Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1859 — The Gallantry of Slaveholders. [ARTICLE]

The Gallantry of Slaveholders.

The Commercial Advertiser, give.- tin- lid. lowing in-w illustration of the h-'-.d’adtv and gillantry of the chivalry of tlie whip, hr.i nd and co li c ; “A married i,,dy residing in tiie iu'ig limringCity of ii -o .ikiyn, tv!io»e n.uue was in »n ironed in the n irrdtive given ton , ha.-been spending the. Whiter at a hotel in Aikip, *8 >nth Carol ti ~ in company w ith a si.‘k d uigiiter, wiiu re pi'n-ed a mini ciim tte. A tew wee s ago she \\i ..te to a : brother residing in tlie western port of this S\.t , and in the course, dl the h tier, sp. ke of*he evils . i Slavery, as she saw them ur u.-id her. To is lellcr vas puLdish- il, ~nd s.m.e one s nt a, copy ol the paper to toe Rostmaster at A kin. A public mee :*.g \v, s immedi itely called, and a C muHtteeap o ute.l t * lei-ret out t!i|* wr-t.-r. A- \.. io.-rn g.-llt ii-iu . n who, os an i.v.l.d, oapp.-iuil also to be it. ’the,lntel, was su-po. t d. cni w is threaten il with lynch la.v i In did net c iN'ess A-, i! colt ' !i : c nl.! only p; rsist in a d dial, In- ", ou.o pr. b :h!y n v»- sii! er. d ..cc )i-duig v, hi 1 n,t tiie 1 1 tv no!) v coin * cov ir I t,i xm t .re ai i liv icku *.v,e !giog tiie tetter .is u-r o-.vn ..tii min'g. ~t tin- sme i iim- tout sin* w .s n o pr-.vy to its puh.icat mu. I’lie c tiZeli- men turn d in -ir wrath u > >u h -r, ,ui ! sue was pi r uip oriiy order d to I. av.- the place il. 48 hours. The laiy ■»ieaii d for more tin*- oil behail o’ it - r sick dui rift er, hut tin* c.tiz -ns o Akn kn > v iio - iieii hum or v. Mb a-ked I, r iI erty to remo - until I; r liu-li nil -c uid -r ive t ■ escu.i t her and her ,-ic.k chi d . But h oil izens of Aik n k-i -w uo ‘.ing ~f g iM.iiury *r courtesy. The order wis in p rati.e, i) spite o the earnest p cad tig o toe worn n, wife and motlier. Nor was this all. Th--I nidlord ot the hotel—would that we kri w tte- in insiei’s non -- *rd -re.) the m<*to< r.n i the si. k daughter to jl-utve h s p a inis. s j halt an h nir.’ W.i.t fu-lhe- occuria-d li - t.veen th ■ lady ami Up- in um n citizens o’ Akin. South (’.ir dimi, w - ar • not in oin *d. But we learn t at on SV e ne-uiuv morning l ist he husnaud re ve l i letter apprising him-oi h-r situ i ton. id on tie atteitn iu-i o the same day o• si o o-d t'n South, amt m-” his wile and 0.. u ,s rat (!olumiiii, up tlieir way horn

ite advices fr d.m Mexico, high’y important, if authentic, go to snow that some very decisive steps have been taken by the European powers for the control o. tin- Isthmus of Tehauntepec, and for the adjustment ol affairs i i Mexico, in direct contravention l ot the Monroe doctrine, as constructed bo the Administr ition. Suspicions of this sort have long existed, and sugges ms have repeate«liy been m ale that our Ovyc o- nt ava- allowing itself to be .-.auv died in pr ic ticc.ii) this quarter, v-. liile c-.l -ntl-. proclaiming it- ol*stract tln’ories on this subject The sah h Mexico! States in the Smite to f- t : me purpose of colon zing .from. H ; ■ .*. is reported to hove been actually c*.n-limited. (B 5 l’l>e L union Critic is at length enabled to stale, upon i vid-lice of uie highest authori j that the autlio" ol the celebr ited Vestiges of the N t’u-al History ot Creation, firs' published in 18 1 1 and which Itas since gone tlmough several editions, aas the late j Dr. George Combe, who died u year ago.

