Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1858 — Various Items. [ARTICLE]

Various Items.

(live to tlie needy wheatlier he a<keih or not, ■ E.v Prt-sident Pierce wa- at last ac. onnts at Rome, .in _o< d heal! b, but Airs. Pie: ce rvas nm, improving. At. Ounati, t: e uis-coveror of tlie lit w comet, has j been'appointed. Assistant Astronoiueii es the imperia! M pseuni of Florence. Tlie Natchez Cmiror says t hat New Orleans is the. hlthiest city in tlie I’nitcd States. I I here wer<- t \vo thousen J four hufi iied ami tiiirtvsi x <b-at lis iit Moit t rea’. for the y ear elmlin.l uI v t iic ■ 4th. 1 .W. i e.*ti!y el! tlie mills (J j I.owe J. int>>•: - are now running amt all on fall time. i’“ Tht-soil of Turkey is fVtimi to be v>-i , ffaxo: ab’.- to ' flit- ■r.t.wth < f cotton. ' Silver is arriving at San Francisco ft om Arizona ,-t tin- rate of one thousand dollars per Wcel.. It is said that a chib! was recently born in Canada, weighing, t went y two pounds. Charles S. Strati i-n, the original 'fem l lmmb, is showing himself in Alanefrester. Eiivkjnd. The Great Western Rail way Compaitty are a 1 tu.t to . replace all their wooden bridges by iron odes. It has been decided, lately, in court; that the word “children - ’ in a will includes grand children. child, four years ebl. with a tine -frowth of heard : and whiskers, is on exhibition in N«w York. Tile New Vol k Tiwiea predicts that Kansas will be adiiiitted this winter witliout much resistance Ab-xander lluncan. of Providence, is taxed forovi r . four millions of dollwts. He is the richest man in New England l atch of Ne w York c: t y olVtrials and rout rar i s i have just been indicted for frauds and'swimlliim. Within a fe"' month.- past tlie poiie’e . : New \ ~t I, have made twenty thousand com plat i:: - F-i t iol ati< >n « : of the Sunday laws. i Ou the night of the Jgth lilt, twi lvcf bir; bs w ere re. quirted in the family i.f Heber C. Kin.iliai, at SatfJ.akr City. I’ tan Terri loi y. It seems to be settled that the lltiii.ih Government will lay a second' cable between Ireland and Newfoil lid land. ■ Jonathan Robinson, who died in Mijbli; se\ coiuit .. : .Mass.,' last week, weieh<-d fuiir-lntudreil ami sixiy-llve pounds. I Iris thought the Hip ol tin- over!aiid: mail betweei; St! Louis and San Francisco will ultimately be m.:d« ini wenty days. S Judge Balcohr,. lasCxvcek, directed a Graml Jury in ■ New York to find indict men ts again st i adulterators of liquor. . ' :

4ho I lebi <• \\ s < > Norfolk, \a ~ have for med a m ili t• - : ry company of thirty live men. ; The State.<f Virginia ta.ve-- the railroads of that | State one mill per mile tor evert pniscuger carried ! over their road. A gent leman in Neu picketj ripe raw ,-r 1 lies from his garden on the ‘,7th nit. Al le.%>t t'e Boston Post says he did. Three men, named McGcadr. But Im and Roach. I were-lately suffocated, to death by foul air. while j sinking a well near Chicago. ; A large emigration from North Carolina to the \\ <-st |is going on. A caravan of IMiy nine persons left Lin I coin county, N. last month. | Caleb Cushing is re-elect e<l •<. the Ma>s.., hiisctt< • Legislature from, the town of N«. wbury poi i. Thanksgiving win eelebrrt. d in PliiJadelphia ).y •hi ilii ary parades. 1 li» Gu m ht-r of l'< «leil otiiue-hiddrhs c\ulu-i ve « f ' «n<l Navy, is about thirty six thousand. Ihr .Xi'itmnl /.'rn st-t’es that it wa< the purpose of ren.’.ioi Sumner in return to this country in the kittri part of I, st month and resume his sest in the Senate. James l‘.i rm y, ehb -1 son of Jame< G. Birm-y. of ‘•liberty party” lame, has been elected to Ihe ?l h hi an j Senate from the counties borderin'’ on Labe Huron. ' While the Douglas Democracy are endeavoring to., be very enthusiastic over apparent success in, this State, we would respectfully jemind them that the I.’epuldicans have carried rr/*ry County in the State, which went for them in IrpC», have “redeemed" , trren counties, which then gave Democratic maj. ri ties; and increased their vote,.in two years, just t wen ty nine thousand six hundred and thirty seven*

