, 1859-09-14
r FER8O-1lL .1.s.D POLITICxk.

The nams Of Major a. II. Colquit, Is mention.
ed in connection with The Georgia Senatorship,
to suseeed the Hon. 4 Isersou. :.
T - Tho annual ineems of Mr. VIM. NacDon.
aid, the owner Of " Flura Temple" il said to be
$4,000. He resides in Baltimore.
-Firnin Didot Of PARIS, has published let.
ters from Mary Stuart 10 Boutwell,, which throw
light upon tho assassination Of Da,nley and
upon the crcnts which preceded her execution,
Thackeray. whose "TirsiuIans' is nearly
aniahed, Is about editing a magazine, to be pub
ished In London in January.
We notice that Professor Anthon's clas.i-
cal works, for schools, arc largely reprinted in
London. Fourteen Of them are adgtrtised in
the last7reccired number Of the A.hentu.;. =
--Asnassah H. Smith, the Pro-sltvery can.
didate for Governor Of Maine, declines to meet
Lost ~ Morrill,, tho Republican. candidate, on
the STUMP, to discuss political subjects,
-The Madison. (la.) Tina says Hon. Jesses
D. bright, ia lying dangerously i'll in that city
Of inaa msnatory rheumatism.
Judge Petit, Of Kansas. has granted twenty
five divprces since he went to the Territory.
The Opposition to the Democracy in Mis-
sissipptt hare nominated the following ticket:
Foa GovkasoR-H. r.. Walter, Of Marshall
SEcEt7AR1 OF S7A1z-H. Il. Southworlh, of
SuLdpWer.
;Acp1roa-A. E. Reynolds. Of Tishimipgo.
1RkAscRkR-Joseph Reagan, If Claiborne.
- The lion. Charles H. Mason, the Teritori-
al Secretary Of Washington Territory, died a.
Olympia, on the eal Of July. Mr.. N. was for
tnsr}y Of Providence, h. l., and was son OF
the lato Major Mason Of the United States Ar
my.
- The monument in honor Of the late Empe-
ror Nicholas vas inaugurated in St. Petersburg
JnIy I, last (n.s.) 1t cost orcr $500, 1000, took
three years under the .superintendence Of the
sculptor Monuerend, who, On his death, June,
1858. was succeeded by, YerzrroH.
) Gideon Welles, Esq, having declined to
act. Cur. Buckingham, Of Connecticut has mp.
pointed Joseph Il. uawlcy. Esq, editor Of the
A1rtfo!a Ecsaia2 Prtss, u member Of The CON-
mission to sett!e the boundary line between
New York aud Connecticut. Both States have
now full sets Of Commissioners appointed, and
arenote beginning Of an end can be family
seen, unless both States again kick oyer the
work Of the agents.
. The Evansville Daily journal says that
Aessrs. Durham and Hendricks, rival aspirauts
for the Democratic nomination for Governor Of
Indiana in 1860. are now hard ut work canvas
sing the party throughout the State, with view
to the Convention Which meets in January
ne1t- Both are LecoqF. 4tes; one is in The
interest Of Senator D :, the other Of Cor.
Willard.
William 0wney, Of Southampton County,
w., died few days since, aged one hundred
years md five months. He was engaged in the
battle Of Draudywinc, and also at Petersburg,
Va-, when Arnold paid That town visit. The
old soldier had never taken medicine in his lille,
aud in his last illness he positively refused to
hare it Administered.
The Rev. Dr.. Cumming, of London, an
noupces au 6ro volume about " The Great T1i-
brlation coming on the Earth," This reverend
gentleman has propensity for propheeying.
Once be wrote book to warn tho public that
the world would be ended in 1860. This was
abort 1s49, at which time the sag gacious prophet
who bad only thirteen years before him, on his
own showing, took bouse for 81 years.