Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1859 — Page 2

THE RENSSELAER GAZETTE. RENSSELAER, IND. WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1859.

Cts”We make no apology for lack of editorial. We can select more interesting articles than we can write. man mined Lynch was arrested and brought to town yesterday for trial, charged with stoning the “barracks” on Saturday night, but, in consequence of a defective indictment, he escaped. OirMa ny of our young folks went on a pic.-nic to Beaver Lake yesterday. They say that they enjoyed themselves hugely, and that the scenery about the Lake is gloriously beautiful. (rJ'We are glad to learn that young John Warner, familiarly known by the name of “Jack,” has set up a„ehop on the Bedford j farm, half a mile east of town, where ho is 1 prepared to make wheat and meadow rollers,; plow stocks, hay rakes, &c., and to repair '■ wagons, buggies, plows, and everything else j in that line. He has got through “sowing! his wild oats,” settled down, and become industrious. It is the duty of all good ci izens | to encourage him in his manly resolves, and j we believe they will. Jack is said to be a 1 first-rate workman, and understands his' business. .— ffs“The Indianapolis \\ eehly Stale Journal is now published at the low rate of $1 a year. We have no hesitation in pronouncing it the best paper in the State; and we like its course on the next Presidential question. It is not opposed to the union of the Opposition in 1860, but in that union the fundamental principle of Republicanism (non-extension of slavery) must be kept boldly in the front rank. Such a union we would have no objection to, but any other kind we repudiate in advance. We recommend the Journal to every subscriber of the Gazette who can afford it,

What is to be Done with the Pope.

Speculation begins to busy itself in dis- j posing of the Pope of Rome, (remarks { e New York Journal of Commerce.') in case tie should b: obliged to leave Italy. The Italians don't wnnt him, neither is it likely that Austria or France would desire such an occupant. of their dominions, who, unless digested of his temporalities, must ever be a sort u i.imperium ixu imperio, and so embarrass legitimate government. A Vienna correspondent says, should a revolution take place in the R »man States, his Holliness is not likely to seek refuge under the Austrian govern men!, as he is ‘■garde de vu? by the French commander.” j Nap icon ill certainly would not care to divide his sovereignty with any other indi-1 vidua!, for his limits seem already too much circumscribed for his ambition. | The Madrid Espana has hit upon a good place, one one of ttie islands in the Mediterranean Sea, where Pio Nono can operate 1 without infringing upon the jurisdiction of other people That journal says: “We learn that the Government has just received a telegraphic dispatch from our Embassador at Rome, expressing the opinion that it is desirable to increase the garrisons of the Balearic Islands by 10,000; in case the Pope, in the event of huvii g tu abandon his capi-i tal by the spread of the rev dution in Italy,; should decide on establishing the seat of the j Holy Sea in one of our Mediterranean Is- 1 lands.” Such a location would lie airy, and, j like Alexander Selkirk, the Pope wouie still be “monarch of all he surveyed,” without needing the assistance of such a larire number of bayonets .as to embarrass bis finances, It is probable, however, that the Italians, out of respect for an institution so venerable, will consent to retain his Holiness as simple Bishop of Rome, on condition of his surrendering all pretensions to political control. We are assured by one who is intimate with public sentiment in Sardinia, and who has participated prominently in its government, that only terms of this character can be made acceptable; that the Italians are disgusted with Popery, whatever inuy be their opinion of the system it represent--, and will! not fail so improve any opportunity by which it may be restored to its primitive simplicity. It is not probable that Pope Pius IX. contemplates with any satisfaction that turn of affiirs by which Italy is likely to become the cock-pit of Europe. If military chanticleers must take the occasion now presented to convince the world of their prowess, he would much rather they would retire to such a respectful distance as not to disarrange his collection of red hats, gowns, cowf ß, keys, and other paraphernalia of an antequated superstition. As a matter of fact, the Papal prerogatives are seriously threatened by the impending disturbance. The power which once deposed kings, and was regarded as the very incarnation of omnipotence, has gradual'y dwindled almost to extinction. —Chicago Join nal.

The Oberlin Rescuers.

