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

THE RENSSELAER GAZETTE. RENSSELAER, IND. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1858.

THE REPUBLICAN TICKET.

For Congress, SCHUYLER COLFAX, ' Of St. Joseph. Attorney General, WILLIAM T. OTTO, of Floyd. Treasurer of State, , JOHN H. HARPER, of St. Joseph. Auditor of State, ALBERT LANGE, of Vigo. Secretary of State, WILLIAM PEELE, of Randolph. Superintendent of Public Instruction, JOHN YOUNG, of Marion. For Supreme Judges. FIRST DISTRICT, HORACE P. BIDDLE, of Cass. SECOND DISTRICT, ABRAM W. HENDRICKS, of Jefferson. THIRD DISTRICT. SIMON YANDES, of Marion. FOURTH WM. D. GRISWOLD, •f Vigo. For Slate Senator, DAVID TURNER, Of Lake county.

SLAVE AND FREE STATES.

Modern Democracy requires but FORTY THOUSAND inhabitants to make a Slave State, but it takes NINETY-THREE THOUSAND to make a Free State; ergo, one Pro-slavery ' man is as good as two FreeState men a id one third’ long as God allows the vital current to flow through my veins, I will never, never, NEVER, by word or thought, by mind or will, aid in admitting one rood of free territory to the everlasting curse of human bondage.—Henry Clay.

REPRESENTATIVE CONVENTION.

The Republicans of-Jasper at.d Pulaski counties will meet in Mass Convention at Francisville, am Saturday, August 7, V To nominate a candidate for Representative in the State Legislature.

COUNTY CONVENTION.

The Republicans of Jasper county will hold their primary elections, to nominate candidates for county officers, On Thursday, August 12, At the usual places of holding elections; and the Board of Canvassers will meet at the Court House in Rensselaer, On Saturday, August 14, To open the returns and declare the result of the vote. The officers to be elected are Treasurer, Sheriff, Surveyor and County Commissioner. • *

JUDGE TURNER,

Our candidate for State Senator, will address the citizens of Jasper county on the 14*h of August, the day of the meeting of the Republican Board of Canvassers. • : 00“ Ten thousand acres of swamp land in this county will be offered for sale at the Court House to-day. oO“Don’t forget that the primary election to nominate county officers, is to be held next week—Thursday, August 12. Let there be a good turn out, so that the actual choice of the people may be indicated. oO“The following distinguished gentlemen are now in town: Aquilla Jones, State Treasurer; Mr. Palmer, Deputy State Auditor; Dr. Noffsinger, Ex-State Treasurer. Lieutenant Governor Hammond is expected to arrive here to-night. oO”The Young Ladies’ Lyceum will give an exhibition at the Court House to-morrow (Thursday) night. The programme will consist of singing, instrumental music, dialogues, &,c. As the exhibition is to be free, we hope the young ladies will be greeted with a full house, and that their efforts will be appreciated by the public.

REPRESENTATIVE CON VEINTION.

The Convention to nominate a Representative for this district (composed of. Jasper and Pulaski counties) will meet at Francisville next Saturday. The district went for Buchanan in 1856 by 134 majority; but, in consequence of the Lecompton swindle, it is .now probable that, should we put up a strong man for Representative, we can elect him; while, on the contrary, if we put a man on the track in whom the people have not the utmost confidence, we certainly will Be defeated, as we ought to be. Therefore, it is of great importance that the Convention be well attended. Let the people of both count’.? - rpcet and confer together, and then net 1 ’<<ni Ann .; out their strongest man, resolving to go home and work for him until election-day. Turn out to Francisville next Saturday

FEMALE REGULATORS IN GRANT COUNTY.

