Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1858 — The Last of the Border Ruffians. [ARTICLE]

The Last of the Border Ruffians.

1 ti * lh)rd t Ruffinis who emeu figured so | lafge'y in Kansas, :tr • now I a"J t > ti.:d, :;nd_m> -one. is willing to a.knowkd<re that lie was one .of th . j G -neral B. 1". Strin«fellow is about to tak ‘up I h'.s residence 'at M -mphis, T< nn. lie is in too ’ b it: odor to r.-main in Msso.i.i. I’is brother, Dr. Stringfellow, has re, -,er;t,'y" I joined the . Cpngrogaimmd Clmrch. anil may be. ■seen partaking • f the Saeram-nt with his old p j litical enemy, Gen Tai Pomeroy. He now dole iares bimsell a |-r--c->tu!e Democrat. and is ! strong!} reec.mmend by his friends as the proper person to ftl: tbe offi-.-e just vacated by the resignation of Governor Denver. (rov, rnor ShannmiJias in t with a great mora’, las w-.di as po'itieal cluing-. 11 ■h is discontinueu th- use of on - of his favorite leverages whs- !»} —discarded iiis Border Ruffiin assuci.ites--and is now on" of th" most ex mmlarv men in I, "compton. His-obd 1 ■ ieud. the notorious Colonel Titiis, as- ! t t pruvjnn himself a coward tn Central Ameri- ; cn, and a vagabond i:i Kansas, headed the Linn I county assassins, the remnant of Colonel Bui lord's ragamuffins, and left for Arizonia. thexe to I work in the mines, or "if tinsitecessful. to rob the Spanish Churches." Child Ju-tice L-eompte is presiding over a , murder trial in Leavenworth. I Jack Henderson, wiio was conspicuous in niafc-. I ing up tratululent election returns, appeared a, few days since in tire secret e mens of the Democratic purt v. General McLean has not made his appearance, in the Territory since lie p -rpired himself ii\ connection with ’.lie famous candle-box. His miserable master, “General Candle-Box, Calhoun,’" is inclined to keep at a safe distuiiee from the people liver whom lie once assumeif dictatorship. Major Clarke, the nmrderer of. Barbour, has I left l -.rt Si'ott. where he vyorkid with the Rtifj tians in th > late ditlicullles, and has taken the otb.ee i,l Purser in the Navy, an appointment I eonterred uptm him by the late Senate. Ihnery is in th" Hnited States Laud ollie.e. at i Kiekapoo. —, General \\ hit-tie hl is the Register tn the «ini,» | ediic". SherrlVJones has n e,- i.tly ns eivcjl the appointment of “Receiver"’ in Arizonia. All the above notorious characters, have been, or are now the recipients of important offices under the General Government.