal ty,2 of peace ; and their answer is most noble and patriotic. Not only is Cald well elected; but the present majority of sixty in the Legislature is reduced to eighteen, besides a gain of one, and perhaps two Congressmen ... This is a great triumph, and it shows that tne pew movement is thoroughly repudiated. We consider the Greeley force about played out. Let it . be re inembered that the South, is Mr. Gree ley's stronghold.; iter was nominated to please r the South.4 r The ' blunder of this movementis apparent On the first popular .vote. ; ame Jjemocrats. j are weaker with tho 4tLiberals'rthan with- out tnem. xney nave lost more man they have galped: 4" ! w ; rj i : . The Republicans will take great cour age all over the country. The sweeping assertions of the 'fLiberal'r press, that the party was breaking up, are answer ed, and the- attending- uncertainty. Is everywhere removed. Tne party knows now that our ranks are unbroken, that they are augmented by thousands who are disgusted with the low chicanery of the Democratic leaders and the sore- h'eaded politicians.- In this confidence there . is , certain success. .The party whicn has saved the country, and tne Union from 1860 to 1872, still received the confidence of the people. It will require hard and; persistent work, but this will be put forth, and the victory ls assured. vouirnbia, a. .. Union. A, Novel Duel, j , . Amonsr the rerniniscences told of the France-Prussian .war is .the account of a curious duel between two subordinate officers of the French -army. "You intend to fight a duel,' eh?" asked the commandant. v ' "Yes. Colonel, i Words have passed which can only be wiped out.by blood. We don7t want to pass lor cowards." i "Very well; - you - shall fight, but it must De in tnis way : - xaKe your car bines. Place yourselves on a line facing the mansion where the enemy ist, You will march r upon their 'garrison, with equal step. ' -When sufficiently, , .near their post you: will fire upon tnem. Th Prussians ; will ' reply. You1 con tintie to advance' and fire. -ii When one falls the other may turn upon, his heels and his retreat shall be covered by, one n tms - wayv" conciuaea tne com- mandant. inei:Dioocf wnicn you pom demand Will be spilled with profit and glory, and he who comes , back, will do so without regret, , without the, remorse of having killed or wounded,' with'his own handsaV Frenchman; y at' a time When Francei needs:: all her r defenders and all her children. ,-If you botbfall who shall say that you aje jqo wards ? I may also add that I thus give voir an excellent y opportunity tor putting - a couple of Germans out of .., thp way, a mm m . a . ' m T Beryice tnat win procure, ror yon a good reeommeaoauun . ior rewaru, . uuu pru-motion."-- Vi,i ;-!' Thematter was arranged as the com mandant c had . dictated. At f twenty paces from A the walls of Malmaison, one of ' his adversaries , was ; wounded, staggered and fell.1 ..The other ran to himJraised him udL and carried him away on his shoulders -amid a regular hail storm of balls both, thenceforth, ; ; r ' " - : ? ' I entitled to 51 the greatest honor and res pect from the -whole regiment; s w Whipped, yet -will not Surrender, The'Democrats, after having practic-v' ed ithe most stupendous frauds, ever heard of in a free country ; after hav ing forced upon the people of the Stato the most infamous election law ovor conceived of, and then, after resorting -to so much villany to carry the election, having so ' signally failed, - they now propose to contest Gov. Caldwell's elec tion before a - Democratic Legislature and thus count him out.- Wo know that this Ku Klux party is mean enough to do anything- to' carry-their vpoint, but we hardly think ' tnem tool nardy enough to attempt a thing which would destroy the peace or. tne atato ltioraer parfyv. after, having socurf Xdweu's" election in spite of, so much Democrat ic rascalitv. would see the whole State drenched in blood rather than submit to anv such Ku Klux conspiracy to smother the will of the people as fairly expressed at the ballot box. We know that it is hard, very hard, to submit to a defeat after claiming a victory of such tremendous proportions, but it win prove iar harder for . them to attempt to force Merrimon on the people of North Carolina as their Governor after they have said that they did not want him, for they will not have him, no matter what the refusal may cost. " As to the cry of "fraud," ofcoursono sensible man believes that there is any