Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1859 — Page 1

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BUSINESS CARDS. PUBOVE. BBOWX A: CO., WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Dry Goods, Fancy Goods, NOTIONS, HATS, BONNETS, &C. No. 10 Purdue’s Block, Unfit yet tc, Indiana. Invite attention to their New Stock. J. V. PAKKISOM, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, Barkley Township, Jasper Co., Ind. Will act as agent in collecting debts in Barkley and adjoining townships. 5-ts DAVID SNVBER, Attorney at Law, 52 RENSSELAER, IND. UU. S. HOPKINS, ATTORNEY AT LA IV, Rensselaer, Ind. Will promptly attend to collections, payment of taxes, sale of real estate, and other business entrusted to his care, with promptness and disr* tch - „ 52 __ JOSEPH <J. CHASE, Attorney at Law, RENSSELAER, 48-1 v Jasper County, Ind. W. V. SNYDER, M. D., Having resumed the practice of Medicine and Surgery in Rensselaer, offers his professional services to the citizens thereof and vicinity. 29 W. D. LEK. a. W. SPITLER. LEE &■ SPITLER, Attorneys at Law. OFFICE, NEXT DOOR TO LA RUE’S STONE BUILDING, RENSSELAER. IND. Will practice in the Circuitand inferior Courts of the Twelfth Judicial District. Also, in the Supreme and District Courts of Indiana. ap29 R. 11. MILROY. L. A. COLE. MILROY A: COEE, Attorneys at Law, NOTARIES PUBLIC, And Agents for the Sale of Real Estate, Payment of Taxes, &.C., » P 2 RENSSELAER, IND. EDWIN P. HAMMOND, Attorney at Law AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Will practice in the Courts of Jasper and a<toining counties. Particular attention given to the securing arid collecting of debts, to the sale of real estate, and to all other busiuesji intrusted to his care. Office in the room in the north-west corner of the Court House, Rfensselaer, Ind. N. B.—He will be assisted during the terms pf the Courts by A. A\ Hammond*, of Indianapolis. 8 ly | .. TIIOS.h’COT. ALFRED St’COY. ALEREO THOMPSON. THOS. McCOY A CO., Bankers and Exchange Brokers, BUY -ND SELL COIN AND EXCHANGE. Collections Motto on nil Available Points. WILL PAY INTEREST ON SPECIFIED TIME DEPOSITS. Negotiate Loans, and do a General Banking Business. Office hours, from 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. ap29 Pal Mer house, Corner of Washington and Illinois Streets, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. J. D. CARMICHAEE, Proprietor. INDIANA HOUSE, J. W. A S. O. DUVALL, Proprietors, BRADFORD, IND. Ths table will be supplied with the best the market affords. A -good Stable and Wagon Yard attached to the Hotel. The Messrs. Duvalls are also proprietors of the RENSSELAER AND BRADFORD DAILY HACK LINE. The hack leaves Rensselaer every morning, (Sundays excepted,) at 7 o’clock, connecting at Bradford with the trains north and south, and returns same day. LT Extras can also be procured at either end of the route, on reasonable terms. 7-ly Dr. Laßar, O XT L I T , (Formerly of St. Louis,) Respectfully informs the public that he may be fodndat the Dunlap House for _the next two or three weeks, ready to treat all diseases of the Eyej. No charge made for examinations? Cure warranted. Reference - Messrs. Barney Dougherty and James C. Kerr. 50-3 t A LAMGK NUMBER OF TOWN LOTS, SITUATED in the, best parts of the town of Rensselaer, lor sale at very low price and oil favorable term* by MILROY &. COLE, Real Estate Agents

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VOL. 3.