j Southern paper* announce that Col. S. A. ridge, of fillibuster notoriety, intends going to Mexico, with arms am’, munitions, to aid the liberal party of that country. Senator Broderick, oi < ’alifornia, ha< crosrei th» plains, in order to-acquaint himself, by personal tnspectibn. with the route of the Pacific Railroad. J. Glancy Jones’ son has received an appointment in The Paraguay expedition. It i» said that Buchanan intends to^ give all his old clothes to the Jones fanii.'r. A malignant cholera-broke out among the slaves p« « Jefferson parish planter, (Lousiana.) and incmedav eighty out oi about one hundred on the place, died tof thi* S.» s>;ys the New Orleans Delta nf -d. A corresponded ol theN.-> Y r ork JbxprsX, hUL'ifots the liainc oi Hon. Tom. Corwin, of Ohio, as a randidate for Spca'.rr of the next House of Rcpre sciitatives. Robert Huckwurth, mail-arier -etween Nashvilla and Columbus, Indiana, has been arrested and f ound over for trial, on a charge of robbing the mail. Wine selling in the North of France thi» y>ar at , one cent a quart. Tlu- wife of ATewberter, who shot himself in the Court louse at Columbus, in this State, a short time age, h-oi become insane in. c mscquence, wo presume, of the terrible fate of her husband. J he Seymore (Ind.) 7'imc* intimates that the “Ken tucky kidnappers’* may carry off Gov. Willard, if they choose, as his abduction wouldn’t injure any State in partirular. Ibe Burlington Iowa; //awAeye telle cf a lady in that vic : nity, who. by marriage, has got her?elf into the following distressing situation in regard to her own lamily: She is sistei-in-law to her father, aunt to her brothers, sister to her uncle, daughter to he 1 grandfather, ami gn at aun'Jto her own childien. I'hc Suliivan Veniocraf insists that the Hon. John <r. Davis will act with the Democratic party here after. I’he I erre Haut .Ju urnal wcuis to.think different, and complains that Mr. D. is now engaged in franking documents to Republicans alone—utterly slighting the I‘emocia’s I here is son'.* probability tl at an application will be made iu_<'migrrss, at the approaching session, for t he organization of Laramie Territory,” being the western ba'! of Kansas, including the gold region. I here are already indications that a struggle will hr made by Southern*-! - to “dedicate” thi< region to Slavery. I be .'.mri j Ul)> oi \ H t.nia asked permission to P*ar a liberty puir. to which they would put the star spangled lla-j. Tiie r»-qn<>t was instantly declined. ’•Well,” -anl the • rowd, “Jet’s rai*e a pole and stick ihe ilag < ’ all nations upon it ” And so they did what ’hey >aid Ihe\ would do. and a pettic oat waved from the libei; y pole.' < haiies 'lhoii.p'on, the s*»n < t Judge Thompson, has been convict® I of manslaughter, at Terra Haul. Indiana, and sentrner.f to the county jail f.jr oct lhe Jockey Club rt Paris tlie senate of eleganta and dandios, has just been passing laws on evening | < ostume for centlein-'n. Mr. Peabody has added two hundred thousand to hi« I ormer donation lot he Peabody’ln st i tut ion, Baltimore, "’making the whole five hundred thousand.

