Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1858 — Narrow Escape at the Fulls. [ARTICLE]

Narrow Escape at the Fulls.

(k(7’"Culoiiel Kinney informs the editor ol the Sa i Antonia (Texas) lieraid thirt he has concluderf his negotiations will) the Mormons for tlic sale ol his interest in Central i America, and has received an earnest of .'5200,090 as part of (he purchase-money. He is to receive 152,000,000. ' (Ly’A miserly old farmer, who had lost one of his best hands in the midst of haymaking, remarked to the sexton', as- he was filling up the grave: “It is a sad thing to lose a mower, at a time like this —but after all, poor Tom was a great cater.”

The Niagara Falls Gazette tells a thrilling i story of the escape of Mr. C. J. Thomas of' that village, from destruction, during the terrible -storm of Thursday last. He was alone in a lin-ht row-boat, crossins from Navy Island to Schlosser, when the storm came up. His bojit ‘ capsized, and for an hour or more lie was driven by the wind, I clinging to the boat. He succeeded several times in righting the boat, when it would L immediately fill and again capsize. He gave - himself up for lost seyeral times, but continued his exertions. Being a good swimmer'he succeeded in retaining thej boat, and finally got into it, but without his oars, and so chilled as to be unable to help himself. The boat was nearly full of water, and drifted before the'wind past the head-of Navy Island into the strong current on the 1 uppositje side-j that bore him swiftly toward the cataract. Fortunately Mr. Samuel Tompkins and another man happened to be on the island, and observed hitn. They.; hastened to his rescue, but the vyaves ran so high that tliejf could do nothing more | than tow, him to Chippewa creek, on the Canada side. Air. Thomas was so chilled that he could not help hirfTself, and would, . doubtless, have gone civer the Falls had not assistance been close at hmd. He lost his I gun, hat, and-whatevdr else was in liis boat, i and came very near perishing. He states '• that when the storm reached him, the cloud seemed no more- than twenty or thirty feet above him, and the water was carried in sheets entirely over him. tjgy'CAssius M. Clay addressed the citizens of Wheeling, Virginia, in behalf of free as against slave labor on the 2d inst. The Intelligencer says: ••The largest political audience that ever assembled, within our' recollection, at ; Washington Hall, was convened last Satur- ! day evening to hear Cassius M. Clay. It was such an any man might! well be proud of. “The respectability of the city in its essence, bone and sinew was there, and ready on his appeara nee .to greet him with a burst of applause. lie spoke nearly two hours, and to people who listened with rapt attention. They greeted every point he! made in his review of the struggles which free labor had made a,id maintained against slave labcr with enthusiasm. “A sentiment in this community was developed, which politicians and demagogues have atl'ected heretofore to disregard as insignificant. As lie traced the history of. their struggles, as lie contrasted the benefits of the one system with the evils of the other, as he weighed our condition here in the west against that of those who control us and subordinate us in the east part of the State, the sympathies of the people gathered more intently upon liis kindling words, and at last gave vent in a most hearty and unmistakeable indorsement. “He told our people what he had buffered and lost in this struggle.. He told them of I the proscription with which ho had been ■ , visited for his attachment to his principles, a'nd he told them how that, live or die, in every place and. under all circumstances he ' lias determined to vindicate those principles ; because he felt they were right. And his audience said amen in the applauding stamps ; with which they greeted these words! i “Cassius Clay has many things to be proud of. His life has been a scries of hard-fought struggles, but always victories — blit he may well rank the emphatic! greeting which he received at Washingion Hall i last Saturday night as among the chief glories of a well-spent life.”

Qts”T!ie Richmond Enquirer says there is one square mile of land between Smyth and Washington counties, Virginia, on the north fork of the Halstan river, which is worth more than the wh >le valuation ot the city ol New York. The salt-rock within this mile ranges from seventy to one hundred feet in thickness, which would" yield a net ton, or forty bushels, of salt to ever}' solid yard it contains, or over three thousand millions ol bushels! which, when manufactured, is worth from forty to fifty cents per bushel; but, presuming it to be worth twenty cents per bushel iji the ground, and we have six hundred millions of dollars! to which we must add two hundred and fifty millions of tons of plaster within the same space, worth in the ground about one dollar per ton, making a total of eight hundred and fifty millions of dollars! OJ’Mrs. E Z. C. Judson (the gifted anil beautiful wife, of the notorious “Ned Buntliue, ) has been found lying diiugerotlsiy ill, in a miserable hovel, in Buffalo, utterly destitute mid alone. She is said to be a writer of great ability and a woman of marvelous loveliness.