Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1859 — Various Items. [ARTICLE]

Various Items.

(jgrSome of the editors in the slave States have recently ventured to put. Whittier's r»ame to his fine poems when they copy them. This poetic justice has hitherto been denied the Quaker bard at the South. Holt, the new Postmaster General, is the son-in-law of ex-Postmaster General Wickliffe, and the brother-in-law of Senator Yulee, of Florida. He is a Kentuckian. ots“Ex-President Fillmore said to the Americans of Cincinnati, who called on him at the Burnett lieuse, that he- had retired from public life forever. No doubt of that. It is said thct Heenan is matched to tfiszht the champion of England, Torn. Sayres, next September. President offered the mission to Mexico to Gen. Houston, but the old Texan warhorse declined—determined as he is to retire forever from pub ic lite. Three successive overseers, on the plantation ot J. D. F-uilren. near Raymond, Miss., have been murdered by the negrot-s under their charge. OO” A precocious youngster, nineteen years old, named John O'Donnell, is on t ial in St. L >tiis, for being married to three wives at the same time. Offj-A Mr. Beal >*,of Ohio , has received §BOO fro.ii a railroad corporation for having been ejected from the cars by a conductor, to whom he had refused o pay the extra five cents for a tick-t purchased in the curs. (tff~A.Cincinnati paper con-iders a grower’s wile of tlrtit city a very remark Hile wmnun. because she has hud twelve children in twenty-two years. Poor grocer. (£7—Hie Tribune's correspondent s iys the ’Vacant office of Commissioner of P aim's, has been offered to Mr. Hughs, ex member of Congress from Indiana, and th it Governor I) nvor, C ini in -s : on>T o Indi, n Attains, has resigned,tint! will return t>C ■li orni.r. Col. Mix. chief c erk of the Indian Department, is spoken of as his successor. OO'-H. Whittemore, Esq., of Kankakee ■city, Illinois, has been appointed ai d commissioned a Deputy United States Marshal .fortlie Northern District of Illinois.

- n J >seph Miller, of <)hi i, has been appointed Associate Justice of Nebraska, vice Samuel W. Black, resigned. GgrTiie Propagateyr Calholiyue, a Southern Catholic jou. nal, learns t. om persons worthy of confidence, that Gen. Walker, r.-cently converted to the Catholic Church, has determined to enter a religious order, arid become a Catholic priest. (j^j-The'Sabbath is not. held in very high ' r-ga'-d lit Vincennes, Ind. A house raising took place in that town on Sunday last. (gg~A Spanish pip Tin Los Angelos. C 1ifornia, entitled liff Clamor Public.), is n.it disposed “to give it up so,” and’lias raised I the familiar names of Fremont and D..vt >n as candidates for the next Presidency and Vice Presidency. fjgy~'l'he wits of Paris say that Chris’v’s Minstrels, who are now singuig in that city, ■tire the exiled cabinet of the Emperor of JL.yti. (Cg"’rhe Quince, HI., Herald nitices a team ol elks du.iy uarnessed to a gentleman's ■carriage and daily dr ven in the streets of that cty. OgrThe population of Ohio is estimated at 2,300.000 —just about the figures which were given to Pennsylvania in 1850. (jg?"Tlie Mayor of Read ng. P i., has ordered the police to arrest all minors tound hinging about bir-roims in the evening. Such a regulation is needed here. Ties is the history of slavery in a very few words It is as true as the Bible, and it shows ver clearly how th * Dem >er, tic party has changed into a pure pro-slavery party. (g/”Gov. Medary of Kansas '‘pocketed” and then vetoed the bi'l abolishing slavery. The Govern >r of New Mexico signed the bill protecting slavery in that territory. Both are good * D ,‘ino - ra of course. (VZf~ Henry Ward Beecher says: ‘‘Li'e would be a perpetir I flea hu it. if one were ■obliged to run down all the inuendoes, the inveracities, the insinuations, the susnicions, &c., which are uttered against him.” OgT’The L union I lus trated. Wr/es-says that Gharles Dickens has refuse 1 jt 10.000 (§50,000) to lecture tor one year in this country. family,” has, with his wife, j lined a company of negro minstrels at the' West. (Q?”A Utah correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer says that Heb r Kimball had I fourteen children born to him, in November J ast. (PV“A little girl in Cincinnati, one day last week, when playing “hid ' and seek’’ with a companion. hid in an old trunk, the lid of which fasti ned with a clasp. She screamed for h -Ip till exhausted, whi n an alarm was riised by her I inj abi 'iice. and search made. She was found almost dead ■from exhaustion of the air. The little suf-' serer w >uld probably not have lived many minutes longer Bombay Standard, of December 21, relates what our newspapers genera lv would how call a‘ Sickles tragedy.” A Mr. Bease, a n 'wsp a per publisher of Kurrachee. in the Province of Scind, discovering his faithless wife walking with her paramour in the street, repaired to his house, procured a double-barreled gun, and deliberately’shot both the delinquents. This was making short work of it. week, the people of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, abated a nuisance in that city by be ning two houses of ill-fame to the.ground, and lodging the boarders—twelve girls—in jail. After a trial, however, the women were all of them discharged. A few days after, a convention of that sort of cattle, from Fond du Lac, Berlin. Ripon, Beaver Darn. Portage Point and Waupun, met in council in Oshkosh, with their fellow laborers, and have threatened revengerjby burning down the city. So fearful are the Oshkosh people that the city will be fired, that they have now eight night watchmen to protect their property-