Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1859 — Page 2

THE RENSSELAER GAZETTE. Rensselaer, ind. / WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27. 1859.

KfWe need a load of wood. Don’t all bring it at once. are now selling here at 12| cents per pound. No sides for sale. corporation election of Rensse]«r comes off next Monday, for the first officer! under the new corporation. £ty*Butter has sold the past few days at twenty cents snd eggs at ten; but It is not thought that these prices will continue. advertisements are pressing us rather close just now, but we expect to have more space for reading matter soon. OJ'We hope that every one who is entitled te- the . Genesee Farmer from us. and has not yet received it, will notify us of it immediately. is selling here at seventy-five cents per bushel. We learn that it is selling on Beaver Prairie, southern part,at fifty cents per bushel. Common Pleas Court is now in session. W. D. Lee, Esq., presided as Judge on Monday, but Judge Boyer arrived in time to preside on Tuesday. (£y°Flour is now retailing from stores at 53, 80 per hundred, and potatoes at $1 per bushel; but potatoes would bring only sevetyfive cents from wagons. fttrOne of our farmer friends has left a lot of Imphee seed, (African sugar cane,) at this office for sale. Price, ten cents per bunch of three or four stalks. is rumored that there is a projectl on foot to cut off the nor h end of Jasper! county, to form another new county, with San Pierre as the county seat. We give the rumor for what it is worth. fftrMany of our exchanges are discussing the propriety of taking up the iron on the New Albany and Salem Railroad, and laying it down on an air line between Battle Ground and the mouth of the Calumet river, the northern point between Indiana and Illinois. Messrs. Laßue have just received ; a stock of new goods. We need not call! attention to their advertisement, for yoji cannot help seeing it. By the way, itseemsj - that there is unusual activity among our ! merchants just now. We hope it is the forerunner of good times.

friend, Geo. \V. Spitler, has now ob hand a very large stock of boots and •hoe», plain and fancy, for men and women, boys and girls, which is disposed of at reasonable rates. That his stock is fine we have every reason to believe, as he presented us with a very fine pair of handsome slippers. If you want a good article in the boot and shoe line, give him a call His assortment is extensive, and you can certainly suit yourself, if you can be suited at all.

WORTH KNOWING.

Perhaps it is not generally known that Jasper county is entitled to send two students to Bloomfield, and two to Crawfordsville, free of tuition. The County Commissioners select the students from the applicants, but as there have been no applicants, save one, three chances yet remain to the youths of our county. There is one at Bloomfield, Cicero 11. .Tatrnan, and none at Crawfordsville, leaving an opening for three aspiring youths, who desire an education that will cost only their board and lodging. We should like to see the vacancies filled.

A NEW PAPER AT MOTICLLO.

We rejoice to announce that our Republican friends in White county are shortly to have an organ of their own. It is to be edited and published by our young friends, James and Benjamin Spencer—both practical printers. They have purchased the Expsoitor press at this place, tfttd will remove it to Monticello to print their paper with. So that old press, after having worked in the service of the Democracy for upward of four years,is no.w to have a chvnce. of redeeming itself by working fur the cause of humanity and and of justice. James Spencer is well favorably known in this community, having been employed as a printer in the Banner office three or four years ago, and subsequently assisted on this paper for upward of a year. He is a young man of promising talent, and we can salely vom h for his honest , Integrety and iuduptry. We shall be glad 16 record the success of the two brothers, of •which there can be no doubt, if the R-pub-iicans of White county appreciate the importance of sustaining a wejJ-conCuvtcd hom*-paper.

MOCK MORALITY.

