Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1858 — “Tempest in a Teapot.” [ARTICLE]

“Tempest in a Teapot.”

F. J. Grand, the YVashington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, says that Kansas never was “more, than a tempest in a teapot, and is even now dying out in Congress}” To which the Ohio Statesman the central Democratic organ of Ohio, repiit-s as follows: “For this tempest in a teapot some of the best Democrats in the country have bee.u turned out of office—for it, felons have heeii retained in office in Kansas—for it, the ablest and most profound statesmen of the Democratic party, North and South, have been reviled by purchased binelings as traitors and n negades—for it, the President has personally solicited the votes' of his friends, and they have been compelled, by a sense of imperative duty, to withhold them—but now, having been baffled and beaten in every attempt ‘to ignore the cardinal principle” of Democracy free governments, these'mercenary scribblers and squallid camp followers tell iis that this-.has been done to quiet ‘a tempest in & teapot’.’ ”

The New Petticoat. —The Belvidere Woolen Company, is now engaged in the manufacture of flannel for the new Balmoral or scarlet petticoat. Good idea, that will save a great ; deaLof washing.

Lottery and Murder. —A terrible crime was recently committed at Trieste. A young workman, who maintained hims-df and his mother by bis daily labor, gained so little that he lived most wretchedly. By dint of privations, he however kaved up sufficient to purchase a ticket in a lottery The drawing took place, and his ticket gained a prize of sixteen-thousand florins. YY’ild with joy, the young man hurried to his mother, informed her of his good fortune, and asked her for the ticket. “Alas! my son,” said she, “Isold it some time back.” YY’ithout a word, the young man drew bis knife and stabbed her until she. felt dead at his feet. He was arresjed the same day*

iLj"Thc Jefferson City (Mo.) Inquirer, i n speaking of some of the symptoms of the disease ill Jefferson City known as “national Democracy.' says: \ _> “The unfortunate patient as soon asAhe word Abolitionist is mentioned in his hearing, begins to swear, jump, kick, hop, skip, roar, charge, tear, cavort, snort, ftp, tumble, sneese* Cough, spit, whoop, stutter, squeal, howl, moan, groan, bellow, bewail, lament, despond, turn pale, look savage, froth at the mouth, roll his eyes, stamp ids foot upon the ground, wheel round and round, fall down and get up again, and thwerdoes alt that over again. Q horrible!!”

[LTM. Chevalier declares that in France at the Jiresent time phosphorus is the most dangerous brm of poison known, having replaced arsenic, which is now so difficult to obtain. He mentions forty cases of criminal poisoning by it.

D*The grape crop of-Indiana, H..»b said, will be greatly lessened this year, in consequence *1 the ladies having taken most of tht vines for hoops.

O'The Indianapolis papers fin 3 fault with Governor YY’illardT for pasturing his cow in the State House yard.

O-Abram Kirk, the last slave in Pennsylvania, died lately in Lancaster county, at the age of 103.