Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-09-20
POLITICAL ITEMS.

Hon. ID. NJ. Barringer, of North Carolina,
announces his intention to vote for Buchana
and Breckenridge.
The statement of the New York Post tn at the
Rev DR.. Baird is about to take the stump for
Fremont is incorrect.
j. X. Chrisman, president of the Fremont
club at London, Madison county, Ohio, has re-
signed his Office, and announced himself in
favor of Fillmore
Hon H. S. Geyer, Wing United States Sem
ator from Missouri, is out in letter declaring
his purpose to support Mr.. Buchanan for the
Presidency.
The Chicago Times says that Bissell, the
abolition candidate for Governor of Illinois
will withdraw. The freedom shriekers'i
have hard time of it out West
Peter Alexander, of Tensas parish, the Fill.
more elector for the sixth district of Louisiana,
declared in his speech in New Orleans, on the
10th instant, that if the Presidential contest
were confined to Fremont and Buchanan, he
would not vote for Buchanan.
There was large gathering of the democ.
racy Mt Brooklyn, Mich, on Saturday last
Grass Lake sent delegation, including thir-
ty-one ladies, dressed in white, representing
the different States. Grass Lake is the place
where the Black Republicans draped the
American flag in black, on the 4th of July
last.
Hon. A. G. Msgrath has consented t, run
for Congress in the Charleston district of South
Carolina, in place of Govern or Aiken. In his
letter OF acceptance he announces his deter
minatlon not to enter personally in the can.
vass. He says that he neither desires nor 30.
licits the Office, but will, if elected disc barre
Its duties to the best of his ability.
A Rochester correspondent of the Boston
Journal (FremonD says: " 1t is rumored here
that, on the eve of election, Fillmore will
withdraw. and his vote will be transferred to
buchanan" To this the Journal adds :
- There may be something more in the rumor
mentioned by our CORES pendent than might at
first be supposed"
The St Louis Republican of the 18th instant
says that errors have been discovered in the
official canvass in Missouri in the vote for lieu
tenant governor, which elect jackson, Demo-
crat, by ninety-one majority. NeWland, the
Fillmore candidate, had been regarded elect.
ed by one hundred and eighty ght majority.
The legislature will correct the error, un ..
doubtedly, by giving the office to Jackson
The rest OF the Democratic State ticket is
elected by msjorities ranging from one to sic
thousand.
During the rain of yesterday morning, (says
the Philadelphia Penpsylvanian,) two gentle.
men attired in the Friend or Quaker garb,
entered an omnibus at Sixteenth and Green
streets, opposite the Hockey Mountain Hut,
towards the erection Of which one of them, no
doubt, contributed largely Joshua took his
seat as soon as he entered, but Nathaniel felt
carefully around for dry place, and at length
taking out neatly folded handkerchief, and
spreading it under him, sat down. siThy
practice does not correspond with thy theory,
Nathaniel" said Joshua "Why?" inquired
the former. " Because" said Joshua, ssthee
thinks sitting six hours on the snow qualities
John Fremont for the Presidency of the
United States, and yet thee fears to sit for a
few minutes upon a damp seat" Nathaniel
was silent.