Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1858 — BEPBESENTATIVE CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

BEPBESENTATIVE CONVENTION.

The Republicans of Jasper a i.d Pulaski counties will meet in Mass Convention at Francisville, on Saturday, August 7, 'To nominate a candidate for Representative in the State Legislature. OcJyGeneral Lane has been acquitted of 'the murder of Jenkins by the preliminary court in Lawrence. ' • Ccy”Governor Denver, of Kansas, is now' in Washington "City. He intends to return to the Territory before the August election. Senatorial Convention meets tomorrow at Valparaiso. We hope every Jasper county Republican, who can, will attend. remains of Miss Augusta Henkle were followedto the grave last Thursday by a large concourse of sorrowing friends. We noticed many a tearful eye among her young acquaintances and as-ociates. (Pir'The publishers of Em-rson's Magazine and Putnam's Monthly will accept our thanks for back numbers of this excellent monthly. It maintains .its reputation as one of the leading magazines of the country. Price, $3 per annum. We have received the Cosmopolitan Art Journal for March and June, a double number. It is the finest art journal in the country, and the engravings are worth the subscription price. It is published by C. L. Derbyfor the Cosmopolitan Art Association. riotorious Shears, the leader of the Lafayette gang of counterfeiters, who escaped from the Indianapolis jail some weeks since, was arrested a few days ago at Lockport, New York, for passing counterfeit bank bills there. He will probably be taken back to Indianapolis, to stand his trial for making and passing bogus United States coin. i Ctrl t wilf be seen by reference to the proceedings of the Central Committee, rn another column, that they recommend Saturday; August 4, as the time, and FrancisviJle an the place, for holding the R-pre-sentative Convention; and as there is no competent authority to call the Convention, the recommendation will be accepted, unless changed by arrangement of the Republicans of the two counties. Chicago Journal, which has such' a sterling Republican as Clias. L. Wilson and sudh a brilliant e 'ayisl .as B. F. Taylor as it political, arid literary editors, has arrayed i; •!; ftj a new drr s of type, and looks as bright as a. double. < agio fresh fr ini' the mint. It is one of the oldest papers in Chicago, and we trust, may live long, and prosper abundantly.. , ~