Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-10-27

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Now, by way of showing such Of his readers
Is see the Star the extent of his verdanoy in
election statistics, we present them with the
official account of the majorities for the diff.
ferent candidates on the Democratic State
ticket in the recent Texas election, (which We
take from the last number of the Austin city
State Gazette,) as follows. Viz: a.. .r
ComptroHsr.
j. B. Shaw Dem ................ ...3l ,698
E. s. Robertson, TX .10,474
Democratic majority. ..............2l.2 4
Treasurer. 1r4
j. II. Raymond, Dem.) .............. 81, 054
W. A. Tarleton, (K N.)..............1l,14 0
Democratic majority. ..............1S,9 14
Supreme Court.
~. Hemphill, Chief Justice,). 1871
*R. Wheeler, associate, )............30,8 $40
"a g Lipscomb, lido. 9."..s.........2634 2
L. j Jennings, lido ,)....... ........l3,0l0
*The old Bench re elected.
The Kaow Nothings had no ticket for the
Supreme Court The average Democratic
majority on the State ticket 20,069.
The Democrats in Austin and Galveston can
get no takers for bets that Buchanan a, d
Breckinridge will carry the State by $4,000
majority. Yet it is out of such cases as this
of Texas that our enthusiastic neighbor is get
ting us his prospective Fillmore victories on
the 4th proximo. We really feel for our Know
Nothing fellow citizens whose pockets have
been 50 badly burned through the unfcunded
election calculations of our 30 remarkably well
informed neighbor, and therefore give them
the benefit Of these facts and figures concern.
ing the true state Of affairs political in Texas,
by way of helping them to save their money
not yet bet of on tho strength Of the assevers.
tions of our talented neighbOr.
Rabid.-The failure, so far, of the Pennsy'-
vania Fremont State Central Committee to
force the Fillmore State Central Committee to
unite with them in recommending joint op-
position electoral ticket, has driven the New
York Herald, Tribune, Times, Post, Courier,
and their colaborers stark mad. In the whole
course Of our newspaper experience we have
never before seen men so rabid in politics as
all the conductors of the Fremont press appear
to be on this subject-never. Sanderson, the
Chairman Of the Fillmore State Committee,
abuse. He has, however, we must in justice
admit, vindicated triumphantly the entire in
tegrity Of his course and that of his fellow
committeeman. His purpose has been opposi-
tion to Buchanan and Fremont alike, and the
support of Fillmore, and him only, for the
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of the South and the entire Fillmore party Of
New York also endorsing the propriety Of the
course of his committee, it is evident to us that
at this late day they cannot be driven to sell
out, body and brooches, to Thaddeus Stevens
4 Co which is the end and aim of ell the
blackguardism to which they are now being
subjected from the presses of Greeley, Bennett,
Raymond, Bryant, Webb and their allies.
The Bu.termilz Coming Out Of the Stir
about.-The New York Herald, Of Sunday,
shows th at the defeated fusion State ticket in
Pennsylvania was awfully damaged by in
trigues of George Law and VIM. r. johnson,
each being after a cabinet place under Free
mont and also by secret efforts on the part
Of Senator Seward and Thurlow Weed to pre-
vent Fremonts success, though protesting to
be desperately anxious for his election. The
Herald also announces that its Rev. Joseph
A Scoville has been dismissed from his posi-
ton as private chaplain to George Law, under
a suspicion that his late redoubtabIe patron,
the aforesaid George, owes to him-Sco7ille-
the Herafd's recent change Of front with
reference to the real worth Of Live Oak. Ben.
it. To tell the whole history Of the operations
Of the tribe of blood suckers" (as he styles
them) who have been luxuriating for perhaps
a year past on Laws silly ambition for q posi-
ton for which he is hardly better fitted than
every other white man within the limits of The
State of New York.
IL Scoville gets up book of such revela-
tions, its sales will pay N a fortnight ten times
as much as his pension from Law has paid up
to this time S. is just the man to tx up a
saleable book of that sort.
8. sloop-of-war Portsmouth Accord
ing to advices at the Navy Department, from
her Commander, A. Ii. Foote, this ship reached
Batavia EAST Indies) on the 7th of August
last, after passage Of IS days, from Norfolk,
Va. Her officers and crew were in good
health.
Resignation Of Army officers: The resig-
nations Of Majors William II. Chase, Corps Of
Engineers and Joseph II. La Motto, Fifth In
fantry, have been accepted by tho President,
to take effect October 81, 1856.
Appointed. Tho President has appointed
Peter X. Dodson Of Utah, to be the United
States Marshal of that Territory, vice A. 7.
Uaun, declined.
Dead.-First Lieutenant George Adams, U.
S. Marine Corps, died at Flushing, New York,
on the 2lst inst according to advices at the
Navy Department.