That the proceedings of the Sickles trial are not fit to be published, we think there cannot be much doubt, and a person can scarcely be found who will say that the morals of the country have not been injured by this disgraceful and licentious affair; yet we have a very low estimate of the morals or discretion of those editors who, while they refuse to publish the particulars of the trial, at the same time speak in the strongest terms of condemnation of the papers that have published the proceedings. While they appear to even abhor the idea of any decent man or woman reading such things, they contrive, by speaking mysteriously and in riddles, throwin’g out hints here and there, of unutterable depravity, to raise the curiosity of their readers to the highest pitch of ex citernent. So great do such editors raise curiosity by their fault-finding course, that we have no doubt but that their readers, both male and female, and at that, often seriously jeopardize their heads and heels by running at break-neck speed to their nearest neighbors, to borrow papers that contain the full particulars, instead of self-riget-eons and moral lectures. If the Sickles case is too indecent to be published, it is also too indecent to be made the foundation of crossgrained lectures and vulgar epithets from moral-reform rakes. The editor who pretends to be too refined to publish such things, and yet at the same time does all in his power to excite the curiosity of his readers to make them hunt in other papers for what they find not in his, in our opinion has mistaken his calling. If the proceedings are too vulgar, the proper course is to leave them alone and say nothin" about them. We despise hypocracy—especially fault-finding hypocracy.

AN EXTERPRISING FIRM.

It is with pleasure we call attention to the firm of Thompson & Son. During these hard times, the firm has gone on making money. They understand their business, and deserves to succeed. The secret of their success is, they know the benefit of liberally advertising. They have heretofore put a half column into the Gazette, but finding how well it paid, they, this year, put in a column. They make their money By selling an immense am >unt of goods in a year, the result of keeping their business prominently before the public. As a proof of this, we have only to say that, notwithstanding the hard times, th y are now erecting a fine store building of their own, while one member of the firm has purchased a dwelling within the last year, and the other erected one for himself. The fact that they are so succeesful is also a proof that the public have found out that they sell their goods at reasonable rates. We record their prosperity with pleasure, and long may it continue.

A New Slave State Scheme.

The slavery propagandists, ever busy in their work of Southern aggrandizement, are plotting in California for the extension of their “divine institution.” For some time they have exhibited great anxiety to dividejdle State, setting otrthe southern portion as a new slave State. This project, it appears, is in a fair way of proving successful, as far as California is concerned. A bill has passed the lower house of the Legislature, sanctioning the proposed division, and it is thought probable lhe Senate will concur. The consent of Congress, however, will be necessary before the scheme can be consummated, and with the present prospects of the opponents of Democratic Slaveryextension, having a majority in the lower house of Congress, we anticipate that the propagandists will be effectually foiled in their attempt in this matter.

Horrid Death From Lockjaw.

The Cincinnati “Enquirer” of last week says that a young man named George W. Lozier, residing on Second street, between Elm and Plum, died a day or two since of lockjaw, having for several weeks previous to his decease suffered so terribly that it would have been a kindness to have killed him instantly. About a month since, while walking in his yard, a nail ran through his boot into his foot, causing him much pain, but on the application of certain lotions became quite easy. He was somewhat lamed, but thought himself recovered Until he sat his foot down suddenly, one day, when his whole system quivered and his jaws closed like a vice, never again to open. Ever}’ possible effort having been made in vain to savahim, his best friends were gratefu I when he breathed his last, and his agony was over. oO”The Ohio Statesman says that a Pike’s Peaker fr< m Columbus'; ‘returned home last week, with nothing, in the way ol worldly goods, but an old rifle, which he succeeded in pawningflbr two d liars’ worth of provision. llis opinion <,. the gold regions may be inferred fro'm th circumstance.” He may be triad he got home at all; fur many " i'l doubtless not h ive even an old rifle o so,)k lor bread, by Ute time they the elephant.

[For the Rensselaer Gazette.

BIRDS OF JASPER COUNTY, No. 2.

