Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-08-25
POLITICAL ITEMS.

The " Breckenridge Rangers" is the title Of
Democratic club in Indianapolis
Joseph Hiss, the celebrated Fillmore lssder,
was, and Is, cutter In the famous coax Hail.
clothing establishment in Boston.
The Weston Weekly Platte Argus wants
half dozen game chickens, to crow over the
Democratic victory in Missouri.
The Know Nothing editors begin to think
these State elections no great indications a 10
Presidential election, no how.
Hon. Thomas Corwin has siRni6ed his in.
tention to vote for Fremont and Dayton at the
next election :
The New York Herald states that It only
circulates now two thousand copies in all the
Southern States.
The Democrats of Delaware have nomina ted
Col. VIM G.. Whitley for Congress, and
George c: Gordon, DR.. Henry Ridgeley and
Charles Wright for Presidential electors.
Tho New York Tribune in respondent ar
ticle admits that though the Fillmore ticket
can by no possibility poll one.ffth of the peo-
pies votes in either Connecticut. Indiana, III.
linois or Pennsylvania; yet it may possibly
these States to give the electoral vote to Buch-
anan."
The following States will hold their elections
previous to the contest for the Presidency:
California. Sept % Ohio ............Oct "a
Maine. Sept Indiana..........Oct IA
Florida; :.,...:oet South Carolina: Oct. IA
and Congress takes place November 4th, the
same day as the election for President
The leading paper Of the Republican party
Of New York, the morning Courier and En-
quirer, in a long and beseeching article, seem.
ingly addressed to its Republican cotempora.
| ries confesses that Mr.. Buchanan will get in
| tho South one hundred and twenty electoral
votes; and that it is {" only necessary to give
him the twenty-seven electoral votes of the
honest old free State of Pennsylvania, and he
| is the next President Of the United States"
We endeavored to show, day or two ago,
that if Fremont was entitled to the vote of the
North and the West for having been reduced
to remarkable shifts on the Rocky Mountains
that he had equal claims on the South on &C.
count Of the shirts to which rs was reduced
in Charleston. Instead of being grateful to
US for our argument. the Rochester Democrat
and the Utica Herald have burst into tears of
offended delicacy at the mention of the word
shirts We were wrong to offend the sweet
sensitive creatures. The next time we refer
to the subject we shall refer solely to Monsieur
Fraymong's cAemises and robes de uurt.-
Atlas and Argus.
ouNsihS iioui the dcCountS OF tn0 Demo-
cratic mass meeting ut Frederick, Indiana
there cannot be many Fillmoreites left in that
State. The Citizen says the procession was
two miles in length, and as for the dinner:
q" The gentlemen table was three quarters
of mile in length, and was abundantIy sup
piled with we'll cooked beef mutton, lamb,
bacon. ard the best of bread. In addition TO
the above fare, some four thousand pies, pound
sponge, and other cake, were provided for the
ladies' The consumption of six thousand
pounds Of meat, and bread in due proportion,
together with the pies and cakes, may also en-
able the reader to form a reasonable estimate
Of the vast number of persons present