Jasper Banner, Volume 4, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1857 — Page 2

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Dissolution.

Tit* copartnership, heretofore exr isflng between the Undersigned unddr the name of Tiohenor and Ballard, has this day been dissolved by mutual consent. All the goods, notes, and accounts, belonging to the late Firm,* have been assigned to Rufus Strode and Thomas Clark, who will close up and settle all the business of the Firm as scion as possible. All persons interested will please take notice, and act accordingly.

Rensselaer, June 2‘J, 1857.

Fourth of July.

By another article in this week’s paper, it jvill be seen our citizens have made arrangement for celebrating the approaching anniversary of our nation’s independence. It is desired that the celebration be participated in by all. Our citizens, throughout the county, are invited to join us, without regard to age or sex. It is a day that should gladden the heart of df every American, and inspire him with gratitude for the blessings inherited from our revolutionary sires. No country on the face of the blobe can boast more happiness or prosperity than our own. It is proper, therefore, and desirable that we commemorate an event that has conferred such lasting and inestimable blessings upon,our nation.

Swamp Land Circular.

We received the following Circular through the post-office. The information which it affords will, we doubt not, be interesting to at least a portion of our readers: We cannot vouch for the truth of the statement, but it is rumored that contracts have been let without having been advertised: W&fKte XfblnKJl'W'SM.ffV I-*i> h Indianapolis, June 23, 1857.) * From information received at this office, it appears that the Act of March sth, 1857, amending the 25th Section of the Swamp Land Law of 1852, is in many instances misunderstood by the county officers and Swamp Land Commissioners, rendering necessary the following explicit directions and instructions : First —The amended Act docs not authorize a general and indefinite contract, upon which the Auditor is authorized to withdraw from sale all the Swamp Lands in a county, but each contract must be for certain and specified work ; in advertising and letting which the Commissioner will be governed by Sections 23 and 24 of the Swamp Land Law of 1852, and upon which the Auditor is authorized to withdraw from sale an amount,of land equal to the estimated cost of the work, and no more. Sections 23 and 24 of the Law of 1852, are in no way affected by the amendment of 1855, but remains in full force. Secondly —Land not patented to the State, cannot be held for ditching contracts, by filing lists with the County Auditor, as they will be advertised and offered at public sale in the several counties, as soon as patents c.rc received from the General Government. Thirdly —lt is charged by citizens of several counties where there are Swamp Lands, that men obtain contracts for ditching, upon which they withdray large amounts ot lands from sale, that they sell the best of the Land at an advanced price, paying for the same at the minimum price,-put the profits in their pocket and leave the work undon. It is earnestly recommended to the Commissioners that each contract contain a provision rendering it void unless the work is commenced within a reasonable or specified time, and prosecuted to completion.

School Exhibition. —The present term of Mr. G. D. Kent’s school will close this week. He invite parents, and others who may feel interested, to attend an exhibition, at the Court'House, on Friday, the 3d inst. / ■fj Rail Road Survey.— The corps of .Engineers, engaged in surveying the Fort Wayne Western Railroad, are expected to reach this place by the latter part of the week. Bo far as they have progressed, they find the rout very favorable for die construction of a road. •i’L-i... ‘ • fSjtLLiHO at Cost. —R. Strode is selling good* at cost, at the stand recently ocupedjby Tichenor & Ballard. Now is your time to beopre bargains. \o\m John W. Forney is about to start a ncw D&nocratic paper in the city of Philadelphia.

WM. TICHENOR, JAS. E. BALLARD.

JOHN W DODD.

Auditor of State.

The Gazett’s Circulation.

The Gazette baa, been gasing a good deal of late about its circulation. Notwithstanding his attempt to wrong the Post Office Department, the publisher has laid clamc to the Letter-list, on the ground that his paper has the largest circulation in the county. We were surprised to find, from the publisher’s 9wn statement, that his county subscribers amount to only two hundred and thirty-two! Why. neighbor, we can loan you two or three score, and then beat you bad. Godey’s Lady’s Book.— Gody, for July, is ori our table. It is always punctual in its monthly visits, and, like its fair patrons, combines beauty and interest. ICF We learn that the army worm is exceedingly destructive in Bartholomew countj'. Wheat and rye fields have been totally destroyed. Farmers are every where at work digging trenches, and taking every other means to arrest their progress.

