Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1859 — The New Hampshire Election. [ARTICLE]

The New Hampshire Election.

The telegraphic report of the New Hampshire elections indicates that the Democracy, the Postage-raising,Post-office closing. Deb- 1 increasing, Thirsy millions Democracy, have' again been swept away before the gathering hatred of Freemen to the Slavery truckling, ’and corruption fostering policy of that party. “They sviu oatph more of the “same sort” before the year is out. They have a chance , ifor one member of Congress in Connecticut, where Ezra Clark has allowed them to use ; him against the regular Republican nominee, but if that hold fails them they won’t have a solitary Representative or Senator in all j New England. ■■ (£T-Servtng Protests BY Mail.—An in-1 -stance has occurred in New York in which, a bank has had to suffer for negligence rn a . small matter. A merchant keeping his ac- ’ -count with the American Exchange Bank, (deposited two notes for collection. When | they become due the maker did not take them up and they were protested. The person depositing them sued the indorser, he refusing to pay because the notice of protest was sent through the mail. The co rt held that the service of protest through the mail : was not sufficient to charge the indorser. The person holding the notes then sued the bank, and recovered not only the face of them’, but also compelled the bank to pay the costs and his counsel's lees. So much for serving protests through the mailsa masquerade ball in Milwaukee, ‘the other night, many ludicrous incidents occurred.. One gentleman fell in love with his own sister, while another man danced, talked and promenaded with a gentleman in woman’s dress three - hours, in the vain hope of finding out who the dear creature was. One young man took his mother to supper, and great was the surprise of both on learning how matters stood. One of the leading Merchants eave his ring to a young lady if she would raise her mask that he might see her face, when he found it to be his own sister,who he supposed to be at home with .the toothache. fgs”Horace Greeley, in speaking of the extraordinary success of the New York Ledger and the way in which it has advertised, gives the following advice to business men: ‘BusifieYs in outlay has three cardinal eletnent.y 1. The article offered must be well worth the money; 2. It must be adapted to thelipeds and the tastes of the millions; 3. It must, be so advertised that the millions are made full aware o' i’s existence: and, 4. It must be sold for cash down and no’liing short. Based on these foundations, business must succeed even in these dull, I a.d times.” Terrible Leap.—While Rev. Thomas P. Calhoun, Presbyterian minister, and his wife were crossing a bridge at St. Clo d. Minnesota, in a‘sleigh, on the 20th tilt., the horse became unmanjgable, and jumped from the bridge to the hard frozen bottom below, a distance of some 30 feet, killing Mr Gaihoun and severely injuring his wile. The horse was also killed, and th ■ sleigh broken into fragments. Mr. vCalhoun was a native ci Tennessee.

The Case of 800- if, of M-.t-waukee In the celebrated “slave abduction” case, in which Mr. Booth,' of tiie Millwaukee Free Democrat is the principal \ e learn that lhe U. S. Supreme Court nt W ishington cpcided that the action <d ' u Supreme Court of Wisconsin is illegal nnd unconstitutional. It asserts the constitutionality ol the Fugitive Slave Law, and that the United States Mar.bhal has a right to forciblj’ resist the process of tiie Wisconsin Court. was proved before the Navy liives’tig.iting Committee of the 'ate Congress that President Buchanan’s protege, Jehu Glancy Jones, was guilty, while in Congress, of receiving heavy commissions for securing Government contracts for different parties. Jones is liable to a finj of $3,000, under the U.S. statute of April 26, 1808. He is a proper man to send to Austria, to represent .the virtue and honesty of the Administration. OCT - A Virginia paper says that the portion of the Old Dominion called the Panhandle is inhabited by Abolitionists. If the Abolitionists have got hold of the handle of the pan, isn’t there danger that they may upset the whole utensil!— Louisville Journal. (g?“A negro girl, aged eleven years, eleven months and a few days, gave birth to a large, fine looking boy on the'4th inst. The girl belonged to Mr. Samuel Everett, near ■Glasgow, in this State. That’s pretty young. I.ouisviHe Democrat.

Late advices from Hayti announce that the administration ofGen. GefTrard, the new President of that Republic, is “losing jts pbpwlarity” in consequence of measures nvhichjare generally regarded as offensive and illiberal. (O-Tt is said that the anonymous letters to Key and Sickles, warning one and informing the other, were written by a female friend of the former in Baltimore, who was jealous of his attentions to Mrs. Sickles. o^7*A boy fall through a hole in the •at Auburn. New York, and was carried thirty feet by the current, when he came up. accidentally, through another aperture, and was then rescued. 0O“A young man, a member of an evangelical church, advertises in a New York paper for board in a pious family, where bis Christian example would be considered a compensation. (O'A friend of ours was congratulating himself upon having recently taken a very pleasant trip. Upon inquiry, we fond that he had tripped and fell into a young lady’s p flections. ——>The first indications of water in the Artesian Well at Columbus, Ohio, were observed last week, after the augur had penetrated to the depth of 1,891 feet. ———<>v—— object of Mr. Cobdon’s visit to this country, is said to be to look into the affairs of the Illinois Central Railroad,in which b« is a large stockholder.

——>In Huntsville, Alabama, there is a double girl! She has two heads, two tongues, four arms and four legs, but one trunk, stomach, &c. The junction take [sic] place at the waist. ———<>——— ——>A farmer, the other day, was told by his landlord that he was going to raise his rent. “Much obliged,” said he; “for I find it impossible to <raise> it myself.” ———<>——— ——>An enormous cave was recently discovered in Pulaski county, Ky. It is said to be equal in point of grandeur to the Mammoth cave. ———<>——— ——>The Louisville <Courier> has a column of “Wit and Wisdom,” by way of ridiculing Prentice’s column. It is gotten up by U. B. Darned. =======