Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1860 — Page 1

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fotlni. Till; FAHMEIDS SONIC. We envy not the princely mail, In city or in town, Who wonder whether pumpkin vines Run up the hill or down; We care not for his marble halls, Nor yet his heaps of gold, Wo would not own his sordid heart For all his wealth twice told. We are the favored ones of earth, Who breathe pure air each morn, We sow—we rttip the golden grain— We gather in the corn; Wo toil—we live oil what we earn, And more than this we do, We hear of starving millions round, And gladly feed thorn too. The lawyer lives on princely fees, Yet drags a weary life, He never knows a peaceful hour — His atmosphere is strife. The merchant thumshis yard-stick o’er— Grows haggard at his toil, He’s not the man God made him for— Why don’t he till the soil? The doctor plods through storm and cold, Plods at Lis patient’s will, When dead and gone ho plods again To get his lengthy bill. The printer (bless his noble soul!) He grasps the mighty earth, And stamps it on his welcome sheet To cheer the farmers’ hem th. We sing ttio honor of the plow, And the honor of the press— Two noble instruments of toil, With each a power to bless. The bone and nerve of this fast age, True wealtli of human kind— One tills the ever-generous earth, , The other tills the mind.

Utisallmuous. DIS«HGA!(iIYJNG PLEDGE SMOKED OCX. The. way Colfax Got Them—Northwestern Democrats in a Tight Place- — Fire-Eaters Discouraged —A Certain Victory Ahead — A Word to the Boys. [The Vfa shingtori cot<respoi)dent of the Chicago Press and Tribune, writes the following letter in relation to our gallant Representative:] Washington, Jan. 10, 1860. Another revelation was made in the Hquse yesterday of a most damaging character to the disorganizes. After a long and provoking wrangle on “point no point” of order Colfax in an innocent, insinuating way mildly asked Barksdale whether ,the common report was true that the Democrats had entered into an agreement in writing, pledging themselves that the plurality rule should not be voted on till the first of March 1861] Barksdale dodged the q-uestion and launched out in an invective against the everlasting Helper book. Colfax appealed to the gentleman’s well-known candor(!)to answer the question, yes or no. Barksdale could only speak for himself, that he would resist the adoption of the plurality rule to the bitter end; and then he broke out on file “Helper crisis” again. A third time Colfax repeated his inquiry: Are you ignorant of the existence of such a written pledge? Again Barksdale equivocated and attempted to escape via Helper’s Compend. But the cat was now out of the bag. The refusal to answer was Confession that such a pledge had been made to keep the House unorganized. It was amusing to see the groups of fire-eat-ers earnestly whispering and rapidly gesticulating: they were discussing among themselves in under tones what had better be done. There stood Colfax with a mischievous smile on his face, pausing for a response, refusing to yield the floor or lo proceed with his speech until his question was answered. After a painful suspense of two or three minutes, Burnett, of Kentucky, a blunt, rough-und-tumble, impulsive fire eater, said he would answer the question. There was a written agreement signed by members who pledged themselves to resist the adoption of the plurality rule, by all legal and parliamentary means. For one he believed it to , be unconatitutionl, as it empowered a minority to elect a Speaker. Gov. Pennington observed that whatever Southern Democrats disliked was sure to be unconstitutional. [Laughter.] Colfax asked whether if two-thirds of the House desired to vote upon the plurality rule—for or against—this resistance would be persisted ini Burnett said the persons who signed that agreement intended to stand by it regardless of the number to them. Colfax asked if they would resort to those parliamentary tactics to prevent the Clerk from submitting the vote to the House? Burnett replied that they would exhaust every stratagem, by raising points of order* calls of the House, motions to adjourn, lon< r speeches on any and every subject, until their term of office should expire, before they would let the House take a vote on the rule, the adoption of which was equivalent to the

