Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1860 — From Richmond. [ARTICLE]

From Richmond.

Richmond, Va., March 4. —Gov. Letcher sent into 'the Legislature a communication from Gens. Stark, the Mississippi Commissioner, urging speedy action by Virginia in favor of a Sduthern Conference for her selfpreservation, for the preservation of the Constitution and Union, and the equal rights of all the States and their people in the confederation. It was made the special order for Tuest&y in the Senate and referred to a committee in the House. (y*7"()f the wheat crop in Southern Illinois, the Advocate says: “All the farmers with whom we have had an opportunity of conversing unite in saying that the wheat in this vicinity has been much injured by tho severity of the weather. Some fields—those which w|Jfe sowed late—are supposed to be injured beyond recovery. Other fields, though somewhat, injured, will probably recover upon the opening of spring. It is yet too early to decide upon the prospects of the crop.” Counterfeiters Arrested. —On Monday Feb. 117, a descent was made on a gang of counterfeiters in Le.'ington, Mo., who were caught at altering bills on the Farmer’s Bank of Rhode Island to Farmer’s Bank of Wisconsin, and raising other bank notes, including twenties, Farmer's Bank of Lexington. Fifty two arrests were made. Naomi, the daughter of Noah, was five, hundred and eighty years old when she married. Coafage, ladies, and when discouraged by any' ofjft from marrying on account of age, reply, “Na*o-mi.” A bear, weighing four hundred pounds when dressed, was killed in Green county, fnd., not long ago, by n Mr. Walker.