Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1858 — Escapade in High Life. [ARTICLE]

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.