Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1858 — Page 2

THE RENSSELAER GAZETTE, RENSSELAER. IND. WEDNESDAY, AUG, ST 18, 1858.

THE REPUBLICAN TIKET.

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. - .. 1. SECOND DISTRICT, ABRAM W. HENDRICKS, of Jefferson*. THIRD DISTRICT. SIMON YANDES, of Marion. FOURTH D-STRTCT, WM. D. GRISWOLD, as Vigo. For State Senator. . DAVID TURNER, Of Luke county. For Representative, PARIS ROBINSON, of Jasper. For Treasurer, EZRA WRIGHT. For Sheriff. W. J. WRIGHT. For Commtssoner, JOHN LYONS. For Surveyor, J. D. HOPKINS. For Corner, * THOMAS PEACOCK. |

SLAVE AND FREE STATES.

Mod ern Democracy requires but FORTY THOUSAND inhabitants to make .■■ 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! frrso long as God allows the vital current to fl nv 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.

HON. SCHUYLER COLFAX

Will address the people of the Ninth District as follows: Francisville, Friday, Angus* 27, P. M. Rensselaer, Saturday, Aegu t 28.' 1 P M. Morocco, Saturday. Augps’ 28,' 8 P. M. (KrMo ney greatly needed at this office Don’t all speak at once. is now selling at Francisville at seventy-live cents per bushel, and corn at forty cents. KrM' jor Austin M. Puitt will address the public on the political topics of the day at the Court House next Friday night. Democratic Representative Convention did not come off last Saturday, as waa expected. We believe that the day is not now announced.—[ i Gazette office will be removed this week to the second stqry of Fowler & Petin’s store building. Hereafter our friend: will call there when they desire to see us. CO” We are pleased to announce that Hein. Tom Corwin was nominated for Congress, last Monday by the Republicans of Warren (O.) District. He stands squarely on the Philadelphia Platform. (p5”An attempt to sink an artesian well at Columbus, Ohio, has developed a fact in Geology which is new to the devotees o. that science- The well has already reached the depth of 1,708 feet, more than one thousand feet of which are through solid limestone. Van Nostrand informs us that he ‘has concluded to remain on ! y one week longer, and we would advise those wishing to get a correct miniature of themselves or friends, to call on him soon. He is getting up some superior Photographs, equal to the finest steel-plate engravings, and at a very cheap rate. . £gjy The Count}’ Convention came off last Saturday, and quite a respectable number attended, considering the busy season among the farmers. Judge Turner was present and addressed the meeting. Although he disclaimed all experience in public speaking, he talked r : ght strai, ht forward,nnd ’ > 1.,-j point, and made a favorable .impre isioi > hi. hearers. He will be back in a few weeks and thoroughly Canvass the count v.

COUNTY NOMINATIONS.

The Board of Canvassers, from the different townships of the Republicans, met at the Court House, in Rensselaer, on the 14th day of August, 1858, and organized by electing Geo. H. Brown, Chairman, and W. E. Moore, Secretary, and after carefully comparing the vote of the different townships, do report and announce the following as being the vote; FOR TREASURER. E. Wright,. ........ . , . .. 271 Win. Martin,. ....... .L 6 FOR SHERIFF, W. J. Wright 186 C. H. Dow l .i;ig,. 76 John McConahay,. . . . ... .9 D. C. Walker,. .’ . . / 10 FOR COMMISSIONER. John Ly0n5,........’. 247 FOR SURVEYOR. J. D. Hopkins, G, W. Snodgrass, 35 James- E. Ballard,. ....... 17 Frederick Scraag, 1 FOR ..CORONER. Thomas Peacock 70 A. Ro wen,. . „. 30 The following having received the largest number of votes were declared the nominees: For Treasurer, E. Wright. For Sheriff, W. J. Wright. For Commissioner, John Lyons. F r Surveyor, J. D. Hopkins. i For Coroner, Thom asPeacock. Geo. H. Brown, President. W. E. Moore, Clerk.

Telegraph Cable!

