Jasper Banner, Volume 2, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1856 — Page 2

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The Year.

Another year has fled away—with all its eventful occurrences.— It appear* but a short time, but it is marked by numerous and strange events. To some it has brought joy, to others grief; to some riches, to some sorrow and" disappointment, to some poverty and woe. These, and a thousand other changes have occurred during, the year just past. . A new year has dawned upon us. WiM its events be less numerous or wonderful?- Alas! Many who have| entered upon the new year in all the buoyancy of hope and happiness will! be in an other world before its close, tnany on whom fortune smiled at its eo’rnmcncement will groan beneath (

the withering frowns of poverty, j many who are now gliding gaily a-; long the path of life, with a prospect of uninterrupted happiness, will, before its close, bow beneath the rod of affliction, many who are now sur- j rounded with all the pleasures which j affluence can afford, and watched j over with sSsSgfk will be J tdrrred out upon the cold world, the! children of poverty and distress. —; Thy * joy and sorrow, hope and dis-! appointment, life and death mark the fleeting changes of each succeeding year.

A Hew Year's Picknick.

A Picknick was got up by Miss Me Cullough’s scholars on New Ye&r's j clay. It was a very nice affair, and went off pleasantly. . - —“All was jolity, Feasting, mirth, light wantoness and high laughter,” ohd-when •‘That tocsin of the soul rang out its J knell,” Once the school, but now the dinner! \ . bcl1 ' there nrai a general “pitching in.”—! One sweet girl, not unmindful of j us, presented us with a portion of her own sweet-cake. That girl is at liberty to come and see our Devil as often as she pleases. Fatal Accident. —On Wednesday, the 26th ult., Wilson Lewis, while driv- j ing across the prairie, about four miles; from this place, struck a stone that was concealed beneath the snow, and was; thrown from his sleigh with such violence as to cause his death. He was; alive and able to converse when found, which was soon after the accident oc-j currcd, but expired before surgical aid j could be obtained. . JC3TSeveral of our most respectable fanners were engaged in a fight one day* last week, which was attended with some i hard knocks, and but little credit to either of the parties. It is a lamentable fact, that nearly all the fighting that has oc-

curred in our town, for sometime past, has been between persons of respectability and reputed piety. It is by no means pleasant for us to chroicle such disgrace-; ful occurrences, and we would gladly re- j frain from doing so, if we were not constrained by a sense of duty. We know j of no reason why such eonduct sfidtdd ! be regarded as less reprehensible in per-; sons of character and influence, than those who occupy a less conspicuous position in society. Indeed, community is more disgraced by the disorderly con. duct of those who have enjoyed the advantages of religious training and refined j education, than where it occurs with | who have been less highly favored.j Civil and inoffensive persons, it is true, are sometimes liable to gross injury snd insult. We know, from experience, how I hard it is to refrain from violence under j iigj) circumstances, but is far better to do so, than place yourself on a level with (be bruit that thus wantonly insults you. —• 1 , - ■“ - fICFMr. Pierce presented m with a mamouth apple, on New Year’s day, that weighed one pound and five ounces, and of a most delicious flavor. This beats anything of we have aeeq jproduced in Jasper. .c: j "? 1 Scan or Psoarearrr.—One of the fab’ matron* of Bradford gave birth to t*r»w» last^oek-

DEMOCRATIC MEETING.

0 A the Democrats of Jasper County wss heljafthe Court House? in Rensselaer, on the *223 of Dccenibt r, IBsf>, pursuant to public notice. Dr. Wm. Tichknor was called to the chair, and Adisoh T. Vaudkvkr chosen Secretary. On motion of Anson Jewett, Esq.. A. T Vandever and Jacob Merkle were ap- : pointed delegates to attend the Democratic State Convention, to be held at Indianapolis, on the Btli of January nsxt. On motion,

I i Resolved, That eSctiof' the delegate!* appointed be furnished with a copy of 1 these proceedings, signed by the President and attested by the .Secretary. . , . r .WILLIAM TICHENOR, Pr't.

A. J. VANDEVER, Seciry.

o*Aa the subject which most interests our community is “ Ways and Means," we refer our readers to the communication of “Squeezemtight,” which will be found in this number j of. our paper. .The writer i*, -un~j doubtedly, a person of deep research, and one who feels a deep solicitude ! for the prosperity of our county.

