Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1858 — Page 2

THE RENSSELAER GAZETTE. • Y.RENSSELAER, INI). . Wednesday, October 20, issa

072” So long ns God allows the; vital current to “flow through rtiy veins, I trill never, -Never, NEVER, by word or thought, by mind er will, aid in admitting one rood ot free territory to the everlasting curse of human bondage.--—Henry ('lav.

{gj’We issued two-papers last week, thus catching the number we lost during the Christmas hoiliidays-. jj/T’The Reading (Penn.) GazelL announces the appointment of J. G lancy Jones as Minister to Austria. Buchanan rebukes the people for repudiating his favorite. o^7“Alexander McDonald, whom the Dements of this county ran for State Senator, received but ope hundred and nineteen votes in Porter county. He is now politically dead; for which the people of Lake county, where he resides, have cause to rejoice, (g5“Mr. Snyder’s majority in Pulaski is 155, which elects him by 42 majority over Mr. Parker. Had every Republican per county done his duty, the result would have been different; but the deed is done, and we shall npt “cry over spilt milk,” hoping, however, that the like will not occur a'gain- , j Qty’Some of the “boys” had quite a demonstration last Friday night over the election of Colfax, and, judging from the number of Democrats participating, the friends of Snyder were also rejoicing over his election. A bon-fire was made, tire-balls were thrown,-the cannon was fired, and everything passed off with the utmost good humor and friendly feeling. • i

THE STATE TICKET.

Contrary to all expectations at the time of our last .issue, the Democratic State ticket has been elected by majorities ranging from 2,000 Hanna, run ahead-of the other officers considerably, a result attributable to the fact that the. Anti-Lecompton Democrats in some counties, particularly.in the “Pocket,” voted for three of the Judges—Worden, Perkins and Davisson —and for Rugg for School Superintendent, and rejected the rest of the Lecompton State ticket. The exact vote cannot be ascertained yet. The vote on Congressmen gives an AntiLecompton majority in the State of about 9,000; and as this was the vote first reported by telepraph, it gave rise to the belief that the State had gone Republican by about 10,000. The result shows that the Democrats, while they sustained their State ticket, have repudiated tiie National Administration. Buchanan received in 1856 about 7,000 which shows a Democratic loss in two years of about 4,000. Such a change in the next two,years will give us the State in 1860.

STATE LEGISLATURE.

It is impossible to arrive at the exact figures as to the political aspect of the next Legislature, but we- compile the following from the tables published from day to day in the State Journal. There are twentythree Senators holding over. There were two vacancies, caused by removal and rbsigtion, which made it necessary to elect twen-ty-seven the present year. The filling of the vacancies, however, does not, alter the political complexion of the body of Senators holding over. Of those holding over are thirteen Republicans and ten Democrats. It is proper to say that in the list of Democratic Senators h dding over there are several wlPo will vote to repudiate Bright and Fitch. Of the 1 Senators elected this fall, there are twelve Republicans, twelve Denocrats, and three Anti-Lecompton Democrats. The Senate pow stands thus: Republicans, twenty-five; Bright Democrats,,twenty-two; Anti-Lecompton Democrats, three. The House stand thus, as far as heard from:. Republican Representatives elected, fifty-two; Bright Democrats, forty-five; AntiLecompton Democrats, two. There are several Representative Districts yet to hear from, which will probably give the Republicans one of two more members, although in .the above estimate we have given them to the Bright Democrats. (Conceding all the counties not heard from to the “Regulars,” as the Sentiiel terms them, there will still be an Opposition majority on joint ballot of eighteen. . [For tin- Rensselaer Gazette-. Air. Editor: The Expositor of the 7th inst. contains a communication from Jacob Markle, making some false charges against me. Mr. Markle promised me firitfifully, soon after the appearance of his communication, upon being assured by the editor of the Gazette and myself thiit 1 was not the author es an article in the Gazette of the 6th inst. relative to him, that he would retract his slanderous charges in the last week’s Expositor. He Aid not do so. He may have been hindered from doing so through some cause. I will wait for the appearance of the next number of the Expositor, to see whether he intends fulfilling his promise or not. R. H. Mrr ■ ROV. I

OFFICIAL VOTE OF JASPER CO.

