Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1860 — The Indiana Marshalship. [ARTICLE]

The Indiana Marshalship.

The Washington correspondent of the New York Times writes: “Tbe appointment of English as Marshal •of Indiana has produced a great flare up in the Administration household. A Mr. Voorhees called on the President and earnestly protested against it in the name of the Administration Democrats in Indiana. After he concluded his remarks, Mr. Buchanan replied: “Mr, yjoorhees, the President, I believe, sir, is vested'With the appointing power, and he has exercised it. 1 have no other answer for you, sir.” Mr. Voorhees, I learn, avows his determination to support Douglas, as the heaviest blow he can give back, and Senator Fitch declares his purpose not again to enter tbe White House.”

Something Wurth Knowing.—One day last week while purchasing a lot of dried fruit we discovered small pieces of sassafras bark mixed among it,_upon inquiry, were informed thTt it was a preventative against the worm. It is said that dried fruit put jiway with a little bark (say a large handful to the bushel,) will save four years, unmolested by those troublesome little insects, which so often, destroy of bushels in a single season. The remedy is cheap and simple, and we venture to say, a good one.— -Lexington (.S'. C.) Flag.

Astor meeting Mr. Whitney one day, said to him: “Mr. Whitney, I hear you have retired from business.” This was niter his retirement in 1837. “Yes,” replied Mr. Whitney, I have re‘ tired. ~ “And how much are you worth!” inquired Mr. Astor. “About $5,000,000.” replied Mr. Whitney. Aller standing and thinking in silence for a moment,” Well,” said Mr. Astor, “I don’t know but it is just as well to retire on that uurn.as it is to be rich.” fffr -There is a lawyer in one of the interior towns of this State named James Thief. Hid neighbors say his name i« in keeping ’ with his practice

0O”A special dispatch to tbephiladelphia Press says: “Most cf the Southern mrn denounce the President’s protest. The South Americans intend making it an important issue in their canvass before their constituents.” And the Press says.editorially, of the same document: “The Democratic party must utterly and openly repudiate this protest and the protester, or they will hear from the people j;oon upon the subject of Presidential prerogatives.” : Seymour Times thinks a marriage recently reported to have been solemnized in Washington ■county, was a bad arrangement. The parties were Mr. A. J. Crum land Miss Isadora Hornaday. The Times says:: I “We think it rather a poor allowance or : botli.sides. She gets merely, a Crum, while i he has but one Horn-a-day.” o^7*A man named George Worcester hung himself in Elkhart county last week. He tied the rope %o the limb of a tree, climbed I up to the limb and jumped off, giving him- ’ l sell as heavy a fall as if he had been on the I I,drop of a scaffold. Domestic difficulties ; I were supposed to have been the cause ©f it. • i - <»< (fr How IT WAS Found Out.—Mr. What-you-call-him, of our place, says his wife told him that she had been informed that Mr. Stick-in-the-mud’s wife’s cousin had heard how that Mrs, Tattle guessed she saw Somebody go into Mr. Doubtem’s house, whec j nobody could have been there but Mrs. ' Doubtem! We hardly credit the report, but j feel it our duty to circulate it.— Horicon Ar- j ffUS. Ctf7~T'wo. iittle children of a Mr. Ambler were burned iri/their father’s house near Lafayette, on Friday, while he was absent in the town, and his wife was in the fi ild at work. She saw the fire bursting out of the house,"and ran home as fast as she- could, ■ but too late to save her children. The house 1 was destroyed., CO“A young man named John Farrell poisoned himself, last Friday, near Lafayette by eating wild parsnips. He died in great agony. But a few weeks ago we were called upon to record a similar occurrence at Fort Wayne, which caused the death of a ! boy.. by the recruiting officer, “Whenyou get into battle, Paddy, will you fight or run!” “Ah, faith,” replied Pat, with a comical twist of his countenance, “I’ll be after doin,’ yer honor, as the majority of yedo.ee.” < o . oO”The Lafayette Courier says that on . Friday night last an attempt was made to i burn the town of Atica. It was fired in three places at the same time, and in the confusion and alarm .produced by the fires several private houses were entered and robbed. G<T“‘You’ll have to bear the responsibility,” said a mother tc a bright eyed young daughter of our acquaintance who thought of marrying without the maternal approabaLion. “I expect to bear several, ma.,” said i Fanny. £Ky”“Oh! ma!” said a juvenile to an elderly dame, “there goes pa with a yoke of bulls hitched to a bob sled.” “Hush my child!” said the mother, “it is very vulgar to speak so, you should say a pair of gentlemen cows attached to a Robert sleigh.”

western editor has received sixteen offers of marriage since leap year set in, but he hasn’t accepted erne es .them; the answer to his invariable cueEtori,“Hovz much property have you in your own right,!” not being satisfactory in either case. GY*One of the laziest men in the country lives in lowa. As a sample of his inertia, we would mention that the only reason he don’t get married is because he is too lazy to “stand up,” (gt7”The Nashville Patriot is willing to place Judge Bates’ record against Judge Douglas,’ and believes that the people of Tennessee would decide in favor of the former for President. (g(7"Mr. Covode’s investigating Committee coimmenced its labors yesterday. Stirring times ahead amongst and corrupting Democratic politicians, now feeding at the public crib.

■harvest fields, addrssing a smart girl enaged in shearing, exclaimed, “Arrah, my darling, I wish I was in jaii for stealing ye!” A Woman’s Thoughts on Woman.—Fanny Fern says there are two things a woman cannot do', namely, “sharpen .a lead pencil,” “nor do up a bundle.” (gs” Upward of a hundred wells for oil have been bored along Oil Creek and Alleghany River, in Pennsylvania. & fX/~Th?re is a report current that a plot against the Emperor of tbe French had been discovered. _ (g(7'Bacl>eloric aide nly < xclam it ion—Ah-men'