New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-03-17
POLITICAL
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-Wb.p csne To this pscs sI yesrs ago, DO NJ
INNS were tab On IN this part OF The coun.f eH =
Alsn ,iJupgy Democratic. lat once cent - No' a'd
got up club for tvs TnsUSE, and have KIP. - W
EVER .pe, and for the lsst three years We ~.
Owen REPUBLICAN m-i slti-s. and th-y are s.i, NV
cr.s-irg A. fec tire pies n 81 the ercdiNtlon ol
TRiEusr iriurss the local p-rs my e1Perlepa ~
her the reverse, ~ | believe The reader. OF iss
TsrSE AZ tbis point sdbscribe for more c"antrf ps
than al me OF the citizens OF the tososnp
-J6< T,ue DeRa Of Ns- Orleans says tnst Geo.
Ca. II Ia ~ cot of office, ard That the n '"un
Si5.U "wbo al, 'ousb psst the sunny side OF evenly
r wears biz castor jsuuty, snuks a. the p-'oooa'''
and cracks uussvofy JOKE. with s much gus,o s.
n.ry yourg o,ds Of les. than hak bis span OF me-
il 70 be he snoosssor
A ,umer il fos,iug sbou' tbst the D'mocrs's OF
S.wJ.rsey in, nd TO sbsbdoo boto Mr. Wrgh, sna
Cu. Stockton 80 their csndldrss for United S'aies
S.ns,or. AID concentrate upon Mr.. W. G. AlexAn'er.
there il dispute about tee right to the office OF
M,yor Of GetIesto.D, ID. C., two gentlemen haVos
be.p ssorn uio Office. The is before the Cucai'
Court.
The OuooAaa tLaj Register says that the Hon.
Jolp NJ sspd,ee hs. refused alloy the use OF ms
name as q candidate for Governor before the Demo
cratic Corve1tion Of louisiana Neither vii De, II
also saws be cardlds:s for rec ec:ion 20 Congress.
TIE Ror. Msdaon McAfse also declines the hrst'
rsned bouor Governcrship s evidently at discount
in Loui.sna.
The Hon. Warren winslor of North c At, Ina has
announced himself through the columns Of WHINING
ton iournsl s1didae for reslectoc to Congress,
subject to CONVENTION Of the Democrat, party OF m'
district.
On Wednesday lat Mr.. Fred W. Horn Demo
craft introduced resolution in the Wisconsin Assem-
bv psuctpg the Senators of that State and request
ing her Representatives 10 Congress to urge the pss'-
see of an appropriation TO mprovethe s. Clair Flats.
1t was adopted by thirteen majority all the Democrats
bat four voting in the negative.
The Sens,s Of Louissns has elected the Hon w.
+ Griffin Of Avoyelles Parish as its President, in place
of Lieut.. Gov. Moutou, resigned.
The War Department has forbidden the Arnory
at Spring feo to exceed it's appropriations, and oonse-
aaeutly nearly forty workmen were dismissed on Sat-
urosy last and the wages Of those Who remained were
reduced 10 per cent.
-The Jasper Iowa Free Pres of the "a ssyss
letter has been received in that town from Spirit
Lake which stsies that the Ind.rs have been concen-
,ratirg ne ar the ske-tbst the settlers in danger
u
Tke North Ca,o Dina Standard, Of the l2th states
th,t Maurice Q. Wsddell has announced himself a
candidate for Congress, in opposition u Me-. Gilmsr
for wbose benefit he withdrew two yesrs sso. THE
Standard expresses the belief that the Democratic
Convention of that district will bring forward nom
zee who will be abe to defeat either Mr.. Glmer or
Mr.. waddel, or both OF them together"
An Arkansas correspondent of a Southern paper,
paints THU picture:
Onr Legislature is Just closing ito session. more
Indifferent BODY Of men assembled in the capitol
II ey have turned Mr. Crease out OF the Treasurers
Office by majority Of four votes, and put 10 man
utterly iocon petent who cannot even spell the sim-
pest woids in the Engtsh language. They have also
elected Supreme Judge, another man, VINO - per-
feet tyro in the law, and who II Is said, never had
case IN court in biz life. One of the judges resigned IN
consequence, not being willing TO cit with aman so IN
hit for the POSITION
DR. Daniel Lee Professor of Agriculture and kindred
sciences in the Georgia University has written letter
in favor of reoperipg the slave trade-or rather, IN
favor Of African mportations-the bstter to develop
the agricultural resources of the South.
From the returns Of the New. Hampshire election
reported in The Concord Statesman, we 6nd tha. in
tEirty four instances the Republican and Democratic
candidates had exactly the number of votes cast at 10
election in 1853 by the same party. Infoi'y instances
the party vote within of that cast the previous
year. In Twenty-Five cases it was wtcn two; in
twenty-five cases within three; in tventy-seven cases
thin four, twenty five within five, twentysi1
csses within Elk fourteen instances within seven seven
teen cases within eight, and eleven cases within nine
vo,ea of the last e,ction making 2i5 instances in all
where there was Lot ten votes difference between the
two years.
Some of the editorsin the Slave States have recently
ventured to put Wbittiers name to bis poems, when
they copy them This uitce has hitherto been denied
the Quaker bard at the South.