Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1858 — Varions Items. [ARTICLE]

Varions Items.

(rS”A lad named Henry Spelt, kilb'.l ’.j aself accidentally, in St. L <uis, on Friday last, by falling on a slate which he had in his hind. A portion of the frame was driven into his side, killing him almost instantly. I L -t the school boys take warning. QJT’Six or seven persons have been arc 's ted at Havana, Cuba, charged with conspiring against the lite of the Captain General. (j/T’Ex-Governor Walker, of Kansas, is about to start to Cali ornia, to take personal charge of some importunt private interest there. 0/?“The Collefor at the port <<f Molfiie i lias been sue 1 tor refusing a Clearance to the bark Alice Painter, on board of which the Nicaragua Filibusters first took passage. As the ves el did not sail the pas. ge money had to be refunded. Damages laid at $25,000. 0O“B. B. Root and Jasper Packard propose publishing a daily paper in LaPorte, to be called the LaPorte Daily Union. It will be issued from the WeeA/y Union office, and will be Republican in politics, and furnished lor $6 a year. Messrs. Root &. Packard are eminently qualified to conduct a daily paper, and we trust the enterprise will succeed.— South Bend Register. -0/7”Alexander Rolrnson, one of the two young mei who lately decoyed a young Irish girl into the woods, at New Cast e. Delaware, and outraged her person, has 1> -en convicted of rape and sentenced to death, that being the punishment of the crime in De.a----w re. The other scoundrel made his escape. 0/rThe death of Col. Albert. Pike,of Arkansas, is reported in the Sou hern papers, ke commanded a company of the Arkansas cavalry in Mexico, and was a brave and deter- s mined soldier. He was a native oi Newbu- ; ryport, M iss. 0//”Gen. Houston, now in hi.- 56th year, i has signified his intention to retire from public life on the sth of March next. The ■ General has purchased extensive lands on , U.tlveston Bay, whither he will remove to engage extensively in sheep grazing. 0/jrThe Secretary of the Treasury is advertising for another loan often millions to meet the expenses of this economical G-A eminent. 0/7”The Memphis Enquirer states that five men were recently hung in Red River Bottom, Arkansas, for horse stealing, by a « oippany of Regulators. One of the bodies has the following deseripfon on tiie back; "Tennessee horse thief; If you like hiqi better, than I do, you can take him down and bury him” Q/ylt is said that Mr. Douglas will stop 1 at Havana a week or two, on his way to Washington, in consequence of the ill health oi his wife. His confidential friends- in Washington deny that he has written a Utter stating that he will not be a Presidential candidate Is 1860. 0/7”The Laporte Times, commenced the publication of a Daily on Monday last—J..bn C. Walker and F. J. Clark, Editors. It is a six column paper and presents a neat appearance. We wish it success in evcry'ing except its South Bend Register,'!-, nd Profekty or Indiana. —A report submitted to the Legislature by the HouseCommitteeof XV ya and M'V.ai, show’s that the value of all the taxa. « property of the State is s4sH,t«OO,«tt>U — ln crease since 184.», of $19f1,U62,707. Mu.-i, of that iucreaae is attributed to the various railroads •f the State which cost only about t.»O,<ntO,OOO.

Pacific Telegraph line has been finished to Kansas City.