Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1869 — The Atlantic Monthly for February [ARTICLE]

The Atlantic Monthly for February

Has a wide range of Articles mostly i *bv well-known w riters, as follows: | j Maihonk; an Olijpoiit Romance, j The Second part of a Serial story, ! j by T. W. Iligginson. , Tims Uookstki*. A poem, by i 1 Edmund C. Stcdman. Orr Postal Deku ikxces. By E. j L- Ha'sket Derby . Co-operative Housekeeping. Tbe ! fourth of a series of papers that | should be read by all housekeep- ; ers. ‘ Charles Baudelaire, Poet ok the i M align. A sketch of the char- j acter and writings of this noted ! French poet, by Eugepe Benson, j Consumption in America. The i second paper of a veVy valuable i series qh a subject of the greatest practical importance, by Flenrv I, i Bowditch, M. D. The Bjsi: and the Rose. Aqioeln. j Ritualism in England. By Arthur j Pember.

' Proud Music of tuf. Ska-Storm. A poem, by Walt Whitman. ! Thk New Educa tion. A general statement ot the demand of the times-sos a more practical system of education, and an account of the Scientific Rnd Technological Schools founded to furnish it. By Charles W. Eliot..—”-7 Birth of the Solak System. By James D. Whelpiey\ i Love in Mount Lebanon. .By J, W. EeForest. ■ Tribute or a Lovino Friend to thr | j Memory of a Noble Woman, j i (The Duchess of Sutherland.) By, ; Mrs. H. B. Stowe. Opr Fopb Servants. ■ Reviews and Literart Notices. FIELDS, OSGOOD ds CO. I ' Publisher! Boston. 1

*sr“The triangular tight for United States Senator In Indiana has Anally terminated. Win. Cumback received the Itcpubtkwu Humiliation. btrt hhr - election was bllterly opposed by the Republican Governor of the State, and he* was com|>oUed to withdraw from “the contest after two days’ bSTlottnp, when D. D. Pratt was elected. The j friends of the defeated candidate arc j ' now singing ‘Willie has Cumback.’ ’’ -N. r.OUura. Oh, no they ai-nt; 'cause he didn't /go.* They are singing: f “Oh! ever thus from childhood's hour, j We’v seen our fondest hopes decay ; We never tree or llower, ■*' Ifi i But ‘t wan tbe first to fade away. • We -never nurs'd a fond desire 1 For office fat and lots of- pay, 1 . 1 But what some cuss, a leotle nighcr, Hearb’d forth bis band and snatch’d away! !.' After Mooit. P- - - •——— ? ~r~ ““t ■ ~

—The Appleton's arc about starting a new literary journal. _ Charlotte Cu«hman will play a shori engagement at a New York theater; 1 —•— - Fiitpcn colored persons were baptised at Indianapolis on last S'uiulav. * —Mrs. Gains offers to donate a block in New Orleans for a new State House. —Aaron Jones, the pugilist has left Cincinnati, and gone South to tepeh the “manly art of silfdciince.” —A cotemporary says: “Miss Kellogg's slight figure is muscular enough to support.'several thousand pounds of diamonds.” Hon. D. D. Pratt, our newly elected Senator is six feet four inches tall and weighs over three hundred pounds. Several officers of the Cuban insurgents are in New York city for tike purpose of purchasing arras and ammunition. The,New York Herald states that last year it paid to the Telegraph Company 84,000 more than all the rest of the New York city papers. —There is a boy in Cheshire, Mass., who promises to be considerable of a man. He is sixteen years old and measures six lcet three. ,

'—General Grant has written a letter to the officers of the proposed Inauguration Ball, the purport of which is “Let us have peace.” The ball, therefore, will not come off. —A Washington dispatch says: It seems to be generally understood tbai Menard, the colored Cong remain an from Louisiana, will not get his seat in the House. •—Lawyer Bradley, who was ousted from the United States District Court at Washington, for insulting Judge Fisher, has drummed the court room floor with his knees, begged pardon, and asked to.be restored. i

•—The Bayard family of Delaware have had thirty-three years in tho United States Senate. The office has been held by the father, uncle and grandfather of Thomas F. Bayard the last elected. The election ol’lloiv. D. I). Pratt • to thtrUnited Sreres Senate leaves a vacancy in the Congressional delegation of Indiana, Among the names mentioned in connection with the vacancy, that of lion, J. N. - Tyner, wf Peru, stands deservedly : prominent. | The re rign at ion of General i Hooker, and the death of General | Kosseau, leave.vacant two Brigaj dier Generalships in the regular ! army. Colonel Heintzleman is tbe j ranking Cqlon©!. ! The President has nominated j Generals Buchanan and Gillem to j i the vacant positions. | —The important case of D. D. ; Williamson rr. the Louisville, New ' Albany A Chicago Railroad Com- | pany was decided in the White | county Court of Common Pleas, at j Monticello, on Friday. The Sheriff'■ of White county, after advertising j the property in one* newspaper at j Manticelio, two in New Albany and two in New York city, is empowered to sell tbs road, frachises, rolling stock, depots and other,property to the highest bidder, and the proceeds are to be applied to indemnifying the bond holders. The sale will take place about the first of April.

A Washington dispatch sSys : “Several wealthy and leading revolutionary Cubans have arrived here who have made their repreaenta- ; tions to the State Department on the condition of the island. They affirm ! that there are from 12,000 to 14,000 troops in the insurgent force, well armed and organized, and that any number can be raised as soon as ! arms in sufficient numbers are landed upon thfi island. They require no men from the Uni<ed States. They have men enough ; all tba£ is wanted is arms and munitions of war. They seek recognition as belligerents, - and many in Congress favor this.” 1