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The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1847-11-16
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HcRsE PoGHR In correction OF state
mcnt MAs,sh has been widely circulated, atri-
buling Is the Scientific American the author
ship Of paragraph stating that " horse pow
er was 49, pounds raised one hundred feet
high per minute" We would say that such
information ought to be s"ddled upon lis true
anlhor. The mistake must have originated
in some other paler than the Scientific
american. The usual estimate of eff CT OF
horse power is 33,u00 pol'nds at a velocity
of / foot in height per min,lle, Bolton
and Watt supposed a horse aLle TO raise
$4,000 pounds avoirdupois foot high in a
minute; Dcsagucliers 27,500; Smealon 22,-
SIS. Bolton and Watt, however, in calcula-
ting the power Of their engines, suppose
horse to draw 900 pounds AT rate of2t
miles per hour or go feet per minute, with
continuance, drawing the weight overa pully.
Now 200 multiplied into go equal $4,000;
that is $4,000 pounds at foot high per nin-
ute. Bolen and Watts engines, Therefore,
were of great power, according To their est
mate of horse power, as registered by them.
"A 80 horse power engine Of Waits being e
qual 10 so of Smeaton's. We shall allude
to this subject again, as we are always happy
to threw iigh, upon any subject, for the ben
EFF, of correcting The CoRRmroR.-ScientG
&c American. War $50 at 1
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X A L I'D A I'll o Il e L.
J A M Els H. VAIL

TTAS taken the we'll known and
hnA IL commodious Tavern Stand fern
GssS erly occupied by T. R. Mcclure. The
MAI House has been thoroughly repaired
&HaAELuS this fall, and is now well fitted 10 the
accommodation Of the travelling community.
]. H. v. feels confident that those who favor
him by selecting his house will find the accom-
modations and attendance equal to those of any
House in this part Ohio. His table will be well
urnished with the best the surrounding country
ffords and his bills will be found reasonably
ow to suit the times. He has also large and good
abling, and designs to spare no pains to secure
comfort and convenience OF his guests.
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OF The great bell for the M ontreal Ca.
thedral, just received from England, is said
to be the largest bell in the British Empire.--
1t weighs thitteen and half tons, aud is
eiaht feet seven inches in diameter.
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WESTERN HOTEL.
BY WIN. MCCLURE,

wv MCCLURE has purchased and fitted
w up the stand formerly occupied BY
W. L. Hipkins, in
Gilboa, Putnam County,
Where he will be ready 10 entertain the
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the travelling community.
His Stabling aud other Accommodations are
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Gilboa, Put. Co. o., June 25, ISL SO
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AUDITORS OFFICE. PUTNAM COUNTY, OHIO,

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4 p,oposrn ,w RrronM--Tbc follow
s.. "a ,.,.no.;,;nn M wac discussed in late meet.
;mg ;;ng XIX IF ,be Cn,ciuua, bar The necessity
Has s sn,onsye leooI reforms is every duy be.
,",,;nr ~ rn,,re s,r,,nuly imnrssed unon the
u"hi;o % Mind. =
- 81.
Abolish the lee simple tlle 10 real proper
crty, and reduce all freehold estates 10 ne
The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1847-11-16
ROADS AND ROAD MAKING.

Professor Gillespie says in his book or
roads; straight road over an uneven anc
billy country may, at first view, when mere.
set upon the map, be pronounced TO be a
bad road for the straightness must have been
obtained either by submitting to steep slopes
in ascending the hills and descending into
the valleys, or those natural obstacles must
have been overcome by incurring great and
unnecessary expense in making deep cut.
tings and filings.
A good road should wind around these
hills instead of running over them, and this
il may often do without at all increasing its
length. For if a hemisphere (such as half a
bulleO be placed so as TO rest upon its plane
base, the halves of great circles which join
two opposite points are all equal, whether
they pass horizontally or vertically Or lei
an egg be laid upon table, and it will be
seen that ifa level line be traced upon it
from one end 10 the other, it will be no Ion
ger than the line traced between the same
points, but passing over the top, Precisely
so may the curving road around hill be Of
ten no longer than the straight one ever il; !;
for the latter road is straight only with refe-
renee 10 the vertical plane which passes
through il, and is curved with reference 10
horizontal plane ,while the former lev round,
though curved as to tho ver,cle plain, is
straight as 10 a horizontal one. Both lines
thus curve, as we call the latter one straight
in preference only because its vertical cur
yature is less apparent 10 our eyes.
{, The difference in length between straight !
road and one which is slightly curved is very
small. Ifa road leiween two places, ten
miles apart we're made to curve 50 that the
eye could nowhere see farther than quar-
ter of a mile Of it at once, its length would
exceed that of perfectly straight road be-
tween the same points by only about one
hundred and fifty yards ia
But even If the level u nd curved road
were very much longer than the straight and
steep one, il would almost always be better
To adopt The fainer; for on i, a horse could
safely and rapidly draw bis full load, while
on the other he could carry only part Of his
load up the hill, and mus, diminish his
speed in descending it. As a general rule, Z,
the horizontal length Of a road may be ad-
vantageously increased, TO avoid an accent
by at least twenty times the perpendicular
height which is 10 be thus saved; that is, tu
escape hill hundred feet, it would be
proper for the road 10 make such a circuit
as would increase its length two thousand
feet. The mathematical axiom that "a
Straight line IS the shortest distance between
two points," is thus seen 10 be an unsafe
guide in road making, and less appropriate
than the paradoxial proverb, 'l'at ''lhe long
est way around is he shortest way home"
The gcully curving road, besides lis sub
stantal advantages, is also much more pleas
ant TO the traveller upon itFfor he is not fa-
tigued by tbe tedious prospect of long
straight stretch Of road to be traverscd, and
is met at eash curve by constantly varied
view
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DAILY NEWSPAPER, with the above title, will be com
menced in ;he city of Columbus, the sixth day Of De
cember, 1S47. ... ..
Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1847-11-06
Foreign Items.

