Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1859 — Various Items. [ARTICLE]

Various Items.

John R Spencer, a Methodist, clergy-rutin at Morehouse, La., died in the pulpit while preaching, Sunday before last. OO 'The Kans as'lndians have appealed to the- Untied States Government to protect them agiinst the intrusion of squatters on their lairds. (ps=lliorace Greeley has arrived in California and was everywhere lionized. He estimates the emigration across the plains the present season at 30.000. o^7”At the celebration of the Fourth of July in Placerville, California, over two thousand Chinamen were in procession,"accompanied bv a band of musicians of their own country. .. (gs“ The fast reports from Oregon to July. 22d. elected Stout (Democrat) by nine. It is charged that the Douglas county returns were altered in his favor after being officially returned Logan contests. Houston’s majority for Governor of Texas is expected to reach 10 to 12,000. Etheridge’s official majority r or Congress in Tennessee, in a poll ol nearly 20.000, is .exact ly sto\ ex. His great personal popularity run him ahead o! the Opposition State ticket and elected him. {g3="Ah Independence,- Mo., correspondent of the St. L mis Republican says that the miners d-Jto had gone away disappointed Irom Pike’s Peak, were assembling in considerable numbers in Santa Fe, aud it was surmised tlijat an expedition by them into Mexico might nut be far distant. Bonham Fra stiys that Biil White, •i novorijm- desperado of Northern Texas, was nvi'lt iksn die other d iy, after he and a Clierokeb Indian had been stealing horses, and while endeavoring to shoot one of his pursuers], a IVIr. Wilkinson, be was shot himself and killed. Ogy=Tho Cass county, Mich.. Republican says that since the Indiana Regulators have cease their administration of justice against the horse thieves, burglars and makers ol bogus coin, the piratical scoundrels have ■eame-out .of theirxlens and swamps, and the frontier counties are suffering • from their do predict. ohS. ijgjr-Jes.se Williams, an old and wealthy citizen of Caldwell bounty, Kentucky, under guard at Princeton charged with murder, stealing J and cruelty to his slaves, was taken Irom jail, carried about seven miles, ami hung, oil the 23d. His two sons. John and J unes, who are guilty, of numerous crimes, escaped death by absconding. vention and adopted a constitution, which is to b 3 su im'tted to p ipul ir vote. If sttstlined, tli * vote-is to b> cmsid-re las favorable to a State G lYßrmu'.-nt, and if not, to a Territori 1 1 one, Tne .convention adopted a in -iMori i to Congress asking to ue organized ~s a Teri-itory to be called Jefferson. A Z E-b i'-Vi'-'Sr hro S' 85aot i Rtiilioin, Tiie sjierifF of Wood ord county, 111 , and -a Mr. Miller,"ol Decatur, yvet-e pursuing two borse-tlii;'vl's ! whom they overtook a few miles noil'll of I> 1 mmington, McLean county. last w eek. They rode toward tin- men until qui t* near them, when suddenly tire fellows d-ew ea.cli a revolver, and covering bis man, separated' to strike out across the prairie. The'Sheriff followed one, Miller took after the other; and the .former.pressed his fugitive so closely that he turned and mode some movement us ii to fire, when the Sher ff suddenly tired his own pistol, and shot the iian through the breast. He fell instantly dead from the saddle without a word, the ball having passed through his heart. 'I he ether man, seeing the fate of his cuinra le, gave himself up qui *tly Both the living! and the dead horse-thieves were taken to Bloomington.