The Oberlin prisoners, in jail at Cleveland, have issued an address to the people ot the We&tTrn Reserve.' setting forth the facts of their case, and declaring the reasonr of their refusal to enter into new recognizances. . They charge the Court with a desire to humiliate thetnr and insure their conviction, but express a firm determination to lotlow the coursje they have adopted, preferring to reman prisoners rather than yield, (py”Durirtg the past week a destructive fire lias raged in the woods of Burlington ..minty, N. J. The Territory burned over is about ten hales in length-

FOREIGN NEWS.

Sr. Johns, May 21. —The City of Baltimore has passed here, from Cork the 12th. She brings despatches from London and Liverpool to Thursday noon. ’ Turin May 11.—The Austrians are recrossing the river Sesia in haste. London, Thursday. The Daily JYews city article of last evening says the price of consols improved one-eighth to one-fourth per cent over Tuesday, the favorable effect had been produced by checking the drain of gold to the Continent. At Paris, the subscriptions to the French loan of 20,000,000 f already exceeded 40.000000, including a very large number for only ten frances of annual income. Ail parties connected with the government are expected to take part in the new National demonstration. The Bank of Belgium had raised its rate of discount from three to four per cent. Marceilles, Wednesday eve.—The Emperor arrived here at midday rn route. He embarked an board the I.ortense, where he received the city authorities and left in the afternoon. It was said in Paris that the Em perer expects to be at Milan by the end of May or the beginning of June. London, Thursday.—ln the London Times it is said that the continued suspense between the hostile forces in Italy excites daily new conjectures. The condition of Turkey has also been a subject of comment. At M irk Lane yesterday, Wheat met with slow sab 1 , at the reduction of irom 4s to 8s per quarter. Tiiere was much buoyancy in the Paris Bourse owing to the ent.nusiastic demonstration attending the Emperor’s depar’ure, it being considered as a security for the muintainnnee of order at home. A despatch was sent from Rome to the People’s Nuncio to leave Florence. The Austrian war brig Ti iton had been accidently blown up while the commander of the vessel was on shore, and the number of deaths and missing is estimated at about eighty. Another report says that part of the crew were ashore when the explosion took place, and the ni mber killed was only four. London, May 12., noon.—Consuls opened at yesterdays closing prices 91 5-Bu9l 7-8 and advanced to 92 and are now firm ut 91 7-8a92 1-8. Turin, May 11., 10 o’clock A. M.—On reaching Vercelli, the Austrians ceased their retrograde movements, to-day they made an excursion towards Persy.a, (.VUIJt Cavon* leaves tp-dav t [ )e Emperor Napoleon at Genoa. Paris, May 12.— The Moniteur publishes the foliowing teleg r am: Rome, May 10. —According to orders from Vienna the state of aeige has boen raised at Ancona and the lamps of the lighthouse are again lighted. \ if.nna, May 10.—The Arch Duke is dead.

Later from Pike’s Peak. ———

<Great Scarcity of Provision—Emigrants Suffering>. ——— LEAVENWORTH, May 17. Letters from Denver city, April 18, say there is great scarcity of provision in the mines and much suffering among the emigrants, and several deaths occurred from starvation. It is reported that emigrants were arriving in a destitute condition. Abundance of provisions, however, are on the way from here and other points. Contradictory reports prevailed regarding the mining prospects. The general tenor of the intelligence is not encouraging, but the unfavorable accounts are ascribed to des - titute and discontented emigrants. No remittances of dust or rich discoveries are announced. Measures have been initiated to form a new State. Delegates are to meet at Denver City, in June, to frame a Constitution. An overland express with two weeks later news is due Wednesday. Arrangements are progressing for a public demonstration on its arrival. Horace Greely left with the Leavenworth delegation, yesterday, for the Ossawatomie Convention. ST. LOUIS, May 17. A letter dated Fort Kearney, the 8th, says that Pike’s Peak emigrants are returning in droves. Nine hundred wagons passed the Fort in a week. The emigrants are in an extremely destitute condition, selling wagons, horses and outfits for almost nothing. The St. Joseph <Gazette> publishes a report of a serious difficulty between the inhabitants of Auraria and Denver City, resulting in the burning of both towns. Local rivalry is said to be the cause. The report needs confirmation. ———

STILL LATER.

