The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-03-27

Political Intelligence.

DECLESsIoN OF MAJOR BRECKENRIDGE.
twin be by the follow pg letter that Hon. John
C. Brecknrdge declines making a canvass for Congress
the present ye ar
LEXINGTON, March IT, 1865.
have observed that the county meetings and the de-
mosrssc press Of this district hevs expressed prefer
am justified in supposiIg it TO be the desire of party
that shan again be candidate For nearly year
have fore that it would not be in power at
sent to mako another Canvass and should have made
this announcement earlier, but that 1t seemed to me
more decorous first TO complete the term for which
elected At the earliest moment after my return home,
communicated this conclusion to the delegates from
the district assembled a. the Democratic State Con.
yention and now make IL public in this form, that
the democracy may take the proder steps to select
dcate.
Feeling strongly the bonds Of political ans personal
friendships, forged In the heat of ardent contests,
nothing ess than the most controlling could in
duce me to decline the Canvass. These reasons are
purely private and domestic but they such the
obligations Of honor and duty do not permit me- to dis
regard And in asking, for the present an honorable
discharge hope 1t is not improper for to say here
that do with heart full Of gratitude 70 the people
Of this district for their unwavering confidence and
that the remembrance Of their kindness viii be che
rished by me with enthusiastic memory until the
pulses OF life forever cease to beat.
Embellishments for the general fairness and courtesy Of
their course in conflicts by great exsite
the past ara sure We shall Jog on together in social life
with reciprocal sentiments of good wl Iudeei the old
whig party Of the Ashland district bold and manly
party and for part have seen it surrender its
and lower Its nag with regret We retire from the field
together but should II be my fortune appear
on the political theatre shall he happy to Welcome
cid friends in their old uniformed whom at least IL
could be said that under the of VIII gs they offered
- JOHN C. BRECKENRIDGE.
STRENGTH OF THE AMERICAN PARTY IN MISSISSIPPI.
We learn thar there already four hundred subo-i
nate councils in Mississippi and forty thousand members
of the American organization This is rather for
nidable party in state which contains but sixty
tbousand voters.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Hen. David j. Bsiiey, who represented the Third dis
ict Of Georgia Ia the last Congress- has declined to bs
q candidate for reelection.
The Thibodeaux (Sa Maerra has placed at the head
u :, columns the names OF Gsrret Davis VI Kentucky
the Presien,y, and jacob Brooms OF Pennsylvania
for the Vice -Presidercy.
Parson Brownow, OF tue Knoxville (Tenn.) Wig in
Inmates 1t his belief that two thirds OF the Methodist
clergy belong to the Know Nothing organization The
parson IS, OF course, member.
PAPER in Hanover Pa has &C the head Of its CO.
lumnsFor President, Willard Fillmore, of New York;
for Vico.president, John r. Kennedy, Of Maryland.
Hon. John Cadw ,llader, OF Pennsylvania dsmocrat
representative elect to the next Congress- has written
long letter denourcng the American orgau'z aton
and prophesyng its speedy dissolution. Mr. Cad waaer
evidently has eye to the Presidential nomination in
1885, and this letter is bid for Southern influence.
Nicholas Brown has declined the democratic norlna.
ton for Lieutenant Governor OF Rhode Island, AMI the
name of William Httlsaeli has been substituted