Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1859 — Page 1

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BUSINESS CARDS. PUKDVE, BSUHFJi & CO., WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Dry Goods, Fancy Goods. ■NOTIONS, HATS, BONNETS, &C. No. IQ Purdue’s Block, Lafayette, Indiana. Invite attention to their New Stock. J. V. PARKISON, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, Barkley Township, Jasper Co-, Ind. Will act as agent in collecting debts in Berkley aud adjoining townships. 5-ts DAVID SNYDEB, Attorney at Ij aw , 52 RENSSELAER, IND. W.TI. S. HOPKINS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Rensselaer, Ind. Will promptly attend to collections, payment of taxes, sale of real estate, and other business entrusted to his care, with promptness and dispatch. 52 JOSEPH <i. CRANE, Attorney at Law, RENSSELAER, 48-1 y Jasper County, Ind. W. V. SNYDER, M. D., Having resumed the practice of Medicine and Surgery in Rensselaer, offers his professional services to the citizens thereof and vicinity. 29 W. D. LEE. G. W. SPITLER. EEE A SPITLER, Attorneys at Law. OFFICE, NEXT DOOR TO LA RUE’S STONE BUILDING, RENSSELAER, IND. Will practice in the Circuit and inferior Courts of the Twelfth Judicial District. Also, in the Supreme and District Courts of Indiana. ap29 R. 11. MILROY. , L. A. COLE. MILBOY A (OIL, Attorneys at Law, NOTARIES PUBLIC, And Agents for the Sale of Real Estate, Payment of Taxes, &c., ap29 RENSSELAER, IND. EDWIN P. HAMMOND, Attorney at Law AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Will practice in the Courts of Jasper and adoining counties. Particular attention given to the securing and collecting of debts, to the sale of real estate, and to all other business intrusted to his case. Office in the room in the north-west corner of the Court House, Rensselaer, Ind. N. B.—He will be assisted during the terms of the Courts bv A. A Hammond, of Indianapolis. 8-ly HOLM’COT. ALFRED M’COY. ALEBED THOMPSON. THOS. McCOl A CO., Bankers and Exchange Brokers, BUY AND SELL COIN AND EXCHANGE. Collections Made on all Available Points. WILL FAY INTEREST ON SPECIFIED TIME DEPOSITS. Negotiate Loans, and do a General Banking Business. Office hours, from 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. ap29 PALMER HOUSE, Corner of Washington and Illinois Streets, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. J. D. CARMICHAEL, Proprietor. INDIANA HOUSE, J, W. & s. O. DUVALL, Proprietors, BRADFORD, IND. The table will be supplied with the best the tnarket affords. A good Stable and Wagon Yard attached to the Hotel. The Messrs. Duvalls are also proprietors of the .RENSSELAER AND BRADFORD DAILY HACK ; LINE. The hack leaves Rensselaer every morning, /Sundays excepted,) at 7 o’clock, connecting at Bradford with the trains north and south, and returns same day. KFExtras can also be procured at either end of the route, on reasonable terms. 7-ly McLEAN FEMALE SEMINARY, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. CG. McLEAN, D. D., Principal; C G- • TODD, A. M., Associate. This School for Young Ladit-s recommenced on Monday, September 6, with an able corps of teachers, and every facility for acquiring a thar-j ough and accomplished education. Circulars and any further information vyill be furnished on applying, cither pprsonajly or by letter, as above. j>3-ly

The Rensselaer Gazette.

fe. if. DAVIES, Editor & Proprietor.

Jfamilg journal, JJtiohb to foreign nab gomesfu flefos, politics anb

VOL. 3.

