Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1859 — Kansas Convention. [ARTICLE]

Kansas Convention.

St. Lnr*r«t, July 19.—A special despatch to tfoe Bulletin says the bill of rights he r o e the Kansas Constitutional i'(invention provides that no distinction shall he made between aliens and citizens in relation to posof property: also, that no slave will be allowed inthe State. A decided majority trf the Convention are in 'avorof instructing , the Supreme Judges to disregard the fug;-: .ive slave law. Provisions are made for ai ~.i law embracing 160 acres, im-j ;-r ■veu'-it not exceed'ng $2,000. ; 7 o 'CttAB a Room oF M isqUEToes —A . jo, rin u Smitu Carolina paper says: 1 -1 the following and find that ?.• !: Take of gum cam- , , :• , I one third the size of an • . •> pl.-cing it in a tin vessel .g >< v»ec a-lan p or candle, taking c.»r«- iiwttt does n>t ignite. The sm kwi i -our fill the room and expel the mosquitoes. •‘One night, not long since, I was terribly annoyed t y them, when I thought of and tried (he abov •, alter which I neither saw or heard them that, night, and next morning there was not < ne to bg fouml in the room, though the windows hid been left open all night.'* reunion of Sickies and his < s- ; honored wi e, occasions surprise in quarters and disgust tin all Itn N *t g t ys; ‘-We understand that some M ; Sickles’ mb.-t intimate fr ends, who s>o ■ •. . him through all Ids troubles, even to the p< r< • of their own personal reputations, hue -.iuce t.iey led ned that he had t-.k n. c • again with his wi-e, repudiated his s<.ci< , and informed him that their rvietions o' .-• : »ona. inti rc.OHrses are at an end.” (gy*lt is not o ten that one comes in cm-, tact with such an important personal fact as this: ••Dmd, on the 29th inst., aged 54. Mr. Peter jjl.tteson, of L >w Duns ord, near Bor ugh-bridge, England. He and his an c.estry h.»ve been the owners and occupiers of the farm, n ychich he died, tor more than gb; hundred years. The farm was not en t .j-. i,nd the owner has always been a M ■ '.•i:hoti' adoption. i;; ; M B ull , ■iiblishes a c: rd in the 00-nu-r oi t'i NOionul Era. in which s:,.t-••s'.'th..r the paper will continue to he edio-d end mibil.siied under the provisions: ■m-.d.- by it.- f'.tf editor :m! proprietor, in vi“W i.j in Tid'd : :b ■ nee in Europe, adding •hat, a.-, ii is the family’s ritliy mean- of suppi rt . its < oneitiu .m e w ithwut interruption is rendered iff) perat i ve. OgJr-AV.-.leant from the Bloomington (Ill.jj Bantu graph that twelve of a numer.-us gang of counterfeiters,‘-'novermg' about hat conn- : tv, we e arrested and ar- now aw (iting trial. I They were uunil out by one o' their! own number, a young man named Robertj Taylor, who had been rrested for other •crim s, turning St ite’s evidence against his • cun eder-ites. The 1 - idet.s of the .a J J Firron. who bails from Crab U’lli-. ' _ Ky., and D :. J -I?*- -•■ Q.jT’An oi'iiositioii pop -r in Tent:--' «'4- Athens Port, says: -Rmp.■ •' t i the <>•"!'• til it th re a ill sh'Tlw •' nv-eting o' prominent D nvicrits o' I. ■ ana, Mississippi, Virgin! i, A 1 bama. (f- •: - and S»'lt Carolina, to take cotinse: thf -.-oi.dition of the party, and to ?!<e ex ediency of letting the Chari'Convention go by default.” ;gj-At Warren, Onio, on th ■ F mrt c. th .:cop>:' bought an old mill and se’ fire to >t. • tu g.tv the engine companies a (I. mce io t xer fit -ms.'ivcs in putting it out. But. tiecinders blown over toe town, setting fire t the d; -odist Cliurch and some other b’iii : a, -y, "■ firemen had to work in e •-’;••■ ■ !.•< . --ii. a g uieral c>n 11 tgration. (fC ' E.po’rte Cnion s y> that an unI. • i!->1 lake has been di-c* ve ed near •1. tee rr-- k. A r !: y cm ba n kmc nt w s ■ !•■•-:- -r> -i> t.iat c.ov< cd t el ke. ; y CO _ra lir.ik • t.r>U _ h the Crust. I'. - . • .-ki< entirely disappeared, and a <.k ; h.<-:yr <:s across fills its place. (j.j~A n vel •ommitment has been m 'de to the District oi Columbia P'-nit enti.o y .of’ an Indian vho w.s found gui ty of horse stealing in Kansas. He was immediately set to « ork.

I Heavy Damages ComFirmejd—Thedecision against the Boston and Worcester railroad company, that has been pending for eight years, by which they are to pay SatAh E. Shaw, tor the death of her husband, by . railr i?d a: c lent, $22,250, has been confirmed by the Suprem • Court of M ssachusettsf people of Sacramento (Californa) have --Resolved. That we give a cordial and hearty recepti.-n to H trace Greeley on his arrival in this city, as a friend and adv icate of the interests of this State, and we do it without distinction of party, .as citizens thereof. ; (gs” The daughter of John RafTerty, of Cincinnati, h is been killed in trying-tb do the Niagara feat” in a sm 11 way, over a porch in the second story of the house. The rope breaking, she was pitched over the bannisters, and received fat 1 injuries by the lull. < . ' . OO’lt is reported that H in. Charles Sutni ner, now in Paris, is about to be married to ; M s. Thayer, widow of the late John E. Tii yer, of Boston. ffO”A Church has been purchased for the Dial r: l Du bin New York, in which • . .-.re to be co idueted, after the first > i-o in the sign language.