Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1869 — The Eclipse “Done" by Snipe. [ARTICLE]

The Eclipse “Done" by Snipe.

Snick fnmisho* ns with the -following particulars of tile eclipse , w hich came under his special observation: According to programme pub- ] dished kt- most of the respectablejournals, pi the United Stales, (| lar- j p< rs’ being only a “journal of civilly, nitnn** lays m» claim to respci-t----nhility) t|ie eclipse came off last Saturday with a very extensive and highly appreciative audience. Ir is very seldom hik-Ii highly “moral and intellectual exhibit ions’’ appear in Jasper county and we were glad to scit.it no largely pat* ionized. . It speaks well for the intelligence of her inhabitant*, saying nuthing of visitors, they having said enough of themselves. Wv ate happy tosav the day was propitious as well as auspicious, the tv eatlier fair and so were the ladies —alter washing their faces. Smoked glass was in general demand with above an average quantity in hands of holders. Some who could n’t smoke their glasses, smoked their pipes; others smoked cigars, (tht)y bought them of Coats’ big Indian.) We got beer glasses with beer ill ’em, but found ’em too cloudy and put them down for (lour whiskey, which brought out “Hailey's Jseml«” (or some other man’s) to perfection. (Jood many of the spectators had their faces eclipsed, after the manner of tlie sun’s, with a number of digits, and like the sun got blaek in the face. It is thought tlie digits over the sun’s face belonged to the Man in the Moon, as it is reported he was s.en to pass there ;rfioiit that tune.

The testimony against Verger was so direct and overwhelming that his counsel were driven to that highly popular plea for the worst of criminals —insanity. A Vicksburg correspondent ol the Cincinnati Commercial elaborates said plea at gtaal length, lie says Verger was the spoiled pet ol a most excellent father; was the Chesterfield and 15eau lirnmmcl of Mississippi in his youth—the scion of a rich, proud family. Hut he was a man of much “imperiousness” of manner, and “an almost overpowering vanity,” of crazy eccentricities,” unparalleled conceits” and “damnable effrontery;” that at the trial he sat “perfectly unabashed” in his handcuffs, and seemed to have no “realizing sense of tho heinconsnea of his offence.” The ingenious correspondent thinks that it ought to be considered, that while Verger formerly had *15,000 per annum to spend, he has lately been pinched up on but *5,000 a year, which poverty had the effect to sour and madden fiirn? And yet, this same wretch, who is now paraded as a lunatic to save his neck, lias been a prominent local politician for years, and one of the leading democrats of Mississippi; was editor of the Mississippian, a member of the Democratic Executive Committee of the State, a delegate to*the convention which nominated Horatio Seymour to the Presidency, and believed, if his party was successful, his services entitled him to a Scnatorship, or a Foreign Mission. He was also a delegate to the Memphis Commercial Convention, and the originator of a scheme of emigration. The witnesses nil testified that they had never dreamed of his being insane, till his attorneys and physicians suggested it. The truth is, he is just as sound brained as any of that class of pro-slavery democrats, to whom he belonged. lie is simply a hardened villain, a dastardly whelp of tlie devil—a thug.—Luportc Union and Herald.