Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1858 — Various Items. [ARTICLE]

Various Items.

The reported declaration of war agxiust M.-xi- i coy by Spain is not confirmed. Mr Stephens, of Georgia. has prepared to report. on the first opportunity, a bill for the admission of Oregon into tho Union. There is apparently no opposition to the measure. Three cents wortii of the liquor sold in the l->th ward of New York is guaranteed to prove fut#i in four hours. Hon. W nt. L. Day ion has declined being a cm- : Uniate for tho U. S. Senuto from the State, ot New Jersey, Th" dead body of Victor Indarbeth, a Germim, was found nt Iliiuoistowu, opposite St. Louis, a few days since. H* had been murdered bv castration, by some person or persons unknown. A great fool in Cincinnati the other day on- . dertook to eat a whole cheese weighing fifteen! pounds, on a wager. At tile sixth pound he was 1 R -ized with violent vomiting, by which he rup- I lured a blood-vessel and came near dying. On Christmas day a largo hug is to be guessed | for in New Brunswick. N. J. Tho man who guesses nearest to. his weight is to have him. ) The Mississippi Senate has passed a bill appro- I printing S'W,OOO towards the erection ui a mon- | uiiwut to Gen. Quitman, at Natchez. Thej constitutionality of the Massachusetts law I requiring tho unlicensed traffic. in liquors e mii- | sauce, has been sustained by a recent decsiou ot | the Supreme Court of that State. They have a second Burrittat Mount Vernon,! 111., named A. U. Johnson, the sou of a farmer, 1 who, without*! teacher and with such odd books I as he could buy Qr borrow, has become masterof , a dozen languages. McDermot, of MjiHin township, I Richland county, Ohio, has very good claims to] Reconsidered tiio oldest man in the State. Me! was born in Pennsylvania in 1749, aud is now at I ths uro of 109, in the enjoyment of fate health. I