|)ottrii. [From the London Times. May 11. TME NV AIS . BY ALFRED TENNYSON. There is a sound of thunder afar, Storm in the South that darkens the day, Storm of battle and thunder of Wur, Well, if it do not roil our way. Sorm! storm! Riflemen form! Ready, be ready to meet the storm! Riflemen, riflemen, riflemen form! Be not deaf to the sound that warns! Be not gul’d by a despot’s plea! Are figs of thistles, or grapes of thorns? How should a despot set men free? Form! form! Riflemen form! Ready, be ready to meet the storm! Riflemen, riflemen, riflemen form! Let your Reforms for a moment go, Look to your butts and take good aims, Better a rotten borough or so, Than a rotten fleet ora city in flames! Form! form! Riflemen form! Ready, be ready to meet the storm! Riflemen, riflemen, riflemen form! Form, be ready to do or die! Form in Freedom's name and the Queen’s! True, that we have a faithful ally, But only the Devil knows what he means. Form! form! Riflemen form! Riflemen, riflemen-, riflemen form!

Ju.sccHanmis. THE MAIDEN WARRIOR. A TALE OF TIL. REVOLUTION. No struggle in the history of the world has produced nobler instances of heroism than that of our own glorious Revolution. Tne achievements which light up the expanse of that deadly conflict, like stars in the firmament, put to sham? the melo-dramatic heroes of Greece; indeed, it is not too much to say that every mountain pass has been a Thermopylae, and every battle plain a Marathon. Occasionally tfio.se deeds of war have been lightened by that sweetest of all passions--love; and it is a tale of love and patriotism we have now to tell. Sergeant Jasper belonged to that most famous of all heroic bands, Marion’s Brigade, where his valor and ta'ents soon won him distinction. Among other daring deeds, his rescuing our flag at the battle of Fort Moultrie deserves, to be mentioned. Io the hotest fire ot the conflict, the flag of the fort was shot away, and fell without the fort. Leaping over the rampart, he seized the flag and returned amid the cheers of even the British. For this daring deed General Rutledge presented him with a sword. Like many other families at that time, his wa - divided on the great question. His older brother took the sidi of the English and served in their ar •y. Out of affection to his brother, and a wish to examine into the strength and condition of the enemy, he resolved, with another patriot soldier, Sergeant Newton, to pay t|ie British a visit. His brother’s position enabled him to receive his two friends without any suspicion of their being spies, and they were entertained for two or three days with great hospitality. While they were thus engaged, a small party of Americans were brought in prisoners, and, as they had d serted from the British and enlisted in the American ranks, their dooin would have been death. This the brother of Jasper assured him was to be their fate. With them were the wife and child of one of the prisoners. Her distress at her husband’s approaching fate, touched the humane heart of Jasper. Confiding his purpose to his friend, Sergeant Newton, they bade adieu to Jasper’s brother, and took their leave. They had no soonergot out of sight of the camp, than they made a detour, and streatched across the country, so as to elude all suspicion should they meet with any Bril ish soldiers. It was the custom ot the English then, to send all the prisoners taken in that quarter to Savannah for trial. At a little spring, two miles from Savannah, Jasper and Newton secreted themselves, awaiting the arrival of the British escort with their prisoners. It had occurred to Jasper that, as they must pass this spot, it was very probable they might rest here for a short time to refresh Uaemselves —aud the woody nature of the spot would favor a rescue. After some hours’ anxious suspense, they saw the escort with their prisoners approach-. The guard was ten in number, and armed. The corporal with four men conducted their captives to the water, and told them to rest themselves for an hour; at the same time giving them provisions. The sergeant then told the men to ground arms and seat themselves. The prisoners threw themselves upon the earth in hopeless despair. Near to 'he wretched uyan sat his wife and child. Two of the men alone kept their arms as sentries. As the rest of the inen were filling their canteens with water, Jasper and

