Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1859 — Hits by Prentice. [ARTICLE]

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?