Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1858 — Page 2

THE RENSSELAER GAZETTE. RENSSELAER, IND. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1858.

long as God allows the vital current to.-flow through my veins, I will never, NEVER, NEVER, by word or thought, by mind or will, aid in admitting one rood of free territory, to the everlasting curse of human bondage.—Henry Clay.

Jasper Court of Common Pleas is now in aessioil, ■ ! Stout was hanged last Friday at I Rochester, New York, for the murder of his : brother-in-law, OO'We will take on subscription, if brought in right .'away, corn, oats, timothy hay and—moneyJ The Indiana American hoists the i name of John C. Fremont for President in 1860, and John W. Forney for X r ice President. (Cj”Our whole-souled neighbor,Dr. Alter, killed a beef jlast week, and sent us a large “hunk” of clear steak—not a bone in it. He is a “Good Samaritan.” State elections come off in New York and Illinois on next Tuesday, the result of which is. looked for with unsual interest throughout the country. A new and dangerous counterfeit ten 1 on the State Bank of Ohio, Cadiz Branch, has just made Tts appearance, and is very I difficult to distinguish from the genuine. (gs"Gayernor Willard has issued a proclamation calling an extra session of the Legislature, to convene at Indianapolis on Saturday, the 20th day of November next. majority, for Judge Turner in this Senatorial District, composed of the counties of Lake, Porter and Jasper, is about sixteen.hundred over McDonald, of Lake, and twenty-three hundred over Rock, editor of the Valparaiso Democrat. fj£j"Advices. from New' Orleans to last Saturday say that the Howard Association regret to announce that the yellow fever continues as a fatal epidemic, arid cautions the unacclimated to keep away. The deaths from yellow fever on Friday were forty-two. Air. Asa Porter has sent us a bottle of molasses manufactured from the African Infq, (or Inpha.) if vye recollect right, al- ] though we can find-no such word in our ,dictiohiary. Come up and try it—some say it is richer and sweeter than that produced from tli_e Chinese Cane. fjCj“ Messrs Thompson & Son, of the “Shanghai Building,” have .just received a large stock of fall and winter goods, which they p rip pose t,o .sell at reasonable prices, I They don’t think of giving their goods away, ■ but they intend to sell at the smallest living profit. Give them a call. (Ky”*Alr. Robert Parker left a squash at this office last week»weighing one hundred and twenty pounds and three-quarters. Come and see it. We are also indebted to Mr. Parker fbrfine of turni.ps, potatoes and beats. He always raises the best Jasper .county can produce, and never forgets the printer. *“ OO ’ Mr. Amos White, of Washington township, informed us yesterday afternoon that his family had gathered fifty-four or fifty-five “good-sized-” citrons from one vine, and quite a number of smaller ones, three "or-four inches in diameter, were not counted. Mr. Clark thinks that, if they grow in sueh great abundance, a quarter of a seed will supply his family next year. On. Friday night of last week the horse of Mr. Graves, on Beaver, was stolen from the stable of Mr. Babcock, two or three miles,south of town. The horse was’found on the next hitched to the fence bf Mr. Madison McKeever, some few miles west of town, where the thief had probably stopped to either steal a saddle or a fine horse belonging to Mr. McKeever, but got frightened and took to his legs. He was seen passing through town with the horse before daylight on Saturday morning -from the direction of Warner’s bridge. will be recollected that about two months ago a qouple of horse-thieves became alarmed a»d left two horses in the possession of Ain. A- S, Warren, in Iroquois township. The horses are still unclaimed, and the/ are now advertised as estrays. We learn from a reliable source that two horses of the same description as those in question were stolen from Thorntown, Boone county, two nights before these were left with Mr. Warren, and were traced as far as Lafayette. Perhaps the horses here are the same that were stolen from Thorntown, and we think it would be well to make some inquiries about the matter.

THE ILLINOIS CAMPAIGN.

