Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1859 — Page 2

THE RENSSELAER GAZETTE. \ IND. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1859

REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET.

CLERK, D. i. Jackson. RECORDER, C. W. HENKLE. AUDITOR, D. T. HALSTEAD. COMMISSIONERS, ist District—s. McCullough! 24 District—R BENJAMIN W(f publish the* Premium List of the Fhir this week by request. <|r The McClure Library Association meets'this evening, at early candlelight, jat the Library Room. Mr. William Timmons left at this office last week the largest beet and head of cabbage we have seen this season. Mr. Jehu Burt sells all hia personal property at public auction on the 3d of next month. See his advertisement. <(> The hack now leaves Rensselaer for Bradford at nine o’clock, instead of seven aa The cars pass Bradford, going south, about four o’clock in the afternoon; going north, about three o’clock. | m The South Bend “Register” learns by a private letter from Mr. Colfax, whose appointments in Minnesota have thus far very largely attended,that the zeal and enthusiasm of the Republicans there is unbounded, betokening a glorious triumph for therti in October. Frierjd “Jeems” Spencer, of the “Spectator,” gave us a friendly call last week. He looks as though editing agrees with him, although we should judge, bv the way he “jsitjched into” ;a wedding cake handed in as he came along, that, he had not seen anything very good in the eati rig line for a long time. In fact, he said that, in his neighborhood, young married people, in their excess of happiness, invariably forgot the printer. Wbat a deplorable state of pffairs }

SCHOOL LAWS ALTERED.

The o ]am's of Indiana, amended by the last Legislature, make it the duty of the} voters of each school district in ejvery town-hip to meet early in October, at their school houses, and elect a Director an-d transact other bui'incss preparatory'for win ter schools. It is the Director’*? duty to hire teachers, <feo. Will those j interested in schools) in this vicinity ■ .attend to this in season? Five citizens may [call the voters together for this purpose. * # *

D. I. JACKSON.

Th« Delphi “Journal” has the following in| regard to our candidate for iCilerk: j “We notice that our former fel-low-towHstnan, D. 1. Jackson, has been nominated for Clerk of Jasper county by the Republicans. They never did a better aet. The Doe. is well qualified for the office, and we sincerely hope his majority may be overwhelming. He merits success.” It is peculiarly gratifying to us to copy such a paragraah us the above,’from a paper published at the old home pf Dr. Jackson.

A WOLF HUNT.

We requested to state that Ikere will be a wolf hunt next Satvgday forenoon, just below the junction of the Iroquois and Pinkamink rivers, on the south tide of the Iroquois. Atl who desire to participate in the frojie are requested to meet (It Rensselaer on Saturday morning at seven o’clock, with their horses, dogs, guns and bludgeons. Friend Frank. MI Grant says that he will he on hand with hie dogs. Several wolves have been recently seem on the ground selected for the hunt. 1 I »

AN EXPLANATION.

[The following communication from Mr. Brown, of Barkley township, explains itself:] Mr. Editor: I observed iti the last “Gazette” a communication from Mr. Thos. Thornburg, in regard to the Republican primary election, in which the following language occurs, in speaking of the vote reported to have been given for Mr. Moore in Barkley township: “From the web of circumstances, I am inclined to think it of fraudulent intent.” As it has been verbally reported that 1 cast the vote for Mr. Moore, I ask leave to state the circumstances in full. I picked up a ticket on which was Mr. Jackson’s name for Clerk, drew a mark over Mr. Jackson’s name, wrote "Wm.” on the margin opposite the line, and “Moore” over the word Jackson. As the votes were being read off by Mr. Parkison, when he came to this ticket he remarked that some one had written the name of Moore and then scratched it out. Not then thinking it to be my ballot, I said nothing about it; but when the whole vote was counted, I became satisfied that it was my ballot that Mr. Parkison referred to. As it was of small moment, I concluded to say nothing about it, and let it go so; but after ward I named it to a certain individual, through whom Mr. Moore heard of it. Mr. Moore then came to me, about two weeks ago, to inquire about the matter. I told him all of the circumstances, and that I was satisfied that Mr. Parkison had acted in good faith in the matter, he believing that the vote was intended for a blank. 1 believed this, and distinctly told Mr. Moore so. I have made no statement to any person intimating that it was a fraud. I believe was through my own carelessness, in writing the name in an illegible manner, that Mr. Parkison made the mistake. f Geo. H. Brown. September* 19, 1859.