ST. LOUIS, May 18. The St. Joseph correspondent of the <Democrat> notices the arrival at that place of hundreds returned from Pike’s Peak, who bring deplorable accounts of the sufferings on the plains. It is estimated that 20,000 men are now on their way back, all or most of whom are destitute of the necessaries of life. Perfectly reckless and desperate threats have been made of burning Omaha, St. Joseph, Leavenworth and other towns in consequence of the deception used to induce emigration. Two thousand men are reported to be five miles west of Omaha in a starving condition. Some of the residents of Plattesmouth [sic] have closed their business and fled, fearing violence from the enraged emigrants. ST. LOUIS, May 23. A private letter dated Pacific City, Iowa, states that a report had just reached that place that a party of starving Pike’s Peak emigrants captured two outward bound trains near O’Fallow's [sic] Bluffs. During the melee D. C. Oaks, conductor of the trains, was killed, and Mr. Griffith, the newly appointed postmaster at Auraria, en route to take charge of his office, was hung by the desperadoes. ---<>--- ----->Commodore Vanderbilt says that during the time his Nicaragua line was in operition, he made 81,000,000 per year, clear of cost.

Latter Day [sic] Saints and Saintesses from over the Sea. -----

<Their Appearance and the Incidents of their Transit>. ----- At the Michigan Central Depot grounds yesterday morning arrived a special train from Detroit, bearing a small party of Latter [sic] Day Saints and Saintesses, only seven hun- | dred and fifty strong, a fresh arrival in this country by the Liverpool liner packet ship <Wm. Tappscott>, at New York, on Friday last. They were an assorted cargo of humanity, made up from the several proselyting agencies of the Elders of Joseph Smith, but chiefly represent, the British Isles and the North of Europe. Thus we learn there were from Great Britain, 301; Danish, 224; Sweedish [sic], 108: Norwegians, 26—a total of 653, representing eight different nationalities. As they debarked front the long train and filed into the depot and waiting rooms, the spectacle drew numerous curious spectators. Of the whole number less than 150 are children—the balance of about 600 being adults, none over sixty years of age; the ladies being in excess of the brethren in point of numbers nearly two to one. Altogether they were an orderly, quiet, and well appearing party quite above the usual average of emigrants from the old country in point of intelligence. They were, we learn, divided into two bands, those from the British Isles, and those from the North of Europe. Each chief department, has five sub departments over which ten Elders were appointed, and their offices seem to have been no sinecures, and to have secured results to the effect of winning warm praise from all the Gentile world with whom these emigrants have had to do from Liverpool to this place. The company, comprises, we learn, nearly one hundred widows and damsals unmarried, a number lessened by the voyage out., since about twenty nuptial ceremonies have been performed after the Mormon mode of “sealing.” The lovers had to appear at the public meetings and make their declaration of willingness to take each other “for better or worse;” after which the president joined, their hands and pronounced them husband and wife. The ceremony closed with singing and prayer invoking the blessings of Abraham upon the heads of the faithful children, the officiating priest dispensing the usual “holy kiss’’ to the bride. We learn that among the number one disciple has in his family five sisters, to each of whom he is at once brother-in-law and husband. Another has a mother and her daughter in the same relation to his bearded and sanctimonious looking self. They travel in the ordinary manner of emigrants, coming hither in emigrant and second class cars. They look to surrounding Gcntiledom for bread and various choked viands, and eat in their own messes or squads, save as we noticed yesterday a few of the better class were not slow or behind any of the elbowing crowd in a game of knife and fork at the adjacent eating houses. They have with them a large amount of baggage, nearly twenty-five tons in all, or an aggregate of three or four tons over and above the baggage allowed and free to each passenger. From their point of departure, their overland journey they propose to make up the usual train of ox teams, to reach Salt Lake as early as possible. We learn that about one hundred of the emigrants by the <Tappscott> deserted at. New York, showing that they had availed themselves of this tidal wave of proselytism for an easier flitting to this country. The same may prevail with others of the company, but the majority are evidently intense and zealous religionists, and bound up in the destiny of their co-partners in the Mormon faith and doctrines.—<Chicago Press and Tribune 19th>. ---<>---

A Case for our Interference.