The political campaign carried on in Illi-! , nois, and now at the highest excitement, is the grandest and most-Kabsorbing one the world ever saw. The eyes of all,! North and South, East and West, ire riv-! eted on the battle-field where the chosen I champions, Douglas and Lincoln, are mar-1 ’ shalling their forces of two hundred thou- , sand men nearly equally balanced. The Lit- ! tie Giant and the Tall Chief are “the observed of all observers,” and which ever ] way the contest will terminate, the iinmei diate friends of the fallen chief will be overwhelmed with grief for a time, while the friends of the successful champion Will be ’ correspondingly elevated with joy and exultation. But the defeated army will not be conquered. lit will gird on its armor anew, for a more desperate encounter in | ISGO, which will spread from State to State] like swift-traveling contagion, till the whole Union will present one vast battle-field; but the result of the Presidential election' will hush every noise and quiet the angty . combatants, like pouring oil on troubled.'wa’ters. ■ Such is the beauty of our institutions; the expressed will of the majority shall always prevail. How the Illinois canvass will terminate as to the rival candidates for the Senatorship, Lincoln and Douglas, we cannot now safely conjecture; but whichever way it does, Old-Linism is dead in that State. The Administration party will exhibit a ridiculous weakness at the polls. Although all of the Federal officers in the State uphold Buchanan, Dotiglas will carry the great bulk of the Democratic party with him, and Doug- j las repudiates the two great Old-Line tests. He repudiates the Green-English bill, having voted against it in the Senate; and in effect repudiates the Dred Scott decision, by I say that Territorial Legislatures may exclude slavery by unfriendly legislation. The Administration, with its two odious, tests, notwithstanding its one hundred millions of patronage, has evidently lost all its influence, and will find itself in a miserable minority in th.e next House of Representatives. The Campaign was opened in 1 llinois by Lincoln and Douglas, two of the greatest debaters in the country, and wherever they delivered their masterly efforts they were greeted by thousands of enthusastic admirers. Mass meetings of ten to fifteen thousand people were common occurrences; the champions proved themselves equal to the 1 emergency, and each found the other worthy of his steel. It is to be regretted that circumstances drove them into antagonistic attitudes, us the difference between them in principle is not near so great, nor the chasm so w ide, as that which divides the Old-Liners and Anti-Lecompton Democrats, This week the canvass waxes warmer and warmer. We see by the papers that Vice President Breckinridge has written a letter to the Democracy of Illinois, urging them to support Douglas; and, on the other hand, Governors Corwin and Chase,of Ohio, and Colonel Henry S. Lane and Hon. Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana, are now’ stumping the State for Lincoln. Governor Chase was ( announced to speak, last night at Chicago,and to-night at Rockford. He has five apipointments in all. Mr. Colfax has seven appointments, and is announced to speak at ■ Urbana to-night, and at Peoria next Mon- ! day night. Mr. Douglas wrote a letter to Governor Wise, of Virginia to come and help him; but the Governorjdeclined, telling Douglas that he had his “prayers.”

[For the Rensselaer Gazette.

A LIAR AND SLANDERER.

Air. Editor'. The Democratic Expositor of : the 7th inst. has a communication from Ja-, i cob Markle, relative to myself, in which that man, without -any cause or provocation, gives publicity to a batch of lying slanders' about me. He pretended, as a reason for so i doing, td believe that I had written an edi-i torial in the Gazette of the 6th inst., relative to his defalcations; but, upon seeing him J soon after the appearance of his lying com- ! munication, and upon his being assured by both myself and the editor of the Gazette, \ that I had not written a word of the article j he complained of, he promised me faithfully to retract* in the tthen) next issue of thej ! Expositor his slanderous imputations against ■ me, but in this, too, he has lied. This man, Jacob Markle,- is. too well known in this community as a defaulter and peculator of county and State revenues, to get credit for truth and honesty in any assertion he may make touching the character of another; but, lest some might construe my silence under his lying slanders as ac- : quiescence in their truth, I here deny and pronounce his imputations against me false i and without foundation, and pronounce him i a liar and a scoundrel, unworthy of further 'notice that which is sometimes bestowed

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[For the Rensselaer Gazette.

SOME PUMPKINS.

Mr. Editor: Air. J. E. Chamberlain, of Bradford, White counjy, planted in his garden, on the first day of last June, one pump-kin-seed, from which he has raised 1,014 pounds of pumpkins, the largest weighing 107 and the smallest 90 pounds. The vine measured seven hundred feet! I had the pleasure of trying the flavor of one, and must pronounce it equal to any I have ever ' t<**ted. f”'-

HOWARD’S DOMESTIC MEDICINE.