i The Snowy Owl or White Eagle. This bird is only a visitor to our county. Migrating toward autumn from its native north, it reaches us in November, and returns early in the spring, remaining during the winter. It sometimes wanders as far j south as Kentucky and Georgia. The length i of the male and female range from twenty- ■ six to thirty inches; across the wings, from ■ four and half to five feet. The eye is yeli low and large, with rings of 1 brown; claws and bill black; body nearly white, spotted ■ and barred with dusky brown and black. The legs and feet, which are short and strong, are covered with a thick coat of long feathers. The tail is rounded and reaches a little beyond the wings. It hunts both by night and by day, but is most active during the night. An unusual number, perhaps several hundred, have visited this county the past win'er. They i often go in pairs. On their first arrival , this season, they seemed to ap rehend no i danger and were almost without fear. Lighting upon a stone in the prairie, a stake or i rail, a hay-stack, or even upon the foof of a dwelling-diouse, they suffered people to ap- . proach within a few feet, being nearly as j tame as domestic fowls. Many have been killed. When wounded they are exceedingly fierce. Falling upon their back, they i use their strong claws (the curved sharp nails of one I measured being an inch and a • quarter long) and beak, with the greatest ' rage, which is overcome only in death. Several within the winter, have been , caught and tamed. They are easily pro- ! voked but are not malicious, and feed in the presence of their captors without hesitation ; or shyness. Its flight is noiseless, firm, linear and pro- ! traded, and when on the cha-e, as rapid as i the Eagle, darting upon its prey with sudden and fatal precision. Pigeons, ducks, prairie hens, and other birds are pursued by it, and s ricken down, then seizing them in its claws, it bears them to a convenient place of repast. It feeds also upon rabbits, squirrels, muskrats, house rats and mice. It carries off large rabbits without difficulty. I saw one flying with a live r.-.t in its claws. It tears the flesh, from its prey, swallowing it in large pieces, with feathers, hair and bones. It Swallows mice whole, and will eat the whole of a duck or rabbit at a meal. But its stomach does not digest either hair or the filiments of feathers. Although many domestic fowls perch in the branches of trees and other exposed situations in the open air, in Jasper county, during the winter, I have never known this bird to disturb them. Vln its presence thev manifest little signs of fear. ■ It is said the color of the young is pale brown and becomes white by age.

[From the London .‘-aturday Review, March 18.

The English Press on the Sick les Case.

We notice the “Washington Tragedy,’’ as the newspasers call it, rather for the way in which it has been commented upon and described, than for any other peculiarity attending it.. An “injured husband’’ killing an adulterer is no great novelty, unhappily, in the annals of human nature, and there is nothing in the conduct of the guilty intrigue which deserved especial comment. It will be generally felt that the seducer deserves, if not his fate, but little commiseration. * * $ If Mr. Sickles really did and said all the curious things which tire reported of him, we must say that he must have keenly relished the dramatic opportunities which the case presented for some fine stage effects. No novel or tragedy was ever more replete with startling hits. The grouping, with all its happy incidents, and coincidencies and the catastrophe, adjust, themselves into a most telling tableau. Had the whole thing been arranged for the French theatre it could not more ably or completely have fulfilled the accredited stage proprieties. The anonymous letter delivered to the husband in the full splendor of his Congressional triumph, actually at the moment he was entertaining thePr sidentof the United States at dinner—•-the gull y wife, all beauty and hypocrisy, at one end of her gorgeous board, and her husband concealing his agonies under the conventional mask of courteous hospitality, at the other—was, or is conceived, in the very spirit of M. Alexandre Dutttas. The extorted confession and the demand for the wedding-ring by frenzied husband from guilt-stricken wife, is finely conceived, or, it true, is in the letter as well as in the spirit of the story-books. So is the incident of the lover making his signals to his mistress in the very sight of the too well-informed husband. Si non e vero e ben trovato. Mr. Bu’terworth—Mr. Sickles’ friend and confidant—evidently dwells on the whole affair with an historiographer's minute love of his subject and a patient elaboration of particulars which shows that this artistic taste was satisfied with his share of the affair. Mr. Sickles’ first communication to Mr. Butterworth is graphic, and we dare say true to facts—“ Dear B , come to me right away ” Mr. Butterworth is equally idiomatic and concise. At first he judiciously takes to reasoning, and councels prudence in happy and metaphorical language—“ Mr. Sickles, you must be calm, and look this matter square in the face.” But the spirit of the friend and American citizen soon prevails. Mr. Sickles says: “It is already the town talk.” “I then said.” deposes Mr. Butterworth. “‘lf that be so, there is but one course left for yoU, as a man of honor; you need no advice.’” Mr. Sickles accordingly arms himself with pistols and revolvers; and Mr. Butterworth engages in conversation on the weather with the doomed victim, and is thus the instrument of handing Ulr. lv y over t< the furious husband. Now comes the climax, in that fine burst which we have, we think, heard oti the Adel-

