Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-09-30
POLITICAL ITEMS.

The Fillmore Electoral ticket in California
is composed of Bailie Peyton, ]. s. Pilser, R.
n Wood and o. c. Hall.
Hon. Alexander De Witt, who represents the,
Ninth District of Massach u setts in Congress,
has declined a recollection,
Alexander kayser, Esq Of ST. Louis, a
BENTON Democrat, is out in long article in
the Missouri Republican in favor of a Fremont
Electoral ticket in Missouri ------'
Gen. J. b. Howell, an old line Whig of
Fayette county, Pa. has announced that he
will unite with the Democratic party during
the present political struggle. -
In the fifth district of New York, the Amer.
lean party have nominated DanicI II. North
rup for Congress over Whitney, the present
member. 2
Parke Goodwin, Esq is spoken Of as the Re-
publican candidate for Congress in the frst
district OF New York, and Geo. w. Curtis in
the sixth district.
The "fusionists" of the 9Th district of Penn
sylvanla have nominated L. Smith for Cons
gross in place of Hon Ii NJ Fuller, the presens
member. a
Tho 90 American Register. is the title of a
new and neatly printed weekly paper started
in Towsontown, Baltimore county, Nd, by
Mr. George Heating. 1t advocates the cleo
tion of Mr.. Fillmore.
Mr.. Underwood is in the papers again. He
now publishes letter from Thoburn, of
Wheeling, informing him that the handful of
Fremonters there who have strayed into Vir.
ginia from Pennsylvania and Ohio, have put
him at the head of their electoral ticket for
Virginia, and hopes he will not object.
The sheriff, clerk Of the court, and deputy
clerk of Stark county, Ohio, all elected by the
fusionists, have abandoned the disuuion marty.
and N holIiu nd r. -
and Breckenridge. About twenty other citi-
zens OF Canton nave also come out in a BODY
and Joined the Democratic ranks.
Attic close of Fremont meeting in Column.
blana county, Ohio, q few evenings since, at
which the speaker proclaimed disunion senti-
ments, the chairman of the meeting and eleven
others rose and stated that they could no
longer train with the Republican party; hence
forth they should fight under the Democratic
banner.
A correspondent from Edgar county, ILL.,,
informs the Cincinnati Inquirer that the State
Is safe for Buchanan by large majority. He
states that in ono township in Edgar county,
which has four hundred votes, there are but
three Fillmore men, and not single one for
the negroites! That is near the way all south.
efn Illinois will vote next November.
| The magnificent new ship James Buchanan,
owned by our we'll known citizen Peter Marcy.
arrived here few days ago in the remark ably
short passage of sixteen days from Boston, the
best yet made this season, and beating hand.
somely every other vessels time. In Novem.
Der, the great man after whom she has been
named will perform similar feat in the Pres
idential race.-LouiSiama Courier, Sent q,
In the official returns of the Iowa State
election, Calhoun county stands blank-no re-
turns received The Iowa Reporter thus ac-
counts for it " The citizens OF Calhoun coun-
ty, coming together to vote, last August, for
the first time, wero interrupted before they
got at it by drove of elk, after which every
man, deserving the polls gave chase, and
never came back to exercise tho elective fran
chise.'
The Detroit Advertiser (Republican) pub.
fishes list Of two hundred names Of =" promi
| nent Democrats" of that city, who declare
| heir determination to give their votes for
| Col. Fremont. To which the Free Press
(DemocraO remarks, as an Offset, that not ten
| Of them have ever voted tho Democratic
| ticket, that large number are not legal voters,
and that another large number are altogether
| fictitious