This is the title of a medial work pre-’ sented to us some six week; < oy the publisher, Mr. H. M. Rulison, of Cincinnati. After a careful perusal of a large portion of its contents, especialy those parts relating to diseases in children, we have come to the conclusion that it is well worth the price it is selling at ($4) to every family. In fact, we would not be without a copy of it for three times that amount. See advertise-1 ment in another column, headed “Agents Wanted.”

This disgusting exhibit-ion was not so physically damaging to the two principal brutes as the telegraph reported. The Buffalo Express says: “Morrissey is the worst punished man of the two, and bears numerous evidences on his face of the weight of his adversary’s blows. His nose is badly caved in, and his whole countenance, in sporting parlance, wears a “mourning aspect.” Heenan has a cut in his upper lip, and his lips are swollen somewhat; otherwise on his arrival he conversed cheerfully with his friends and walked oft’ the boat. It is said that he has been under the doctor’s care for nearly a week, and that he was in nd condition whatever *for the fight. An effort was made to induce him to give up the stakes before the fight, but he firmly declined, and said he would go to the field if he had to go on one leg. “It is said, with how much truth we know not, that he has a fever sore on one of his legs. His friends profess to be willing to back him for SIO,OOO against Morrissey, and find much fault with his trainers for allowing him to appear at all in such a condition, and for not letting the actual facts in regard to him be known. “From the Buffalo . Commercial and the Buffalo Courier we condense the facts connected with the fight. The four loads of blacklegs and bruisers, with a natural sprinkling of thimble-riggers and thieves, arrived off’ Long Point, in Canada, at daylight on Wednesday morning. The crowd landed in small boats, five hours being consumed in the and many being obliged to wade in the .water up to their arm-pits, the boats being often swamped. Unfortunately none of the rascals were drowned, and we are sorry to say not an accident occurred during the whole affair by which the number of the biped brutes was made one less, “Hours weie spent in settling the place for the ring, and Heenau claimed J hat the spot chosen by Morrissey was not according to agreement—that it should have been turf, not sand. Heenan, however, in the most magnanimous style, waived this objection rather than disappoint the crowd. Perhaps this magnanimity was accelerated by the fact that Morrissey’s fri’ends were largely in the ascendant, and Heenan thought his? chances of life-were better in fighting one man than in fighting a thousand. Gentle-, men who go to see a prize fight are of that class who do not brook disappointment. “Each was cheered as he entered the ring. Morrissey was boastful and braggart; Heenan cool and composed, but evidently under a cloud, ae the sequel showed. Some two hours were then spent in settling on referees, and the crowd showing signs of impatience,’ the two gladiators themselves took up the question and appointed the referees, and the combatants stripped about four o’clock, the principals and seconds walked to the center, shook hands, then walked back to their corners, and the fighters then commenced their butchery.. On the first round, Heenan hit Morrissey a terrifici blow on the nose, bringing a spout of blood; the latter retreated, but Heenan followed him to the ropes, and giving another blow would have finished Morrissey had Heenan’s hand not hit a stake instead, breaking his hand badly; they then clinched, and Morrissey was thrown. On the second round—there 1 being thirty seconds between—awful blows] were received by each, and upon a clinch 1 Morrissey was thrown. On the third round both came up to the scratch looking fa- • tigued, both received blows, Heenan on his body and Morrissey on his face— or, in sporting* parlance, on his “mug” —and Heenan was thrown. At the fourth round Morrissey was cheered and Heenan camel i up limping, but they fought terribly, and] Heenan was thrown, Morrissey falling heavily on him. On the fifth round Heenan I drove Morrissey to the ropes, and got in i such a blow as to fairly lift him from the] ground, and laid him sprawling; in other . words he fell as if kicked by a horse. On the sixth round Heenan made blood fly from j Morrissey’s nose in a stream, but driven to] the ropes, he clinched Heenan and threw him. The remaining rounds were in Morrissey’s fnVor, his blows on Heenan’s body and his way of falling on his adversary, took the breath out of Heenan, and at the 12th I round he could not come up, and Morrissey was declared victor. “It is conceded that Heenan is the ‘best’ man, and nothing lost him the battle but his bad condition, and the breaking of his hand against the stake. Another fight is talked of between the same men in three months. Morrissey has his nose broken, his eye and cheek terribly cut, while Heenan is but slightly injured. Morrissey was, in fact, whipped on the first round, but—like Gen- ‘ era! Taylor at Buena Vista—didn’t knpw it. It is said that $500,000 changed hands on ] the result of this fight. i “The question has been put to uh: why does ■ the Express— a respectable paper—notice ! these disgusting exhibitions of brutality'? Weanswer: To save those of our respectI able readers who take only the Express the ] trouble of borrowing a neighbor’s paper. (Kj“A mail robber was recently caught , by the post-master at Little Rock, Arks., in ] a novel manner. A clerk in the office was ■ put in a mail-bag, and hung up on the wall, in such a manner that he could see any one who entered the office. The thief soon after entered, was recognized and arrested. r*** Protracted Battle in Mexico.—The late battle in Mexico between Vidauri nnd Miratnon and their followers, near Ahulasco, lasted four long days. Vidauri finally retreated to the city of Monterey, and at last accounts was preparing for a desperate attack on Miram«>n and his forces.

