Jasper Banner, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1855 — Page 2

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Death of Mrs. Wright.

It is with feelings of profound regret that we, this morning, are compelled to announce the decease of 3e Accomplished and excellent lady fGov. Wright. Mrs. W. breathed heif last Saturday morning, the Ist lost.,at the residence of her parents in Scott County, Ky.— Sentinel. tt7*We have observed, for a short j time past, that the old Clerk, G. W. Spitler, is busily employed in arranging hit books and papers in order that the Clerk elect, C. M. Waton, may be prepared, without difficulty, to enter upon the duties of his office. — We do not complain. This is as it should be; but it inclines us to believe, what we have long suspected, ♦bpt, outside the Democratic party, there is no man in Jasper County whom Spitler would sooner have for his successor than C. M. Watson. How strong on obligation may exist between them, we do not know, nor shall we take the liberty to enquire. We regard both of them as honorable and high minded men, and, although the latter has been a successful competitor against us, we most cordially wish him success in his new avocation.

A Miserable Subterfuge.

The Auditor, to screen himself j from the just censure that is being! heaped upon him, by our citizens ! generally,for his contemptable mean- j nefcs in sending the Delinquet List. out of the county, has been reporting around, that he was directed or controlled by the Commissioners. — Every person knows that the publication of the Delinqent List is a matter with which the Commissioners have nothing to do. Moreover the ; Board of Commissioners had never j been convened but once after he entered upon the duties of his offiice, and then only for a special transaction. This attempt to shield himself be- 1 hind the Commissioners is only an- 1 other evidence of his pusillanimity, j He waa w-eli aware the matter.rest»:d entirely with himself, and so expressed himself to us before conveying.the list to Lafayette. Splendid lies may sometimes claim a little merit on the score of genius* but silly falshood, and low sub ter- j fuge indicate the poorest quality oi j depravity, and merit the contempt of every honorable man. Such a disposition, as has been eyinced in this transaction, together with his incapacity for the office, will, we doubt not, render our citizens, heartily sick of his services longbdbre. bis term of office will have expired. The only plea that can be offered in justification of his course, is the obligation which he is under to one or more persons for placing him as a ! candidate before the public. “The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib.” It was meet, therefore, that he should be obedient ta that one horse or one ass (which ever way you choose to have it) power which, so far, has controlled bis political destiny. Ass or uo ass, however, he should have “acknowledged the corn” and not have tried to. cast the burden upon the Commissioners. i|■ 1 Great Fall of Wheat. — A large wheat elevator was eompletedat the mouth of the Genesee river, near Rochester N. Y-, a few weeks since. JUMMntiy fa building contained 80,000 bwfeal* <* wheat; the weight crashed it; about 10,000 bushels went into the river—lom, I*o,ooo - fat a . ■”.'l ’ • “2. J. ,

i sassmnsiinsKU" 1 ,;ATV*» Wjm.^The New york Independent professes to I histe trtfbrmatfcm, from a source ert’ titlpdjo credit, that the'Emperor of , Russia has made a private contract with the Rothchilds for $20,000,000 sterling payable in gold—they to receive government bonds for the same at 80 per. cent, but bearing interest at the rate of 5 per cent; and that already the delivery of this gold has commenced —four millions sterling, lately drawn from the Bank of England, having been traced to Prussia, where the mystery is supposed to have leaked out. The RotEcTiirds are said to have negotiated the Russian bonds in Germany in exchange for French and English credits of all kinds and these credits they have used on the exchanges of London and Paris to obtain gold for transmission to Russia. It is this contract of the Rothchilds that has caused the' extraordinary drain of gold from the Banks of England and France, and j produced the panic in monetary cir-| cles. It is also said that the Rolh-i chi Ids are able to collect most of the j gold spent in the East by the Allied armies. DCTIt is with sincere regret we learn from the State Sentinel, of the Ist inst., that Messrs. Walker and Cottom have discontinued their connection with that paper. The Sentinel has never been conducted with more ability than during the short time it has been under the controll of these gentlemen. There manly and digniged course has, undoubtedly, secured for them the respect and esteem of the Press generally, throughout the State. John. S. Spann and Johnß. Norman are their succesors. OCf’We learn by the Sentinel that: Gov. Wright, on the 28 ult., commuted the punishmentof Samuel Roinine, who was to have been executed on the 21st day of December, at Fort Wayne, to solitary confinement in the State Prison. This is one oi three persons convicted for the murder at Fort Wayne, last spring; two of whom have been executed. We learn from the record kept in the Executive Department that the commutation was granted upon the following ground: Ist Thatßominc was a party to &i£ffi6ary,,and ■ murder. 2d That he was tried by a person who had expressed an opinion I before trial. 3rd That his previous character was not that of an abandoned man, but that his family relations are moat worthy. 4th That : the Judge of the Court, Prosecuting Attorney, a portion of the Jury, and I many of the best citizens of Fort I Wayne united in the application to ius crime. a - -f

The George Law Ashore.

