New-York daily tribune., 1859-01-15
POLITICAL

-Au-in Brooks Of the Illinois Senate was rsrsovei
from the Po=t-Ofice At Quincy az Dougl.a msn.
The sTringfeld correspondent OF Ihe ~. L0Hp RI
p45caa ssys Mr.. Brooks recently csst the first vo'e
fr Douglass reelection and after the result of tce
ballot was kloEn forwarded tae foosIrg dispaica to
Old Buck:
To Ah E1ee1sney Jan BDesaAaH, PTerdEi 0 tse Uai'es
Senatorial election held to-day. Our man received
"a votes; y9Hr man 10. AL right
State Senator ls:e P0Eus'.er a Qlincy.
The Delaware legislature, il il ssid, vii pass me
.ct grating lottery privileges so as 70 aid the con-
structiou Of railroads 10 the State. We sorry 20
hear il.
! The House Committee on Naval Affairs have
authorized Mr.. Wins'ow TO report bill adding twenty
additional pursers eleven surgeons, and fifteen
,istartsurseons, 10 the number already existing n
the Navy.
The expense of publishing the State Canvass in
| Erie County Is nirs hundred and trenfy dollars
Secretary Tucker Is liberal cficer-but where will
| the money come from
The Hon. X. S. Bingham, the newly elected Ssaa-
tor from Michigan i nstive Of Msrcell1s, Onondsga
County, in this Sste, ard removed TO Michigan about
! twenty years sgo.
The ST. Paul MRHesotiaH says that the Fort
Smelling specuators have failed 70 psy up the secon1
mstslment OF $50 0O0 due TO Government the pur.
chase Of Fort Smelling end s reserve and that instruc
tons have been recsi yed TO fCrecOse Their O5hga
tons and resume GOverume apOssesson OF the prem
i,er IL condoles with Mr.. Frank steele on his MS
fortunes generally; ANA with Mr.. Sibley in particular,
over the lose Of their nice specially of thirty scres
in the Ohio Senate, bill hiss been introduced pro-
vdpg or the payment Of the funded debt Of the State
Leading feature of the bill is provision which
quires the interest and principal to be paid Ohio n-
stead Of Nea-York City.
| The 81. Paul Mfanesotian has been Informed that
gentleman n s.. Anthony, member elect, has jl-t
I. .ceived letter from Mr. Sbey hatiug a. the prob
ability Of an exra session of the Legislature. l sdds:
" Ii one ia called il will be- in order TO fulfill the
pedses made by tee acting Governor 70 the New
York capitalists of forthwith taxing the people To pay
the interest the bonds "a toe price OF ther beng
negotiated. But viii see about the taxation when
the Leesstur comes together There is such thing,
Mr.. Sbley as I" counting without your host
The Clerelqad PiaiDdeGler proposes 10 get Cuba
by swapping New Eng land for her.
The Democratic State Convention of Kentucky,
which mt at Frankfort, KY, on the sth iostant,
presided over by the Hon. Charles A. Wickiffe. The
contest for Governor was finally narrowed down 10 the
Hon. Bersh Msgoffn and Col. Linn Boyd, aud on the
fifth ballot the former received 363 votes and the latter
3O6. Mr. Magotfiu was then declared the nominee by
acclsmstion. Cot. Boyd was then nominated fJr
Lieutensn. Governor. Resolutions were adopted, IN
substsnce, IS fohoEs:
al Ths, we ndorse the Cincinnati platform of 1886 .ud PEE
scribe Of the Democratic orthodoxy not embraced thA'
platform
That favor ard will sustain The Ded Scott deeisi'u
Cuba such render
I by the South Of the utmost importance
" That regard with suspicion anc DISLIKE the efforts ~
Northern fanatics In conjunction with Southern Know Soth
irs 20 interfere with questions Of properly belonging solely %
Btates."
motion to amend the first resolution by introducing
the doctrine of Congressional interference in favor OF
Slavery was voted down almost unanimously. The
Convention consisted, say, The Cincinnati CONNER
cial, of 672 delegates, subdivided thus:
ES. S.Govenors 2Captsns -
G.nsrals.........t.... IA squires. lS
SSSone' S te''ma'eo) " To,aI......e72
The candidates were all cAonels, and half were oil
Wings mary of the latter receiving solitary
crumb Of comfort in the way Of nomination.
The Washington correspondent Of The Boston
Journal writes:
"A redistribution of the spoils in New-EDgland,
particularly in New Hampshire, is talked OF aud VIII
be recommended by all department officers, to punish
the ipdepep pdence that would not be subservient TO
executive detation in the State Convention, away up
among the Granite Hills. Sundrv doubtful men, who