R. H. MILROY.

The Prize Fight.

[Frorn the Cincinnati Commercial.

Result of the Balloon Race.

The great Balloon Race is over, and Young America, represented by Prof. J. H. Steiner, is the victor! He has proved himself the Champion aEronaut of America, and a match for one of the most skillful and daring French Professors. THE STARTING THE CHASE EXCITING INCIDENTS. The balloons started from the city lot at four o’clock twenty-one minutes, Prof. Steiner leading off in his “Pride of the West,” followed closely by Mons. Godard in his “Leviathan.” The latter gained rapidly upon its rival for the first mile or two from town, until the zEronauts were within speaking distance when less than three miles from the city, both moving about twenty-five miles an hour. Alons. Godard sailed up majestically beside the Prof, when the latter greeted his rival with a welcome, and pointed to the beautiful sight which everywhere met the eye. “Magnificent,” responded the representative of France. Mons. Godard then introduced his friend and passenger, Mr. Win. Hoel, to Prof. Steiner, and at the same time proposed that they should take a r friendly drink. Both -Eronauts opened a bottle of wine, when Mons. Godard proposed the toast — “To the Great, Rep'ublipJ’ This was drank with a will in sparkling Catawba, when Prof. Steiner gave the fol-, lowing: “To Mons. Godard, the justly celebrated French .Eronaul.”

The J compliment was returned by Mons. Godard—“To Prof. Steiner—the greatest -Eronaut in America.” Mons. Godard drank “bottoms up,” and-' his companion followed suit, and then, after ] filling their glasses, Air, Hoel gave a toast — “Here’s to our sweethearts and wives.” ] “Three cheers for that,” shouted Prof. ] Steiner, as the balloons were coming nearer together—and the three joined heartily in n “hip—hip—hurra!” . i THE. COLLISION BETWEEN THE R A I.LOON <. ] Scarce five minutes after, the balloons came in collision, at an elevation of some, 5,000 feet from the earth! Tha balloon of Prof. Steiner drove rapidly toward its rival, so that the basket of the latter struck the former about midway of the balloon. Mphs. Godard and tfrsGioinptlnion promptly forced it off’ with their hai ds, and Prof. Steiner shouted to AlonS. Godard to throw out ballast, which he did. and rapidly rose above the Pride of the West, and out of danger of any further contact. The jEronauts were not again within speaking distance during the race. Steiner started ahead at an elevation of about 9,000 i feet, and gradually gained upon his coinpetitor. He found a strong current of air, and taking advantage of it by keeping at about the same elevation, made rapid progress. Mons. Godard soon after commenced to descend to within five or six hundred leet of the earth, creating the greatest excitement among the country people, who shouted like an hundred steam whistles. Mr. Steiner still kbpt the current which ] was carrying him rapidly north by northeast, at sd hight of about 9,000 feet. At ] six o’clock he opened his basket of provisions, and sat down to an excellent supper, which he partook of while driving through the air at the rate of about fifty miles an hour! At five minutes past six he passed over Dayton at an elevation of about 10,0.00 feet. He cast overboard several dispatches, but found that the wind was so strong that they were carried several miles from the city. Nothing could be seen of Mons. Godard, and Mr. Steiner concluded that he had taken the under current and gone south-west. He passed several towns, and sent down dispatches, but as he could hear nothing from the inhabitants, concluded that he was unobserved, and kept on his course. THE -ERONAUT GETS ASLEEP AND BRINGS UP IN A TREE TOP. About half past eight o’clock, the zE rollout became very sleepy, and found it almost impossible to keep awake. The cold was quite benumbing. He sung songs, overhauled his traps in the basket to divert his attention, ami finally attached about 3,000 feet of a guide line to iiis wrist, so that it he descended the drag rope would awake him. He then threw out ballast and ascended to an elevation of about 11,000 feet, and .unable longer to keep himself awake, quietly resigned himself to a .com-

