Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1859 — WAR IN EUKOPE. [ARTICLE]

WAR IN EUKOPE.

(gJ=Our young folks are to have a May Festival to-night. Pleasant times to them is now selling at ten cents. Eggs, seven cents. No change in flour or ineat. No corn offering. (£s"The Stackhouse Bros, hrsve on hand a few pf Aultman &. Miller’s Mowing Machines and Reapers. Go and see them. (gjfOur young friend, Win. H. Rhoades, .desires us to say that he has suspended his j commercial school until the evenings become long again. Repi blicans carried the municipal election in Foi t Wayne last week. Last year the Democrats carried that city by five hundred majority. (gs" The municpal election in Lafayette this year was about even, a portion of each ticket being elected. The Democrats had a great jollification over the result,rejoicing that it was not worse. liquor riot occurred at Crawfordsville last Thursday night. Two groceries were entirely demolished by the citizens, who had Income enraged at the injurious effect upon community by them. (gJ”Mr. James Welsh has received the appointment of postmaster at this place, in place of Mr. McCarth resigned. Mr. W. is a young man highly respected, and his friends will rejoice at his good luck. OO~At the’muncipal electionsin Indianapolis last week, the elected six out of the eight on the ticket, arid nine out .of fourteen Councilmen. The Republican majority is 250 larger than it was last year. (ffj-’One of our farming friends suggested i to us, yesterday, the propriety of making' the nominations for county officers some time in the latter part of June, just before the harvesting season begins. We throw out this hint for reflection.-

fO" The Indianapolis liquor_sellers are crowding up to procure license. The Journal of Monday says that already about fifty notices have been published, or filed for publication, with Vlie several papers of that city. The Volksblatt alone contained about twenty notices. every one read the extract from I thq speech of Air. Hickman, Democratic ■ Congressman from Pennsylvania,to be found . on the first-page. He handles Buchanan i with crushing earnestness, and speaks the ! sentiments of the Freesoil Democrats of the j Keystone State. , j (ffj“This spring gives the best of promises | for good crops. Our farmer friends wear ■ bright faces, and if the present prospects continue, trade of all kinds will soon look up; and if the war in Eirfope breaks out, our growing crops will command good prices when harvested.

The next steamer from Europe will, in all probability, bring the intelligence that war, terrific ami Woody, is devastating the plains of Italy. Austria has sent her ultimatum to Sardinia, demanding a disarmament and disbursal of the Sardinian volunteers. Three days were given for a reply to this demand, and in case of a refusal! war was to be declared immediately. The English papers think that Sardinia will not comply with this demands Eighty thousand additional Austrian troops have been ordered to the frontier. The French troops were marching toward Piedmont. A panic prevailed in the Paris money market , and war w is ex> pected on all hands. It is said that eighty thousand French troops will co-operate witii Sardinia, commanded by Louis Napoleon in person. The “Nephew of My Uncle” is anxious to crown his head with the laurels of military fame. Mankind would be benefitted were he to find bis' grave in the impending struggle. The next steamer will be looked for with interest. Since the above was in type we have received dates from Galway to the 30th ult. It is rumored that Sardinia refused to disarm, and that Austria had given her fourteen days more to reflect on the matter. It is reported that one hundred thousand Austrian soldiers crossed the Ticino on the night of the 26th ult., and then blew up the bridge on which they had crossed. The French army was pouring into the Piedmontese territory. Great warlike activity prevailed throughout France. A rumored alliance between' France and Russia a used great excitement in England. The British channel fleet has sailed with sealed orders, but it was reported that its destination Was the Adriatic. ; It is rumored that the whole militia force of England is to be einbarked, in •he anticipation that that country will l>o in-

volved in the war. The Paris Patrie announced that the Emperor and Prince Napoleon would -leave on Wednesday to join the army. The English and continental money markets were greatly excited, and breadstuff's had materially advanced.