Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-09-07
POLITICAL ITEMS.


: The Republican State convention of New
Y ork made their ticket August %, of renomi
mating Morgan for governor, and appointing
VIM Cullen Bryant as one of the senatorial
electors. 4
Col. Mannypeuny, of the Ohio Statesman. is
informed that the Breckinridge Democratic
State Committee has assessed the Postmasters
Of Ohio to the amount of S75, 900.
Frederick Denny, Postmaster at Taylors-
Vile Muskingum county, has left the Democ
racy and the GAINESVILLE Courier says that he
votes and labors heneeforth on his own eonvie-
tion that Republicanism is the true faith for
every honest man and patriotic citizen, and
that Democracy is cheat and tieIusion.
The Memphis Avalanche says that the Mis-
sissippi Douglastes will have TO give up the
attempt to form an electoral ticket in that
State After ransaeking every hole and cor
ner of the Commonwealth, it was supposed
enough men had been found TO form ticket,
but the decIination of Mr.. j. F. Claiborne,
who condemned the Douglasite policy out and
out, has set them at their wits eud again.
The Washington correspondent of the New
York World says that 'the President opposes
any amalganiation of the Breckenridge and
D4saehss tickets IN New York, for he would
rather see Lincoln than Douglas occupying his
seat"
AuTo DA FE,-Several copies of Summers
speceh h on efhe Barbarism Of Slavery" having
found their way into The Abbeville district, S.
C., meeting was called and a resolution adop-
ted calling OH clsrgymen, and others having
copies, to send them TO the secretary of the
meeting, "ihat. in one common pile, IN the Con-
gressional District of the fate Hon Preston S.
Brooks, aud on the anniversary of Summers
Gaming, they may be consumed in 4 bonfire
lighted by negroes"
The Democratic party died several weeks
ago. and its last will and testament has just
been opened 'fhe property of the deceased is
found to have consisted Of pair of footless
stockings without legs; and these are divided
among the orphans, Dougiasand BreckInridge.
During the critical period antecedent to the
Charleston Convention, Mr.. Douglas was
greatly afflicted. The telegraph was daily tel
ling US Of the Illness of the Jndge. Now, how
ever, his health is remarkable We don't hear
/ a word about sore throat gout in the stomach
pIeurisy, dysentery, bellyache, or anything OF
/ the kind.
| Gov. Banks, of Massachusetts, declines re.
election and will, it is said. assume the presi-
/ dency of the Illinois Central railroad.
The next Missouri legislature will have
twelve Republican members.
Three of the Douglas electors in Alabama
I
clared for Breckenridge and Lane
An Illinois correspondent says that the
Breckenridge faction in the ancient town o.
Jonesboro, down in Egypt" have mutually
passed>a non-ntereourse act by the terms oi
which the Douglas men have resolved not tc
trade at the Breckenridge stores. and the Breck
inridge families have determined not to visit
| the Douglas families, nor to recognize them as
respectable members of Society.
THE SURRENDER OF ILLISoIs,-The Chicago
Democrat understands that efforts are being
made to get up Union ticket, composed o
! five Douglasites; four Bell and three Breckin
ridge men. But even against such coalition
the result of which is confession that neither
faction alone has any strength, Lincoln would
sweep Illinois.
Fere is a Presidential straw which comes
all the way from alabama to the journal o
Commerce. 1t is a vote taken on an Alabama
river steamboat Breckenridge ~, Bell %
Lincoln O. Douglas none
The Napoleon Northwest few DAYS sine,
characterized Mr.. S. j. Bowker, Democra
of that vicinity who has just joined the Rcpub
lican ranks, with being bogus Democrat.
Mr.. Bowker retorts by proving that Mr.. Mil
Ter, editor of the Northwest, was few year
ago the publisher of the Anti-Slavery Bugle
Garrisonian organ issued at Salem.
The New York Post makes an elaborat
: calculation respecting Lincoln's prospects il
New York-in which it gives the Anti-Repub
t licans 10000 majority in New York City. ant
10000 in Kings county, and figures up 1870
, Republican majority in the State.
, The contest in Pennsylvania is waking uF
Gen. Foote shortly takes the field Tor Douglas
Hon. VIM. L. Yancy and Hon. Henry A
Wise will, it is said, go there to advocate til
claims of Breckinridge. Among those wh
are to address the people in favor of Lincol
and Hamlin, the Philadelphia Press hears tn
names of Hon. William H. Seward, Hon. Dar
el Ullman and Hon. Horace Greely of Ne,
York, Frank Blair of Missouri, Hon Ben
: Wade and Hon. John Sherman of Ohio.