Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-08-31
POLITICAL ITEMS.
A correspondent of the Chicago Press and
Trihnna writing from ITrhana I'll saws.

now utSlltule Oh regularly SetIieu pastor, uul
the vacancy is supplied by occaeion visits from
priest living in Kankakee. Yesterday this
priest preached to the congregation and in
formed them in his sermon that Mr.. Douglas
was a Catholic, and that they, the voters,
must all support him as such.
Hon. John Bell has recently written letter
in which he handles popular sovereignty with
out gloves. The Douglas men ought to have
kept the old gentleman still until they could
haxe got things put into better shape in New
York.
The Albany Journal says that without a
union with Know Nothingisn, Douglas would
have been beaten $4,000 in New York, and
with such union, he will be beaten $4,000.
The Hon. Edward Bates of Missouri, now
visiting friend in Norristown, Pa, was sere-
naded by the Wide Awakes, on Friday even
ing. He made short address, in the course
of which he passed high eulogium upon the
patriotism and honesty of Abraham Lincoln,
and, for an exposition of his political views re-
ferred to his letters which have been recently
published.
Gus old friend, G. Copeland, writing from
Evansville, Indiana, says You can put
Indiana down o. K. for honest Abe. Last
night there was a Lincoln Club Of 36 voters
formed in township in this county, where
hut Republican votes were pollcd in So
Kenton Republican.
PIRATES WAxrED.-Iu view of the impunity
with which the landing of slaves ol the Gull
coast is carried on, through The do-nothing pol
icy of the present Administrative the Houston
(Miss.) Petral advises all Southern men TO get
into "ths grandcst of all schemes to ciyilizc
and christianize the heathen." 1t SAYS: 1T
is a great and glorious field for enterprising
young men and they should go into it by all
means
The attempted fusion of the Brecsriridge
and Douglas factions in Virginia having utter
ly failed, that State may be set down as NOR
ally certain to go for Bell in November.
The San Francisco Times predicts that
Douglas will not get as many votes in Califor-
be behind both him and Lincoln the latter of
whom will carry the State unless all signs fail
Hon. J. G. Breckenridge has written let
ter in answer to the invitation of numerous
personal friends TO make a speech, "foI the
purpose of publicly vindicating himself from
the violent personal assaults made upon him
since his nomination for the Presidency at Bal
timore." The time fxcl is the 5th OF SepIem-
Der, and the place "near Lexington"
THE BELL-DoUGLAs CoALITIoN.- New
York Sun. paper of decided Democratic lean
ings, says of the Bell-Douolas coalition in that
State:
Exactly such coalition at this has never
before been seen, even in politics, and it is i'm
probable that its success will be such a. to en-
courage a speedy repetition of the experiment.
1t is doubtful if the double headed ticket will
receive as many votes as pure Douglas ticket
would have commanded.
The Connersvie Qnd.( Times gives the fol-
lowin cheering account Of the prospects i'll that
part of the State:
In this county we will increase our majority
one hundred in Union fifty to sevcnty-ive; in
Rush two to thre. hundred while in Franklin
we will knock from two to to three hundred
off the Democratic majority. We have been
among the people and know what we are talk
ing about. The ineredulous may cut this out
and read it after the election.
The New York Times remarks of the Bell
Dnug'as intrigue
The Republicans of this State have no ap-
prchension from the coalition that has been
formed against them. They believe that it
will forfeit the support of thousands of voters,
who, under other circumstances, would not
vote the Republican ticket.
The Boston Post SAYS that Gov. johnson,
-, Il.
ticket-said in recent speech at Augusta,
Ca, that if any one could prove to him that
Mr.. Douglas was in favor of squttter sovcr-
egnty, he would vote for Slr. Breckenridge.
The Mt. Gilead Sentinel says that Gen. E.
w. Benson of WestfeId township. Morrow
n soldier of the war of 1912, and lifelong
Democrat, has come out for Lincoln.
The Osceola (Florida) Companion states
that on Thursday night of last week Douglas
was hung in efigy in that place, while Johnson
lay at the foot Of the tree, looking up in des-
pair. On the following night the figures were
committed to the flames.
When Buchanan retires from Office and his
legacies are paid, the public debt wI have in
creased to about 10000, 900 exclusive of
$40, 100000 which Gen. Pierce turned over TO
him. u
Thus stands the press of Texas. Al for
breckenridge and Lane;a for Houston 2
for Bell and Everett, and 2l non-committal
Total 81.
The Cincinnati Enquirer is down. on the
late compromise in Pennsylvania with as Ruch
bitterness as the PLAIN Dealer, and although
not SO honest in aYowing in words its prefer
ence of the election of Lincoln or Bell over
Breckenridge, it really holds to the same doc
Democrat
Mr. Yuncey, in his speech the other day al
Huntsville, said
The cortest in 1856 was barely wun by
united Democracy. We are DOW divided
have only 127 votes, in the whole Southern
States with Oregon and California, divided be-
tween Breckenridge, Bell and Douglas.
A Southern Editor says that, POLITICAL, Mr.,
Douglas is as dead as if he had lived before
the flood, and had not been admitted to the
ark.
Senator Seward gave the true theory of the
case when on being recently asked in relation
to the Union movement in New York against
Lincoln. he replied, that "the more they unite
the more they won't carry it,
In one establishment in Columbus, O., forty
1--WE Germans, who have hitherto acted with
the Democracy, have formed Lincoln Club.
The New York Courier and Enquirer says
there is no foundation whatever for the state
ment that Mr.. Seward will decline TO serve
annotber term in the U. S. Senate.
In his Norfolk speech Judge Douglas virtu-
ally acknowledges the election of Lincoln by
the people.
VorE OF NEW YoRK.-In 1856 the popular
vote for President in the Empire State was :
For Fremont ..............2 276, ,007 |
For Buchanan Observation-Disclosures. .I96,878 |
IT,. lr;J.,oo 1o6 eaz |