phi boards: ‘'You have dishonored my bed and family, you scoundrel—you must die.” then followed three balls delivered in rapid succession into Key’s body, with two other barrels actually snapped at the dead, or at least dying man’s brain. Enter guards—the curtain falls on the groupe. * * * * I Nor is the conclusion of the tragedy by any means out of keeping with themelodra’m.itic who.eness. Mrs. ickles is reported as “conceding that her husband had done right.” She is reported as very anxious to get back her wedding-ring and utterly careless of her lover’s fate. Mr. Sickles observes that the transaction was “unavoidable,” or. as he expresses it in finer language. “Satisfied as I was of his guilt, we could not ■ live on the same planet.” All the family triends concur in sympathies. Mr.' Sickles I is remitted to the jail, the comforts of which i hardly come up to his expectations; though, with a fine touch of professional irony, the jailer is made to observe, “This is the best place you members of Congress have afforded us”—with a pretty classical allusion, we suppose, to Perillus and his bull; whereupon we are informed. “Mr. Sickles caved’’—a : verb neuter of the American 1 .uguage, the exact meaning, of which we profess our in j ability to discover.

Two Ends of Thirty Years.

j The Concord Democrat gives the vote for I Jackson and Adams in 1828, and the vote for Goodwill and Cate in 1859, in twenty-three ’owns of New Hampshire. The twentythree towns gave Jackson 3003 and Adams 1652; almost two to one for Gen. Jackson, at his first, election, and when New Hamp shire went against him. These same towns are now true to the Republican party, giving 3922 for Goodwin anil 3467 for Cute at the recent election, being nearly syu majority for the Republican ticket. The Democrat also gives the votes of 1828 and 1859 in nineteen “old federal” towns, which gave over 900 majority against Gen. Jackson in 1828, ami which now gives nearly 600 majority for Cate, and against the Republican ticket in 1859! “Does this,” asks the Democrat, “look ns though Jackson Republicanism and modern Democracy were the same! Does it not rather look as though modern Democracy were the lineal descendants of old Federalism! Does it not look as though the main body of the old Republican party, which supported the o'd. hero of the Hermitage, were still true to the Republican party!” There are -qther evidences even more satisfactory than this view of the “two ends of thirty years,” that the Democracy have no share of Jefferson’s principles-in them. Jefferson hated slavery. Democracy loves it, tjind labors to e stem! it. Jefferson opposed the! centralization of power in-,the Federal Government. The Democracy! hive gone so fur in centraliz’n r as to elect Senators for States by the Federal Government, and declare t hat ail State power and law must be annihilated before the authority of* the Federal Courts. Jeffb.-sd’n demanded that all his officers should be honest ami c ip ib'e. I’he Democracy have’ made theirs of inm generally dishonest and often ine.inable. Jeffer.-ou advocated an economical administration of the Government, 'i’he Democracy runs riot in extrav.ig nice, and wastes in corrupt, j fits core than live tnu as the wh >le cost of the Administration in Jefferson's day. In short there is not a f.-ature of Jefferson's view's, or of h’s political conduct, that the Democracy have not openly repudiated. At last they have repudiated his name ami his fame, and Republicans are celebrating his birfh-duy, ami eulogizing him as they have some right to do. The Democracy have got too lar away from him to venture on so broad a joke as calling themselves Jeffersonians any longer. They are the Calhoun Democracy now.

Freedom of Speech.