THE SEXTON’S DREAM. On a marble slab in the church-yard old Sitteth the Sexton gray, At mid of night, as the olden year Is sighing its life away. Pale and cold from the half-hid moon Falleth a gentle dream, Playing along his frosted locks With a glittering silver gleam. Little he reeks the clinging damp, As he bows in silent prayer; Nor the wind that springs with a lonely chill From the dead entombed there. He sleepeth now—on a sculptured urn He resteth his wear}’ head, While noiseless around him gather All of his angel dead. Little ones buried in olden time, Risen from Out the mold, Brushing across his silvered locks Ringkts of silken gold. One of a fair and angel form Bendeth over him low, He sinileth, for in his dreaming He claspeth her fondly now. Madge, with her tresses- of sunny tint, Brow of heavenly snow, Who died sin-brokeiyand scorned of all, Weary long years.ago. Madge, who had died on his heaving breast, Penitent, sobbed the while, Now, in God’s Heaven of holy love, Shriven of all her guile. Softly she pillows the old man’s head On her bosom of driven snow, Whispering tales of the olden time, Of the buried long ago. Faint from the tall cathedral Cometh a feeble shout; Heavily now are the brazen bells Ringing the old year out. Gently his dream is fading away, The little ones all have flown; Yet not for a wearily passing year Is he left upon earth alone. The bells that are ringing the old year out Toll for the Sexton dead, Lying upon the marble cold Where he pillowed his weary head.

IHisccllancous.

RVEES AND 11ECLLATIONS FOIL THE FAIR. ENTRIES. Ist. Articles or animals intended for exhibition must be entered on the books of the Secretary before taken within the inclosure, and no article or animal can be entered after ten o’clock A. Al. on the day of exhibi- i tion. 2d. The Fair shall be open to the State for competition to every grade of stock. Any animal that shall be entered for a premium in one class cannot be entered in any other class ; of animals, except for sweepstakes. | 3d. No premium shall be awarded ! on any article or animal in the ab- i sence cf competition, unless the ■ Judges deem it meritorious, nor shall j aged or barren animals compete for premiums against brood stock. 4th. All animals, except hog<, shall be exhibited in the ring. sth. No person shall compete for a premium, unless he be either a stockholder or annual member, and shall have paid his member.-hip fees. 6th. Every article or animal on the ground shall be under the control of the officers of the Society during the days of the Fair, nor shall any loose animal be allowed upon the grounds of the Society. 7th. The Society will carefully preserve all articles while on exhibition during the fair, but they will not be responsible for any losses or accidents that may occur. Bth. The articles or animals entered for exhibition will not be allowed to be removed from the Fair grounds until the close of *’ no p a j r except by permission of the Executive Committee. 9th. Pereppsi ppteijpg articles in Class Hipst furnish the Secretary with a written statement as’to the mode of culture, the kind of ground, the time of planting or sowing, the

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, IND., WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 28, 1859.

) kind of seed, cost of culture, profit i on same, tec. ! 10th. The articles in Class A must i positively be. entered on or before the first day of the Fair, by ten o’clock in the forenoon. 11th. The articles not contained in the Premium List, as published, will be classed in a Miscellaneous List, and such articles shall receive a Diploma as such award. I 12th. The premiums not called for by the (jy st meeting of the Board after January, 1860, will considered as forfeited to the Society. 13th. Cake, rnellon, confectionery, or other wagons, together with shows and exhibitions of every kind, will be admitted within the inclosure by application to the Marshal, and paying a reasonable compensation for the .-ame. None of the above will be allowed outside of the inclosure near t he gi ound. 14th. No spiritous or malt liquors shall be sold or drank on lhe ground or adjoining the same, nor shall gambling of any species be allowed on or near the ground during the days of the Fair. 15th. A sufficient number of good stalls have been erected for the accommodation of exhibitors of horses, cattle, &c. Strong and efficient police will be on the ground, day and night, during the Fair. The Secretary and Treasurer will be on the ground ea.v]ff on the morning of each day of the Fair. ADMISSION. Ist. Stockholders and their families, except males over twenty-one years, can enter the gates free of charge. 2d. Single tickets, good for one day only, twenty-five cents. 3d. Tickets for man and horse, 1 thirty-five cents per day. i 4th. Tickets for horse and carriage, forty cents per day. sth. Tickets for two horses and carriage, fifty cents per day. 6th. No pass tickets will be given, . and persons going out of the inclosure will not be permitted to return without an additional fee.

SECRETARY OF STATE.