All Right at Both End* —The First Message— The Queen's Message—The President's Reply. New York, August' 16. I Information has been received that trie , Cable is all right at both ends, and that the Queen’s message will probably be received •his evening. t THE FIRST MESSAGE. Cyrus Station, N. F., August 16. To the Divertors of the Atlantic Telegraph Co: ••Europe and America are united by telegraph! ‘Glory to God ip the highest!’ Peace and good will to men!” Signed by the Directors of the Atlantic Telegraph Company of Great Britain. j the queen’s message. T» the Hon. the President of the United S'atesf Her Majesty desires to congratulate the! President upon the completion of this great international work, in which tin QueCn h.,s taken the deepest interest. New York, August 16. The Queen’s message received by you is really genuine, and complete, and came over the cable this afternoon. (Signed.) D. H. Craig. ■ » THE PRESIDENT’S-MESSAGE. Washisgtox City, August 16. The President -cordially reciprocates the i congratulations of Her M jesty, the Queen, of t l, e success of the great international enterprize, accomplished by the science, skill and indomitable energy ol the two countries. It is a triumph more glorious, because more useful, than was ever won by the conqueror on the field of battle. May the Atlantic Telegraph Company, under the blessings of Heaven, prove tie be a bond oj perpetual peace and friendship between the kindred nations, and an instrument destined by Di- ! vine Providence to diffuse religion, civilization, liberty and law throughout the. world.; In this view will not ail the nations .4 christendom spontaneously unite in the declaration that it shill b> forever n utral.and that its communicat ions shall be held sacred in the places o the rdefitin.'tion in the midst of.hostilities!

Our President.

He entered the- White H >use, says the Albany Evening Journal, with a promise of freedom to Kansas on his lips, air! a scheme for enslaving it in his pock“t. He declared war against circulating n ,te-—and in six weeks was issuing them himself? Before the ink was dry with which he pledged “Economy”—he had drained the Treasury ! of its last dollar. Before the printers were i done stereotyping his inflexible determination never to borrow—he was in Wall street soliciting a loan! .. J He congratulated the country on ’he fin d end of slavery agitation—-and he has be. n ■ agitating it ever since. He ordered Paulding to stop the Fillibuster—ajpl then recalled him for doing it. Walker o’ Nicaragua he pronounced an outlaw—and tendered him ■ the hospitalities of the white house. Walker ot K nsas he turnised with written in- ; struct! >ns and turned him out for obeying them. In 1857, he took off the heads of all i Postmasters who could not “hurrah for popular sovereignty.” In 1858, he tak'3 <if the heads of all who repeat the cry of 1857. He withheld troops from Utah, where he proclaimed there was war—in order to keep ■ them in Kansas, where he insisted aj). was i peace. He sells Forts at the WcsP tor a tithe of their cost in order to buy sites et ! the East at ten times their value—his sub- ■ ordinates in both cases, pocketing the dis- . ference. He is continually asking for new j steam frigates—but he will not use those he ' has, either on the coast of Africa or in the Gulf of Mexico. He sends out a steam?-, ostensibly to catch the Styx—but with pri-j vate orders in the Captain’s desk, to do noth- ■ ing of the sort. Claiming to be the most frugal of Presidents—he has spent more than any of his predecessors. Assuming to be above party prejudices, he makes partisanship the basis even of his invitations to di n n er. Cost of a Message to London, Ttie ; Boston Traveler ot Friday says- '■ Two business messages fronr-New Y irk i rr bants to 'heir correspondents in '' land, passed through the American Telegraph office. Traveler Buildings, from N *w York, en route lor London, yesterday at SP. M. One of them, containing fi ty-seven words, paid through, fifty-seven dollars, and the other, twentyseven words, for which twenty-seven dollars I were paid.” I

[From the Sau Francisco Globe.

A Wholesale Polygamist.

Weekes and His Twenty-Five Wives—Literature ; Developments—A High Moral 'Lone. We have received some very curious developments in regard to George W. Weekes, the late proprietor of the Athenuem. Our I information is entirely reliable, and; wonderful as the detajls prove to be, they are sti-i, ■ y true. Weekes figured throughout the United States in the year 1855, under i the n .me of ••Wentworth,” and his brilliant career of swindling will be remembered by many of our readers. Within a space of eight months he -‘established” newspapers in almost every prominent city of the Union, and had as many wives ns he hud journals. He first commenced his cart er in the ex treme East, and thence proceeded to Philadelfihia, where he gathered together, by ' means of a prospectus, sufficient funds to take hifii West. Deserting his last wife, he proceeded to Lexington, Kentucky, and there I married a Miss Hunter. Cincinnati next became his headquarters, and he quickly created a sensation by getting up a “w ekiy,” under the name of Ella Wentworth's Journal. ' His new wife canvassed the city nd State for subscribers, like the late “Anna Corea,’’ and the success of the project was complete. To add still more to the home treasury, if number of young girls wee employed as compositors, and “an association of ladies” figured at the editors. Finding that he had pretty well gleaned the place, Weekes bid adieu for the season to Mrs. W. N>. 3, and with Mrs. W. No. 4 j- urn> yed to Philadelphia, where another Ella Wentworth's Journal was advertised, placarded and canvassed .for.