Rev. C. Winger, one of the Ministers of the Diinker or German Baptist denomination here, has handed us the April number of the Gospel VZst/or, which contains a letter from Rev. S. Garbe,r one of the Ministers of that church, who formerly resided in Tennessee and now lives in Ohio. He says that being invited to preach at the Old Salem Presbyterian Church, Washington County, Tennessee, he took his text from Isaiah, 58th chapter, 6th verse, and preached a serman on the yoke and bondage of sin, alluding in general terms to oppression, contentions, strifes, wars, intemperance, &c., and predicting a time-when love, peace good will, mercy, temperence and truth, would universally prevail. At the close he stated that among the yokes and oppression might be named slavery, but that was a subject he did not feel at liberty tospeak on then—that when a resident of the State he expressed his mind freely upon it, but under the circumstances then, he would not. When the meeting closed, another Minister rose and said he would preach four weeks afterward and show that the text had no reference to Slavery „ Soon after this the Jonesboro Vmdica/or contained an article falsely ■stating that Mr. Garber, a Northern Abolitionist, had had the audacity to deliver an Abolition sermon and followed it with threats of lynch law., tar and feathers, gallows Considerable excitement ensued. Mr Garber had ’nvitations, however, to preach, and continued so to do. But a few Sundays afterwards he was arrested for preaching “that Abolition sermon,” and refused to obey the process till Monday, when he was bound over to Court. He determined to appeal, but his friends urged him not to do so, as serious consequences might result, and he was mulcted in the sum of $23 1. This is j what it costs to preach in Tennessee against . oppression generally; for the church where! he preached f'e obnoxious sermon unanimously testified that there was nothing said by him, which could justify the charge of his preaching specially against slavery.— South Bend Register. (pj Scientific men assert that there is an intimate connection between the nerves and muscles of the face and eyes, and allowing the beard to grow strengthens the eye. 1 is said that surgeons have proved, by experiment. in Africa, ~i. i . .idiers wearing their beard are milch less liable to diseus ■ ol the eye, and it* is generally conceded that it is a protection from disease of the throat and lur.gs. (gS"A woman has b< en indicted in Andersen, S. C., for being a “common scold.”

Bemarkable Statement—A Colored Servant of Gen. Washi g ton living in Champagne County, O., at the age of 112 Years.

We are indebted to T. S. McFarland,Esq., of Urbana, (.)., for the following highly interesting facts, which are also substantiated by anothergent’eman of the same place:—Cincinnati Gazette. Ens. Gazette: There is living in Concord Township, Champagne countv. ()., a remarkable colo-ed gentleman, named Richard Stanhope, now in his one hundred and twelfth year. He is very active, both in body and mind, for a man of his years. His bead is as white as wool, and with the exception of a slight delect in his hearing, he retains to a s .rprising degree the use of all his mental ami physical faculties. He was born the first day of March, 1748, in Fredricksburgh, V irginia, and is beyond doubt one of Gen. . Washington’s servants, as he has in his possession a certificate in Washington’s ■ own hand writing-. He was with his master in several of the battles of the Revolution, and shows honorable scars received in the bloody conflicts of that 1 day. He was also in the army in the last war with great Britain, at the time of Hull's surrender. He was at thi; time of the surrender driving a team, I and when ordered to drive to a certain point, positively said he would not. but. unhitched his saddle horse and made his way back to this country. He is now living with bis third wi:e, who is eighty years old. He is the lath r ol twenty-eight children, most of. whom are living. Mr. Stanhope has been , a citizen of Champagne county for 48 years, 1 and has always sustained the character of 'an honest man and good citizen. He lias be- n a meml er of the Baptist Church for \ eighty-eight yeats. T. S. McFarland. Urbana, » ).; March 14, 1859.

A Place Where Bloomer Women sire in Demand.

Mrs. Dr Lydia S.iycr Hasbrouck’s Sibyl has a correspondent in the person of Mrs. j. A. Archibald, a bloomer woman who is travelling across the prairies with her husband and other adventurers for Pike’s Peak. In her last letter she s lys she was in great demand among the Indians—a class of’ people noted formally characteristics buttheir good taste: “We passed, on the 14t.1i qf ’urn?, a large pumbeffof Cheyenne and Arr.ipah >,.* Indians. Fi.ty men armed with Sharp’s rifles and revolvers were afraid to allow the Indians to know that the company contained any women, the consequence of which the carriers of the Santa Fe mail told them a few days previous. I was, therefurc, confined to the wagon, while’wc passed manv places of interest which 1 wished much to visit. Notwithstanding 4 his care not to be observed, my presence became known. At' one time by opening the front of the wagon tor venti latio >, at. dn--th r by l<‘.i;>ing from it to sec something curb us which two or tl.in’C Indians ha.l brought, not. knowing, as afterwards proved trii--, that we were very near a viiI.ige, 1 sooii discovered my mistake, and though I did n >t mys.-rt feel there wis anr ciu-e lor alarm. I was sorry I h al been seen, on account ol the feeling existing in the train. It was of no use to hide n ery Indian within a mile knew of my whereabouts. Ttibug i there was not a shadow of d inger in sub!) a c imp ny as ours, as many ol us knew alt. the tiin -, and as miiiy experienced men have since informed us, it is very tra s that the! red m -n have an un i-'counta-bte lancy for white women. Mv husband received st-vei’al very fl ttti'rii-.g offers lor me. One Indian Wanted to trade two squaws, who could probably neri'orm four times the physical labor that Ic: uld. Olliers, not fpjte so timid, approaching the wagons, made signs for m ■ to jump behind them on their ponies, but 1 declined the honor in the most respectful language I knew of their dialect, a decided shake of the head.” ’

