Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1858 — Page 1

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|Hrg. ' A KISS AT THE BOOK. The clock struck tpn; I seized my hat And bade good night to all, Except the lass 1 courted, who Came with me through the hall. She stood within the portal, And I gazed upon her charms, And oh.’ 1 longed that moment To clasp 3 her in my arms. She spoke about the moon and stars, How clear and bright they shone; 1 said i thought the crops would fail, Unless w? had rain soon. Then I edged a little closer, <Put my arms around her waist, And gazed upon those rosy lips 1 lunged so much to taste. Said I, “My dearest Susy, i’ll never rest contented— If i leave .to-night without a kiss, I’ll sureiy grow demented.” Then up she turned her rosy mouthy And everything was handy, Quick irutai her lipa 1 sei2.ua a kiss— Oh, Yankee Boodle iJandy! v • - Then of! for heme I started, 1 could mo lunger stay., ith light! heart and breetches thin, 1 nlhistlud all ihe way. Hence learn this truth, each bashful youth, Vv bo seeks for wedded bliss, No lass will love until you move Her feelings with a kiss.

: Mlisallanrons. I’lie Colonel’s Horse. I have never been able to ascertain the cause of the Quarrel between the Crn kleys and the Drakes. They have lived within a mile of each other in Illinois foFffive years, and from their first acquaintance there had been a mutual feeling of dislike between the two families. One day Mr- Drake the elder was returning home with a pocket full of rocks from Chicago where he had been to dispose of a load of graiii/and Sam Barton was on the wagon with him. As they approached the grove which intervened between them and Mr. Drake's hdtise, he observed to his companion : “What a beautiful shot old Crickley’s roan is over yonder.” “Hang it, so it is,” muttered old Drake. The horse was standing under some trees, twelve rods froin the road. Involuntarily Drake stopped his team, ( He glanced furtively around, then with a queer smile thejold hunter took his rifle from ■ the bottom of the wagon, and raising it to his shoulder he drew a sight on the Colonel’s horse. “Beautiful,” muttered Drake, lowering his rifle with the air of a man who had resisted a powerful temptation. “I could drop old roan so handsome.” “Shoot!” suggested Sam Barton, who lovetufun in any shape. j/Co, twont do,” said the hunter, glancing j Gjmti jusly arouipd. 1 ““I won’t tell,” said Sam. “Wail, I won’t shoot this time, tell or no i tell. The horse is too n gh—if he was fifty rods off, instead of twelve, so there would be a bare possibility of m staking him for a deer, I’d let fly.’ As it is, I’d give old Crickley five dollars for a shot.” At this moment the Colonel himself step- , ped from behind a big oak, not half a dozen paces distant,land stood before Mr. Drake. “Well why don’t you shoot!” 'The old man stammered out some word. : in confusion. “That you, Colonel! I —l was tempted ' to I declare. Blit as I said, I’ll give you a I V for a pull.” “Say an X, and its a bargain. Drake felt tor his rifle, and looked at the old horse. ’ * “How much is old roan wuth!” he whis-' pered in Sam’s ear“About $50.” “Well, I’ll do ilt. Here’s an X.”The Colonel pocketed the money, mutter- ( ing,*“l’ll be. hanged it I thought you’d do it.” i With high glee; the old hunter put a fresh ; cap on his rifle, stood up in his wagon and ; drew a close sight on old roan. Th: Colonel put his money in his pocket and chuckled too. Crack went the l rifle. The hunter swore a horrid oath, which I v. ill not here repeat. Sam was astonished, the Colonel stared; old roan never stirred. Drake stared at his rifle with a face black as Othello’s. “What’s the matter with you, hey! fust time you ever seived me such a trick I swan!” And Drake re-loaded his piece with great wrath and indignation. “People say you’ve lost your knack of shooting,” said the Colonel, in a tone of cutting sarcasm. “Who said s<>! It’s < lie!” thundered the enraged old hunter. “I can shoot ” “A horse at ten rods. Ha! ha!” Drake was livid., “Eook here, Colonel; I can’t stand that,” he began. “Never mind, the horse can,” sneered the Colonel. Grinding his teeth, Drake produced another X. “Here,” he grow,led, “Frn bound to have my shot.” > “Crack away,” siaid the Colonel, pocketing the note. JYruke did crack away—-with deadly aim, too, but the horse did not, mind the bullet in the least. To the rage and unutterable disgust of the old hunter, roan stared him right in the face as it he rather liked the fun. “Drake,” cried Sain, “you’re druiFk. A horse at a dozen rods! O Lord!” “Shut your-mouth, or I’ll shoot you!” said old Drake. “That man lies that says I can’t shoot.

