Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1859 — "Ruined Again," [ARTICLE]

"Ruined Again,"

'Fhe story of a rescuing army crossing from Pennsylvania to Charlestown, to take Brown, which was started soon after his ar-*' rest, was exploded the i.ext-day. The story that Chase had told Wise of an army of inspirators on their road to Virginia, and of Wise’s threat to prosecute him for treason if it was true, was exploded the same day. The stoiy that Marshal Johnson of Ohio had telegraphed to Wise that l,oo‘> Ohioans were marching to Charlestown was exploded in about two hours. The story that an army was crossing at Wheeling, was exp loded as soon as if got abroad. The story that a letter to Brown telling him of a rescue being all arranged, captured by Mr. Hunter, exploded itself. The story that Mr. Packer had offered 10,000 troopstd Virginia I was exploded the next day. The story that j secret corps were organizing in this State, , Ohio and Pennsy Ivanin, blew up itself. And now most fearful of all, the story of a discov- | ery that a rescue was preparing in Lafayette iis exploded. The “pikes” found in Cox’s 1 cellar were /zs/i. and the fugitive slave was a wooden “nigger” which a tobacconist was hewing out for a sign. Westated yesterday ! that there was the smell of fish among these ■ ‘pikes,” and, as Lord Chatham said of his ■ prophecies of English defeat in the Revolutionary war, “so it proved.” This last is the unkindest “selF’of all. How often must \ irginia be spared before these heartless wags will quit! The fun “ran int > the ground” when that incendiary cow invaded Charlestown. This “fish” invasion lias broke it oft'. There have been hoaxes enough now. They have come up and popped open as feathery and harmless as milk weed pods in August, but they have kept Governor Wise in a fever ! and Charlestown in an ague, and Virginia has shaken and sweat, with wrath and fear alternately, till we fear her health is permanently injured. We beg the mischievous hoax makers to quit.— State Journal.