Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-08-07
POLITICAL ITEkS

The York pa } Advocate, heretofore Whip,
has hoisted the Fremont and Dayton flag,
Mayor Wood, of New York, positively re-
fuses to be candidate for Mayor this fall.
The Courier of the Toche, Wing print,
published at st. Martinsville Ola has run
up the Fillmore and Donelson banner.
The Straight Wing is the title of cam aien
paper just started in Portland, by Charles D
BeaIce.
Mr.. h. Scruggs has become the proprietor
and editor Of the Piedmont Wing, and that
paper will continue to support Mr.. Fillmore.
Why isFillmore stock looking up? Be.anse
1t is so fst on its back that it can look to NO
other direction Memphis Appeal.
The Prairie du Chen Courier. Wisconsin
Free Soil paper, hoists tho name of Bucbanan
and Breckenridge.
Among the guests at Long Branch. NY.
is Judge Dayton, the Republican candidate
for the Vice Presidency.
A sympathetic correspondence has taken
place between Hon. Chas. Sumner and the
'colored boardcrs' at Cape May.
The Constitution is the name of a new Dem.
ocratic paper which has just been started at
Urbana, Illinois. 1t goes for Buchanan and
Breckenridge.
1tturns out, after all, that Greeley and Ben
nett don't 60 for Jessie Fremont They 90 for
Mary Posa, whose metal is Of an entirely
different character.
The Vincennes Ua.) Gazette, the Munich
Chunk (Pa) Gazette, the Plymouth Qa:)
Banner, and the Daily PA Times, have ali
hauled down the Fillmore and run up the Free
mont flag.
An exchange says Mr.. Buchanan is by trade
printer, and the first one Of the craft who
has been nominated for the highest Office in
the gift Of the people, although many of them
have become famous in other ways.
Mr. Hubbard, the able editor of the Logan
Gazette, which has until recently been a
Wing paper, says that there are at least five
hundred Old Line Wings in Logan county
who will vote for Mr.. Buchanan.
The Sumter Is. S. Waterman says -" Let
Preston 5 Brooks be our next Governor with
out dissenting voice-not as a reward, but as
a testimonial of our high appreciation of pat.
riotism, frmness, dignity and craftsmanship.
Henry Ward Beecher's paper is very mum
In regard to the report that the mulatto girl,
who was purchased one fine Sunday morning
In Plymouth church, sold her purchasers
while they were buying her! The story is. she
ran away after getting all she could out Of her
dupes.
We notice that Eve men have been tried
and convicted of disturbing a political meet.
Ing, and fined in sums varying from $40 to
So. The Cincinnati Times says: The pun
istment meted out is just All men have
right to assemble for political discussions, and
an interference with quiet political gather
ing can be justified under no circumstances e"
The Boston Courier has the following cut at
the New England clergy: Zone of our friends
was coming from New York in the cars the
other night, and was amused at an interview
between two persons, who seemed not to have
net for some time before. WELL said one,
after the first salutations, what are you up
% now?' ooh, don't know replied the
,ther, think shall take to religion RE.
igionn cried his friend, what do You mean?'
Why, said the other, think it's going to
20 good business; the ministers are all lesy-
ng 1t, and L tell you what, believe there's
o be an opening there y 4"