Jasper Banner, Volume 4, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1857 — The Letter List. [ARTICLE]

The Letter List.

The device resorted to by Mr. Davies last week, to extricate himself from the disagreable position in which his reckless statements had placed him, is too shallow to require from us anything more than a passing notice. Mr. Davies desired to secure the letter list. In order to effect this, it was necessary for him to show, to the satisfaction of the postmaster, that he had the the largest circulation in the county. This he undertakes to do (if the statement in his last paper could be relied upon) by furnishing the postmaster with two-fifths the number he now claims in the county. Either his honesty or his sanity must be sadly defective. jHT'We regret to say that the unhappy difficulty which has existed for sometime past, between the postmaster and Mr. Davies, has resulted in a personal conflict between Mr. Davies and the son of the latter gentleman. If we are correctly informed, Mr. R. Tichenor admonished Mr, Davies sometime previous to the encounter, that unless he desisted from the abuse of his father he would chastise him. This Mr. Davies refused to do, and on Friday evening they met near the Postoffice, when Mr. Tichenor dclt the editor a severe blow upon the head with a cane, but was prevented,' by the bystanders, from repeating his blows. This occurred the previous knowledge of the postmaster, and is deeply regretted by him. The postmaster, as we are aware, has been but very little alloyed by the course which Mr. Davies has adopted, and has only been desirous of pursuing, with undeviating purpose, what he regards as his official duty. ~ fT~r* The Niles Republican of last Saturday administers a severe but just rebuke to a minister from Michigan City styling himself Rev. John Sailor, who preached from the Presbyterian pulpit in Niles on the Sunday previous a disgraceful political sermon, in which he held the doctrine that no laws—State or National, should be respected which were not in accordance with his republican sense of propriety. That’s right fnend Cook, point the finger of fccorn at any one who cones to your place, and, from the shored desk, attempt* to sow the seed of contention and resistance to the laws of our tend.— St. Jo. Co. Forum. ffyyhersM said to be 20 per cent in Delaware county this j