Hanging Grove, Marion, - - Iroquois, ■ • .lonian, Walker, Kankake, Barkley, Newton, Beaver, Gillam. Jackson. - Washington. Lake, - • -Kcenetv — Total vote,

38 3« nil 37] 38 39 tai 40 38 38- 33 -HL 25l 50 27 49 3,7! 39 190 b"> 194 82 191 8(117G 95 199 75 175’97'1801 89'194 139 169; B<’> 59 |I 59 If 59 14 59 13 til 12 56 Itil 60 13 581 « 59. 14 27 33 28 33. 27 34 26 35 27 34 19 41 25 76 29 18 g>7 34 6 18 6 18 6 18 5 19 7 17 71 171 6 f 6 16 6 |8 4 [3 5 131 ■! 13 I 13 I 13 4| Cl! 4 13 4 13 4 13 89 35 8| 35 89 3,3' 8 1 33 81 31 80 31 78 35 6,7 29 80 35 35 38 35 38 35 37 33 39 3.4 3,7 37 35 '32 41 53; 7 32 39 46 41 49 40 48 29 45 39 49 37 39i 49| 46 44 49 36 33 43 70 42 ,70 22 70 22 69 23 69 22 69! 22| 69 23 70 (10 70| 2'2 35 59 36 58 35 58 35 57 36 58 361 57 26 67 82 J 35 59 36 55 35 55 3,6 55 31 53 35’ 56 311 56’ 37 54 37 00 36 54 06 25 00 25 00 25 00 25 00 25 (H)[ 251 00 25 23! 00 ,001 25 -~6j-t3 Ol 13; I) 12. 013 fi' 13 (i 13 ~ (i 13 7, 12 G| 13 632 19(1 643 483 635 469 609 496 637 47 I 595 518'5911521 607,321 .>94,494

RECAPITULATION. Pcolle over McClure.. I ll Lai ge over Dodd 1 13 Harper over Cunningham 146 Ott > over McDonald ........ .... 145 Young over Rugg. Ill) Biddle over W0rden.................. 143 Jlel dricks over Davi550n............. 165 Yatides over Perkins. 1 12 Griswold over Hanna 142 Colfax over Wrt/Axr................160 Turner over McDonald 166 Parker over Snyder 113 Ezra Wright over Russell 166 W; J. Wright over We15h............ 7~ Lynns over Barker . 73 Ho| kins over Ballard. Independent Dem. 286 Peaiiock over Yeoman 100 Join) L. .Miller, for Circuit Pros/cutor, had no opposition, and received 629 votes. i £. P. Hammond, for District Prosecutor, received 529 votes, to 7 for Bryant, wtio was not ; generally known to be a candidate. Sdme 50. votes we cast scattering. IVTscy Spitler the candidate for Surveyor, withdr ‘w, and the field was left clear to Hopkins and Ballard, who were voted for proiniscnouslv by all parties. Wheatfield township was not reported, anil we are not aware whether an election was held there or not. However tile vote would not make a differet ce of more than three or four either wav. We print tin- names of Republicans in Roman type, and the Democrats in Italic. The vote by townships are given for Gri>-werjd and Hanna only oi. ilie Stale, ticket, as we consider (Iriswold’s najority I *2j the fair test vote.

