Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1858 — A Singular Mistake. [ARTICLE]

A Singular Mistake.

A man named Swane who was sentenced to the Connecticut State prison for ten years for aggravated assault, of which he had served some three or four years, lately petitioned the Legislature for a pardon. This the Legislature refused to do. The resolution rejecting the prayer of the petitioner went to the Governor, who approved it, but in the office of the Secretary of State a singular error occured. A certified copy of! the resolution was made out by a clerk, re- ! leasing Swane, and he was discharged on | Monday last. Whether this mistake can be j corrected, and the man sent back to State I prison, is, in the opinion of the New Haven papers,' a question. United States can boast of the j largest powder mill in the world, owned by the Hazard Powder Company of Connecticut. Another mammoth concern, which has been in successful operation about seventy years, belongs to Du Pont & Co., Delaware. These establishments now supply and govern almost the entire market on this continent, which was controlled by English manufacturers. Their resources are very great. They import saltpetre from India, and keep their own vessels at sea. They have agents located in every town throughout the United States. They supply Mexico, South America, and much of the African trade, besides the United States government. The superior quality of the powder is uni- i versally acknowledged. (gy*Secretary Floyd,, of the War Department, is a great man for backing his friends. An Alabama man by the name of Gordon, has been prosecuting a claim for a number of years for injuries done to a plantation by the Indians. Congress paid him twentyseven thousand dollars, and the treasury department said that was sufficient. Gorden had a bill! smuggled through Congress, referring his claim to Floyd for settlenienty The Secretary awarded him a hundred and forty-six thousand dollars for his loss! An. Galphinism about! 0O”An ingenious novelty has just been brought out on the North Pennsylvania Railroad, in the shape of a station indicator, which inforns the passengers of the name of the station or place which the train may be approaching. A cylonder, placed in a conspicuous part of each car, contains the names ol all the stopping places along the line of the road. As the train reaches or leaves one station the breakeman turns out and exposes •to view the name of the next. It is a great boon to travelers. O/yllon. Thaddeus Stevens, a prominent Republican politician, and a leading lawyer of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, (the home of President Buchanan,) will probably be the sAnti-Adininistration candidate for Congress hi that District. It is stated as a eolemn fact that Mr. Buchanan has scarcely a hundred political friends left in hie own county of Lancaster