Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1859 — Page 1

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VOL. 3.

At TV MN. Now the summer hours are ended, J, And the Autumn comes apace, Anda change so sad, yet pleasant, zBroodeth over Nature’s face. In the cool and shady woodlands Summer flowers are fading fast; And the leaves upon the branches Soon will.scatter in the blast. Ere long will the oak and maple Don the scarlet robes and gold. And the, Howers will soon be. withered, Swept by wintry breezes cold. Bright spring birds are southward flying, And their songs we’ll hear no more, ’Till the spring again is with us, /And old winter’s reign is o’er. Every orchard now is bending With the ripening loads they bear, And the fields of tall corn waiving In the mellow autumn air. Fair, though saddest of the seasons, Is the autumn of the year, Though the changes that come with it Make all Nature seem so drear.

XUiscdliuimis. THE MAIDEN WARRIOR, [The following historical incident in the' life of Sergeant Jasper, we find in the book entitled “Romance of the Revolution.”] Sometime just before, or about the beginning of the war, he had the good fortune to save the life of a young, beautiful, and darkeyed creole girl, called Sally St. Clair. , Her susceptible nature was overcome with! gratitude to her preserver, and this soon ripened into a passion of love, of the most deep and fervent kind. She lavished upon him the whole wealth of her affections, and i the whole depths of a passion nurtured by a I southern sun. When he was called upon i to join the ranks of his country’s defenders,] the prospect of their sepraation almost mad- i dened her. Their parting came, but scarce-, ly was she left alone, than her romantic nature prompted the means of a re-union. I Once resolved, no consideration of danger ; could dampen her spirit, and no thought of consequences could move her purpose. She i severed her long and jetty ringlets, and pro-: vided herself with male attire. In these, she robed herself, and set forth to follow the j fortunes of her lover. A smooth faced, beautiful, and delicate stripling appeared among the hardy, rough, and giant frames, who composed the corps to which Jasper belonged. The contrast between the stripling and these men, in their uncouth garbs, their massive faces, embrowned and discolored by sun and rain, I was indeed striking. But none were more eager for the battle, or so indifferent to fatigue, as the fair faced boy. It was found that his energy of character, resolution and courage, amply supplied his lack of pliys- i ique. Norte ever suspected him to be a woman. Not even Jasper himself, although she was often by his side, penetrated her disguise. j

The rtrW4A£M*o of licr situation increased the fervor of her passion. It was her delight to reflect that, unknown to him, she was hy his side, watching over him in the hour of danger. She fed her passion by gazing upon him in the hour of slumber, hovering near him, when stealing through the swamp and thicket, and being always ready to avert danger from his head. But gradually there stole a melancholy presentiment over the poor girl’s mind. She had been tortured with hopes deferred; the war was prolonged, and the hope of being restored to him grew mof'o and more uncertain. But now she felt that her dreams of happiness could never be realized. She became convinced that death was about to snatch her away from his side, but she prayed that she might die, and lie never know to what length the violence of her passion led her. It was an eve before a battle. The camp had sunk into repose. The watchfires were burning low, and only the slow tread of sentinels fell upon the profound silence of the night air, as they moved through the dark shadows of the forest. Stretched upon the : ground, with no other couch than a blanket, reposed the war-like form of Jasper. Climbing vines trailed themselves into a canopy his head, through which the stars shone down softly. The faint flicker from the expiring embers of a fire fell athwart his countenance, and tinged the cheek of one who bent above his couch. It was the smooth faced stripling. She bent low down its if to listen to his dreams, or to breathe' into his soul pleasant visions of love and happiness. But tears trace themselves down the fair one’s cheek, and fall silently, but rapidly upon the brow of her lover. A mysterious voice has told her that the hour of parting has come; that to-morrow lier destiny is consumated. There is one last, 5 long,