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Newton came stealthily from their ambush, , seized two of the muskets that were stacked shot the two sentries, and rushing upwn the others, stunned them with the butt cl their weapons. Deprived of their arms the others abandoned tfie conflict and fled. But the most romantic incident in this brave man’s life, washis love for Miss Sally St. Clair, or, as she is termed in our annals, “The Maiden Warrior.” This was a beauti- i ful credle girl, who returned his passion with j purity and intensity seldom known ou earth. 1 When he was called upon to join the defend- j ers of his ccuntry, her grief was unbounded. Their hour of parting came, and after the tenderest of adieus the gallant soldier sprang upon his horse and joined his regiment. Scarcely had the sound of his horse’s feet died upon the air, than her romantic brain suggested the plan of rejoining her lover by enlisting in ihe same brigade. She resolved to put her project into immediate operation. Securing a suit of male attire about her own size, she severed her long and jetty ringlets, dressed her hair like a man’s, and purchasing a horse, she set off three days after, alone, to offer her service to the noble Marion. Her offer was accepted, and a lithe, active stripling was added to the corps to which her lover belonged. The contrast between the stripling and these men, in their uncouth garbs, their massive faces, embrowned and discolored by sun and rain, was indeed striking. But none were so eager for the battle, or so indifferent to fatigue, as the fair-faced boy. It was found that his energy of character, resolution and courage, amply supplied his lack of physique. None ever suspected him to be a woman. Not even Jasper himself, although she was often by his side, penetrated her disguise. The romance of her situation increased the fervor of her passion. It was her delight to reflect that, unknown to him, she was by his side, watching over him in the hour of dan- ■ ger. She fed her passion by gazing upon ' him in the hour of slumber, hovering near when stealing through the swamp and thick-! et, and being always ready to avert danger! from his head. But gradually there stole a melancholy presentiment over the poor girl’s mind. She ( had been tortured with hopes deferred; 'he war was prolonged, and the prospect of be- i ing restored to him grew’ more and more un- \ certain. But now she felt that her dream of happiness could never be realized. She became convinced that death was about to snatch her away from his side; but she prayed that she might die, and he never know to what length the violence of her passion had led her. It was an eve before a battle. The camp had been sunk into repose. The watchfires were burning low, and only the s|ow tread of. the sentinels fell upon the profound silence of the night air, as they moved throw the dark shadows of the forest. Strbtchcd upon the ground, with no other couch than a blanket, reposed the war-iike form of Jasper. Climing vines trailed themselves into a canopy above his head, through which the stars shon - softly down The! faint flick ring from the expiring embers of! a hr? fell athwart his countenance, and; tinged the cheek of one who bent above his I couch. It was the smooth-faced stripling. She bent low down, as if to listen to his' dreams, or to breathe into his soul pleasant visions of love and happiness. But tears trace themselves down the lair one’s cheek, and fall silently but rapidly upon the brow of her lover. A mysterious voice has told her that the hour of parting has come; that) to-morrow her destiny is consummated. ’ There is one last, long, lingering look, and then the unhappy maid is seen to tear herself away from the spot, to weep out her sorrow in privacy. Fierce and terrible is the conflict that on the morrow rages on that spot. Foremest in the battle is the intrepid Jasper, and ever by his side fights the stripling warrior. Often' during the heat and the smoke, gleams sud-' denly upon the eyes of Jasper, the inelan- ! choly face of the maiden. In the thickest of the fight, surrounded by enemies, the lov- ! ers fight side by side. Suddenly a lance is! levelled at the breast of Jasper; but swifter! than the laace is Sally St. Clair. There is| a wild cry, and at the feet of Jasper sinks the maiden, with the life-blood gushing from! the white bosom, which had been thrown,as j a shield, before his breast. He heeds not now the din nor the danger of the conflict, but down by the side of the dying boy he kneels. Then, for the first time, does he learn that the stripling is his love; that the dim visions, in his slumber, of an angel face hovering above him, had indeed been true. In the midst of the battle, with her lover by her side, and the barb still in her bosom, the ; heroine maiden dies! Her Mine, her sex, and her noble devotion,!