ITALY.-Dr. Wiseman has arrived from
Rome, charged with private dispatches for
Lord John Russell. The Doctor has been
permitted to assume the title of Archbishop
of Westminster, which is regarded as a
prelude to the establishment of Roman
Catholic hierarchy in England.
The Asiatia Cholera is making fearful
ravages in Russia, and in consequence of its
appearance in Warsaw, the Emperor had
deferred his visit to Poland, a circumstance
not regretted by the people OF that country.
SwITzERLAND.-Active preparations are
making in Switzerland for suppressing the
Sonderbund by force of arms; a sanguinary
civil war is unprecedented from the resolution
of the latter to resist the Diet Two can
tons alone are prepared with 10000 men to
take the field.
The news from Italy presents no new fea-
lures; the Pope is firm and the Austrians do
not seem inclined to provoke hostlities.-
The affairs of Spain are still very unsettled.
Catalonia continues to be disturbed by Car
list bands, and the entire line of the Pyrenees
is in a state of blockade.
The abstract of commercial treaty be-
tween Spain and England has been publish
ed, but the terms are rejected by the British
Government.
In Ireland strong opposition is made to
the payment Orient.
1t is announced by the Belfast Northern
Wing that the Baracol, Capt Owen, has ar
rived there, laden with two thousand five
hundred barrels of -four, shipped by the So
ciety of Friends at Philadelphia for the use
of the destitute Irish.
The reported marriage of the Duke of
Wellington and Miss Coutts is contracted.
Miss Coutts, it is said, among her other acts
of munificent, and somewhat eccentric be-
nevolence, is founding an asylum for con-
victed and punished felons who have been
thrown upon the world.
Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1847-11-06
Constitutional Convention.

The number of delegates to be elected to
the Convention in the several counties of the
Territory will be as follows, to witt 81
The county of Racine, 8 Delegates; Mil
waukee, Z Delegates; Walworth, Dele
gates Waukesha, 6 Delegates !; Rock, 6
Delegates; Grant 5 Delegates; Jefferson,
delegates; Lafayette, 8 Delegates; Iowa
and Richland, 8 Delegates; Dane, 8 Dele
gates; Dodge, 8 Delegates Washington,
8 Delegates; Green, 2 Delegates; Fond du
Lac, Delegates; Sheboygan and Manito-
woe, Delegate Brown, Delegate Cal
umet, ! Delegate Winnebago and Mar
guette, Portage, Sank, Chippewa, St. Croix,
La Pointe, Columbia, Delegate each.
Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1847-11-06
MORTGAGE SALE.

