Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-10-02

Political excitement increases in Pennsyl-
vania as the election approaches Meetings
of all parties are held daily in every town.
Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson has been oom-
PEELED to relinquish his engagements upon the
stump, in consequence Of ill health. ~
There are seventy five newspapers in Ala.
bama, of which forty one support Buchanan,
and twenty Eve Fillmore. Three are neutral,
two religious, and one agricultural.
L D. Meyers and w. S. Rainey, two prom
inent Wing lawyers of Columbia, Tennessee,
have declared for Buchanan. Also, Col.
| Simeon Vepable an old Wing, of franklin,
| in the same State.
Mr.. Senator Seward (says the Albany
| JournaD has 50 far recovered from his recent
indisposition as to justify his acceptance of an
invitation from the Republicans Of Michigan
to speak in Detroit to-day.
The New Orleans Delta Of the goth speaks
of the Old Line Wing Baltimore Convention as
ga delus;on, sham, simulacrum," and it
| does not much matter where such " ruetul
and poverlcss class of politicians may Co."
| None of the free speech papers state the
cause of Mr. Levin's insanity: the brutal at
tack upon him in meeting called by his
friends, by gang Of Republican rufians, who
| broke up his meeting. and drove him with
blows from the hall.-Provtdenee Post.
| One hundred and seventeen members of tho
Methodist church in Pittsburg, Pa who were
| in favor of Fremont, have como out and repu-
dated the Republican party, on the ground
that its leaders are aiding and abetting the
violence and civil war now existing in Kansas
The Republicans of Rhode Island have
nominated the following ticket for Presiden-
| tial Electors Edwin w Lawton Of Newport; ;
Isaac Saunders, Of Scituate; VIM. P Bullock,
of Providence; VIM. ID. Brayton, OF War
| wick The Americans have nominated the
| same ticket
For Congress the Republicans of Massachu.
sets have nominated the Hon. N. p. Banks, G.
C. Chaffee, Linus B Comins, Timothy Davis,
| and Arson Burlingame in the districts now re-
presented by them. The Hon. Alexander De
reelection In the Sd district the Democrats
have nominated Arthur W. Austin for Con-
gress and Bradford l.. Wales for Elector.
The immense Democratic meeting which
was held at Philadelphia on Monday evening,
for enthusiasm aud numbers has had no equal
in the Keystone State during the present
campaign. Speeches wcrc made by Hon. w.
Allen, Of Ohio, Ex-Governor Smith, and Hon.
r q Scott, of Virginia, Ex-Governor Bigler,
of California, and d Dougherty, ESQ. On the
same evening there was large Republican
meeting, at which Hon. Hannibal Hamlin,
Governor elect of Maine, delivered a speech.
The Oswego Gazette says that n distin
guished Democrat of that village, filing at
the present time prominent Office in the
county, received an invitation from member
of the Baptist church to be present at the
church on recent Sunday to listen to the
abolition speech of a Rev Mr.. King, but very
blandly declined, upon the ground that he sca,
not an the habit of attending political meet
tngS on Sunday.
The Middletown Comm Argus says: "Hon
Thomas Corwin, of Ohio, has been spending q
short time in Connecticut One day last week
he was Middletovn, stopping at the Melon
ough House, where he was waited on by a
COMMITTEE of tho Fremont Club Of Wesleyan
University with an invitation to speak. He
refused, and stated that he was not a Fremont
man He also states his belief that Ohio ,cI
go for Buchanan By q rery aecidcd major
| uV.'