Pennsylvania Politics.

Harrisburg, April 14. The Democratic States Rights , Convention adopted resolutions to the following effect: “That we are here to-day to resist every attempt to weaken or overthrow the creed of the Democratic party; to unite, tor the purpose of restoring in all their vigor and purity, truths that have heretofore m ule the Democracy the conquering organization which has contributed to the enduring welfare of the Union; that this Convention most solemnly declares its warm attachment to the Union of States, to maintain which it pledges all its powers, and for this c-nd it is our duty to oppose every infraction of those principles which constitute the only basis of that Union, because a faithful ob ervance of them can only secure its existence and the public happiness; that we are bound to regard the Administration as having forfeited the confidence oi the people, and to denounce it as unworthy of the support of the Democratic party: that the attempt of the Admini. tration to disregard the covenant of 1859, and in iis stead exact a despotic test to compel obedience to doctrines subversive to republican liberty, was the work, not of the Democratic party, but of men who had resolved upon ambitious purposes’ that we indorse the principles of popular executive with the franchises of the people of the States; that we repudiate tiie platform of the Convention of March, ami that no matter what the decision of the Supteme Court may be on that abstract question, still the right of the people to make a slave territory or a free territory, is per eet and complete under the Nebraska Bill.' QiJ”There has just died, at the age of 107 years, in the Isle of Antig >ne (sea of Marmora,) a retired patriarch of Constantinople, named KonsUmties. He was born in 1752, and was the son of a gold-smith in the Linar, educated at the cost of Catharine 11 of Russa, at Kiev, subsequently head of the convent, on Mount Sinai, where he harbored Gen. Bonaparte, next me'ropolitan of Alexandria, and on the murder of the Byzantine patriarch at the Greek insurrection, elected head of the Greek Church. He has left many learned works on Byzant'ne arc hamlogy. The Rush of Travel t > -Tiem appears ’<> be r gener.il ru-ii , Un; and steam packets for Europe. T: -v all go lull of passengers. and births are tikmi, m some cases, weeks in advance of the d ij’ of departure. The Passport Office in the State Department receives numerous applications for passports by mail every day, in addition to personal applications.

Various Items.