THE RESULT.

in looking over the result us the late elections, every observer will admit that the opposers of the present Administration I have g reat, cause to rejoice. While we have e ected our own gallant champion of the Ninth District by an increased majority of 1,930 —his majority being 1,036 in 1856 the Republicans of Indiana have increased their Congressmen from , five to seven, and one Anfi-Lecompton Democrat (John G. Da’Vis) is elected, who will, we believe, act with his Republican colleagues on all vital question dividing the parties. In 1856 Indiana sent six Democrats to “U’ongi 1858 she sends but throe. Ohio elected twelve Republicans and nine Democrats to Congress in 1856-—in 1858 she sends fifteen Opposition and six I Democrats. I -Un 1856 Pennsylvania sent fifteen Democrats to Congress, and ten Republicans—in 1858 she sends twenty Opposition and five Democrats. And what is particularly gratifying is that J. Glancy Jones, Buchanan’s bosom friend and the Lader of his forces in the Hoose, who was elected two years ago | by a majority of 6,004, has now been defeated by a majority of nineteen. This is a bitter pill to Buchanan, and it. ought to teach him to respect his pledges-and promises in the future. In the three States of Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania, a gain of thirty-three Opposition Congressmen has been made. This is gloriods news, and if we had a .rooster we would now let him -crow.

Terrific Tornado in Minnesota.

On the Ist inst., the village of New Ulin, ■some thirty miles west of St. Peter, on the | Minnesota river, was visited by a most fearful storm, lasting only a few minutes, but doing g(eat damage. Six buildings were entirely destroyed by the storm, and not a i single building in the place escaped without jinjury. One building was lifted from its I i foundation.and carried some twenty-five feet land turned over on its side. Another large I house, ope of the best in the place, not fin- ■ ished, was moved some six feet, and badly jracked and injured. Several others had I their walls rent and broken. A kitchen,] built up against a house, was entirely demolished, and the cook-stove hurled across an entire block—the pipe being driven so far that ijt could not be found at all! The postoffice was kept in a store, the front of which had large windows; these were broken in by the violence of the wind, and the con-.: 1 tents of the building, consisting of the mail matter, dry goods, &c., were gathered in its embrace and scattered over the prairie in .every direction! Many-of the letters were j entirely lost. A stage, owned by a citizen of Traverse,' was staflding in the street at the time, and was carried a distance of twenty-five rods, | being literally torn in pieces-—the wheels even being broken from the axels! The damage in figures has not been stated j yet, but it must be heavy. Oir'Gray, the decapitated Post-master of Cleveland and the Douglas candidate for Congress, ran behind his ticket in every] Ward in the city. p

Two years ago, Pennsylvania and Indiana, at their October State elections, stopped the victorious career of the Republicans and secured the election of Mr. Buchanan to the Presidency. The Democratic majority in Pennsylvania over the combined opposition vote was a little over three thousand; while in Indiana it was about seven thousand. Philadelphia alone at that time gave some thirty-five hundred I‘emocratic majority over the united opposition; she now gives (Tver five thousand the other way. Pennsylvania gives about ten times the majority against Mr. Buchanan's administration that she gave to call it into being in October, 1856. So vast a revolution, quietly and peacefully effected, we are rarely enabled to chronicle. It has been effected in the face the most untiring assertions .of the placemen -and their journalists, not only that .the Kansas question is definitely and happily settled, but that the Administration has settled it; and that the idea of protection is obsolete—that no improvement in the tariff, with a view to the protection ot American labor, is now possible, and if it were, the only wa.y to secure it is to support the powers- that be, and thus earn the good will of the slave-breeding interest. All this, and much more in the same vein, has been dinned in the ears of the people since May; : and this response is given in the election returns we have thrs week published. The votes of Ohio and lowa, of Connec- ! ticut and even Delaware, demonstrate that the revolution of 1858 is not confined to the two States which elected Mr. Buchanan, though it is there most emphatic and unmis-j takable. In October, 1856, the Republicans carried Ohio by over eighteen thousand majority; yet tliey have just made gains on the members of Congress then chosen. The vote just cast would seem to have been but moderately heavy—quite below that, of 1856—and the Republicans generally appear to be equally surprised and. delighted'. by their victories. Can any rational being longer doubt that the policy of the Administration, alike with regard to Kansas and to finance, is condemned by a great majority of the American people!- Subtract that large minority who always vote what they con.-ider the “regular Democratic ticket,” and always will, no matter how flagrant may b„e the errors and malfeasance of its leaders in office, and there is no support left I in the free States for Mr. Buchanan and his Cabinet. To illustrate this, let us post the. books showing the net result of the recent elections to Congress: 18;>6. Ofi’osiTioN. Democrats. Pi'iiiisvlviinia, ....10 15 Ohio. ’. . 12 9 Indiana,. 5 . . .-» 6 lowa.. •> 0 Total .29 ..'95 18;>8. Ori’OSiTION. I.’XMOCKATS. Pennsylvania, . . . .20 5 Ohio -.15 6 1 ndiunu,. . . 8 3 lowa 2 () ' Total 45. o 14 ‘56: Dem. nraj ... . 1 'SB; 1 )pp, maj ... .3 1 Let New York follow up these results in the spirit tliey cannot fail to evoke, and the overthrow of the Buchanan dynasty must be complete and overwhelming.— A r . Y. Tris,

