Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana (Fanning's, 1853)

Gazetteer/Almanac
Fanning's Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States.... (New York: Phelps, Fanning & Co., 1853), 318.
SAINT BERNARD PARISH, situated in the southeast part of Louisiana, with Mississippi river on the northwest, and surrounded by the gulf of Mexico, and its indentations. Area, 150 square miles. Face of the country, flat; soil, marshy. Seat of justice, ------- . Pop. in 1830, 3,356; in 1840, 3,237; in 1850, 3,802.
Fanning's Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States....

Rapides Parish, Louisiana (Fanning's, 1853)

Gazetteer/Almanac
Fanning's Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States.... (New York: Phelps, Fanning & Co., 1853), 305.
RAPIDES PARISH, situated toward the west part of Louisiana, and traversed by Red river. Area, 600 square miles. Face of the country, in the north and south, hilly, subsiding into an alluvial plain which skirts Red river. Seat of justice, Alexandria. Pop. in 1810, 2,200; in 1820, 6,065; in 1830, 7,559; in 1840, 14,132; in 1850, 16,561.
Fanning's Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States....

Clement Claiborne Clay (Congressional Biographical Dictionary)

Reference
“Clay, Clement Claiborne, Jr.,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000480.
CLAY, Clement Claiborne, Jr., (son of Clement Comer Clay), a Senator from Alabama; born in Huntsville, Ala., December 13, 1816; graduated from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1834 and from the law department of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1839; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Huntsville, Ala., in 1840; member, State house of representatives 1842, 1844, 1845; judge of the county court of Madison County 1846-1848; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1850 to the Thirty-second Congress; elected as a Democrat to the United State
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present

Nebraska Republicans dominate election for delegates to the territorial constitutional convention

Nebraska was electing delegates to a Constitutional Convention that would precede the territory's admission to the Union as a state.  The Republicans elected more than two thirds of the delegates from the fifty-two Nebraska counties.  (By John Osborne) 
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