Taking a large brick house on. Third street, he furnished it handsomely and went to work on a still more expensive scale. Finding that one “Ella Wentworth” could 1 obtain fifty subscribers per day atone dollar each, he multiplied the Ellas by ten, and employed ten-more for the business rooms of the literary journal, which was to elevate ■ - the tastes and reform the morals of the city I ■or Penn. Posters and editorials announced than “an association of ladies would m.nI age the paper, and none but females would ibe employed in the printing department, counting-ioom,” &.c. The young girls were I selected with great care, a pretty face being I absolutely necessary fur the purpose of becoming a Wentworth. j We do not in the least infringe on the truth when we • state that Weekes at I this time privately married six of these young ladies, and obtained a complete asi cendancy over the others. So well was the villainy manageo, that no one then doubted ■ his truth and affection. He planned triios to 1 'all the surrounding towns, sent Elia Went-I worths in every direction to canvass and promise a 1 >cal journal,' while he als > published tor the time a neat and creditable weekly paper in Philadelphia. With No. 3, in Cincinnati, who still re-4 •posed perfect trust in Weekes, having sold out the paper made her appearance in j Philadelphia, and stopped at one of the; j leading hotels. The waiters were mystified i at. finding three “Ella Wentworths” were! already resistered—one hailing from Harris- ; ■ burg,, one York, and one Pottsville—they ! | having concluded to visit the city, and le-on what had detained their Mr. W. Exposure i couid not be avoided. .Weekes took the Cincinnati wife, late Miss Hunter,pocketed the grand cash received from tlft? other twenty, suddenly- decamped, and left a scene ■4)f heart-rending misery behind him, which I pen cannot tell. Tne Sh riff took possession of the 1 furniture; the paper, of course was "now here,” and the poor girls found themselves destitute and betrayed. The next one- itiuns of Weekes were in ■ (Jha;lest-it .S- uth Carolina. Under anoth- I er name. with another paper, and his female, < .iiiv...-sur. hd was enabled in a lew weeks to : acquire quite a large sum. With this he I abscondeu to England, Laving Miss Hunter! ‘with an infant, and completely penniless. 1 A. ter numerous escapes from olli .-.rs, arrests lor bigamy, and with a doz n warrants for swindling ready to pounce u,> > tiim/lie wisely concluded to go abromi; but in the usual provident manner, he provided himself' with Mrs. W. No. 25. What his carreer was in England up to the I end of last year, we have no means o know ing, our present information being obtained ! from a late resident of Philadelphia by the fellow, a-'d who, in legal proceedings against ‘ him, came in possession of the whole de- t tai s ot his infamy. I The arrival ol our informant in the city ■ ' is supposed to have been the cause of the sudden departure of Mrs. Anna Cora’s husband. As Anna is an Englishwoman, it is most probable that she was the lastacquain- I tance previous to the hurried departure for. I th-- United States. Nearly sou years have i elapsed since' the flight from Charleston.! Weekes, on return from England, boldly , c unmenced Ijis swindling operations in i Texas and New Orleans under his real • name. A few weeks sufficed in that region, and in Januarj’ last the pair clande.-tinely,- left the Crescent City and sailed California ward. Presuming on flush times in this latitude, Mrs Anna Cora was to raise the tariff to $5 —the sum cheerfully surrendered to the pair pirate by our gallant citizens. Another j'-h ipter of this event ul history has closed, ■and a new one will doubtless be commenced I ill Australia.

Terrible Deuth of a Lady in Dane County, Wisconsin.

. The Madison Argus, contains the following particulars of the4errible death of Mrs. Miller, wi’e of the postmaster of Sweet Heme, Dane county; j “We regret to learn of the fearful death , of Mrs. Millen wife of Mr. Miller, postmaster at Swe«’t Home, this county. Last Sunday she started on horseback, either to church or a neighborhood visit. She was discovered about two hours alterwa d, in a lane, through which she was passing, quite i lead, her clothing torn entirely from her body, except one stocking, and her right leg terribly smashed and mangled. The suppo- ; riiliou was, that the horse hud thrown her i;and dragged her a considerable distance by h-r sl- riip foot!” • Phs Lancaster fPenn.)?’mes says that M -lacli.ei-, of Warwick township, in that "iiiity, and one Garber, drank seven, gallons if whisky in thirteen days, when ■ j Baer died of mania a potu. leaving Garber I master of the field.