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lingering look, and then the unhappy maid is seen to tear herself away from the spot, to weep out her sorrows in privacy. Fierce and terrible is the conflict that on the morrow rages on that spot. Foremost in the battle is the intrepid Ja'sper, and ever by his side fights the stripling (Warrior. Often during the heat and the smoke,gleams suddenly upon the eyes of Jasper the melancholy face of the maiden. In the thickest of the fight, surrounded by enemies, the lovers fight side by side. Suddenly a lance .is levelled at tho breast of Jasper; but swifter than the lance is Sally St. Clair. There is a wild cry, and at the feet of Jasper sinks the maiden, with the life blood gushing from the white bosom, which had been thrown, us a shield, before his breast. He heeds not now the din, nor the danger of the conflict; but down by the side of the dying boy he kneels, ’['hen for the first time does he learn that the stripling is his love; that often by the camp fire, and in the swamp, she had been by his side; that the dim visions, in his slumber, of an angel face hovering above him, had indeed been true. In the midst of the battle, with her lover by her side, and the barb still in her bosom, the heroic maiden dies! Her name, her sex, and her noble devotion, soon became known through the corps. There was a tearful group gathered around her grave; there was not one of those hardy warriors, who did not bedew her grave with tears. ’They buried her near the river Santee, “tn a green shady nook that looked as if it had been stolen out ol Paradise.”

Characteristics of Ossawatomie Brown.

The Chicago Press and Tribune of last week says: i “In person Brown is about five feet eight inches in bight. He has short gray hair and diversities his appearance with iron gray whiskers and moustache to suit the dangerous exigencies of his situation. His appearance is that of intense peacefulness, combined with hopeless verdancy. To the casual observer, he is the most inoffensive man that could be met with in a day's} ride through Arcadia. His rural exterior bus enabled him to pass unscathed through scores ’ of perils, where his life would have paid the I forfeit of his discovery. It is believed by many of those who knew him in Kansas that the butchery of his son Frederick made him a monomaniac on the subject of slavery, and that he had made ti vow to wreak a great revenge on the system of society which had wrought so deep ti wrong on him. But Brown himself repudiated this idea, con- : tending that revenge was no part of his composition, and claiming to be guided strictly by the principles of Holy Writ, lie seems to have been laboring under a religious hallucination to the effect that he was the appointed instrument of the Almighty for putting an end to human slavery. What time he and his handful ot men in Kansas were | not marching or fighting, they were praying j and singing psalms—Brown himself passing many hours wrestling in secret prayer. His evident hallucination caused all the clear-headed men in Kansas to avoid him or ' have as little as possible to do with him. The same feeling made him dreaded by the Missourians as a supernatural being. His name inspired the same terror on the border, as the “Nick of the Woods”'among the Indians of Kentucky, or that of the Cid among the Moorish hordes of Spain. It was a name to fright children to bed with. No further evidence of his insanity could be re- \ quired by a commission de lu'natico than the ' late hair-brained movement at Harper’s Fur- j ry—an act which Win. Lloyd Garrison or Wendell Phillips would pronounce a sinful I waste of human life. These men may ap- j plaud the moral principle which led Brown j into the fatal emule, but no man in his j senses can say that it is not the most crazy development which the slave history of this country affords. The blind insurrection on the Cumberland River some three years ago becomes a well-matured conspiracy compared with this.”

Lynching a Horse Thief.

We are informed that an escaped convict, named Simpson Sexton, was arrested at tire Macon county fair, which was held on Thursday of last week at Macon City, and taken to Renick, in Randolph county, and there hung up by a Vigilance Committee. Sexton is a noted horse thief, and before his execution made a full confession of his crimes. He gave the names of several persons who have been accomplices with him and formed a gang, whose robberies have been the cause of great trouble and loss to numerous farmers in that section of the State. The upparent'hnpoßsibility of protecting themselves from these desperadoes short of the method adopted by the citizens there, is the reason they gave for a resort to it.-— St. Louis Rep,

“FREEDOM NATIONAL—SLAVERY SECTIONAL,”

Frank Blair in Minnesota.

