The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-08-20
Missouri Election.

" Earthly He'll"
Missouri Election.
st. Louis, Aug. l0.-The election is over
and the returns received insure the election OF
James s. Rollins for Governor, by maj ority
of from 1000 to 5000 votes over R. M. Stewart
the nominee of the National Democracy. Is
not this result outrageous? Against Demo
cratic majority of nearly 10000 last fall -
against an opposing candidate of great person
al popularity, backed up by the eloquence OF
Phelps, Polk, Green, and the lesser luminaries
who took the stump for Democracy, and proved
to their own satisfaction, that Rollins was the
last fragment of the broken-up and dismem.
bered Know Nothing party-that he was Frank
Blair's candidate, and was a FreeSoiler and
Emancipationist-in the face of all this, the
people elect Rollins Governor of Missouri.
The leading Democrats here are truly to be
pitied. They look badly, and evidently feel
badly. Not expecting the result, they had be,
their money freely on gaining from 5000 to
10000 votes.-COr. NJ y. Tribune
The Death of General Rusk.
An extra of the Nacogdoches Chronicle
dated the 30th ultimo, fully confirms the report
of the sad death of Senator Rusk. 1t says:
General Rusk has, ever since the death o.
his lady, suffered under mental depression
which at times bore him down beneath itf
weight. He has, to a great extent, secluded
himself from society and lately, that despond
ency has been more marked and apparent tC
those familiar with him. A severe illness, from
which he was just recovering, had Frustrated
him for weeks, and he was suffering greatly
from a rising on the back of his neck.
On Yesterday evening, about two O'Clock, his
family hearing the report of gun and the fall
of body, ran to the spot, and found him lying
dead upon the ground, behind the gallery al
the back of the house, with rifle under him
A corOuer's jury was summoned, from whose
verdict We extract the following:
- The calse of his death was a gunshot
(riGe) wound on the fore part of the head, in
ficted from a rife. gun held in his own hands
and discharged by himself
mo further clue can be given to this mys
| terry. No papers or writings of the same day
have been found, except a letter addressed to 8
gentleman in New Orleans, ordering q tomb
stone for his wife, with this inscription Bless
ed are the pure in heart, for they shall see
God
who on the field of battle and in the council
be worthy the proud place already accorded
AN inventory of his property was found il
| portfolio, and the value of the same divided
by the number of his children. He was buried
this evening with masonic honors. An obitu
airy address was delivered by the Hon. W. B
Ochiltree."
Curiosities of the Law
1t is among the curiosities of the law, tina
Mrs. Cunningham's guilt, in legal view, re
quires decision of the Surrogate in her favo
| in regard to her alleged marriage. If it is de
cided that she was married to Dr. Burdell, thel
she committed serious offence in attempting
| to impose spurious claimant upon his estate
but if it shall be decided that she was not mar
ried, then she has only pretended that she CAV
| birth to an illegitimate child, and has beer
guilty of no crime in the eye of the laso which
! as our readers have all been informed, is tn
perfection of human reason. If Mrs. Cunning
| ham can shoY that she was an impostor in al
| leging that she was married to DR.. Burdell, sh
| will escape the consequences Of her Gttempte'
| imposture in pretending to have produced al
| heir to his estate In other words, her hope o
ascaping the punishment of one crime, cor
| sists in her proving that che attempted anothe
| for the same great purpose, to get possession O
| property to which she had no claim. 1t ma
| be presumed that, in this way, the lady has
good defence. 1t is intimated, on what groun
we do not know, that the opinion of the Surrc
| gate, which will not be at all affected by thi
last development, will be against the allege
marriage.-Proriden Journal.
Tue Southern Commercial Conventional CLOSING
! Proceedings.
The Southern Commercial Convention, a
| Knoxville, Tenn, aftes session of four days
has adjourned to meet in Montgomery, Ala, il
| NAV next. A dispatch from Knoxville, date
the llth inst, to the Richmond Dispatch, thu
sketches the closing proceedings
| "The Convention yesterday adopted the fol
lowing resolutions Requesting the Genera
| Government to instruct its diplomatic agent
abroad to use their efforts TO procure reduc
ton or repeal of the duties on tobacco. Urgin
the Government to obtain control of the 18th
mus of Tehuantepec. Calling the attention O
the South to the importance of grape culture
and appointing a committee to procure infor
nation upon the subject. Endorsing the rese
lutions of the Southern Bishops to build col
lege, Appointing committee to inquire int
the proparisty of reopening the slave trade
And resolution for the organization OF
Southern Agricultural and Commercial Asse
citation.
"A resolution, requesting the Governors
the Southern States to appoint five delegate
each, to meet in Convention, and devise mean
for starting of steamers from Southern ports
Europe, was adopted.
"Al the resolutions reported by the bushes