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LETTER FROM HANCOCK.

Il
ocratic County Convention, held on
Wednesday last, by the next mornings
mail. perhaps they miscarried.
As you are aware, there are two gen.
tlemen of this county, Rev. j. H. Pom
row and John II. Atkinson, Esq, who
have.a sharp eve toward the Republican.
nomination for Congress, in the event OF
a fair chance of election presenting itself.
Should ahy Considerable dissatisfaction
creep into our own ranks from any bad
counsels that may prevail, especially
from any independent action at Ellen
boro on Thursday, they will, Tor at least
the latter named) push earnestly for the
Radical nomination. They are, as doubt
less are our enemies throughout the dis
trict, keeping the very sharpest kind OF
an eve upon our movements. Our oppo-
nents, we must admit are mighty keen
of sight when an Office at all probable OF
capture is in view.
The prevailing opinion here is, how
ever, that if mistaken nomination Is
made by us at Ellenboro, the Republic
ans will fail to make nomination, and
turn over their vote to John }. Davis.
And am satisfied that this is precisely
the programme, / would, therefore, earn
estlv advise that the delegates to Ellen
boro 60 there and make their Ilon1ina-
ton from the taken-for-granted stand,
that a man easily able to beat John j.
Davis must be named. care not what
bis qualifications or claims may be, I'M
less the convention can clearly satisfy
themselves that a proposed candidate
can beat Davis, they must not be sulcld-
al and foolish as to think of placing his
name on the ticket. There are num-
Der of men in our party, several of them
named in connection with this nOmina-
ton, who can easily beat an average Re
publican candidate, in an average cam
pairn; but this is not an ordinary cam
paign, and will not be against the ordin-
AIRY opposition. We must have man
for leader who is able to strengthen, not
further distract our forces-who has the
skill to heal, not the fatal aptitude OF
touch to aggravate the little discussions
disturbing us as they disturb every dom
inant party. For my own part, l shall
have but little hopes of this falls cam
paign, if EllcnbOro does not furnish us
such leader; and j am sure shall not
be alone in my dependency.
A pretty old question of law-interest-
ing to landowners on the Ohio Rivers
undergoing revival in this county. Rev.
John Cowl, who owns farm fronting on
thu river in this county, brought suit sew
eral weeks ago against Thomas Garlic
and others for taking sand from the river
in COwls front, and within low water
mark. The defendants set up claim that
the soil in the bed of the river, up to or
binary high water mark, is public, belong
ing to the State. The Justice f. Atkin-
som found for the plaintiff, Not satisfied
with the decision, the defendants again
went and took sand from the same place,
and they are now sued again by the same
plaintiff before another Justice McDon-
add. who will hear the case on Saturday,
the 22d.
Geo. 4. Stewart, son of Mr.. Ben
Stewart of this county, met with an acct
dent on Tuesday of last week which
resulted in his death on Thursday. He
was carpenter, employed at the time on
the State ReformatOry building near
CanonSburg Washington county, Penn,
from which he accidentally fell, a dis
lance of about forty feet, and was so
seriously crushed that death resulted rs
stated. He was young man of about
% years of age, unmarried, and of eSti-
mable character.
The rains of Sunday. the 2Gth nlt.-sO
sadly memorable in Allegheny City
were supplemented in this county by
others nearly as damaging, in some re-
spects, on Sunday last. They have left
the roads, particularly in that part Of the
county north Of this, in the worst con-
diton they have ever known to be in,
and in some places it will require more
labor end expense to repair and place
them in practicable condition than it did
originally to make them. \ double levy
of road taxes in some of the districts will
barely serve to put them in passable
way.
4 little child of Mr.. Thomas Goodwin,
who lives ut the Bleak House Landing,
below New Cumberland, fell into u tub of
water, on Sunday last, during the TEN,
porarv absence of its mother from the
house, and when discovered was so far
gone that it died. Open tubs may be re-
graded aS the chief snare of death set in
the pathway OF childhood,
CAMILEUS.