Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1858 — THE ILLINOIS CAMPAIGN. [ARTICLE]

THE ILLINOIS CAMPAIGN.

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 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.”