Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1858 — Affairs in Arizona. [ARTICLE]

Affairs in Arizona.

Washington, Oct. 5.-' A private letter received from Arizona; states that the Fort Yuma wagon-road, under the superintendence of Colonel I,each, is nearly completed.. The largest political Convention ever held on the Rio Grande, assembled at Mersilla, on the 3d of September. The delegates [ represented about 10,000 people. Resolutions were passed calling on Congress to organize at an early day; not to send members to the Legislature of New Mexico, and to hold a new election for delegates to Congress, in order to show the largely-in-creased vote since last year. The Convention was addressed by Lieutenant Mowry and others. Considerable was coming into Arizona, from Texas- and the Southern States, as well as from the Northwest. Colonel Titus, of Kansas, had arrived with a party, to make a settlement on the San Pedro. The yields of the silver mines continued to increase, and several new ones have been opened A Republican Triumph in Minnesota.— On the 2d inst.,'there was an election’in ! Minneapolis for‘four members of the Board [ of County Supervisors. The election assumed a political importance of the first character from the fact that whichever party carried the day, would control the party complexion of the County Board; and if the Democrats obtained a majority, they intended to create two or three special voting | places for double Irish voting, at the ensuing general election [ The battle was thorougly fought, and re- ' suited in the success of the Republican canI didates by 100 majority. Smooth. —An exchange says that a Mr. Cornelius, of Ohio,, had his head taken smoothly off by fa fragment of a thrashing ' machine cylinder which burst while in operation. That might have been smooth cutting. but we should pronounce it decidedly I rough usage.