RENSSELAER. JASPER ftfUNTY, IND., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4. 1858,

Last week I cut a goose’s head at fifty rods anid I can do it again. Crickley, you can laugh now, but I’ll bet you fifty dollars I can bring down old roa,n at the very next shot.” The wager was readily accepted. Ths stsikes were placed in Sam’s hands. Elated with the idea of winning back his two tens, an I making an X in the bargain, Drake carefully selected a perfect, ball, and with*i» buckskin patch carefully loaded his rifle. •_ It was now nearly night, but the hunter was in the habit of boasting that he could shoot, a bat on the wing by starlight, and without hesitation he drew a bead on old roan’s head. A moment later and Drake was driving through the grove, tlie most enraged and desperate of men. His rifle, innocent victim of fire, lay with a broken stock in the bottom of the wagon. Sam Barton was too much frightened to laugh. In the meantime the gratified Colonel was rolling oil the ground convulsed with mirth, and old roan was standing undisturbed under the trees. . i When tild Drake reached homo, his two sons discovering his ill humor and the mutilated condition of his rifle; hastened to arouse his spirits with news which they were sure would make him dance with joy. “Clear out!” growled the angry old man, “I don’t want to hear any news; get away or I'll knock you down!” “But father it is such a trick played on old Crickley:” “Old Crickley!” asked the old man; getting interested. “Glad if you have played the Colonel a trick; let’s have it.” “Well, father, Jed and I, this evening went out for deer—” “Hang the deer, let’s hear your trick.” “Couldn't find any deer, but I thought we must kill something, so Jed banged away at the Colonel’s old roan—shot him dead.” "Shot Old Roan!” thundered the old hunter; “Jed did you shoot the Colonel’s horse?” “Didn’t do anything else.” “Then,” said Jed, confident that the joke must be agreeable to his father, “Jim and I propped him up and tied his head back with a string and left him standing under the tree just as if ho was alive. Ha! ha! isn’t i-t a joke!” Old Drake’s head fell on his breast. H ■ felt his empty pocket book and looked at his rifle. Then in a rueful tone he whispered to the boys: “It’s a joke, but if you ever tell of it—or if you do, Sam Barton—l’ll skin you alive. I have been shooting at that dead horse for over half an liour, at ten dollars a shot.” At this moment Sam fell into the gutter. He had laughed himself almost to death.

the Illustrated Gallery of New York Rogues.

How their Portraits are Taken. ! j The Rogues’ Gallery is growing into an f important institution. The collection of I portraits known by that name and exhibited iat the Detectives’ Rooms in the General i Police head quaiters, corner of Broome and j Elm streets, now numbers nearly two hun- | dred and forty. The advantages of the idea (are daily illustrated, in enabling persons to (identit y burglars, pickpockets and other vil- : lains by whom they have suffered. Yesterjday fdr instance, a man whose house was j broken into by a fellow whose face he had ; seen, but who had escaped arrest, looked ■ over the gallery and instantly spotted the ( perpetrator; anil another person who had his pocket picked, recognized the “Knuck” ! among the portraits, ana officers were at ( once put. on the track of the guilty parties. ; By a frequent examination of these photographs, ihe detectives become so familiar with them that they easily identify the originals on the street; and the regular members of the Department, as far as they choose derive a similar benefit from the exhibition. i Sometimes criminal refugees from other ( cities are picked up in this way. For exain- ■ pie, not' long ago a fellow was arrested here (on suspicion of being a pickpocket, and his ; face was added to the gallery. A Boston policeman happening to be n town shortly afterwards, recognized this man as a burglar who had escaped from his city, and by that means succeeded in procuring his arrest, and he was taken back to Massachusetts and put in the Penitentiary for ten years. Mist men do not object to the exhibition of their portraits in public places; but rogues are decidedly averse to lending their facile ornaments to this gallery, and most of them require a little gentle compulsion before they will consent to sit for pictures. There is a variety of ingenious ways for bringing them to terms. One is, to . fasten placards on their backs, and parade them on Broadway till they give up, out of pure shame—a feeling which is probably not altogether extinct in the breast of the worst of men. One obstinate fellow was escorted up and down Broadway, some, time ago, with a large label “pickpocket” upon him. He held out well for a while, and endured the comments and jeers of the public with a high stoicism, but finally burst into tears and expressed a willingness to have his portrait taken. Another and'rnore common process is to pass the contumacious chap from one station house to another, showing him up to the men at roll call, until he has made the entire circuit of the precincts, unless he gives in at an early stage of disgraceful progress, which he generally does. The rascals, when placed before the camera, sometimes screw up their faces into forms of hightened ugliness, so as to prevent subsequent identification; but they are promptly informed that such grimaces will not be allowed, and that they will be detained till they assume a natural countenance. — Journal of Commerce.

