Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1859 — Liquor Riot at Crawfordsville. [ARTICLE]

Liquor Riot at Crawfordsville.

Kight (ivog Shops Demolished —Shots Fired,! but Nobody Killed. The last day of grace given to the liquor ' sellers of Crawfordsville expired on Saturday, and the popular sovereigns of that town, after waitirg until last night for a compliance with their demands. or<>re2'.'.eu to regudomestic .ostitutions by “cleaning °VV every grog shop in the place, There PW.e.'c eight altogether. stocked with whisky, and -beiorg midnight every gill of the ardent, not Jess than forty barrels in all, •had licked the dust. The rioters met with no opposition except at the house of an Irishman named Kenneday, who had barred his door, and, finding it about to be battered down, fired three shots from a revolver. The fialls went whistling through the crowd, but fortunately no one was hit. Some opposition had been antic pated, and a noose had been prepared with the determination to string up the first man who drew blood. Crawfordsvi lie vas completely saturated with Wabash Catawaba this morning, and smelt like an old toper recovering from a /iard spree.— Lafayette Courier. Hughes delivered a sermon in New York, Sunday last, a portion of which had reference to the question of the Bible in the public schools. He said, regarding this matter, that the Catholics “have geased to war upon a system which the great majority of our citizens seem to approve.”

0O“Hon. Theo. Frelinghuysen, who ran for Vice President on the Whig ticket in 1844, is spoken of as the successor of Hon. : W. Wright, in the U. 8. Senate, from New ; Jersey. Hon. Wm. L. Dayton positively declines. oO”Rumors are current in Washington ' that Senator Jefferson Davis will take an early opportunity to comment, in the Senate Upon Mr. Douglas* Illinois speeches. It is very probable that Mr. Douglas will have ample opportunities to explain and defend his position in relation to the Democratic party, whatever it may be. O^7"A small child of Mr. Powers, of Lafayette, was accidentally shot by a boy, on i Sunday morning, while its mother was absent at church, attending early mass. The boy came in, and seeing a shot-gun, said he would see whether it was loaded, and believing it was not, he pulled the trigger, with the fatal result to Mr, Powers’ child. Lafayette Courier, of the sth, says: A private telegram from Hon. Schuyler Colfax, dated Washington, this morning, i announces the serious illness of Hon. James i Wilson. He is suffering from an attack of 1 winter fever. OO~At a station on the Central Ohio Railroad, last week, two men named Almond and Spcc-k, and a woman named “Widow Pepper,” were tarred and feathered for immoral conduct. The parties who did the deed are being tried for “riot.” (kz’A Statue has been, after the lapse of many years, erected in Triangular square, London, to the memory of Dr. J nner, the celebrated discoverer of vaccination. The money fur this purpose was obtained from various sources; but. to America belongs the ■ honor of contributing more largely toward the statute than any other country. plumber, in Cincinnati, Torney, i while repairing a hydrant upset a kettle of molten lead, a portion of which ran upon ; his foot and burnt it to the bone. The inj.u----i ry is of such a nature as will render Torney i lame for life even if amputation be not necessary to save the’limb. His suffering since the accident has been excruciating. Oty’A little boy two years old, the son of a family named Harmon, was scalded to death in Milwaukee on Christmas day, by pulling a kettle of boiling water upon himself from the stove. £Ly"Bets to a large amount have already been made in New York that Douglas will be el ‘cted President tn 1860. His friends, are willing, in some cases, to give odds. Almighty has drawn a line on this continent, on one side of which the soil must be cultivated by Slave labor; on the other by white labor.”— Senator Douglas, at Memphis. Thon we should like to kow what becomes of popular sovereignty! IjfT”A San Francisco letter says; “Frazer Riveris alm >.st unheard of. Every steamer blings down as many as can get away, ami nearly all the adventurers thitherward Jr.ive got back, looking considerably the worse for wear. It is only necessary to ap- , pear in a ‘ shocking bad hat,' and dilapidated ami well ventilated garments, to be hailed with a ’Hello! how's Frazer!’’ Every shabby, woe-begone looking chap is supposed to be one of ’em.

Sale or Public Lands in WisconsinTh? President has signed a proclamation ordering a public sale of 4,3H0,000 acres yf l iinl in Wisconsin, in z\pril and May., including alternate sections Which belong lo the G tvernin ?nt along the railroad lines. Such lands as rnay not be sold will be subject to private entry. Strange Petition —ln the U. S. Senate on Monday last, a petition was presented by Senator Brown of Mississippi, from Oscar J. E Stewart, setting forth that his slav - was the inventor of a useful agricultural instrument, for which the Commissioner of Patents refused a Patent on the ground that a machine invented .by a slave, though it be new and useful, could not be, in the present state of the law, patented, and asking that the patent law may be so amended that a patent, may be issued to the master. Prize Dance.— A prize dance came off in a saloon at Beaver Dam, Wis., between an Irishman and a mulatto girl. The Girl danced seven hours and the Irishman eight, winning the prize—$10. One of the Papers.—A new paper called the Nettis has just been started at Grand Haven, Wis. The editor, in his salutatory, speaking of the future Course of the paper s«ys: “It will advocate the principles of that party of which Jefferson was the founder, of which James Buchanan is, to-day, the repreresentative, and Stephen A. Douglas the able exponent.”

(£7”The testimony in the investigation instituted by the Hon. F. P. Blair, Jr., to disprove the right of J. Richard Barrett to represent St. Louis in thp next Congress, has been published. The evidencediscloses the most bare-faced fraud and corruption, and effectually demolishes Mr. Barrett’S claim to his seat. The next House of Representatives can hardly fujlto award the seat, to Mr. Blair. -t’hfr Commissioners and contractors employed in boring the Artesian well in the i Ohio State house, have the right kind of spunk. Notwithstanding great difficulties the well has been sunk to tlie depth of! 1785 feet and boring is going on at the rate of about seven feet a day. They are determined, if they have to work till doomsday, tp get a jet of the aqueous fluid (Lj”A new and valuable gold mine is said to have been recently discovered in Montgomery county, N. C., from which the owner,at an expense of S3OO, secured $30,00 worth of gold in three months.