The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-05-13
GENERAL SUMMARY.

GENERAL SUMMARY.
The Washington correspondent of the South
predicts that Mr.. Buchanan will be his own
successor in the Presidential chair. He says /:
The probability of this event is spoken of
here in high quarters of information. 1t is
true, that Mr.. Buchanan mentioned, at the
time of his Inauguration, that he would not be
candidate for re election to the high Office
which he now 6lls; but in the alarming and
dangerous state of the Republic, which threat
it is believed that Mr.. Buchanan might Weld
to exalted motives of patriotism, and to the
united appeals of the constitutional Democracy
in all parts Of the country, in rescuing the Gov
eminent from q vital danger, and In accepting
again at the hands of the Democratic and pa
triotic party the high trust of the Executive Of
the nation. This lie no idle conjecture; the
assertion is founded on the views of distin.
guished members of Congress, and it is sustain
ed by natural probabilities. Mr. Buchanan
may be said to be the only Democratic leader
and statesman who could secure in the contest
q preponderance of Northern Democratic votes !;
and is the only candidate schons the South can
hope to elect to the office Of President"
A correspondent of the New York Spiritual
Telegraph tells for truth that DR.. Hare of Phila.
delphia is now having manifestations in his
laboratory, Switch will force conviction upon the
minds of those who are determined not to be.
lieve," and as specimen, states that a common
manifestation is the utation of copper pen.
MES into gold. This is satisfactory manifesto.
tion surely. And if the spirits will but make this
new test general, and turn every mans copper
into gold spiritualism will have no lack of pros.
elytes. There are no theological scruples that
will not melt away before evidence like this.
Mr.. Richard Ysadon, of Charleston, South
Carolina, has published an apology for Edward
Everett's sympathy and approval of Charles
Sumner after the murderous assault upon him.
AS the apology is put forth as having been
made by Mr.. Everett himself, it is of some con-
sequence. The statement is, that Mr. Everett
signed the testimonial to Mr.. Sumner, when
he was sick in bed, and under the confusing
influence of an anodyne," and he signed it
without reading it. Afterwards he wrote to
Mr.. Sumner, taking it ell back. This is the
statement that Yeadon says is made BY Mr.
Everett at the south.-Hprinafeid Republican.
The New York Times says the Republicans
ought TO pay for the powder the Democrats are
burning over the passage of the English bill,
since they are the only people or party really
benefited by the act. That's so. If the Re.
publicsns had sel6shly, and in mere party
spirit, marked out course for the ADMINISTERS
ton on the Kansas question, they could not
have invented one better for themselves than
that which has been followed by Mr.. Buchanan
and his partisans in Congress.
The Louisville Journal says " The course
of Senator Green, of Missouri, is unquestion.
ably disspproved by large majority of the
people of that State. He will disappear from
can get him out. Thenceforth be will be In
visible Green."
Tuckerman, the railroad defaulter and then
mail robber, was on Tuesday sentenced to q
total of FL years imprisonment on the four
counts against him, by Judgs Ingersoll of the
United States Circuit Court at New Haven.
During the address of the Judge he shook
oonvulsively, - If be were being condemned to
death. BE will not be removed to Weathers
field for several days yet, leave being granted
him to settle up his outside affairs 6rst. His
wife left for Boston, Immediately after the SEN
tence, to attend to some matters there for her
doomed husband, with which she alone is con.
versant. She bears her terrible trial with be-
roic courage.
Edward Dessling, arrested at Paducah, KY,
under the extradition treaty with Prussia, has
been discharged by Judge Williams, who deci.
ded that the Rrussian dispositions we're not com
petent testimony. The populsce were much
excited, and cheered when the decision was
pronounced. The New York lawyer, Lepan,
and the Prussian police officer, were then ar.
rested for false imprisonment. Dessling has
brought suit against each of them for $40, 000
The Provisional Government of Veneg uela
goes on quietly, and is carrying out its reforms
with vigor. Gen. Castron, Provisional Pres.
dent, has invited leading exiles to return home,
and appointed Q special commission to wait
upon Gen. Paez in New York, and accompany
him on his return.
A genius in New York, named Hatfield,
known as "the chief mourner," who he's been
in the habit of attending funerals, mingling,
with wstery eyes and white pocket-handker.
chief, among the mourners, and picking their
pockets as they stood about the coffin, has been
arrested by the police.
A slave woman and her three children passed
through Cincinnati, one day last week, on the
underground railroad. 1t is said the owners of
the slaves have discovered that q lady furnished
them with their tickets, and are now searching
for her, with the intention of proceeding against
her under the fugitive slave act.
The Government prosecutions against Leigh
ton and Compton, for resisting United States
officers, in the famous Clark county rescue
cases, have been abandoned. The Pro Slavery
papers made great hue and cry about these
affairs, bat there seems to have been no basis
for It. The real outrage was committed By the
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Col. schouler, late of the Columbus, Ohio,
Josrnab but soon to assume the editorship of
the Roston Bee, passed through town to Bos.
ton last night with bis family. Under his charge,
the Bee viii probably become morning paper,
and, We trust, assume the name of the Atlas.
Gen. Concha has sent 70 Madrid his resiana.
ton of the Governship of Cuba, having been
Informed that be would otherwise be removed