A correspondent of the Chicago Press and Tribune, writing from St. Anthony, Minnesota, gives the following account of a speech made by Hon. F. P. Blair, Jr., of Missouri, at that place: “Blair addressed a very large audience in this city on Saturday evening, and his speech was one of the boldest and most admirable anti-Slavery effort we have ever heardHis expose of the doughfaceism and demagogueism of the Infinitesimal Giant, was complete and triumphant, and brought down the house with peals on peals of mingled laughter and applause. At thejclose, a gentleman in the audience rose and said that it “had been charged by the Hunker press that Frank Blair himself held slaves,” and if he would not consider it an imperlince, the audience would like to be enlightened. Mr. Blair replied that he was embarrassed to find that the Democracy would not permit him to “form and regulate his own domestic institutions in his own way, subject to the Constitution of the United States.” [Laughter.] But while it was painful to him to be called up on matters so entirely personal to himself, there was nothing in that record which he wished to conceal. (Cheers.) He said he inherited slaves from a kind and merciful father, that he bad purchased slaves himself, but only to prevent the separation of families, and ultimately to free them. (Great applause.) That he had emancipated more slaves than he now owned—(Cheers) — and that he now only owned such as he was forbidden to emancipate by the laws of Missouri, they being either too old or too young to take care of themselves. (Here the audiancc rose and gave him three hearty cheers) He said that for long years he had fought the Slave Power upon its own ground, carrying his life upon his sleeve for any ruffian to pluck off’; that all his powers were consecrated to the emancipation of his native South from the chains of degradation that bore her down, and that he expected to live to see Missouri Free Soil, the peaceful and prosperous abode of Free Men. His speech was a most masterly one, and was received with the utmost enthusiasm.”

[From the lowa City K.-qmblican.

The Germans—Honor to whom Honor is Due.

7'hc glorious victory achieved in Johnson I county is due in no small part, to those noble i hearted, liberty-loving Germans who stood side by side with the American Republicans, in the late contest. The name of Democracy has cheated them long enough. There is no longer any music for the Germans in Democracy’s harp of many strings. Democracy has long enough required the German to belie bis instincts—his deepest convictions. As their Leut. Governor elect lately told them in Market Hall, the Democracy first required them to eat shoe pegs; finding them eating shop pegs, they commanded them to swollow'spikes; finding them ready to eat spikes, the Democracy concluded the Germans might be fed on pitchforks; but, to the great consternation and discomfiture of the Democracy, they found pitchforks distasteful, and illy suited to some German stomachs. 7’he harrow which the Democracy had in prejiaration for the German digestive organs, after the pitchforks shall have been converted into chyle, is not likely to become a very common article of political diet; for our political brethren, the Germans, are begining to learn and understand some of the laws of political dietetics, and they,most likely, wi 11 exclude the harrow from the bill of fare.

We are glad to chronicle the fact that a goodly number of our German fellow-citi-zens have washed their hands clean of this Negro Democracy—that they voted with and worked for the success of the Republican ticket. Many more, we are told, are making ready to leave the rotton hulk of Democracy. We will welcome them as brother citizens should ever welcome one another to the great and conquering family of tire free. picked up a feather in the road, and put it in his pocket; when night came, having no place to sleep but in a quarry, he carefully placed the feather under him. and laid down to rest his weary bones. In the morning he arose, and eyeing his bed, exclaimed: “Be jabers, if one feather is that hard, what would a whole bed-full be!” Qiy“A valuable slave man, belonging to Mr. Benton, of Sharpsburg, Md., hung himself off Monday night last, in consequence of his master, refusing to sell him to go South with a colored girl upon whom his heart’s affections had been placed. (tj’One of the liipior sellers of Lafeyette, Ind., has been served with twenty-eight indictments for selling liquor to minors.

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The Son of an Hon. not Allowed to Vote.

