Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-10-07
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80. Boston correspondent of New York
paper states that Hon. Robert c. Winthrop
was last week initiated into Know Nothing
lodge
80. Touching the power of onscience the
North Bridgewater Gazette says One day
last week the widow of one of the Irishmen
who died in this town of cholera, handed Mr..
S. A. Hayward 81, with the remark that her
husband took it from him wrongfuily, and en-
joined her before hi. death to restore it to him
again
go ashburn is a great name in WING poll
tics There are two brothers Washburn in
Congress, and a third brother has been nomi-
mated for Congress in Wisconsin. The pres
emit Governor of Massachusetts is named Wash
burn, and the Wings of the Worcester district
have nominated Henry S. Washburn for Con-
gress.
-. Mr.. Hackett has opened negotiations
with Boston and Philadelphia for transferring
the Grisi and Mario troupe there. They will
not play in New York either at high or low
prices.
80. 1t is said that the object of Prince Al
bert's visit to France was to offer the French
Emperor the garter vacant by the death of the
King of Saxony.
Queen Maria Christina arrived at Bor-
deaux on the evening of the 9Th ult., on board
the French war steamer Newton in which her
Majesty had embarked at Lisbon for Franco
The Queen was accompanied by the Duke de
Rianzares, her husband, portion of her fam.
lily and numerous suite. The prefect went
out to meet the widow of Ferdinand VII who
| alighted at the Hotel de France, where apart
| ments had been prepared for their reception
-. DR.. Bischof, the professor of botany at
the University of Heidelberg, died on the Iltb
ult.
80. Cardinal Mai, the celebrated linguist
and custode of the Vatican Library died a.
| Albany on the Sth ult.
The veteran Alexander Won Humboldt
celebrated his o5th birthday on the l4th ult
-. The Citizen, which was started by funds
contributed by Meagher, has nearly paid for
itself, and makes John Mitchell well off.
go. Frederick Ii. Smith has been nomi-
| mated as the democratic candidate for Mayor
| Newark, N. j.
-. Hiram Fuller of the New York Mir.
ror, who is Know Nothing, says of Daniel
Ullman, the nominee of his party for Cover.
nor:
We think our American frieId DIS have made
grand mistake. Mr. Ullmann is not the In an
| to be made the official head Of the Empire
State. He is lawyer, of more profession than
| practice, and ranks somewhere among the third
| or fourth rate members of the New York bar;
| and for the last ten years his name has been
constantly before the public as q candidate
| for some office-asking for the highest, but
evidently willing to accept the humblest. In
| all of these miscel aneous endeavors, Mr.. I'll.
mann has been uniformly unsuccessful True.
he has acted with the Silver Grey whig of the
| Wing party; and SO far we should prefer him
to Clark; but with so able man in the field
| as Chief Justice Bronson, we regard it as the
duty of all good citizens to ignore all party
| considerations and vote for the man best quail.
fed to discharge the duties of the Gubernatori al
office We are sorry to differ with our Ameri
| can friends but in the honest exercise of our
independent, individual judgment we must
| vote for Bronson in preference to any candi-
date yet before the public. Personally, we
| should prefer Seymour, who is an able aud
80 AohSo' AuouJ out u oHoi COusiOcIdllOnS com
| ptl the decision we have made
No ELECTION HELD EITHER IN LOUISVILLE
| OR NAsHvILLE.-We have before us the Nash
| Vile Wing and Democratic papers of Saturday
September 30, and Monday, October 2, which
say nothing of any election having been held
in that city for Mayer. We conclude, there.
fore, that the story sent over the wires abs u,
the Know Nothing victory at the election 70,
Mayor, held on the Both of September, wal
manufactured out Of the whole cloth. Was
there not an election held at some other.uiHe
on that day.