The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1860-09-05
political INTELLIGENCE.

enridge electors at large in Mississippi, has
declined.
Advices from California and Ore
gon represent both of those States as re-
liable for Douglas.
- Stephen A. Douglas is the only
Presidential candidate who will receive
votes in every State in the Union.
- The New Orleans Courier says
that the Douglas and Bell men of Louis
lana are about to form combination.
- The official vote for Clerk of the
Court of Appeals is: Coombs, 6s,o54;
McClarty, 45,o7e; Boiling 1854; Hop
kins, s04.
= The friends of Douglas and john
son are wide awake, and there was never
better feeling among the democracy of
Iowa. Iowa will go for Douglas.
= A letter from California says the
masses of the people are all for Douglas.
There is nobody for Breckenridge but the
office-holders, and not all them.
- Gen. Houston declines being can
didate for the presidency, and earnestly
presses a combination of all conservative
Union men upon one ticket.
= The Quidnunc, the two faced paper
published at Grand Junction, Tenn, has
at last rid itself of its Breckenridge edit
OF, and now gives both sides of its sheet
to Douglas.
- In Washington Territory the cleo
ton for members Of the Territorial Leg
islature has resulted in victory for the
democrats, who have majority in both
branches.
= The N. Y. Herald calls VIM. IL.
Seward and VIM. L. Yancey "the SIAM
csc twins of sectionalism." The denom-
ination is very just. They are pair Of
sweet Williams.
= The Below Falls Argus, Vt, a
Breckenridge paper says: There is
cause for the Douglas Democracy to be
encouraged, for republicans are joining
their ranks every day."
= The Douglas electors at large in
North Carolina are R. P. Dick and Dun
can X. Beale. The electors were instruct
ed to prevent the election of sectional
President.
- The seven Douglas Congressman in
Missouri received at the late election 49,
432 votes, which is majority of TO-
242 votes over all opposition. Missouri
is glorious Douglas State.
= In the town of Scipio, Cayuga Co.,
N. Y, there are 100 Douglas democrats,
When Buchanan was running for Presi-
dent there were only democrats. They
are gaining ground every day.
- The editor of the Petersburg IVA
LntelHgencer, speaking Of the Douglas
demonstration there, declares that only
four men could command such recep.
tion in that place-Washington, Jackson
Clay aud Douglas.
Eighteen ardent Republicans of Ed.
dyyille, Johnson county, Iowa, have come
over to the Douglas fold. The republi.
cans were left so dsheartened that they
were unable to raise Lincoln pole, which
they have had on the ground for some
time.
= The Mansfield (Ohio) Banner says
that Alexander NJ. Bell, Esq, formerly
the leading republican of that (Richland)
county has renounced the heresies of re-
publicanism and declared himself fol
Douglas aud Johnson. Large numbers
are preparing to follow his example.
- Since the union of the Douglas and
Bell men of New York, large number
of hitherto neutral papers have declared
for Douglas and johnson. Prominent
among them are the Monticello Watch.
man and the Newburg Telegraph, botl
old and influential journals.
- 1t is fact 10 be remembered thai
HANNIBAL HAMLIN, the black re
publican candidate for Vice President, vo
ted against the admission of Oregon intC
the Union, with its free constitution, Will,
hypocritically protesting to be opposed
only to the admission of Slave States.
= The Madison Mirror, O., says tina
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