THE SAN JEAN TROUBLE.

The present state of affairs at San Juan, growing out of General Harney’s movements, is causing our government great anxiety. General Scott was sent for to confer with the Cabinet. The President suggested the propriety of sending some one there who was less impetuous and more prudent than Harney. General Scott at once informed the President that he would go, and as soon as his instructions were prepared he would be ready to sail. The New York “Herald’s” Washington correspondent says that a messenger dispatched last JNJonday night with instructions to General Scott. The Government has left a wide margin for his future action, relying upon his good judgment and Wise counsel in adjusting and settling the the existing differences between the two governments. Gen. Scott’s willingness to accept the difficult and arduous task has greatly relieved the administration, and it looks now upon a favorable and happy termination of this embarrassing and troublesome question. The General was to have set sail for the Pacific coast on yesterday morning.

OUR COUNTY FAIR.

Workmen are now busily engaged in fencing and fitting up the Fair grounds, and the managers inform us that everything will be completed and in order before next Tuesday, the first day of the Fair. There will be an agricultural address delivered by Geo. W. Spitler, Esq., on Wednesday afternoon, (the second day,) at two o’clock. This will be an interesting feature. It is expected that the first annual Fair of the Jasper Coun»y Joint Stock Company will be a complete success, and that the exhibition will be largely attended. The managers are working with a will to make evrything pass off pleasantly to all. was lately on exhibition in Sidney, Australia, a 6etof horse-shoes made of native gold, weighing twenty-four ounces and worth SSOO. They were made for a favorite pony in New South Wales.

LINES, ON THE DEATH OF MARTHA J. MOCK. Matty, thou art gone; Thy friends cannot recall thee; But Jeasus’ breast thou lean’st upon, No evil can befall thee. God, in his wisdom, thought This earth unfit to rear, A flower without a spot, So innocent and fair. To thy guardian-angel, then, The command was quickly given To pluck thee from earth’s glen, And transplant thee up in Heaven. Swift, on obedience’s wings, His mission to fulfill, Down to this world he brings Our Saviour’s holy will. And while fond jJarents weep, He upward takes his flight, And passes Jordon’s stormy deep, To lands of pure delight; But leaves that hope unpric’d, Which God to man hath given, That those who live in Christ, When dead, ascend to Heaven. Nor do, alone, kind parents Thy sunny ringlets miss— Thy little whimsey errands— Thy early morning kiss, For others doted on thee With almost fraternal love, And ever looked upon thee As a spotless “little dove.” No more on earth we’ll meet thee, Or see thy face again; But yet we hope to greet thee On Heaven’s immortal plain. Thy parents shall there reclaim thee, And those who loved you dear, Forever shall retain the Love they felt while here.

Great Conflict in Mississippi.

