Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-08-19
THE WEEKLY sTsk
POLITICAL GOSSIP

support OF flllmore, has been sold out ard
will now be strictly neutral in politics.
Tho Hon John NJ. Wood has been noui.
mated for reelection to Congress by the Re.
publican Convention Of the first district of the
State Of Maine.
Fred Douglass has withdrawn the ticket Of
the abolitionists from his paper, and gives two
columns OF reasons for supporting Fremont and
The Hon. Edward Wade has boen nomin ated
.or re erection by the Republicans of the nine
teenth district of Ohio, composed of Cuyahoea.
deauga, and Lake counties.
Hon: VIM. r. Sapp, Representative. IN co,-
gress from the fifteenth district of Ohio. has
tion of his district. 0OH''n-
Inc Democrats Of Schuylkiu county. NJ
their recent convention, passed n resolution
ernor. i" 'O' WV
Lit. Gov. Raymond has written a Latte,
10 prove that Mr.. Fremont is not a Catholic
which has the effect Of making the reader be-
lieve that he is.
county Fremont ratification meeting is 70
be held in Faneuil Hall on the 18th instant.
Inc hon. N Z. Banks and other notsbles are
to be present.
John Daberry has been arrested at CoIun-
Dus, Miss Tor circulating the speeches of SEN
ators Sumner and Seward among slaves The
punishment on conviction is 10 wears in the
penitentiary.
: Ii is understood lat the State Registrar has
issued Its last number at Albany, the type.
material, &c., being removed to New York,
and lt Is supposed they will be used to start
an afternoon paper in that city in the interest
OF GEORGE Law tor Governor.
A Boston correspondent of the New York
Tribune, after giving an account of the recent
spllts In the American party there suggests
tnat the hnow NOthings can no longer be re-
garded as a secret conclave, now that these
two bolts have been withdrawn!
The Know Nothing eIector Of the seventh
Congressional District, b II. 6hackelford, was
met IN discussion at Fairfax Court House, yes
terday, by ID. Funsten of Alexandris, on the
part OF the Democracy. The discussion lasted
four hours. The Democrats claim a complete
triumph for their champion.
Providence Fremonter having written 10
Fremonter in a country town, advising him
to get up mass meeting, received for reply
that IL Is " too late TO take the top Of the tide
the enthusiasm for Fremont is not so strong as
1t was; there is laundering strong underIow
from somewhere"
A correspondent Of the Boston Times
writing from Dover, New Hampshire, pro.
claims with great gustO, that Dan Rice has
avowed himself, horses, mules and all for Buc-
hanan. he gives as the reason why the
mules won't vote for Fremont, is that he rode
SO many of their predecessors to death ia cross
ing the plains.
The New York Evening Post of Wed.
nesday, contains an article with this startling
heading:
BROcKLYN-A Church Dedteated 10 Ere
mint and Freedon'' -
The local editor then goes on and saws. ths;
the Republicans have removed their head
quarters to the old Dutch Chuch, and that
. the Church was dedicated te Fremont and
freedom In way altogether worthy of the
cause Can lunacy 60 much further without
exciting the attention Of the guardians of the
public welfare
Tae Rochester Union says Of the Old Line
wing Convention which met in that city on
Thursday last: The Convention" I" with the
exception OF one or two members, came up 10
Albany from New York city on a steamboat
Frank Granger was president, with the usual
number Of assistants and secretaries A COM
mlttee on address was appointed, with R. A.
West, editor OF the New York Commercial
Advertiser, at its head. The address was re-
ported and adopted, and takes ground for
Fillmore. Resolutions were adopted and dele
gates appointed TO attend "National Whig
Convention" which is TO assemble at Phila-
de'phia. Frank Granger, Washington Hunt,
Henry Grinnell, and Hiram Ketchum, headed
the list
Everybody of course, understands that this
Is simply a Know Nothing farce Nothing
could equal it except a convention Of such
men as Seward, Weed, TO and the adoption
by them of an address and resolutions in fa-
vOr of Fremont.