Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1859 — Oeath of Hon. Hover H. Smith. [ARTICLE]

Oeath of Hon. Hover H. Smith.

’ M:v er li. Sin:t.n du d at ins reffdencc in ’fils 'if , i Saturday, night, the 1 efi j„st,, •SI ! 'll o'- ;k. r. ;nos;Xt V-I\, U rt! I SUM- ol' (fs ago. Me. .Smith hfis i.e' :l in-fififing fieultli ahoui a year. :niu •nj.'e Sugu-t last nis been eoi'i'linc'J to hi.- r-o -m. V>? w ithstaiiiling r'.gr :hi"fi wasiing ft.physica! ;> over.-,, in * retuinei; h; • ; ■ uial vi g- r to tiie last, ano trans.-i'-! fi u-diiiai v j u-iiisss to the das fietfiroUgii life until [ii;.- co l, Thus, less pass u iw. van 'tlier.oi ilie ts -.-tknot;lfft.-d men ”l Ki i . -•) — e. wn >j w. :-s prominently and - ' o'; iileritilitsd witiii - fc h sturv. — X: !*:• s njinr'. CJ* * L a:;- !) am. -.if t• •,|.— i > mg', •sforv xiooul i!i • win eng up ot the Missouri i jCgisl.i: irre, li s-.v.-: ••During t:; ' morn fiy. m -sfibers amused th ms ;vgs tfirowuig paper 4 nails at encii other. ,to J in the ■ i-i'-i ■ o by making cllaract *r:s: i -.: nigger speeches, in the meanwhile 1 lie Gfvernor vvoui; I up a grand spree IyV tiding It!- horse ii,tms .on jiarior, mid trying, with his : or*.-!. et, -a tune on the piano.” Tin: Laroest L\xn Sun in nn: W'ihiu-. S qis are about .to L.e c-oivep. •need by the Urn-:, levs who were driver, from Texas many years hg<\. fin- ! r.-e laad* granted to .them by .Mexico. ffiese lands compose the richest ami most fi. rtiie portion of Eistern I’exas. Tiie Ft. Smith (Ark.) Times, of thclatest date, says 1 hat the surviv iivg (’lierokees have Ci.iipi'oyei? able Counsel to conduct the business for them. A State ~in MourningJ—The New Orleans Picayune speaks of Louisiana as a j-Stat.e in mourning, 7- coilsequent upon the bxiilusiou ol the steiuitgr Princess. It says ’-there is 4 scarcely a ejommunlty from which some one oi the lost ii not missing, or to it known by his soci il virtues." The (utility' among prominent citizen-, was remarkable, and the State may well mourn its loss.

“ Di:?, l OCR AC v" E x smc fa fi ed. — The troubleabout the elect-urn ol'a jj. S. Senator in New Jcr.-ey, is the relusal olf the Senate to meet the House inj inf bad lot. .The lfo..se is Republic.! ■■-, the Senate pro-slavery with enough majority in th ■H * i-: t» outvote the Senate. S > the iu ijorhy-proiessing democracy refuse to alfo.wj a. Senator to be chosen. : fUg”The Santa Fe iiazette discusses a pro--ject ter dividing New Mexico in> o two Territories, vvftb t:fu> northern line ot lVrnudillu county as the dividing boundary. The object* apparently, is to orgujizo tw rSlgve Territories out of one, preparatory to t'ltg manufacture ot two Slave S' ttds. How dilligent the propagandist's are in th • work of extending their “peculiar institui ion.” the large stjock of choice cade, purchased by Mr. Barret, of Henderson, Ivy , m England, at a cost ot more than -yJO.OOO, only one cow was alive on the arrival of the ship av New York. Olio after another of the. valuable animals sickened and died; among them was a hull which cost about So,ooo, ami a cow for which tjg.bOO wa» paid. oTf°At the January term of the Supreme Court of Alabama, it was decided that a pe - son whoso great grandmother was the daughter pt a mulatto,.by a negress, is not a competent witness against a white person, although his father, makernal grandfather, and great-grandfather were white men. three weeks ago a man named Garrett, a farm *r sit South NVesterloo, Albany Co., N. Y. disposed of his farm for SO, 000, gave §2.000 to lfis wife and two children, and wi ll the balance eloped wi’h hi* servant girl to California

Legislature of New Jersey, on Thursday, elected John C. Pen Ryck.vlmposition, to the U S'. Senate, in place of Win. Wright, whose term of office expired on the 4th of March.