A friend who has just arrived from Lafayette Parish, informs us that, on Saturday morning last, the Vigilance Committee of that Parish were summoned to assemble and proceed to a place called Bayou Tortue, about fifteen miles west of Vermillionville, where an encampment of outlaws had been formed, the ringleaders of which had challenged them to battle. Accoidingly, the law and order men of the Parish, who had long suffered from these depredators, who had robbed, plundered, passed counterfeit money and murdered with impunity, quic <ly gathered, and, taking a piece of artillery with them lrom the village of Verinillionville, started for the rendezvous of the out}laws. * At 9 o’clock A. M., on Saturday, about five hundred well equipped mounted men suddenly appeared before the entrenched camp of the boastful defiers of the laws, where they found them in full force, with the bayou well guarded, and a house in the center of their position loop holed and otherwise thoroughly prepared for enduring a siege, or resisting a storming party. The flag of their fraternity also floated defiantly in the breeze, and until the “Vigilants” had formed their order of battle, and unm sked their cannon, all looked as though the defense would be obstinate and sanguinary. The sight of the big gun, however, struck terror into the hardened hearts of these out laws—and sauve qui peut suddenly appeared to animate the warriors. Their number was about one hundred and fifty—many of whom, having horses,managed to make their escape; but seventy of their force fell into the hands of the Vigilants. Immediately a court martial was formed, consisting of two Vigilants from each company, to whom the question was submitted whether the prisoners, notorious evil doers, should suffer death or be paddled. By a majority of two it was decided to inflict the paddle punishment, and 3,600 blows were equally administered. One fellow committed suicide by shooting himself, to avoid the paddle. Subsequently five others of the gang were found dead from gunshot wounds. Our informant says that the news of this affair caused the greatest pleasure among all the honest and decent inhabitants of the parish where it occurred, and the adjacent Attakapas parishes, which have long suffered from the depredations of this powerful and dangerous gang.— New Orleans True Delta, 10 th.

Another Railroad Strike.

New York, September 17. A strike of the men working ori the New York and East Genesee Railroad, at Bergen, took place yesterday, in consequence of the non-payment of wages. The laborers obstructed the track and stopped all trains. The military were held in readiness for orders, but it being impossible to And the Sheriff, they were dismissed. The riot at the tunnel on the Erie Road was in full force this afternoon. No cars had been permitted to pass, and at last accounts the rioters were hard at work blockading the road more effectually. The through mails have been sent back to this city, to be dispatched over the Hudson River and Central Railroads. At noon to-day two regiments of the New Jersey militia were ordered to the scene of the riot. Postmaster Fowler, of New York, has obtained a requisition from the Government for the dispatching of troops from this city. The rioters, it is said, have procured a cannon, which they have loaded with spikes for use in case they are attacked. One of the ringleaders was arrested this morning. New York, September 19. The troubles on the Erie Railroad have been settled, and the obstructions on the road have been removed, and fortv of the rioters arrested. The trains are now running regularly. A strong force of police and military remain on the ground to prevent any renewal of disturbances.

From Pike’s Peak.

St. Louis, September 17. Denver City advices to the Bth reached here yesterday. Returns from Denver City and Auroria of the election of the sth inst., give u majori y of 933 against the State Constitution, and in favor of a Territorial organization. The returns from the mountain districts are not yet received. Large numbers of miners are leaving for the valleys in consequence of the prevalence of rain and snow storms.

[From the Kansas City Journal, Sep. g ,

From the Kansas Gold Mines.

New and Rich Discoveries—Gold on the Arkansas. We had the satisfaction of meeting, on Saturday night, Captain A. F. Garrison, one oi the most substantial and intelligent citizens of this county, who has just returned from th • Gold Country, which he left only nine days before. Our inquiries were particularly in regard to the new South Park mines on the head waters of the Arkansas and Rio Grande, and we give the exact account of Captain Garrison, as we took it down at the time. In the South Park, where the South Platte rises, the prospecting that had been done for the few days before Captain Garrison left, the yield was from five to seventyfive cents to the pan, to the hand, where sluices were used. The diggings, so far as discovered, extend some ten miles along the streams, and are what is known as “gulch diggings,” or washings from the mountain streams. THE ARKANSAS AND RIO GRANDE MINES. Over the rim of the basin, or park, from the above diggings, some twenty-five miles on the western slope, on the head waters of the Arkansas and Rio Grande rivers, are situated the richest discoveries yet made, the miners panning out as much as $1,25 to the pan of dirt. There are now about one thousand men employed in these diggings, and in all localities on the head waters of these rivers, the same rich deposits seem to exist, all tending in a still further direction south-west, toward the Colorado. Upon the surface, in all this extended region, the “color” is found, indicating beyond question the great riches of the mines now beginning to be developed. It is the opinion of the most experienced miners, that the western slope is the true golden locality of the Rocky Mountains. Coal beds have also been found throughout this region, in all parts that have been prospected. The South Park is on the summit of the Rocky Mountains, and like all others in that great range, is perfectly level country, covered with blue grass, clover, and other mountain grasses, snread out for an immense area of country, like a meadow, intersected with streams of pure, limpid water, distilled and filtered from the eternal snows of the ranges surrounding The sides of the mountain are well wooded, and covered with the “safvis” or “June berry,”'and wild raspberries, where, Mr. Garrison says, a bucket lull can be picked in an hour.

