Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-08-10
POLITICAL ITEMS.

i O4hA"S-- LEY LEU al CACAESfou lIOtH THE
dale to Goshen, Indiana, on Thursday. a vot
for President was taken, with the following re
suit For Lincoln, gentlemen 368, ladies 49,
total 796; for Douglas gentlemen 156. la
dies 60-total ZIG; for Breckenridge, gentle
men 5, lady l. Lincoln over all STA.
Mr.. 7. 7. Tredway, who was appointed al
elector by the Democrats of Virginia. has re
signed because he cannot presume to decide fo
bis constituents which of the conflicting tickets
=! they ought to adopt. As private individual
he intends to support Mr.. Breckenridge
DIR. Thomas C. STABLES of Pettis county
Mo, and formerly a strong pro-savery man
has announced himself as the Republican can
didate for Congress in the Fifth Congressional
/ District of that State. He is strong for Lin
/ coin and Hamlin, aud says he intends 10 can
/ vass his District.
i Some Of the Postmaster Editors in Penn
/ sylvania court the Buchanan axe. The Car
lisle Volunteer and Easton Argus, edited by
/ Postmasters, have hoisted the Douglas flag
So has the Lancaster Intelligence. heretofore
/ considered the home organ Of Mr.. Buchanan
| Few of US know what we would do in d
pinch, bat We rather think if we were called
upon just at present To define the National
Democracy, we should do it by adopting Par
son Higginson's definition of mince pie =
''Very white and indgestible upon the top
very black and indigestible at the bottom, with
untold horrors between"
The Trumbull County Democrat contains a
call for Breckenridge and Lane county Con-
vention at " arren on the 28th inst. The call
b.x-c iuf1u aJ nj
the County.
Tie st. Albans (Yt.) Democrat, an original
Douglas paper, after keeping that name at the
head Of its columns till last week, took it down,
and put up the names of Breckinridge and
Lane.
Nineteen papers in the State of Illinois,
eleven of them in Egypt, which have never be
fore espoused Republicanism, have Eoisted the
Lincoln and Iamlin flag.
ONE MORE FOR L1NcoLN-The Mt. Carmel
Register one Of the ablest of Illinois newspa-
pcrs, has come oIt fairly for Lincoln and Hanl-
lin.-'rhe Register has been until fortnight
past. an Old Line Whig organ, with suspicious
learnings toward DouglaaisIn. The groans OF
! the Doug lasite5 in that region in view of this
accession TO Republican strength in Illinois are
said to be dolcfuI to hear.
The Constitution says there will be no cleo
toral ticket for Douglas and Johnson in n 0rth
Carolina. The Raleigh Standard has aban-
doned them, and hoisted thesgag Of Breckin-
ridge and Lane.
At a public meeting in the city of Houston,
Texas on the 8th inst, General Houston made
speech in which he stated that he had
ceptcd popular nomination for the Prcsiden-
c7; and that having put himself at the dispos-
al o! III" people, no earthly power could induce
him to withdraw his name from the contest.
So:nc fourteen or fifteen negro saves have
made lteir escape from here to free soil during
the last dav~or two. This is one Of the natur-
al and inevitable consequences Of the Lincoln
and Douglas speeches made here recently
The people Of Kentucky viii get find thattve-
ry Lincoln or Douglas speech made within
their borders will cost them a negro-rather
expensive, as all must admit.-LooisoiHe Couj-
Ter 27th.
THE FIRE SPREADING Gnc hundred and
four citizens of Hannibal, Missouri, "kelieving
that the success Of the principles ofthe Repub-
lican party are necessary to the weli-beng of
the country" have united in letter to Frank
Blair to come and make them a Republican
speech.
An extract from a Chester Co, Pa. letter
saws, Hon john Hickman. the noble advocate
of Free Labor in the House, and who was eicc-
ted as an Anti Leconlpton or Douglas Demo
crat, will lake the stump during the present
campaign for "Houest Old A be-" This is as
significant against Douglas in Pennsylvania as
the reputation Of Logan is in Illinois.
GLOOMY PROSPECT Chicago Herald, a
Douglas paper, speaks thus despendingly, yes
truly, of the political prospect:
The division every day becomes more mark
ed. The prospect of harmonious action, to any
extent, becomes more and more dim. \ fatal
malice seems to have eaten into our very
hearts. A Cimmerean darkness thickens along
the line of our political vision. We rush upon
our fate.
The accession Of Ex-Gov. Reuben Wood of
Cuyahoga county to the Breckenridge ranks,
is only one of many indications of the course
that is to be taken by great portion of the
more substantial leaders of the Ohio Democra
cy in the present campaign. Nothing is more
certain than that Breckenridge is gaining on
Douglas in this State.
A Republican mass meeting is announced
to take place at Springfield H., on the 8th of
August. A wigwam, capable of accommodate
ing 25,000 people, is being built and a host of
the best speakers in the country are expected
to be present.
DoUGLAs WILL NOT DEcrINE.-The Spring
field (Ill.) Register, the State organ of Doug
las, announces that Mr.. Douglas has no idea of
resigning his Senatorship for the barren pros
pect of the Presidency, and thus confirms the
little giants declaration that the election of
the Republican candidate is already virtually
secured
WHAT CUSHING SAYS OF LINcoLN.-A CO.
temporary says that in late conversation be-
tween Caleb Gushing and Col Parker, author
of "reminiscences of Rufus Choat,' Gushing
said:
abraham Lincoln is much ADLER man than
is generally supposed even in his party.
In his canvass with Douglas, he beat him in
law, beat him u argument, and beat him in
wit and the published debates of that canvass
will sustain this assertion
PREFERS LINcoIN.-The editor of the Cum
berland (Md) Telegraph, the Americat organ,
referring to statement that the opposition
party in Alabama had, in convention, repudia-
ted Bell and Everett, and declared their pur-
pose to support Breckinridge and Lane says
1--WE prefer Mr.. Lincoln before either of the
Democratic nominees, aud if driven from our
support of Mr.. Bell by the trcachery of eur
leading men-if our party is to be sold ont TO
either wing of the Democracy-then aoe are 70,
Lincoln 10Th tens Of thousands Of others IN good
old Mary}and-"