Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1860 — RELIGIOUS NOTICE. [ARTICLE]

RELIGIOUS NOTICE.

o The Third Quarterly Meeting of the-M. ? E. Church, will be held in this place on Saturday and Sunday, the 14th and 15th inst. Elder W. P. Shockey will preach at the Baptist Church in Rensselaer, on Friday , evening, April 20, at early candle-lighting, j and also on the following Lord’sTday, April ! 22, at 10| o’clock A. M., at the- Court House. ’ understand that the School House ["contract has been Jet to Mr. A. Shephard of Barkley Township for $3,125. Mr. Shephard ’ agreeing to complete the building by the j 4th of July 1861. i ftJ = We invite attention to the advertisement *of(3l. M. Stackhouse & Bro. in another colThey are fully up to the times, and I will be glad to see all their old customers s and as many new ones as may want any- > thing in their line. As will be seen they .have materially extended their business. ftO’Thc fine shower of Sunday night and .Monday, has metamorphosed Dame Nature, who has donned he r spring garments, smoothed the winter wrinkles from her face, and put on, not a smile, but, a broad grin, which the fine prospect for wheat, arid the beauti- , ful spring weather has caused our farmers . to imitate. '■>jrJr j There is no doubt that recent events have materially lessened the chances of both Seward and Douglas. A few more elections like those of Connecticut and Rhode Island and Bates and Breckenridge stock will be at premium. are like the New York ■delegate to Chicago, “for the man that, standing square on the Republican platform, can get the. most States, and for the non inee of the Chicago Convention anyhow.” oJ7“Ow’ing to some reason or other we had not paper to publish a whole sheet this week. The publisher says, it is because the contractors (Messrs. Thompson & son) failed to supply it. But we have just accertained that there is another reason; a cri-srs has arrived in Mr. Davies affairs that will materially increase his expenses, and will render it necessary for him to either enlarge his subscription list, or hereafter publish only a half sheet. This is the report on the street: we hope it may not be true. OJT’Mr. Buesing has been delivering during the past week a course of Lectures upon the various branches of education with a view of awakening an interest in a High Shool which he proposes to open if efficient encouragements are given him. Judging from the manner in which he handles the various scientific branches he is fully competent to conduct such ti school, and surely we need it bad enough. We hope therefore that our citizens will see the importance of securing of a teacher competent to teach the classics, and the higher branches of Science, and will think twice before they let Mr. Buesing go. - GJz*The Administration hangers-on are having a perfect Kilkenny-cat fight over the Indiana Marshalship. The President saw fit to appoint Mr. English, father of English, of English-bill notoriety, in opposition to the wishes of Fitch and others; thereupon Mr. Fitch gets mad, ami declares “he will not again cuter the White House while Mr. Buck stays in it;” which anno-uncemeht cases Mr. Buck amazingly, who congratulates himself that he .is rid of the Indiana Senator. The Indiana Senator having let his tremendous wrath evaporate in this very daring sentence washes down his; wounded feelings with a glass of brandy, and the reflection that there will be a Convention at Charleston this spring,