Jasper Banner, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1855 — A Miserable Subterfuge. [ARTICLE]

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