Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1859 — Dauglas Declines. [ARTICLE]

Dauglas Declines.

•Mr. Douglas declines the invitation to address the Democracy of this State, which was published with such a parade of names nj few weeks since. The cause given is the illness of his wife, and we have no doubt it i$ given in good faith, and not as a “dodge,” for Mrs; Douglas is dangerously ill, and has been for some Weeks. Still if she was well it is a little doubtful if he would profit very largely by his visit and a speech here. The masse* of the Democracy are decidedly disposed to support him, but the leaders, who turn the masses just as they please, are quite as strongly disposed the other way. Mr. Douglas could, therefore, make no acquisition of popular strength, for he has that already, and he might possibly make a move that the leaders could use against him. 1 {g7”We have; not in a long time seen anything so funhy as t ! 'e following from 11. Clay I'ate’s contradiction of the report that Old Brown tooki him prisoner and scared Win half to death during the Kansas war: If what 1 have said is not enough, the pjeople need expect from me nothing more «)jT defense with the pen. Three years ago I one Coward who said I surrendered, and when he was called on for satisfaction, would accept a challenge. I adjust as able to do the same tiling in 1859 us [ was in 1850} and possibly a little abler." “H. Cl, a v Pats..” :‘fThrpis.lied a cou-ard he said, and lie is rrkidy tb do it again. Brave man is I’ute. Like the man who whipped his wile, and went into the stijeet and swore he could just whip any woman alive. Pate is prepared toUwhipl any number of "cowards."

guerilla chief Cortinas, who is ke oping BrownsiviHe, Texas, in a stale ol alarm, has published a proclamation, in wlhich he says that the honest citizens have ; noth'iig t« fear, and that it is his sole object to punish six or (eight citizens of llrouns-. vW.le who by legal and other means are endeavoring to dispossess the old Mexican residents of tiieir I a tills. Cortinas claims to be a Ajmericun citizen, and the gfievaoces ot his party are apparently real. "Daniel S. Dickinson on tiie “Irkepressible Coh'Fi.tcT.”—-In the course of his recent Albany speech, Ifon. D. S. Dickenson said tlpit “ t(ie Slave States are every day growinjg weaker, and the free States stronger.” 'That will do very well fora “Democrat,” but if the same declaration had been made by a Republican it would have been, according to Democratic journals, proof that the j author was directly concerned in the Harper’s Ferry difficulty. ---<>--- A REBELLIOUS AND PROFANE ELDER.— Heber C. Kimball, the Mormon Elder, “preached” in the Tabernacle at Salt Lake City, on the 11th ult. He was particularly severe on the U. S. Government, and said that the Government and hell combined cannot drive them from their mountains; and said that “old Tom Benton is now snuffing sulphur in hell, where he ought to be.” ---<>--- KENTUCKY REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION. — The Republicans of Kentucky will meet in Convention on Wednesday morn- ! irig, Nov. 16, 185®, at Newport, to organize I the party in the State—to form a Presidential electorial ticket, appoint two Senatorial delegates for the State at large, and transact such other business as may come before tlje Convention. t j l Goshen Times boasts with good! reason of a Republican family in that county. It is that of John Weaver, of Benton township, and consists of the father, eight «bns, and four sons-in-law, all residents of the same townshjip, all voters, and all true blue Republicans. Pass the Banner up to Ajlr. We aver! l . London Telegraph gravely states I that in the United States, “among the can- ! didates of the Democratic party for the Presidency, the most prominent is Stephen •Au Douglas, n black man, who for many tyjears has conducted an Abolition ant] emancipation paper with signal success," I Dollie Dutjton of Springfield Mass., a . f r * °L ten y earß i is a prodigy beaidea whom ; °. m Tnumb ceases to be a curiosity. She freighs but thirteen pounds, yet ia intelligent, i sprightly, and modeled to perfection. i Hacljet, wife of John Hacket, of* freedom, Sauk county, Wis., was burned to . 4eath on Saturday last, from her clothes takijrtg fire from a pail of ashes she had just taken j from the fire. } \ *■*— , OJT Prof. Lowe, the atronaut, was to com-1 mence inflating his balloon—the air-ship “City of New York”—on Monday. Jt. will' take twelve days to fill it. He is then going to Europe. ; The New York Eveniug Post suggests j that' Virginia be hereafter called “John j BVotfjp* B Tract.” !•