DCr’One of our subscribers rode ; rtwelvc miles, one of the coldest days i I last week, to ascertain if he was a J delinquent tax payer. We teferred : him to Knox. Great Swindling OrrrnATioxs. — 1 ; The Chicago papers give a long ac- j 1a t. t i\ 4 tl\A nf ct/aTTt tvi ctxcr rrmrmrmr Ujß'nnruns w ? ! one Samuel J. Proper, who appears j to have been a little too fast for the i TaSt people of that fast city. Proper i went to Chicago and talked largely of his means; said he had invested '

SIOO,OOO in real estate in South JIM* ; uois, and had come to Chicago to see how he could operate in ihe same line there. Of course all the real estate speculators (and who is j not a real estate speculator in Chicago?) were exceedingly anxious to make the acquaintance of Mr. Proper,. To help out his scheme he joined a sash always to be seen in his pew. He also hired a large house and furnished it in the most extravigant style. — Ilis principal plan of operations was . by exchanging checks. He would j ask a merchant or banker for his \ sight check and in return give him j one of his own for a few days. For i a time he provided for these checks, but after awhile he neglected to do so and disappeared. It is supposed that he realized in this and similar ; operatsons between $15,000 and $30,000. Areal estate Doctor suf- ; sered to the tune of $3,000; a book firm $700; a lumber dealer $5,000; i one bank $3,500; another $5,000, tc. I All Chicago is horror stricken at these developments—not so much alAhe. losses suffered, but to think that' they I who have been so accustomed to ; victimizing, should in turn become the victims. — Daily SentincL--

OCPThe Chicago Democrat relates j a sad story of two young girls of that city, who at one time moved in the first circles of society, anti who were employed as singers in the choir of. one of the fashionable churches of j the city, who are now degraded out- { casts. Their father and mother died j of chdlera, poverty and destitution | ensued, the young gentlemen who had before escorted them to churches, balls, concerts, and parties, became their seducers and worked, their ruimHow sad, and yet how common a story!

The Second Baby.

Between the first and the 6ec- ; ond baby what a falling off is there, my country-worn an! Not in intrin--1 sic value-for the second may chance to be “as pretty a piece of flesh” as : aiiy; but the imaginary value with which it is invested by its nearest kin I and most distant female belongings. The coming of the fi«& in a household creates an immense sensation;; that of the second is comparatively a j common-place affair. The first ba-1 by is.looked forward for with, anxi-! ety, nursed with enthusiasm, dressed j ' with ’ulendor, and made to live ujlv on system. Baby number two is) not longed for t>y §ny one, except perhaps the mother, is nursed, as- U matter of oourtesyr i* nJ *nei cast-off clothing of number one, and gets initiated into fife without cereWonyl or system. > r

A Substitute for a Tram Road.

*•* Mwh r i»P*krty.an r l??perffatlon rrinrsteh of the maturing of a plan- that I’ve hed in contemplashitn fur thre long weaks; yes, Mistur Edctur, menny j long nights of deepe stud Jy hev 1 spent, an’ now 1 am enabled to announce to an admireing wurld, that !the dcssidirattum (a luting word, Mr. ! Edetur) is found. Tramm roads must now forever hyd* there diunnitive beds, an* give phase tu mi grand magnifercer.t skeme of an Aquattic j Rale Road. ‘ ' a a. . ' ' ..... - .1