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The Athanasian Creed.

We publish the following creed by Tequest,. it being almdst out of print. It is copied from the Church of England Prayer Book of 1831. Watson says: . This creed, though generally admitted not drawn lip by Athanasius himself, but contained a fair expression of his sentiments. It js supposed to have been perfected in the 1 sth century by Hilary, bishop of Arles. : St. Athanasius, the celebrated Patriarch I of Alexandria, now the leading opponent of Arius and his erroneous doctrines, was a j member of the Council of Nice, where he had great reputation for skill in controversy,' was afterwards banished twice’,' and once obliged to flee into tlie desert. He returned with the other bishops whom Julian the apostate recalled from banishment, and A. I D. 332 held a council at Alexandria where 1 the belief of a consubstantial Trinity was' openly professed. Many now were re- s covered from Arianism, and brought to sub- : scribe to the Nicene Creed. The views of Athanasius have been received in substance by all orthodox -Churches to the present time.

ATHANASIAN CREED.

Whosoever will bet-saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic Faith. * Which Faith, except every #ne do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt, he Isliall perish everlastingly.! And the Catholic Faith is this: That we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity, Neither confounding the Persons, nor dividing the Substance; For there is one Person of the Fa’her, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is ail one, the Glory equal, the Majesty co-eternal”. Such as the Father is, such is the Son, arid such i,s the llolv Ghost. The Father uncreate, the Son uncreatc, ■ and the Holy Ghost uncreate. ■ The Father incomprehensible, the Son i incomprehensible, and the Holy Ghost ini comprehensible. * ; The Father Son eternal; and the Holy Ghost eternal. i And yet they are not three eternals; but one eternal. 4 As also there are not three incomprehensiibles, nor three uncreated; but one uncreai ted, and one imeompreliensib’le. | Sp likewisle the Father is Almighty, the. ! Son Almighty, and the Holy Ghost Al- : mighty. I And yet they are not three Almighties; i but one Almighty. : So the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is God. •And yet they art; not three Gods; but one God. So likewise the Father is Lord, the Sun Lord, and the Holy Ghost Lord. And yet not three Lords; but one Lord. bke as we are compelled by the Christian verity, to acknowledge every Person by himself to be God and Lord, So are we the Catholic Religion, to sav. There be three Gods, or three Lords. ' The Father is made of none, neither created, nor begotten. The Son is pf the Father alone, not made, nor created, but begotten. The Holy Ghost is of the Father and of the Son, neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding. So there is one Father, not three Fathers; one Sm, not three Sons; Ghost, not threeTloly Ghosts. And in this Trinity nine is afore, or after; other; none is greater, or less than another; . But the whole three Persons are co-eter-nabtogether, and co-equal. So that, 'in all things, as is aforesaid, the Unity in Trinity, and the Trinity in Unity, is to be worshipped. He therefore-that will be saved, must thus i think of the Triinity. Furthermore, it is necessary to everlasting : salvation, that he also believe rightly tho ; Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ; ; For the right Faith is, that we believe and i confess, that ouir Lord Jesus Christ, the Son ■ of God, is God and Man; God of the Substance of the Father, be-i gotten before the worlds, and Man of the Substance of his Mother, born in tho world; Perfect God, and perfect Man, of a reasonable soul and human flesh subsisting; Equal to the Father, as touching his Godhead, and inferior to tho Father, as touching; his Manhood; Who, although he be God and Man, yet he is not two, but one Christ. One, not ,by iconversion of the Godhead into flesh, but by taking of the Manhood into God; One altogether, not by confusion of Sub-; stance, but by unity of. Person. For as the reasonable soul and flesh * s j one Man, so God and Man is one Christ; Who suffered for our salvation, descended; into hell, rose again the third day from the dead. He ascended into heaven, he sitteth on •he right hand oil the Father, God Almighty; from whence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. At whose coining all men shall rise again with their bodies, and shall give account for; their own works; • And they that have done good shall go , 1 into life everlasting; and they that have' done evil into everlasting fire. This is the Catholic Faith, which, except a man believe faithfully, he cannot be saved. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost! As it was in the beginning, is now, and] ever shall be. world without end. Amen '

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Dangerous Sport on the Plains.