Presidential Interference.

The Aew Albany Tribune publishes the following letter,, said to have been written by Mr. Buchan .n to Mr. English, a few days prior to the Congressional Convention in English’s district: Washington, July 25, 1858.’ Hon. Wm. H. English, Dear Sir:—Aware that the convention for nominating a Democratic candidate tor Congress in your district, will convene in a few days, I cannot refrain from expressing the hope that you may be the unanimous nominee of thie convention. If I. lived in your district and had a thousand votes you should-have them ail. Occupying the position you do, I consider it essential that you should succeed in obtaining the nomination. A failure in this would be regarded by me as a rebuke of my Administration. There may be some aspirant or aspirants for the position in your way. If so you may say to them that by giving ycu a clear track they will gain my fajvor and may expect to be provided for in a suitable manner. If nominated I will throw as much assistance into your , district as you may desire. Our friend Hughes, I see, has a hard row to iioe. He will be liberally sustained. Of this you may rest asssured. Youir friend, James Buchanan. Whether the letter is genuine or not. wt\_ cannot positively say, but this much is c< tain: Mr. English did receive a letter fr ■ . Mr. Buchanan, which he read before the P<. oil Convention, and to certain citizens of New Albany the day before the Convention. .He claimed that he received it from ffOld Buck,” and a number of those who heard it read, stated it to be substantially the same as published above. As the Lafayetle Journal remarks, we are fallen on evil days indeed when a President of the United States consents to append his name to such a missive as the foregoiu-g. It is nothing but a corrupt inducement held out to certain pairties to cease their opposition to his private w ishes, ijnd as such deserves to be branded with universal scorn. Its effect in thiis instance- was decisive. When the day of the convention arrived, both the opposing candic&tes withdrew and English received a unanimous nomina- ■ tion, wh“n dverybodv had regarded his defeat as inevitable! It remains to be seen in whatsortof ’“suitable manner” Messrs. Cravens and Sherrod will be “provided for” out of the Presidenitial bounty: and also the “liberal sustenance” that Hughes is to re- ; ceive from the saime source will enable him ; to secure his re-election, in spite of the for- ■ midible odds now arrayed against him.—ffforg.in County Gazette.

Something to Rejoice Over.

“When the no .is came to-d.y,’’ says the Washington corrtisp«>n lent of the New York Herald, on the sth in_t., “th.it Barrett h d defeated Blair, the chief oili -.-rs o 'the G vernment might Lie seen rtTminj abmi to congratulate each'other.” vVA n«rh ■ n -ws came to this city, the Democratic paper here expressed the highest exulXation. It pro tested to be opposed to, tht?*extension ot slavery, and its ediitor ten years ago was just ■ 'as nearly an “ Abo(itionist”-as any man couid ‘ i-.mie to miss, if Ipe did miss; yet it fairly ' sh >uted over Blairfs defeat. Why! Because Bl ir was an Emancipationist, laboring for 1 the remt val of silavery itom Missouri t>v regular Legislative enactment, an I the c i- I s«-nt of the people'of .Missouri, and his >p- I pinent was a Pro-slavery min, pledged to the support of slavery where it exis s, -nd its extension into every Territory ,vh re cupidity could take it. This was the only pu.ssiole rea on for the Smlipel's exulta.i in. L >ok a moment: I£ couldn't be bec.au ■ B .r----rett was a Democrat, h.r Blair was a D m <-1 crat. It couldn't be because B irrett was for a tariff or bank,jor against a sub-treasury, for Blair stood on these questions just where Barrett did. Therte was absolutely no difference between them, except that Blair was t'or ernancipatioh aiid Bufretti was for extension of slavery. Yet the Sentinel fairly screams with “gl ry” over B .rrei t’s election. There is more in i-'p-se f;u ts than in many Solemn resoiu ions , nd long-faced and longeared “ leaders. 1 ’ — St d Journal. ()O“A manu acturer and vender of patent medicines recently wrote to a friend out Wi st lor a good rec unmendation of his (the manu’ucturer’s) “Balsam.” In a lew days he received the following letter which we call pretty strong: Dear Sir: The land composing my farm had hitherto been ss<i> poor that a Sctftchma i could not get a living off’ it, and so.stony th we.had to sclice our potatoes aml plant th in edgeways; but, hearing ot your Balsam > put some on a ten aicre lot surrounded l>v railroad fence, and iin the morning I found that the rock had entirely disappeared, a neat stone wall encircled 1 the fi Id, and the rails were split into bven wood an 1 piled up systematically in the buck yard. I put half an ounce into the middle of/a huckleberry swamp—in two days it was cleared off’, planted with corn and pumpkins and a row of peach trees, in full bloom through the middle. As an evidence of its tremendous strength, I would say that it drew a striking likeness of my eldest son out o l ' a mill pond, drew a blister all over his stomach, drew a load of potatoes four miles to market, and eventually drew a prize of $97 in a lottery.

