Jasper Banner, Volume 2, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1855 — THE DELINQUENT LIST. [ARTICLE]

THE DELINQUENT LIST.

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From the time we first established our press in this place our aim has to do what we could to promote the.interest of the county. The utility of a press for such a purpose has herb generally conceded. It was without apprehensions that we Commenced the publication of our paper. We, however, had the assurance, thatt everything, that could, would be done to sustain us, and, Hitherto, we have not been disposed , to complain although we have labor cd hard without receiving anything] like an adequate compensation for: dm" ’ services. It must bo-known toevery intelligent person that, in a county like this, where everything is new and the inhabitants sparse no paper can be sustained without the! county patronage in addition to its ! other support. i . ! We reasonably supposed, after in- j vesting our means, and doing all we could to promote the interest of the community we had some claim upon the county for its liberality and support. But the Fusion Dinasty have decreed otherwise. The new Audi-; tor, at the dictation of other*, and for the purpose of injuring us, has taken the resposibility of sending the Delinquent List out of the county for publication—a thing unprecedented, within our knowledge. The feeling* and motives which instigated this course we regard as mean and contemptable. Whatever may be said in extenuation, we have no hcsitency in denouncing it as pusillanimous and vindictive in the extreme. The Auditor, himself, has acknowledge to us, that the course qe peraued with our paper previous to the election was characterized by magnanimity, and was deserving of gratitude from our opponents. But he fears to incur the displeasure of . his dictators, who watch him with a vigilant eye. The plea of getting the List printed cheaper than we could do it, is a mere pretext. If cheapness was his only object he should have sought a bid from Greeley or some other extensive establishment-besides the! miserable rat concern that has under-1 taken the job. I The publrehing the-Hsfrj is incurred by the tax-payer, and not | by the county; and it is well known that a very large proportion of the delinquents are non-residents, so no advantage can result to the county from the course pursued. We offer-; ed to do it for 29 per vhi* less than, the established price—a price that is j paid to publishers in all, or nearly all the other counties in the State. But, as we have already said, this' is a mere pretext. Before the pres-; ent indumbent was installed into office w.e were informed that the List • would be taken from us, but we did not believe that Mr. Knox would so far prostitute his office as to suffer; himself to become the tool of certain individuals whose animosity we had incurred without any just provocation. . Thia petty act of tyranny plainly indicates the course w hich the Fu-j sion leaders are disposed to persue tow&rde their political opponents. — We do not wish, however, to be understood, when we speak thus as meaning all the prominent men in that party, for there are those among them we esteem as honorable and high-minded men. Horrid Murder. “One of the most cold-blooded murders’’ says a Clinton (III) paper, *‘wc ever heard of, was perper trated in this place, about 3 o’dobk p. ML htf Friday, hut.. rThr victim’s'

I w A neo m R usk; the .tmm eof Ithe mud| trer is Anae Last | June,h Officuhy arose bqfirccn land Wy®it, and the latter attacked TThe other with a large knife. Rusk tried to avoid a-collision willdVialUL but to no purpose; qnd as r\ mniwu of having his own life, he drew ajtbitol and shot the latter in the arm.— Wyants arm had to be amputated, and ho swore ho would havq revenge, and since that time he has narroly watched for such an opportunity.— A short time before the murder, he -said he was gqing to Indiana; but instead of that, he came to this place for the purpose of watching the movements of Rusk, as is supposed. Last

Friday Rusk came to town, and Wyant saw him; the latter dogged [ the footsteps of the other from place Ito place, and finally in the court house. Rusk entered the office of the County Clerk, and was standing behind the stepfe with his arms folded, when Wyant opened the door and began firing an Allen revolver at him. The first bail struck Rusk in the side, the second in the shoulder, and the third ball entered his ■‘arhiL' Wyant Then stood over the" fallen man, put the pistol to his head and fired the fourth shot, the ball passing entirely through the head, and from the orifice it made oozed the brains. Rusk lived near an hour after but never spoke we believe. HT3 murderer, Wyant: tried to make his escape, but was secured a short distance from the court house, and conveyed back to that building. Shortly after,die was taken to prison and securely ironed. It is thought nothing will save him from hanging as a responsible witness was in the Clerk’s office at the time of the murder. We understand that the wife of Rusk who wtm cncicntc at the time oi the murder, and her child, which was prematurely born, are not expected to live from one minute to another, and perhaps may be dead now. Jf they die, Wyant will be a triple murderer, and consequently he should suffer the severest penalty of the law. Circuit Court is now in session, but is thought his trial will not take place this term. Some think there will be a change of venue taken in this case.