Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1859 — Valuable Autigraphs. [ARTICLE]

Valuable Autigraphs.

j There"are at present three, and so far as is known only three, complete s its of auto ' graphs of the signers of the Declaration pi Independence. These belong to Rev. Dr. • Sprague of Albany, Rev. Dr. Riffles <,f Livi erpool, and a South Carolina gentlemen. 1 They were completed by a curious piece of i good luck. Some years since, each of these gentlemen lacked one autograph, which was nowhere to be found. But in settling an estate, the South Carolina collector came! across three receipts of bills, signed by this' very individval. On? he kept himself, and ' , sent the other two to Dr. Sprague and Dr. Raffles. Dr. Raffles Ims his in a beautiful-1 ly bound volume, and values if almost as he* would the famous Koh-i-noor. A wealthy 'Boston merchant once introduced himself to: him on the street, and requested the privilege of seeing this collection. He then told ■ *ht? Doctor that he wished to make a pres-! nt to his native city, and had seen nothing 1 which so pleased him for that purpose as this set'of autographs, and asked if there were any sum which would induce him to part with it! The Liverpool Doctor, however, who is wealthy, and besides considers a firstrate autograph a luxury greater than miser’s gold heap—was not to be tempted.—.Veir-! buryport Herald. The Glass Snake.—A contemporary saysj they have a sort of reptile in the torrid zone i called th., glass snake. Glass snakes are' very common outside of that zone. Many is the convivul fellow and jolly brick, in this region who has felt their sting.