The Indianapolis Journalo f last Saturday says: “We learn from the friends of Mr. Frederick Rush of this ci'y, a well known and prosperous produce dealer, who went to Enroot some six or eight weeks since on a visit to his old home and friend- .;u almost immediately on his arrival in P ussh-i lie was claimed as a con-script, forced into the a 'mi/, j and is now held tiiere to serve out his three j years as a Prussian soldi°r. The report nay be erron ous, hut it is believed by his friends in tliis city. Mr. Rush is an American citizen. He is entitled to exemption from such service as entirely as ff he were a native born citizen. If we have, or claim, the right to naturalize a man, we must insist, on his right to abandon his allegiance to his former government, and to release him elf thereby from it. If we cannot do this, we cannot make a citizen of him, for we cannot superimpose an allegiance to our government up- ! on a full allegiance to his native government. The right of expatriation is just as clear as the right of naturalization. They are inseparable. Indeed they are but one right, for the two ate necessary to the con - plete act of changing citizenship. We of this country have always held to the doctrine of the. largest personal liberty, and hence have always insisted th m no man was irrecoverably bound to allegiance to any government. If he chooses to become a subject of another we have maintained his right to do so. Ag 1 **!!* 1 these view the European power's have uniformly held that no act of the citizen or his adopted nation release hint from any of the obligations to the government he was burn under, And the" have acted on this view sieadily, and with a quiet contempt of our claim that ought by this time to inspire something like vigor in our remonstrances. But. Mr. Buchanan is far more anxious to get German votes than to preserve the rights ot German citizens. When Gov. Wright, our Minister at Berlin, tried to recover an American citizen who like Fred. Rush, had be en snatched up as food for cannon during a visit to his relations, the Administration disapproved his act and left him with r.o support oi ttie nation against the indefensible injustice fie was combatting. We have no doubt that Gov. Wright will exert all his influence to secure the release ot Rmdi, 'or they were fell w townsmen here, and acquainted with each other, but all bis influence will be bli hted by the fact that the Prince Regent knows th„t our Administration will not sustain him, and admits the right of a foreign power lo impress our natuj ralized citizens iiuo its, army, or minder them lus deserters if they attempt to reeovv their I rights.”

Narrow Escape at Niagara Falls.

About noon, on Saturday, a canal-boat, with one hundred tuns of stone, was towed from Tonawanda to Schlosser by the <Jenny Bell>, in safety. At that place a pilot was taken on board the tug to conduct the boats to the Hydraulic Canal. The buoys marking the channel of the Canal landing were torn away this spring, and had not been replaced: but the pilot stated that he knew the route perfectly well. However, before reaching the landing, the tug ran upon a reef of rocks, and raised her bow out of water several feet. The canal-boat swung around, and the strain parted the hawsers connecting the boats together. The stream is said to run at the rate of sixteen miles per hour at that point, and the peril of those on the canal-boat was imminent. The rapids was only twenty rods distant, and the cataract less than a mile below. Not an instant was to be lost. All that could be done was to improvise anchors of large stones and towlines; once, twice these trail anchors proved ineffectual, but the third held on, though the fearful strain on the rope rendered the safety of these on board very precarious. There was no boat to get on shore with, and had there been one, it was a dangerous undertaking when unaccustomed to such navigation. The canal-boat was midway in the river. The tug was in about as bad a situation. The position of all was extremely dangerous. Fortunately, a gentleman from Chippewa discovered their perilous predicament and went to their relief. He went first to the canal-boat, removing her crew, then the crew of the tug, and safely landed them. The people of Niagara Falls acted very hospitable to the shipwrecked people, and finally both boats were recovered and brought to the landing. Had there been an ordinary breeze, the destruction of tug and canal-boat must inevitably have followed. ———<>———

Perilous Balloon Adventure.

The New Orleans <Picayune>, of the 3d, has an account of the aerial Voyage of Miss Way and professer [sic] Wilson, who left New Orleans in the balloon “Paul Morphy.” It says: The voyagers, after reaching the hight [sic] of 13,000 feet, descended until they found a favorable current of air to go northwise, as they desired to reach Jackson, Miss. They' crossed the lake in half an hour in the direction of Covington, enjoying the sight of the waves rippling the surface, with the white foam dimly visibly through the veil of night; sailed over the pine woods, where several fires offered them a grand spectacle, were conversing about the magnificence of what they had seen, when their course was suddenly checked. They had come down too low, and their anchor had got caught in a tall pine tree. The balloon got entangled in the trees, and the two adventurers had to remain.all night, suspended at some forty feet above the earth, and not able to see enough to descend, on account of the darkness. Finally, when day came, Miss Way let herself down by means of a rope, and went tor help. She reached Dr. McQueen's house, about half a mile off, and with his assistance the balloon was got down safe. They then found that they had landed in Pike county, Miss., 130 miles !rom New Orleans. ———<>———

Pennsylvania Politics.

