Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1859 — Various Items. [ARTICLE]

Various Items.

oO”The Edgfield (S. C.) Advertiser is the only paper at the South that advocates the nomination of Douglas. (KT’Paint your garden fences black. It absorbs the heat, and, if mixed with coal’ tar, it is eaid to effectually keep off’ spiders, bugs, caterpillars and snails. Mr. Pratt was fined SSO in Memphia for whipping his wife. The judge said, as a salve to his feelings, that it was “no great harm to whip some wives, provided the public were not disturbed by the operation.” Otj“The record of the case of Mrs. General Gaines, about to be carried to the United States Supreme Court at Washington, has been made up at New Orleans, and covers 2,121 pages of manuscript. Wasson &, Co., car builders of Springfield, Mass., have just received an order from the Pacha of Egypt for $50,000 worth of passenger cars, two of which are to be finished in Oriental stylo for the Pacha himself. Horrible!—The Washington Constitution announces a discovery which may startle the country. Mr. Seward has gone to Europe professedly on a tour of pleasure and observation, but in fact to perfect an allian.e to overthrow this government! Let the Democratic organs sound the alarm! 0O“A cotempcrary affirms that a memorial requesting the Hon. D. E. Sickles to resign i his seat in Congress has received 1,400 signatures, and that in the Eighth Ward a movement is on foot among his late sympathizers to hold a public meeting at which to make the request openly. OiJ’During a storm in Philadelphia recently, a streak of lightning killed eightyfive sheep in one drove. They were huddled under a tree at the time. Only one of the sheep was marked by the disaster, that being evidently the first one struck, and it was hit in the side und cut open in every direction. "OO” Nichol as Lungwort , the Cincinnati millionaire, was sitting on the steps of a drinking house the other day, with his hat I between his knees, waiting for a friend, when a passing stranger dropped a quarter into his hat, thinking him a beggar! Nick’s personal appearance is said to justify the inference. first case of sun-stroke, of wh : chs we have any record, is related in the Bible. The victim was the little son of the Shunamite, who, “being in the field with the reapers, said unto his father, ‘My head! My head!’ And when he had taken him to his mother he sat on her knees till noon; and. I then he died.” (tj“Somc of the United States Senators from the new Pacific States have been lucky | :n serving short terms and drawing heavy j pay. Hon. Delazon Smith, of Oregon, served seventeen days and pocketed SIO,OOO, of which $7,000 were for mileage, aiid Col. Fremont served about the same period, but bis compensation was somewhat less. heard of such a thing as the conversion of an intelligent English gentleman to Mahomedanism! It is announced from Ceylon that Hon. Mr. Stanley, a son of Lord Stanley, of Alderly,7ias become a Musselman. The matter is mentioned in three local journals, so that we suppose there can be no doubt as to the truth of the honorable gentleman’s conversion. QTA true bill was found at the late session of the Federal Court, at Oxford, Mississippi, against M. Brodnox, a slave dealer of Memphis, for offering four or five Congo ! Africans for sale in the Columbus market, . last March. The negroes were not sold, nor 'has Brodr.ox been arrested. He will probably be taken into custody and tried at the next session of the court. is much excitement in Davies county, Ky., relative to a plot among the slaves, the object of which was robbery, poison, arson and burglary. A few nights ag >, a house was burned near Masonville, and seven negroes were implicated in the ' crime. The oflend'ers would have been exI ecuted at once, but their owners promised :t remove them from the State,and immediately sold them for the Southern market. ffO”A negro who had been convicted of murdering a white man in Saline county, Missouri, was taken from the custody of the sherifF of that county, on the 19th ul’., while being conveyed to the jail, and burned to death at a stake. Two others—one for attempting the life of a white man and the other for committing an outrage upon a young white girl—were taken from the jail and hung. More than 1,006 persons were present. OtTA movement is on foot against Mexi--1 co, iff which the precaution is taken to enlist citizens of this country on Mexican.soil. About ten thousand men are already enr lied under the title of “Knight Crusaders of the Order of the Montezumas,” and the funds and munitions of war will be fully provided.it is said. Loans, based on the generosity of an adequate American firm, are to be taken by British bondholders. Journal of Naples tells us that Vesuvius is getting more and more out of sorts, and is fretting and fuming at a very violent rate. The river of lava running out of the lower openings of the crater is already more than three miles long, and is widening and deepening every day. It is destroying orchards and vineyards, and it will be ( a piece of good fortune if the damage is not much greater as the stream continues to roll toward the sea. A Tennessee City.— An incidental meeting of t ie Board of Mayor and Aidermen of Altamont, the seat of justice of Grudy county, was held in the counting-room of a drygoods store in that town, one day last week. A good deal of important business was transacted. When our special reporter left, the Board was gravely, and we need notsay eloquently, discussing a bill imposing a fine of $5 upon one of the citizens, for fencing in one of the streets and cultivating it.—Nashville Patriot. (>, The Lafayette (Ind.) Journal states that John C. Smith of that city, son of the late Hon. Perry C. Smith, U. S. Senator for Co inecticut, and himself formerly a member of th.' Legislature of this State, eloped on Thirsday night last, with a woman about forty years of age, and has been heard of at Micliigan City, whence he addressed a letter to his wife, stating that he had been called off on business, and should return in a few days. The Journal says Smith is a middleaged man, and, unlike his inamorata, good I looking.