Joshua It. Giddings has written a letter to the N. Y. Tribune, in which he says that “the God of Abraham ” is not his God; that he despises him and holds him in contempt; that he is an idol or the deity of the slaveholders, and they are right in worshipping him. Chicago Morals. —There were arrested in Chicago during the past two and a half months, two thousand four n hundred and eight persons! Among the rascals arrested were one clergyman ; one Black Republican editor; one Black Republican Mayor; one ex-Member of Congress, Black Republican ; two hundred and nine" cyprians, &c., There were only two doctors arrested and no lawyers. £3rThe Sons of Temperance have decreased from two hundred thousand to less than five thousand, and the life has gone out of the organization. -O—■ -.t. ■■■■■■..» f?,. - ■ OCrThree hundred acres of land have been secured for the great reaper trial at Syracuse on the 13thc proximo. Beef. —The butchers of Philadelphia, on the 13th ult., believing themselves imposed upon by the high prices asked by the droviers, refused to buy any beef a* all. OUT Hon Robert Dale Owen, Minister at the Court of Naples, in a letter to Hamilton Smith, Esq., sayes he has sent his resignaton to the President, and will be home this fall. jgrThe Cincinnati Commercial is now being printed on paper seventy-five per cent of which is straw.— Exchange. The editor of that paper is made up of pretty much the same material.— Cleveland Plaindeuler. A Happy Thought.— -A California editor, noticing the reported death of Dr. Kane, very happily says: —“The adventurous navigator has embarked upon his last voyage.— He has found Sir. John Franklin.” JtSrThejSheriff of Green county, Ohio, has been arrested and held to bail for obstructing the United States laws, on the occasion of the late arrest of fugitive slaves in that couny. Powers’ Statue of the Greek Slave. Powers’ statue of the Greek Slave was sold at the exchange, in New York city, on the 23d ult., and brought 86,000 at auction. Where’s Beecher? 4 £s?“Thc statement going the rounds of the fusion papers, that the Boon County Pioneer, an excellent Democratic paper, is dead, is untrue. The Boon County Ledger, a Black Republican paper, however, was sold out by the Sheriff.

Monster Railroad Scheme.-"-A new Pacific Railroad Company was organized at Omaha, early in the month of June, under the NebraskaJTerritorial Law, for the construction of a Railroad to the South Pass. Geii.. Robinson, of Penn., is President, and Mr. Hosmer of Ohio, Secretary. The capital is to be $60,000,000. OCr’The Nationel Intelligence received,pn friday last from the yenc cable John Johnson, of Cincinnati, an officer of the government as far back as Jefferson’s administion, the remittance of his fifty fifth’s subserption . DCJ*The Governor of Michigan; it seems, has sent a thousand dollars to Kansas, to relieve the destitute there, who are not destitute at all, while in the Northern counties of Michigan the people have been starving to death. This shows that par ty ambition far outstrips charity. “ 010 Grimes is Dead.” —Mr. S. D. Grimes died recently in Georgia, at the great age of one hundred and ten years !j lie was never-sick.

Taking Ground.

Republicanism is taking ground rapidly in favor of, negro equality. A large meeting was held in Chicago, a feiv days ago, to welcome Gerrit Smith and hear an address from him. The call for this meeting was signed by Hon. J. F. Farnsworth, Republican member of Congress •elect from that district and a large number of the leading Republicans of that city. The call states that the object of the meeting was to discuss the question whether it was not the duty of the people of Illinois “to know no law for slavery, and therefore , to refuse to suffer any fugitive slave to be taken back into slavery .” Gcrrit Smith boldly proclaimed that the negroes were the equals, morally, politically, and socially of the white race which sentiment received the sanction of the Republicans of Chicago, and thus the affirmative of the proposition taken. There can be no question but that the Republican party will assume this ground as one plank, and the principal one, in the coming political campaigns. The Republican Legislature of New-York, at its recent session, provided an amendment to the Constitution of that State, elevating the black man in political equality to the level of the white. In Massachusetts, Republicanism has placed the negro politically, morally and socially upon an equality with it, and the same sympathies have been freely exercised in the . Republican States of Maine, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, Ohio and Wisconsin. In all these States the foreign-born white man, the Irishman and German, are made the inferior of the negro. The white Republicans in those States have no sympathy with the foreign-born wfirtesj have iio deslre to confer upon them the political privileges conferred by our institutions, but are entirely willing to invest the negro with them. They court political and social associations with the black man, but have no such sympathies with those of their own race who by accident were born upon another soil.

