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The Southern Argus, Va, bears the following
inscription at the head of its columns
"For President, Henry A. Wise, of Virginia.
subject to the decision of the Nationa. Conven-
tion.' d.. -....-re .-.r
The Democracy of the Fifth Congressional dis
trict Of Indiana, in Convention, last Thursday,
nominated for re election to Congress Hon. William
Il. Holman, the present incumbent. But two bal
lots were had, the second being unanimous.
James s. Thayer, whom the Arena, of Troy, de-
scribes one of the most brilliant of the host of
old Wing campaigners of three Presidential con-
tests, and Of whom it says, eve have seen an au-
dence Of five thousand in the Vauxhall Gardens,
crowd Seward from the rostrum, by impatient
manifestations for the appearance of Thayer," it
is said, will ere long, take the stump for Douglas.
Down to 1928, every President had been taken
from the old thirteen States. Now, of the nine
rival candidates for President or President, but
one Mr.. Everett, of Massachusetts, is a citizen of
an original State. All five of the candidates for
President-Lincoln, Douglas, Breckenridge, Bell,
and Houston-live in the Mississippi valley, or
its borders. = 90
Mr.. Sumner will address the Republicans of New
York at Cooper Institute On next Monday evening.
THE PRESIDENT AND THE New York PoLIrIoTAY.-
The Washington correspondent of the New York
Commercial Advertiser, writing under date of June
So thus narrates the story of personal interview
he recently had with Mr.. Buchanan:
81 found Mr.. Buchanan surrounded by large
crowd of friends, who patiently listening to
quiet talk which was going on between the Presi-
dent and young New York politician, who, it
would appear, took occasion to differ from the Pres
ident upon certain political matters connected with
the Democratic party. New Yorker amented the
present state of affairs in the party and hoped the
President would use his powerful influence to bring
about reconciliation between the friends ofDoug-
las and Breckenridge, at the same time submitting
plan by which the party might be saved. The
President informed the New Yorker unhestatingly
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to bring those parties together; that there but
one plan, and that for all Democrats to support
Mr.. breckenridge, as he intended to do because he
satisfied that Mr.. Breckenridge stood on the
right platform of principle.
New lorker-Then, sir Mr.. Lincoln will be
next President.
President-Well, sir, if Mr. Lincoln should be
our next President, he will ruin the country, and
you gentlemen from New York could have easily
prevented that if you had consented to take either
Dickinson or Seymour, of your own State, when
the South presented those names to you. f."
New Yorker-Mr. President, | am satisfied that
our delegation would have been delighted to vote
for Mr.. Seymour, if the South had presented his
name as peace offering, notwithstanding the del
egation had been chosen for Douglas. .;.r
PresldeD.-Well, Sir if you were present at the
Baltimore Convention, and were at all acquainted
with what was going on, you must have heard of
such proposition from the South, for / assure
you it was made and in good faith.
Newly orker.-Mr. President, do not want to
dispute your word, but feel certain that no prop
| osition of the kind you speak of was made to the
controlling men of the New York Delegation
President-Well, Sir, am equally certain that
the offer or proposition was made and in good faith
and you men of New York refused to accept either
of these gentlemen. From that it was evident you
were determined upon breaking up the Democratic
| party in the Union, as you have done in your own
| State where you have been engaged since 1874 in
abolitionizing the Democracy, and thereby throw
ing the State into the hands Of the Opposition.
New Yorker-Well, Mr.. President, if we have
done all that you charge us with, we have the salts
| faction of knowing that we have had the support
and endorsement of every Democratic Administra-
| ton from that day to the present.
The hour of two having arrived, when the Pres
dent is expected to take leave of his friends, this
conversation abruptly brought to close.