“FREEDOM NATIONAL—SLAVERY SECTIONAL.”

soon became known through the corps. There was a tearful group gathered around her grave; there was not one of these hardy warriors who did not bedew her grave with tears. They buried her near the river Santee, “in a green shady nook,that looked as if it had been stolen out of Paradise.” The sweetest of all American song-writers has immortalized this noble woman, in a charming lyric, with which we close our story: In th» ranks of Marlon’s band, Through morass and wooded laud, Over breech of yellow sand, Mountain, plain and valley; A southern maid, in all her pride, Marched gaily at her lover’s side, In such disguise, That e’en his eyes Did not discover Sallie! When retu’ned from midnight tramp, Through the forest dark and damp, On his straw-couch in the camp, In his dreams he’d dally. With that devoted, gentle fair, Whose large and flowing hair, So near him seem, That in his dream, He breathes his love for Sallie! Oh, what joy the maiden knew When she found her lover true— Suddenly the trumpet blew, Marion’s men to rally! To ward the death-spear from his side, In the battle by Santee she died! Where sings the --urge A ceaseless dirge Near the lone grave of Sallie!

[From the Indianapolis Journal.

Factsand Figures.

Eds. Journal: In your issue of the 18th it is stated that the papers say little or nothing on the subject of license. I.f no one else will speak, let me. The moans of cruelly injured wives, the wails of hungary and ragged children, and the woes of the drunkards themselves, demand an advocate; and over their accumulated sorrows let me renew my vows of eternal hatred to the liquor traffic. Let me say “hate is a feeble word” to express the loathing of my s ml for the thrice accursed aud pre-eminently Christian I'cense law. No others than Christians license men to commit crimes. Macauleysays a prince who selects his servants is responsible for their vices. More certainly a sovereign people, who elect their lawmakers, are responsible for the laws enacted. Therefore the Christians of Indiana are responsible for the license law that disgraces the State. License to sell intoxicating liquors include license for every crime. The voice of our brothers’ blood—those brothers having legally gone to drunkards’ graves—will cry for justice; and in that great day, when the assembled universe shall stand at the bar of a just Judge, the hands of all who by omission or commission have aided in sustaining this great crime will be found stained with that blood. I accept the Journals estimate, that our State will probably have 2,000 leg’ll and Christian grog shops, and that they will give §IOO,OOO to the school fund. These 2,000 grog shops will be patronized by 30,000 drinkers. Of this number possibly one hundred may reform and die sober men. in spite of their own efforts, (for drunkards do make sincere efforts to reform,) in spite of the labor, the tears, the prayers of friends, the remainder will go to drunkards’ graves and to the drunkard’s eternity—forever excluded from the Kingdon of Heaven! They will not all be hung for taking the lite of wife or friend, while legally and Christianly infuriate—they will not all die of delirium tremens, nor will all go to the grave through the gloomy portals of the penitentiary. They may call themselves temperate drinkers, (and why not, hereafter, Christian!) but as sure as they patronize the grog shops of Indiana they will die drunkards. The labor of all these drunkards will not be entirely lost to themselves and con munity, but inasmuch as the greatest intellects and stoutest hands are the oftenest palsied by drink, wc may safely estimate the loss at $1 per diem. Their families and the public are thus defrauded of §IOO,OOO each year. The penal and pauper expenses of the State exceed §200,000 per annum. But, alas! words fail if I attempt to estimate the outraged hearts and hearth-stones of 30,000 families. Can the accumulated wealth of ages dug from Golconda, from Peru and from California ever compensate for blighted honor, blasted intellect, perverted affections and ruined souls! Gray-haired parents weeping and refusing to be comforted; broken-hearted wives toiling for bread, and children, around whose t hin, hungry lips no smiles ever co.ne—children “In their tender weakness turning To their. Hoaven-appointod guide, How a lava-poison burning Will tinge with glad affection’s tide; Still that orphan-burden bearing, Darker than the grave can know, They do bow them down -spairing' To their heritage of woe.” What more dreadful heritage could h

