GOVERNORS ELECTION.
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+ We refer our readers to table of the Govern
ors vote in another column, contrasting the pres
ent returns with those of 1874 Mr.. Shepard, il


will be seen, has fallen behind Col. Hokes vote
in Warren, Wake, Stokes, stanly, Sampson, Row
an, Rockingham, Richmond Randolph, Person
Orange, New Hanover, Lenoir, Guilford, Gran
vile, Edgecombe, Franklin.z Davidson, Cumbcr
land, Chatham, Caswell, Cabarrus, Brunswick
BIaden and Ansou; and he has run ahead of Col
Hoke's vote in Wayne Nash, Johnston, Halifax
and Duplin. Mr.. Graham has run ahead of his
former vote in BIaden, Brunswick, Cumberland


Davidson, Duplin, franklin, Edgecombe, Gran
vile, Johnston, Lenoir, Mash, Person, Randol ph
Richmond, Rowan, Sampson, Stanly, Warren
and Wayne and he has fallen behind his former
vote in Wake, Stokes, Rockingham, Orange, New
Hanover, Halifax, Guiiford, Chatham, Caswell
Cabarrus, and Anson. In the Counties contained
in table, according to the best calculation we
can make, Mr.: Shepard has fallen about four
thousand behind Col Hoke's vote, and Mr.. Gra
ham about one thousand behind his former vote.
If all the Counties had done as we'll for the Demo
cratic cause Halifax, Johnston, Greene, Nash,
Duplin, and Pasquotank, Mr.. Shepard would
have been triumphantly elected.


The reasons for this defeat are too palpable and
obvious to be overlooked-they may be discover
ed by The slightest glance at the votes of certain
Counties. In our next we shall go at length into
the causes OF whig success in North Carolina As
our friend Col Norris would say upon the stump,
" let this suffice" for the present Base, secret,
and abominable whig lies and whig SANDERS
the resignation Of Senator Haywood--the existing
war with Mexico-and the apathy ofthe Demo
Gratis in certain sections, wing 10 causes that had
heir origin mainly in the circumstances which
preceded the nomination of Mr. Shepard