A French Flying Machine.

The Emperor has just made a present of 5,000 francs to a private in the line, who asserts he has discovered a solution of the great problem in aeroh utics—the art of flying. He has invented a kind of air-ship, consisting of a platform of silk stretched over whalebone, to be propelled by two gigantic wings of the same material placed on each side. The aeriall navigator is to be suspended at a distance if about four feet from the platform, while liis feet rest on pedals, by means of which t|ie wings are se ; t in inotion, while his arms rest on a lever that imparts to the pl.itlbrm the direcbion he chooses to give it. Onl- a ihod-'l of this machine” has yet been c instructed ' it appears to work well. Thunks to th iperor’s munificence! it is now about to . ,n ’ruct■ ■ on a large scale.—Parts Cor. oj the Mjjrnin,. Herald O??’’ ; th' tninufadture of salt at Syra cuse, about eight hundred thousand cords of wood ar? annually consumed.

VARIOUS ITEMS.

Cass’ daughter Belle is about to lead Mons. Limburg, the Minister of the Netherlands at Washington, to the altar. oO“The cattle distemper which first appeared in Florida a few months ago, is quite, fatal in several other States, to which it has . spread. Q7y=Vesuvius has ceased to be in eruption; at least, only a thin stream of lava flows from i', and the volcano has resumed its ordinary appearance. I OT7 = R- E, Ricker, Esq , has been appointed, Su peri ntendent as the New Albany and Salem Railroad, in place of John B. An- ; derson, resigned. (gy”Francis Rouche, in New Cleans, has been sentenced to fifteen years hard labor in the penitentiary, his slave bv | a long course of inhuman treatment. Corwin, the “salt boiler” and Demosthenes of Ohio, is stumping that State effectively. He filled several appointments last week at import .-.t points. dapper Mr. Cox spoke at the Ohio D -mocratic ■.-tr “inion, and explained his caving in on L epmpton bv say- ■ ing it was a trick to oat-wit the Repubfi- ' cans. • \- (g(j”Baron Rothschild, the Jewish M. P. for the city of London, has taken his seat in the House of Commons. He Was first elec- • Id by his fellow citizens nearly eleven years ago. Qiy=*The plateau or track upon which the ; Telegraph Cable is laid, varies in d.epth from thie ocean’s surface from 8,800 feet to 12,420 sept at its deepest point ascertained by soundings. ... I r .„ report that Professor Morse has received an installment of SBO,OOO voted him by s-me of the European Government, was premature. He has not touched any ol ! the money. Lebanon (Tenn.j Whig says that John J. Crittenden, who is on a visit to that • town, disavowed all aspirations for the Presidency, and said he would not accept a nomination if tendered to him. challenge of a duel between Tom Mj'rshal and 1 , m Porter, of Kentucky, has been announced. Tiie challenge came off. but the fight come off. Porter said he would only fight gentlemen. G-.-rre’t Smith, in a circular letI ter. has.sign fi.