Jasper Banner, Volume 2, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1855 — The Mail. [ARTICLE]

The Mail.

' /yJohn Ckxiui Esq, w authorised to act M Amr «genk in receiving aubscripOTr* M» Clare Oxley is authorized to act *s Our agent in procuring wbfibers to the "Banner.” :

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-;.'..^--•