Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1859 — Hon. Schuyler Colfax. [ARTICLE]

Hon. Schuyler Colfax.

Phis getrtlfctnun, on Monday of fast week, delivered. a lecture iii Plymouth Church, P dry V* ‘-I'd Beecher's.) Brooklyn, on the ••Duties of Life,” to a large audience and with great applause. Mr. Tilton introduced f*2f. Colfax t j.the audience, and said:, ‘Tie spoke of true progress and n/form, and said that jthe lecturer, coming frojin the We-st, vis himself a .'living symbol of its growth and progress. Twenty-five years ago there was a poor boy in a public school in the Ninth I Ward of New York, who always stood-at! the head of his class, a few years afterward there was a young printer standing at his case, half ragged (as printers u sally standi) in a town away in the Qtatc of Indiana; Ijitev still there was an editor who cent no led the most indueutial press in fh.vt Slate; sy.sd not long st-dse there was chosen a.nd re- chosen, out of that editorial -'f-ice, a member of the United States (Congress. Now,; that school boy, that printer, that editor, add that member of Congress, were one and the same man, and his. name was Schuyler Colfax. (Great applause:) (tgg'Soutlieiin 1 'egislatures are everywhere called on by t|e Plantation Presses to make stringent law.-l against Northern pedlars and >g agenjts ot i ,-eiy description. We suga-eot ti. it tjouthern Legislature be also petitioned to enact laws for the abolition of l’c <’ ; siridiovs, so that tho. chivalry may ; lie in danger uf 4 being unnecessarily scared on that laocount.

« order to give our readers a full and correct account of the execution of Old John Brown, we have been compelled to deafer issuing, till an unusually late hour. I abscence of the editor, we hope, will be a sufficient excuse for a lack of editorial this week. Ho has left for Cincin■nati. via. New Albany and Louisville. 03= We noticed several small droves of fine-looking hogs entering town to-day, also 4 few which were {etched in on sleds-—be-ing too big to travel on foot. Those specimens speak well of the “pork crop"’ in jasper. I Q3“lt is with feelings of deep regret that we learn of the death of Washington thebeloved patriarch of American literature. 5Je died very suddenly on Monday, the 28th lift., being in his seventy seventh year. i 03" At a late meeting of the citizens of I K-ankakee it was resolved that the report of the destitute condition of Father Chiniquy’s colony, is a gross libel on thajt county. We also learn that car-loads of corn is being daily ship'pedAfrom St. Anne and vicinity. If Btlch is the case—and we have no reasonable j grounds for doubt—the charitable portion of community have been wofullv humbugged.