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election of Sherman Speaker, who refused either to affirm or disavow the doctrines of; the Helper book. Colfax wanted the country to understand i that gentleman on the Democratic side, I though contending that the Helper book would incite rapine, insurrection, and servile anil civil war, bad been embodying its most extreme doctrines in their speeches, and spreading them broadcast throughout the South, sowing the seed, if they believed their own arguments, of servile insurrection and civil war. They had circulated thousands of copies where Helper and the New York committee could not have circulated one. (It is a fact, that the Southern Democrats have bought and franked to their oonstPtuents, thousands of copies of Helper’s book.) McQueen of South Carolina —the rankest disunionist in the House —said that he was the author of the written pledge, and had circulated it for signatures. He then branched off on “Potato Clark’s” favorite theme—the Helper book. Colfax blandly asked how many signatures were to it, and whether the list included anybody from the North-west. He merely inquired for information. Lamar (fire-eater of Mississippi) did not remember how many names were appended to it, though none of the Western Democrats had signed it. Pendleton and Valldandingham said they had refused to sign it. They were opposed to the plurality rule, hut whenever it could be brought lagitimately before the House they were prepared to vote upon it. Logan and McClernand sat silent. It is suspected that both of them signed they act with the fire-eaters on all questions and motions, and are looked upon as Southern and not Western men in principle and sympathy. Cox and Howard denied that they had signed the infamous pledge. Noell, of Mo., had not signed it. Some others also denied the soft I impeachment. ! Mr. I to know if Colfax indorsed certain sentiments in Helper’s book? Mr. Colfax replied that he was not responsible to Southern Demecrats on that floor | for what books he reads or recommends to others to read. After the House was organized lie would make such explanations as he saw fit. His constituents alone had a right to interrogate him on that subject, and it was for them alone to say whether his explanation was satisfactory. He demanded the same right and independence he conceded to others, and if Mr. Sherman or himself should see fit to Use here and make any explanation it would not be upon compulsion and demand, but voluntary For the first time in the American Congress members bad been un--1 willing to confine themselves to orderly leg- , islation and to debate and vote upon a pro- ] position, but in the extremity of their opposition they had seen fit to draw up a written ; agreement, in order to prevent a majority of the House from expressing themselves upon a matter of vital concern to the House. Keitt (of S. C.) reminded the House that when a resolution was pending to expel from the House John Quincy Adams, of .Massachusetts, which would have passed, Mr. Adams took the floor und spoke for twenty-one days, and declared that lie would not yield for a vote upon that resolution if he died speaking against it, and he did prevent it. ■Mr. Colfax said the Old Man Eloquent was vindicating the constitutional rights of his constituents on this floor. That an attempt was made by the South to expel him because he had offered a petition praying for a dissolution of the Union. But men had wonderfully changed since then. The same South would now try to expel a member who should offer a petition against a dissolution of the Union. [Laughter.] Mr. Cox, of Ohio, asked why the Republicans could not select some other member of their party. They could elect either Mr. ! Corwin, of Ohio, Mr. Pennington, of New ! Jersey, or Mr. Morris, of Pennsylvania, by a majority vote. Colfax asked which of those respectable, conservative gentlemen fie,or any one on his side of the House, would vote for. Cox—None of his side would vote for any of them! Colfax would then respectfully submit to 1 his colleague, as ail indorsers of the KansasNebraska bill, that lie ought to leave them: to settle their own domestic affairs in their own way. [Laughter.] He said they, sup-1 ported Sherman because he receivs the largest number of votes they could probably concentrate on any man. He could be elected on any ballot i? all those who owe their seats in this hall to Republican votes would support him, as their constituents undoubtedly desire them to do, [Adrain, Briggs, Riggs, Davis and Clark remained silent, but looked guilty.] As to the constitutionality

