Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1858 — A Barbarous Custom. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A Barbarous Custom.

| 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.

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