We learn from the Marion Journal that there has been a female riot in Grant county. The facts are these; A young man, dressed as a female, in the bight of fashion, with huge hoops, made by the cooper of the place, paraded the streets two Sundays ago, surrounded by a large number of those favorable to the exhibition. The ladies of the place, considerably exasperated over this burlesque of their new costume, on the next Tuesday evening egged the young man completely. This caused more excitement than ever, and a public meeting of the citizens was called, which adopted, among other resolutions, the following: Resolved, That any person hereafter who may engage in anything for the purpose of burlesquing the_ peaceable citizens of this community, or make any remarks disrespectful of the costume of the same, shall forfeit all claims to the respect and patronage of the citizens of this place. Resolved, That inasmuch as on last Sunday the ladies of this community were publicly insulted by certain persons appearing on the streets in an uncouth and disrespectful custom, they are sustained by this meetin/ in resenting the insult.

Meeting of the Candidates for Congress.

Laporte, Ind., July 22, 1858. Colonel Walker and Mr. Colfax, having met together, with mutual friends, for purposes of consultation in regard to the Congressional Canvass in,.the Ninth District, there were present with Mr. C. Messrs. G. B. Roberts and W. H. H. Whitehead, and Colonel W. Messrs. John Eason and John B. Fravel. Mr. Colfax, being invited by Color.ol Walker to make such propositions as he saw fit, profferred to him for acceptance either one of the following: 1. To make a joint canvass of the district in a thorough manrjer, as has been done in previous campaigns. 2. For each to canvass the country appointments separately, and to unite in a joint canvass of the county seats. 3. For each to canvass the yvholo district separately. To which Mr. Walker objected: 1. Because a canvass of the district by townships would be inconsistent with the condition of his health, which is not good. 2. Because it seemed to him improper that the canvass should be made in any manner other than jointly by the candidates. Mr. Walker mo* iffied the propositions of Mr. Colfax as follows: That the canvass be made jointly, and that, it be confined to the county seats of the several counties of the Congressional District. ° ■ To which Mr. Colfax responded— That such a canvass, so limited in its extent, would not be satisfactory to the people of the district, and that, therefore, he could not. assent to it. Whereupon it was agreedZhat the respective propositions should be reduced to Meriting, and signed by the conferees; and the meeting adjourned. J. C. Walker, Schuyler Colfax, Geo. B. Roberts, Wm. H. H. Whitehead, John Eason, John B. Fravel. It will be seen from the above that the only proposition of Colonel Walker was to confine Mr. Colfax to one speech in each county. The upshot of the u hole matter is, that Colonel Walker is afraid to meet the people on the stump, and endeavored to prevent Colfax meeting them. services will be suspended at the Baptjst Church here next Sabbath, and at the Stone School-house, in consequence of the meeting of the Baptist Association :n the Wesley Spitler neighborhood, which commences next Saturday. £Kj“Jonathan Pancoast will sell, at public sale, twenty-six head of blooded cattle on the 21st of this month. See advertisement in another dolumn. ()it7”Colonel Walker, editor of the Laporte Times, and now candidate for Congress in this district, was formerly a fierce Douglasite. In reference to the nomination of an Administration ticket in Illinois against the Douglas one, he said: “If it could be believed that Mr. Buchanan instigated the work of these officials, ten hundred thousand democratic daggers would leap from their sheaths, in the North, and, with scabbards thrown away, the war would begin to end when the infamy was bleached out in the reeking vengeance of outraged justice.” It has been demonstrated, since, that the Administaation sent Grund to Illinois to assist in the movement, and now encourags it by all means in its power, yet there has not been a dagger leap yet, nor a scabbard thrown away. The dagger bearers have become docile and submissive.— Logansport Journal. N. Skinner, the Democratic nominee for Senator for this district, made a short visit to this place a day or two since to see, we presume, how Democracy and whisky stood; and from his associations while here we conclude he went home satisfied that whisky was all right in Crown Point, and that Democracy was confined principally to his associates. When a man who is put up as a representative for the people in our national councils, will condcsend to visit and drink in our lowest doggeries and lager beer saloons, he should rather be scorned than countenanced. Yet such seems to be the bight of Democratic pride,— —Crown Point Register. Mr- Spurgeon.—The Rev. Mr. Spurgeon preqcTied in the open air at Old Sarum last week- and stated that he would no longer preach in the Music Hall of the Surrey Gardens. The reverend gentleman also stated that if by failed in getting funds for his new tabernacle, it was probable that he would leave this country for America or Australia. tsmdon Globe , s

GARDEN CITY GLEANINGS.