NEW QUARTZ VEINS AT GREGORY’S. Within a few days previous to Captain Garrison's departure, new discoveries of quartz veins had been made in Gregory’s diggings. This is the hard flint quaitz; the former workings have been in what is called ‘ rotten quartz.” The flint quartz are much the richest of the two. A specimen which Capt. Garrison had with him, intended for a breastpin, was the finest specimen we ever saw. In those diggings heretofore, on coming to hard quartz and parites, the miners have desisted, but on penetrating this formation three or lour feet, small “pockets,” like those of the California mines, have been discovered, which are some of them very rich, as high as SSO to $75 being taken out of a pocket to the pan. These pockets, however, are not found every where, but experienced miners will understand the character of such diggings. As an aggregate, the Gregory mines are not yielding as much as formerly, owing to the fact that all except the hard quartz seem to be worked out, and having no means of crushing, the yield has fallen off. One crusher, the first yet taken out, was met a few miles this side of Denver City. YIELD OF RUSSELL’S MINES. In Green Russell’s gulch diggings, increased quantities of gold had been raised within the last thirty days—the aggregate yield of the diggings being about SIO,OOO per day. CLIMATE OF THE SOUTH PARK. The seasons in this elevated region are very short—three months being about as long as can be made available with present modes of mining. Ice was formed one night in August, one-fourth of an inch thice. One thousand' people will probably winter in the South Park on the heads of the Arkansas this winter. LOCALITY OF THE NEW MINES, FhC mines of the South Park and of the Arkansas and Rio Grande are from 100 to 150 miles south-west from Denver City, and all of them lie south ot parallel 39 degrees latitude, being south of Pike’s Peak, and in the vicinity of the celebrated Coochetopa ! Pass, of Col. Fremont. They lie on a line about due west front the city of St. Louis, and about 25 miles soutli of a due west line from Kansas City. They are preci-ely upon the great route of Fremont, Beale and Gunnison, explored for the Pacific Railroad from the mouth ofj the Kansas river through the Coochetopa Pass, and which can be lound on any map of the country published since 1850. AGRICULTURAL CAPACITY OF THE COUNTRY. In regard to the agricultural capacity o. the country in the vicinity of Denver City, Capt. Garrison says that the bottom of the Platte and other streams, will produce vegetable and small grains, wheat, (spring,) oats, barley, etc., abundantly, when irrigated, but the rains will not of themselves afford a certainty of moisture to insure ciops. He never saw finer vegetables than those now growing in the country. For an industrious man it will be the most profitable business that he can engage in, at least for a few seasons. TERRITORY OR STATE. The convention for the purpose of taking steps for the organization of a government for that country, and of which Capt. Garrison was the President, was divided between a State and Territorial organization. In order to meet the difficulty thus presented, a constitution fora new State was framed, as vjvell as a plan for a territorial government, which were to be submitted to the people, the first Monday of September (yesterday) for their decision, and upon the vote cast will depend the form in which their application will be made to Congress. Douglas makes a good speech,” said a gentleman, on reuding his Cincinnati effort. “He ought to,” was the response,“for he has made it often enough.”