The “State Journal” gives the fol- ■ lowing reasons for voting for Secretary of State: Ist. We shall not disturb the harmony of the party thereby, as the party have decided to leave the matter just where it was. 2d. Every Republican paper within our knowledge that has alluded to the matter at all, has expressed the opinion that a Secretary should be elected, and concurring entirely in that opinion, we feel disposed to act upon it. 3d. The question involved in Mr. Dunham’s title to the office is a very i important one. It is nothing less' than the right of the Governor to I take from the people the power to ■ fill the full term of an elective office. . We don't believe that the Governor , has any such right, or that the Constitution ever meant his appointing power to cover anythin" but a vacancy in a term; and we believe that it ought to be decided authoritatively whether he has that right. By voting for a Secretary this fall we get the means to present a case to j the Supreme '3aurt which will com- j pel such a decision. I* will cost no trouble but the insertion of one Ptt tb G epviqty tickets, and that is too trifling to he as as an objection. 4£h. If the Supreme Court decides that Mr.'Dunham cannot holdga full term without an election, the Republican candidate wijl be the Sec-

"FREEDOM NATIONAL—SLAVERY SECTIONAL.”

’ retary, and in that position he can Ido a little toward deranging the plans of the Governor and his friends to Lelo out the campaign with State funds. If, on the contraI ry, the Court decides that Mr. Dunham can hold a full term by Governor Willard’s appointment, in spite of the people, we shall understand at least that the Democracy of the ■ State believe that the people have no rights which his Excellency is i bound to respect. We have some reason to think that the Supreme Court would a good deal rather not have to make the choice between these evils. For these reasons we are most clearly of the opinion that the Republicans should vote for a Secretary of State this fall; and as Mr. Jas. M. Hill, of Jennings, county, was the first man named, and has been pre- : sented by several papers at both j ends of the State, we propose to vote for him. Therefore we put his name at the head of our paper Jo-day, and solicit the attention of our Republican brethren to the reasons for electing him.

COUNTY ELECTIONS.

If we are to gain Presidential elections, says the “State Journal,” we must gain county elections first. This is an axiom in political CRinpS'.gn’.Hg as self-evident as that, in military campaigning, an invading army should never leave a fortified post behind it in the hands of the enemy. If we cannot carry local elections, we cannot carry anything else. The whole history of the country certifies to this truth. The tide that runs high and irresietable in a national election, gets its direction in'county elections. Then is the time the water is seeking a course, and the current is soon “set.” If we are to profit by the strength that later in the campaign drives the current rapidly along, we must see that it fs started right; and now is the time it starts. Personal dissensions and local dissatisfaction can do more harm now than in the very heat of a Presidential campaign, for then the strong influences thrown around resist them, while now there is noth--1 ng. . .

The Ups and Downs of Fortune.

A San Francisco correspondent of the New Orleans Picayune writes as follows: “In this city there is a person who certainly took a very prominent part in effecting the liberation of Louis Napoleon from the prison at Ham. He is now poor and in difficulty. His friends recommend him to write to his imperial friend, and try to obtain some grateful recognition of his former services. “But another fact is really curious, and illustrates what strange mutations of fortune sometimes fall to the lot of mankind. A gentleman well known here as a reliable and reputable citizen, as he is a thorough and experienced business man’, states that when Louis Napoleon was in New York he was so poor that he was unable to obtain even enough to eat, except through the charity of some lew friends. Mr. was at th,at time a clerk in a large importing house in Pearl street, and was intimate with the then needy French adventurer. Napoleon was accustomed to come and sit about dinner time on a window-sill on the opposite side of the street, and tjiere waitforthe store to close, when he would accompany his friend, who usually paid.for his meals at a neighboring restaurant. Napoleon seldom ventured to enter the store, for fear of Compromising his friend, both knowing that he would not be tolerated there. Had the proprietors been able to see and brilliant change destined to occur to bis fortunes, perhaps they >yopld liaye beep Ipsq exclhsiye iq pphey tpwnr.c} the poor outcast.” things aje done, nuw-a-days,” said Mr. Timmins, "the doctor haq given Fick’s boy a new lip from his cheek.” ‘♦Ah!” said the old. lady, "many’s the time I liaye known a p.ah. taken from mine, and no very piqnfui operation either.”

