Jasper Banner, Volume 4, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1857 — The Gazett’s Circulation. [ARTICLE]

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.