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community—a .Legislature of incarnate fiends inflict upon children than to make their parents drunkards! Yet it is dnacted that this lava-tide of disgrace, this far worse than orphanage, shall legally, and Christianly be conferred upon 100,000 children. There is no mistake about the Facts and Figures, that for every dollar paid to the school fund for license one of the young immortals must bow despairing to this heritage of woe. There is not a person in the world, v. ho will assert that, grog shops are a benefit to the community. The whole system of the liquor traffic, and its concomitant horrors, are fastened upon us, because it is a politi- ! cal machine, truly. It would have been dei stroyed long ago, but that some men obtain ■office by the votes of drunkards who would have to labor for their bread if all were sober. A voice of wailing comes from the gallows, the graye-yard, the prison, and the alm-house* protesting against the anomaly of making parents drunk, for the purpose of educating the children. The laws of Arkansas are humane in comparison with those of Indiana. That Sta’e sells the bodies of her free colored population to support her schools. The shackles of slavery, grievous as they are, only bind th” body; but the Schools of our State require Loth soul and body to be offered to Moloch for their support. Shall the price of blood be put into our Treasury—shall our schools rest upon these hecatombs of parents and children! Christians of Indiana, has the Legislature indeed enacted your instructions? Shall the undemocratic doctrine prevail that few must prosper at the expense of the many? Shall 2,000 men, for the paltry sum of §SO, each grow rich from the proximate and approxi--1 mate sufferings of 978,000! Thirty thousand drunkards, §9,000,000 lost in talent and ■ productive industry, §200,000 penal and pauLper expenses, 100,000 drunkard’s children, .60,000 women as wives and mothers, sharing the disgrace and abuse of drunkards; and for this outlay of time and money, blood and sinew, heart and hope, our School Fund will be enriched §IOO,OOO.

Hits by Prentice.

(ty*Forney says Mr. Buchanan seems animated by the desire to immortalize himself as the last of the line of Democratic Presidents. Then the party has gone hook and line confessedly. CO"'’rhe President is said to be hesitating whether he will retain his Pugh in the Demoi cratic church. O^7”A Locofoco editor in Indiana suggests to the Louisville Journal to “draw in its horns.” He no doubt sucks in his—with a straw. CO-If our Minister to Mexico has to touch his hat. to ev ry new government he recognizes there, the rim of his beaver will most certainly be worn out. O^7“A Dubuque paper save complainingly that “money is close.” We are afraid that it isn’t close enough to be reached. o^7*'The Washington Constitution (formerly the Virion) says the gates of hell cannot prevail against the Democratic party. Certainly not—on the contrary, the gates will readily give way and let the whole concern in. 00 ' A man can “get along” without advertising, and so can a wagon wheel without greasing, but it yoes hard. (K/"A Tennessee paper says that the Hon. Charles Ready, havi*rg got into Congress by the help of conventions, is disposed to kick the ladder out from under himself. He had better take care lest, in kicking at the ladder, he kicks the bucket. 0O J A little editor in the interior says of a statement of ours that it makes him hold his breath. Well,[let him hold it a century. Who cares? (k5”Mr. J. S. Moon has established a paper in Maine. He aims to be very brilliant, but al! his brightness is only moon-shine. Mr. Buchanan had got the thirty millions, we wonder which he would have bought—Cuba or the Charleston Convention ? Morgan Republican hopes that ■ every member of the Ohio Legislature, who voted against the bill to tax dogs, may be I bitten by them. It the animals are. sagac-1 ions, they’ll be more likely to bite those who ■ voted to tax them. Green, editor ot the Vincennes| •Sun, calls certain columns of ours ‘half wit-I ty.’ If his were not more than half G-een.l his paper would be worth twice as much as j it is. (fJ’Some of the Locofoco editors seem to | use the name of the devil quite too frequent-; ly. We guess he’ll haul them over the coals for 't'otie of »hea« dav-