TERMS; $1 50 jiCr Fear, in Advance.

[From the New York Tribune.

The Prospect Before Us.

The Congressional Elections preliminary to the great contest of 18G0, having taken place in nearly all the States in the Union, we have data sufficient for reasonable calculations about the result of that contest. If Kansas be admitted next winter, the number of votes to be cast in the Presidential election will be 30G. Of these, the Free States will give the following proportion:

Maine .. 8 New Hampshire... . 5 Vermont 5 Massachusetts 13 Rhode Island 4 Connecticut 6 New Y0rk........ .35 New Jersey •• 7 Pennsylvania 27 Ohio 23

Total 186 The Slave States as follows:

Virginia 15 Delaware .3 Maryland 8 North Carolina 10 South Carolina 8 Georgia.. ...... . .10 Alabama 9 Mississippi ~

Total <■ 129 The majority necessary to elect a President is 154. Can the Republicans obtain that number! No reasonable man doubts that the eleven States that supported Freemontin 1856 wijl vote for the Republican nominee in 1860. Here is the list:

Maine 8 New Hampshire. ... 5 Vermont 5 Massachusetts 13 Rhode Island 4 Connecticut 6

Total Republican vote 114; It woni'J u e ' uare |y posible by an unwise ‘ nomination, or by evincing an illiberal spirit toward those who really wish to co-operate : with us, to throw away a couple of these . States. But, believing that no such unto-| ward events will happen, we count 1141 votes as certain for the Republican candidate. To insure his election, he must obtain 40 more votes. Where can he look for: them! The remaining Free S ates, and their strength in the Electoral College, is as follows:

Pennsylvania 27 New Jersey 7 Indiana 13 Illinois 11

Total 72 With no aid from the South, were the Republican candidate to carry all the above named States except Pennsylvania and New Jersey, he would still fail of an election by two votes. He must, then, receive the support of either Pennsylvania or New Jersey. Now, all who are familiar with the peculiar posit'on of parties in those two States must feel morally certain that they will vote together in 18G0 as they did in 1856. Causes: that will control the result in the one, can hardly fail to operate with like effect in the other. We have little faith in the sagacity of the man who does not arrive at this conclusion after a careful survey of the condidition of parties in those States. A prudent calculator would set down Indiana, Illinois, California and Oregon among the doubtful States. We think the Republicans htve the b°st chance for them, and, with a judicious nomination, will carry them all. But, even if we lose them and can se-1 cure the 41 votes of Pennsylvania, New Jer-: sey, Minnesota and Kansas, these, with the 114 cast for F-eemont, will give our candidate 155, being one more than is necessary, to elect him. Republicans must, then, so arrange their programme, that they can beyond contingency carry Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Prudence will assign Indiana to the same position. Can we secure the electoral votes of these States! Unquestionably we can! The same elements that combined last autumn to return members to the House of Representatives, need but to unite in the Presidential election, and our success is sure. Is such a union desirable! think it is. Some of our Republican cotFrnpora- l vies talk as though they thought it was not. Do we understand them? In our judgment, the main body of those Republicans, Democrats and Americans, in the States of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Indiana, who, by acting in concert, achieved victories in October last that gladdened all our hearts, have need only to pursue the even tenor of their way, exercising toward one another a little liberality apd patience, apd treating in the good faith Qf there is no more cplty in their co-operating to win a common triumph in 1860, than there was in 1858. Will such Republican journals—there are very fpw—qsi criticise or anathematize the Tribune for advocating such a union, in such a crisis, op such terms, for such objects, be kind enough to take the above figures, work out the Presidential problem in their own

way, and give us the benefit of their calculations? Will they waive, for the moment, the reading of homilies, and go to the blackboard! When there will they demonstrate how we can get along without the electoral vote of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Indiana! Or, if they admit that we must have them, or faifiwill they for a brief period ignore generalities, objurgations, and all affectation of superior virtue and integrity, and take the election returns of 1856 and 1858, and tell us how we are to obtain theso 1 votes! Gentlemen! you don’t like our plan. Give us yours! Don’t turn us off with an eulogy on Republican principles and the Republican party. We understand all that now. Electing men to office is, to a certain extent, a matter of arithemetic. Go into the three States we have named, enumerate the Republicans, note them down, and add up the column. Of course, you will not count the Democrats or Americans! T Our faith in a glorious triumph next year is firm and unfaltering. It springs in part from the disorganized condition of the Democracy, torn by dissensions about principles, and rent by feuds among leaders. But it springs in larger measure from the confident belief that when the Republican party stands face to face with the crisis, on the threshold of the struggle, it will “pshaw!” out of countenance those who object to a union between men who agree in sentiment then, merely because they differed in opinion four years before.