Political Bubbles—Administration Gathering and Row—Sorrowful Casualty—A New Dodge and a Cunning One. Chicago, July 30, 1858. Dear Gazette: Your request shall be complied with to the best of my ability; and I shall, in giving you political matter, write impartially. There is one thing connected with the canvass in this State that has given the journals of both parties a bone to pick at; and which it seems impossible they will cease fighting over for some time to come—the challenge of Mr. Lincoln to Douglas, offering to stump the State in company. If Mr. Lincoln was really desirous to enter into such an arrangement, I think he should have sent his challenge at an earlier day; but the matter was not broached until the committee at Springfield had arranged the programme for the campaign. Because Mr. Douglas has not consented to break through the plans laid down for him, the Republican papers accuse him of cowardice, and call him all kinds of hard names. The Democratic papers—the Times in particular—make a great fuss because the desire ofjMr. L. was not sooner made known; and accuse him of cowardice in not preferring it when he had ample opportunity. Now they are on both sides endeavoring to make mountains out of .mole-hills, dragging up such petty matters to make capital of, because they can’t find anything substantial. Douglas has remedied the matter as far as he can, without disarranging the programme of the committee, by offering to meet Mr. L. at seven different places during the coming month. I have not the least hesitation in giving it as my opinion that the offer will be cordially accepted; that they will meet at the places designated, and address the same audiences. The assertion of the gentlemen being afraid of each other, is mere child’s talk. They are,- as I mentioned in my last, both able and popular men, and each able to hold his own. The contest will be a hot one, and, as you say, an interesting one. Illinois is now the center of attraction to the political world, because all who have watched the current of events for the past eight months are aware that much in the future depends upon the result of the campaign here. It is i time for the Republican party in this State I to work; and they seem to have taken off their coats with a determination that nothing short of a victory will satisfy. Douglas was in the citv a few days since, and looked prepared for the contest. Tomorrow he addresses the people of Paris, 1 .Edgar county. It appears that Mr. Lincoln has withdrawn a charge said to have been made by him, accusing Mr. Douglas of conspiring with the Supreme Court to establish slavery in Kansas and other free territory; and because he has been generous enough to do so, probably seeing he was in error, the opposition commence casting out slurs and remarks, which seem to me as bespeaking a spirit altogether unworthy of the man they are laboring to promote, and wholly undeserved by the one at whom they are leveled. This stage of degeneracy, to which many political writers are sinking, is beginning to lower them in the estimation of a discriminating public. Such low and frequent absurdities as are indulged in, have no good effect with thinking men. On the contrary, when they discover these ridiculous personalities, which really have no relation to the actual merits of the case, but are totally foreign to the issue, they begin to lose faith in the press, and rely upon, in a great measure, their own knowledge, and take nothing as truthful which reaches them through the columns of a newspaper. To bring about such a feeling is clearly wrong and hurtful; it is too much like the fable of the boy and the wolf. Instead of coming out boldly when they have, as in the present canvass, bold men to deal with, they go skulking about and taxing their inventive powers to get up stories which, in nine cases out of ten, are not believed, even by the most prejudiced. Such gas may serve to tickle the fancies of the untutored, but happily in this age they are in the minority; they do not even adhere to that axiom that “honesty’s the best policy.” (Per parenthasis—that should read, honesty is justice; the author meantgwell, no doubt.) The Danites held a meeting here a week since, which came near ending in a row. The Douglas Democrats accused the Republicans as the instigators of the disturbance; and the latter very justly denied the charge, but insisted on throwing the blame upon the Douglas men. The fact of the business was, the matter originated through the misbehavior of a drunken set of vagabonds, whom any one would be ashamed to acknowledge; but, as I said before, they must all have something to make capital of, no matter what, yet! such kind of foundations “are false as stairs of sand,” they will not uphold anything; and the sooner such petty trickery is dispensed with the better, both for themselves and the public. I started out to write fairly, and I believe . I have done so. I have neither sought to palliate, nor have I “set down ought in malice.”’ A few items of more immediate local interest now claim a little attention: A casualty of most distressing character happened off’ our harbor on Wednesday afternoon, in which three young gentlemen met with an .untimely end. Five, whose names are as follows —W. R. Grafton, G.