truth in the charge so far as the Repub lican party is concerned, for under the had just the same number of poll hol ders as the Republicans and in many of the counties all the poll holders and Registrars were Democrats, so that the Republicans were powerless to commit frauds if so disposed. At this place, we know that several illegal Democratic votes were polled, and it is our opin ion, that through the Stato where ono fraudulent Republican vote was polled there was at least an hundred Illegal Democratic votes cast. And our advico to our opponents is, to keep cool, not cry over spilled milk but submit to the decision of the majority however much it may go against the grain. And to. enable The Wilmington Star man to . cool off, we propose to- buy at 25 cents each, a couple of his roosters, and rath er than have the country plunged into a war, we will take the balance of his chickens at the same price. Yes, bro. Billy Bernard, wo are of tho opinion that the official count will showanand some majority for our entire State tick et, and if elected we. can assure you that Caldwell if he lives,, will bo your Governor for . the next four years. Carolina Clipper. Victory iu North Carolina. - that the Republlcanshave ''wonrn stro stantial victory in North Carol! na-r-a victory so pronounced as to foreshadow the re-election of Grant and the disper sion of the Greeleyites throughout tho country. j It is a matter of little consenuenco whether we have actually elected Cald well Governor or not. -If he is. defeated, the victory is ours all the same, for the margin against him must be so ex tremely small as to leave a Republican gain of four thousand voles on tho last State election (of 1870.) Moreover, it is absolutely certain that there is a gain of forty Republican members of tho Legislature, and of one, perhaps two, members of Congress. ' i Hence there is especial reason why the happy result in North Carolina should bo emphasized in "a series of cel ebrations in every city of tho land. ; Let the cannons and anvils that havo been used so enthusiastically during the last five days in proclaiming a great Democratic-Greeley victory there, bo swabbed out and made to speak for President Grant and .the Republican party, it striKes us tnat -tne vireeiey ites have been cutting rather a ridicu lous figure during these last few days. !To celebrate the result in a Stato which lias shown a gain of 4,000 Republican 'votes, again of ono Republican Con gressman and a gain oi iorty ltepuou can members of the Legislature, they have fired guns, exploded torpedoes, shouted themselves hoarse, flung away their bats, stood on their heads, danced frantically around bonfires, and gono , to bed with a headache every night. It is too much. Such generosity is seldom ' seen. Jb or it transpires at last tnattney have been glorying in their own defeat. ; ..Now let. the Republicans buy some more powder and indulge themselves, to some slight extent, In a manifesta tion of joy and jubilee. The capers and cuttings-up of the Democrats during , this first week in the month havo been exquisitely edifying. They have shown , how absurdly men can act when they are not very certain. Now it Is legiti- ; mately our turn, i . mu. .-The immense .Republican irains in - North Carolina are a most auspicious . indication of probable Republican vie-' ' tories, not only in Maine, Ohio, and Iowa, but in Indiana and Pennsylva nia. The present opportunity of em phasizing tne victory of last week and anticipating the ' Victories of October, should ' not 'be ; '"neglected. Chicago .Post. Too Much Whiskey for the Snake. . 1 They ""tell 'fhard" snake stories in Kentucky. This Is the latest : A man In Butler county got very drunk on a quart of whiskey, and lay in tho woods all night.- -The next morning a large dead rattlesnake was found about three feet from him, which t had evidently bitten the drunken man three several times during the ; night, as shown by the impression of the ; teeth in the flesh. The bites did no further Injury than to cause a slight swelling and in flaramatiorii which soon passed away, but the mean " whiskey in tho man's system was too much for the snake, and he is supposed to have died immediate ly after inflicting the wound.' ? j i. ' 1 WHO ARE DEMOCRATS. " We thereupon asked, our contcin- porary to stato iraniciy wueuwr mu-. pugilists, blackl?gs, thieves; Durgiars, , keepers of dens of prostitution, etc., etc., 'tt1 were not almost unanimously Democrats." Horace Greeley. : 1 1