TOWNSHIPS.

Yeoman. - - < J | Peacock. ■ i Bullard. - - | Hopkins. j Barker. Lvons. - 1 ’J ;l Weis h, - . - 1 \v. j 7 wngim 7’ ’ r t ' Bq. _. 1 Ezra right. - j Snyder. - | Parker. • j .V<-1 Doo//./. - , Turner. j Walker. ~ j Colfax. - - . - j Hannah , Gris woki. ” ' .’j’

Make Home and Farming Attractive!

That is the “platform” for farmers who desire their sons tn become contented, successful agriculturists, instead ot leaving the farm tor vexatious, hazardous and unhealthy avocations. The best legacy for your sons is a substantial education—moral, mental, and physical—including a practical knowledge and love of farming.- They should thoroughly underst:.i d some occupation/ which is both useful and healthy, and therefore honorable and measurably reliable. This is ol far greater consequence and vai-] ue than a gift of.much money or many acres. Make home and farming so pleasant and attractive that they will become so attached to rural life as to resist all temptations to] enter into uncertain and speculative pursuits. The financial simoom which has swept over the land thq previous year—in numerous instances destroying the accumulations and dissipating the hopes of individuals, families and communities engaged in commercial and speculative ptirsuifs—■ te ches a lesson on this subject which should be heeded by all classes, and especially by the ruralists of America. It proves] that agriculture, which feeds all and clothes all, though temporari y depressed, is the most sure and permanently reliable occupation for this lite, as well as best to fit a man for that which is to come. Farmers, and farmers’ sons, read this lesson aright!

A Magnificent Haul of Plunder.

The following extraordinary statement, given in the Bombay r Pelegraph, has been before briefly noticed: “It is stated in a letter from Banda that General Whitlock’s column have made a large “haul” from the rebels. A company ol the Madras Forty-third Native Infantry, attached to the colmun, found one hundred and forty car-loads of gold b r icks and nuggets, and forty laces of rupees, and more was expected to be discovered. Beside this large amount of treasure, an immense, quantity of jewels has been found. These are supposed to have been the jewels belonging to .the I’eish.wa’s family, which, fifty years ago, mysteriously disappeared from Pocriah, and were supposed to be in possession of Scindia or Holka. It is believed that they were stolen by Bajee Row’s brother, the adopted father of the present Narrein Row, who is now a prisoner. The treasure and jewelry found are said to he of the value of nine crores of rupees, or nine millions sterling.” The last news of the Neiiu Sahib was that he had crossed the G-ogra, and was reported to have sold his famous ruby, valued by the natives at one million dollars, for one thousand pounds sterling. 0/7’A notorious fellow named William Webster was conmiitted to Bangor jail last Saturday, for an assault, in default of payment of a tine of $2.64. On Wednesday, Iris fellow-prisoners, in the exercise of a commendable judgment on their part, considering him too mean a rascal for them to. “bed and board with,” paid his fine with wooden meat-skewers of their own manufacture, and turned him out again among the world’s people.

The Late Elections.

[From the San Diego St. Taylor, Aug. 16.

