Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1858 — Laws of Divorce. [ARTICLE]

Laws of Divorce.

We have thirty-two States, and there are almost as many different laws of divorce as there are States. Th» reader may see some of these differences in the following statement: * - In the States of Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, tvvo-thirda of the Legislature must concur with a decision by the Court to niuk;e a divorce. .14 In Delaware, »I dryland, Virginia, South Carolina, Louisiana and Missouri, no divorce can he granted but by special act of the Legislature; and South Carolina has nc-ver granted a divorce. In the States of Connecticut, Ohio and lllinbisi, all .divorces'are total. In Massachusetts, New York and North Carolina, nothing but adultery is cause of divorce. - In Illinois two years’ absence only is a cause of divorce*. In Indiana, we believe, anything is a cause in the discretion of tiie Court. In the recent Presbyterian Assembly at' Chicago, an elder from that State arose, on the trial of Air. Shields, and said, “that as he came from Indiana, he'desired to put on record that Amos Davis goes against divorce!" — Cincinnati Gazette. Prayer for Pardon. —A petition was forwarded recently' to Hon. T. H. Hicks, Governor of Maryland, signed by one hundred and fifteen ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Black River Conference, asking for the pardon and redress of Rev. Samuel Green, a colored local preacher, who is mow lying in the Penitentiary ol that State, under the sentence of ten years’ imprisonment, for having in his possession a copy oi Uncle Tom’s Cabin. —iVew York Express. To PuItiLISIIEKS OF NeWSPAFERSIIN INDIANA. — We wish to obtain two or three extra successive copies of every newspaper and periodical published in the State, the name, editor, <sec., of which we wish for compilation in the Indiana State Gazetteer for 185 S-9, now in course of preparation by G. W. II awes, publisher of the Illinois State Gazetteer, and other statistical works ai the West. Send to Commercial Telegram, Indianapolis, Indiana. Publishers by inserting this notice,Wifi aid in accomplishing a good work for our State. - (ffy'l hp Parke County Republican publishes the following notice of a phenomenon that has lately appeared in that vicinity: “On thje land of Hon. J. G. Davis, one mile east of Montezuma, on the prairie, witliin the past week or two a large spring has burst forth from the earth, and boils up the size of a flour barrel, we are informed. The water is standing in pondsf and has overflown and killed a quantity of corn. Who can explain the cause of this?” {pf7”Kossuth, when in America, wrote a private letter to an English friend, which is just made public, and from which we learn w hat he tho'uglit of our treatment of him. He said: “They" ha vcJaored me with triumphant entries, and invitations and addresses, but by submitting to this annoying part of my mission, I had the opportunity of drawing their attention to their foreign policy.” (gs“Bowlt'gs has been making another speech at Now Orleans: •‘T stand up here big chief, brave warrior. I kill beep your people before I can do him again easy; give Billy seven good men to follow on the war track, and he lick.all the United States, scalp big father at Washington! Whoop!” OJ“We learn from the Kent (Aid.) Yews that Air. Chas. L. Bowers, an anti-slavery resident of Kent county, was tarred and feathered by a mob, recently. He was tlieu let go on' promise to leave the State in twenty-lour hours. The same party also whipped and Tarred and feathered a free negro woman named aged silty years. ( YT’A newspaper in New York says that Mr. Waters, the door-keeper of a theater, while going home one night recently, was attacked by a couple of garroters, who’m he frightened away by drawing a steel spectacle case and threatening to stab them with it. A BEAUTIFUL gem. There’s many an empty cradle, : There’s many a vacant bed, There’s many a lonely bosom, Whoso joy and light have fled. For thick in every gravo-yard The little hillocks lie— And every hillock represents An «ng«l in the skv