The Douglas and Anti Douglas Democrats' o! Pennsylvania are pa"ticuTirlv amiable toward each other of late. For instatt.ee, The State Sentinel, a Democratic Anti L'cumi)uu paper published at Harrisburg, uses the lo lowing mild language toward the President-. "He is a violator of pledges, an unwise, unsafe, and corrupt. Executive, a Pro-Slat er> Disunionist, a pirate in intention, a tyrant, un apostate from Democracy, a wool-dyed ederajisf, and a disurg-ruzer!” To which The Philadelphia Pennsylvanian retorts by'‘calling Messis. Forney and Hicktn m “R d mouthed Abolitionists, co-rupt and rotten a! the heart, capable of perpetrating the foulest and blackest crim s. who have lived fill their lives on plunder, stealing from the Treasury of the Government, and when tfie door was shut against their wholesale stealing they turn round and abuse the men and par y who gave them life.”

A California Slave State Project.

Ttie Washington States. Douglas' organ at the Federal Capital, is greatly rejoiced at the prospects of another slave State coining into the Union by the proposed division oi Cali'ornia. The State's joy is premature. Although he Democratic doughface majority in each branch of the California Legislature have given their sanction to the proposed division, in order to form a new slave State, to be called Colorado, yet before the scheme shall be consumated, the consent of Congress will be necessary. With an Opposition majority in the House of Representatives, we fancy that this new slavery extending project will be considerably “used up” before the Propagandists get it fairly before Congress next winter.

From Nebraska.

Leavenworth, May 16. The people of southern Nebraska are earnestly agitating the. annex ition of so much of that territory as lies . .. h of the Platte river. Thi will secure its admission into the Union at the next session of Congress. 'Fhe public entiment in that portion of the territory strongly favors the proposed annexation, and it was recently resolved in mass convention at Nebraska city, to nominate deleg ites to he Kansas Constitutional convention, which assembles at Wyandotte, in Julv. The delegation will undoubtedly be admitted into the convention. It is probable that in defining the boundaries of Kansas, the Platte will be designated as its northern line.

The Michigan Judicial Election —Official.

The Michigan Board ut State Canvassers, we learn from the Detroit Advertiser, have completed the official count of votes for Chief Justice, at the late election. The whole vote of the State was 119 596, of which Martin_, Republican, bad 53,679 —R - publican majority 12,228. This shows a gain on the Republican majority of 1856, of over 3,000. That will do lor Michigan. An-increase of a thousand votes a' year is doing very well. ff!?” Baron Goldsmith died in England lately, leaving a fortune estimated at fifteen million dollars.

Farmer's Department.

CONDUCTED by an agriculturist. ASP.tHIGIS Oil SPAKHOWGiItSS. This excellent article, which rivals green peas in delicious richness and delicacy of flavor, requires cultivation and care. The seed should be sown, either in the spring or fall, in a light, rich soil, such as is afforded by ( very farm in Jasper county. The young plants must be carefully tended the first season, and transplanted the follow’ing spring into a bed, where trenches have been dug up two feet deep and filled up eighteen inches with well-rotted barn-vard manure and ashes. The rows ought to be from three to four teet apart, and the plant set from a foot to fi:teen inches from each other. The young plants ought to be set out from two to six inches b«low the surface, but oughtto be set where water will not stand around the roots. The rows should be kept clean and enriched by manure throwed on the surface and plowed in every year. The next year after they are set out the young sprouts will be fit to cut for use. The kind known as giant asparagus comes to perfection the fourth year from the seed. The stalks are then large, tender, rich, juicy, and wholesome. Inferior articles mty be raised wtb less caro. HOW TO COOK ASPARAGUS. The stalks are best when of about two days growth. They will then be from ten to twelve inches high. Cut off six inches from the top. Boil in clean water until .completely tender. Then take up, without breaking the stalks, and lay them in a deep plate ai d cover them over thick with good yellow flutter, while hot, and leason with tine black pepper. Boarders like this. Some (Ut the staiks of one day’s growth, two or three inches in the ground. This is verywhite, but it is more apt t<> be a little tovu'h and sometimes bitter. TT» person who makes a garden, and iikos it, ouglu to hav ; a good large bed of asparagus. When it is once set out right, it is like an orchard, it will continue to grow a who e life time.