The Oregon Indian War.

There is every indication that we are to have a hot reception. No Spokan nor Coeur d’Alene, nor Snake has been near us: only the Nez. Perces, Cavuses ai d Pelouses. Aug. 16.—Some time ago (since Steptoe's affair) it seems that Gen. Clarke offered terms of peace to the Spokans and Coeur d'Alenes. The priest who crossed at the Pelous river just before our arrival, went with the reply of the Indians to Gen Clarke. Day before yesterday afternoon he reached ' our camp on his return from Walla Walla to his mission in the Coeur d'Alene mountains. He informs us that the Indians sent many impertinent messages to General j Clarke. They sent him word that he was prepared ! for war, and so they were: yet after all, his preparation he sends to them to ask a peace: say they want no peace, bnt war, even to I extermination'. He says it is Colonel Wright’s intention to march'to Colville, by way of the) Coeur d’Alene mountains, and probably to establish a post on the Spokan river. I’lie pr'est goes to break up the Coeur d’Alene mission, and he will then take charge of the Santa Clara College in California. He says he has been lor fourteen years in the Coeur d’Alene mountains, and that there has been no change whatever for , the better in the Indians during all that time. - To-night, a little after dark, the Indians were heard across the river. It is very unusual for the Indians to leave their camp at night. A voice from them '.was heard c-ill-ing our interpreter. He went, down to the river and informed them that he was there. They asked him what he was doing with the soldiers, said they would no longer regard him as their friend, and, after cursing him if) English, fired a rille at him and gavjp the war-whoop. The ball struck near him. There were four or five voices.. The fire was instantly returned by six shots from our pickets and sentinels. The camp was turned out, five, mon deployed; and in five minutes all were ready for the attack. But nothing more was heard from them, and the men were ordered to sleep on their arms. That was . equivalent to tiring on a white flag, and they are bound tomiffer for it. (,'olonel Wright leaves Walla Walla to day, and this day week probably we will cross the Rubicon. Five mounted Indians came down to the river opposite to us just now, anef formed in line. Orders were given to fire a charge of canister at them, but before Major Wvse got ready some one saw a piece of v. hit.e muslin projecting from the of one of •the Indians and called out “white 11 ig!” The order to destroy them was countermanded, a boat, was sent lor two of them, they came over, inducements were olllrod to them to reveal the caches of the Spokans and Coeur d’Alenes, and seat away.

Escapade in High Life.

Mr. James Flora,-a wealthy leather merchant, of Brooklyn, New York, and United States Consul at Manchester, England, during the administrations of Van Buren and Polk, became engaged to a voting Tadv of wealth and positiim, whose 1 name is kept back. A few mo'>ths since, she. unfortunately, let. passion get the better of prudence, and, as a natural consequence, her lover grew cold. Iler brothers, however-, by threats, compelled him to fix' a day for the wedding, which was to have come off on Friday evening last. The compaaiv assembled, the clergyman and bridesmai’s were in waiting, but no bridegroom appeared. It was supposed that he had sailed for Liverpool in the steamer Wiishingtim. -as. he h id shipped sixty tons o; leather by that vessel; blit after a thorough search he could not be found. The brothers, far from being discouraged, are determined to follow him to the end of the world, il necessarv,-and bring him back to wed their sister, or make a terrible example of him for bis crimes. Oij”Jobn Hickman, just re-elected to Congress from the Chester District, Pennsylvania, for a third term, has certainly no reason to complain of his constituents'. He was first chosen as a Democrat, by American help, in 1854, when his partv were generally defeated, and when iiis District gave a iarge majority against every other Democrat. In 185(5, lie was re-elected, by the help o's a special American candidate, though the District was decidedl}’ Republican. He heartily and fearlessly resisted the Lecompton policy of the President in all its parts,.and was therefore discarded by the regular Democracy of his District, who nominated Charles D. Manly. His friends then pre sented his name to the Opposition Convention, but a majority of its members preferr d and nominated his first opponent, John M Broomall. When it became evident that this result was foreordainedr Mr. Hickman’s friends seceded from the Convention and nominated him as an independent Anti Lecompton candidate, As such, he took the stump; as such, he is a third time -elected in a former Whig and now Republican District. Mr. Hickman unites ability with energy and independence, and we believe his constituents will never have reason to regret this choice. (ES“M? Von Humboldt has celebrated his ninetieth birthday. An English correspondent, writing from Berlin, says, that “never did a conqueror receive congratulations from so many persons and such great distances, as the post-boy had to carry on Tuesday inopning to the well-known house in the Oransienburgerstrasse. Those who have been fortunate enough to enjoy a peep at the fifth volume* of Kosmos, which is still under his hands, assert that neither in style nor contents does it. in the least, yield to the four volumes! which proceeded it. Huinboldt himself is said to be of opinion that he will die next spring, just alter having completed the last of the task he has undertaken. But his friends who observe him speak differently, and are bold enough to predict that this time he will prove to be altogether in error, and that a very different celebration from that whiclr he anticipates will next, year take place in his house. receipts at the late Indiana State Fair at Indianapolis amounted to $(10,500 — not quite as much as last year. The exhibition, as a whole, was quite creditable, and the attendance large.