sortable nap. About ten o’clock the -(Eronaut was awakened by a crash, and found that his balloon had descended so low that the car in which he was enjoying a sound sleep, had struck in the top ot a tree, in the middle of a small forest. The basket was turned nearly over, and the sleeping -Eronaut was thrown violently into the hoop to which the ropes were attached which united the basket with the balloom. The remainder of his supper was thrown out—his wine was cast overboard — a part of his ballast followed in the descent; his bundles of dispatches kept them company. The shock was so great as to split the seat on which the zEronaut was taking a siesta! The balloon righted iu a minute, and the ballbon being relieved of a considerable weight in the way of cold chicken and other “Walnut. Street House” preparations lor a long voyage, shot into the air with great velocity, so rapidly that the aeronaut opened his valve in order to prevent going “away up yonder”"amongst the stars. Before being stopped, the balloon reached an elevation et 12,000 leet, and finding the atmosphere disagreeably cold, the aeronaut commenced to descend. Finding a good current at an elevation of 8,000 feet, Prof. Steiner managed to keep his conveyance in it, and proceeded at a speed of sixty miles an hour, when he discovered Lake Erie but a few miles ahead. The cement around his valve had become broken in the collision with the tree, and as he had already discharged a considerable quantity of gas, he did not deem it advisable to attempt to cross the Lake. The direction in which he was sailing would have carried him about north by north-east from Sandusky to Long Point, on the Canada shore, some 150 miles. With a dense forest for a landing place, to .escape which he would have been obliged to travel probably 300 miles, he opened hi« valve, and rapidly descended.

THE AERONAUT GOES TO SLEEP IN A CORN FIELD.

The balloon struck the ground about 500 yards from the lake, and dragged to within_ 300 yards of the water before the anchor took a firm hold. The landing place was about half a mile from Sandusky City, in a corn-field, on the farm of Mr. A. G. Townsend. Prof. Steiner called loudly for assistance. but failing to arouse anybody, he evaporated his balloon, and gathering a shock or two of corn-stalks, he wrapped himself in his blanket and overcoat, and lav down by his “Pride of the West” and slep't until daylight. After enjoying a refreshing sleep, Prof. Steiner proceeded to the farm-house, and aroused the inmates, was carried bv Mr. Townsend to Sandusky, where he shipped his balloon by express to this city, and himself took the morning tr>in. All tin's time from six o’clock, Mr. Steiner had no knowledge of-his competitorHn the race, but. on arriving at a station on the railroad, Some fifteen or twenty miles from Sandusky, Mons. Godard came on board with his monster “Leviathan.” He had landed near Hunt’s Corners, some eighteen miles this side of Sandusky.

Frauds in Huntington County.

The People's Press, of Wells, (the associate county ■with Huntington in the Sanatoria! district.) says: “It has been ascertained that flagrant frauds were committed at the election in Huntington. The circumstances, as nearly as. we have been able to gather them, are these: “On the morning of the election, it appears that, one of the Trustees, the inspector, was absent, (perhaps designedly,) when a Air. Hecock, a tool of the conpirators, was appointed and sworn in, as some reports say, by Mr. Coffroth: others say he acted without being sworn. At noon, when the Board adjourned, Mr. Hecock having the ballot-box in his possession, retired to his house, accompanied. as rumor says, by Messrs. Slack and Cottroth; but for the truth of this we cannot vou<;b. At the close of the election, and when the ballots were counted out, Mr. Coffro’h was found to be considerably ahead es his party, Which fact excited considerable suspicion that all was not right. On examining theballots, only 67 were found to be purely Republican and unseratehed. Since the election 1 15 voters have certified, and are willing to make xiatii,. that they voted the pure Republican ticket, w ithout scratching a name, which appears to be evidence conclusive that the ballot-box was opened, and the tickets interfered with in some way. Some 37 tickets were found with Air. Pettit’s name erased and Mr. Cofiroth’s inserted, all in the same handwriting. Other tickets, kijown to have been put in by different voters, are also missing from the box. /“An effort was made to have this fraudulent vote rejected by the Board of Canvassers, but a majority decided to receive them, which elects .Messrs. Slack and Firestone to the Legislature. Their election will, undoubtedly, be successfully contested by their opponents, Messrs. DeL-mg and Edwards.”