Nfav Yolk, Nov. 30. The Steamship George Law with i the California mails, and two millions iin specia has gone ashore on the West bank outside the narrows. A steam tug is alongside.

Washington Rumors.

Washington, Nov. 29. The most intense excitement prevails with regard to the organization ' of the Houses I The Democrats give up all hopesj of electing fin}’ of the officers. ' Gen. Richardson, of Illinois, will be the Democratic candidate for Speaker, an l Col. Forney for Clerk. Gen. Collum, of Tennessee, is con- ! sidered sure of election to the Clerk- j. ship. It is understood that the Democrats t have resolved to vote first and last ■ for the caucus nominees—refusing all coalition with other parties. The Americans and Whigs will; coalesce, and the Americans ealenlate on gaining some recruits from the Democrats who are on the anxious bench. / ’ : ®. ,

Section in Washington Territory.

From the El Nicaragucnse, a pa- i per published at Granada on the 2d of'October, we extract the, following: The official vote of Washington Territory, as proclamatcd by Governor Mason, delegate to Congress; J. Patten Anderson, (Dem.) 857; William Strong (W. and K. N.) 682: Joseph Cushman, (Ifraa Soil) 44. ——— - - • oGr*Men of noble dispositions al* ways think themselves happiest when others .share their happiness with them:

PROTESTANTS IN DANGER.

i Thotb. are, no doubt, a great many very honest and sincere men, all over the country, who earnestly believe that the cause of Protestantism is in absolute danger from the Pnpa! church, and that our Republican institutions will go the same road before the monster, which in their imaginations is more fearful than all the Dragons of the days of superstision and knight-earrantry. The crusades of some of these modern champions against the great beast are as ludicrous as ever Cervantes painted for his hero, not excepting the feat of the windmill, or the capture of the Barbers basin. To show th« TCHhineritstrf-this case—dthejihsolute danger now impending over the Protestant churches, and the Republican institutions, we append the following Church Statistics for the State of New York, colie ted from the Albany Journal. There are in the State of New York, belonging to the various professedly Christian denom- 1 inations 4,941 churches. The sects, having the greatest number of Churches are, first the Methodist Episcopal, 1.353; the Close Communion Baptist, 724; third, the rresbyterian old and new school, 6,03; fourth, Protestant Episcopal, sixth; Roman Catholic, 290; and seventh, Reformed Protestant Dutch, 243. We sec from the above that there are five Protestant denominations the smallest of which outnumbers > the Catholics, and that if wc deduct} the number of Catholic from the total of Protestants, it leaves a majority of 4651 Churches against the ’ Catholics. Add to this tiie fact, that the ballance of emigration from Europe since the Revolutions of ’4B has been Protestant, or Infidel, anJ aloo, that Catholics as a general rule are not bred in this country even from Catholic parents; and where is the foundation for all this terror? We remember in our boyish days, the fear with which we were inspired respecting this denomination, and how, after hearing various- speculations on the probable taking of our country, and the complete overthrow of our government by Catholic Priests, we have gone to bed, and covered up our head in agony almost, anticipating an attack before morn- j ing from the insidious foe, —and cxpecting if captured, nothing short of starvation in a damp and noxious underground cell of some hideous convent, or even the possibility of being boiled or broiled alive by voracious,and demoniacal Monks. We are therefore prepared to extend a large amount of charity to our neighbors, who have not outgrown the false impressjtous of their youthtud prejudices, inure especially that they have been so recently aroused by a great Politico-lieligous excitement,and the Hooding of our country by a hireling Press, with new editions of such bid- j der-dash. and unseemly lies as the Maria Monk story, and various new fictions of the same infamous school, gotteu up by speculators in literary trash, to meet the depraved appetite, of an exegency, which enriches them.! We say we have charity for such ; people, and at the same time, we call u putildieffreai’‘n"esTly7‘tdapplyTothisi ciisersome nhaVoTcoin tnoh seirstrairdi rationality, and ask those brave citizens,Jwho_ ft- ar not the incursion of British arms—or the combined powers of the old world in combat —those manly men, who scorn the appellation of cowardice, and who glory in tire courage of the race, if there is in this matter the least cause of apprehension? _ v f The merits of the Catholic religion, or any other religion, is not within our province of discussion. Neither do we feel at more liberty to attack objectionable features in its organization than those of aiiy other churches, of which unquestionably some might be discovered. But only to this untimely, and uncalled for engendermept of Religious prejudices, and fears which have no foundation; and the consequent perpetuation of hostilities among creeds, and races, which more than all else puts far off the day of a more perfect harmony in bur sentiments, and the workings of our institutions, do we address ourself with serious objections.— La Porte Republican Times.' t ',/ Bigots. —A bigot is necessarily a person of an intensely selfish nature; and when he cannot make money out of bigotry, crushing out the rights of others will serve to gratify his low and degraded love of dominion. — Bigots and bigotry are not confined to the Church; but when a bigot is found there, he is the meanest of all God’s creatures. To bigotry he unites blasphemy; for die invariably represents God as. having «: watiare' as mean as bis own, and on that ground, justifies his own persecutions and his own low and degraded jytfer- ; ferenoe wRh Others to-th> ehjdyihept ■of the#opinions." 13k ? -y * . ; 'y‘ , . • ' t i-iL ' - : '

