Jasper Banner, Volume 2, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1855 — Page 2

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The Mail.

For two or three week* past, owiftgto negligence, or, some other cause, we have failed to receive our mails with any degree of regularity. The mail bags come to hand regularly, but ftot unfrequetitly without either papers or letters, while at other time* their contents are more than usually large, being tilled with letters and papers that have been detained on the way. It is of but little advantage' to have a daily mail, when the object is defeated by the indolence or carelessness of Postmasters or their deputies. We hope the matter will.be inquired into, and the difficulty remedied.. XTGen. Pierce has distinctly informed the friends of Gen. Shields that the latter cannot be made J a Brigadier General, because in the course of events, the latter may become Commander-in-chie(of the army—and as Gen. Shields is an Irishman, the President will do nothing which will favor the contingency of a foreigner becoming supreme commander of the U. S. Army. - Gen. Shields will be provided for in some other way. The President says that Congress should pass a law that none but an American bom should be Commander-ip-Chief. . : nSTWe call the attention of our readers to the advertisement in today’s paper of the firm of La Rve, Boys &. La Rle. This house is receiving a large and splendid assort-; mentof goods, embracing every description and variety. The large stock of merchandise which has arrived and that is in transit for this place, cannot fail to reduce the price of goods, and enable our farmers to purchase at better rates than by sending abroad.— Those merchants who purchase largly and advertise liberally, are always worthy of liberal patronage. Rjr’E. T. Hakwng is filling up the old corner with a fine lot of choice goods, ahd will be on hand to wait on customers, at all times, “high waters and public days not excepted.” n2r*Godey’s Lady’s Book for May is a splendid number, and, as usual, ing matter. The illustrations are beautiful. It, also, contains the usual number of fashion plates. X/ I 'A Protestant Gathering.—lt is announced that upon the occasion of the Grand Exhibtion at Paris, which is to open on the Ist of May next, there will be in that city a union of all the Protestant professions. Protestant churches from all quarters of the world are to be represented, and discourses will be delivered by many of the most prominent members. The Death Pbnalty in Wisconsin. ' —The House of Representatives of Wisconsin by a vote of 44 to 27 have restored the death penalty in that State. The Senate have yet to act upon the matter. Baby Snow on the Soethern Railroad.—The Adrian, (Mich.) Watchtower is responsible for the statement, that on the evening of the 11th inst., the train on the Southern Railroad consisted of 23 ears, 21 of which contained 954 paying passengers, and 25 babies to each car, or in the ag-■ gregate 535 babies—all Westward' bound. ... . : .. ■; The Ladihh' Faib—Our readers • eHdlbear so mind that the Ladies’. Fair cornea off on Wednesday, the! 9th met., at the Baptist Church, j We shall expect to>epay our/pung i bachelor friends present on that oc- ; MaW with “pocWts full of hicks.”,

tbe'4»roßi : .|HHtiANbi ,X<nif aMy*— A public meeting has been held in Logansport, Indana, wliich resulted in the' expoßUre of this bare-faced swindle. The Journal of that place i gives one of the good results of the meeting as follows: “It was brought out that but 10 per cent, of the capital stock of the Company was ever paid in, and that an amount was borrowed by each (with one exception,) equal to his subscription to purchase stock in the i Valley Bank; that the issue of mon-j ey was in the proportion of about sl7 to' $1 paid in; that the stockholders had made no provision for redeeming the money, bat were expecting the bank to doit; that 85ft.,000 was yet in circulation, in addition to $13,000 then in bank ready to be burned when the Insurance Company took it up.”