This is the idea entertained by Republicanism of freedom. It is this kind of freedom that this party is endeavoring to extend over the nation. With the poor white man they have no sympathy, but would degrade him -to the leveled -the ne-. gro. A German or an Irishman they cannot tolerate, but they are ready to embrace the negro and confer upon him all the privileges of citizenship, all the political and social franchises they enjoy themselves. Their idea of a free Stale is to have it overrun with a negro population, the lowest and most degraded form of humanity. We should be willing to concede to Republicanism the full enjoyment of this privilege if it could be done without imposing it upon those who have no affinity lor either political or social equality with the negro, or to participate in the degradation which must follow such aa amalgamation. But as this cannot be done, we shall endeavor to benefit the believers in Republicanism by preventing the intermingling of the races. —State Sentinel. Surgical Operation. —The important operation of cutting away the superior maxilla, or upper jaw, for the removal of a bone cancer, (ostea sarcoma,) was performed on the person of a Mr. Beach, near this place, one day last week, by Drs. Foster, of Ypsilanti, and Hallovvell, of Detroit ; Dr. Gerry, by whom we are furnished this statement, being also present to administer chloroform, and notice its effects. The patient being put in a proper condition, the operation commenced, by cutting through the flesh, from the centre of the upper lip by the tip of the nose to near the corner of the eye ; then from the corner of the mouth backward to the base of the ear, on the right side. The flap embraced by these cuttings, comprising all one side of the face, was then raised up, exposing the anatomy of the part. A front tooth being extracted to facilitate the operation, the jaw was divided at the centre of the mouth, then frofn the nose to the lower corner of the eye near the nasal duct, then separating the transverse suture, or seam, near the other corner of the eye, and the zigomatic suture, the entire light upper jaw, with the cheek bone and infra orbital plate, was removed. The patient gradually recovered from the effects of the chloroform during the dressing of the wound, and seemed to be doing well when we last heard from him. The cancer was inveterate, and the single chance of life depended on its successful eradication by excision. We trust the chance may be his. —Ypsilanti Sentinel. t* ’ CTTho Fourth-Gomes on Saturday. r ' 1. . - . 1 _*■ ’

Why Colonel Crabb went to Sonora.

It ie not generally known that! soon after his emigration to Califor- j nia, Colonel Crabb married into n; large family by the name of Ainsa.j originally from Sonora, having Hed thence because of political disuen- i sionain the -Slate, and settled in Stockton. A private letter from, California, by the last arrival, says^i Mr. A. had eight daughters and | four sons./. Some two years since! the eldest eon returned to Sonora, |and having married his cousin, who belonged to one of the dominant factions there, secured his father’s confiscated estates. Soon after, Crabb, with his wile, paid his broth-er-in-law a visit, and while there was urged to return to California, assemble about 400 men, and with them come and settle on the frontier and protect them from the Indians, whom the Mexican Government had allowed to completely devastate the country. They also wished, in time, to declare themselves independent of that country. Crabb went down with one hundred men. lie had the promise of more when he reached the frontier, besides those who went around by sea. As soon as they entered Carvorca, they were met by enemies, and betrayed by their own friends. This simple narrative, says the Picayune, throws a flood of light upon the origin of this unfortunate expedition, whatever may have afterwards become its object and character. It would seem certain, however, from other equally reliable papers before us, that Colonel Crabb was decieved and betrayed by those who, -pretending to be his friends, had invited him to Sonora. —State Sentinel. The Princess Royal’s Husband.— The betrothed of the princess royal of England is described as a fine looking young man, in height about five feet nine inches. His deportment is exceedingly dignified. His complexion is naturally fair, although his face* is slightly browned by out-door sports and exercise. He has light hair, cut very close, a still lightef mustache, which runs into a thin light whisker and does not conceal a pair of large red lips. Ilis nose, is ...long, and bien prononc, his eyes are blue, and~His 'Face' is of somewhat broad German type. Speaking of his appearance at the Derby last year, a gossip thus describes him : “He was dressed like a young Englishman, in compliment to the people among whom he has come to seek a bride. There is something about an English hat. with its small flat brim, which pronounces its nationality far and wide, and an unmistakable specimen was selected by the young prince for his debut. He also wore one of those black check cravats vvhich English country gentlemen frequently afreet The prince seemed pleased with the slightest mark of courtesy, and was quick to acknowledge H.”

Anothor Reverend Fremonter.