Ninth District.

Mr. Colfax arrived here Saturday night, bringing the official vote with him from nearly all the counties in his District. He runs ahead of the State tickot in every county, and has majorities in ten out of the eleven Representative Districts. The State ticket has majorities in eight lout of the eleven: but unfortunately only six Republican Representatives are elected to the I Legislature from that Congressional District, as we lose tfie Benton and White, the Porter and the Cass members, carrying one in Miami county, where our State ticket is I behind. The vote will be found in our Congressional table. The Republican majority o i the State ticket is 1516 in this District, and on Congress 1930. Harper, for State Treasurer, runs ahead of the ticket, and has about the same majority as Colfax.— lndiana State Journal. The same paper of Monday last says: “The hardest fight in the whole State during the recent canvass was 1 in the Ninth i District: and there, as might have been expected. the Republican State ticket gains handsomely, even over the triumphant vote ! of 185-L It had 1,300 majority in that District then, when we carried the State s<> overwhelmingly, and-now has over 1,500, being the only District in which the Sta’e ticket gains over that contest, although both wings of the Democracy were heartily united there. Had there been as hard a fight throughout the State we should have elected all our State officers by a large majority. The whole State was filled with predictions by our opponents that the Ninth District would certainly be redeemed, but while tliey were boasting Mr. Colfax was speaking every day without cessation, except Sundays, from July till October, making in ail one hundred and one sneeches in the canvass. The Republicans there, too. were all thoroughly arouseij and at work earnestly and efficiently; Mr. Harper, ; our candidate lor State Treasurer, labored there as in other parts of the state incessantly, and the result is seen in the brilliant victory which they Avon, despite hundreds/ of imported voters, and the doz.en Democratic speakers who were constantly speaking through the State.

Sad Event —Gored to Drath by a Bull.

The Rev. Samuel C. Parker, of Hinckley. .Medina county, met with a terrible death Sunday morning, the 10th iust. He was seen to gn into a field in which he kept a bull, with a pitchfork in his hand, for the ! purpose, as is supposed-, of driving he animal out. About an hour after a person .called at bis house to invite h ; m to preach a : funeral sermon, and was directed by the t'amily to the field where they supposed Mr. I Parlier to'be. On looking for hiih he was found dead, the body tossed over the fence i several rods from where the pitchfork was I lying. The horns and head of j.he hull : were bloody, and the flood and marks on it he groundl/indicated that the unfortunate j man was 'gored- and pitched along l>v tlie i vicious animal from tin? plac.e .where the | pitchfork was dropped to the feihce, and ! then tossed completely over .it — (dl-velavJ, '\ Leader.

Kansas ekeetion.

