Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1860 — Death of Gov. Bissell. [ARTICLE]

Death of Gov. Bissell.

Sr. Louis, March 19. Governor Bissell, of c Illinois, died yesterday attf^rßoon. Harper’s Ferry committee are doing nothing. They are waiting tor Redpath, Sanborn and John Brown Jr. The two first, it is thought, they will be able to secure, as their officers are on their track. Hyatt still refuses to yield. The Committee will .keep him incarcerated until Congress adjourns. Pof.try a Capital Offence! —lt is thus related in Scottish Annals: “In 1579, an act was pas-ed againsVhe beggars and sic as make themselves fools and bards.” And the Annnle go on to register: ‘‘Two Poets i hanged in August, under Act of Parliament against bard* and minstrels.”