A correspondent of the Charleston Courier sug-
gests that Mr.. Breckinridge withdraw from the
canvass, and Mr.. Douglas do the same; the people
| then nominating ticket, on which Governor Ham
mond of South Carolina be the candidate for
President; and Edward Everett, of Mass, for Vice
President
EXTENSIVE DELIBERATIONS UPON THE UNITED
STATES MAIL-ARREST OF THE RoBBER.-For month
or two past there has been an extensive and sys.
tematic robbery of the mail bags between Montreal
and this city, and between Montreal and New
York, something like a dozen mails between Mon
treal and New York having been plundered, and
eight between Montreal and this city. The robber
was evidently we'll provided with keys to the bags,
for though upon the arrival of the pundered mails at
the post-oice in this city the bags were locked and
had no appearance of having been tempered with,
yet it was in every case found that the Boston
packages were missing. These packages undoubt-
eddy contained large amount of drafts and other
property of value, but it is not known that any very
| large amount of money was secured by the rob-
bers. AS it was suspected here, that the robbery
was effected at or near Rutland, where the bags
remained for the night, the post office authorities
| gave order week or two since, to change the
mails to the Grand Trunk route and they have
since been received in an undisturbed condition.
| For number of weeks the United States post
| Office detectives have been on the alert, and the
telegraph informs as that they yesterday arrested
| John Wbitcomb, for robbing the American and
| Canada mails, while under his charge, at the Rut-
land ostolice: He had spent 5000 lately, in Can
ada money, and had a number of skeleton KEYS
upon his person. In addition to the above we
learn by Geographic despatch from Vermont
that there is doubt that Whitcomb is the person
who has been committing the late wholesale plum
| der of the Montreal mails as the mail bags were
| in his charge al night in the Rutland Office This
is the greatest of mail robbery since that OF
Mr.. Tuckerman.-Boston Trare2er, Julys.
THE OCoNNELL FAMnY.--Mr. Daniel O'Connell
of Derrynane Abbey grandson of ''the Liberator,'
| after having completed his course of study under
| Mr.. Hanson, the eminent British architect, and
| improved his observation by inspecting the best
| specimens of church architecture in classic lands
| has determined to commence his profession in Dub
lin as an architect. No one will dissent from the
opinion that 1t is most crediable to the good sense
| of the young gentleman that he desires to devote
his active and intelligent mind to practically useful
objects, although possessing an independent patri-
mony. MIR. O'Connell fills this year the Office OF
| high sheriff of his native county of Kerry.
| A New EscULENr.-Tbe French Academy of Sci
ences has just received information of a new escu-
lent OF the tubercular kind, called .Schicama which
grows in the neighborhood of Cuenza, New Grana-
da. 1t is shrub, growing to the height of about
three feet; its roots produce two sorts of ubercles
those nearest the surface yellowish and bit
second
are situated much deeper, and white, juicy,
| sweet and are edible raw. The Schcama will bear
cold weather extremely WELL and may, therefore,
be easily introduced into Europe and the United
States, as rival of the beet, since it is an annual
and richer IN sugar.
RAILROADS NOT TO ALTER THEIR TIME WITHOUT No
TICE.-A gentleman in England has sued and recov-
| cred damages from Railway Company, who, re-
| gardess OF their time table, withdrew, without
previous notice, certain train advertised to start
at certain time, whereby he suffered pecuniary
| loss. The Court held that the published times for
starting were species Of contract and had been
| violated. Lord Campbell also decided that the
Company were guilty of making false and fraudu-
| lent representations.
CHILD FRIGHTENED TO DEATH BYA MONKEY
A little girl, twenty seven months old, was so
scared by the sight of a monkey few DAYS since,
in Philadelphia, that death resulted from her ter
ror. The child was playing at the door of her
fathers house, when an organ grinder with mon
key came along. The child became terrified, and
congestion of the brain resulted from the excited
condition of the sufferer. She died on the second
day after her fright.
P. T. Barnum writes as follows to the New York
World:
If the exhibition of the Great Eastern is contin-
ued ten days longer at charge of one dollar, with
out, In the meantime, assuring the public that the
price will soon be reduced to fifty cents or what is
better, twenty five cents, / think public curiosity
will be killed beyond hope, for my experience
proves that to dead curiosity there is no resur-
rection.
Crops are represented as looking splendidly in
every part of Minnesota. Rye is very forward
and IN line condition. The crop of winter wheat
will be much better than was expected. Spring
wheat may be summed up in word as "magnifi-
Gently great" Potatoes are looking up vigorous
~. Corn is coming on rapidly, and the crop will
De very large The oat crop is said to be equally
promising.
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