Wisconsin herald, and Grant County advertiser. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1844-1845, 1845-08-23

1.-The building known as Adams Hotel has
been secured as a Boarding House, for the
benefit Of this institution, and will be open for
the reception Of students during the frs. week
of the term. which commences on Monday, the
25,h day of August next.
1T will be kept by b. Atwood. Esq. Par
,iculars next week."
DuBUQuE.-Mr. J. p. Bolivar M'Cabe, who
has so long been about 10 publish Gazetteer
OF Wisconsin, thing SO Difficult. TO do be-
cause The Territory Won't stand stationary long
enough for him to 90 it, seems to have passed
over into Iowa. where there is less motion. to
take likeness of things there. Whether Mr..
McCabe has left Wisconsin to go unpictured-
her features being too Protean for the canvass,
we do not learn. For our own part, we would
as soon try to take Daguereotype likeness Of
a woman who has the 81. Vitus' dance. Our
population, facts. statistics. and features. are
all in state of hourly progression: The
chrysalis you paint today. tomorrow. is a
butterfly. You describe Plat,evile. Po,osi, or
Milwaukee, and before yonr ink is dry, city
at Sheboygan-or new village of Benton
somewhere leaps into existence. OF Dubuque.
in Iowa, MIR. McCabe says
"Where was the town of Dubuque on the
first day Of June, 1883 SOLITARY and alone
stood a single cabin. about eight logs high. at
the foo, Of Main.street, where its owner, now
no mole, was monarch Of all he surveyed
Blu, not long alone, for the Red Man had barely
bid the graves o: his fathers adieu, when the
oil Y .,ongued Yankee. the home-sick Puke and
Sucker. the Won Krouts. the Bulls. and the
Paddys, We'd with each other 10 padding the
light canoe a cross the Father Of Waters, TO
seek their fortunes in the bowels of the earth,
WHOSE surface may be seen, here and there,
disturbed and burrowed like a Buffalo lick, by
the Indian miner who had been iaiia;ed by the
Peti, mutt The rocks soon howled, and the
hills reverbera ted. The valley resounded to
the woodlands axe, and the sturdy oak fell
PROSTATE to the dust, that its branches might
be fuel. and its trunk be constructed. with its
fellow, into a temporary hut for the abode OF
Man, where the same aperture served double
purpose-for the ingress Of light, and the egress
of smoke. The winter OF that year shut In
upon those pioneers of civilization with all the
invitations incident TO a new home; rude cab
ms, scant Of provisions. No female hand to
.smfof. them, and the demon Of in,emperance
stalking il their midst. True, the number of
inhabitants was cot few, Tor the time. Coarse
merchapdize. blankets and Buffalo robes, were
open TO purchase, bu, yet their wants were
many, as provisions of all kinds Were scarce :
the sick may die without nursing the cholera
found It's victims. unchecked by medical aid /.
and the necessaries to administer 10 their COM
fort were no where 10 be found.
"The spring of 1884 opened under more IA
vorable suspicies, as a transient steamboat ar
rived from ST. Louis. and the last best gift OF
God 10 man drop, in occasionally. Yet, the
frs, anniversary of their settlement found them
iu state Of anarchy. for the parent Government
had neglected them no State or Territorial
law had yet protected them. and We doubt. If
the Divine code could be found in their midst,
unless, perhaps. 10 the hands of that pioneer
patriarch, Father Johnson. TWAS 10 thai year.
and in ,ha, month. Jane. '34,) that bis Honor
Judge Lynch. held cour, on The fiat below tho
town, where twelve empannelled jurymen re-
turned a verdict OF Guilty Of murder In the
first degree against man who had shot anoih-
er ia self.defence. and his Honor. the Judge,
pronounced sentence of death. which was car.
+ ried into execution on the 2lst Of THAI month,
+ with an the mock formalires of laws, on what
/ 10 known to this day as Connot's Mound