flCrThe Custom House receipts at N. Y, Boston and Philadelphia, for the first quarter of the present year, show a falling off of $4,062,390 as compared with the corresponding period of the last year. i a—fTT’Seven thousand bushels of potatoes were shipped from Milwaukie, one day last week, for St. Louis.— The same party had 8,000 bushels in store at Sheboygan, destined for the same market. Tiffin and Ft. Wayne Railroad,— We are informed that the work on this line is progressing rapidly. It was sustained amidst pressing difficulties of last fall, and 70 miles of the line, extending from Tiffin to the Canal, is in such a state of forwardness,that by next September it will be ready for the superstructure. The western portion of the line will be put under contract in May, and finshed as soon as iron can be procured'.The enterprise is gaining friends every day, and the managers are sanguine, that they can negotiate the securities and purchase the iron at liberal rates during the season. The work is progressing between 1 Tiffin and New London, where the ' Clinton line connects with the Cleveland & Columbus Road. West of Ft. i Wayne the work on the Lacon and Platte Valley line will be commenced this spring.— Seneca Advertiser. OCT 3 The 03d Highlanders, the pride of the English army, left Constantinople eight hundred strong, and after their arrival in the Crimea, received an addition of one hundred and fifty men. This regiment has recently returned to Constantinople, reduced to fourteen men and five officers, still bearing with them their regimental colors. OCT®An Irish girl confined in the Alms-House near Palmer, Mass., recently gave birth to a child, which she declared to the last, was but an expression of the will of God. It is strongly to be desired that the Yankee girls in that region should not be called upon in the same way. This is a verification of the Immaculate Conception. DCr'l'he man that can’t laugh, or won’t laugh—the man that can’t take a joke or won’t take a joke—is one of nature’s jokes himself. Reciprocity. The Oswego Daily Palladium makes a fine exhibition of the buti* ness tending to that city, as a consequence of the Reciprocity Treaty.—• From Saturday to Monday night the receipts were As follows *. Flour, bbls. 13.467 Wheat, bush. 34,345 Potatoes, bush. 85 Lumber, feet. 235,000 Butter, kegs. 14 , The total amount of grain and flour received at Oswego from Canadian ports for the week ending Monday night, is as follows: Flour, bbls. . 29,029 Wheat, bush. 54,000 .The total amont of grain and flour received at Oswego up to last night, is as follow s: t Flour, bb}s. 61,210 Wheat, bush. 93,000. This, says the Palodium, is an unprecedented state of things, and is an ' indication of the benefits flowing to us through unrestricted trade. Rah roads and their Victims.—Mr.. Maine, of Suffolk, made an affecting speech in the Senate yesterday on Ins new Railroad bill for the preser- ■ vation of life “on through trains.”— lie said he spoke “for the silent ' dead,” when a profane spectator outside the bar observed that he had “a thundering large constitucnev.”— Bosldnl Afltis. -..7-;.'..^--•

Township Libraries.

The last third of the township 11brnries is now in process Of distribution to the counties, and will short- ; ly be apportioned to the several | townships of the State. The pro tracted delay of this reception has been a matter of deep regret to all;I but it is unnecessary now to go into i a detailed account of the cause of it. Care wifi be taken to prevent a like disappointment in future. With this third of the libraries will be distributed to township cop-. 1 ies of the State Board Agricultural j i Reports, also a copy of Barnard’s School Architecture. There will likewise be sent to each County’Auditor fifty copies of the “Third Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction,” for general distribution, after the Township Boards of Trustees have received a copy? The Friends of education wishing a copy of said report, will please call on their county auditors. Editors throughout the State will confer a favor by giving this notice a conspicuous position in their columns. i

CALEB MILLS,

Sup* I Public Instruction. Indindianapolis, April 13, 1855.

Sheep Shearing Machine.

The Detroit Democrat <s• Enquirer ! gives the following account of a new, invention for shearing sheep, which I may be of interest to some of our far- i mer readers: ) The last invention wc have seen* is ’ a machine for shearing sheep. Those who have seen them used, say they work admirably, and that a sheep can be sheared easily in five minutes, as clearly as by shears, without the possibility of cutting the skin. It is constructed with two rows of knives with saw teeth, set one above the other, and playing across each other like the blades of shears, similar to the blades of the patent mowing machine, only these can cut upon both j edges. The lower knives protrude beyond the upper ones, and are slightly turned over to prevent catching the skin. The knives are carriied by a wheel turned by the hand, and can be made to play very rapidly. The machine is small and about as heavy as two pairs of ordinary j sheep-shears. When used it is strapped upon the shoulder and is readily managed with one hand, and the other left free to hold the sheep. It is a very ingenious instrument, and deserves to be tested. The inventor is Mr. Palmer Lancaster, of Burr Oak, St. Joseph county, who is desirous of selling the right for this State.

The Nunnery Committee.

