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WASHINGTON Thursday, July &C. 1860.
THE POSITION OF COWS. WISE AND LETCHER
1t is stated by intimate friend, of Gov. Wise
that he will take extreme Southern ground at the
Convention which meets at Charlottesville on the
10Th of August. af
Gov. Letcher say that he has as yet expressed
no opinion as to Presidential candidates, but VIII
seek to unite the two wings of the Democracy In
Virginia upon one electoral ticket.
MR.. FITZPATRICK's DECLARATION.
No sensation has been created here by the an
nouneement of Mr. Fitzpatrick of Alabama that ne
should support Mr.. Breckenridge
THE DOUGLAS MEN SURPRISED.
declaration to the same effect from Mr.. San
dige of Louisiana creates surp Use with the Douglas
men, and is no good omen Of the vote for Mr..
Douglas in the northern part of that State.
Per contra. John Young Brown, Member of
Congress from Kentucky, W .ites here that he sup
ports Mr.. Douglas, and that, in the County of
Harden, In that State, there are not above thirty
Democrats for Mr. Breckenridge out of 1000 Dem
peratic voters.
DOUGLAS IN NORTH CAROLINA.
A gentleman just from North Carolina states
that prominent Douglas men in that State declare
that an electoral ticket for him will be brought out
ut no distant day.
So, also, such intelligence reaches here by letters
from Mississippi; but the prospects of any consid-
cradle vote for Judge Douglas in those States looks
worse than in any other Southern State except
South Carolina.
MIR BRECKiNRIDGE IN LOUISIANA.
/ hear that Mr.. Slidell says that Mr. Breckin-
ridge Will beat the vote for both Mr.. Douglas and
Mr.. Bel in Louisiana.
THE BRECKINRIDGE ASSESSMENTS.
1t is said that many of the clerks in the Depart
ments upon one ground or another, refuse to pay
the assessments made in the BrecsiDridge interest.
To thus refuse is dangerous, when heads of coun-
Try Douglas pOstmasters are daily falling into the
basket
ORGANIZATIONS.
1t is currently reported here to-day that the
President declares that the Postmaster at Albany,
and the United States District Attorney for
Western New-York are to be garoted.
THE HON. EDWARD BATES.
Tbs Hon, Edward Bates of Missouri Is here at
the National He is on his return from North
Carolina, his native State.
PATENT. OFFICE DECISION.
The Commissioner of Patents has affirmed the
decision of the Board of Appeals, to the effect
that it is not compliance with the statute on the
part of the Office to refuse patent because the
thing claimed as patentable had been seen by an
Examiner Of the Office some twenty years before.
In a reference Like the present, says the Commits
sioner, existing solely in the knowledge of the
Examiner, the party applying for patent would
have no means Of forming judgment except by
an examination of the machine or device referred
to- He is, therefore, entitled to be furnished with
such information in regard to its whereabouts as
will enable him to begin his search for it with a
reasonable degree of success. In other words, he
should be told not where it was, but where it is
now to be found.