Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1860 — Sale of Helper's Book. [ARTICLE]

Sale of Helper's Book.

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We learn that the number of Helper's ImpTitUng Crisis distributed up t-» ti e present trine is about 145,606-copies, which induct s 2.xp_tli tise fifty cent paper covered edition an 1 i lie one dollar edition. Its pnuHshw expects, 'however, to sell -as many more before November, as>4 that hi this manner Its clreiilatipn wtiM eKC.cecl even that of Mrs. Beecher .S»owe’s ‘•‘Uncle Tom's Cabin.'” A jcajo-ity ml! the orders tor the hook have come from Nfotv York and Neiv iSmi-lMutL, and the 'i.'ijr of copies sold in both the I a tier la-cations far exceeds the number sold in all the other rStai-es couibbaed. Immense quantities of "the book have been senCto Philadelphia and Bystou, and the orders from those cities are -st'jll pouring in at k rate that has-diminished hilt little since their commencement. In the s\fest, the demand for the wurg was not .eqfual to the expectations of the publisher. .He attributes tiiis to a scarcity of money there, owing to the winter and hard times, ■blift hits hopes when summer returns, and weirk is plenty, that the sale of the hoc k will lbe!largely increased, aided, as it must be, by thi excitement attendant upon the Presi•ifehtial campaign. About two thousand orfrom the South have also been filled; .but the publisher thinks that those who pur•idi&sed the hook did so more through curiosity fco see it than from any other motive. The book has been a decided pecuniary success to all connected with it, and in more w.-yyp than one; for not only lias it been a ■ unfit- lucrative speculation by itself, but it llunt also increased the sale of many other works —some, of them of a like nature — issued by the same publisher. When the otlifce of publication in this city was first nintle known through the columns of the Herald, the number of copies retailed t,ingly at the counter averaged one hundred and fifty perj; day, and this quantify only decrease^ 1 , •when the trade orders began to come in.

The Mormons. —The Mormons how ntim’ber 120,000, including good, bad, and indifferent. The number in Utah is put down at 38,0.00 Of these, 4,617 men have 16,500 \v ives. CO” The Brandon (Miss.) Republican fairly hits the insincerity of the Democracy touching the slavery question, in the following . rough but lively epigram: “John Sherman-do prove you're had, But one remark suffices: You endorsed Helper’s book, > Called “The Impending Crisis,” Jolm Letcher, you o ce endorsed Rufiller's Abolition opinion; But you wore a Democrat, John, And now Gov’nor of the Oid Dominion. John Sherman’s a devil—John Letcher a saint; John Letcher a a Democrat —John Sherman ain't. The New Indiana Penitentiary. The Indiana Sentinel, says, that “the new Penitentiary lias been located by the Commissioners at Michigan City, and the location has been approved by the Governor. We •understand that a site comprising ono hundred ueres, eligibly situated, has been offered to the Commissioners for $4,500. The DurantissijonGrs left yesterday for Michigan City, to make the purchase of the site and tu conclude arrangements’ for the construction of the. prison. Early in tho season a large number of the prisoners in the JeffersonVflie prison will be transferred, and employed in she erection of the new prison.” Republican State C invention at 'Wheeling, —The Wheeling Intelligencer con* tains a call for a Virginia State Convention of the Republican party to moot in that city on thg 2d da,v of May. The object of the Convention is to send delegates to the Chicago Convention. The terms of the call are ns the National Committee’s call, some weeks ago from New York.