Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-03-16

times and was chosen speaker. At the late session
he selected the Democratic candidate for nj.
ted States Senator. but was defeated. Mr.. DobOin
al the head of the delegation from his State in
the Baltimore Conventions, and did much towards se-
curing the triumphant nomination of General Pierce
Mr. Dobbin is small in stature, but he impresses eve
ry by his dignfed bearing and elegant manners.
Hon. JAMES CAmPBELL. the new Postmaster Gem
sral is forty years Of having been born in P5il-
adephia in 1913. ne is of Irish paTen:ags, his IA
Their having emigrated from the north of Ireland in
the latter part of the last century. Judge Campbell
was admitted 10 the Philadelphia bar in 1884, and
continued in successful practice until 1872 when, at
the age of twenty-nine, he was appointed judge OF
the court of common pleas OF Philadelphia. He held
this post about ten years. By an alteration Of the
constitution judges made elective by the
people, and at the first judicial election under this
provision, in 1851, Judge Campbell, while on the
common pleas bench, was nominated as one o. the de-
moca,ic candidates for judges Of the supreme court.
He was defeated in the election. In January, 1852,
he was appointed by the present Governor of Penn
sylvania TO the Office Of attorney general which he
held until his appointment TO seat in tho Cabinet.
General CALEB CUSHING, the Attorney General is
in the fifty fourth year of his age, having been
born July 7, 1900, in Salisbury. Massachusetts. He
entered Harvard College before he was fourteen years
old, and graduated with high honors before he vas
eighteen, in 1917. He then entered the law school
connected with that institution, where he remained
Two years. ana men, In 1919, before ne was twenty
years old, he appointed tutor Of Mathematics
and Natural Philosophy in Harvard College, which
office he held two years; ard in 1921 he settled in
NewburYpoEt, where he completed his legal studies,
and was admitted to the bar in 1922. He was elect
ed member of The House from Newburyport in 1925,
and a member of the State Senate in 1926. In 1929
he visited Europe, where he spent some time, and
after his return he published "reminiscences of
Span, and " Historical and Political Review of the
Revolution in France'' In 1888 he was again elect
ed a representative FROM Newburyport, and was re-
elected the next year. In 1884 he was elected to
Congress, and was three times reelected, serving
eight years. In 1913 President Tyler nominated Mr..
Gushing a seat in his Cabinet but he rejected
by the Senate. Mr.. Tyler then appointed him Com
miss Toner of China, and he confirmed by the
Senate. He started for China in the summer of 1913
in the steamship Missouri, and was on board of her
when she took fire at Gibraltar; but he succeeded in
saving his papers, and proceeded by the overland
route 10 his destination without delay He remained
in China nearly year, and negotiated a treaty by
which diplomatic and commercial relations were first
established between that country and own, and
returned home in 1914 by way of Mexico. In 1916
Mr.. Gushing was again elected a representative of
Newburyport to the Legislature. The Mexican war
at its height at that time. Mr.. Gushing brought
forward proposition TO appropriate twenty thousand
dollars from the State treasury to aid in equipPing
the Mas Sachusets reg ment OF volunteers. When it
was defeated, he advanced the money from his
means, and the regiment was made ready for service.
Of that regiment he chosen colonel, and pro-
ceeded with 1t to Mexico in the spring of l347, be-
ing attached TO the army under command of General
Taylor. Shortly after he reached Mexico he APP
pointed brgadier general in the United States army
He was. at his own request, transferred TO General
SCOTS army, where he rendered services as mpor-
taut as those Of actull fighting. The Democracy of
Massachusetts, while he in Mexico, and without
consulting him, nominated him their candidate for
governor in lS41 and in the election they gave him
4 600 votes. In lS48 he was again selected as
their candidate In 1850 he again elected to the
Legislature from Newburyport In 1881 he was
rendered MaSSdChu.
sets, which he declined; and in 1852 he ap-
pointed of the judges of the supreme court of
hat'State, which office he held until his appointment
10 seat in the Cabinet.