I surpress my feelitis, an’ give you a deracripshun of this splendid prujgect, combinin’ cheapness, durabilliJ te. an’ eleganse. Wen the wurld j frum dark chaos sprung, natur seems Jtu hcv rememberd that an J 'enterprising peeplc . w_ouJd. wnft day | be shut out frum market an’ the rest l of mankind, hemmed in on vvun side, i by the silyryjnargin x»f a stupendous i frog pond, an’ on the other by the | same; she seems to hev rememberd; ■it I say, an’ made pervision for the 'same by cx'cndhi 1 the water priveleg, j that the grand skeine vvhitch has ben ! conceved by: my brillyant minde, (fur | 'you must know I hev talent) might* jbe carried into exercushun. , T!’.* pinna is simply this: I pur- j I pose biklin’ eccshuns of rale road ; : frum here to the new allbenny road, j catch seeshun to hev. its terminnn* ; | at the hank of eatch slu an’ desend- j | in’ a short distanse intu it, an' the i : next seeshun commencin’ on the other side of the slu, an’ so on to the j end. Now by havin’ the body* of j | the kars made in the shape of a boat, i an’ movabcl on the weels, wenever! I the masheenry approaches the water, j ;it is run right intu it, all’ the karaj ‘ floated off, an’ by a coppie of han cars fixed on the side of the boat, vvhitch kin be worked by a cupple men, the boat is prepclled to the other side an’ run on to the next set of .weeds, an’ so on Mr. Edetur. : ;r The construction of this road is ekunomikal in the eckstreme, not costin’ by a close kaikalation not more ’en twenty dollars a equarej f mile. The rales kin be made frum: | wore out wagin tires, the kars thein- ! selves put up frum very cheap mate- ; riel. As fur the motitf power, 1 hev !no doubt that an ar augment might b'e made by vvhitch sum of the nobel on the presente ceksprcss ! might be hed.

As fur bans, skh as driver an’ for-1 ry-mcn cross slues, I ex pec sum of ! our eirplus lawyers ah’ doctors might! 'be induced to du sumthing fur there, ! | familys, an’ fuller an honerabel occu- j ipashun. | Thus vou se. Mr. Edetur. by a lit-j of the peeple of this Kounty, communerkashun may be bed with the j grate .meetmpolis an!| ] the producks of Jasper Ko. wafted 1 to the remotes corner of both speers. j 1 Idu not clame fur this, a superor-1 iti over rale roads in gcniral, but | meerele a cheep substertute, in the ] I absense of meens to bild a right one. I The plann is simple but sirnpel as i it a-vastdeel 1 of ingecnuity,tu thus take advantage] ] of the advantishshus sireumstanees of natur, an’ convert them to the uses of mankind.

The subskriptshun buks are now openn Mr. Edetur, an’ as the projector of this grate skeme, an’ loked up tu, tu leed off, I hev allreddy sub skribed the sum of fifty cents, an’ intend cornin’ down with a kwarter moore, before the enterprise shill fall thru. Yours in ankshus eckpectashun of a gloreus renown,

J. SQUEEZEEMTIGHT.

OCr’Oo Christmas day a couple of [ boys went into a grocery store at Coflumbus, Ohio, to purchase some-fire crackers. Expressing eoinc doubt |as to whether they would “go off,” i the proprietor of the store lit one.and j i threw it front;him. In an instant a terrible explosion followed, the.walls ion two sides of the store fulling out and the rbof falling Hi. Singular as it "may appear though there were twenty persons in and, about the building, nobtfit.waisorely injnrtlu. * 1 4 ;•- ■? r • i. *

For the Jatper Banmr.

Congressional.

Washington, Dec. 24. ! uniftiporluiit businees-flielycnaH ad-* rjuurncd over until. Thursday i ‘ l * : i House imrd ‘that having ; from time, to time received two voted lot-Speaker, he wished Udistinctly 1 understood that he h td never been a jcandidate and never would" be. lie r slaUid-tWrirtßTTl's!ioaid fie suspecTed there was something wrong in his position. He had tin constantly-and consistently voted lor Mr. Banks as 'any man in the House. | Mr. Stewart in explanation, stated the reasons why he had been voting ‘ tor Kiehardson: He said the position hoi* the latter and also of Mr. Fuller, | had been explained dGtinetly and ! explicitly, but that of Mr. Banks had I not. lie asked Mr. Bunks whether he had.tfver said in a speech in thfe House,-that he would Met the Union slide.’