-d his acceptance of the nomi ination -for Governor, tendered to him by the 'small hand of Abolitionists who recently! held a Convention nt-Syracuse. i QC7”The famous horse Ambassador, was killed by lightning lust week near Clarksville, Kentucky. He was a mighty racer, land nothing much slower than lightning ■could have caught him. {ltT’Ex President Tyler is in his home at N -:k, Virginie.; Ex-President Van Buren rc'mlaiiis ; at his home in Kinderliook; ExI’ “Si.L h‘ Fillmore is at Niagara Falls, and E.;-P •'• <’di nt Pierce is in Europe. . “ret ired physician,’’ whose -sands | ol life” have been running out for several! years past, has taken up his quarters in |,nr.. den, where he is still desirous of n ■ much good as possible” before th? s'u- 1 tn tirely run out. Davenport, of A. Virginia, has addressed a letter to C> ■ ernor Wise, furnishing evidence that \ndrew Jackson was born in Berkeley county in that State, and not in North Carolina, as the biugra[diies have stated. Springfield (Mass.) Republican s-ys. -We desire to rec 'rd the fact that on Augtiist 7, 1858, a Springfield nominated Cyrus W. Field for President of the United States. When he is chosen we shall claim the honor of the first nomination.’’ pardoning power has been greatly abused in New York. Governor Youhg pardoned 268 criminals; Governor Fish, WU; Governor Hunt, 411; Governor Seymour, I 4.65': Governor Clark, 530; and Governor ■ King, during the last year, 72. Pacific Railroad Charter Forfeited The Dallas (Texas) Herald learns that Governor Runnels is o oninion that the Southern Paeifie R ■ - ■ ited its charter, a;trd has direct- i ■ ; A . v General ! to<ibring-s-ait agaiiL . t:.t > . •:■; _>r forfeitl ure. I (g(yList week »t. ’ ‘if r. n of Judge Donaldson, o ! M.mu-zu ■ Indiana, was • 'itt'n on the arm by a spid -r. while asleed n a cradle. The arm swelledr apidly, inflam■tion spread to other parts of the>Jbody, I an ' the second day alter the injury, the child died I f fXJyThe Washingtons and Bonaparts are “ni e i in the person of Mad ime Mu r at, vice regent of the Mount Vernon Association ; for Florida. She is the grand-niece ol j Washington through thb L“wises. Bv her marriage with A.vhille iMifat she became I niece-in-law of Napqledln First. is supposed that; the lightning which killed Miss. Nancy Godfrey, in Cambridge. M issactiusetts, while sitting at her chamber window, was attracted liy the metal in her hoops, which was partly melted, and her artificial teeth, which were found, some disI tance from her. county jail at Bloomington Ind., was destr yed by fire on Sunday night. 'l’ was the wyk of an incendiary. The three prisoners confined came near being suffocat d to death. When the jailor reached the building, the prisoners could not , ik. They finally recovered, and were i taken to Spencer. 0<yColon'“l Henry, of Nicaraugan memory, bett r known as William Kissane, ol steaiiipr burning, bank forging notoriety, was | latifly dangefoitslv avounded in a duel, near I New Orleans, by Mr. Jofeejph Howell. They fought with naval pistols, and Kissane was hit twice. It was al edged that foul play Was shown against him. I are dying off at a fearful rate in Brooklyn and Parma, Ohio. A strange 'i<“ .sp h is broken out among them and noBa,lv kn ip s vhat it is. About a dozen valr •h|e cUws have db’d of this disease. In . Parma. tb>- other day. a m in Was badly pois-.;Lin,.;p-r ~ c ,, w that had died of this Isinguiait r. His right hand became I so inflamed and swollen that it was feared he would hti’ e to suffer

