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ana his vote was refused. Inc ground 1Ol
challenging was that he had wager pending
f on the result of the election The challenge
J was insisted upon, and he did not vote.
fSg- It is rumored that new Douglas pa
per is to be started at Washington where
upon a contemporary remarks "There is no
surer way ito kill candidate for the Presi-
dency. More politicians die of organs than OF
any other disease, except, probably, the ttuz
gerborum If Mr.. Douglas intends to run in
1860, he would do well to dissuade his friends
from pushing him."
~ The defeated party in Boston does not
bear the drubbing it received at the late cleo
ton with the best grace possible, if we may
judge from the following jeu d. esprit in the
Post: "Good morning -; how do you
feel?" asked Jenkins of one of our badly defeat
ed Democratic candidates, as he met him near
the head of State street, just after breakfast
yesterday morning. "Feel?' replied -,
very feelingly, "leel Why, feel as sup
pose Lazarus felt when he was licked by the
dogs?"
- In distributing the offices at his dis
posal, Mr. Buchanan has not forgotten his
supporters in his own State. He has appoint
ed from Pennsylvania, the Ministers to Eng
land, Peru, China, Austria, Ecuador and Ma
pies Secretaries of Legation for England and
Chill Assistant do. for England, and II Con-
suls The total annual salary for these gen.
tlemen is $1O1,675. 1t is good thing to be
an Administration Democrat in Pennsylvania.
rW- Dr. Purcell, one of the editors of the
Catholic Telegraph, who was named coadju-
tor Bishop of the Roman Church diocese Of
Pittsburgh, declined to accept the position ten
dered him by his Holiness the Pope.
n8ye In his address at the Richmond Fair,
Gen. Gushing took occasion to deliver his
views on the annexation of Mexico He as
sumes, or as he says, "religiously believes
that Mexico stands in our path of predestined
expansion to the West and South. The time
must therefore come when, out of selfdefence,
we must intervene to stop the destructive tur-
moils of Mexico, and assume, virtually, the
government of the country This, Mr.. Cush.
ing maintains, sis not question of hostilities
but Of commercial union and protective ALI
ance." Whatever is to be accomplished to-
wards that end, is not to be meddled with by
invading forces, but is to be the work of DELHI
crate, efficacious and official action of the
Government of the United States.
- 1t is stated that a conspiracy against
the life of the Russian Emperor has been dis
covered and the conspirators arrested. 1t is
thought that the plot against his life, was form
ed among owners of serfs, in consequence of
his late efforts for the abolition of serfdom
throughout his dominions.
~ The Firenan's Journal has the fol-
lowing: 1.-THE Rev. Father Grace, at Mem
phis, Tenn, had the pleasure, on the LIST ult.,
to receive into the Catholic Church Dr. VIII
liam 2. Floyd, youngest son of the late Gov.
Floyd Of Virginia. Among all the remarka-
bic conversions to the faith in our country, we
do not know parallel to that of his family, in
regard to the number of converts that it has
afforded Mrs. Letitia P. Floyd, now Mrs.
Col. Lewis, of Virginia, was the first, and her
gifted and venerable mother, whose obituary
we published few years ago, was the last,
so far as we had heard; but the sum total of
converts from this immediate family connec-
ton has been some twenty five"
s3- The Spanish Government has laid be-
fore the Cortes bill for restoring to the cler-
gy and the Church their former possessions.
Not only the property Of the secular clergy,
lost by the revolution of 1855, is probably to
be returned, but also that Of the converts,
which have been suppressed in former years
and an indemnification promised for all that
had already been sold in accordance with the
law of May l, 1866. The total sum amount
ed to more than 5000, 100000 reals, or about
$4,000, 900. BY the Catholic party this
measure is received with great joy, for there
is hardly any other among its numerous
claims to which it attached 4 greater impor-
lance. The Queen has always been in favor
of this, although it required three years, after
the overthrow of the revolution, before a
Conservative Ministry could be found will
ling to propose it.
nSye A Courier has arrived at Munich, from
the King of Naples, with an official demand
upon King Maximillian for the hand of the
Princess Maria, sister Of the Empress Of Aus
tria, for the Prince Royal of Naples, at the
same time authorizing him to sign the con-
tract of marriage decreed previous. The
day of the marriage at Naples is fixed for
the 18th of January, 1859. The Princess is
but II.
~ NJ Adolphus Reichenheim, wealthy
Jewish merchant of Berlin, being DESTROYS to
testify the estimation in which the character
embellishments of Alexander Won Humboldt
are held by him, made, on the occasion Of
that eminent mans seth birthday, a donation
of 5000 thalers to the society established for
the purpose of affording aid to poor students
of the Jewish persuasion, the condition being
attached to it that the sum so placed at Their
disposal should be administered as the "Hum
boldt Fund" This, of course, has beer
readily agreed to.
~" The Sacramento (Cal) Mercury pub.
fishes communication revealing the existence
Of a project to make fillibustering incursior
into Sonora.
20 1t is stated that Morrissey's wife
who is said to be the daughter of wealthy
man in Troy, won $4,000 on the result Of the
fight, and his father in-law won $4,000.
~ A Kansas relic, the veritable candle
, box in which the stolen returns We're found
concealed under wood-pile in the Surveyor
; Generals office, has been conveyed to Boston
by Mr.. Lewis NJ. Tappan. 1t is exhibited al
, a curiosity.