The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1860-08-31
POLITICAL NEWS.
DOUGLAS IN MAINE.

touching at Rockland, Camden, Belfast,
Searsport, Bucksport and Hampden, on the
route, at each of which places he was met
by great numbers of his admirers, to whom
he made brief addresses. At Bangor he
made lengthy speech to an immense crowd.
AtAugusta, the Boston Post-Breckinridge
says 10000 people listened to his speech.
From Augusta to Portland, at every rail-
way station, there were immense turn-outs
Of the people. At Portland, where he ar
rived on the 18th, the correspondent of the
Boston Post says:
The demonstration here at the reception of
Douglas was the mos extensive of any that has
taken place during his present tour through
Maine. There were several thousand people in
the procession, and all the streets through
which it passed were crowded with people;
Many strangers are here from neighboring pla-
ces. There was torchlight procession this eve.
ming, with four hundred and fifty torches, and
music and banners. Douglas was called out
and spoke over an hour with great effect.
Twenty thousand people were present. There
was great enthusiasm.
Mr.. Douglas goes from Maine to Virgil
MIA. The Washington correspondent of the
Herald, writes on the 18th, as follows
1t is understood that Douglas and johnson
will take the stump till the day of election, the
former going South and West, and the latter
North, as far as Maine.
Douglas is announced to speak at Norfolk on
Friday of next week, whence he will proceed
down the coast and back through the mountain
districts of Virginia. He will visit Georgia and
nearly all the Southern States, speaking every
day except Sundays till November.
TRUE AS GOSPEL.
"This miserable question:" said Senator
Crittenden in his speech at Louisville the
other day, "should be banished from the
councils of the nation. The southern Sena-
tors themselves, only the other day, agreed
that there is no case now calling for the ex-
ercise of Federal power in behalf of slavery.
The case very probably will never occur.
There is not now single piece of territory
to which slavery would 60 if invited. We
have nothing to quarrel about. Why 60
into distant futurity to borrow trouble?
Why squabble over what we should do in
certain contingencies that may not occur,
even to our children's children?"
WHITTIER DRIFTING!
The telegraph advises us that in the Vir-
ginia Yancey- Breckenridge Convention, held
at Charlottesville, on Friday, Mr.. Will
loughby Newlin made violent disunion
speech, actich 1cas received yth much ap-
plause. Mr.. Breckenridge processes to be
Union man himself, yet the controlling
element of his party organization is the
spirit of disunionism, and the taint of it
must necessarily affix itself to his garments.
If it is too powerful for him to resist or
control, it is his duty as a patriot to aban-
don it at once. What obligation is there
resting on him to continue an association
which, the way it is drifting, cannot but
dishonor his ancestry and blight his own
and his children's fame?
DOUGLAS ELECTORAL TICKET IN GEORGIA.
The strong names of Alexander H. Ste
phens and Augustus R. Wright head the
Douglas electoral ticket in Georgia as elec-
tors at large.
THE VOTE OF MISSOURI.
The vote of Missouri at this election in
dicates an astonishing increase OF population.
In 1856 it only amounted to 100000. This
year-with twenty counties not heard from
the official vote is over 100000. When
the returns are all in the figures will stand
probably as follows for Governor
G. F. Jackson, Douglas). $4,000
Orr, (BelD.. ........................ IS 900
II, Jackson, (Breckinridge). ....... 10000
Gardenshire, Lincoln)... .............. 5000
Total. Observation-Disclosures. $4,000
The probability is that Missouri now polls
closer vote than any other slave State,
save Virginia.
The St. Louis Democrat estimates the
complexion of the next House of Repre-
sentatives of Missouri as follows Republ-
cans, II; Breckenridge men, 26; Bell men,
36 Douglas Democrats, 48. Good bye to
Mr.. James S. Greene, in the United States
Senate.
LINCOLNs CABINET.
We hear it rumored, says the Washing
ton Star, in political circles here, as coming
from reliable Republican sources, that the
following is to be the composition of Mr..
Lincoln's cabinet, in case of his election:
VIM. H. Seward, Secretary of State.
II. Winter Davis, Attorney General.
John Sherman, Secretary of the Treasury.
Cassius NJ. Clay Secretary of the Interior.
Benjamin F. Wade, Secretary of the Navy.
John Hickman, Secretary of War.
Schuyler COlfax, Postmaster General.
KENTUCKY Observation-Disclosures VIC.
TORY.
l. Gen. Leslie Coombs has obtained
majority in every Congressional district
-Q0).
z lie has beaten the Yancey-Breckin-
ridge candidate in the precinct, city and
county OF Major Breckinridge's birth and
residence.
3. He has beaten him in Senator Pow.
ellis town and county.
4. He obtained larger majority in Lex.
ington, where be and Major Breckinridge
both reside, than Mr.. Clay obtained over
James K. Polk in 1914.