A correspondent of the <St. Louis Democrat>, following the United States Army, 330 miles from Leavenworth, July 3, writes as follows: “Wolves were seen frequently during the day, and just as we came on the camping ground., a large one started. Gen. Harney’s greyhound caught sight of him, pursued him, overtook him and—never touched a hair. Whether he was afraid of the wolf, or merely friendly to the wolf, I am uable [sic] to say. This chase was hardly over, when a herd (seven or eight) of buffalo were discovered about two miles off. Captain Pleasanton, Gen. Harney’s aid [sic], set out in pursuit, by himself, armed only with a Colt’s pistol, and had a dangerous adventure. His purpose was to run the game toward the camp. He succeeded in driving them in the direction intended, when a body of teamsters, desirrous [sic] of witnessing the sport, came in sight. The buffalo took fright, and made for the hills. The hunter pursued them; but rode a horse which had never before seen a buffalo, and which was hard to manage beside. The hunter singled out a bull, and shot him twice, wounding him each time. By this time he was quite close to him on the verge of one of those clayey precipices with which the place abounds. The hunted animal suddenly stopped, stretching out his forelegs, and wheeling upon them, as on a pivot, thus bringing himself face to face with his pursuers. The horse was unmanageable and rushed on the bull, who set his horns to meet the onset. The collision was fearful. Pleasanton, conscious of his situation, had disengaged his feet from the stirrups, and just as the shock took place, or perhaps a moment sooner, sprung upon the back of the bull, from which he rolled down the precipice. The horse, having been gored in the breast and belly, died instantly. The bull next charged on the dismounted rider; but two more bullets from the revolver persuaded him to change his course. Capt. Pleasanton, I am rejoiced, suffered no personal injury. He took the affair coolly, unbuckled the girths on his slaughtered steed, slung the saddle and accoutrements across his shoulders, and carried them into camp. No torreador or matador in the Spanish circus could have a more formidable antagonist or a. narrower escape. The grand sport of buffalo hunting is now fairly initiated. Capt. Hancock, with the guide, chased another herd for miles. The Captain succeeded in lodging a bullet from the new Burnside rifle in one of them; and the guide hit another; but it was so late that they had to turn from the pursuit before running them down.” ---<>---

Rabies in Indiana.

We find the following article floating ( I about in our exc’uaiiges: We frequently see in our Indiana papers i 1 articles on the extrein 1 richness and product- ( ( iveness of the soil, and the wonderful health- i ! fulness and salubrity of the climate —all of which are true in the fullest sense. But we ( have failed to notice anything in regard to the productivenss of the human family-, in j i this most favored part of Uncle Sam's do- ( ' minions. It ought to be known abroad, th it ; babies gro>v here in a way that woudd satisfy i the most ardent advocate of an “increase in the army.” People who have endured a I childless union for “lo! these many, years” in other States, have been blessed with these ; “well-springs of pleasure,” to the full extent 1 ' of their desires. A friend of purs, from an Eastern Strife, ' ! told us that he was journeying through Jas- ; per county; he found a couple of his acquain- , tances, who had moved there with a family : : of grown up children; but after residing there i awhile, owing to “something in the atnfos- ( phere,” they had begun to collect arotii d them a second installment <■>( responsibilities. Thfese are facts. It would be 'well for 'all ; who wish to raise big babies as well as those 1 who like to see big corn, wheat, potatoes j and evervtliing else that is good to eat—to ( come quick and plant themselves on our ' fertile prairies.

Something Coining.

1 The powers of Europe seem to have taken ; a new inpiration from the motto, “in time of . peace prepare for war,” and are at the work 'of preparation with all their might. The correspondent of 'he New York Commercial Advertiser, writes: “It. is a strange feature in the political history of Europe, at the present moment, ( that every State is arming and fortifying itself against is me imaginary enemy, and that : the works are being hastened, according to ■ their own words, in the provision of events that may soon afrise. Even little Belgium is going to fortify, to the extent of forty millions of francs, one of her own towns — ( at least a majority of her rulers favor the project —and they, like the rest, talk of the overhanging storm. Whence is tiiis storm i ; coming? The naval equipments and fortifi- i cations of Cherbourg, now the principal French naval station, are said to be something bordering on the marvellous for their ■ perfection and magnitude. Thebe works, which are to bo inaugurated by the Emperor in August, will no doubt strike the English ■ naval men with surprise, for nothing in England equals or even approaches them. ( One hundred English men-of-war will be i present at this naval fete.” (jiy’Or.o of the most awful scenes ever witnessed was that at Davenport, lowa, in I which twenty horses were burned. They plunged and shrieked, and, breaking their fastenings, gathered in a mass in the center ■of the stable, and perished with writhing# and noises of agony that seemed almost human voices in the despair of a horrible death.