NO. 23 k

Michigan 6 Indiana . 13 Illinois 11 lowa. . . 4 W isconsin 5 California 4 Minnesota 4 Oregon 3 Kansas 3

Louisiana 6 Arkansas 4 Tennessee.. . . 12 Kentucky 12 Missou-i 9 ' Floriday 3 Texas 4

Two ministers of the gospel were once conversing on extemporaneous preaching. “Well,” said the old divine, waxing warm, ‘•'you are ruining yourself by writing your sermons and reading them off. Your congregation cannot become interested in your preaching, and if you were called upon to preach unexpectedly, unless you could get hold of an old rermon, you would be completely confused..” The young divine used all his eloquence, but in vain, to convince the old gentleman that the written sermon expressed his own thoughts and feelings, and if called upon, he could preach extemporaneously. “As we are of the same faith,” said the young minister, “suppose you try next Sabbath morning. On ascending the pulpit yon can hand me a text from any part of the Bible, and I will convince you that .1 can preach without having looked at the text before I stood up. Likewise, I must be allowed the same privilege with you, and see who will make the best of it.” The idea seemed to delight the old gentleman, and iLwas immediately agreed upon. The following Sabbath, on mounting the pulpit, his senior brother handed him a slip of paper on which was written, “And the ass opened his mouth and spake,” from which he preached a glorious sermon,chaining the attention of his delighted hearers, and charming his old friend with his eloquence. In the afternoon the young brother, who was sitting below the pulpit, handed his slip. After rising and opening the Bible, the old man looked sadly around—"Am I not thine ass!” Pausing a few minutes, he ran his fingers through his hair, straightened his collar, blew his nose like the last trumpet, and read aloud, “Am I not thine ass!” Another pause, during which a deadly silence reigned. After reading a third time, “Am I not thine ass!” he looked over the pulpit at his friend, and, in a doleful voice, said: ‘‘Z think I am, brother.”

New York. 35' Ohio 23 Michigan 6 . lowa 4 Wisconsin 5 I I

California 4 I Minnesota?. 4. Oregon 3 Kansas 3 I

Anderson, the wizard, met with a Yankee, who stole a march on him one day, after the following pattern: Enter Yankee. “I say! are you Professor Anderson?” “Yes, sir, at your service.” “Wa’al, you’re a tarnation smart man, and I’m somethin’ at a trick, too, kinder cute, deu you know.” “Ah, indeed! what trick are you up to?” asked the professor, amused at the simple fellow. “Wa’al, I can take a red cent and change it into a ten dollar gold piece.” “Oh, that’s a mere slight-of-hand trick; I can do that, too.” “No you can’t. I’d like to see you try.” “Well, hold out your hand with a cent in it.” Yankee stretches out bis paw with a cent lying on it. “This is your cent, is it, sure?” “It’s nothing else.” “Hold on to it tight—Presto! change. Now open your hand.” Yaukee opened his list, and there was a gold eagle shining on his palm. “Wa’al , you did it. I declare; much obliged to you,” and Jonathan turned to go out. “Say,” said the professor, “you may leave my ten dollars.” “Yours! Wan’t it my cent; and didn’t you turn it into this ’ere yellow thing, eh? Good-by!” and as he left the room he was heard to say; “I guess there aint anything green about this child.” Qp^ , “7\re yoy n.ear sighted, Miss?” said an impertinent fellow to, a you,ng lady who did not choose to him. “Yes, at this distance I can hardly teljl whether you are a pig or a puppy.”

Caungt in his own Trap.

The Conjuror and the Yankee.