The election in Kansas was for tnembers of the Legislature ami location of countv seats. _ Leavenworth countv effuse Leavenworth for the county seat, ami eight Republican members. Douglas county. Lawrencc-lor the county scat, and elected Republican members. Jefi'-rson county, Oskaloosa c.<u»u,v seat, and Anti-Democrat'e Representative. Johnson county. Olathe the countly seat, voles witlr Lawrence for Representatives. Lykins county, Kiiole Republican ticket elected. Doniphan countv, Democratic ticket elected with one exception. Atchison county, Atchison the county scat, Democratic ticket elected. The Republicans have a majority in the Legislature. Overland Mail Route To Cali for.nia. ■On Saturday, President Buchanan received a telegraphic dispatch from John Butterfield, President of the. Overland Mail Company, dated St. Louis, Oct. Bth. informing him that the great overland mail arrived there to-day from San Francisco in twentythree days and tour hours, and that the stages brought through six passengers. Thb President replied as follows: “John Bullerfeld, President, <^c — Sir: Your dispatch h-as been received. 1 cordially congratulate you upon the result. It is a glorious triumph for civilization and the Union, Settlements will soon follow the Course of the Road, and the East and the West will be bound together by a chain of living Americans which can never be broken. James - Buchanan.”

Telegraphist Cable.

Trinity Bay, Oct. 18, 1858. To Peter Cooper, for the Directors of the Atlantic Telegraph., New York. “I regret to say that the pre-concerted signals arranged by Mr. Thompson have failed to elicit any improvement in the reception of signals here. 1 do not k ow if any improvement has taken place at Valentia. I commence repeating the same system on Wednesday next. (’. V. DiaSantv.” correspondent of the National Intelligencer proposes a method of suddenly stopping a train <jf cars on a railroad to prevent accident. His plan is to have an apparatus placed in front of the driving wheels and over the track, with a communicating string leading to the engineer’s stand; almost immediately a constant stream pf oil could be poured on the rails, and the forward motion of the train would entirely cease, when, or soon alter, the last car of the train reached the oiled portion of the O^7”A young Indy named Catherine C Ritchie has obtained a verdict of SS,SUU against, the Hudson River Railroad Company, for an accident which caused her the loss of a leg in 1854. Her father had previously recovered $756 for loss of her services, and for medical attendance. The cars started while she was getting out, and the plea on her side was that the cars did not stop long enough for passengers to get out safely.

NEWS ITEMS.

The La tv Against Dtelingin Missrssrp-ri-—Attorney-General Wharton has expressed the opinion that connection with a duel, either as principal or second, is no bar to eligibility to office, in Mississippi, except upon indictment and conviction. The opinion was given in the ca.se of Judge Hitchcock, of the English Circuit. The decision • was given on account of a motion for arrest I of a Judgment given by an elected Judo-eof the Circuit Court, on the ground that he had once been engaged fn a duel, and was therefore, illegally on the bench. New Albany and Salem Railroad.— This roafl has recently passed into the hands of the bond holders—Hon. D. A. Noble. President; D. I). Williamson, Trustee; and Mr. Ricker, Superintendent. The new arrangement commences operations with i two hundred thousand dollars in cash? They have already paid off a large amount of the floating debt, and intend immediately discharging all the’claims against the company. 0O”It is reported in Great Salt Lak City that Brigham Young has received a> revelation from the Lord, commanding hins to hold his tongue for a season. The secret of the-“revelation” was exposed bv one? of Brigham's wives in ' conversation with ai Gentile, when she-said, “Brigham will not preach again so long as there is a Gentile short-handed reporter here to take down his discourses'.'’ 07y = Twelve cast iron columns, said to be the largest in the United States, are nowin process of construction at (,’incinnati. They are each fi<ty feet in bight, four feet two inches in diameter, weigh between two andAhree hundred tons, and Will cost about •S30.()00. They are designed for the Stats House, Madison, Wisconsin. (ty"As showing the force of the flames and heat at tire burning of the Crista] Palace -we note the remarkable fact that sheets of tin measuring fourteen bv twenty inches, were wrenched from their fastenings/, carried! into the air to an immense bight, and after-twenty-five or thirty' minutes' sailing in flicair,[dropped down two or three miles froim the Palace.