LOCUST.

I was walking, the first of the week, in a held of tiin ithy near Rensselaer, when my attention was arrested by an object which arose suddenly out of the grass, near my feet, and fie v with, an undulating somewhat irregular motion, some three or four rods and alighted again in the grass. A friend with me who saw it, thought it a small bird. I pursued it through several flights without, being able to catch it, although F obtained a pretty good view of it. It the shape of a grasshopper. Ft was full three inches ling; four inches across the wings when flying. Like the grasshopper, it had two sets of wings. Its head and outer wings were brilliantly checked and burred with dun and black. The inner wings, yellow; and when flying were spread about an inch wide. The antenae and hinder -legs were short and comparatively small. I never saw one before. Was it a locust! [For the Rensselaer Gnetie.

UNDERDRAINING.

Mr. Editor: I see in your paper some articles on matters of agriculture, a»d feeling much interested in every branch of that business, permit me to offer a few remarks on underdrawing of lands. It is a given up point that the draining of land in must places in this section of country, is strictly a pre-requisit to raising remunerative crops; and as to the best a* d must efficient way to acco - plish this object, F will probably differ from the mass of your readers, in what I shall offer, but I shall give my experience and then let them judge. The most of our prairie soil is underlaid with a stifl'clay sub'-soil, and when this is ; the case no fears need be entertained as to the result ot drains constructed on the plan tha’ I shall recommend. To accomplish effectually the draining of the soil, in the manner that will result to the least inconvenience to the nlow-tnan, ought to be u matter duly considered in laying out our plans. Now, as to my opinion, I hold and recommend that underdrains will more effectually dry the land, and in no case be the least inconvenient to the plow-man; but bis team will pass over the train without notic'ng any difference in their travel, and lie cun expect as good, if not better, crops frorn the land occupied by the drain, as any other part of j his field. To make underdrains in the most desirable way, I have no doubt, is to use tile to lay in the bottorfi of the ditch,for the waterto pass under; but in this country they cannot be had at living rates, consequently we must resort to something else as a substitute. I ' take timber. In the first place, I cut iny ditch two feet wide and two feet deep,(deeper would only he better.) in the bottom of this 1 cut u trench, about eight inches wide and ten inches deep, I then saw my timber (bur oak) about twenty inches long, and split out puncheons one and a hall inches thick, and lay these puncheons crossways of the ditch, over the trench, leaving a nice tinderpassage lur the water. On top of the titnb r I throw a little straw or buy to prevent the dirt from lulling into, the trench, then I fill up the ditch and the work is done. Those that would rather discredit the

I utility of this mode of draining, might eay that so much labor, with such material, would not pay. It would be likely to fill up, &c. I only promised you my e' peiience, and that is, I have been making such ditches for tfi« last seven years, with every desired result. Some of the first I made, I put in hickory j timber, by way of experiment, to test its durability in that situation, and to-day it ansyvers as good a purpose as when first put in. I will just add, that at tlie mouth of these ditches, I have running stock water, except in an extremely dry time. Yours, truly, J. B. A Miraculous Deliverance.— At the ; burning of the Black River woolen-mills, in Watertown, New York, on Friday last, as one of the weavers was about escaping from ; the room in which he worked, he heard tiis ! little daughter,of sevenyeurs,call,“Pal pn!” He turned seized tier by the arm, and sprang I to the window just as t ie floor gave way beneath his feet, and placing the little girl be- ; tween his legs, lie thus went down the under side of the ladder hand over hand. His , left arm was burnt, buGnot very severely, i and his hair and whiskers scorched close to his head and face. The little girl was uninjured, save a slight burn on one of her le-is. Truly a miraculous deliverance. —Boston Post. R. Atcliinson, ttie ex-border ruffian Senator from Mi ssouri, still enjoys tlie sweets of private iUe on his plantation l in Clinton county Mo. During a recent revival ol religion in that section he seriously inclined: and some of has relatives, j who are zealous and consistent Methodist, , really had hopes of his conversion. But just then some friend sent him a barrel of his favorite old rye whisky (like Mr. Buchanan,, he drinks nothing but old rye,) and he returned to his old idol, and from that dav he has been the same old “Dave” Atcliinson as iof yore. Ghost in Galena, lll.—There is a married man in Galena who insists that every night, about ten o'clock, a. ghost in a woj man's garb appears in his chamber, looks Bt him with a stare that appals him, till he iturns in terror to his wife, who it seems, 1 cannot see tiie '.pparition. He has a load, d j rifle at his bedside and a bowie-knife under : his pillow, but, ns yet, he has not been able jto use either, lit hoi's his doors and fastens his win ows, but all is of no use. At the stated time the visitor appears in the i room, petrifies him with terror, and retires.