! Mr.-rßanks replied, that in that ] speech’ he had said there might be ij<uch a state of things in which lib j ivould COtisHlt.'-’’ He had reference to future con tin- ■ gcncies, such as the prostitution ol !the Government, the usurpation of I glgan tic powers, the support of the Uwgle in-titntiou of slavery. ( lie was for the Union Wdfisrt-Ttt-nd" , would meet its enemies on a fair ■ tieU. lie for it ns a guarantee of ; die rights of the States, and the main i prop of our Government, and would jnnve it stand on the records of history, in the language ol Washington •’crowned wtitr rmniwuit tmie.” 1 I>lr. Smith, of Virginia, was no-t | satisfied with the answer ol the gen ‘‘Did you any.”-,-Ho asked, •“that under certain circumstances you would let the Union slide?’ dir. Banks -“I have said all I desired to say.” Mr. Smith—“l wish it distinctly understood that those who. sustain Mr. I Banks are voting for him with the knowledge that in certain contingencies he would let the Union slide.” Mr. Grow—”l ask the gt iitlamr-n and every member who lias been Here tor the ia.-t four years, whether such a declaration has not been repeated from lime to time by some ol those now voting for Richardson, namely; that they are willing to dissolve the Union, and let it slide, on a certain contingency. \Y e stand here to slipport the Constitution, as it is explain ed by the Fathers oi the Country, and contemporaneous reports lor over i sixty years. We say we are not wii- ! ling to take any other Constitution, or that slavery shall go where ever our flag lioats.”

Mr. Kuril believed from the begin j ning that all debate was out of order, j a.-! the lirdt business wad the election j of a Speaker. ■■The-■ proposition wtw i pending on Saturday that no debate j shall be in order till a Speaker is elected, and it was then laid on thtable. A resolution was then ode rod ; to elect a Speaker by a plurality vote, j but it was rejected by a majority ot . 15. The House then proceeded to bal- j lot for Speaker, with the following i result: Banks, 101; Richardson, /3; Fuller, 37: Scattering. H. I here L adjourned until Wednesday. .Washington, Dec. 27. : _atf.. — A Iter abi'i es and uni inpovtunt session, the Senate adjourned until Monday. IB.i sr. —The House rccinded the | | resolution parsed yesterday, that no I motion to adjourn shall be in order ‘ till a Speaker is elected. Mr. Canip-1 ! bell then withdrew - his proposition to! make Mr. Orr Speaker pro ton. j The House then proceeded to b»l-1 lot for Speaker, with the following , ! result: Banks, 100; Richardson, (U», 'Fuller, 30; Scattering, 9. Banks I i only lacked three votes of an election. Another vote resulted as follows: j Banks, 103; Richardson, 67; FuUer,j 31; Scattering, 0. —L... '....j A third vote resulted the same as the second. I The House then adjourned.

No Signs of the Pacific.

New York, Dec. 27 — 8. r. m. There are. no signs of the Pacific j up to the present time. .

Washington, Dec. 57. Mr. Clayton declines being the candidate of the American Convention for the Presidency. [JCTThe "abandoned Discoveryship, Resolute, which was taken-pos-session of by Capt. Burlington, of tUe \yhale-ship George Henry, ib September last, was safely brought into New London, yesterday, with h<?r armamentstpres.and equipipenj* complete as when abandoned* -®M. s is estimated to bo worth SIOO,QOa* When found she had drifted, whore one hundredmiles frofo the place of bee abafidonmeot. « : .;r .*

Detention of the Northern Light by U. S. Officers.