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NO. 14.

A New Stock of Life-sand.

The following has been forwarded to us by a frfend of “The Circular.” It is too good to be lost: Koneyfrock, a Prill 28, 1855. Ductur H. James— * I see by your advertisement in the newspapers that your sands of life have nearly run owt. i hed no idee sand was so skeercc in yure naiberhud. we hev got a big iland : here about tn miles long where any qwan- ; tity of sand ken be dug up and used very | cxtencive for bilding purposes if yt>u ar most owt i wud like tu get a order tu ship yu sum more very cheepe. the sand is not so fine mabe as sum yuve ceen, but if you will bio in the nusepapers &. git the edaturs tu sa it wuz gude it wude du furs rate. How mutch wude yu yews in a yere &. how mutch wude you giv a hogs hed fur it and pa thefrate. yuers respectfully, b. h. smith. ! p. s. whi dont yu save the sand when it i runs owt and ews it again, if you wude j mix some mulasses with the sand it?wudent i ; run owt so fast. b. h. s.

| A recent communication to the Indian : office, from the Superintendent of Indian I Affairs at San Francisco, reports a strange, I but shocking custom that prevails among ■ all the Indians of California. Tiiis is that of : burying alive. When a widow dies and leaves I young children, rather than trouble them- ' selves with their support, the tribe to which I she belongs will bury the orphans alive. ■The Superintendent .states thaFhe will use all his efforts to put an end to this crueL ' practice, but it has been impossible to pre- ! vent it entirely as yet, even on the Governinent reservations. I . j -(gJ-Earn your own bread, and sec how I sweet it will be! Work, and see hoiYNvell i you will be! Work, and—see how chearful you will- be' Work, and see how independent you will bed Work, and see how happy your family will be! Work, and see how religious you will be! for, before you know where you are, instead of repining at Providence, you will find yourself offering up thanks for all the numerous blessings you will enjoy. The Fruits or Democratic Policy.—All the political blessings that are enjoyed by ■ the people of this country are the result of I Democratic policy. This fact should never . be forgotten.— Quincy Herald. ' An instance of one of these “blessings," i that will probably “never be forgotten,” is the j heavy National Debt that the Buchanan Adi ministration is bringing upon the country. ’ Chicago Journal. (gj“The students of Williams College ! held a meeting recently to decide whether it : should be considered dishonorable to give ■testimony against delinquents charged by i the Faculty with the destruction of property and violation of the College laws. After ‘ a long discussion, the question was decided in favor of law and order by a vote of ; eighty-five to seventy-five. (O”The last words of James Powers who was hung at Washington, when parting from his brother, were, “Let liquor alone.” On the same day, in the same city, of Washington, and almost at the same hour, a j drunken Irishman murdered a girl who would i not marry him. She was asleep at the time, jand died without waking, the knife having i penetrated her heart. ■ exchange notes the observation of . a man of family, who remarked that he would always have remained single if he could have iifforded the expense. What it cost for cigars, concert tickets and confectionariea, < was more than it now cost him to support a wife and .eight children. That’s the experi- , ence of a good many men. Tins Looks Rebellious. —The Washington correspondent of the New York. Tribune states that the articles in the UnioJi attacking Senator Douglas, are written under the eye of Mr. Buchanan, if not ’from his own

■ pen. (£rDaniel Elliott, a butcher at Princeton, Ohio, a few days ago fastened the rope of a cattle-hoisting machine around his own neck, to amuse a little hoy, but after swinging himself off he was unable to Regain his feet, and was strangled. tt _ \ Boston and Lowell Railroad has been in operation twenty-three yoajSj longer than any other road—throughout its whole length—in the country, and-yetyiot one passenger has ever been killed on - £gs~llon. John H. Read, who has been selected by the People's Party of Pennsylvania ( as their candidate for Judge of the Supreme i Court, is an old Democrat who revolted against he Cass nomination in 1848, and refused to support Buchanan in >1856. two-story passenger car has been invented at Philadelphia. The upper story is reached by a small winding stair ease from below. It is not accessible to passengers in crinoline, and is intended for the use of smokers. Lean,formerly postmaster atWorth. Tuscola county, Mich., has been convicted in the United States District Court of robbing the post office, and sentenced to fifteen years in State Prison. (fcyExperimental philosophy—Asking a man to lend you money.

A Barbarous Custom.