Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1875 — DID JASPER PACKAKD GET ANY OF IT? [ARTICLE]

DID JASPER PACKAKD GET ANY OF IT?

Tom Todhunter lives in Indianapolis. He is the right man in the right place, and never becomes excessively wearied, nor goes far, to find his favorite beverage. One of these Benton county lions (Lyons) has commenced publishing a newspaper at Boswell. That settles the question about itsspecies. Il is a carnivorous mammal, of the feelin’ tribe, and, of course, delights to pray. It will, at times, cry like a child, smg like a woman, laugh like a man, or roar like a lion. • . • Before us is a Jacksonville, Florida, paper, Issued December 19th, which notices that a gentleman of that city recently presented them with a basket of Wilson’s Albany strawberries grown in his garden. He has been selling them this winter for $1 a quart, and has a brisk market. The editor advises Florida farmers to turn their attention to strawberry cul tore for winter employment ! Among the standard publications of the New World, the Scientific American occupies a position in the front rank. All who are interested in scientific pursuits and investigations, in mechanics and inventions should read its columns. .As a source of practical information, it is unsurpassed by any publication within pur knowledge. See prospectus elsewhere, and become a subscriber. Attention is? directed to the prospectus of the Indianapolis Journal, which is to be found elsewhere in our columns. The Journal is recognized by all as occupying the foremost position among the newspapers of Indiana. Published at the Capital, its facilities for obtaining news from every quarter ot the State are unsurpassed, and the enterprise of its managers, and the ability of its editors, renders it a popular paper with all who desire to keep posted upon the affairs of the State. It will be remembered that The Unioj* noticed a few weeks ago that Mr. Wm. Paxton, of Newton township, bad lately obtained a pure blood Alderney bull calf from the celebrated Longworth herd at Cincinnati. Here is what is said of that kind of stock of cattle in one of the prize essays recently read ata meeting of the Board of Directors of the lowa State Agricultural Society : Now to the origional proposition—what the Alderny cow is good so sum up by saying that she is the best cow known, for cream and buttery that as a class they produce more, and of a superior quality; that they give a more regular and longer flow of milk than any other; they are the best for the butter dairy and for family cows; they will keep the milkman from the door more weeks in the year than any other; they are the cheapest and most qirofitabie cow for the farmer who makes butter, they are the best cow for residents of towns and cities who keep a family cow or two, for they eat less, produce more, and, beingso quiet and gentle, require less time and attention. That there can ever be peace in Louisiana while the editor of the Shreveport Times goes unhung is improbable. The worst feature of the situation in Northern Louisiana is the fact that such »man as the editor of the Times is permitted to there and preach sedition and assassination. The white people of that section are capable of very bloody work. Neither the laws nor customs of civilized society have availed to restrain them from-acts of violence of the most horrible character. Still, the conclusion that the majority of the white people of Shreveport are as bad as the editor of the Times is revolting to human nature. But the conclusion is nevertheless irresistable; for as bloodyminded as they have shown themselves to be, they would certainly have hanged the editor of the Times if they had not been in entire accord with his brutal and brutally-expressed sen ti mtin ts. — Ch icago Inter- Ocean. Was ever darker crime advised, or assassination more broadly Hinted than in the above quotation? Had any Southern editor, or any one in the Northern States who does not acknowledge blind, abject allegiance to the party in power whether right or wrong, given expression to so base, so foul, so cruel, so cowardly and so wicked senti-. ments, all the political Pharisees in the land would have indulged in a prolonged howl of horror. No criminal that ever lived suggested assassination in plainer words. And yet the Inter-Often w the pet

organ of those “Christian Statesmen” people like Mat. Carpenter, Ben. Butler, Luke Poland and Jasper Packard who monopolize, and with whom abides, all the goodness, virtue and greatnessof onreountry!

It has now been proven.that over "onc~million of dollars was used to corrupt members of Congress two years ago, and procure the passage of the Pacific Mail Steam Ship Subsidy Bill. That bill provided that the company inquestion should receive from the United Slates government an annual subsidy of SSOO- - for a period of ten years for carrying the mails twice a month from Sail Francisco to China. At thOffimc of the passage of this act The Union denounced it as a corrupt job, and charged that Hon. Jasper Packard, together with his compeers, had violated their solemn pledges and outraged their constituents by assisting, with their votes and arguments, to pass the infamous measure. From the testimony that has already 1 ieeTT eTic itmlTiy the investigating committee it is known that Schumaker, a Democratic member from New York, King, Republican member from Minnesota, and formerly postmaster o f the House, and Parsons, Republican member from Ohio, all were feed by the company to influence members of Congress for the passage of their job. There is no longer a doubt that members sold their votes to the Steam Ship Company, some sos more,,some for less; and we are fully persuaded in our own minds that lion. Jasper Packard was one ot them. He probably did not get more than SSOO or SI,OOO, his influence not being very extensive. If he got nothing, he is even more fool than knave, because the stamps were being passed round and when he had decided to vote for the robbery it was just as well to share in the spoils.