'lhe costume of the Spanish ladies has not changed for two hundred years. They wear lhe same style of urrrJ -n* at gramlim thers did. rhe official list of passengers on board the burnt j steamer. Austria, arrived by The Kurope. It shows I that four hundred aud fifty six lives were lost. Preparations are making in Washington fora grand demonstration on the arrival • I ••the victorioua Sena tor Douglas.” But the Douglas meh in the government offices lave been cautioned that it will not be sale tor .them to show themselves on the occasion. lhe steeple of the new Epi-cup*] church in Lafay ette, will be-, when completed, the tallest in the State. The frame work is already fini<l eI, kr’dl om« up two hundred fret high from the ba<e. John \\ . (reary. Ex-Gevernor of Kansas, was ma. r<d on I’bursday no ruing last, to Mrs. Henderson, • J ( umler'and county. Pa. The wedding took place a: lhe resilience of H->n. J. W. Quigelv. in Walnut street. Philadelphia. bather ti e original “Vncle Tom,” ).<• purchase J his brothei John from slavery, and they ir* now iu Boston try ing io rase money to redeem John’s wife and three children. ».H< e Morphy been in Europe, up to the time-of tne closeol the Hafiwitz game, he has played ona h”i died and seventeen games, sixt<-< n of which ha 1 ost, eighty-eight won. and thirteen w r ere drawn. I lie Steuben (Indiana; Republican says at the last term of the Circuit Court iu that county, there weie i " ♦•hty-one ti’.vorcc cases on the docket, ten of which re decided and divorce • a’low».-<]. A Southern paper thinks rhe neutrality' of the ? ' iantre cable, which w.»< so anxiously begsred for by President Bucha ian. i.as been fully established. It asn’t a w d to -ay on either side. Lhe Israelite, published in Cincinnati, saya that an American farmer in the vicinity of Simbx city, lowa, ha-, with hi- w In.l<- family, embraced Judaism. He perf. rinrd circumcision on himself, and now livea stri' .ily ip- accordance with the rules of the Mosaic Cmr ac.o. N'i.v. 24. —The Hou. f. L. Harris,member * i 4 ’ougress elect from the (jth District, died of consumption at six ( ’clock this morning. lhe Marion (Dant county) Journal rec ord n the audden death o! Mr. Joi ah Welch, an estamible citizen <d that place, who, after a little exertion in chasing a chicken. enj« red hi- Harden house to rest, and fell dead from th<- .- ’Lt against the door, wlu-re he wa fl discovered s >on after by his brother. • he Ches‘n utu (Pa.) Timet says it is reported that I i addeus Stevens, after being assured of his elec li *h to ( nmess from the Lancaster district, in spit** ofa’l the efforts of t-he President to secure hludvfeat, went to the telegraph office ami dispatched the following his I'.rc *' lenc -.James Bueh~ a u an: I ’ t oming.”

. • - \n v 1r < r kTiicii.- Ihr Buffalo Commortial .'lilve.rkisfr say<: -We have before us m copy of arli“i(M’> pai < r published at St. Louis, called The Wetern Watchman.’ Ihe p’.esent issue has its head o turned and tr.-insportrd. so that it rea l<, ‘Watch The Western Man'--convuying a very appropriate lesson and u arning to us down-cot* ra.” A Singular —At the e!<*ction in Massachn ‘•eHs, Thr~towi» o| South Danvers voted as foil' ws lor (tov< imh : I’ank s. R< publican, LLI; !»< ach, Jh*mo crat, 44 t; l.a w i eiTt'c. Amriican. 144. Our vov* ! unu nt has some btautif.i! specimens ol i epru.-rntat iv( « abroad. The Consul at Tahiti, Mr. Henr. Owner, is an illustration. Late account, i represent hm as a con ft m <1 d unken bl<*». During the it o-;t »it bis time he 1 ies drunk in the str< e . even in bis < onsular unit nm. On one • cca ion he fell and HroH-Ins nos< i pitv ii n.ys’nt hi> neck', ami another lime w.-s 1 undlyii ; i.i the fitter beastly intoxicat* d an I iv.'i- carried to the. < a!a'».»ose by a party of sailorA reliiarkaMe case < t -ummary execution took place fli Le Seuer county, Minn., last week. Rine chart, the murderer ol ihiidell, !»< •; l< xingf(>n nas [ uied au<( toiiuil suilly. The jury tlien, in addition to i I'ieii iltiry ns jurors, assumed the otli, cos execution ers. n-m"! look tiie t'lif u I uuale man fr,.m the court room and Imm' him forthwith. Uutti- Simmons <1 (in-eufield. Mi.hi.ean, under a promts,- ot marriage, s.-dmed a Miss Diomas of that plarc. ami then, followed, not only desertion but her - circulated slanders against the young lady. He waa pr aecuted and the otlierday the jury ,-ave Misa Thomas 3 l)l.t <>o damage- forbreach of promise, and her fath it s’,,C<Hi for the Feduclion *,f his dau"ht,-r