Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1858 — Senatorial Convention. [ARTICLE]

Senatorial Convention.

The Senatorial Convention was held at this place on “Thursday last. There were., but few delegates from Jasper county, and but few from the country in this county.; Lake county was well represented. As cun ' be seen by the proceedings, published in an- ’ other column, Mr- David Turner, ot .Lake, received the nomination. Air. Turner is a man of fine abilities; well acquainted with pat liamentary usages, having served in the ItAler brunch of the Legislature; a thoroughgoing, out-and out Republican; a man universally esteemed, and one who cannot be, approached by a dishonorable suggestion, and , whom no amount of money can buy. It will, no doybt, be gratifying to some; Democrat, next October, to know he was J beaten by such a man. Now that Mr. Turner is on the track, it is the duty of every Republican throughi-ut the district to leave no honorable meanS "untried, to secure his election. -The term for which he is to be i elected is no unimportant one. During the; time, one, and we believe two, United StatesSenators are to be elected. It is important therefore that we secure the election of as ! many members of the Legislature here ini the North as possible, so that we may be ■ represented in the highest body of our (Jon- ; gross by good and true men, not doughfaces; by men who believing in the dignity of free; labor - ; will protect the Interests of free white men from the encroachments of slave labor; men who will not bow down and lick the dust, advocating the Dred Scott decision and the universality of Slavery, nor advocate such monstrous doctrines as the present bo-'j gus incumbents, that a Convention formed j for a free people, no matter how objectionable to them, should not be offered to them ; for their approval or rejection, but be forced upon them against their will. Such then, is the importance of this contest that all personal preference* and prejudices shpuld luid aside; as in the maintenance of our heaven-born principles individuals -eink into utter insignificance. Let us therefore open the canvass on principle, with a i heart and a will.— Valparaiso Republican. | A Female Pirate—The Cleveland Herald states that the discovery has been made that a woman who is known by the sobriquet of “Mother Keys,” is the head and front of a gang of river and wharf pirates, who have levied unlawful tribute from the forwarders and merchants on the Ohio. She was in the habit of assuming male attire, when going out upon her ndcturnal raids, and is supposed to have quite a numerous gang of men under her control. Among their plunder was SSOO worth of gin, the barrels only being recovered. A hen in Philadelphia has hatched out 56 chickens at one hatch. The lad who had charge of the fowl made a large nest in the ground, and had the hen sitting on some wads of cotton for a day or two previous to putting in the eggs. He then placed the eggs, fifty-six in number, under her in two tiers, and each day changed the tiers, placing the upper one beneath the other tier. In twenty-one days the entire batch was hatched out safe and sound. New York Daily News says that Mr. William B. Astor, has determined to build three large steamships, at a cost of about a inrillion of dollars each, for the philanthropic purpose of giving employment to idle mechanics. The New York Times doubts the correctness of the announcement, and well it may. OtfThe editor of the Savannah (Gs.) Republican hia been presented- with a vratermellon weighing b!hk pounds.