On Tuesday a colored man presented his vote at the first ward poll’when he was refused the privilege by the Board of Democratic Judges. He demanded to be sworn, when one of the Judges proceeded to question him to prove that lie was of African blood. 5 He inquired the complexion of his mother. “She is half white, her father being a white man.” replied the colored man. “Is your father of African desent!” “No, sir; my father is’a white man, and a Democratic member of the Legislature of North Carolina!” The Democratic Judges wilted at this amid the shouts of laughter, raised at their expense, and concluded that they would not question any further. Moral. —Democratic Election Judges should proceed cautiously to inquire into the pedigree of mulattoes, least they develope some unpleasant revalations in regard to the emalgamation propensities of Southern Democratic politicians.— Cleveland Leader.

Suppressing the Press.

The Washington Slates, the central organ of Senator Douglas, suggests, in a recent article on the Harper’s Ferry riot, that the two Republican papers in that city, the Era and Republican, should be mobbed and suppressed, or driven out of the city. These inflammable gentry may learn one of these days that Washington belongs to thenrhole Union, and not to Virginia alone, and that if Virginia is urgent to establish her pet whims and antipathies there, she can have the place altogether, and a new capital can be found somewhere else. The conduct of tire Stales is exactly of the right kind to force all Northern men to insist on the removal of the capital, or at least to leave it to depend on its own resources, instead of begging ifs support out of people whom it is constantly reviling and threatening. There would be a doleful lament come up from these contemptible sheets if the Republicans should conclude that they could do without Washington quite as well as Washington could do without them. If Republican papers are not to be tolerated in Washington, it is about time Republican Congressmen were making up their minds to make no more appropriations for a city in which they are recognized as fit subjects for mob violence.— Stale Jour.

The Southern Press on Douglas.

The Vicksburg Southern Sun says: “We do not believe that Douglas is the first choice of a single Southern-born man in the State of Mississippi for the Presidency. Never was a man more loathed. He is looked upon as a miserable demagogue, who would not scruple to sell his soul, if by so doing he could reach the goal of his ambition—the White House.” The Memphis Avalanche says: “From the borders of Virginia to the banks of the Mississippi, the advocates of Mr. Douglas cannot name a Democrat that holds a place as high as that of a Congressman-, or that has ever been honored by his party by a candidacy for such a position, who would not rather witness the nomination of almost anv other Democrat whose name has been mentioned in connection with the Presidency, than that of Stephen A. Douglas. His vaulting ambition and pestilent demagoguery have created all the troubles that now lower upon our party, and the Democratic masses, as well as their honered representatives, are anxious to wash their hands of him at once and forever.”

How are the Mighty Fallen.

7’he Philadelphia Evening Bulletin says: 7'lic President of the United States, James Buchanan, went to Washington yesterday, after a sojourn of a week at Wheatland and its vicinity. We are told that when he showed himself in the streets of Lancaster, there was none of the cordial greeting that might be expected for a President or a great patriot, on returning to visit old acquaintances. The people of Lancaster were very of him. When he went to the County Agricultural Fair he was actually avoided by his fellow citizens. Nobody ventured to oiler a hearty welcome to him, either as an old resident of Lancaster o- as President of the United States. There were prize horses and other cattle at the Fair that were much more interesting. The Sancaster farmers evidently thought that though they could raise prize cattle, they had not raised a prize President. (£s”Of the three thousand voters bf Washington 7’erritory, two thousand is desirous of entering the matrimonial state, but there are no marriageable £irls there. The Puget’s Sound Herald plaintively calls for “New England damsels to satisfy the demand for a good article.”