’’The fire,” as the despatches from Sebastopol say of the allied batteries, “is kept up steadily” against the “Nunnery Committee.” A fearful storm of quizzes, jokes, puns, and epigrams, is Hying against it all the time. The last we have encounter-! ed are aimed at the “lady member,” Airs. Paterson, whose bill at Lowell was charged to the State. She appears to have been a lady of rather worse than doubtful reputation, and; her presence with the honorable leg- < Islators and' yrvCßttgatws of the ini" moralitiy of N sioned much sqandal. The Boston Post offers the following mock excuse for her: “The friends of Airs. Paterson,!A palliation of the fact that she was found in company with such men as compose the ‘nunnery committee,’ say that she was not aware of their character at the time of her introduction tn their acquaintance. “Airs, paterson says that she has suffered enough, in consequence of her association with the ‘smelling committee,” and wishes it particularly understood that she is not a member of the Legislature.” The Transcript having intimated that it might have been the celebrated Mrs Partington instead of Paterson, the old lady, through the Post, resents the imputation in this wise: “See here,” said she at length, and laid a Transcript before ua, much soiled and crumpled, as if ashamed of itself; “see here,” pointing to a paragraph insinuating that it was Mrs. Partington and not Mrs. Paterson that had been discovered at Lowell; “I can be contentious and unmovable under most things,” said she, “but this is an importation that I can’t stand any how. What use is .it that I have livid so long virtuous, ’flam to b.etreated with this vile calomel at last? Don't you think I could level an attachment on the editor for label?” We saw that star was excited and not wishing to ruin the Transcript, we informed her that’ it was probably a typographical error, and that the editor ‘ wcraU' un 'doubtedly correct it. jyMartain Van Bxrnn, Jr, son of the ex-President, died at Paris Franc?* oh the Jl'th ult.

The Enlistment of Boys in the Navy.

The Secretary of the Navy ha* ju*t completed hi.regulatiomi and inrtrucI tions for the enlistment of boys, in • large numbers, into the service unidertheold law of March 2,1887. — I Their substance is as follows: The , parents’ or guardian’s consent to be (requisite and certified. No boy taken under fourteen or over eight-een—-to serve until he is twenty-one. A surgeon’s certificate of physical i fitness required, and no convict tai ken. On enlistment, the boys are to I be sent to the most convenient receiving ship, and there cloathed, and instructed in seamen’s duties;—they are to be permitted to attend as servants or waiters on officers, etc. — Strict special instructions are given as to their professional and elementary English education,for which purpose they are to be formed into classes under the charge of competent officers, warrant and pptty, who are to render a weekly report of the conduct of each boy. At tlie end of the regular cruises, the conduct of the boys also to be reported on, with such suggestions concerning them as the chief officer over them judges proper. Such apprentices to be furnished to the sea-going vessels after instruction, not to comprise more than bhe-twelfth of the ship’s compliment of men before the mast. On enlistment they are to be rated as second or third clqss, as may seem just, and to be rated higher as they deserve to be. The pay of the third class to be $S per month; of second class, $9; of the first $10; onefourth of the boy’s pay to be retained until the experation of his apprentice-i ship; the rest (as may be required) to I be expended for his clothing and! necessaries. . The boy is not permit-j ted to draw spirit rations, but will be ; credited with its value. He is to be! encouraged to send to his parents or friends as much as possible of his pay, : exclusive of the retained one-fourth. I No parties of two or more boys to be i allowed “liberty” in foreign porUand ! when a boy is allowed to go ashore j out of the United States, it must be I inreompany with a petty officer, or; steady and reliable seaman. At the termination of a regular cruise, the commanding officer to report the names of the hoys havingj leave of absence, and the state of j their accounts. Department not to grant more than six weeks leave to the most deserving. At the expiration of term of apprenticeship, to be paid their reserved pay, and if ap-; proved, to receive a parchment cer- j tificate, and to have preference to promotion over all others, if remaining in the service.— Washington Star. OCT’There will be a meeting of the stockholders of the Fort Wayne bpd ) Mississippi Railroad, on the 23d of May, at Rochester. See advertisement.

From die Indianapolis Journal:

A Nice Rascal.

Some time last fall, a gentleman of j Livingston county, New York, wrote; to our Postmaster requesting infor-' mation concerning a fellow by the i i name of Charles S. Brown, who, he I paid, had been indicted in that county, and held to bail in $2,500 for 7;rr-Tlre-tvriter ofthc defter was | the security, and was of course anxI ious to get the runaway perjurer he hbd become bail for, back, and save his money. About the same time, Gov. Seymour of New Y r ork, issued a requisition on our State for the surrender of the scamp, authorizing his I arrest and conveyance to New York ! by John 11. Hurlburt. ! The letter of Brown’s security was handed to Marshal Pilbean, who kept a look out for the fellow, but without success until a few days ago. Last week Hurlburt came on here, and with the Marshal soon ferreted the gentleman out. He was found at Mrs. Kinder’s boarding-house, one of the most respectable houses in the city, passing under the name of Charles Sage, and as a Baptist preacher. He begged the officers not to let the facts about him get into the papers, but they wisely judged that such a rascal ought to be known, and the more widely the better. Brown appears to have got along swimmingly during his residence in these parts. We arc told he had been pastor of three or four parches, and bad figured extensively m educational movements. At Cumberland, ten miles east, he had raised a subscription of SI,BOO to build an academy, one half of which. was subscribed by himself. When the time came to pay he wasn’t ready, and + suspicions begining to grow pretty rank he left, and went to Northefield. We are not fully advised of his operations there; but learn that ho, got himself trusted varioussmall amount", which the creditors’’will have to make up oft’ better paying customers. More Recently he came to West Union, in this county, a few miles

