Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-08-28
POLITICAL ITEMS.

Mr.. M. r. ii. Garnett accepts the nemina-
tion rendered him by the Democratic party Of
tho Accomac Congressional District
Hon. D. S. Dickinson addressed a mass
meeting at Montrose, Pa on the 18th inst
-Four thousand people were present, and The
greatest enthusiasm prevailed.
The Newport (R. } News and the Bath
iMe.) Tribune support only half of the Know
Nothing ticket. They swallow Mr. Fillmore
very easily, but they cannot 20 Donelson.
What's to be done'
by the Hon. Edward Everett, Hon. VIM. Ap-
pleton, Hon. G. Winthrop, and large num-
Der of other Wings Of city, expressing them
selves in favor of the election of Mr. Fillmore
to tho Presidency.
The Democrats of Maryland will have
poll-raising in honor of Buchanan and Brock
inridge at Thompson's store, in Montgomery
county, on Saturday next, at one o'clock
Speeches from several eminent Democrats may
be expected.
ExGov. Reeder addressed a large meeting
at tho Tabernacle, in New York city, on Tues.
day evening, to raise funds for Kansas. He
said he wanted 5000 men and 5000 piece to
pay them with, to say nothing of rifles for
them to shoot with. After his address, over
So 900 were subscribed.
Mr.. Gerrit Smith has been writing letter
declining to withdraw his name rs a candidate
for the Presidency, in which no claims that
although some few radical abo'itionists may
cast their votes for him, "no other equal num-
Der Of persons are doing more than they to
swell the food Of anti slavery feeling on which
alone Col. Fremont can BIO carried into tho
Presidency"
Sufficient returns have been received from
Texas to show that the Democratic nominees
for Cnp pfrnIlar nj
eral, on the State ticket, have been elected by
large majorities Chief Justice Hemphill had
no opposition, and Judges Wheeler and Lips
comb, for Associate Justices of the Supreme
Court, arc far ahead of General Jennings.
At tho recent American mass meeting in
Lawrence, Mass, says the Boston Bee, the
resolution endorsing Fillmore was reconsid-
cred and indefinitely postponed, by a vote of
iIst two to one. Tho whole strength of the
may be considered fair expression of tho
American party in Lawrence.
The Democrats Of Maine had large gather.
ing in Belfast on Saturday, 23d. Eloquent
speeches upon general politics were made at
tho urt-house by Hon. Il X Smart, and ut
Poirce's Hall by Hon. Nathan Clifford, Hon.
Henry ingalls,, and Hon. j. w. Bradbury.
Messrs. Farley, Babson, Aver, and other dis
tinguished gentlemen were on the stand.
Tho Boston Atlas of Saturday says: CAT
fairs have assumed such an appearance in
Massachusetts, that unless we have at once q
union of all Fremont men, GO IS verv pos-
S,bte hGt tie State may glue her electoral
cote for James Buchanan" I'VE
say plainly, that up to this time, there has
been no union of the Fremont forces in Mas
sacbusetts ; that there has been only folly,
| wrangling and dissention that we have lost
all power of exercising any influence upon our
sister States.'
The Milford Beacon, an old established
newspaper published in the town of Milford,
Kent county, Del heretofore neutral in DC :
| litical affairs, is out for Buchanan and Breck.
| inridge, and the whole Democratic party The
editor feels that while the neutral and Know
Nothing papers Of the North are all coming
| out for the abolition candidate, it bravely be.
comes the duty of all true national men to
unite on Buchanan for the sake of the Union
and the preservation of our Republican ins,i-
| buttons.
Bigelow, in his Fremont romance, saws:
g His eyes (Frcmont's) are blue and very
| large, his nose aguiline, his forehead, over
which his brown curling hair is parted at the
| centre, is high and capacious "
He neither smokes nor chews, and seldom
"takes drop" He was so pious when a boy
| that he used to fatigue people by recitipg BIZ
BILE verses to them, and all his folks thought
he would certainly be a minister. He never
attempted to fight duel except in defence of
somebody he loved better than he did himself,
and uses no naughty words. He is kind to
jessie and her children, and goes to the Epis-
copal church. Who can deny tn at these char
acteristics qualify John c. Fremont for the
office Of chief magistrate Of the United States
of North America.