Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1858 — State Senator. [ARTICLE]

State Senator.

We notice in the last Grawn Point Register that our admirable friend, Dr. Cameron, of the Valparaiso Republican is talked of as a candidate for State Senhtjof, to represent the Senatorial district composed of Lake, Porter, and Jasper count ies v We don’t know how strong the feelings may dxist in favor of the Dr., but this one thipg we do know, that district can’t do a better thing for itself than to put the Drrthrough.' He is a man of decided abilities—a thorough sjid consistent Republican, without any “variation or turning" whatever. He is emphatically the man •or the times and cannot help but make a very popjlar canvass. On the stump, few; if any in Northern Indiani will be acknowledged his superior. We tFfettliat lhe good Republicans there will be to their own interest and place Dr. Cameron in nomination, and he Will “go it” right through the campaign with ease, and satisfaction to his friends.— Westville Herald.

Explosion or Shells in Sebastopol.—A correspondent of the Boston Transcript, writing from Sebastopol, says that the bombshells strewn a bout the city, are still doing their work of destruction. "Within the last year no less than eight deaths have occurred from this cause. The shells are provided with a lock in-the shape of an equilateral cross, with a capsule at each point, and four-little hammers held by a human hair. A sudden jar bruaks-tUu-Ajair, causing the hammer to strike she <<ap, which explodes. A short time previous-td* the date of the letter, two English seamen picked up a shell near the Redan, but finding it rather heavy let it drop, when it exploded, killing one of them and wounding the othefo

The Great Earthquake at Naples.— The Official Journal of the Tiro Scicilies publishes a complete list of alt the; victims of the earthquake at Naples of December 16, 1857. The total number of dead amounts to 9,350, and the wounded to 1,359. It appears that the number of dead has greatly exceeded that of the persons more or less seriously injured.

, Large Fees. The Hamilton county Treasurer’s fees for the taxes oh 1857, his percentage on the amount received for forfeited lands sold, for redemption, and the collection of special school taxes, amount to the pnug sum of $15,002,15. Cincinnati- Commercial.

o^7“From a recent census, ii appears, thut Leavenworth City, although put little over three years old, contains an actual resident population of over eight thousand souls.

o^7*James W. Mitchell, a bey of eighteen, has been appointed United States Mail Route Agent, on the St. Louis, Alton and Chicago Railroad. ?'