Washington telegraph., 1850-06-19

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"rH1s UNION WILL NOT, MUST NOT, SHALL NOT BE
pIssoLvED."-CLoy.
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WEDNESDAY, -: JUNE 19, 1850.
CAN DIDAT 8.
nTWe are authorized TO announce HENRY +.
PoINDExrER as a candidate for reelection to the
State Senate, from the District composed of
Hampstead and Pike counties
NPWe are authorized to announce M. M
WAR as candidate for Constable OF czan
Township
nrWe are authorized to announce LEWIS Al
Ten. as a candidate for Justice of the Peace for
Ozan Township.
uWe are authorized to announce =. a.
WARREN of Camden, candidate for Prose-
cutting Attorney for the Sixth Judicial Clrcut oi
Arkansas
TWe are authorized to announce JOSIAH
NJ WIIsoN, of Lafayette, as candidate 1or tne
unexpired term. of A. J. Armstrong IN the STATE
Senate, from the district composed OF Sewer and
Lafayette counties.
nyWe are authorized to announce L. NJ Il
BANKHEAp as a candidate to represent Hampstead
county in the next Legislature
hyWe are authorized to announce CHARLES
r. MITCHELL as a candidate for the State Senate,
from the Senatorial District composed OF Hemp
stead and Pike counties.
nYWe are authorized to announce Gen. GRAN
OLSON D. RoysroN as a candidate for Prosecuting
Attorney in the Sixth Judicial District
n-We are authorized to announce JOHN B.
SANDrFuR as a candidate for reelection to the
Office of Sheriff of Hampstead county, at the
August election.
nPWe are authorized to announce SIMON L.
SANDERS as a candidate for reelection to the
Office of Clerk of Hampstead county, at the cleo
on in August next.
Red river was within few feet OF the
top of its banks at Fulton, on Monday,
and rising slowly.
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INFORMATION WANTED-Who is }. II.
Powell, whose name appears as sole repre-
sentative of the State of Arkansas. in the
Southern convention a: Nashville!
AcouITrED.-The trial of Badger for
the murder of Thomas was concluded on
Wednesday evening last The Jury al
ter few moments absence returned with
q verdict of NOT GUILTY.
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A Teiegraphic despatch from Bos-
ton states that the wings have undoubt-
edly elected Thompson over Palfrey, free
soiler, in the fourth Congressional dis
trict of Massachusetts,.
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Edmund Burk, late commissioner OF
Patents, retired from the editorial depart
ment of the Washington Union on the
31st ult.
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The Frankfort Ky.) Commonwealth
says. that in all probability, as soon as
the present controversy on the subject OF
slavery is settled, Mr.. Clay will retire
from the Senate.
A petition for signatures, is in circula-
ton in New Orleans, to the Captain Gen.
eral of Cuba, requesting him to spare the
of thn
and to release them.
In the Senate of the United States, on
the 23d ult. Mr.. Borland presented a pc
tition from the citizens of Arkansas, pray
ing the removal of the Raft of Red river
The bill to divide the State of Arkan-
sas into two judicial districts passed its
third reading in the Senate on the Oath
A HoAx-The account of an insurrec-
ton among the slaves of Monroe county,
Virginia, which was extensively publish
ed short time since, is pronounced by
the Richmond Em9usrer, on the authority
of w. Erskim, Esq, of Monroe county,
to be entirely without foundation.
The steamer St. Louis, on the 28th ult
collapsed two fews, at quarantine, below
St. Louis. killing twenty-five persons and
wounding forty. The sufferers were nearly
all deck passengers.
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