New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-04-28
POLITICAL.

heard from are pena, ShebOygan, Chippewa EnTnct
Grand Traverse, iioughton. Kalamazoo Kent, Mack
itac, Marquette, Mason, Newaygo and Oat0nsgOu.
without these Counties the table fcots up FOR Martin
Rep, 59,2Ol, Fetch DEM, $40. KalsmazJo
aud Kent says The Adrerfiscr, have given Martin
about ! $50 majority and the remaining counties,
which are sparsey settled, give but light vote
either way. According to The Adrcrfiscrs estimate
Of these counties Martini majority in the State will
be over 70 CO. The recent town elections in Michi
gan, far heard from, show the choice of 36i Re-
publican ind 2l0 Democratic Supervisors.
The Memphis Baiictia publishes call, al
dressed to every Cuban Juna in the United States
and Cuba requesting one or more members from
each Junla aud eli others friendly to the imIned ate
acquisition Of Cuba to meet in Convention Of Vicks
burg, Mrs on the 10th day Of May, for the purpose
If adopting measure. which will secure the acquisi
tion Of Cuba by civil migration The day up
pointed is that next succeeding the meeting Of the
Southern Commercial Convention each delegate to
which il invited to attend this Cuban meeting.
Tile Proridcnce Journol in speaking of the proba
bility that Mr.. Bishop, just defeated for member
Congress in Connecticut, viii be appointed Commits
siuner of Patents says that fortunately for the
public service he is man of excellent abilities and
will doubtless I'll to the general satisfaction the very
important position to which he has been assigned.
There is proprety, too, in selecting the head of the
Patent Office from State conspicuous for It's invent
i've genius"
The Washington correspondent Of The Phil
odeIpbia Press is panied to announce that Mr.
buchanan continues to employ the present an-
tiracite coal agent for Pennsylvania, DIR. Hun
ter after the unanimous verdict Of the Com
tee of Investigation If the last House reported his
utter worthlessness and incompetency agent Of
the Government. | also hear from q confidential
friend at the Navy Department that orders are still
sent to this man Hunter, and that ne is hugely de-
lighted that Mr.. Buchanan should continue 10 favor
him while deuuuucing Governor Packer and his State
Administrations But DIR. Hunter has tn. I'd vantage
If most Of you men in Pennsylvania-he was never
Mr. Buchanan's friend, and therefore claim the
honors."
An occasional writer from Washington states that
"a painful ruuor is in circulation to the effect that
the chief financial officer oi the late House ct Repre-
setaiivrs has been missing for the last two or three
weeks and that the Clerk Mr.. Allen of Illinois, il in
excessive tTibuation. | forbear giving names aud
facts renarking only that Mr. Allen bad full warning
Of the character Of his immediate assistant before he
appointed him. Let us hope That nothing VIII result
a. The dsaGy anage either Os the Government or the
Clerk cf the House of Representatives"
IT is said that the object of the Southern Com
merciaI Convention, to be held at Nicksburg next
NAV. will be to form Southern party upon basis
of pnoston 10 laws Of the United States which cannot
be repealed in due of egislaton-such rs the
luw prohibiting the importation of slaves the naviga-
ton laws, &c.
The Stats ZcituHg, the German organ Of the
Democratic paryi this city, has remarkable leader
on the project entertained by certain socalled Wings
and moderate Democrats Of ignoring the slavery
question in the next election This project, accord
ing to the Stats Zsituug. is prepooterous The
Slavery question" il says, may indeed be localized
in the Territories; but the question whether It shall
thus he localized must he decided by the whole ma
ton and every party which attempts to pass over
that subject in silence will be destroyed IN the
ATTEMPT. whether il be Northern or Southern party.
or even that party without principles, which simply
speculates Oh the possession Of power by this
party without principles, understand our cotem-
porary TO mean the buchanan Administration and its
followers.
The Nep- Orleans Crescent thinks that the Nir-
GINA Democrats must he swcet-scented set OF poll
,icaus Their consistency as amazing a' their de-
yotinn to the South unparalleled. Noone can doubt
the depth and prcfundty of either emotion, ~hen
tullv advised of the facts of the case. They have
non mated and are supporting John Letcher Tor
the ,ffice Of Governor. John Letcher, some twelve
wears ago uneeuiy ocaly indorsed IN writing u PAM
uhlct written by DR.. Rufiner in which dome
slavery was declared to be Nuisancel 4 pest!
S,yeian inundatoni a black sea of misery! An OPP
nrcssion and hcart-sckening burden upon com'nl-
nityl A mountain of misery A curse more desruct-
i've in its effects than war; pestlence and oppression OF
rulers civil or ecclesiastical! \ yellow fever anu
black voniti After this TIE Crescent Is not sur
nr;.ed thu, the Republicans propose to hold their next
National Convention in Wheeling.
Senator Wilson has written sensible letter upon
the subject Of the proposed amendment to the Con-
sutiop of the State of Massachusetts, requiring that
adopted citizens be residents of the State two years
infer naturalization before being admitted TO the
privileges of the elective franchise. Mr. iiSon diS'
cusses the question with marked ability, and comes
70 the conclusion that justice and sound policy alike
den ana that the proposition be rejected Near!
all the prominent and distinctive Republican papers
Of the State" SAYS The Springfield Reo"b''cdH'
have declared against the amendmenI--Ife
Worcester Spy The NeE-Bedtord StaHdard me
H1,op,hiye Gazette, The greenfield Go-sHe and
Corner The North AdGHs Transcript Ihc hsPa0-
hcaa. etc The papers which favor its odop,ion--"s
J'ls BOSTON Bee. TIE Boston Journal, The 'orces-
fer Transcript and The Palmer Jouraa!-have a.
ways been American rather than Republican papers
abandoning Americanism and espousing Republican,
m only as the current OF political events and the re-
action Of popular feeling led the way and forced the
change upon them
IN. following resolutions We're passed 81 Demo
cratic meeting held AZ Cahawba, Dallas County, aia
| on the l6th inst;
p,,s TIA; we utterly rrpliia,e stephen A. Dousv go