Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1859 — A Most Valliant Act. [ARTICLE]

A Most Valliant Act.

The Democrats at St. Cloud, Minnesota, valorously burnt Mrs. Swisshelm, the outspoken editress, in effigy, a few evenings ago, because she denounces and is bound to defeat Mr. Lowry, the Democratic candidate for Governor, who about a year ago destroyed her printing office. This is characteristic of the modern “Democratic” spirit, for, as Mrs. S. says, in speaking of the insult offered her “They are the representatives of the woman-whipping,baby-stealing chivalry of the South. The one great object of the party is to extend and perpetuate the institution of wo-man-whipping, and it is all right that a woman should, to them, represent the force with which they have to contend. Mobbing women and burning them in effigy is suitable employment for the American Democrats and we like to see them stick to their trade.’♦ An Influential Organ Deserts Douglas.—The New York Journal of Commerce which has hitherto danced to Douglas’"popular sovereignty” fiddling, publishes Attorney General Black’s reply to Douglas’ Harper essay, and remarks: “It takes the true Democratic ground, which refers the question of Slavery in a Territory to the decision of the inhabitants when they enter the Union as a State; not in their unfledged Condition, when first organized into a Territory.”

CO” A clergyman and one of his elderly parishioners were walking home from church one icy day last winter, when the old gentleman slipped and fell flat on his back. The minister looking at him a moment, and being assured that he was not much hurt, said to him: “Sinners stand on slippery places.” The old gentleman looked up, as if to assure himself of the fact, and said, “I see they do; but I can't.” Phenomena of Utterance.— r A traveler writes: “We started from a little town in the vicinity of Holstein. I would not undertake to spell or pronounce the name; but if you will take Tzschucken and Kionojed,and mix them up with Ompompanoose, Scotch snuff’, and Passamaqoddy, and pronounce the whole backward with a sneeze, you will then get within about six miles of it.” A New Thing.—W. T. Wallace, a cab-inet-maker in this city, has added a new feature to his cabinet manufactory. His turning lathe is run by dog. power; two dogs keeping in motion a wheel fifty feet in circumference, by treading on the inside of it. This large wheel turns another about ten feotin circumference, to which a band is attached that runs the turning lathe.— Wixterset {lowa') Madisonian.

oO“The Scientific American says the Ericsson engine which Mr. Lowe' proposes to use in his huge air ship for tho purpose of working some sort of machinery to elevate or depress the balloon without gas, will accomplish that object just'as soon as it is able to lift itself by its owrf power, as a man might lift himself over s fence by the straps of his boots, acd no sooner. o^7*A passport has been brought to light, given by Janies Monroe, when Minister to England, in 1806, to Essex White, a slave and body-servant of John Randolph of Roanoke, and a negro, in which the said Essex White is called "a citizen of the United States." Mr. Monroe must have been a Black Republican himself, or he never could have evinced such freedom of sentiment.