don’t think that Mr. Sickles deserved to be hung for killing Mr. Key for improper intimacy with his wife; and, if reports are true, Mrs. Sickles wouldn’t deserve hanging if she were to kill a score or two of women for improper intimacy with her husband. Mayor of West Liberty, Ohio, has run away. He is the second or third Mayor that has run away within three or four weeks. Runaway Mayors are getting as common as runaway mares. j (gy’The Washington Constitution undertakes to taunt the Opposition party with having more than once changed its name. The organ has changed its own name a dozen times, and is now about to change it again. If it were to take a new name as ; often i s it disgraces the old one,! it would i use up three hundred and sixty-five a year. (t/”The Washington Constitution says i that the cause of the administration ‘ islook- ! ing up everywhere.” Let it look up. It : will, we guess, “see stars.” editor of the Democrat says, that, among other presents, the ladies have sometimes given us scissors. Oh yes, some of them have given us pretty pairs of scissors, accompanying the gift with the old motto — “we part to meet.” Let those beware, who, like our ugly neighbor, would come between. Washington correspondent of a Boston paper says that Mr. Buchanan looks much younger in the face than he is. Wc suppose he means that the eld Buck is doefaced. editor of the Charleston .Mercury—- ■ says, “the deluge is coming.” Docs ho 1 think iie is knower enough to ride out the | storm. | 0O”A writer in the Boston Courier says ■he dosn’t like Piccolomini’s gate. Perhaps I her father kicked him out of it. i CiT’A Philadelphia clergyman is preaching ; against the theater. He seeing to think lie j can upset the stage as easily as if the were ! a stage-driver. j (O"Thu ex-officeholder of the Democrat i hasn't half so much spirit as an over-loaded musket. He didn’t kick when he was discharged. The Washington Constitution says that falsehoods are common currency. The readers of the Constitution are rich in that kind of currency. They are in the regular receipt of their “ten thousand a year.” writer in the Texas Telegraph says he has been hunting three months in vain for a situation, and almost wishes himself an i oyster. If he were, he would find, right ' under every man’s nosejHt fine opening for himself. OiT’Gen. Bowman announces, in his new- ! ly-made goverment organ, that it shall be i the aim of the Constitution “to heal any disI sension that may exist among our brethern in different quarters of the country.” The heeling will require pretty extensive cobbling, and if perfected there will be no soul or binding to make the job of any value. (Uy"The editor of the Southerr, Times promises to dispose of the entire slavery question “in a few short articles.” He says he has it all in his bead. Well, we have : heard that the whole thing was in n nut j shell. Richmond Whig says that Mr. ■ Buchanan, in his desperation, “is readv to i seize hold of anvthing presented to him.” i Will some kind friend do us the favor to ex- ! tend to him the hot end of a poker?

NO. 6.

Buying a New Stove.

The Toledo Blade tells a good .st„ry o' a young couple who setup housekeeping the other day. A new stove was purchased* among other traps. A fire was according!?started by the mistress of the house, the morning following her entry on her responsible duties, when greatly to her surprise, and not a little to the’chagrin of her “liege lord,” the flames became extinguished and the room filled with smoke. The stove had been warranted and highly commended by the dealer of whom it was purchased, and. the young husband, with indignation flashing in his eyes, forthwith started for the stove dealer’s establishment, where he related the inability of himself and wife to use the stove, and‘demanded that his money should be immediately refunded him. An examination of the stove was made, when it was ascertained that th“ fire had been kindled in the oven. Twin Pictures.—Here is a brief but pointed "essay on man:” At ten, a child; at twenty wild; At thirty, tame, if ever; At forty, wise; at fifty rich; At sixty, good, rnever. Here is a brief “c;.-ay on woman:” At ten. a bud; at twenty, in bloom; At thirty, married, ii ever; At forty, mother; at fifty, aunt; At sixty— The probability is that the old lady is a little the worse of the w car. (r*y'There's magic in a lady’s toot : And well the ladies know it— And she who iias a prgtty orn Is pretty sure to show it. - Delightful Offer.—John asked Julia if she would have him. “No,” said rhe, "I will not have you!" But before John could recover from the shock, she archly put in. “but you may have me."