notth-wewt,. where be married a very i*e«ecu\ble young lady by the natoe ? Wedd W P<Ace lust Sunday a week ag O) and his arro.t followed in four J!y4fter. He Jell lor Seottoburg Living. lori eoun . ty Now York, in charge of Mr. Hulburt, on Saturday morning*. Hi* Arrival there will gladden the eyes of his security, and no doubt add another to the effective working force at Auburn, or Sing Sing’. I He is said to have been unusually religious, and particular >ious in his deportment, making very long prayers,«nd exhortingwith great unction. ’ A week or so before his arrest he was figuring in some of our Sundayschools, and we believe opened Roberts Chapel school with a prayer of extravagent length. He is about the fifth scoundrel who has made his way here by preten-1 tioqs to uncommon piety. Our readers, no doubt remember the ingeni-1 ous young gentleman of walk and .godly conversation,” who used his situation in the Bank here i to the depleting of that institution of a large sum of money. He has nev- j er been caught we believe. Your religious scoundrels are sharp. StJ John, the pious painter, who swin-1 died everybody that would trust him, and afterwards was arrested in Ohio for a forgery committed at Rock Island, or somewhere thore, and for having married at least two more j “live” wives than the law allows, was) another. His, partner was worthy- of: him. Both ran away from here together. Another was the “fire-proof paint” chap who got some of our benevolent citizens to endorse for him in Bank,: and then “cut.” He was a pious [ man, too, and got himself into socie- j ty by his expertness at devotional I exercises. Frank May is another) case of tlje same description, except: that tfie magnitude of his rascalityraises him above the level of his pious co-mates in villany. He was a model Sabbath school superintendent, and when on the road with i nearly twenty thousand dollars of his ) uncle’s money, he dutifully sent back i the church, key which in the hurry of' his depai ture he had taker with him. • He ted in singing with fervor, and,' : we beliex e. was a zealous supporter lof prayer meetings. It miiy be that! : his rascf.lity was the rest It of too) ( great sensitiveness. for he said in his ) , letter to ais uncle that he took the• money b jeause he hadn’t the cour-! i age to fr,ce a run on the Bank” If) ! he had lacked the courage to make 'a “run” on the railroad, he would have done better. Altogether, rascality in Indianapolis has hept excellent company. JtfTTh e steamer Wm. Knox, front. Cinndlbound to St. Louis,was’destroyed by fire on the morning of 23d ult.J I near Flint Island, below Louisville. Thei ; boat was lull of passengers for Kansas, { ! but it is believed that no lives were lost,: j as a steamer came up at the time of the 1 . conflagration. ! ° JtST Thw District Court has granted a writ of error in the case of Arrison, the torpedo man, and suspended sentence.

The Lunkirk Barber Caught.

The Du nkirk barber, who recently robbed one. of his customers of $1,400 by the aid of chloroform, has been nabbed at New Orleans. The Chief of Police got on his track, and getting into his c onfidence under pretence of being a thief himself, wormed all of his secrets out of him, and among the rest a plan-for a heavy robbery there. VVe quote from the Delta: i The barber then told James that he and some of his associates in the city ha d a man “in their eye,” whom they intended to rob of $15,000, but he feared they would have to crack him (kill him,) for they did not believe they could frisk (way-lay) him. After further conversation, the Chief requested him to take a short walk, whe n getting to a proper place, he show ad his “crescent” and revealed his rank. Tile scoundrel’s astonishment may be better imagined than conceived; but soon recovering from his first surp.'ise, he attempted to draw his knife.; James’ pistol was soon at his breast, however, and he had to give in. He then tried, to bribe the Chief and Officer Horn. They agreed to take the bribe, of all his money and effects. To Horn he gave a gold watch worth and on the Chief demanding All the money he could raise, he gave him - an order for $1)50 on a bankinghouse in Cincinnati, besides SOO dollars he had on his per son But there is no relying on the word of a police officer, for no soon;er had the money and effects been j placed in the ChicFs hands, than he ' ordered poor John A. Hall, alias Jer ; ■I ry Browu, to be locked up,in the Parish prison, where he now is in safety. The fellow is a likely-looking darkey, witli’a most villainous countenance.

