Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1859 — A New Craft for Pike’s Peak. [ARTICLE]

A New Craft for Pike’s Peak.

A company, consisting of J. I’. Piatt, J. J. Piatt, Ich.thod Harris, and \Vm. Stover were to stift to-day from Crum’s P>>int, on the Kankakee river in this county, to go through to Pike's Peak by neater! They have a boat nearly flat-bottomed, 16 feet long and 4 feet beam, which draws, with 1,500 lbs of passengers and freight, onlv 5| inches of water. It is propelled on the same principle with the hand car on the railroad—having two side who- Is, driven by two driving wheels, and worked by two men at a time. They hope to make JOO mi les per day dow” stream to St. Louis, from thence, up the Missouri and the Platte, forty or fl ty miles per d.tv. It is a novel adventure, and we sitall watch the success of the experiment with interest. South Rend Register. OtJ/”The New York correspondent of the Charleston C airier savs: “Gre.ely seeks, and has no society, unless it be that of persons desiring t > mike s >mething out of him. He is the most good ni. tured, imroceot person in the world. AH grades of society are alikF'to him. He will stop and converse with the Copgresstnan and the carman alike. His sympathies are with every body. He is not more careless in his dress than in his habits. Money is no object to him. If he goes to a restaurant to dine he puts down a bill to pay tor his meal and never looks at the ch mge. It is said he is often badly stuck with bad bills by persons knowing his carelessness and unconcern in suc’i.gn titters.”

(Ks” The New Orleans* Delta reports a matrimonial fracas at. one of the principal hotels, in that city, in which a husband used a whip on his wile in such style that she ran out of the room screaming and took refuge in a water closet, whence she was whipped back into the room. The affair h'-s caused a good deal of talk among the hotel frequenters, as jt well might, men not being in the habit of Horsewhipping women for anything, th >ugh occasion illy compelled to endure a li.tle at the hands-ot exasperated fem ties, not women,. OO If i- s Si <id Gov. Banks, of Miss., has not pardoned a man from the State Prison during the past year. Th • Governor must, be a man of pluck; for it takes more nerve to resist appeals made in behalf of criminals, titan the public ever yet understood. (Cy“ Mexico is a good place tor Presidential aspirants—they use up about two.a week, there.