List of Premiums

TO BE AWARDED AT THE FIRST ANNtAL FAIR OF THE JASPER CO. AGRICULTURAL SOOIETY, To be held near Rensselaer on the Tlth, 28 th and 29 th days of September. FIRST DAY. CLASS A FARMS AND FARM PRODUCTS. Best cultivated and improved Farm in Jasper county, Cup $6 00 Best five acres fall or spring Wheat 3 00 Best five acres Oats 2 00 Best five acres Corn 5 00 Best one acre Barley 1 00 Bast quarter acre Potatoes 1 00 Best sample of half bushel Potatoes 1 00 Best hall bushel Sweet Potatoes 1 00 Best and greatest display Garden Vegetables, 2 00 Awarding Committee—C. M. Watson, L. W. Thompson, W. W. Goldsberry. CLASS B FRUITS. Best variety of Apples... L 1 00 Best display of Fruits of all kinds 2 00 Committee—Ezra Wright, John Coen, Dr. W. H. Martin. v CLASS C DAIRY PRODUCTS. Best five pounds Butter I 00 Best Cheese, ten pounds or over I 00 Best box Honey 1 1 00 Best Preserves, Jellies and Pickles 1 00 Best loaf Corn and Wheat Bread 1 00 Best ten pounds Sugar lrom Chinese cane. .3 00 Best gallon of Molasses from same 3 00 Best display and variety of Dory products.. 2 00 Committee—H. M. Babb, Win. Overton, Geo. P. McCullouch. CLASS D N. 1, NEEDLE WORK. Best display fancy Needlework 2 00 Committee—Mrs. A. Thompson, Mrs. Wm. H. Martin, Dr. W. J. Laßue. CLASS D NO. 2, FLOWERS. Best and greatest display of flowers 1 00 Committee—Miss Nancy Parker, Miss Miriam Wright, I. M. Stackhouse. CLASS E NO. 1, DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES. Best Patchwork Quilt 2 00 Best Comfort j 00 Best ten yards Rag Carpet ] 00 Best pair each Socks and Stockings 1 00 Best ten yards Jeans.. .... 1 I 00 Committee—Mrs. E. Cissel, Mrs. R. H. Milroy, Alfred Thompson. CLA'-S E NO. 2, FARMING IMPLEMENTS. Best display Farming Implements 5 00 Committee—lsaac Parker, John A. Kenton, Geo. W. Spitler. CLASS F SADELERY AND BOOTS AND SHOES. Best display of Saddlery. ... 5 00 Best display of Boots and Shoes 2 00 The übove to be made in Jasper county. Committee—W. W. Wishard. J. M. Gwinn, John Ade. CLASS G FOWI.S. Best display and variety Domestic Fowls.. .2 00 Committee—Rev. Messrs. Mock, VVballonand James. CLASS H HOGS. Best aged Boar, one year old and over 3 00 Best Sow, one year old and over 3 ( |0 Best pair Pigs, under eight months old 3 00 Committee—C. M. Hopkins, Wm. Pearce, David Knowls. CLASS I SHEEP. Best long wool Buck .2 00 Best fine wool Buck 2 00 Best three'ong wool Ewjs 2 00 Best three fine wool Ewes. 2 00 Best lot fat Sheep, five and over 2 00 Committee—Geo. McCoy, Ephraim Bridgman, John McCurtain.