C r 2.'7"A dispatch from liidependence of the Ii th says that the Santa Fe mail, with dates, to the 27th ult., arrived List Riighr. News had reached Santa Fe of a.wfher battle with the Indians. Six were killed, and six. -thousand sheep recovered'. Two "soldiers were wounded. The mail conductor reports meeting a Large number- of gold hunters. ! bound for Pike’s Peak. fij 1 he Providcnce Journal, conirwt-rrting upon the profu.sk-t:, vrlTh which the New York ( ourts gras, injunctmii orders for e\ery conceivable and imigin.irv grievance-,. ; asserts that it does not. “suppose a man f could-Legally Uss his wife in New York, it his neighbor shouxl apply tor an injunctionttjxia h'm.” (tO ? ’Mrs. Manny, the piaaprietress of thePaten Manny Reapers, residing at BelviI dere, in this State, has remitted to thelLifay- ! ette (Ind.) Fire Department the sum ot !-•§30.0, as a mirk of her gratitude to tie fire- ; men for saving $>5,000 wort h of her property*. I that “a .»s endangered at a recent tire at Lal j ayottc. (£y”A mirsical genius in Hungary, h;i* ! m ide a n-‘W, and curious ap;>i : c;rtion of electricity. In a public concert at’ tfie National I’hea-tre iri Brussel-, he played bv means of' electric wires, on five iLflerent pr.mos at thejsame titn/?.' The electric hlttery whiclu Worked the wires, was in an adj lining room. OO’UYn ox of the comm in breed an-1 poor,, j weighing .3,(500, feet 2 inches in bight, | and measuring 12 feet fn«» hurts* to. tail, ‘ was exhibitejuT’at the racent. lowa State Fair by N. Beck, of YVintersctt. If fattened i*i. is said he would weigh 5,0.00. Ori/’TliO Scientific American asserts that, wherever the leak is in the Atlantic cable, it is mere conjecture to assert that it is ! here or there—one mile or two hundred, i miles from Ireland. No person can relia- ! bly tell without lifting the cable. threes on the Bank of I ('ape Ann, Massachusetts, are in circulation. The vignette is a female seate'd and lan eagle. On the right lower corner is a ! man gathering corn. The bill is unlike thej genuine one.

(£rA New York paper says that som" wealthy American gentleman, in a* high state of racing fever, have determined to I challenge a race batween English and American horses for $ 100.000—four-mile hea<» ! over the Fashion course. * (0 The native Americans pitched into Senator Pitch, ol Indiana, while hunting Buffalo on the Cheyenne river, and drove him from the hunting ground, after capturing the horses and guns of his party. The Senator and his friends fled to Fort Abercrombie. (Kc’Several hundred thousand dollars will be added to our western currency in a month or two in lowa, by the issue of‘the bills’of ten or a dozen new banks that have been chartered as branches of the new State Bank. _ {pyzAt Lysander, Onondaga county, New York, B. F. Nicholson, tied a jug of whisky about his neck, and tried to swim the river. The jug proved to heavv for him, and he was found at the bottom the next morning. ~ b'-" A writer in the Philadelphia Press says that the Administration is hiding its head in the sand like an ostrch. It will soon have no sands to hide its head in—its sands will be all run.—Louisville Journal. manager of the Theater has adopted the rule, which he has made public, that where ladies take up more room than one person is justly entitled to, they shall pay extra fpr their seats. second overland -California mail arrived at St. J,ouis on tl\e 16th inst. Letters dated the 2(>th, but no papers were received. (Ky'A new and very dangerous counterfeit S2O bill on the Bank of the State of New York, has just been put in circulation. is reported Xhat the Litchfield Bank ol Connecticut went into a receiver’s hands yesterday. bills of the Tioga Bank of Pennsylvania are thrown out at Philadelphia.