Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1858 — SENATORIAL CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

SENATORIAL CONVENTION.

The Repub icans of the counties of Lake, Porteitand Jasper will hold a Convention at t Valparaiso, on Thursday, July 15, To nominate a candidate for the State Senate. Every Republican of Jasper county who is able tp attend will consider a delegate. < -j ’ (£>"The Democrats have postponed their Congressional Convention to the 20th inst. (K!7”The New Orleans Grand Jury did not find indictment against the Vigilants, though charged by Judge'Hunt to do so. (/(/'The Republican Central Committee will meet at the Treasurer’s office next Friday afternoon, at five o’clock. By order of the Chairman. (/(/“Pigeons are quite plenty in this reJ gion now. Messrs. W. D. Lee and J. McCarthy were out yesterday and bagged one hundred and sixteen. •(/(/"The Vermont Republican State Convention nominated Hyland Hill for Governor, B. M-artin for Lieutenant Governor, and Henry B. Bates for State Treasurer. (/(T'Private dispatches from New Orleans furnish the intelligence that a duel took place last Wednesday between Mr. Hanlon, of the Trite Della, and Mr. Gibson, of.the Crescent, in which the latter was killed. k was anticipated, Hon Schuyler Colfax was nominated at Plymouth’, last week. His nomination is equivalent to election, and we think by a greatly increased -majority. •* ' -, .-/■ (/(/“Mr. W. Van .Nostrand, Ambrotypist, has opened a room for a couple of weeks in Laßue’s building. He takes excellent pictures, and we recommend’those in want of miniatures to call on him. (/(/"A slight shock of an earthquake was experienced on the night of the 29th ult. in the vicinity of New Haven, and at Woodbridge, Westville and Waterbury. There have been but two shocks of earthquake in that region for two hundred years. (/(/“The Concert on Saturday night was a safe.inveetment, the singing was sweet, the music melodious, the ice-cream and lemonade refreshing, the ladies beautiful, the gentlemen gallant, and all were as happy and contented as they could be. The amount collected for the benefit of the grave-yard was $36,34 clear of all expenses. (/(/"The Republicans of the Sf. Louis Congressional District, in convention on the 29th ult.f nominated Francis P. Blair, jr., for re-election to Congress by acclamation. Resolutions were passed re-affirming the doctrines of Thomas Jefferson, denouncing the Administration, opposing negro equality, advocating the extinction of slavery in Missouri, and the removal of negroes from the State. Three full tickets are now in the Democratic and Repub* Mean.