SECOND DAY. CLASS l CATTLE. Best Bull, three years old and over 5 00 Best Cow, three years old and over 5 00 Best Bull, two years old and under three. . .3 00 Best Bull one year old and under two 3 00 Best Bull Calf under one year old 2 00 Best Heifer two years old and under three. .3 00 Best Heifer one year old and under two. .. .2 00 Best Heifer under one year old 2 00 Best lot fat Steers, five or more 5 00 Best yoke of Oxen 3 00 Committee—Wm. K. Parkison; John Smart, Jared Benjamin. CLASS K ASSES AND MULES. Best aged Jack 5 00 Best mule, two years old and over 3 00 Best pair mules in Harness 3 00 Best Mule Colt, one year and under two. . . 2 00 Best Mule Colt under one year old 2 00 Committee—John Phillips, Sr-, Thos. Clark, Thos. Robinson. CLASS L DRAUGHT HORSES. Best Stallion, four years old and over, for heavy draught 5 00 Best Brood Mare, foal by her side .5 00 Best Gelding, three years old and over... .3 00 Best Gelding, two years old and under three 3 00 Committee—W . J. Wright, John McCurtain, A. Hoover. THIRD DAY. CLASS M HORSES FOR ALL PURPOSES. Best Stallion, four years old and over 5 00 Best Stallion, three years old and und(*rfours 00 Best Stallion, two years old and under three, 4 00 Best Stallion, one year old and under two. . .3 00 Best Stallion, under one year old 3 00 Best Mare, four years old and over .5 00 Best Mare, three years old and under four. .4 00 Best Mare, two years old and under three. .3 00 Best Mare, one year old and under two 3 00 Best Mare, under one year old 3 00 Committee—A. Parkison, E. Ball, Marshall Grant. CLASS N MATCH HORSES AND BUGGY HORSES. Best pair matched Horses or Mares 5 00 Best Buggy Horse or Mare. 3 00 Best trotting Gelding or Mare, (time four minutes,) 5 00 Best pacing Horse or Mure 5 00 Committee—James T. Morris, Dr. Wm. V. Snyder, David Creek. CLASS O SWEEPSTAKES ON HORSES. Best Stallion of any age or blood 5 00 Best Mare of any age or blood 5 00 Committee—S. S. Stockton, George Mason, Thos Peck. The Board of this Society would say that we are compelled to make our list of rewards comparatively small this year, on account of the Society having to expend considerable money in the purchase of grounds and erecting a permanent inclosure, &c. We promise more liberality in the future. ROBT. PARKER, Pros’* S. Donaldson, Sec’y. o^7"T , he St. Louis Republican states that on Saturday Mr. Robert Thomas, of Covington, Ky., lost his pocket-book, containing SI,OOO, in the streets of the former city. It was picked up by a little newsboy and returned to the owner, to whom Mr. Thomas gave a silver watch and SIOO in gold, as a reward for his honesty. the famous English engineer, got $225,000 for his plan of the Victoria Bridge at Montreal. Milton sold his of Varaditc Lost for $25.

Why Salt Lake to so Sal.

M. Greeley writes from the center of Mormondom, as to the cause of the aaltneas of Salt Lake, thus: “That this lake should be salt is no sno-* maly. All large bodies of water into whitfr streams discharge themselves, while they have severally no outlet, are or should be salt. If one such is fresh, that ia an anomaly indeed. Lake Utah probably recerves as' much saline matter as Salt Lake, brrf gfte discharges it through the Jordan and re” mains herself fresh; while Salt Lake, having no issue, save by evaporation, ia probably the saltest body of water on earth. The ocean is comparatively fresh; even the Mediterranean at Leghorn is not half ao salt. I am told that three barrels ot thia water yield a barrel of salt; that seems rather strong, yet its intense saltness, no one who has not had it in his eyes, his mouth, hia nostrils, can realize. You can no more sink in it than in a clay bank; but a very little of it in your lungs would suffice to strangle you. You make your way in lrom a hot, rocky beech over a chaos of volcanic basalt that is trying to the feet, but at a depth of a yard or more you have a fine sand bottom, and here the bathing is delightful. “The water is of a light green color for ten or twenty rods, then ‘deeply, darklybeautifully blue.” No fish can live in it, no frog abides in it; few birds are erer seen dipping into it.”

The Democracy and the Negroes.

