Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1858 — NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

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.

Success of the Chinese Sugar Cane at the West. —The report from these Sates, lowa and Wisconsin, of this year’s experiments at raising the Chinese Sugar Cane, and mailfacturing Sugar and molasses therefrom, are almost without exception favorable. Sugar mills in these States will soon be as plenty as in Louisiana, and we ■shall be able to raise our own “sweetening,” -and cease to be dependent iupOn Cuba and Louisiana for this important commodity. .I Indian Beats Pale Face. —A correspondent of 77m Boston Post writes that the mutch between Grindle, the New Yorker, and Kenatakeneata, ■the Iroquois Indian, came ofl'at Burlington, A t., on Friday, according to advertisement, the Indian beating the “American Champion” Jour seconds! Distance five miles. Time-—27:40 27:41. lam thuS’to confirm your prediction that the red would win. lluirah for “Long Runner” with the long name. Y 'UTA woman, formerly of Newark, New Jersy, but who had, for the past year, been living in Chicago, a tew days since started with a sick child in her arms, to return to Newark. When near Cleveland, Ohio, the child died in Iler arms. The mother, ’disconsolate and far from friends, and with scarcely money enough to reach home, rather than leave her babe among strangers, continued on Iler journey and reached Newark, haviny carried the dead injatit injur firms the entire distance. (Lr’The Kansas Committee have called a free .State diligate convention, to be held in Lawrence on November If), for the purpose of discussing the various questions connected with lhe present political organizations in the Territory, determining the trim policy xis the party, and considering the question of a speedy admission of Kansas into-tlie Union as a free State. Ae Incenpiaiiy Sentenced to be Hanged-. Brien Roony, convicted of,arson in setting fire to an- inhabited building iji West Troy, A'ew York, in May last, whereiii there were ten persons, has been Sentenced to be hanged on the third day of December next.

Another Comet in Sight.—Another comet has made its appearance, just as"Donati’s is disappearing. Tuttle’s Comet is now visible to the naked eye? in the. constella ion Pegasus. Tili.-j group is in a direct range with a line drawn from the two pointers in the ••Great Dipper” through the No r th Star, and is about as far from the body us Arctui us. IL' The editor of the Blooniiuyiou Pa.iitayra.ph i- favored with an exchange- newspaper printed at the Cape of Good Hope. ' Woman Bukned to Death. —We learn that a young woman named Smith, residing near Moirretice. Kankakee county. 111., waburned to (death on Satiir<|,ay night of last I week. It appears that she was lying on a lounge in a room by lu-rsolf, reading, or sewing, with a.light near her: she fell asleep and her clothes too.k fire, and before assistance came to hand she was so badly burned as to cause’her death. -"Eight ITi ni-ked Sheep Poisonei>.— The : (>a rd'emr's Chronicle stp'o* that AU l ’- Bird, of Bunton, England, had a Hock of 8(17 sheep I which werj? dipped in a chefnic’il salutiiin to ; .destroy ticks, lice. &c... find turned out to | grass. It. is supposed the solution was! supposed to have been washed oil’ by a shower of rain and eaten by the sheep, its-in four days ion !y 2t> out ol the whole flock reynained a live. ' - ' - (“S’A writer in the G'.oicsee Farmer says he jhifs tried the cultivation ol wheat in 1 ills tw<b feet apart each way, and two or three plaints to the hill. And he rep >rts obtaining from a small plot of ground, a crop so large, as to "be equal to two hundred bushels to the acre. The soil is kept -tirre.d and cultivated during the growth of the crop.