Daily national Democrat., 1860-06-08
TovER THE STATE LlNE.1

De compromising the felony. 1t Is conhdent-
ly stated that fund was being raised to get
Fowler out of the country, and he has gone.
He admitted having used part of the money
but charged subordinates with the main loss,
while conceding his own responsibility for
the whole.
Anhther dispatch from Washington, May
! 10th, says the excitement about the New
Y York Post Office defalcaton continues ur.
abated. An investigation is going on into
the affairs of the office which promises to de
velop some additional frauds and implicate
several employees of the departments. A de.
ilciency has been discovered in the accounts
OF the stamp clerk amounting to $4,000. Mr..
Fowler has not yet been arrested and his
/ whereabouts is not known. The Herald's
correspondent says Buchanan always dis
trusted Fowler and doubted whether he was
proper man for the place
A Washington dispatch of 10th May, says
The appointment of Calhoun Benham as U.
S. District Attorney of California was con-
tirmed by vote of 80 to II. All the Re.
publicans present voted in the negative. Mr..
Hamlin called division by yeas and noyes,
and Mr.. Wilson of Mass. assigned as the rea-
son for his voting no, that Benham had been
concerned as second in the fatal duel against
Mr.. Broderick, with peculiar circumstances
attending that tragedy.
New YoRK, May 15th.-Marshal Rinders
in company with his deputies, paid visit to
Wall street, for the purpose of arrestng a
band of operators, who were charged with
forging names on the Pension Office, with
the intention to defraud the United States
The parties implicated in this forging are
Selden Braindard, broker in Wall street, and
Jas. c. Lawrence, an attorney and notary
public. 1t is surpassed that their operations
in the way of forging land warrants for SOL
diers' and sailors bonnty and pension claims,
will reach the amount of 100000. Com
missioner Belts required them to be held to
bail in So 900 each.
The correspondent of the n. Y. Tribune,
writing from Buchanan, Texas, gives the par
ticllars of the burning at the stake of
young white man, colporter and supposed
Yankee, who had with him a wagon load of
books, consisting of Bibles and standard re-
EgiCus works and few copies of Helpers
Impending Crisis The victim was stripped
covered with tar, tied TO a tree over his own
wagon, which was next filed with faggots
and tar, and then set it on fire.
New YoRK, May 14.-RoLert G. McDon-
aid, the murderer of Virgdia Stewart, com.
mitted suicide to day. He is still alive but
the physicians pronounce his recovery almost
hopeless.
MOBILE. May l4.-Thirty i've leading and
prominent gentlemen signed cBll for State
Convention to meet at selma on the on the
4th of June, to select delegates to the Balti-
more Convention. The call is signed by
Gov. Winston NJ. Forsyth, Dr. Nolte, Mr..
Barnan, Judge McKintry, and others.
May l5-At Democratic mass meeting
on Saturday night the seceders from the
Charleston Convention were sustained. Dele
gates were appointed to the Convention to
be he held at Baltimore on the 11th of June.
A similar meeting was held in Montgomery
on the same night with the same result
AUGUSTA, May l5.-Mr. Johnson. Judges
Nesbit and Warner. and other prominent
Georgians, have written letters which are
published, condemning the seceders at
Charleston and favoriug the Baltimore Con-
venton. The Hon. A. II. Stephens was ap
pointed delegate to the State Convention.
ST. JOSEPH, May IA destructive fire
occurred at Nebraska City last Saturday af-
ternoon, which consumed nearly all the busi
ness portion of the c(ty-loss about $l20,000
New ORLEANS, May 1.-THE brig Steet-
son, from Tampico, on the 9th May, has ar
rived. Mexican correspondence of the Plea
yune reports a great battle near San Luis
Potisi, between 1000 Reactionists and large
force of Liberals. The latter were victori-
GUS. The second corpse of Mramon was cut
to pieces: eighteen pieces Of artillery and
one thousand prisoners were taken, together
with all the baggage, ammunition and stores.
G Gen George, Chief in command. and other
of the Reaationist oflicsrs were taken pris-
oners. Gen Urga and Caravajahal, COM
manding the Liberals, took possession of San
Luis Potisi A large number of officers had
been summoned to Vera Cruz to arrange a
combined attack on the capital.