The Republican Convention for the county ot Muskingum, a few days ago, passed the following resolution: “Resolved , That the very large and increasing ingress of free negroes into Ohio since the repeal in 1858-59 by the Democratic members of the Ohio Legislature of the legal disabilities then existing, render# it a serious question whether some efficient legislation should not be adopted to protect our State from becoming the Lazar-house of the worn oat and worthless population of the Slave States.’’ This is “cutting under” the Democracy, who claim to have a prescriptive right to monopolize ail the demagoguery about the “gentlemen from Africa.’’ The adoption of the above resolution sets the Ohio Statesman crazy, and it severely denounces the Muskingum Republicans for stealing the Democratic plunder. The nigirer organ »• inconsolable.—Dayton Gasette.

The Ailanthas.

The Philadelphia Bulletin e.vs of themuch- bused Ailantbus: “The Ailantbus grows with such c-trs-ordinarv rapidity that it is safe to say th :t it gives more wood in ope ‘ourth o; the time than any tre*- gene aity n.-ed tor > U e|. And though it grows soquiekly. it s firm, b .»d. strong and durable wood.'nearly as valuable as locust, and m king excellent fuel. As lor soil and culture, it grows in the most desolate sands to N'-w Jersey like a voutig bay tree—a single wheeJbarrow-;oad o< lonii to each tree being all the capital which it requires to resist the most untoward influences. It endures heat and cold, it will grow where a blackberry vine would think twice before it would sprout once, and is never touched by insects. How many of our readers own thousands of acres, now worthless! Let them plant ailantbus, which grows from the seed, and wait only ten years ” "

A Good Hit.

The Hon. John Bell, of Tennessee, in a recent speech at Memphis, said he was now held up as an ally of the Black Republicans of the North, williqg to coalesce and co-ope-rate with them for the sake of promotion. He was willing to co-operate with the Black Republicans of the North, for the sake of preserving this Government, and perpetuating the American Union! Nay, t-e wna willing to go farther than this— he was willing to co-operate with the corrupt and profligate leaders of the Democracy, to accomplish the same desirable object. Alter this, no man can doubt Mr. Bell’* devotion to the Union. We love the Union ourselves, but the idea of co-operating with Democratic sharpers and spoilsmen for the sake of preserving it, produces nausea and pain in the stomach.— Richmond Whig.

It is all Right.

Those of our Daughface friends who, their wish being father to the thought, hnve been predicting the rapid decline, decay and dissolution of the Republican party, because of its defeat in the Presidential contest of 1856, have thus far received no evidence of the probable fulfilment of their prophesy. The Republican party “still lives,” and gives the most encouraging signs of surviving its enemies. Look at Vermont, where last week the most popular Democrat in the State—the poet Saxe—was deleated for Governor by the largest majority the Republican party has polled in the S»l!ate. And look at Maine, where only the other day the Democracy, after one ol the most vigorous and determined fights they have ever made, weredelea’ed by a greater Republican majority than ever belore

Fifty-two Miles a Day to Attend Callege.

One of the most striking proofs of the regularity and dispatch of the facilities for business afforded by steam transportation, is found in the case of the son of a distinguished mechanical engineer, of Trenton, N. J., who attends daily the scientific courses of the Polytechnic College, Philadelphia, and returns home in the afternoon. The distance between the two cities is twentysix miles. The interruptions during the last year were (ewer than those which ordinarily cause detention when the distance is few squares. What a contrast is this, to Shukspeare’s time, when the school-boy went “like a snail ” The student referred to has made his two trips daily for nearly a year . —Philadelphin Enquirer.

A Checkmate for Douglas.

The Louisville Journal says: “It is said that a repoit is riie in Washington 'hat a letter on behalf ol the President and his Cabinet was some weeks ago dispatched to Mr. Breckinridge, expressing a disposition to cast the influence ol the Administration for linn in the Charleston Convention with the view of assuring Douglas’defeat. This report wears the air of extreme probability. We are strongly inclined to believe that it is true, and, furthermore, that Mr. Breckinridge has swallowed the bait thrown out to him.”