The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1860-09-19
POLITICAL rNTELLIeENcE.
- - The Midland Sentinel (republican),
VIII W not support James Birney for Lieut..
Governor. That pill is too bitter.

n The Midland Sentinel (republican),
VIII not support James Birney for Lieut..
Governor. That pill is too bitter.
1t is fact to be remembered that
HANNIBAL Hamlin, tho Republican candi-
date tor Vice ce-President voted against the
admission o. Oregon into the Union, with
its free constitution.
= The Worlds WASHINGTON corros-
pondent says Gov. Wiso has determined
not TO take the stump and that the Vir-
ginia Breckinridge leaders are discouraged
in consequence.
- The Union and democratic State
committee Of New York have substituted
John Mum, of Utica, on the electoral
ticket, in place Of Huntington. Mr.. Mum
has accepted.
- Fred. Horn, one Of the best German
speakers in the United States, and fully
equal to Carl Shurz, has taken the stump
in Wisconsin for Douglas, and is doing
effective service.
= On South Water street, Milwaukee,
before little shanty, hangs the following
sign: I" Republican Wigwam-Lager
beer, . glass for cents;" being bid
for tho German vote.
= The official returns from Arkansas
show Rector's majority TO bo 1860;
Hindman's, for Congress in the first dis
trict, 1O,352; Gannts, in the second dis
trict, 1862.
= The Springfield Qll) Register
says: ave learn that somo three hun
dred Germans who voted the Lincoln
ticket, at Peoria, in 1853, are for Douglas
and democracy now." ee
- The Cincinnati Enquirer says:--
One of the Douglas clubs in the Fourth
Ward of this city numbers 622 members.
The usual democratic vote of the ward is
less than 700! The Fourth will give a
tremendous majority for Douglas"
= One of tho most prominent features
of the great Douglas demonstration at
Goshen, Ind, on the oath ult., was a
large delegation of voters who bore ban
ner inscribed, We voted for Fremont
in SO; we vote for Douglas in 60"
= The Marion (Ala.) american says:
Last week bet of $500 being mado
that there were not fifty Douglas votes
in Selma, thorough canvass Of the city
was made, and the following figures were
obtained: Bell, 22s; Douglas, l43;
Breckenridge, IT,"
= The Mineral Point (Wis.) htelH-
gencer pitlnly says" We hear daily that
Douglas is politically dead The re-
pubicans must possess little courage to
be so terribly afraid of dead man. How
Douglas would frighten them if he were
only alive"
= The Quincy 1ll) Herald says:-
CAT their meeting in Augusta, two weeks
since, the black republicans had in their
procession thirty-four young ladies. dress
ed in black from bonnet to shoe, in deep
mourning for old John Brown
= The st. Louis Republican says:--
"a friend who is well posted, writes us
that the Breckinribge men in Illinois are
fast falling into line with the democracy,
to beat Lincoln, and that probably not
more than 1900, if so many, in the whole
State, will bolt"
- The Breckenridge wing of tho De-
mocracy of Illinois held State Conven-
ton at Springfield on the llth,and adopt
ed resolutions indorsing the nomination of
Breckenridge and Lane. Thomas M.
Hope was nominated for Governor.
This is the only hope Of the party.
= Banks, of Massachusetts,, has been
made Doctor of Laws. 1t is done, says
an eastern paper, because he has doctored
the laws of Massachusetts till they won't
let n white foreigner vote there till two
years after he has been naturalized, while
they put negro through without wink
ing.
- INDIANA.-Thc Evansville Eaqui-
rer says: We are informed by person
in Poseyvile that Mr.. Joseph Endicott,
of that place, has sons, sons-in-law, and
grandsons over twenty-one years of age,
to the number Of seyenty-four, all Of
wnom VIII vote Tor douglas and Johnson,
himself included.
= The black republicans at Wauke-
gan, ILL.,, few days since, attempted to
hang up a banner, and, upon coming
down from the building where they had
tackled it, found that it was wrong sido
ont, or, in other words, Lincoln and
IIamlin were nailed to the wall; and so
little interest did they take in tho matter
that they did not change its position.
= A letter from Washington 10 the
Cincinnati Enquirer says: "Mr. Lincoln's
friends here make no secret about their
indignation against Seward for making
speeches during this campaign. Every
thing, they declare, was working so ad-
mirably until Seward put in his oar
They assert his intention is TO load Lin
coin down with offensive doctrines, SO
that ha cannot rtn on1 iLo,, Ill L..