Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-09-24
POLITICAL ITEMS.

The Rochester IN " Convention of tn,
American party yesterday nominated Erastus
Brooks for Governor by reclamation Lyman
Odell was nominated for Lieutenant Governor
The joint resolution passed by the Senate o.
Texas requesting the Governor to convene the
legislature in extra session, in the event o.
the election of Col. Fremont to the Presiden
cy. was not acted on in the House for want Of
time.
Hon. Luke Pryor, of Alabama, late Know
Nothing candidate for the United States Sen
ate, and who was appointed a Fillmore cleo.
tor, has dissolved his connection with dark
anan.
There was a great Democratic gathering at
Peoria, Illinois, on the 9th instant. Number
present estimated at ten thousand. Speeches
were made by Messrs Richardson, McCler-
nand, Carpenter, Loucks, and Holloway. An
excellent spirit prevailed. ,o's-.
grand rally of the FilImoreites of Rich
mond, Va was held on Monday. Most of the
old lady speakers, who attended the late Fill
more Know Nothing Wing National Conven-
tion at Baltimore, were present, including Ed
ward Bates, of Mo-, H Winter Davis, of Md :,
and Gov. Morehead, Of N. c.
We learn from the New York papers tina.
the great demonstration of the campaign will
come off at Poughkeepsie on the LIST of Octo-
Der. Not less than 100, 900 Democrats will be
tered to 60 from the city of Now York, and
the Hudson River railroad will put down its
fare to fifty cents.
Judge Catron, of the United States Supreme
Court, has written a letter to Andrew Jackson,
Jr., showing that Gen. jackson (the old hero)
urged the nomination Of Mr. Buchanan to the
Presidency in 1874, after the publication Of
Mr.. Van Buren's anti Texas letter. Judge
c. says he was one Of those to whom General
jackson expressed himself in favor Of Mr..
Buchanan.
An election for a new Territorial Lcgisla-
ture will be held in Kansas on Wednesday
next, the 1st of October The Independence
MO- Messenger says that this election will
not be decided by the bona fde citizens of the
Territory, but by the " dollar voters as by
the laws of the last Legislature any person
can vote who is in the Territory at the time
Of the election and has paid a poll tax.
Nothing (ssys an exchanged shows tho low
water the Fremontsrs are in just now, better
than their sending to England for the evidence
of Mr.. Buchanan in regard to the KurnePs
operations in California. Mr.. Buchanan's
opinion Of Mr.. Fremont is what merchants
would be of dishonest clerk before he dis
covered his populations.
Il In the United States Circuit Court
New York; on Saturday Judge Nelson rem
dered a decision confirming the report of the
commissioner in the old case on the bond Of
Jesse Hoyt, collector at this port from 1886 to
1910. The commissioner makes tho amount
due on default S464 ,9lS, including interest.
There was no opposition to the confirmation of
tho report.
Burlingame, in his speech at his reception
in Boston, made the following bold avowal {:
&C When we shall have elected n President, as
We will, who will be not the President of a
party nor of section, but the tribune of the
people, and after we have exterminated a few
more miserable dough-faces from the North,
then, if the slave Senate will not give way,
we will grind it between the upper and neither
mill-stones Of our power"