Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1860 — The Purchase of Mt. Vernon. [ARTICLE]

The Purchase of Mt. Vernon.

It appears that the following sums have been collected for thte purchase of Mt. Vernon, through Mr. Everetts exertions: x- Amount received from Oration .$50,04:2 43 From N. Y. Ledger and connection. . 2 2,99.3 51 “ Donation . 1,(300 00 “ Ladies 20 00 Increase of interest 5,157 (30 '? Total .$69,047 77 In addition to this, large sums have been collected by the ladies, making a total of $232,206 08. Thus the whole purchase money has been raised, and a balance of 20,000 remains toward the fund to place the property in good order. love-sick swain, in order to more fully ascertain the mind of his “lady love,” closed a letter with the following verse: "If you were a dog and I was a hog, A rootin’ away in the yard; If the old man should say,drive that hog away, Would you worry or bite very hard?” An exchange says a sentiment so sublime deserves an answer, and ventures to suppose the lady’s-reply: “When I am a dog, and you are a hog A wondering from the sty, I’d not breathe a bark, but merely remark, ‘Go it, porkie, root, hog, or die.” To Tobacco Useks. —Dr. LeCompte, of Philadelphia, who has been recently writing considerable upon the subject of tobacco, states that almost all of the weepd is defiled with liquorice and molasses, principally to hide the bad taste of inferior When it is desired to impart to rhubarb, sunflower, cabbage and burdock leaves the lla'vor of tobacco, a strong extract, prepared by soaking refuse tobacco iu wine, or more frequently in human urine, with some salt added, /is poured over them. GCrThe Administration Democrats are playing the old and safe game with the friends of ©ouglas, “Heads they win, tails the Douglas lose.” The friends of Douglas and that-distinguished Senator have been driven to affirm that they will support the Charleston nominee on any platform, while the other side say they won’t, vote for Douglas if the nominee, on any platform. —Madison Courier. “personal” article in a late French paper says: “One of the grand establishments in Paris has recently made some 40 000 f. worth of habilimets for Mrs. J-iu s G-r-n B-n-e-tt, wife of the proprietor of t’’S to. y. >/- r-d. Each robe is of rare tissue, <;ut in the extreme of fashion, and profusely ornamented, and is accompanied by “brodequins,” a parasol, and bonnet of similar stuff. horse arrived at New York on Sunday, from Italy, only seven hands high. He fe to be sent to Washington, to Mr. Buchanan, as a present from J. 11. Binda, the United States Consul. I Is it not singular that Mr. Binda did not Send Mr. Buchanan a pair of those diminutive Italian animals! Buthe, perhaps, thinks With the majority of the people, that Mr. Buchanan is, at best, but a one-horse President.—lnd. Allas. 1 the daughter of Enoch, was five hundred and eighty years old when she vyas married. Courage, ladies. ■ There never was a goose so gray, ; But some day, soon or late, I An honest gander came that way, ; And took her for his mate, i ] 03-The position is distinctly taken in Qongress that the election by a majority of the people, contrary to the will of the slave piower, is sufficient cause for breaking up the confederation of States. j fire broke out in New York, on the rooming of the 3d inst., in the tenant house 2j03 Division street, occupied by seven Jew fiunilies. Six persons were burnt to death. j New Yorkers liaveawayof observing Sunday all their own. On Sunday there; were 8,000 persons’ including 2,000 wjomen, skating on the Central Park. I any of our fashionable ladies tell why the Lord, when he made Eve from one o( Adam’s ribs, didn’t make a hired girl from one of his .fingers or toes? ] & ■ ■ mom 0^7"“To-morrow” is the day on which lazy fojks work, and fools reform. ;Kta receipt for washing fluid—six gallops of warm water and plenty of soap.