In Carroll county, Ohio, recently, Rev. Joseph Barclay was found guilty of the seduction of Elizabeth Sharp, and also of breach of promise of marriage, and was mulcted in damages to the amount of $5,000. The defendant was a preacher of the Covenanter or Seceder faith, and was one of the leading Fremont Kansas-shrieking preachers of Carroll county. A local paper says that “ the evidence on the trial showed that he had for some time been paying his addresses to Miss Sharp, an accomplished and highly respectable young woman of the county, that he promised! to marry her, and then, with the hellish machinations of a fiend, but shielded with the livery of heaven, he set about his work of destruction, and' by prayers and great professions of righteousness, coupled with his premise of marriage, he succeeded in seducing the young girl from the path of virtue, and accomplished her ruin and deserted her.” ' The U. S. Agricultural Sociktt.The summer trial of harvesting implements, under the auspices Of the United States Agricultural Society, will be held at Syracuse, Nel? %¥ork, commencing July T:T, inS7. The trial will be very interesting to farmers and manufacturers. Nearly one hundred implements have already been entered for competition. i —.—; JKT"Thc following capital remark is from an exchange. Its acuteness is not surpassed by anything in Sadi or Solomon: The man who does not advertise his business, confesses incapacity and defeat, and must retreat to the rear rank of his vocation. . • „

Fourth of July Arrangement.

At a meeting of the citizens at the j Court House, on Wednesday eve- ! ning June 23, according to previous j notice, E. T. Harding was called to the Chair and H. W. Thompson appointed Secretary. On motion of N. R. Bowman, a Committee of five were appointed as a committee (Tfnrrwngc moots. Dr. W. J. La Rue, C. Barnes, R. Strode, W. L. j Webster and E. T. Harding vveae ■ elected as sai l eo nmittee. On Friday morning the committee met and adopted the !■.•!!■ • tig order, viz: at an early hour .e citizens will be marched to the grove previously K repared, by Capt. Win. S. Hopkins, larshal ol the day. Rev. Thomas Whallnn will act as Chaplin, John McCarthy, Reader of the Declaration of Independence, Benj. Hinkle and Dr. Win. 11. Martin will deliver the orations, alter which toasts will be given by the following gentlemen, viz: Jas. Ballard, Dr. Wtti. J. La Rue, Benj. Hinkle, Esq., Dr. Win. H. Martin and others. The performance will be enlivened by the Rensselaer Brass Band. Turn out everybody and bring your wives alotfg, and let us have a general jollification on our great National Anniversary day. fC. B. Barnes, r, , , f W. L. Webster, Comm ee Men. <r? t< u ] E. 1. Harding. — (w. J. Laßue. Elopement and Sad Result. —Last summer a Mr. Brownell, ot Washing ton county .eloped fvith his wife’s sister. His wife sought her errenl husband in vain. They had successfully concaled the traces of their flight.— It was recently ascertained, however, that thev went to St. Paul, Minnesota, where they lived some time at a hotel, as man and wife; but in order to avoid public.curiosity.tianlly went to housekeeping. Last fall, Brownell was attacked with typhus feavor, and died. His adulterous sister-in-law then attempted to become possessed of his property, as his lawful wife, and made oath to the necessary papers. The advertisements in the case attracted the attention ofthe relatives ofthe deceased, and a few weeks since Brownell’s brother-in-law reached St. Paul and exposed the guilty woman, who took the first downward hound packet and fled. The injured wife shortly afterward arrived at the scene, and- was prnh--ahly able to preserve her legal rights. The end of this tale of shame is as sorrowful as nearly all such are and must he. Retribution is ever on the track of the guilty.— Rochester (N. Y.) Democrat, 19th 4

From the Non--York Evening Post.

A Singular Coincidence —The Negroes of Kentucky Responsible for Slavery in the State.

Sir. — Your leader of last evening on Slavery in Kentucky, reminds me of an incident connected with the adoption of the present State Constitution, which, l believe, is not generally know n, but possesses no little historical interest. The fact was communicated to rr>e on a recent visit to Kentucky, by a gentleman of high standing and influence. It will he remembered that in the convention which amended the original constitution of 1700, a gradual emancipation clause was Ibst by a single vote. General Breckinridge, the grandfather of the Vice President, was a member of that convention and voted against the proposi tion. ' The General represented Mr. Clay’s old district, and was elected in opposition to him by a majority of about five votes. By the constitution under which that election was held, free negroes owning a certain amount of freehold property were allowed to vote. There were in one portion of the district some six or seven free negro voters, all of whom cast their suffrages for General Breckinridge; and thus it may be said with truth, /that the slaves of Kentucky at the present day owe their bondage to their own people ; for it is well known that Mr. Clay, who ran against General Breckinridge, was at that time an emancipationist, and that the contest was conducted on this issue; •«, _ This fact may be placed along side of the recent course of; Rev. Dr. Ross, of Tennessee—an emancipated slave —in the New School General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. I leave the inference for casuists. H. Counterfeit Coin. — A Dr. George Williams has been arrested in Pittsburg far 'circulating counterfeit silver coin. 0 is supposed to be connected with j§ r S e gan in Ohio and Pennsylvania, who manufacture coin with the appearance and ring of the genuine article, well calculated to deceive good judges, , t*~ ■ . .. « ' -;i -v,.., * ‘/•

