The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-08-26

the Russian Minister to this Government will
next week 60 on leave to the country he 90 &C.
ceptably represents at Washington, the Post
anticipates from the visit favorable effect upon
himself and his future official policy. We
quote: I LIN
During his fifteen years in America, he has
become thoroughly infused with the feelings
and opinions of those among whom he has
lived, and has thus attained an unusual and
deserved popularity. But it must be re-
membsred, he came here representing a SOY.
ereign of millions held in bondage, and natu.
rally identified himself with the privileged class
of slave-owners in our own country, who have
90 long usurped possession of the Federal Gov.
eminent. Il will be fit theme for selfcon-
gratnlation, if a contact with the dswning civil
ization OF his native land shall rub off the evil
effect OF his Washington associations.
Nor is 1t trespassing too much upon the pri.
vacy of domestic life to remark that Mr..
StoeckTs American bride, who accompanies
him to the Imperial Court, will be surprised to
find state of opinion there far more congenial
to the lessons of her achusetts education
than prevails among her Pro Slavery AGO uainr
ancss at the Federal Capital. She will find that
to confess and exemplify the sentiments of
Freedom is the pride of one elevated to the
highest of earthly thrones, and that the grandes
danes of Europe-women bearing great histor
ical names, and favored by all the advantages
which wealth and rank can bestow-exult in
promoting those Massachusetts, principles which
are 80 Questionable and 90 much derided in
Washington
"Perhaps also it is not too much to expect
that, returning from her visit abroad, Madame
de Stoeckl will, as Russian woman, do some
thing in the circle of her widely extended &C
ON To kr.aE do-n L. -
potism which infects the social life of Washing.
ton, and to restore in The capital of Republ
can America the worship of those noble prin
cipIes which she received with the pure air of
her childhooi's home" 81
Miss Blount asserts positively that she was
legally married to the Zouave before they left
Mobile for New York, and that they lived az
man and wife for weeks. This accounts for
the facility with which the old gentleman was
brought to terms.
Rev. Samuel C. Skinner, noted Universalist
clergyman at Chicago, aud brother of Rev. Otis
A. Skinner of Boston, died at Philadelphia on
Thursday of last week.
B. Crate Brown, editor of the 81. Louis
Democrat, was married on the 18th to Miss Mary
Gum, of Jefferson city.
Gen. William 8. Taylor, Speaker of the Tex
as Legislature, died on the 2lst ultimo. He
had been member of the Alabama Legisla
ture fourteen years, the Mississippi Legislature
three years, and the Texas Legislature three
years. I
The people of Tennessee vote on Thursday,
September I'd, on a proposition for calling q
Constitutional Convention and if q ajority of
the whole number of votes cast for Governor
last year are in favor of the proposition, dele
gates are to be elected November 4th, and the
Convention will meet December 9th.
Those who have no faith in Professor White
houses telegraph apparatus feel confident that
the machines Of Professor Hughes will over.
come all difficulties. But Professor Hughes is
in England, and at least three or four weeks
must elapse before he could be got here, and his
machine set at work.
has been arrested and committed to prison on
the charge of defrauding the Post Office De.
partment.
1t is stated that the Canadian Parliament is
to be prorogued on Saturday.
1t is great peach year down in South Caro-.
lima and Georgia, and the finest specimens OF
that fruit are vended in Augusta at fifty cents
to dollar a bushel II
A man at Augusta, Maine, bought basket
of champagne from the State Liquor Agent for
sacramental purposes" Upon being ana.
lyzed, it was found to be Jersey cider.
Ptsburg, august l8.-The Democratic coun-
ty Convention to-day nominated Andrew Burke
for Representative to Congress from the twenty
first district. Also, Samuel Mckee for the
Stevenson, John M. Irwin, Robert Morrow, and
A. Hartze, for the Assembly. Strong "ren-
diation resolutions we're almost une-,
passed, but no other platforr' vas made
LeaUen'oorah AUGUST le. via Boonersle. an
g"sS -o.-Oficisl election returns from seven.
/ teen counties, and incomplete returns from
seven others, give 10, 1856 votes against the prop
| osition for admission, and l 1869 for it.
| Hunts battery arrived at the fort on Satur
day:
| The largest private train of the season is now
being organized at Atchison, to be comprised
of 1853 wagons.
The board of officers ordered to convene
at Fort Leavenworth to day, for the purpose o.
examining the mules rejected by the military
department, will not assemble until the 25th
instant. Senator Green, who is now here await
ing the military board, is understood to repre-
sent the contractors, who claim pay for the an
imals declared unserviceable.
Leavenvorth, dug. 10 Two companies Of
the second infantry arrived here yesterday from
to Fort Randall. Sherman's battery march
ovor1apd N M;Dpooofo forth nth
A train is organizing in the qaartermaster's
department at Fort Leavenworth to proceed to
Fort Smith, Arkansas, to form part of Lieut.
Beales expedition.
Cincinnati, Aug. 2l.-Colonel George w
Moneypenny, ex Commissioner of Indian AT
fairs, was nominated for Congress yesterday BY
the Democrats of the sixteeth district.
Thomas Corwin's nomination for Congress
| BY the Republicans of the seventh district o.
Ohio, was accomplished on the 18th ballot by
q vote of A for Corwin, So for Aaron Harlan
the present incumbent, and for r. A. Harri
| son, of Madison county. The nomination was
| then made unanimous, and Gov. Corwin's cleo
ton by plump 1000 majority may be ex
pected.
Garnett B. Adrain, NJ C. from New Jersey
| is out with an address to his constituents, in
which he squares himself off with the Admin
stration, and leaves it to be inferred that if the
Democrats do not nominate him themselves, be
will run independently, and accept an election
by Republican votes. he is almost as decided
| in his hatred Of Mr.. Buchanan an the noble
Haskin of New York.
John M. Wilson, of New Albany, Indiana
who was defeated by English, two years since
for Congress, by $3.50 majority, is again can
didate. He proposes to atone for his defeat il
1856 by gaining an election now, and we Ger
| tainlv hone he will Il