A man calling himself Brigham Young, Jr., has established himself in Ocean county, N. J., and called his place “New Utah,” or “Little Salt Lake.” He has also induced three silly women to join him, as a starting point in his stock of wives. . Mr. Foster Halo, the inventor of raised letters ; for the use of the blind, fell down dead on a pave* • meat in Selma, Ala., ou the 261 h. Tiie Vicksburyh True Southern tells of an els- , phant that broke from a menagerie near that place, and soon made its appearance on a plantation just ns a dozen slaves were sitting down to dhiner. Tlie unusual spectacle so frightened, them that, they al! turned while! Some of the Lynn shoe maaufaetureraore nose making to order largo quantities of ladles skating boots. They aro made thick and strong, and cut to reach above the auklc. I: is said that suet: Anti-Lecomuton Demo*, cr&ts as Forney, Broder! k, Hickman, Haskins , an<_ C .ark, co .. it hceltute to ex press their e’eapprouation of 1-louglr.s’ course since his return to l.hiiois, ana hi- iiliibusteriag speech*# in S*iitii*> era cities. Tlie total Ca.aeoi steamers on the Mississippi. and Its tributajri -a is more th m $60,01)0,000, and numbers as many ar. fifteen auudre,.—mure toau twice tii” steamboat tonnags of Ei.gland, and equal to that of ail the other yurts ot the world. A tail is before the North Carolina LorieiaUir* to prevent hers* steollug. If punishes a second conviction w ith branding in lite form cd a lisue, and u third conviction by imaging. Tite New York papers record the departure c>i about forty English thieves and : forborne, taking-comfortable fortunes which tbev ! liave acquired iu this couiitrv b'v the practice of ■ their profession. They wi i probable send ovo- ! th- ir poor relatiouls to succeed them in business. Mr. Anderson Johnston, of Greencastle Ind., while attempting to get on a train of the New Albany and Salem Railroad at Cloverdale on Thursday, just as the cars were starting, lost his footing, slipped and fell between the cars, and his body was crushed in a most horrible manner. He was formerly sheriff of Putnam county. D. Hoffman es Roiling Prairie, has t>res< nt-d to us about half a pound cf genuine sugar which was rnaniHactiired by him from iha sorghum. 'I ho sugar is equal to the best New Orlcsn* sugar. I'll* flavor is more like the maple sugar than any other. Mr. Hoffinsn made but a few pounds as an experiment. He Is satisfied'that ■ sugar can be made from tho sorghum with very j little trouble ~~\Lor-c,rte Union. The <Delphi Journal> reports the death of the wife of Mr. Aaron Briney, of Carroll county, who fell into a well on Friday last, and died before she was discovered. Mr. Briney was absent at the time, and returning finding his wife gone, supposed she was visiting at his brother’s, and went there for her. Nothing being known of her there, he came back and searched till he found her corpse in the well. She was drawing water, it is supposed, when she fell into the well. S.-mi'. J. I'ord, a liquor dealer of Louisville, 'mniniUiu suicu. .on >aiiu. bv cutting hie ; throat while in a fit of insanity. He was an . lishmua about l.» years of age. Character:.-!:! —Last winter the House passed a resolution that all the alery ytnen in Washington s:.id be invited to perform the office of chaplain in rotatii n. Speaker Orr lias just madu up the list. hr- left off the name cf one clermi.a, aid cm:" one—Rev. Mr. Bassett, tlie wellknown < .■.‘gr-.'pat I :.nai anti-Slavery minister. Could political spite go further. the WashLigim -<>i res icu.dent of Forney'» Press writes: : cuss' is very feeble. He is ■ cltva confined id his room, and is compelled to .'orego all heavy lui?-.,:-.'’ The old man will probably die iu the harness. Letter from Paris to the New York Evening Post, suvs Senator Sunnier's physician iiascoua- ■ seled him to abandon ail hope of returning homo ; for Ilia present session oi'Cmigre-j Air. Simmer ; vi'.s to leave-Vkris in a f-w days for the south of lli .- Hou. liiiam Barbee, iit*-d at I. alavct’i , Ind., cm tin- 7tii, aged 70. Ho -.-as -j nailer ‘‘••I t'i? v. ur of lb 12, removed from Kentuc’ry to Trbyl Ohio, wiu-ii youuc.’, uat. to Luiax ... In ,fe.V.‘. He was ioriiier'y a member of t.io Ohm LegUn- ' ture/and at .the lime of his death was the wea'ttiivst person in Wabash Valley. I iiv wite ofu German ia Ol io etoped with a ••.strange young mar..” c.rrying awa,' sundry spoons, , became iired ot him, nrtd returned to her he.sband. He receive . her xvilh great kindbut tiie iiioriiii’.g after her return, ran away with liis cook, who gave the .-poor.e a third lift! i Asttf caulk Readings.—Tba Washin : ;>jt Sri/teo', bi view of the Demoeracy reading Denglas out of the party, p.ueet.ds ,o read the I'rar’dent out uieo, because of “hia protoclivo tariff Rri-EAt-az Ti.r “ ChreaT.”—John J Davis es 'lndiana, bus introduced a bill to repeal so much oi tue Engiish bill as prohibit!, Kamtasfrom coming into the Union until! »ne hat, a population of 1)3,003. A large force has been kept sround ths Com-- . office in New York :iuc... the. olettimt, e .-. account ol an apprtj'ieii.smu hia? iumrtrle i ia tiie uestructioii ot tix c. vi.mente fin, there, would burn the building. This <s3.u>« r does n.it come trou. thieyeij or i uceiiGiurii .’, but from ex-office holders in th” city joverumeat, whose stealings are ilkyiy- tu be expoaec. OOUTHWIX I.MGCE. —A Lag;e is bUleVed to eixist iii the Southern Stutcc, v.ie ■■‘f the nlma of which is “the -ugriieiita.i.m of rne sur-ply s ave labor.” Il is asSnrted th-.t ti.is la-l’suu is now operating i;i the lit; t? of 31 >s*tsipy'. to » core tlie passer", of a lav ‘."‘tic- 1 a--.. , authorizing a i.y.--.:ein of V.iean appr-..niccsliln—• claiming that a ‘eh r -..st> 3 has a t *•■(>■•.-. ri/i.t io make such laws in this’ it .va- ._<• . , proper, uttu that Congresr h no hglit t* iatnrfire. Should thev Succeed t-t Mississippi, :i > contest oi course wiil at o:me be taken to Con-gt-’se

John H. Browusoit, a leaving lawvar cf Si. Paul, and a son cf O. A. Brownt-Cif. ‘ail ??. c. , ty-oicnson'n Rcnirw of Boston. a ith a : cjiyith at, St. Paul on file lift i -t. Hie dead nnd mimgled body ear found An t i.w. .mg ~f i ssh. he huv..\- jumped fr.-m i.>. uiicc window ' some eighty fe< t- Having been subject to tmml nambuli-ni, it is supposed that hr. arose in hia sleep in tho night anii wid In that erudition, made the fearful and fatal ii .p. The question as to whether Kankakee, sTteuld adopt a city govr-rmiu'at, -oj remain la the modest of villaguhodd wue> voted on bv the citizens of that place on Tuesday last, and decided in ths in the negative by 61 fcjajwity. A hen, with Jba* has bcm exhibited iu Greenwich, Muss. The _Vari.;na2 Zhnwcrat, which was started last spring :i«. the ditatu organ of tho Douglas Democracy, Las suspended. lETA Railroad contractor, who was “known to have many i;i his yoßses'ion, was waylayed, robbed and murder'd, between Fairbault and Myndota, Min., uno day last week. We have not learned the murtiered inan't. Tho murderer is unknown. If r ' letter from Kom< , iu tin JQrf* uniiounces the death ui Count Jottph M»stei, brother of the prewont Pope.