The telegraphic contradiction of tire report that Mr. Buchanan was about to prosecute John W. Forney, editor of the Philadelphia Press, for libel, iff consequence of a charge in that paper that he was responsible for Broderick’s death, has brought out tho following from Forney himself: “We desire to state, upon the best authority, that during his late visit to Lancaster the President was free and frequent in the declaration of his determination that, on his return to Washington, he would consult Judge Black about prosecuting the editor of the Press for a libel in consequence of that article. We have now in our possession letters from prominent Democrats in Lancaster, written while the President was sojourning there, stating the fact in question in the most emphatic manner. “It Air. Buchanan desires more direct evidence of the fact that he did threaten a prosecution of the editor of the Press, because we demanded to know whether he felt his conscience clear of the blood of David C. Broderick, it will be forthcoming.”

NO. 28.

The Gerrit Smith letter found among Brown’s papers has turned out to be an old one about Kansas matters, and it is altogether probable that he knew nothing about the insurrection. The locofoco sheets are republishing his foolish and fanatical letter about the Jerry Rescue celebration, in which he says: “For insurrections we may look any year, any month, any day.” This they say is a prophecy. We do not defend such expressions whatever their object. But it is well to recall a fact that seems to have been forgotten: Mr. Smith is not a Republican. In the very letter we have quoted from, ha denounces that party. A year ago he ran for Governor of New York against its regular nominee, and was quite extensively patronized and supported by the locofoco press.— Detroit Tribune.

A man by the name of J. L. Pugh is running about loose in Alabama, ns an independent candidate for Congress. The True Delta speaks of him as a “dangerous animal, that should not be suffeed to run at large.” Hear him; “To-day I fling my banner to the breeze, covered all over with the motto, * Union among ourselves for the sake of the South.’ Come to its support, and if the State Rights Democracy of Alabama dishonor themselves and degrade their State by permitting it to remain in the Union after the electron of a Black Republican President, then I pledge myself to join you in raising an Alabama regiment to light the torch of revolution in the capital at Washington.”

The Portsmouth Journal rslates that Clement March, Esq., a son of Joseph W. March of Greenland, N. IL, is paying the debts of his father, who died fifteen years ago. The estate was administered upon as insolvent,and demands amounting to thirteen thousand dollars were approved by the Commissioners. 7'o meet these there were less than three thousand dollars, and the estate was settled in 1815. The son now honors his father’s memory by coining forward and spending ten thousand dollars in paying his father’s old creditors in full—a shining example of magnanimity and filial respect.

Hon. Joshua R. Giddings publishes a card denying that he had given “aid and comfort” to the Harper’s Ferry insurrectionists. Ho denies having been consulted by Captain Brown, or having any knowledge of the af-' fair before the actual outbreak. Thus falls to the ground the attempt of Senator Mason and Congressmen Faulkner and Vallandigham to “pump” out of Old Brown evidence that Giddings, or some of the Northern “Black Republicans,” were indirectly concerned in the “insurrection.”

Difference in Wives.—lt is astonishing to see how well a man may live on a small income, who has a handy and industrious wife. Some men live and make a better appearance on six or eight dollars per week than others do on fifteen or eighteen dollars. The man does his part well, but the wife is good for nothing. She will even upbraid her husband for not living in as good style as his neighbor, while the fault is entirely her own. His neighbor has a neat, capable and industrious wife, and that makes the difference. His wife, on the other hand, is a whirlpool* into which a great many silver cups might be thrown, and the appearance of the water remain unchanged. CCZ”An lowa orator wishing to describe his opponent as a soulless man, said: “I have heard that some persons hold the opinion that just at the precise moment after one human being dies', another is born, and the soul enters and animates the new-born babe. Now, I have made particular and extensive inquiries concerning my opponent thar, and I find that, for some hours before he drew breath; nobody died. Fellow-citi-zens, I will now leave you to draw the in* fercnce.” is said that a young lady on Poston Common, dressed in the extreme of fashion, was mistaken by some boys for a public tent, and they had actually crawled some distance under the canvas before they discovered theiy mistake.

The Great Libel Case.

Gerrit Smithis Letter.

Hold Him.

A Noble Son.

Joshua H. Giddings.