The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-07-28

Political News.
The rumor that Mr.. JEFFERSON DAVIS,

IHZ rumOr that Mr.. JEFFERSON DAVIS,
Of Mississippi, was preparing bill which
be proposes 10 introduce in the Senate next
winter, for the reopening Of the African
slave trade-which rumor has been current
Of late--turns out 10 be untrue. He is EN-
ployed on no such foolish work. On the
contrary, he made speech, the other day,
at jackson, Mississippi, in which be took
ground against the introduction Of savage
Africans among civilized blacks of the
South, as injurious to that population and
to the interests Of the whites"
The Peoples Press Of Ohio. Birney Mar
shall's paper, speaking Of the recent letter
Of Senator Douglas, says:
We have In our possession letter Of similar
import, Of two months earlier cate (April 23),
ia which Mr.. Douglas says:
- am not DESTROYS Of the Presidency ia l-G0,
and would not accept the nomination, unless
upon the old basis Of lsjG."
TIE Secretary Of the Kansas Consti,u-
tional Convention has prepared table Of
statistics Illustrating some interesting facts
relative TO the members The number Of
Republican members is - OF Democratic
members. IL; Independent, |. As to Occu-
patton, Is are farmers; 20 attorneys at law
. merchants; 3 mauufac turers 3 physi-
clans | land agents mechanics, editors
surveyors, clergymen, and journalists, l
each.
The London Daily Ners Of July |, puts
WV. II. SEWARD, up Tor the Presidency in
1860, subject, We presume, to the decision Of
the Republican National Convention. The
article in which it says it is sufficiently
well known that he will be the Free Soil
candidate for the Presidentship Of the Uni
ted States. and probably the first anti.sla.
very President" is quite a long one, and
concludes as follows:
Mr. Seward comes among us when
both sections OF his countrymen are not only
preparing for revolution, but actually engaged
In II and he may be the man whom his fellow
citizens will choose to be the exponent OF the
principles which Europe believes will triumph.
Let him zee that we have faith and hope on
the subject.
On the 9Th OF July, at Chester, South
Carolina, there was celebration at which
Hon. w. W. BoYcE, leading member OF
Congress from the Palmetto State, delivered
an address, in which he denounced in strong
terms tie extreme views OF certain South
cru politicians The opposition take great
pleasure in quoting the sentiments Of these
extremists "a Indicative OF the views OF the
entire South. How do they like the following
toas,s, which were enthusiastically received,
and which indicate the sentiments of nine.
tecn.twentieths Of the Southern people:
The In,on and the Consttufion-One and
inseparable; united they stand, divided they
fall
Re op,n,ng the AJilcon Stare Tads-As
undesirable a. II il inexpedient. Let not the
south be divided on 30 barren and hopeless an
issue"
The Southern Commercial Convention - A
msnomer, a peryersion of terms. We regard
Il a. humbug aud a nuisance.
Hon. JoHS FoRsYrH has been nominated
for the legislature in the city of Mobile at
the bead OF the Democratic ticket. Mr..
FoRsYru is the editor of the Register, and
the open advocate Of DouGLAs' nomination
at Charleston.
Tue Democracy OF Washington Territory
have just given evidence OF their apprecia.
ton Of faithful representative 10y the
unanimous denomination of Hon. |. |. STE
VEINS. for the place of Delegate in Congress.
Dou6LAs has friends at the South. we
should think, notwithstanding Black Repub-
lean clsmor. 4 late Washington letter
says:
Douglas seems really to he the Democratic
man OF destiny You will perceive that the
New Orleans Be. the New Orleans Crescent.
the New orleans D,!fa the Mobile Regis or and
other Southern journals of a similar influence
take the stronges, ground in favor Of Douglas
suce his celebrated b0rr letter. II u well
known here that in Baltimore, a, the late del.
esate election in that city. nothing prevented
the triumph of the Douglas Delegates but the
most offensive interference OF the government
of'ic ials. | am enabled to assert, aad TO DEFY
contradiction, that in the city of Richmond
Judge Douglas has many active and devoted
friends, in the Democratic party, while in Rs
leigh. North Carolina Montgomery, Alabama;
Memphis and Nashville. Tennessee Louisville
Kentucky; Little Rock. Arkansas, and even in
Jackson, Mississippi. there are 10 be found hun
Ired. Of Democrats who look upon him a. the
only man 10 save the Democratic party NEXT
wear. 30 much for the south. The North can
axe care of Itself
DopGE CoUNrY.-The Democracy Of this
county held their convention on the 9th