JXe\v_Yobk, Dec. 24th Shortly ii'dertwo-p-olotvfc, timmfterii6i»ni, ?t!ie'Ci.. Alarsh : a!‘ , pee<slved n* dispatch' from Wa-diingiitn, fti'dotiftg' the seizure and detention of the steamship Northern Light, übotit to sail to Nicaragua, and ollieers were sent aboard f>r that purpose. Tlie counsel of -the Transit. Company dedared that the vessel should sail at the usual time. Subsequently, hoiv- 1 ever, tlie caplain of the shipAv'ent to -MieUDliee of the L\■ B.'District Attorney, to see ivhat arrangements could he made, but the, result of the interview lias nut tnttiwj tiered: About lour o’clock the : L ght got under way. but had not proceeded far - before she was inter l ! cepted by a revenue cutter, which j lired two guns across the bows of the ; steamer, and brought her to. . Two, other cutters afterdvardsprroeUfdcd to; assist in stopping the steamer. . j Between .MOO and 400 young men , were found o.u opard, whose appear- 1 liace indicated that they were Nicaraguan adventurers. One of them , confessed they were such, and had j been engaged by Parker U- French and others. When tne Northern Light left her dock, she had on board the three U. .S. odieers who had been I detailed to take her in charge. Marshal Ak>vji> on Ekrtusa and Fhi:nc:i !S.nfi.D!:KS. -Mashftl St. Around says in one of his letters: ‘l* have had reviews: conversed with generals and soldiers. . I have been able to compare my men, so fail of ardor and so martial in appearance with, the English, solid «j walls. Hut who march [ike machinea that; only ask to he stopped.” Of the di-j vision under'the Duke of Cambrige,! composed of the English Guard and the Scotch: **lt was line, but rather formal, still*, it is all one; it is a fine ; army, and will tight weilv But ours, brother, v. hat ardor!” Again he says:? “The English assaulted some povv- , erful-’■redoubts. and sud'erc t more than we did. Moreover, 1 lost fewer men because I ivas more rapid in my movements. My soldiers ran theirs marched:” Of, the combined j army he says of the English add] French: ‘What troops! \N hat soli- j dity with one, what ardor, what i:n ' petuosity with the other!’’ And of; Lord Raglan he ihus speak-: ‘ lie | is loyalty itself; the more otic knows j him, the more onb appf cciutOJ hflift.”.,! EXTRAOIUHNAUY OCCURR i'.Sd£.~. -• Al ■ the time of the explosion of Seviuto- ( pol,a most extraordinary occurrence j took place. A correspondent, giv-j ing an account of the terrible scene says: | But among all the distressing ob ' jeets around, none perhaps wa> , | more melancholy, or noire calculat-; ;■ ed to excite feeling- of pity, than an j artillery man who Tim! been, cither by | ; tlie conensrtion or by the sudden a ; larm, rendered idiotic. He attracted! ! general attention as he was led by.! ! bare-headed, between two of hi-1 comrads, uttering silly exclamations,; ‘ and quite lost to conciousness of all i that was passing around him. He! seemed to be possessed by a feeling; wiitHblfng remarkg j while a smile on his twee, vacant ami'i I unmeaning as was its expression, 1 seemed to show that he had at leaA ; a- mm-h satisfaction as lie was any longer capable of enjoying. I ——

As larsa Piiti.urtq —Dr. Cahill in a letter t.» Lord Palmerston, says: ”So my lord, you have advised your ambassador. Mr. Cramp ton, to enlist the Irish in America You want them j now in order to recruit your wasted army In the Crimea, or to garrison the growing weakness of your distant ! colonies. Glory be to God; that the insatiable cruelty of Lqglish law in j extemilusting and bani-hingthe poor, faithful. Irish, is hmv forced to acknowledge the national crime by cin- ! ploying your ambassador to seel; | their return. Heaven be forever ! praised! that the perfidy of Lord John Russell's administration is posed before the willing scorn of all the nations of the civilised world. So you now oiler a bounty, and pap, and the Queen’s uniform, to the des- ! pised exiles, whom vvitnin the last seven years your administration starved* and Jibed, and banished.

A Monster Mortar. —Mr. Robert Mallet, of Dublin, Ireland, has succeeded in making a monster mortar, the cylinder of which ii formed by a series of flat rings fitting W one another by. flanches and clamped to•’•etherby srorig external bolts. The shell for this mortar, is 3tt inches in : diameter, and is charged with half a ton of powder, and the rapgejs expected to be half as far again as that of the thirteen inch shell, heretofore the largest in use* , Abuse of money is worn, than the '■rta* of U > . .

Terrible Slaughter at Kars.

