Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1859 — Then and Now. [ARTICLE]

Then and Now.

Seventy years a o the I em >crats drew a line around th.- State, and said to the Slave Trader,•thus far you in iv go, but no farther." T.iis was the Jeffersonian Proviso. Thirty years ago, they rubbed out p <rt of the line and saiii to • ini,. *Y >ll may go into hinds son'll, but not into, hinds north.’ This was the M-ss >uri C impromise. F.V • years ago, they rubbed out the rest of the line, at d .-aid to him, ‘We will leave it to the settlers to say whether you shall come in or not.’ Tais was the Nebraska Bill. Now they turn humbly to him, hat in hand, and say, ‘Go wh-re you please;-the land is all yours; the N itional Flag shall protect you, and the National Troops shoot down whoevei resists you.’ This is the Dred Scott Decision.— Albany Evening Journal. green tree-frogs are used t > this day in Germany, as barometers; they are placed in tall bottles, with little wooden ladders. The steps of the ladder mark as it were the degrees; the frogs always go up toward the top in fine weather, and lower <1 >wn at the approach of' bad weather. I have often seen the Germans consult heir Togs when starting on a pic-nic excursion. Leeches, too, make goo<L barometers. I have two leeches in a long bottle, which generally will indicate what sort of weather is coming in the next twenty-four hours.