(j(yThe dignitaries of the colored church nt Elkton, Maryland, have resolved to turn out of their congregation “all colored ladies guilty of the immoral practice of wearing hoops.” (j!)y The number of’ emigrants arrived nt New York during the week ending August 4, ’SB, was 3,531, making 48,065 since the first of January, against 113,359 for the same date last year. BiyGovernor Chase, of Ohio, i»on a visit to Boston. He received a complim, ntary dit tier at the Parker House, on Monday, from the Lading Republicans of Boston. Governor Banks presided-? Increase of the Yellow Fever in New Orleans.—There were 306 deaths in N< w Orleans during last week, 140 of which weie from yellow fever, which appears to be spreading tearfully in that city. BO”A ycung ashingtonian, the other day, made a bet that he could put his Anger into the mouth of a decapitated turtle, tried it, and got his finger nearly bitten off. Ti <a turtle was a green one, and so was the b->v. (j(yThe comet recently discovered by Donati at Florence, is rapidly approaching its perihelion, and will, as is supposed, be a conspicu U' obje.-t in the east before sui rise, in the latter ; art of September or beginning of October. Fitzroy Kelly, who recently married his chambermaid in England, was an unsuccessful suitor for the hand of Harriet Lane, niece of President Buchanan, when she was residing in London with her venerable uncle. CO”A wedding came off in N-w Bedford recently between a colored gentleman and a white lady-who is respectably connected. The groom has white., blood flowing in his veins, and claims no less a personage than the Pres : dent of the United St itos, whose, name he bears, as his paternal ancestor. Kentucky and North Carolina Elections. —We have numerous returns from Kentucky and No-th Carolina, but as there is no doubt that tlm Democrats hive carr’-d. both, it is n-cdless to give the particulars- I Judge Ellis, Democrat, is apparently elected Governor ot' North Carolina, by a considerahle majority. ft^y Emery's Journal of AgricultU’-e. learns that -‘qni’e a number of horses h-ve di-d recently- in Kane county, caused bv feg’ing barley instead of o-its. If this grain is ‘'“<l, it would be much be*’or to grind and mix with straw or hay.” We also learn of »he death of horses and cattle from being fed-the straw of rusted oats and wheat. —’«•'• _ _ BTT'Auburn. New York, doesn’t seem to be the paradise of local editors. On Sur-d-iy n'<ybt. the Ist in-r . the local editor, of the Advertiser was seized, “■ngged, ami 1 shed to a lamp-post, head <’ov -L, - here ha was found several hours afterward. The occurrence furnished him with an “item” but probably he doesn’t wish for another upon the same conditions. BiyThe canvass in Canaila for filling the seats in Parliament vacated by the resignation o* the Brown ministry, is very spirited, <nd, like all political action in Canada, very v’rulent. A few evenings since, a f-'?’- r til r->w took place at a political meeting in Toronto. At Pundas the Governor G neral has been burnt in effigy. Steam Navigation on the Erie Canai . The Buffalo folks seem to be in ecstacies upon the success of running canal-boa’s by steam. Two steamboats I ave already been put on the canal, and are said to work well. On Saturday evening, a large number of the principal houses of Buffalo were illuminated in honor of the event. BO”Two wills ' iti«t been recorded ’u Philadel nhia .wh ’ ’> ■ ledger copies as f< ]- lows: The fi-*t oio - I will and bequeath all money and eff ->« ned l y me, to or his heirs.” The other ’S still more brief, and reads thus—“l will everything to my wife absolutely.” These wills,'li-mgh brief, : are just as effective as if whole quires of paper had been written over. ; two weeks since, a well dressed ■ stranger appeared at the counter of the New Haven Bank, and . asked for writing accommodations, which were furnished him. After completing his ep’stojary labms, he le‘‘t the Bank, and it was discovered that a package of $2,200, which had been lying on the counter, went with him. Neither stranger nor money have been heard o_f since. Gold in K. nsas.—A party ot seventeen men had re’urt-ed ’’rom th-- Kansas gold diggings on Green river, brii g'ng a considerai ble quantity of the dust with them. They were satisfied with the prospect’, and came only for a supply of provi- ions for their company of a hundred or more. They were damming the river and making a canal to I turn it out o ; ’ its b>-d. and expected great results from the operation. ~ Light!—The celebrated savan, Niewentvr, I is said to h ive once undertaken to count the number of particles ’hat escape from a burning candle. By his computation, there arc thus evolved, at every second of t me, “ten millions of millions times more than the number of grains of sand computed to be contained in the whole earth.” It anv ma'hema’ici.m can make a more nice and accurate calculation, it will be best for him to begin pretty soon. BiySamuel Morgan, under sentence of de th at Portsmouth, Ohio, for the brutal murder of his wife, committed suicide on Friday night last, bv hanging himself to the ■ bars of his cell. When it was known that j the wretch was certainly dead, one of his daughters ventured to reveal what she had ' never dared to speak of before—that she and I her two sisters had been ’repeatedly the unI willing victims of their unnatural parent’s I lust, and that the infant tn her arms was his offspring. attempt of the bogus Democrats in the Minnesota Legisl iture to force an election of a United S’atCfs Senator in the place of Genera! Shields, nt this session, was defeated in the lower . -n Tuesday. Gerieral Shields’ term does ,-vj. r.’ till a ' yeaii from the fourth of next March, and the only motive the Democrats can have to I elect his successor now. is the very• reasona- ! ble fear that the Republicans will have a I majority in the next Legislature, and thus I send to the Federal Senate a good RepubJiI can insfend of • doughface Demy rat