Napoleon's Visit to Victoria.

; The t|n»e set for the Imperial vi.it il w ‘th great reluctance, has at l»wt invited the JBxnperor and his Empress to Wixidsor for the 16th o April. Personally the visit is disagreeable to her feeling.. Sh*. likes the family of Hfe late Louis Phillippc, and iIMUm both Napoleon and Eugenie most heartily. Thi» visit ha. been forcibly imposed on her t and she ha. only accepted the imposition as a stern and imperative State necessity. To,Hurts Napoleon it ha. long been an object of special ambition, as affording an introduction to the iapiiiy of European sovereigns, and somewhat of a palliative to the scorn with wlilch Nicholas""" and the coldness with which, until recently, Francis Joseph avoided all : personal recognition of him. More than onep has this visit been attempted to be thrust upon the British sovereign, but her own violent and most honorable opposition, sustained by her consort and Lord Aberdeen'and his section of the late English MinI istry, protected her from this infliction. : The same necessity which forced her to adopt his friend and protege as guest. The Court and Cabinet of England were thrown into consternation by the projected visit of the Emperor to the Crimea. Independent of a mulj titude of other reasons, the perpetra- : tion of such a purpose would have been a death blow to the Vienna Conference. Lord Clareudon was at once dispatched to Bologne, and met Louis Napoleon whose flattered I vanity was but too ready to swallow ) the bait and alter the labels on his i valise from Sebastopol to Southamp-. , ton. The slippery and danger- ■ ous Frenchman was attacked and [carried at his weak point’, and Pal- , merstone’s policy was saved at tho expense of the Queen’s feelings. Doubtless the air will glitter with light sparkling gossip and pretty prattle, of how Victoria kissed Eugenie, and Eugenie kissed the Princess Alice, a.nd Sthey aU kissed, each other all the way round. The one ) will shew her jewels in the boudoir, j-and the other in the nursery K and tho . whole wprld will be told of the un- ; dying love of England for Napoleon, ) as before for Louis Phillippe, and her j undying friendshipfor France, as bei fore for Russia. j From time *ne ab»o- ---! lute condition for the admission of a foreign potentate into Buckingham Palace has been a legitimate descent from a Capet, a Hohenzollern, a Hapsburgh, or a Romanoff. Louis Fapoleon is the first sovereign of illegitimate descent \vho has ever bounded over this insuperable obstacle.. i ” ’ L

A Railroad Train Saved by a Child

! During the recent extensive tire* iin South Carolina, a culvert on the , railroad was destroyed, and the train i would have run the risk of being precipitated into the opening, but for the forethought and courage of a little girl, who ran a considerable distance down the crawl and. waved her bonnet to, the conductor as a sig- . nal tQ atdp. The latte g, olwMwiH-y - the unusual object, stopped the train and ascertained the danger, by which lie saved his own life and the lives oi the passengers. The citizens talk of rewarding the noble conduct of the girl, and. of having her properly educated. The citizens are right; but if they do their duty only in rewarding this heroic little girl, what should the public think of the act of the jury who awarded two thousand dollars to a bciilge-tender, (who had charge of a drawbridge, through which a train of cars was precipitated into the river), because a newspaper mentioned the fact, for the protection of traveleiw* Is not such a verdict as dangerous to tho public welfare as dangerous as it was unjust to the publishers, for is if not rewarding ca3pa<bi«carelessnc and holding out apremium to railroad slaughter? The decision of the public upon this question is a matter of some importance, for the principle established by the jury to which we refer may yet involve in a frightful manner the Jives of many of our citizens. — Phil. Ledger. Joseph Hiss, the member from Boston resigned his seat in the House on the 23 ult. on account of the difficulties growing out of the nunnery investigation. His letter of resignation was received by a committee. Michigan Souths* Railuo.w.—The ernings ofthe Michigan Southern Railroad for the first week of the present month were, in round numbers, $60,000; against, $35,00f0r the same week of last yeffi'. ‘ 8 HCPThe Welland (’anal "of op< n rd on the J2th ul(/ 1