Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1860 — NUTON KOUNTY. [ARTICLE]

NUTON KOUNTY.

[For the Rensselaer Gazette

Kankakee Swamp,March 23, 1860. Mister Edyturs; I wish to rite for a little informashun in regard tu wun or tu pints. I’m not acquainted with you, yet I’ve seen the wun that is a lier, when I was tending cort as a witness befour the state ’torney in regard to timbur stealing. And your was tryin’ a case for Brennisholtz agenst -Collins. You might not have noticed me, as you was very busy writin’ an’ speakin’, as them other fellers that was fur Collins kept pitching in wsun or another. I had my mind mad up on that case, an’ was astonished that the Jewry didn’t agree; but men have so many different notions about the same

thing. Fur instance, we can’t all agree on polilix. You’re a Republican, and I’m a Democrat; yet wm’re botli honest about it. But that is not sayin’ that all men ar, fur I’ve lately had my suspishuns of men in that 1 aiever suspected before. In . sac I thot they was so hi up that that they didn’t need to be dishonest; but ’cording to scripler, it’s ; not all gold that glitters, an’ I vvud ’specially in these latter times. But there is so many things that crouded upon my mind that ! almost forgot the pint that I sot down fur. You no we divided the kounty a short time ago; that you folks up thar fout agin it. I didn’t blame you, because it was agin your intrust. In sac, I did’nt go in much for it at fust myself. I liked you folks very well, but it was so fur up thar, an in order to git a kounty sect close by, I run the reeslc of bier taxes an’ signed the petishun. By referrin’ to it, which, I suppose, is in the auditur’s office, you’ll see my name is on it. Thar’s no goin’ bchint the bush with me. A

Well, we gained the victry in the sow preme cort, an’ the kounty was split in tiy an’ the nex thing was to locate the kounty seet; an’ ly referring to the law we find that after we got the pitishun thro’ an’ the rekord filed in the ollise of the sectary of state, it wud be the dewty of the govner tu aypint three commisshuners to locate the kounty sect and so fourth. Now here is wun of the pints. Does the law say that the govner is tu go with them and select the pint himself! Now, I think the govner ot tu select men that wud be culpable of goin’ by themselfs and try tu look like they was selecting for the good of the people anyhow. Well, you’ve lieerd that the govner came out hepe with three or four other fellers, an’ selected'•Kent’s station fur a kounty seet, then tuck the strate rode fur Rensselaer, pretendin’ tu look fur w;; „ a 3 t j ß .y went. Thar was wun ole fat feller from Montgomery, by the name of Allen, 1 think wud do what was rite, but the govner new that tu was a majority of them as well before lie appinted them as after they latified his location.

Now I do feel sorely general over tins locashun. I wish I had never signed the petishun: it is ten miles further now tu the kount-y seet than it was tu your town, an’ a great deal, worse rode. I’ve been over tu the squire’s an’ examined the etatoots an’ the acts clarc down to the new wun that Snyder helped make, or I suppose he did, fur he sent me a paper in which I seen the gentleman from Jasper had made a moslnin or something or another that was ment fur him; it was the only paper that I saw anything of the kind menshuned. and I didn’t no but yt ment him—and never found wun word that squinted towards giving the govner any sich authority; an’ if there is non I shall rite tu him myself and give him tu understand what I think about it, an’ what effect it’s going to hav on the party here. Now, Mister Edyturs, comes the nex pint. I want tu no if the govner is not tu i, ake the selectshun, whether it is the dewty of the commisshuners to select the locashun for the benefit and intrust of the people of the bounty, or whether it is their dewty tu locate it fur the individooal benefit or profit of the govner, or some favorite persons or themselfs. Is it their dewty tu go over the kounty and see what the real intrusts ar, or is it sufiishent tu go tu wun eend of it an’ look over towards the other, which is forty miles off, and deside! Now, they never was in the north half of the kounty at all. I told Polly to keep the table setting fur tu days, expecting them up in our nayborliood an’ that they wud be hungry. How cloase do suppose they come! Why, they stopped away down below the center, where they run out of lieker and sent acrost to W. an’got a jug of prarary grass whisky. If I had been thar they never wud have got it. Ino the govner’s failings tu well, an’ that whisky was nothing like as good as K’s., an’ they j mite have noed it would hav a bad effect. Well, I tell you it made Squire C»ripe squirm when I told him that I had seen John Felt on his way home from Rensselaer an’ the kounty seet was located at Kent’s—an’ well it may make us all squirm tu think that we hav to travel fdrty miles to tend cort or other kounty business. We hav an indignant meeting appinted fur nex Satday week at Bag's skool house. I want to get your reply to my letter before then, that I may be satisfied on them pints an’ be ablo to act understandtngly. Send us out some good docyments wuns an’ a while. I an’ Gripe an’ Bags’ an sum others lmv concluded tu look more at both sides of the queetsfcun; we ar not shure but the Democrats have been badly bit in tho se-

lec.fabun of sum or them hier offisers, on' therefore it is possible that we’ve been mistaken in sumtiling else. I also incloaseyou a dollar and fifty cents, for which you will please send me a copy of the Gazette fur the nex year. Send it tu trip Morocco P. O-, as that’ll be the handyest to me. Y'ourts truly, J. Odldbi ck^