Two Girls Walking a Match.

While the attention of the sporting world is strained toward the-butche.'v in Canada, a walking match between two girls, which under other circumstances would elicit a good deal of attention, is quietly going cn at Alontgoinery Hall, .No. 76 Prince street. On a raised platfofm at the side of the hall, four feet wide by thirty feet long, two young women, dressed in light fancy costumes, are slowly walking to and fro, each awaiting the time when the other shall sit down, go to sleep or fall off the platform from exhaustion. They commenced their weary round at noon yesterday, and will probably keep it up till Saturday, as both' have walked for 60 hours before. Their dress is aim >st the Bloomer; they wear tights,, however, instead of trjwsers. This gives them a very petite appearance. One of them,“ Pricess of Lynn,” is a blue-eyed girl with fair hair, cut short and surmounted by abroad-brimmed summer hat. She wears the tri-color, has a pleasant address, apparently a good deal of spirit, as she walked the plank' with considerable energy last evening. She said -that she had to walk pretty smartly to keep warm. She thought she Tiad taken a little cold. She had walked 60 hours before in Lqwell. She is five feet in hight. and weighs 120 pounds, reduced by training from 130. The other, “Flora Temple of Boston,” is an inch shorter, and considerably smaller; she is a brunette, and although her muscular system is remarkably well developed, weighs only 110 pounds. She also has been under training for a month, walking eight or ten miles a day, living nearly on raw beef-steaks, and otherwise conforming to the training rules. She wears’a Native American badge, and the cap which her husband. Lambert, wore when he walked a thousand miles in a thousand hours. She said that her first walk* of this kind was with her husband, when he walked 110 hours continuously. She walked the last 50 hours with, him. Then a woman was fooli-h enough to challenge her to walk, and she walked for 60 hours. And so now again. She talked and we were told that she had obtained considerable reputation as a writer for _the weekly papers about Boston. She saw no reason why a woman should not be able to walk as long as a man; certainly women had to endure more than men generally.— New York Tribune.

G5“We learn from the South Bend Register that Hon. Aquilla Jones, the man the ] Lecomptonites could not control last winter -j after they nominatd him for State Treasurer, and who afterwards was so zealously engaged in helping to lead on the opposition van, is talked of all over the State as the man for State Agent, and also John 11. Harper, the late Republican candidate for State Treasurer, is talked of for Trustee ot the Wabash and Erie Canal.i For United States Senators the names of John D- Defrees, IL S. Lane, Alvin P. Hovey and J. G. Davis (Representative elect from the 7th District) have been suggested. The Register does not know whether either of them will be candidates or not. — Westville Herald. (Kj~lt is stated that J J. Alston, of Tipton Co., Tennessee, has lost six hundred hogs by the Kog cholera, which is raging in that section.

NEWS ITEMS.

