Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1858 — History of a Democratic Pole. [ARTICLE]

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.