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of the plurality rule, it was a notorious fact that every member on this floor (with half a dozen exceptions) was elected himselt under the plurality rule, and it was far fetched argument on the pait of those who drew their salaries from the federal treasury, and held their seats under plurality elections, to contend that the same rule was unconstitutional. He did not regard the objection as amounting to the dignity of a legal quibble, and every lawyer in the United States would regard it as not worthy of respectable contempt. There was the precedent of the election of two Speakers—Banks and Cobb—and the motion to elect in eacli case was put anc| sustained by the Democrats. These technical gentlemen would do well to consult those Democratic precedents in order to find relief from this dead lock, unless they openly confessed their purpose to defeat an organization if they were not allowed to rule. [Applause.] Colfax carried himself in splendid style, and to the admiration of all his friends. He smoked out the disorganizing pledge most beautifully. The Northern Democrats are placed in an awkward predicimont. They are afraid to break with the fire-eaters, and they will have to face the hot displeasure of their constituents if they sustain the factionists in their revolutionary conduct. Thus it is that men who are not actuuted by principle, are always getting themselves into trouble.

The New York Herald and its Editors—The Impending Crisis Written in the Herald Office.

The New York correspondent of the Mobile Register, makes the following remarkable statements with regard to the New York Herald: “Young Bennet is now the principal assistant editor of his father. He conducts the editorial department,when his father is not in town, and writes well. For a long time, young' Bennett gave no token of editorial talent, but all that changed. Ho has been for a year at the ediorial room every day, (when in town,) and either wrote or dictated the principal editorials. Ho has more talent than his father, though not the experience. There is no person in the United Slates that has received such an education as young Bennett, He has spent years in France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. He was at school in all those countries; consequently he speaks, writes, and reads all those languages with the correctness of a native. When he is 21, (a few days hence,) his father intends to change the heading of the Herald, so as to have it read ‘James G. Bennett &. Son, Editors and Proprietors.’ When the old gentleman dies, then the heading will be changed back to the single J. G. 8., as the son has the same name as the father. The Herald has some very extraordinary men engaged upon it. The principal editorial writer, is the celebrated Dr. Jones, who is the real author of the ‘lmpending Crisis of the South,’ by Helper. That book was compiled by Ur. Jones, in the Herald office, from facts and statements that have been attested by Mr. Bennett. Helper may have assisted the Doctor. As a proof of this, let me call your attention to the fact that nothing of any consequence was said about tlio book, until a tew days before the meeting of Congress; then the Herald opened upon it, republishing extracts and abusing it editorially, day after day, until members of Congress engaged in the discussion, and the fortune of Dr. Jones, Helper, and Burdick, the publisher, is secured.”

The Disunion Ranters.

The New York Courier and Enquirer says: “Those who are familiar with Congressional debates, need not to be told, that the general character of the Southern speeches on the floor of the House of Representatives, is characterized by reckless flippancy rather than by dignity, discretion or judgment. And the speeches of such men as Keitt, Gartrell, Leake and some twenty others, who have foolishly and childishly proclaimed on tfie floor of the House, that the election of Wm. H. Seward to the Presidency, or Sherman as Speaker, would be abundant cause for a dissolution of the Union, and that the South will therefor secede, are only evidences of the weakness and folly of those who thus stultify themselves, instead of conveying to the country the feelings and opinions of any large portion of their constituents. It is melancholy to reflect that such weak and childish men, can be elected to seats in Congress; but it must bo born in mind; that all political power in the Southorn country, is in the hands of the two hundred and fifty thousand slaveholders, and that a majority of the six millions of‘poor whito men’ who do not hold slaves, are in such a miserable condition, that books have been published and circulated in favor of reducing them to a state of slavery 1 and many Southern presses

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have openly advocated such proceedings. It follows then, that these ‘fire-eaters,’ as they boastfully call themselves, represent simply the slave power of the South, or in other words, the two hundred and fifty thousand of the six million of white and four million of colored population of the United States.”

