Jasper Banner, Volume 4, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1857 — The Pup that got Skunked. [ARTICLE]

The Pup that got Skunked.

«I do allow this wen to be as familiar with roe as my dog: and he holds his place; for, look you, how he writes.” Owing, no doubt,, to the very offensive odor which which the snarling cur of the Gazette finds himself infected, he imagines he "has been stiring up the skunks.” If so, he has evidently got the worst of it; but we apprehend he is mistaken. Some dogs are naturally filthy, and to such a degree, as to be sometimes offensive to themselves. The fact is, that dog-like he ° has returned to his vomit,” and presents a sight too disgusting for even the stomachs of Black Republicans. Mr. Editor.— Some time since I was urgently.requested to become a patron of the Gazette which at that time had just made its T appearance. I was told that it would be a paper in every way worthy of support; that it would adopt a standard of hightoned morality; that it would condescend to nothing low or abusive, and, that its worth might be more clearly understood, the Banner was alluded to in most disparaging terms.

Having been a reader of your paper from the time it was first established, and being well satisfied with its course, I have been induced to make a careful comparison between the two papers, and I am perfectly surprised to find how far short the Gazette comes of the character which was claimed for it by its friends. Already some five or six persons, mostly our own citizens, men long known to us, have been personally assailed with the lowest and most indecent style of blackguardism. Now, sir, in justice to you, I wish to say that I have never found anything in the Banner half so abusive or disgusting as has already appeaFed in the Gazette. lam aware that in expressing your sentiments you use plain language and do not pander to the prejudice of sect or party. This, however, in my opinion is by no means censurable. I have always been suspicious of that class of persons or things for which high pretensions are claimed before merit is established. Observer. OCT 3 The conductor of the “ smut machine ” has, by his personal abuse, rendered himself odious to a large portion of this community, •nd the manner in which his dishonesty and abuse recoil upon him is goading the fellow to desperation. His paper is becoming a perfect conduit for filth, obscenity and low-flung blackguardism. Our citizens already begin to regard it as a contageous excrement that is likely to engender moral disease throughout the community.

DCj® A little political editor complains that hie paper hasbeen stolen from some of his subscribers. If the thief was not as deficient in taste as in honesty, he, probably, on discovering what he had got, felt a good deal like the pickpocket who, finding nothing but counterfeit money in a purse he had stolen, exclaimed m wrath, “ Hang the fellow, he has swindled me. Exchange. That must have been the Gazette man. Time Between Philadelphia and Chicago.—By late arrangements, the traveling time between these two points, by way of the Pittsburg and Fort-Wayne and Chicago Road is brought within 84 hours. The baggage of passengers is checked through from Philadelphia, and there is but a single change of cars by which means a great convenience is added to the comfort of rapid and safe transit