Arrival of the Star of the West.

*. Nstv You fioy. 28.* The itehtnshlp Star of the West, from San Juan, arrived this afternoon at three o’clock, bringing date* from ;Sun Francisco to the sth of Novem- | her. There is no news of importance.— The ravages of the Indians were growing serious from Pugets Sound to Shasta The Indians had made a simultaneous attack upon the whites and massacred large numbers. Volunteers were turning out in all directions. U. S. troops, under Miyor Fitzger- ■ aid, had also turned out in pursuit. .Nearly all the tribes north of tho! Columbia river had- confederated,! and sworn to support, each other, j and exterminate the Americans. A band of 1,500 attacked a small] j force of U, S. troops at Puget Sound, j under Major Haller, and forced them 'to retreat. The latter had been reinforced by nine companies ol volunteers called out by Gov. Curry, | and supplied with ammunition by: the sloop-of-war Decatur, and the Revenue Cutter Jefferson Davis, and were about to assume the offensive. From the Isthmus, we learn that: Gen. Walker was in full possessionj "of"Nlcaragua. Col. Wheeler, the American Minister, had publicly acknowledged on the part of the Failed States, the independence and sovereignty of the new .Republic, and ; J assured its government of the kind [ regards and well wishes entertained | by the United States toward it. ! General Corral, who had been tie ;tected in a treasonable correspxijdence with some of the oUtters of I the late Government, had been tried : j by Court Martial, and shot in the: piazza at Granada, on the 7th inst.J eight hours after his arrest. The Court Martials was composed entirely of Americans. Other arrests were made but no names were given: The sentence of Gen. Corral was acquiesced in by General Rivas, the newly elected President. ' i • _ i Dreadful Affair. —A serious ac-, cident occurred on Saturday after-1 noon last to Samuel Sinclrar, son of! ■ the late Joseph-Sinclaer, which ought-} •to operate as a warning against the j incautious use of lire arms. A nurn- i } boys yvere amusing themselves ! lima barn with a sort of theatrical performance. Young Sine:ear u-as ] to act the Indian, and another boy was to shoot at him with a gun sup-j posed to be unloaded. To make the affair look more real a cap was pat | on the gun, the snapping of which was to represent the report. Fnfbr-j tunately the gun proved to he. load -1 ed with acharge ol large shot aiuT went oir, lodging the contents in tinhead of Sinclear, and inflicting a ter- j -;*ible and dangerous wound. (Severai us the shot passed through his ear,-j and two lodged in the bra::.*. Medi-j cal aid was immediately 'procured, l and the shot extracted, in doing which a portion of the skull had to jbe removed. The unfortunate youth | lay for several days in a:i extremely 1 : critical situation, and suffering great agony; but we are happy to an , | minuet that five symptnois are limvi [more iavorable, aiid there ia a tairJ f prospect"of lfis“feF(Tvel , y7“ Carrying ir to far.—The .market ' for breadstuifs on this side of the i water is said to be much above the, ;advanced prices railing in LTver- ■ pool and London. The French can j now buy cheaper there than here.--j The New York Post says the ship ! j ments "QW innkin-j nro at in-1 , eluding charges, per barrel more, for flour than in Liverpool; and this fact alone renders bills- drawn against! them unsafe. 'Speculation has been J carried too far, The advance .in the foreign markets lias been more than anticipated long ago, and as the daily supplies in the New York market have much increased of late, prices! arc declining. ,j [GrThe Desert News estimates i the emigration for Utah for the season, to September IvJth, at about 3000. dibvernor Young gave a complimentary dinner to delegate BernI hisel before his departure for Con- ! gress, on which occasion the delegate gave the assembly a very interjesting and amusing sketch of life in j Washington. Delegations of Utah ! and Snake Indians met at at Suit i Lake City and made a league of I peace, which they ratified by embracing and kissing each other, and smoking the pipeof peace, The pfcigue J of grasshoppers was destroying the lato crop in many places. The Nows thus graphically announces their apjpearance:—Chic. Jour. ‘ On Thursday last a few thousand ' million grasshoppers decended in the settlements in the north of' Utah fcotfntyG ivery thing .in : their way; the last prospect for bread in l is therefore sdilffertly 1 snapped asunder. .... .