W. Scott, Harland Peck, A. McMillan and W. H. Palmer, started out on a yacht for the purpose of having a race with a similar craft, and when about a mile and a half to the south-east, their little vessel was struck 1 by a sudden squalll. The ballast, consisting of sand-bags, was shifted from its fastenings, the boat was capsized and sunk almost immediately. The other boat bore down toward them as quickly as possible, but her crew succeeded., in picking up only two of the five—McMillan and Grafton. They were all young men of high standing, and their sorrowful and unlooked-for end has cast a shadow over a large circle of friends. Young Palmer was the son of a retired New York merchant, and Was about starting in business in this city. Scott was a member of the Board of Trade of this city. The Board met yesterday and passed resolutions expressive of their grief at being so suddenly deprived of one of their most influential and esteemed associates. Our Mayor is about perpetrating another reprehensible act. One of the unprincipled blackguards whom John Wentworth has for some time fostered and kept in the city’s service, a since made certain developments which reflected dishonor of the deepest cast upon our authorities. The Mayor and others were called before the Grand Jury on a charge of employing this fellow to visit houses of ill-repute for the purpose of obtaining knowledge of the inmates that they might more easily be filched in order to replenish the city treasury. This tool, who has shown his teeth '(very injudiciously as regards his own well-being, but to the benefit of the community) and evinced a disposition to turn up his nostrils, is deemed dangerous; and while preparations are being made to investigate-the rascality in which he has been employed, his employers have trumped up a charge of arson against him, the result of which will be to send him to Alton before he can be used as a witness against them. The way official matters are conducted in this city, as far as i cunning is concerned, is worth comparison to the palmiest days of Richilieji. There is none of the lion about Wentworth—it is all fox; and I would like to Se'e Mayor Haines throw off his influence. The piece of business alluded to, took our worthy Mayor by surprise, no doubt; but he can’t help himself without helping his long guardian, who is well supplied with money, and of course able to lug himself through any difficulty where mercenaries are concerned, and cunning enough to blind all honorable men who are associated with him.

TO THE REPURLICANS OF JASPER COUNTY.

Hanging Grove, July 31, 1858. Having been urgently solicited by numer-ous-friends to be a Candidate before the Republican Convention to be held at Francisville on the 7th of August next, for the purpose of nominating a candidate for Representative in our next Legislature, I, with considerable reluctance, consented thereto; but since having given my consent, on examining the Constitution of this State, probably I am constitutionally ineligible, as I am acting as Justice of the Peace, and the time for which I was elected, will not expire until next Apriil. Section 16 of article 7 of the Constitution of the Slate of Indiana reads as follows: “No person elected to any judicial office shall, during the term for which he shall have been elected, be eligible to any office of trust or profit, under the State, other than a judicial office.” I take this method of announcing to my friends and fellow-citizens that, under existing circumstances, I think I had better not be presented before the convention, and beg leave to withdraw my name from before the public; at the same time, I would return my sincere thanks to my n ighbors and friends for having so much confidence in my ability and integrity as to have spoken so favorably of me in connection with so important and trustworthy a capacity; and hope, by no act of mine, to lessen that confidence. I have no object in view, other than the good of the cause and its success; and will give my hearty support to any judicious, nomination that may be made. Respectfully,

Presidential Inteference.

