Jasper Banner, Volume 2, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1855 — HOW IT WORKS. [ARTICLE]

HOW IT WORKS.

1 Ssq. w authorized to Mt M our agent, in receiving subscripÜbftsTMKeTianner?~ r “ XT* Mr. Clare Oxley is authorized to act as our agent in procuring subwriters to the “Banner.” Wood! Wood!—Wanted at this office, on subscription.

The commotion which prevailed in certain quarters since the publication of our last paper would,seem to indicate that the despicable’and contemptible course pursued by our servile Auditor, in sending the Delinquent List oat of the County, lest ■ we should be benefited by its publication, is far from meeting the approbation of the Fusionists generally. They do not seem willing to sanction an act which they cannot but regard as contemptible in itself, and which they know has been done at the behest of a few of their Black Republican allies, and for the gratification of the most ignoble feelings. The penurious policy urged by the Auditor as a plea of justification is too shallow’. The citizens of Jasper county are too magnanimous to listen to such an apology. They will not fail to put a right estimate upon a man whose first official act is characterized by such unparalleled meanness. We regret that we are compelled to "speak thus of one of whom” wb desired to entertain a better opinion, it would have been more in accordance with our feelings to have spoken of him with respect and approbation; but his alacrity to prostitute his office and yield himself a ready instrument to others for the purpose •of injuring us, without any provocation whatever, places it beyond our power to do so.

DCpAmong our new advertisements will be found a call for a Rail Road meeting. We advise our citizens to abandon this project, for the -present at least, and go in for an Un-der-Ground Rail Road. We believe that work, if not capital, could be profitably invested in the construction of such a road. The rolling material would not be difficult to procure. A Beautiful Simile. —A plain unschooled man, who had received his education principally beneath the open sky, in the field or forest, and who had wielded the axe more than the pen, while speaking of children remarked with true and beautiful simplicity: “The little est the heart.” CCr*S. C. Chandler will deliver a series of lectures at the Court House, commencing on next Sunday, Dec. 2nd, at the Visual hours of meeting. Subject, “an impartial examination of the Bible and thef Christian system.”— The public are invited to attend. OCpOur Devil, the other day, astounded us by the following query: Why are a certain clique, in this place, like a pugilist? Because they make use of knocks -(Knox) to injure their enemy. Liberal Donation .—We learn from a correspondent, that W. H. Derby, the celebrated publisher, has donated to the Athenean Society of the Indiana University, Bloomington, fifteen hundred dollars in books, to be selected from his catalogue.— LaPorte Times. CCTCan any of our cotemporaries inform us whether W. B. Sloan is still doing business in Chicago? We have written him several times on business lately, but can’t hear from him. Hope he’s not stopped payment.”-- Delphi Journal. We are in the same category. We are of the opinion that he has sloped. X’ Good Toast. —Woman—the morning star of our youth; the day utar of nur manhood; the evening ater Wour old age. God bless our stars!

■ Morocco, Jasper, Co, Ind., ) Nov, 27‘, 1855. J Mr. McCarthy, Dear Sir: —I see by some remarks in you reaper, that you are getting some very parsimonious persons about Rensselaer. — I am afraid your town will loose its reputation for liberality. It is true, I believe, I have never seen a schoolhouse in town, but several fine edifices for religious worship, your streets in fine condition, and a liberal effort for a Railroad; also—what few towns of its size have—a well conducted paper, that has reflected Credit on its editor and the citizens whogotit up,indicate a good degree of enterprise. Hence you can imagine my chagrin when I discovered an effort, by our new Auditor and his friends to break down your press, for that only could be his mo- i tive in sending the Delinquent List ! out of the county |to be printed.— I His plea that it is done for cheapness, j is too hollow for any sane man to be;lieve. The speculator and non-res-ident, whose* lands are advertised, > will not thank him for so penurious , an effort to economize'* their interest. ’ By the time he adds his expense in I going out of the county to get it done, it will be so trifling that they would not stoop to make the change. But they may feel obliged to him for not having the Duplicate legally placed in the hands of the Collector until more than four weeks after the time prescribed by law, and, even then, without a precept to the Treasurer to collect: they will feel still more obliged to the Auditor for not. having “recorded, in a book provided for that purpose,” the Delinquent List “between the Ist and 15th of Nov,” thereby making illegal his economized notice and sales of said Delinquent Lands on the first Monday of January next, if our cqunty Treasurer should be green enough to offer them; but from his honesty and capacity, as manifested in the settlement of the county and township revenue last June, I think he will not offer lands for sale to the honest people of Jasper county, when he knows the purchaser will have to take back his money without the expeoted per eeat. • -

When the June settlement was made, the Treasurer refused to settle the revenue until it was revised and enlarged by one who has been abused and despised’by the new-fangled gentry ;and after the celebrated Board of Commissioners of last June.and the “iron-nerved, able Auditor” had passed upon the settlment and admitted it to their record, and published it in your paper as correct, making the Treasury due the several townships, the sum of $776,78; the Treasurer agauLrefußeff tOWleby said exf»ikt» n llo{pngr that thfti-p waa more funds in his possession than reported by this infalible Board of Commissioners and the Auditor; and again they had to have recourse to some of the despised few of Rensselaer, and have their settlement examined, when the township fund was ascertained to be sl964,32—making a nett gain to the townships, by the Treasurer’s even and upright course, of $1187,54. 1 hope, Mr. Editor, we will again be saved, by him, from a loss that must otherwise resultfrom the ignorance and vindictiveness of those who will ‘‘strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.”

FARMER.

Singular Will. —A person named etl J. de Dios Chacon, recently died at Lima, leaving a fortune of one million dollars, all won at the gaming table. He willed the whole to a woman residing in the city, on condition that she would give a pesta r (quarter of a dollar) each day to every convalescent discharged from the hospital, and receive a hundred poor men and women at her table. In case the legatee neglects to fulfill either of the provisions above mentioned, the usufruct of the money is to be vested in the governments of England and France, on the same conditions. Valparaiso Papers. IT Adversity exasperates fools, dejects coward,' draws out the faculties of the wise and ingen-1 ious, puts the modest to the necessity of trying! their skill, awes the opulent, and makes the idle . industrious. Much may be said in favor of ad | renritv; but the worst of it is, it has nofriends ■ (