, 1859-05-23
FEHSOJHr3L >38"D P0LITxC.3L.

-Mr. Morpby is to visit Boston on the asth.
aud public dinner in his honor will be eaten
at the Revere.
President Benson has been nominated for
reelection as President Of the Liberian Repub-
lie for the third term.
The Rev. Alexander Gregg. of South Caro-
lima, has been unanimously elected Episcopal
Bishop Of Texas, bJ the Episcopal Convention
ut Galveston.
Mrs. Mary E. Bryan, cditress Of the Atlanta
Temperance Crusader, has been elected princi-
pal Of the Bclles-Lettres Department in the
Griffin, (Ga.) Female College, and has accepted
this position
Mr.. J. Smart, Of St. Paul, ,linu., was re-
Gently prosecuted by young widow for breach
ofpromise. He settled the difficulty By mar
rying her. He made her Smart lest she should
him.
IN. P. Stanton, Esq, President Of the La
Crosse Railroad Company, has instituted pro-
ceedings against Newcombe Cleveland for libel,
laying his damages at $4,000.
Mr.. Vim. F. Sanford, the man to whom
Gov, Wise addressed his thirty column letter,
is out as IN Independent Southern Rights candi-
date for Governor Of Alabama. In his card Of
announcement, he says he appeals from the
politicians to the people.
The husband Of Mrs. Peter Perry Of Port
Clinton, Ohio, was drowned recently. From,
the moment she received the intelligence Of his
loss up to the hour Of her death, a few days ago,
she never exhibited signs Of sanity, being per-
fectly wild and dclirious.
Col. King, Of New Orleans, accompauiedby
his body servant, was arrested just as be stepped
Oft steamboat ut Pittsburgh, By couple of
sharp policemen, who were On the lookout for
II. Clay Pate, with negro whom he recently
stole from Missouri 1t is question whether
the Col. OF tho "stars were the most surpris-
ed at the btundcr,
-. n. Davis, State senator in Mississippi,
is lccturing through that state in favor Of re-
opening the African slave trade. The New
York ers is publishing series Of articles BY
southern statesman, adapted to remove north
ern predjudces agninst the traffic.
MIR Letcler has issued Il long address to
the people Of Virginia, in which he says:
CAS- representative in Congress. hare On
all proper occasions defended tle institution oi
slavery from the assaults Of the aholitionists,
Upon questions relating to slavery, my rotes Will
be found recorded with my Southern colleagues.
Not measure has been before Congress durin.
n1y service having reference to the institution oi
slavery, or tile rights Of the South, which has
not received my support. To my colleagues in
Congress for the past eight years, without re-.
gard to their politics, appeal, to vindicate me
against the suspicion that hare been unfai.h.
full to the South-hcr institutions, her rights
her honor.
Gen. Foote, Of Mississippi, in announcing
lis intention not to run for the office Of Cover
nor says:
~ belong to no party organization now exist
ing in Mississippi, never having been Wing
{whateycr has been Of late stated in several
quarters, to the contrary having since aban
| doned the American organization and recon.
n,cnded its disband,nent, having no connection
whatever with that wrctched, confused anu
fragmcntary factlon. ostensbiy acting under the
lead Of John Slidell and company, md yield
ing disgraccful support to that unrighteous
corrupt, aud Democratic, anti-States Rights ad
| n.inlstration now in power, Of which james Bu
chanau, the bluest and most blear-eyed of Fed
eralists, is the chief, which has utterly broken
| down the strength Of the Democratic party; re-
| vived md strengthened sectionulisnl in bott
| quarters of the Union, and almost extiuguishcd
tile hopes Of enlightened patriots everywhere
! as to the perpctulty Of our free institutions"