Daily national Democrat., 1859-12-31

JUDGE DOUGLAS AND THE PREsIDENcY.-A
New York Correspondent of the Mobile Reg.
lister sends the following bit of intelligence
concerning the Presidential nomination.
One Of the gentlemen at my room had left
Washington only few hours previous. He
had spent some hours with Mr. Douglas. He
reported the Chief calm and collected-not
at all nervous about the Presidential nomina.
ton. lie Dougas) said that he was not at
all anxious to be nominated at Charleston
far from it. He beijegeS that no other Demo.
crat stands the rentoteSt chance of being elect
ed, If nominated He does not reqayd his
oen chances Of election as 6y ana means Raf-
tering The evident bitter, personal. maliy.
naut hatred of the President, who has sail
on several occasions that he nrefars
Seward as his successor rather than Done
las, is diseouraging, and my visitor said that
he left Mr.. Douglas convinced that the latter
If he saw any hope of any other Democrat
being elected, if nominated, would cbeerfullv
withdraw his own name from the canvass Of
1860. That must not be- 1t would ruin
and scatter us here North like a flock of
sheep with the wolf among them.
QuAcK DocroRs CAREER-SrNTrycr or
nOLOriOuS H.
diyidual, who has SO long managed to elude
Justice, has at length met his reward he hay-
ing been sentenced to two years imprison
ment in the State Prison at Windsor (Vt.
! on Saturday week. Howard, it will be re-
membered, was convicted some months since
at Chelsa of having procured an abortion the
case was most attrocious one. He appealed
to the Superior Court, but it refused him a
new trial. Howard's real name is Drew. and
though he asserts himself an Englishman. is
native of Limerick, Ireland. On establish
ing himself at Mhetford, VT, a few years
since. he gave out that he was a surgeon in
the British army, and that he had attended
Queen Victoria, by special request but. as
some knowing ones discovered that he could
not speak the Queens English, and could
neither read nor write, that story went for
nothing.
lie set up dashing team, and soon got by
sheer brass, the name of a great DOCTOR
But an action foe ma practice shook faith in
him and he had to pay $1,000 damages
While In full blast, he was recognized at
Bradford as a man who, under the name of
Houghton, had by reason of false pretenses
swlndled the Burlington Bank out of more
than thousand dollars; this be paid to escape
punishment lie was next arrested for a rape
ON patient, the wife of student of Dart
mouth College. The death of his victim let
him out of this scrape for the time, but her
dying declaration still hangs over him.
While at Bradford he attended a man who
died, and whose widow he married taking
possession of all her property which he got
hold of she died last summer, broken hearted
lie was arrested on the charge for which
he has been convicted. At his house near
Bradford there died last summer three Young
females, in the course of few weeks. All
had sought his aid to hide their shame. Sus
picion was excited, and one of the bodies was
examined. He was committed, but released
Oh bail. He dashed about in great style. and
felt confident his luck would carry him thro',
but the Supreme Court at Montpelier decided
his fate, and for two years at least this fellow
will be prevented from practicng on the ere
dulity Of the public.-BoSton Traveller.