The Vexed Questions Between England and Ouraelves.

,v, • • ' The following letter from "lon/*" the generally well-in formed Wash ington correspondent of tU© Baltimore Sun. is especially interesting At this time: ‘ In the discussion of the Central American question by Mr. Buchanan and Lord Clarendon, the most friend* ly intentions were professed, and, probably, were actually entertained, on both sides. But our position is .a. very awkward one, aa the matter now stands. One extreme-demands were positively rejected,-and it re inruns for us to present new terms of arrange.-; menL'-w T.his oatjnot.be done.'without a mortifying back-out on the part of yjur Government. - —4 "It is not at all probable that the present Administration will abandon or modify their interpretation of the 1 Clayton-Buhvcr treaty, and it is ivelli known that they have.positively, and from the begining to the end of the negotiation, refused to accept 7 the British interpretation. Still it may be hoped that the British government will adhere to the treaty, according to their understanding of it, which i wdl prevent them from exercising any actual jurisdiction in Central America in virtue of any protector-1 a‘c, and from taking possession of Greytown -an act which would par- i ticularly terminate the treaty and prevent future negotiation on thesubject. | "At tlie commencement of the negotiations, two years ago, Mr. Buchanan, it is said, was instructed to represent that the pres: nt Administration disapproved of the whole! treaty, and the policy of joint national action on which it was founded] and that it was the action of a prior Administration holding different] views but that still they would adhere to it and carry it out, upon the j condition that the British government would adopt our interpretation of it, and at. once abandon their] claims to the Bay Islands and reiin- j qui.-h the Mosqueto protectorate.— Thus there is no chance for the re-1 ; ncwal of the negotiation while the present Administration is in power, nor while Lord Palmerston (whose : peculiar hobby is this very subject of! British pretentions in Central Amor-; ion) remains at the head of the British government. Under these cir-T ! cumstauces, tlie chief burden of the ] forthcoming President's message will : be the Monroe doctrine and the means of its practical assertion. "It is believed that Commodore Paulding’s inetruetiens are of a char- ! acter that will produce a collision ] between his force, and that of Admiral Fadshaw.in ease the latter should ; bf^r^lbivlS?*' 1 * Indiana Free Banks.— The follow : ; ing banks have been woun I up, an 1 their securities sold. The bills are ] worth, according to the sn:m reaii- ! zed, the following figures: Bank of' Oogocreville 87 cents; Wabash Vai- 1 ley Bank 92 cents; Greene County Bank 81 cents; Merchants’ Bank, i Lafayette, 90 cents; Laurel Bank 6vi J cents; Government »>tdcU Bank S<) j CCktS. g -a, TAemitfr. n r nr- w-FitiNtTr~dFnwNT The population of Croix Rmia-se. at i Lions, assembled in the Grande Plft'-e. a short time since, for the am ntmd fete, and were, astonished to see a huge lion, which had escaped from a traveling menagerie,advance calm-: ly towards them; they lied in every i direction, hut the lion, taking no nbjmoticp, continued his promenade to a place called Les Tapis, and there i suddenly leaped on to a poor donkey j which was tied to a post, and with; I one grip cf his teeth, killed him i The king of the forest then calmly lplaced kiuirdf on the ground uear l j his victim, and after awhile allowed I himself to be conveyed back to the; j menagerie by his keepers.

Preventing Curculio.

