Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1858 — From Kansas. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]
From Kansas.
St. Louis, July 23. The Kansas Herald says that General ’ Galheun has issued certificates of election to all tho§e elected under the Lecompton Constitution.., f ' The Free-State members from Leavenworth county receive certificates, which give that party a majority in both branches of the Legislature. The returns for Stat e officers will be made to the Legislature, in whose hands the whole subject rests. The Herald exhorts the people to vote for the ordinance, and settle the question, without further strife or agitation. Chicago (Ill.) Press and Tribune Bays that a mpeting of farmers was lately held at Baden, in that State, to regulate the prices of labor during the harvest. Jt was agreed and resolved that SI,BO per day was good pay, and that the demand of more ought to be resisted. The Alton Democrat gays that in the vicinity of‘that city $1,50 is the established price. Two dollars per day has been paid in some localities in the Hguthecn part of the State. . KrOn the morning of July L6th an accident. occurred to the express train on the Vork and Erie railroad, at Shin Hol-seventy-five miles from New York city, The two hind cars of the train were thrown from the track, by the breaking of a rail, and, with their contents, were precipitated down an embankment of thirty feet. As far aa known, five were killed, and about fifty badly wounded.
THE RENSSELAER GAZETTE. RENSSELAER, IND. WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1858.