Schuyler Coffiiv, came here last Saturday and spent tiie Sabbath, leaving outlie Monday morning train for Indianapolis • He looks better than we ever r,aw h,in before, and if he continues to increase in iiis present proportions he will soon pass for an alderman. He is soon to commence speaking with Frank Biiir in 'he Minnesota canvass, which will Hveur off some of his extra Washington fiet>b.— Valparaiso Repaid ban of \ lust l CCck. , ff!?'The Richmond Palladium -says that a. onod deal of excitement has been created in [“Milton mi that count , by reported attacks l of mad dogs on h 'ga, (jogs and Cattle. One j of the children of Mr. Miiispaugh was bitten, ; and a very general infection of she horrible poison is feared among the brute part of t j village. The trustees have authorized tr,~ 1 indiscriminate killing of Jogs wherever thv«r : tin y be found. ff!/~ l’iie Bedford Independent says that Enoch Morgan, one of the “ Regulators’' v\ l»> , whipped Edward Bingham to death two or i three years ago. in Monroe county, was rej e.ently sentenced to t-e JVnileni tary for j niuet, e» years. The jury was -out several j days, one of the jurors itwisting that the j punishment should be imprisonment for liic. O^7“A man named Phillips, charged with murdering his wife at Cairo , and a man named Hanna, who recently escaped from j jail at. Thebes, were arrested at Vienna,a few days ago, endevpri-ng to make their way to Palestine; and a man was arrested in this j city, accused of horse stealing at Carthagef and was sent back by the way of HWmic. All this occurred in Illinois.— Chicago paper. A Female Sickles. A N ishville paper relates the story of a wife, who, on returning home from shopping, discovered her husband on a sofa with a handsome servant girl, and forthwith cowhided both of them. After the flagellation, the servant was discharged, and the husband forgiven, upon a promise to s'n no more. OCT’The man up in Delphi,(N. ¥.,) thirty - ! eight years old, who boasts that he never took a newspaper, says saat Santa Anna, if he pers'sts in his struggle- with Russia., will be sure«to lose all the territory of the Bosphorus and be excluded from- she r/avigation of the Amazon Sea. ff!?”The Logan sport, End',, Journal savs that gold has been found among quartz, at Tippecanoe river, two miles from VVinneI mac, which lias been tested, and proved to ! be of a pure quality, rating as high as twenty carats, or only lour carats from perfect purity. ff5“A writer ir the New York Examiner states that the A meric? n and Foreign Bible Society last year incurred an expense of sixteen thousand dollars in collecting and ap propri ting eighteen thousand dollars for the benevolent work of the organization. Of!?”The N'*w Orleans Delta, which aided in electing Mr. Buchanan, now proposes that he shall resign the Presidency, and that the party shall make up a pony-purse for iiitn equal to his salary for the remainder of his terns.' OCylt is said that Koss .th baa passed through Paris, on his road, it is supposed, to Hungary, to use the present opportunity tq excite a new revolution, and secure the freedom of Ins country. John J. Crittenden and lady were in Vinceim-s on Friday, Mr. C. bad not visiteu the “Old Post” before, since 1812, when lie was there lor several weeks on the j sick fist as a soldier, R. J. Dawson, of Fort \Vayne, Indiana, the Democratic candidate tor Cop. gress from lus district, at the last election, ; died on the 16th inst, (g5~An infant was born in Baltimore, on i Wednesday, huvipg at its birth a full aet of 1 teeth.