(Ky“ The Cleveland Plai idealer, a Democratic organ, having r ad the returns from Connecticut, exclaims, “Farewell old Nut- ' meg.” j oO”The Burlington. lowa, Gazette a daily ; and weekly Democratic newspaper, of twen- ; ty-two years’ standing, has suspended publij cation. (KT’The Detroit Tribune says an infant child was killed in that city, a tew days ago, by parties who undertook to perform the Jewish rite of circumcision. i learned Russians cohnected with l the college in Pekin, have recently announced that, according to the last census returns, China contains a population of 455,000,000. o^7"We, have heard ol a great many trials of reapers and mowers, but we never before heard of anything like the trial of Sickles that is now going on.— Louisville Journal. fellow who made his escape from ijail, at Dayton,Ohio, several weeks ago, has turned up in New Madison, Indiana, in which place he has been giving a course of lectures on his “travels in the Holy Land.” A ; E. Gibbons, editor of the Harrodsburg, (Ky.) Transcript, blew his brains out jon I uesday last. Insanity from excessive drinking, is supposed to have been the causei 1 he deceased leaves a wife and six children.. 0O”On the anniversary of the birth-day-of tlie Prince Imperial of France, their Majesties gave a sum of one hundred francs to each child born on that day. and whose positions may render such a gift needful. (ts“ The house of Michal Pheney, of New London. Connecticut, was burned on Friday night. The father of the family was absent at the time, but Mrs. Pheney and her two children, aged respectively five and three years, perished in the flames. 'I AKiNG em.on Trial —A fellow in Massachusetts recently married three wives at intervals of a few months each, and finally offered to take back his first and prettiest spouse, provided she would agree not to tell the others. '.Ci7“Dr. Wetherill of Lafayette has analyzed some paint' d confectionary, particularly that favorite of children, candy dogs, and finds that the Coloring matter of the gretn lines is composed ol arsenite of copper, a deadly poison. A single piece of such candy contains enou"h poison to kill several chil--dren. Confectioners must look out fcr this. Lei.al Technicalities.—A man was indicted at Columbus. Ohio, for stealing two oxen and a cow. He was tried last week, when the evidence shdwed that the cattle con.-isled ot two steers and a cow. The ju*y found the prisoner gniltv of petit larceny in steal'iig the cow, v ilued at -S2O. and he was sent to the dungeon for fifteen days, on bread, and water. The Irish Vice R .yalty.—The Dublin c r-.-sp indcnt oi the Liverpool Journal, s»ys ’ Queen \ ic’ori iis in favor of in .king ’ Prince of Wales her representative in Jrerind. and that it is high’y piobable his Riyal Highm-s will b > th j Viceroy before tils cloat o 18 >O. It is upw ir I of four centuries sincea njy.il Prince fil’ed the office of Lord Lieutenant. Rem a 'i.k able Preservation.— \. live infant, only seven months old. with a life preserver tied to it, was found in the Mississippi, floating on a bail of cotton, twen’y-lbnr hours after the terrible explosion of the steamer Princess. The little creature was restored to its mother, who was among the saved and is now doing well. That child wasn t born to be drowned. A Freak of Nature?—On the farm oi our old friend, John A. Deatn,are two lambs, which are joined together, their heads being reversed. They are perfect in every respect, i with the exception of the connection which holds them together. In sucking they appear to have come to a mutual understanding, ami take it one gt a time—the other patiently waiting. They follow the dam by ! going round and round in a circle.— Bluffton Banner.' ' , O’?/”At Havana, at last accounts, says the Journal of Commerce, an order for exacting a stamp tax on account books, promulgated by the Governor General, was exciting a strong feeling-of dissatisfaction. By this order, every leaf of every blank-book for business purposes must be stamped; o'herwise no claim of indebtedness, based upon accounts, is collectable. For each of the first and last leaves, $8 are exacted; and for every other leaf, is 2.

A Man’s Life Saved by a Dog.

Last Wednesday, a stranger, on his way to Indiana, stopped a short time in this citv, and while here became ’ntoxicated. Obtaining a jug of whisky, he started, late in the afternoon, on his way but only succeeded in getting about half a mile east of the city, before he became so drunk that he could not go any further. However, he had piesenee of mind left to direct him to an old untenanted hut a short distance from the road. In this hut he was found the next morning by Mr. Elias Stafford, who brought him to the city in his wagon, that he might receive attention. Has arms and legs werebadly frozen, and but for hist faithful dog, laying upon his breast the night long, he must have perished, the night being cold and stormy. He is now suffering in the first stages ofdelir um tremens — WintersetClowa) Madisonian. New York Trrtwne gives at length its reasons for believing that Minnesota will return two Republican member of Congress at its election this fall. The principal reason adduced by the 'Tribune is, that at least ten thousand voters in Minnesota are now located on public lands which they have preempted, but are not able to buy. The Republicans bv their votes in Congress have shown that they were in favor of a homestead law, which should give every man who desired it, a small pitch of free soil which he could call his own. The Democrats in Congress have manifest 'd their hnstility’to a homestead bill. This vote will therefore tie cast <br the Republican ticket, which the Tribune flunks cannot fail ot success. This will give a decided majori’y in the next IL>me of Representatives, and enable the Republicans to elect their candidate for Speaker, a consummation devotedly to be wished.