When the Lecompton contrivance was before Congress, it was stoutly denied by the Democratic organs, that the President or Cabinet had exerted any influence to trammel or direct the action of Congress. But a voice from the grave has been added to the numerous other evidences of the falsity of such representations. In a letter written at Philadelphia on the 3d of to a friend in Texas, Senator Henderson, since deceased, says: “On the morning of the day the bill finally passed, the President sent for me and made such an earnest and stong appeal to me to vote for the bill, and aid in saving his Administration and the Democratic par-' ty of the North, as to induce me to leave the Senate Chamber and not vote at all, as I would have felt bound to vote against the bill if I had voted.” - inan in Kentucky killed a cow a few days since, in whose stomach was found a large brass ring, a hair pin, and a quantity of hooks and eyea. “Brindl*” had probably swallowed the milk-maid,

A Great Many Little Leaks Let Out a Great Deal of Money.

The unequaled and alarming extravagance of the present Administration divides public attention with its infatuated devotion to slavery. We hear quite as often of great sums of money squandered, as of great election frauds countenanced and confirmed. The Treasury is being hunted through with as much minuteness, and the forays into it traced home with as much perseverance as was ever shown in the investigation of Kansas forays and frauds. It has been found that the Administration has expended a surp us of near $20,(100,000, the regular revenue reaching about $40,000,000; has borrowed $20,000,000, and in the last hours of the late session, obtained leave to borrow $15,000,000 more; which the Treasurer says will be expended before Congress meets in December, and all this in a little over one year. Where, even under the corrupt and costly government of Pierce, we used to keep the expenses far below the receipts, leaving a surplus every year of $15,000,000 or $20,000,000, we now expend every dollar of revenue, and nearly $60,000,000 besides. The revenue has fallen off', it is true, but if it had continued at the highest mark ever reached, it would still have fallen $30,000,000 below the extravagance of Mr. Buchanan’s administration. Now the question becomes interesting; “where does the money go!” We have picked up a few facts which will throw some light on this point, and show how a great many little leaks let out a great deal of money: The Congressional printing is done at such enormous rates that a responsible business man at Washington, Mr. Heiss, agreed to furnish an office at a cost of SIOO,OOO, and do all the work for Congress during the term, at the established rates, and when done he would present the office to the Government. The present printers to Congress have sold out their work at heavy profits to Wendell, the owner of the Union, and yet he makes enormous sums from iflt All the binding, jobs, blanks and everything needed by the various departments are furnished by him. How he comes by such “fat” contracts is explained by the fact that Secretary Toucey owns a paper mill in Connects cut, and furnishes the paper to Wendell. Thus he and the Secretary play into each others hands. This is one leak. Another is found in the pocket of Appleton, Assistant Secretary of State, who gets SIO,OOO a year from the Union, or Mr. Wendell, for taking charge of that sheet, and Wendell don’t give that much lor nothing. The State Department is thus made to help him with good jobs. Here are some other “leaks.” Senator J. C. Jones, of Tennessee, had a contract to supply 1,700 horses, at $159 eaclr, which will make the neat sum of $270,300. It stated tiiat the horses were to be of a