Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1859 — Various Items. [ARTICLE]

Various Items.

Cubans propose the abolition of slavery, ae a last resort to save their island : frohi the rapacity of the United States. That will do it effectually. Nearly one hundred counties of Vir- - ginia have already held meetings, and ap- j pointed delegates to the Whig Convention which is to assemble in Richmond on the , 10th instant. W. D. Goggin will probably f be the Whig candidate. Mayor of Cincinnati has had a eenaus of the drinking saloons taken, showing M total of sixteen hundred and eightyeight. Ad im Poe, son of Andrew Poe, . who had the famous hand-to-hand battle with the Indian, Big Foote, and cousin to J Edgar A- Poe, the poet, died last Wednes- i day, at Ravenna. Ohio. (ttrAn Indian has been discovered in California, five feet and a halfhigh, and weighing only sxteen pounds, bding a mere skeleton, but in good health and lively. This is Supposed to be the writable ‘-Lo, the poor Indian!” OiyThe Traverse City (Mich.) -Herald •ays that there never was a. drop of intoxicating liquor sold in the town! and, if so we venture the opinion that no human being was ever sent from there either to the poor house, jail, or to the State Prison. 4Xo“President Lord,of Dartmouth College, ■was skating on the Merrimac river, on Wednesday,and a Lowell paper remarks that although he is sixty-six years o' age, for celerity and grace he was unequaied : y any of his more youthful competitors. (XtyThe postmastei at Louisville is in great trouble. A letter has been addressed to his post office, “tu the handsomest wo- ' man in Kentucky.” All the Kentucky women want it. he don't know which of them is entitled to it. What a perplexity. Just So.-—A shrewd business man, who takes little interest in politics, remarks, that the proposition to buy Cuba seemed to him “like an offer to give money that we had not got, (or a thing we didn’t Want, to a nation that wouldn't Jell!'’ (g>-Thc Pr ekident is said to h ive the names of several prominent members of the Spanish Cortez, who iavor the sale of Cuba .to the United tittles. The Pope of Rome, it is said, has a so expressed himself favorable to the sale, believing that the interest of the Catholic Cliefeli in the island would be pron-oted by ai infusion of that active life i -which animates’the church in the American Union. [ (uyE. M eriani’s record shows that the use i>f camphene burning fluid and kindred ■preparations, fjr the purpose of illumination last j?cur, caused th • death of fUtv-lour persons, and resulted in serious ■ injury to ninety-three c;hers, eleven of whom were " not ejfpeetqd to recover, besides which lirps involving a loss of $58.915 arose Irom tjm home cause. • . (gV'The Salem X .Mass.) R gistvr says, I but ■during the late ’old spell, the earth ami ice cracked Ire paei't y with a loud, report, and, one instance, a large linden-tree, on Oliver-' street. was s'pli from the roots to the top o! the trunk, w ith, an exph -.ion !;';e a piece of ordnance adio have been e.xumiuing the probable results of toe last census, amTlhe apportic nment to be based on it,-say thatUhe rtquin d population oi a Congressional 'district. wi i probably be raised from ’93,0(10 to 1 IO.OOU/tnd that thelloti.se of Representatives (i fl he present number, 233. is retained,) will jrobubly ( -.msist of 155 Representatives from Frec States, and 7 8 Repres •ntatives from •slave States, showing a gain ofnine to the former. Senator Douglas gave her first party since her - eturu, on Thursday evening of la.-t week. It. is described as “an im- - me.hse affair, At least fifty Southern members and Sonato’s, with their families-, 1 were present. None of the Cabinet, or their families, attended.'’ New York Legislature got into the habit one se.-sion of passing bills by their titles, and a w> g, taking advantage of the Car'lessness, assisted ;rt the •enactment of the following clause in a b : ll incorporating am educational institution: It shall be the duty of the faculty of said institution, on every Saturday evening, for the moral improvement of the pupils, to give them lessons in caltchism and moral philosophy, io kiss all the girls and spank all the boys, speech at last prevails in the Missouri Legislature. Governor Stewart was lately spoken of by one of the members as a man “whoc:>u!d be as vulgar and profane as the sost depraved, and whose capacity for drinking whisky was almost without a parallel.” Unfortunately we suppose this is true. • . Qfs~Since the inebriate asylum in New York was projected, there have been 2.000 applications from respectable and weal hy ‘citizens of that ‘State alone for admission ifor their inebiiat? friends; and of these 400 <or women! < (<7"lt seems tfo be admitted by general consent now that the Grand Duchess de Russia, Olgo Feodorowna, the wife of the Grand Duke Michael of Russia, is the raost beautiful wiman in Europe, if not in the world, She is but thirteen years of age and has been two years married. police of Cincinnati discovered among the day scholars of a fasliionable female seminary, a dashing young woman who vitas the keeper of a notorious den, and was attempting to decoy girls to her house for pn/stltinion. FAT he latest iccounta from Frazier River represent the suffer ng. of the gold seekers as terrible in the extreme. Three men were frozen to death in a canoe on the river, in same vicinity a German and his wife also perished by the cold in attempting to reach a settlement for food. One man waa found delirioussfremsuffering. He had on* hundred on nC‘-4of gold, but it cost him his brains. .All wnaca u reachaiiy iiarbor wliere vessels ure lying are ter ving the country. O"Lat« advices r; port that .Gen. Santa Anna, of Mexican potoricty, has been chosen President of tiie Republic oi Vimzitela. IE/'An-enterprisin r individual, who has been ▼•vv •uecossfutly trading in spurious autographs of Cfcuernl Washington, has b- en arrested in PhilatWphm.