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The Daily Dispatch: March 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], Seizure of U. S. Property in Texas--Collision Feared. (search)
Freedom to die. The New York correspondent of the Charleston Courier finds in the Abolition Tribune itself an illustration which points a moral, if it does not adorn a tale. That sweet-scented organ says: "John Van Buren was frozen to death a few nights ago at Syracuse. He was a respectable colored man, about eighty years of age, and was formerly a servant in the employ of ex-President Van Buren, of Kinderhook,"
The Daily Dispatch: March 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
uis, was made Judge, and was appointed by President Pierce one of the Judges at the Court of Claims, from which place he was removed by President Buchanan. He is son-in-law of the late Hon. Levi Woodbury of New Hampshire, and brother of Frank P. Blair, Jr., Congressman elect from the St. Louis district. Gideon B. Wells, Secretary of the Navy. Gideon B. Wells has been for 30 years a leading Connecticut politician. He for some time held the office of Postmaster of Hartford, under Mr. Van Buren's administration, and left the office soon after the election of General Harrison in 1840. During a part of Mr. Polk's administration he occupied an important position in the Navy Department.--Mr. Wells disagreed with his party on the subject of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. He was a delegate from the State at large to the Chicago Convention, and constituted, one of the committee to proceed to Springfield with official notice of Mr. Lincoln's nomination. C. B. Smith, Secre