' er y *®ti»faetory repol-ts uontinae In arriveJVom Kane. The suDDositi<w tlmt the iqriSv».;*Wdifiip4 to ' ;bt. 1 etersburg l>y>«ea*»*i.liw*wrl. lelf, ‘after his defeat to rhe«tfeev*Jiat thedlussi’an h.Ulreauimdl the j blockade, was merely a feint to c<> v «t for a moment thfr terrible nature of ! their repulse, is likely tq receive the | full continuation. ~ . *’* r \[~ -- m The ample details since published, i have that the first ao-- ; counts given by thewiatpM v of thoi Russian losh, were far below the ro- - ality r and all the subsequent descriptions, including many: from the"Ftail aian sources, have left no doubt that j out of the Russian ui’iny of ad/IUO ; inch, the hiss in kille j and wounded ! ranged between 12,d and 15,0'J'J. j The lUcklessness w*itll Which Ru»j kiaii ooiiimanders regard thejßyes of , thuiv sohlierS- was irever njore strickingly fflnstraUfd AUlvsygft T the. buttlo j °! t!7T* TulTeiTiaya "R^iTulready furn-* I Lhed a remarkable eXaTnple. lit) this instance, however, tlie penalty pahl | by the General has boon heavier than that on the part of those Avhom ho I sacrilieed. lie has been pronounced insftne, and the remnant of his stall have dispatched a s unions... to lVinee Behoutolf at Tlfin to hasten ; to them and take the command.” Bin llous —-Spears, Case & Gundy, of Delphi Iml., slaughtered a hog oft the LSth ult., .which weigheij 72fl ‘pounds nett. On the same day they killed several other liogj which netted over 500 —one weighing 560. I’liis “knocks” the “huge animal” ; mentioned a few weeks since by our neighbor of the Journal.— Duly Sentinel.

The Festival.

The Odd Fellows’ Festival at Alien’s Hall, on Wednesday evening last, was, without exception, the larghest and most agreeable party ever held in Laporte. The number in atten hm> e was !U)0. 'l'be address de- | livered by Gilbert llatimway, was beautiful aud in.-tuctive. wiTl be publislied f r t'.e benefit pf .tl-iose who had not the pleasure of hearing it. After the address wa# ! delivered, refreshments of every dosirablu kind wore pns.-.e.J around to Ahe company, until all Wero abun* dantly Hupplied. After the feasting ! was over '(ahotit I>) o’sloek:) the seats ; vere removed and all who prefered tn lo nMime to sweet music, discourrj Ctl by an excellent band, to quiet rest at home, reirmirieti until a inte hour. ' | The receipts for-tickets a no inted to ; about % MdO.— lsiport ' Union.- - [Jjr’DiKn. near Robison’s Mill in | this Co on the lMh day of Deceinher, 1555, Mr. Frederick Shaffrr, ! aged MOD years and 5 days. Mr. ; SiiaiTer fought at the- memorable j battle of Bunker Hill, and served |in the A nerlean army a* ascout.unI till the close of the War. Fninkforu Crescent. } An Ei.mctric Gjn : Mr. D. C Mitchell, of tint Dumfries militia, has ihj vented an electric canon. It ie fired [ withoiit a tbuch-h<dn, by means of K lectricity. The conducting and non--1 coaducti’itr wir*v» am iutr iducai into i the cannon during its manufacture, ! aud cut oil’ close to'the surface; : that in the event of the gun falling into the hands of an enemy, they would fail to diseavr at least for some time how the cannon, was discharged.; { Having no touch-hole, it canot of i course,lie spiked, and it is said that it will last four times longer than the ’■ [ present ordinary cannon. | f U7it ts estiniftted that about 6,j OQg head of hogs have been shipped j from Bponc County thU reason.

MARKETS.

Corrected Weekly

Kenssclaeir, Jan. 3. Flmr p bbl, |6,0006,50 Whratr.Jbu.sli. »7f@*g Corn in car, V bush, 3303* Shelled, 30^.13 Oats V bush. /’otatoes V bush. Onions rJ bus. 40059 Buttyr lb. 10013 Lard' do do * Kgl?« dor,-' .M? Dried Apples Green <\o. bush, , Chickens tame $ do». *.oo® 1.20 Hams Shoulders'- ’ Sides * . „ l'ork f 100, • -.-^frSSsOO Beef do do 5*50^6,00 Hrv ® ton, 4,00(35,00 Salt y bbl. , 3. 5004JH)

SPECIAL NOTICES. - ■ • TO AQtt* 11 7L;r Take tie more Arseuic. Towca. jMTeury:, Qal* nine, Febrifuges. Strychnin?. or of any kind. The well kdown inefflctency these noxious poison* P*®*®® Y ,fcn ? *°. , M 1 * °“L spring false cal principles or of IA is the on oAuafcfttJweh 0 ” the natural antidote which Cto mpt*auw tt -- Take Aleend he.lth is ssfcigtt. Si* the***-’ tisement pf “♦hodm 1 ««*•*'*** "“W*. JcaeJ4. *» '***

by John G. Troxel.