The Administration. A lettor I'roiD \V i.shinototi bays that. li <v. Denver, MeCnnliell, anil others wh - have held import ant positions under the A iinini-(.ration, are fi:i4inj pretexts for abandoning their connections with it. They are stirred by the'ju*#*iinet of r.its leaving a sinking ship. Nor n 3 it confined to that alone. Mr. S’enh m Avis fit licit moved to his withdrawal from ■Congress fey the conviction ill it a getter.u crisiw is inevittn'bli'. Wnen asked wiiy-he -• tired, fee Said frankiy that lie w is on the Traill, an 1 as a smash-tip was certain, 'i.* 'would get off’at the first station. A Big 'Lump.—By a note troni Mr. E. \V. Jenkins, form riv of this city, and non u• (Sierra couniy. California, we lec-rii ' 1 1 •. t wary larga lum » <»1 (J rid was i . r, ■! on me 3 1 ot last Dacemlier, in the tunnel in which he is engag'd in <n -C- iy. Wien nmnd it w‘.a : oJ si.clc.f'tt und one h If jwitnds and mvf; ttx-i tut -fired ax i tight / uiftr.' u pure and It v s ten niches i ~isix tm.. ml seven and one half wide. It brought <three thousand and sixty two dollars.—Winterset (Iowa) Madisonian>. ———<>——— ——>The editor of the Leavenworth (Kan sas) <Times>, Mr. Champion Vaughan, who called to see us a few days since, says that the city is fringed about for miles with tents and temporary shelters of emigrants bound for Pike’s Peak. He thought that there were near <ten thousand> of them, and he added that he [illegible] them must be deceived, because he had [illegible the gold region, and though there was gold there, in some places in good [illegible] there was not anything like the [illegible] necessary to meet the expectations of the [illegible]. <Ex>. ———<>——— jtj~ Phe N v Ano.ii) 7'/ ii;utie i- p is tin ■i notion ... .i lingoi v ... Ci lei. 11 n vi r. i e..r M.tdis. ti. I.y t iie" t.iJ .7. its, uit . tm - mg ut the ow ner tw ice, and geoi.i.g imo o agree n.l to sell again, eon i. r \ third ttine tii v would u t in ke .< Ii dtii a ■'•'‘clean llg u, fill), ii..) mu i’. it ro i ; Ire m n .ii .> tao plan ; on mil, a... *: • p. niised not to cun • ta k. O'df-S J:.iey rl.ti lb says t'i public speakers t l . ,t i. ihey wou.d vvadt twelve miles beiore -pa'king, liiev .'Jouai it v r break dow if. In English Universities, innl ra. e.v. horseback .n es, .. 11 .i ten mile walks are a part of th ■eti icat i i mi .no ,'nsdor' piiysfca: ■; ceiojieinnt! I’.UO 4, •- .. a W elk rll l lie .. pen ui r A i. 4 uiflli'at! A - I liK.'t.i.i.Nu Tit.uiiinv-."-—A ••thrilling! t rag " W.I - ••ii.toten. ..I lo.i gor. M in- , the j t.Luer nig al. A:i :n*me*t tfoicli s oemaker | disci.ve.red Iris t i e i.iid a.-periiiiious neighbor : as they should m>" ne. ami instead or ki.lingj liieiii. on ili • spot, dragged them to a lab I, I and c.omp, i led them to sign a cmile.-sioii, j With an agreufn.'fit to 'pay Inc xpemscs u. j procuring a divorce. i. > 'An ludi . a tjirilii ct.rri sjioiitifiif of tin- N -w Aioaliy (I mi.. Le.it g>r s -IS up ilou. Da id i'll: ;•! j tn vV ..iu- 1-1)1111.1 \ insUa -'.of tit - gr.-a|. si living ~r t- 1 tors, il - is van tig y. I ...nl is n.e.v s -rvj. g ois s . j and s-.s.siin tm- if . is • d- ;i j,r. sent .ives, tm. ) this w .t-r pi .c.— .u ic .move \V-. i.s'l.pr, C. ty a uii C Uiiotiil la;m my i[|i :i i going to at nve up 1 1 .;■ ; orator? ; Pile Supr.-uie < 'on.rt -if M iss >uri has de- | rtided Hi ,t tli. arrest of a person for a crime ' couiiniited elsew hPre on inforijn itioii t-y t-de-! graph ami his de:;e.«ti,in mi.ii a reipiisi'tioii can be proi un d, is legal.