particular coloi and size; but when they arrived a Fort Leavenworth, they were found io be of all sizes and all colors, but we.e nevertheless accepted. The brother oi the Hon. J. A. Ahl, member of Congress tor the Cumberland, York and Perry District, had a contract to supply lor the army 300 mules, at $175 each, making $520,500; also, an order for 200 from Russell and Majors, Government contractors, at the same price, amounting in all to $87,000. The kind of mules delivered could be bought readily at $l2O each. It. is unnecessary to add Mr. AhLvpted for Lecompton, and is a candidate for re-election. One singular feature of all those profitable arrangements is, that no Republican or American, CT Douglas man, can be found who has shared in them. Lecompton men only get into such good contracts. The law is, Hint the lowest bidder shall have the contract; yet a case is known of a bidder for a mail contract in this State, who put in a bid of $1,700, the lowest, and got it; but being qn opponent of the Lecompton fraud, the Department was notified of tiie fact, and his contract, on-some f rivolous pretext, was cancelled, and in a week given to an active Lecompton man at $7,000, four times as much as the bid to which it was first awarded. The contract was lor carrying the mail on some of the river routes West, we have lorgotten what one. Another leak of no slight magnitude is the collection of the revenue. Our readers will remember that during the debates on the appropriation bill Mr. Colfax, of this State, moved to strike out the appropriation of $4,000,000 for collecting the revenue, and make it $3,000,000. He showed that the sum demanded was twice as much as Corwin had needed for the same service in Fillmore’s term, and one-third more than was ever needed before. No Administration had ever used such a sum; but the Lecomptonites, whose power over the cities lies in the “sinews of war” that the Custom Houses supply, and in the party drillers who get good situations in those institutions, voted him down, and insisted on spending $4,0t)0,000 to collect a revenue that will hardly exceed $30,000,000. In other words, for receiving the money that comes from the duties, Urey pay nearly twenty per cent. We may guess how money goes, when an Administration demands one-third more to collect the revenue than was ever needed before, though the revenue is nearly one-half-less. The foil >wing figures will show where the money goes. They are statements of the salaries paid to Custom House and other officers, at various places, with the amount they collect. Such offices are profitable—to the party: At Niagara 19 men are employed at an expense of $12,000 to collect $8,000; at Oswego 32 men at SIB,OOO to collect $6,000; at Buffalo 20 men aj 17,000 to collect $10,000; at Burlington 33 men at $16,000 to collect $8,500; at Wiscasset 8 men at $7,000 to collect $130; at Portsmouth 21 men at SII,OOO to co lect $5,500; at Marblehead 9 men at $2,200 to collect $250; at New Bedford 14 men at $7,500 to collect $4,800; at Perth Amboy 13 men at $4,500 to collect $1,500; at Ocracoke 7 men at 2,000 to collect SB2; at Toledo 7 men at $4,400 to collect $567; at Detroit 10 men at $36,000 to collect $485; at Benecia 3 men at $4,400 to died $2,300; at Stockton 1 mull at to collect $143; at Sacramento 1 „,3,600 to collect 402; at San Du, at 7,600 to collect 30; at Mv.. a men at 7,050 to collect 45; mt, I’edro 6 men at 4,20.0 to collect 304.—0/ute Journal. ■ QfF John Divar, a watchman in the employ of the Illinois Central Railroad at La Salle, fell asleep on the railroad track on Monday night, and was run over and instantly killed.

Yours,

QUIZ.

[For the Gazette.

WM. E. MOORE.

Democratic Simplicity at the Seat of Government.

A Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger, a paper in the pay of the Administration, and therefore reliable on matters relating to its employers, gives the following sketch of Democratic simplicity and economy among the high priests of the party at Washington. Its perusal will be particularly interesting to the rank and file of the “hard fisted” party out here in Hoosierdom. Read it: “The present Cabinet has been more remarkable than any of its predecessors, for a liberal and hospitable style of living. It ! is true that most of them are wealthy men, but it does not always follow that official men live in a manner commensurate with their i wealth. Fortheyearendingwiththeapring, not one of the members of the Cabinet expended less than fifteen thousand dollars, and two or three of them expended each twenty-five thousand. It is true that their entertainmerts, equipage, &c., were unusually frequent and of an expensive kind. Their example was followed by some wealthy citizens, foreign minsters and Senators—particularly Douglas and Gwin—and thus fashionable and public life, during the season prior to Lent, was, in this city, a perpetual carnival. “The scale of expenditure in families in Washington has always been higher than in any other city, as I may assert from my own knowledge, and were a head of department to consult the most rigid economy he could not pay rent, and live here with a family, at the present salary of eight thousand dollars a year, nor anything like it. As to the heads of bureaux, whose salaries have remained at three thousand dollars, as fixed some forty' years ago, they cannot live in a decent and comfortable manner without drawing upon their private resources, if they are lucky enough to have any. “The demands of hospitality, not to say of fashion and taste, have, in fine, raised thq scale of official expenditure here to such an extent that, hereafter, none but rich men can accept a place in the Cabinet, without subjecting themselves to much inconvenience, or disparaging comparison. To the three qualifications pronounced by Jefferson to be sufficient, another must be added—that is wealth. So the President’s inquiry must be—‘ls he wealthy, is he honest, is he capable, is he faithful to the constitution!’” Mark, it was “their example,” that is, the example of those rich Democratic leaders and office holders, that has caused such “progress” in Democratic ostentation and extravagance at the seat of Government. What will the plain Democracy of Indiana think of their servants who expend “from fifteen to twenty-five thousand dollars a year ’ in the debaucheries and corruptions of “high life in Washington!” It is no marvel that the enormous sum of one hundred millions of dollars per annum does not suffice to meet the current expenses of Buchanan s Adtnin:st ration,when such outrageous extavagance characterizes the leading men of the party.— lndianapolis Journal. J he editor of the Dubuque Express and Herald has received specimens of socalled gold from Audubon countv, lowa, which turns out to be simply sulphate of co qier, glittering something like gold, but utterly worthless. The man on whose farm they were found is willing to sell for one thousand dollars an acte. We believe verv small quantities of gold have been found in Iowa; but it is very likely that most of the alleged discoveries in that State are of a piece with those in Audubon county. reported gold discoveries on Frazer’s fiver seem to be - * fully confirmed. There is a general stampede from California and other Pacific settlements, and soon there will be a formidable p'ody of adventurers in the new diggings, which are on British soil. Between digging gold and fighting the Indians, there is likely to befplenty <>: demand for any unemployed men on that side of the mountains. Hon. William F. Gordon, formerly for several years a prominent and much respected member of Congress from the Albennarle district of Virginia, died at his residence in that county on the the 21st s ult. He was standing conversing with his eon, when, feeling faint, he requested to be*laid down, which was done, and he immediately expired. In Benton, Yates county. New York, a few days since, a man named Waldron shot two young men, while a party were serenading his newly married son-in-law with tin horns. One of the wounded, named Gage, has since died. It is said that both he and his companion were mere spectators of the proceeding*. Waldron has been arrested. fcj*We have thd authority of the New York Sunday Allas for saying that the notorious Mrs. Cunningham, (supposed murderess of Dr. Burdell,) has been recently married to John J. Eckel, (her supposed accomplice,) and that they are now living together in that city. Peterson, a married man, and M iss Huldah Atwood, both residents of Truro, Massachusetts, eloped from that place to Boston, early last week, and are bound to California. Peterson leaves a wife and four children. The girl is eighteen years of age and called quite pretty. British Steamer Styx which made such a fuss in the Cuban waters, took a Spanish slaver as a prize, with forty sand dollars in doubloons on boaixl. T+ie. share of commander Vazey wa« one-third of this, which accounts tor Uw zeal in looking far other pirates. hundred and fifty-three sacks of new wheat, in two lots, were sold in the st, Louis market, on the sth ult. at the fancy price of two dollars and twenty-five cents per bushel. It was from Mississippi and Tennessee. Democratic party and ths antiDemocratic party are both growing prodig-iously-—the latter growing big and the forme? little.— Louisville Journal. Ot>-Harvard College, at the ment oh Wednesday, conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws upon Governor Banlt* ' ftnd Lord Napier.