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WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.-Mr Edney, of North
Carolina, delegates to the Baltimore Wing
Convention, has been nominated as Charge to
Guatemala. lie was lately Consul at Pale
mo. 1t is not yet known who will succeed NJ.
Barnard at Berlin.
Mr. Champion has Informed the President
that Lord Derby has taken the Fishery ques-
ton out Of his hands, and referred it to the Co..
onal Government.
Hon. Robert Rantoul died of malignant cry
sipelas. lie was in his seat on Tuesday, and
was not considered dangerously i'll until a few
hours before his decease His remains left for
Boston at 4 o'clock, accompanied by his wife,
Messrs. Goodr ch, and Duncan, Of Massachu-
sets, Cleveland, of Connecticut, and Eastman,
of Wisconsin.
Lieutenant Hunter has been reinstaed in the
Navy.
1t is generally understood that the Postmas-
ter General will succeed to the vacant seat in
the United States District Court of New York.
The Guano business is now and then talked
about here. There is rumor that Mr. Web
ster has given it as his opinion that the Labos
Islands do not belong to Perm, but to everybody
the very reverse of Lord PaImerston's opin-
ion-and that, therefore, our ships have right
TO 90 there and gather guano despite the Pc
ruvians.
NATIONAL Free Soil CosvENTIoS.-Pnts-
burgh, Aug. 9.-Delegates to the Free Sol
National Convention are assembling in great
numbers. Hotels are already nearly I'll ed
Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Wisconsin, and
Kentucky are largely represented. Several
delegates are here from Mary land and twenty
seven from Massachusetts. Among ,he arr
vals are Glddings, and Judge Spaudpg, Rod
| of h a..
ame, OF Quincy, Lewis Tappan, OF New York,
and Rev. d. Brisbane, of Cincinnati. Several
other prominent men are expecled to-mJrro~,
which day will be spent in caucusslng.
! 1t appears to be the general determination to
nominate Hale, Notwithstanding hS decii-
nation, and thus throw on him the respon-
>ibility of disorganizlng the party, II 1t is TO be
broken up. Messrs. Gddings, Spauldlng, and
Lewis, of Ohio, are spoken OF Tor Vice Pres-
dent.
Missouri ELECTIoN.-M Louis, Aug. g.
The majority for Gen. Prlce, the democratic
candidate tor Governor, will be about 10000.
The parties in the Legislature will be known
as Benton and Anti Benton. MslorIlies foot
up very large; lambs Dem Yin 2d District Is
about 300.
Washington, Aug. 9,-Secretary 9, Webster
returned this evening.
lJ-"The votes of General Pierce when IN
Congress nearly twenty years ago, show that he
! is entitled to the honor Of having stood by the
lndomltabc hero of New Orleans when he
struck so decisive blow against the system d
apropriating the national funds for works o.
internal Improvement" Boston Post.
The Boston Post is either becoming exceed
ingly perverse or lnexcusably ignorant. 1t salc
few days ago that Sen. Pierce was m &C
ton at the National Bridge in Mexico, wher
the fact was there was no action there at all
1t is equally untrue that Gen. Pierce stool
by the indomitable hero of New Orleans
on the question OF Internal improvements III
went entirely beyond the old hero in his hostil
ly to River. and llarboI improvements. lie vote