The important fact was elicited in | conversation at the Farmer's Club; the'other day that plumb-trees planted in ouch a position that the fruit will hang over water will never be stung by curculios.sp that nothing is more easy than growing this delic-j ious fruit —where ever thfc trees can bo so planted. Dr. Undereill, of Croton Point Vineyard notoriety, 1 says that he is never troubled, not | having seen an insect upon ohre of ! 159 trees for years. He formed an I artificial pond, with banks construct- ! ed on purpose to set the trees slanting over the water. He gathers the fruit in a boat, lie has many of the best varieties of plumbs so planted, ' and never saw finer Fruit than he | thus prod dees. It is bn experiment j that shoUlil be tried hy_ every man who has the'necessary conveniences. | The ravages* of eurcutio'’ have been |so great lor man/ that wediav? i had but.few plumbs, andthoseinfer- ! itft and high priced, in tb» market.' She York Tribune: |

Murder at Elizabethtown.

UiWe understand that on Friday ban named Coleman, who beta for fcevcml yehr* engaged * m the stable of darter, ani lii ultras,- at Bliittbrihlpti'n, became engagcd-lir* a *d*tSeahy ,-jmh? John Thomas H §i B. Tboma»,JE ß q 4 , Young Thooiatt : Coleman,. When the latter immediately drew ariatoi and shot the former, instantly: tilling, him. As there bad.been no >ard. deling* the parlies, and the previous Intercourse had* been friendly,-ifeuts’Supposed that Coleman niuH hav* been instigated by the whiskey fiend. . . There will now bo ah opportunit afforded a Hardin 1 County Jm-y to clear the skirts yf that section from the infamy attached to it, by the in*? famous Ward verdict., Another it vex don of this deplorable affair is that daring, the afternoon Coleman.and Thomas were playfullywrastling, whetr Thomas: drew a knife ami thtealenod Colcindn.” The. latter then pulled .out his pistol ami. shook it at Thomas. By-danders then interfered an i parted ''.ihem.ii— After night they chanced .to meet again,and the conflict resulted fuialy to youg Thomas^- -LoUisvillc Courier. The Pacific K aii.roau Iti incd.—The affairs of this road, it' is said, Have reached a crisis by the late disaster. Bridge alter bridge has broken down, stopping travel and cutting off rcceipTspnnd its eonditiem is represented as little better than, bankruptcy. Commenting on this, the St. Louis Intelligence r say iff “Although the President and Directors have not aeknowh-dged the fact, it is nevertheless well known that the road is utterly 'broken down in means and credit, arid must soon he abandoned as iro < leMy bankrupt, unless some new and as yet undevised step be taken by the city of Sr. Louis and by the State to save it.— The Board of Directors perhaps feel reluctant, in the present <tatc of public feeling, to throw up their tru-t and acknowledge their inability to sustain the work. But it i = no time tor false pride, an i the sooner the cofcssion is made the belter,” Wife Killed! —Last week J. C. O'iif ien, of this place, while under the influence of liquor, made a terociotis attack on his wife, cutting and stabbing her severely in the region of the breast. The poor woman languished and suffered from the wounds until Thursday, when she expired. O'Brien was arrested immediately after the commission of the deed, and is in our county jail awaiting trial for the crime.— Fort Wmmr nCr'.Maj. Owen, It. E. of the English army, who during the seige of Sebastopol lost Li s right leg in the trenches; and who had the honor of staying two days on a visit to her Majesty at Wind.-or Castle, is on the eve of leading to the hymeneal alter Miss Cubitt, daughter of Sir- William Cubitt. It will be recollected that the gallant Major (then Captain) vvi.s one of the lending officials .connected with the Grand Exhibition of 1851. in London. t_ —— — S vb C.VLAMrry.—On Sunday night the canal bank broke away at a spot where some persons had graded it down opposite the jail, and the water rushed through, entirely submerging the Flats in a few hours. The scene was dreadful, and families warmly emvraped in slumber were suddenly awakened to dash horror-struck into the chilling waters. Provisions, clothing and all kinds of furniture and property were sent afloat or spoiled. Over seventy families are thus turned out. of hoqse and home. We also learn that three children were drowned, in attempting to escape.— Toledo lit publican. Ax African CcstuM.—ln Congo, the negroes take their wives a year on trial; if. at the end. of that time, they are satisfied, the wedding is cedebrated with a feast. The missionaries tried to abolish this custom, without success; the mothers declaring that They would not risk the happiness of their daughters by urging them to an indissoluble union with persona with whose habits and tampers they were unacquainted. ■» California —The whole niimberof votes polled in this -State, at the lat° election was 96.000. The Legisla*. ture is composed.of 72 Know Nothings. 39 Demotes and 2 Whigs. The prohibitory law was defeated by 6,000 majority. o*An Irish drummer, who now and their Indulged in a noggen of right good poteen >Vas accosted by the. reviewing general, * What make* your nose so red?’ _ Please your honor,’ replied Pat, •I always.blush when I speak t« a general officer.’ 7j ~ i- ■;< I—l