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[Specimen of the Contents of the new work by the editor of the “Lousville Journal,’' entitled Prenticeana, just published, and which will be sent, postpaid, on receipt of One Dollar by Derby & Jackson, Publishers, New York.] A Mr. Archer has been sent to the Ohio penitentiary for marrying three wives. “Insatiate Archer! could not one suffice!” The editor of a western paper recently fancied himself “a live ox;” but since our rough handling of him, he is beginning to conclude that lie is on\y jerked beef. The “Southern Mercury'’ says that Mr. P. O. Thomas “has received his commission as Postmaster.” Soothers’ a post-office gone to P. O. T. A Pittsburg paper says, in an obituary notice of an old lady, that“she bare her husband twenty children and never gave him a cross word.” She must have obeyed the good old precept —“bear and forbear.” A Newbern paper says that Mrs. Alice Day of that city was lately delivered of four sturdy boys. We know not what a Day may bring forth. A Buffalo paper announces that Dr. Brandreth has introduced a bill into the Legislature. Is the editor sure lie minded his p's in his announcement! The editor of the Boston “Liberator” culls upon the ladies of the North to make use of nothing that is produced by slave labor. He needn’t expect them not to use cotton. They will not expel so old a f riend from their bosoms. A lady correspondent, who professes to be horrified at the indelicacy of our paper, ilireatans for the future to set her foot on every copy she sees. She had better not. Our paper has i's in it. The common opinion is that vre should take good care of children at ail seasons of the year, but it i 3 well enough in winter to let them slide. A writer in a Virginia paper devotes three columns to describing the great Blue Ridge Tunnel. We hardly kuow which is the greatest bore, the tunnel or the description of it. -AW. 11. Ilooe, a postmaster in Vermont, publishes that two hundred dollars of the public funds are missing from his office, and he asks “who has got the money?” Possibly echo may answer— Hooe. The editor of an Indiana paper says, “more villainy is on foot.” We suppose the editor has lost his horse. A party of our friends, last week, chased a fox thirty-six hours. They actually “ran the thing in the .ground.” The New York Evening Post says a man “cannot be active and quiescent at the same time.” There may be some doubt of that. Some fellows bustle about terribly and yet lie still. Messrs. Bell& Topp, of the A". C. Gazette, says that “Prentices are made to serve masters.” Well, Boils are made to be bung qnd Topps to be whipped. Mrs. Charity Perkins, of New Orleans, came near dying of poison a few days ago. A sister of Charity was suspected of administering the dose.

A. K. says he expects in a short time to psy everything lie owes in this world. Ay, but there’s a heavy debt that he has got to settle in the other world. Ther’ll be the deed to pay. Mr. Z. Round, an old and valued friend of ours, was recently elected magistrate in Wisconsin. That, we suppose, is what our Wisconsin friends consider squiring a circle. A Rocky Mountain correspondent of the New York Post, who writes himself “Henry E. Land,” describes Oregon as the most delightful country in the world. Our citizens, if they choose, can go out there and see “how the Land lies”. We were considerably amused by an account that we lately saw of a remarkable duel. There were six men upon the ground and six misses. A Mr. J, Black, declares for the dissolution of tlio Union. Let him have a traitor's reward: “Huilg be the heavens with Black.” The Ohio River is getting lower and lower every day. It has almost ceased to run. All who look at it can perceive that it exhibits very little speed, but a great deal of bottom. A young widow has established a pistolgallery in New Orleans. Her qualifications, as a teacher of the art of duelling are of course undoubted; she has killed her man.

A New England writer says that It has

been found that negroes can be better trusted than white men, not to betray secrets. We suppose this is upon the principle that they always “keep dark.” Mrs. I.ucy Hill complains, ill an Atkans** paper, that her nephew has trampled upoa her rights and feelings. The graceless youog rascal shouldn’t be allowed te trample upon his aunt-Hill. A Canadian paper mentions the marriage of Mr. Joseph Sterling to Miss Anne Stirling , Love strokes are not usually severe,but this one, it is plain, has knocked an i out. A woman in Florida, named Cros3, lately gave birth to an infant son which weighed only one pound. That Cross wasn’t hard tu bear.