ARREST or COUNTERFEITERS OVER FIVK THOU SARD DOLLARS SPURIOUS MONEY SEIZED COUNTERFEIT PLATES SECURED. Yesterday morning, in consequence of information received, Capt. Manning, of the Independent Detective Police of this city, succeeded in making the arrest of an individual on Main-street, near Carr, named Nelson Driggs, who had in his possession $5,465 in counterfeit money, of the following banks and denominations : Bank of Ceipphwa, Wis., fives. Canal Bank of New Orlun>-, twenties. Bank of Pittsfield, Mass., fives. Bank of Commerce, Va. lives. N. \V. Bank of Va., fives. State Bank of Missouri, twenties. Farmer’s Bank of Maryland, one hundreds. Northern Bank of Kentucky, ones. Greyville Bank of Illinois, tens. Southern Bank of Kentucky, fives. Of these counterfeits, $3,975 are of the Bank of Chippewa, and are executed in an excellent manner, being liable to deceive any who are not good judges. They are dated November Ist, 1856, letter A., horses and locomotive in the center piece, and an Indian in a sitting posture in the vignette. The other bills, of which thele are in the aggregate, $1,490, appear to be sauir pies, some of them not being filled out. They are well executed, especially those on the State Bank of Missouri. Driggs had also in his possession four plates for the manufacture of bogus money, as follows : Phoenix Bank of Chicago, fifties. State Bank of Ohio (face,) —twenties. State Bank of Ohio (back ,) —twenties. Saugatuck Bank, Westport, Conn, tens. The plates of the State Bank of Ohio appear to be new. The others have been used, and impressions from them have been circulated in this city. Those of the Saugatuck Bank have been described in the Republican several days since. The plate of the Bank of Chicago differs from the genuine by the otniscion of the letter “ O.” in the word “ Phu*nix.” Driggs was taken before Justice Aerckeiwath, who committed him for future examination. — St. Louis Republican, 2 1th.

From Washington.

New-York, June 20. The Herald's correspondence, Washington, 19th, says : “ A letter received by a person ol high standing here -from a gentleman in Havana who has access to sources of information, says that, if the letters sent thence by the last steamer for Spain reach Madrid in time, the Spanish government will not make any kind of an arrangement with the government of President Comonfort. Santa Anna offers to make a treaty.”

From Kansas.

St. Louis, June 23. The Leavenworth Journal says that twelve rfeg-ular Democratic candidates have been elected in that county by an average vote of four hundred and twenty. The independent candidates secured seventy-five votes. In Douglass county the Democratic nominees average one'hundred and thirty-five votes. Independents one hundred.

The Crops.

Wabash County. Illinois. —THe prospects for an abundant yield of all grain and fruit in this county were never better than at the presenttime. The late rains have stared the wheat forward finely and the fields now present an appearance of luxuriant thrift that may well g!adden;the farmer’* heart. We undertake to say that no county in the State presents a more' promising prospect for an abundant .harvest than Wabash Co. corn is later than usual but looks well. Oats is generally good, and meadows nevr looked better. Of apples, tc.,'there will be an abundance. —Mt Carmel Reg-, New Counterfeit, probably a photograph, on the Chippewa Rank of Wisconsin, b«s made its appearance. JL. is a $5, and is well calculated to deceive. Vbkus in Hoops.—lt is known to those who are adicted to the luxury of early rising that the planet Venus, now the morning star, looks unusually large at this time—larger, brighter, and more beautiful than it ever appeared to us bej fore. A country editor accounts for the 1 fact by saying that Venus has taken VfT hoops. Another country editor gbres a different theory in explanation of alms expansion, but wi won’t mention it; • '*■' . * '• • ' n , ” +<v • 1 1 ,