Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1859 — Ominously Significant [ARTICLE]

Ominously Significant

The papers are noting the interesting fact, that the propeller Michigan, Captain Ho.pkins, owned by Chamberlain, Crawford &. Co., of Cleveland, recently displayed at her mast head a banner with the inscription, “Stephen A. Douglas for President in I 860.” It is a striking coincidence, that on the same day her owners made an assignment of steamer and 11 tg, for the benefit of creditors. Cin. Daily Gazette. (£*7”The Rev. J. C. Gangooly, the somewhat fatuous Brahmin preacher, who was recently quite a“liou” among the visitors at Saratoga, was refused a place at the table of the Glen House, on account of his color, while on a visit to the White Mountains the other day. The Boston 'Transcript, which publishes a communication from the insulted and incensed Brahmin, says “he is about the color of Tom Corwin, of Ohio, and Senator Hamlin, ot Maine, and does not look so much like one ot the African race as Senator Pierce, of Maryland,” or, it mav bo added, t'hicf .Tiisfico Tnncv.