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Two men, Joseph Sparks and Oscar Flint,. were assailed in the suburbs of Baltimore, a few nights ago, by a gang ot shoulder-hitters. Flint was knocked down, but his companion escaped by flight. When iLys scoundrel* hit Flint, Sparks flew. Mr. William Hood was robbed near Cur* inth, Ala., on the 13? h inst. The Corinth/ paper says that the name of the highwayman is unknown, but there is no doubt thsi he was Robbin’ Hood. | A Mr. Bentley has been indicted in Alabama for striking a stranger with an a.va He says that he didn’t know but the stranger was a robber. He didn't know, end so ha axed him. A quizzical editor in Arkansas, who rr.tLer rejo'ces in the rattier quizzical name of Har • ry Hurry, says that “t’uth is generally slow in i£a v progress.” Probably it is never in such a Hurry ns he. A young lady of New Orleans,- who recently performed a remarkable feat in rowing, has been presented with a be-autife! yawl. A smack would have been more appropriate. ~ A man in our State, wh o attempted ta hug a beautiful young woman, Miss Lemon, | has sued her for striking him in the eys. Why should a fellow squeeze a Lemon onless he wants a punch? Mr J. S. Fall, a Mississippi editor, asks when we shall get wise. Undoubtedly btfor* Fall, if ever, Mr. Henry A. Rhule says, in a Mississippi paper,,that ha has “worked zealously for the administration.” Now let 'him tvr:i and work faithfully against it. ’Tis a poor Rule that won’t work both ways. Mr. and Mrs, Brewer, of Wayne County, have twenty-two children. Theirs is, perhaps, the most extensive brewery in lbs West. • Tbe Beaver Argus records the 'of John Coburn, only three feet high. X > I wander he wanted to get spliced. A man named J. S. Bill has set up a skiving shop in one of our western cities. Wa know him of old. Whenever he tskes off his beard, he shaves a bad Bill. An impudent anonymous correspondent signing himself “Nad Bucket,” expresses th* wish that wo were daafi. Very well—l*t him show himself in person, and we pledge ourselves to “kick the Bucket.” A Southern lady has abandoned the-Ska.-ker establishment near Hopkinsville, to marry Mr. James Bean, aged seventy-five. She must be fond of dried Beans. A handsome young fellow in New Yoftr | in great distress for want of money, married j last week a rich old woman of seventy. He j was no doubt miserable for the want of rooj noy, and she for tiie want of a husband; and “misery makes strange bedfellows.” A father and son, Anthony and Th.om.ii Screw, escaped on the 25th ult., from il)e YVetumpka jail. There sre two Screws loose. A lady in Montreal, on the lift, recovered. §2,000 of a Maj. Breckford for hugging and kissing her rather roughly. She ought to set a high value on the money, she got it by a tight squeeze.

On Sight and on Demand.

I Judge , a well-known, highly respecta--1 ble Knickerbocker, on the shady side of fifty—- | a widower with five children, full of fun and I frolic, ever ready for a jolqe to give or take—j was bantered the other evening by a Miss of five and twenty for not taking another wife. She urged that lie was hale and hearty, and deserved another mess-mate. The Judge acknowledged the fact, admitted that he was convinced by the eloquence of his fair friend, that ha had been thus fur very aini&j, and expressed contrition for the fault confessed, ending with offering himself to the lady i telling her she could not certainly reject him after pointing out to him itis heinous-offense. The lady replied that she would be most happy to take the situation so uniquely advertised, and become bone of his bone, aud flesh of his flesh, but there wna one, to her. serious obstacle. “Well,” says the Judge-, •'name it. My piofession is to surmount such impediments.” “Ah! Judge, this is beyond your powers. I have avowed if ovar I marry a widower he must have ten children.” “Ten children! Oh, that’s nothing,” say* the Judge; “I’ll give you five now, and give you my notes on demand, in installments, for the balance.” We wouldn’t mind to go tho Judge'* security. (£TWe have nut yet read a fofltary matsage of the Southern Democratic Governor* in which there wasn't an oder of treason t* strong as the stench of #ssafo»!>da.