potatoes -«e- cultivated wrtli success on Cape Cod. <GO“They are talking at Boston about a uniform for their policemen. formed in Hartford, Conn., on the morning of the 29th of Sept. ’ t’ • (gs” New York has had eighteen Governors i in a period of eighty-orie years. OirOn - of the principal streets in Galveston, Texas, is paved with shells. oO”The New York Times says the bills for the cable celebration foot up $20,000oO”The Turkish Government is about to establish a Journal at Pans to represent its interests. crop accounts from Rusia areunsatisfactory, particularly in the vicinity of Odessa, Parker, Boston, has in his possession thq first fire-arm captured in the Revolution! Morse was decorated by the Emperor of France, with the insigna of the Legion of Honor. (fc?yThere are now two hundred and seventy thousand members of,the French Legion y>f Honor. 0O = Potatoes are said to have been first planted in New England in seventeen hundred and ninteen. (ffiyAbout two thousand persons have returned to California from Frazer river since the Ist of August. the attack upon the Columbia miners in Oregon, one hundred Indians and ten whites were killed. (C?yA feminine imposter, who passes for Mrs. H. B. Stowe, is receiving much attention in Europe, 0O”An Italian woman, who owns three houses and lots in Chicago, has been arrested for begging. (g(yT,he colonial assembly of Australia has passed a bill taxing the Chinese ten pounds per head. steeple of the Universalist.church in Auburn was blown down during the gale of Thursday week. 1 Leavenworth Citif Herald says the’!' : newly discovered gold region is about as large as the State of Misscuri. (ffyA chimney, two ißindred and thirty- ; six feet in hight, is in process of construction at the Navy Yard, Charleston, Mass. (jQ’A, legal writer in Havana, says there has npt been a decision of pecuniary importance. in the supreme tribunal of that. Island, 'within the last two years, which has not i been purchased with gold. D. Ashmore has been elected to ] Congress to succeed speaker Orr," who declined a re-election. The rest of the South Cn>’o!ina delegation remains unchanged. fpff ' A colored teamster at Newark, N. J. | named James Thorp, has became heir by will 'to an estate in \orth Carolina valued at i $73,000. The testator is undoubtedly the ] father of Thorp. Aitroaehing Ei.TXTtoN.s.;—The next elections to come < fl’are. Louisiana on the Jirst of'November: New York. New Jersey, Mas- ] snclfuselts, I'l n ils, Alichiga.ii, on the 2d; ] Maryland on the 3 1; and Wise, nsin on the 4th. These States choose seveh'y-six mem- , horst of ('ongress. QiyOn last Thursd y nigh week snow I fell ’o the depth of five inches in Alartinsi burgh, Lew is county, N. Y., and on Tug Hill, iu the same county, to the depth of eiyhtrtn i inches! Great country for snow, that Tug Hill. VVe have seen snow drits there in the mddle of June.— Chicago Journal. (y(yThc search for Thurston is still kept lup by Air. Bannister. It is now nearly five weeks since the terrible ascension occurred, and thus Jar no trace of the missing aeronaut has -been found, further than was known at the time of finding the tattered anu dismantled balloon in the gloomy swamps , of Lake St. Clair.

History of a Democratic Pole.

Some weeks since the sloop Hornet,'of Albany, was taken to Burn’s dock at Greeh- ] point, for repairs. She had not been there long before s >me persons stole the rigging. Since that time she has been lying at the dock. Yesterday one of the owners applied lat the Station House of the Seventeenth Ward, and stated that he observed that her mast was gone, and wished to know what had become of it. He was informed that, the mast, or a portion of it, was used as a Democratic liberty pole, utjd could he found at the corner of Franklin and Huron streets, it having been there erected by the Demo- ] erats < f the ward. The owner of the sloop I stated that if that was the case it had been stolen or appropriated without consent, and ihe should sue lor the value of it. The pole ] was recently erected at an enlhusiastic meeting of the Democracy. held to ratify the Slate r.ominations.— New York Tribune.

A Fearful Accident.

A'fearful -accident occurred in Fiskdale, Village, Sturbridge, on Monday. Air. Florence ATahoney, of Fiskdale, was employed to clean out a well about thirty feet deep for Air. Alpheus Prouty of that village. had completed the job, and was ascending the well, at about half past nine o’clock A. Al., when the stones gave way and the well caved in, burying him at the bottom. The neighborhood was rallied and came to- his rescue, and labored with intense zeal and perseverence until about seven o’clock P.' Al., when Mr. Mahoney was taken out alive, but his head was most horribly mutilated When they came within a jew feet of him, they could converse with him. and learned that the well was filling up with water, and that it was already running into his mouth. They spared no time in applying the pump, and soon lowered the water, and proceeded with their work in removing the earth. During the last few hours was in intense agony of body and mind, and when relieved from his confinement was insensible for some time. He was carried into the bouse of Mr. Prouty, where medical aid was at hand, and everything was done for j his comfbrt and .restoration, and hopes are entertained by hia physician of his recova-* j ry.— Worcester Spy- -