Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-06-10

The next Baptist anniversaries Will be held IN
Fredericksburg, commencing on Thursday before
| the first Sunday in June 1858.
| How GEN. PIERCE RECEIVED THE News OF
HIS NoMINATIoN.-Th Boston Courier of Mon
day says:
General Pierce, who had been residing in Bos-
| ton for several days previous, was returning
| from visit to Mount Auburn on Saturday after
noon, whenhe was informed ofls nomination.
! lie is not man easily disconnected at any time;
and it is not to be supposed that his equilibrium of
mind was shaken by the announcement, unexpec-
ted as it was. He Immediately fastened into the
city, at once and closed himself at the fremont
House. He still re mains there. The curious public
will, of course be anxious to know what's going on
in the closet ola candidate for the Presidency, and
we have every laudabe desire in the world to
| crafty so naturala wish. But although newspa-
per folks expected to know everything, we
soemnly aver that the mysteries of that closet
| impenetrable to US, and we cannot announce to
the world who is to be Secretary of State, when
Gen. Pierce is President
A telegraphic report says, Mrs. Pierce was in
the carriage with her husband returning from
Mount Auburn, when the news was received, on
| Saturday afternoon.
! His personal friend, Mr.. Barnes late U. S. mar
| shall heard of his nominations, started with the
| tidings, and met the General at Cambridge He
| manifested great surprise, and intimated that he
| thought it might be a hoax. About hundred
personal aud political friends called at the Ire
mont and congratulated the General during the
evening, but there was no public demonstration
At l0o'clock General Pierce quietly got away, and
proceeded to the Brattle House, Cambridge, where
he has passed the day in privacy. Nearly hat
fulof telegraphic dispatches has been left at the
| fremont for him.
The telegraph also reports, that when the news
was received in Boston, of his nomination, and
communicated to him, he replied: ssYou could
not tell it to more surprised man.
Though he was "surprised man, yet it APP
appears he had been thought of by his party in
New Hampshire, as the candidate and was NOM
mated for the Presidency by the Democratic
State Convention, which met at Concord on the
eth of January last, and wrote the following let
ter in reply
CONCORD, January 10, 1859.
| My DEAR SIR.-I take the liberty to address
| you, because no channel more appropriate occurs
| to me through which to express my thanks to the
Convention over which you presided on the 9Th
inst, and to the masses there represented.
| am far from being insensible to the steady and
generous confidence SO often manifested toward me
by the people ofthis State and although the OBJ
ject indicated in the resolutions, having particular
reference to myself be not one of desire my
part, the expression is not, that account, the
less gratifying.
Doubtless the spontaneous and just appreciation
of an intelligent people is the best earthly reward
for earnest and cheerful services rendered ones
State and country, and while it is a matter of I'M
feigned regret that my life had been SO barren of
usefulness, shall ever hold this and similar tri-
butes among most cherished recollections.
To these, my sincere and grateful acknowledge
ments, desire to add that the same motives
which induced me several years ago to retire from
public ife and which, since that time have con-
trolled my judgment in this respect, now impel
me to say that the of my name in any event,
before the Democratic National Convention at Bal
timore, to which you are Delegate, would be
utterly repugnant to my taste and wishes. | am,
with the highest respect and esteem. your friend,
FRANK. PIERCE.
Hon. CHAs. G. ATHERToN, Nashville, N. Ell.
The National Convention set his taste and wish
es aside, when they nominated him, and in doing
so, placed him in situation which he cannot de-
cline, we suppose and of course he will agree, 'to
stand the hazard Of the de-
The Boston Courier says:
Gen. Pierce is in tie 48th year of his age, and
during his political career has held many offices
of trust and honor. He has been speaker of the
House of Representatives in the New Hamp
shire Legislatures member of the Senate of that
State-a Representative to Congress-anda mem-
Der of the United States Senate. He resigned
the latter office before the expiration of his
Mr.. Polk offered him the post of Attorney Gene
raj of the United States; but he declined the Of
fee, though he subsequently accepted that of Uni
ted States District Attorney. He was President
of the convention which revised the New Hamp-
shire Constitution, and his title of General was
won by his service in the Mexican war. This, we
believe, is the substance of his history. For the
| information of those at distance, who may not
have before heard much of him, will say
further, that he is lawyer acknowledged abil-
ity, gentleman of accomplished manners, and a
great fayorite among his neighbors. Gen. Pierce
| is married and has three children.
| Generals Pierce, Piiiolo and Cushing.
The New York Tribune gives the following