Robert Welsh, mortgagee; Emmanuel Meteger
and Margaret Meteger, mortgagors.
Mortgage executed September Sd, is47-record-
ed in book of mortgages in Grant county,
w. T., Registers office, page 537, at o'clock
p. nj. Amount claimed to be due on the date
of this notice, ffty-ive and ninety-seven hun.
dredths dollars--$55 81
nEFAULT having been made in the payment
-AJof the above mortgage, the above named
Robert Welsh, the mortgage, by virtue of "a pow
of sale in said mortgage contained, will sell the
following described tract of land, in said mort
gage mentioned, 10 the highest and best bidder
far ready cash, at the outward door Of the Court
House, in Lancaster, in said Grant county, on the
first Saturday in February next, between the
hours of ten O'Clock A. NJ. and four o'clock p.
NJ, of said day, TO satisfy the sum due and Sc
cured by said mortgage, together with the costs
of foreclosure and the interest said tract of land
being thes outheast quarter of the northwest quar-
ter of section 3, town 5, north of range four west
of the 4th principal meridian in Grant county,
aforesaid.
ROBERT WELSH, Mortgage
]. Allen Barber, attorney.
Lancaster, November 2, ls47 35-ts.
Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1847-11-06

News FROM THE ARMY.-We breathe
freer. Whatever of doubt, ssrumor with
her thousand tongues may have thrown
over the operations and fortunes of Gen.
Scott, after the battle of Churubusco. it is
now known that he is safely and quietly in
occupation of the ssHalls of Montezuma,o
and has established order and civil govern
ment. All the tales of bloody reverses are
proved to be groundless.
But the loss the conflicts at Mill Ell Rev,
and at Chapultepec has been fearfully dis
astrous. Among the officers killed and
wounded, whose names are given (alas not
all of them) are some of the best spirits in
the army, and some of our most respected
old residents. Col. Mcintosh was for
sometime at this Post, and at Fort Gratiot.
Our readers will remember his dreadful
wounds at Resaca. He had just sufficiently
recovered to reioin his regiment, the gallant
9Th Infantry. 1t Col. Martin Scott, of the
same regiment, the marvel shot, and one of
the most gallant officers in the service, was
also well known to our citizens.
1t. Col. Garland, whose family is still
with US, and who from long residence here,
has host of warm friends, is among the
wounded.
Lit. Col. Graham, Capt. McPhail, Capt.
Casey and several others of the killed and
wounded have warm friends among our cit
izens.-Detroit .4dUertiser.
Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1847-11-06
PETITION FOR DIVORCE.

Wisconsin Territory, &c asA e
Grant county,
District Court, Grant county, w. T., March term
A. ID. 1913. 'f"i'
Jane Manchester vs.. David Manchester-Peti-
ton for divorce. t..f t.4
E1UBLIC notice is hereby given TO the said de-
u PENDANT, David Manchester, that the petition
for divorce from the bonds Of natrimony, Of the
said complainant, Jane Manchester, was filed in
the Clerks office of the District Court of said
county, on the 9TH day Of October, A. ID. 1s47,
together with the following order Of the Hon
Charles Dunn, Judge Of the District Court Of
said county, to-wit: "It is ordered that notice be
given to the said defendant. Of the tendency of
this suit, by publishing notice thereof in the Wis
consin Herald, weekly newspaper published IN
Lancaster, in said county, for four successive
weeks, and that unless he appear and plead,
answer or demur to said petition, before the
first day day of the next term, said petition will
be taken pro confesso-the first insertion Of said
notice to be at least forty days before the day Of
hearing. true copy.
Attest, l.. O. SIiRADER,
Clerk, ID. c., G.. c., w. II.
G. w. Lakin attorney for plaintiff.
November 8, lS47. 35-4t
Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1847-11-06

GEN. TAYLoR's COLUMN. - Accounts
from Gen. Taylor's headquarters at Buena
Vista, state that two lieutenants of the Tex
as companies, stationed at Encantada, had
deserted, with nineteen of their men, taking
the direction of Monclova.
The Governor of the Department of San
Luis, in proclamation, says it is time for
the coalition to act and organize a central
government of their own, and recommends
the passage of a law most stringent in its
provisions against the Americans, or those
aiding or abetting them, and repudiates the
idea of peace.
The press, also, not only scouts the idea
of peace, but denies the power of the cen
trail government to make it.
Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1847-11-06
DRY G 90 D S

Black, brown and other colored broadcloths: fan
cy, black and heavy buekskin cassineres; supe-
rior single and double mile 1 sattinets of every
desirable quality and styles Sleeps greys and full
ed cloths, assortment; Kentucky jeans Eng
lish and Irish moeskins and fi,stians; Tweeds
cloth, single and double breadths: heavy twed
red and and white fannels: red, white, orange
and green do.:a iina.lot Of star, Maekinaw and
other bed-blankel superior wool and finish;
horse bl'kts, eyes.S(Ie and color; blanket coatings
of various colors: sard-wide sheetings and shirt
ngs of different qualities three-fourhs do, shirt
ings, brown and bleached: brown cotton iiannels,
assorted qualities: bleached do: colored do; A. No
l, ticking, striped and checked haggings and
burlaps: rich plaid and striped worsted stuils for
Innings: plaid and changeable linseys, most
splendid assortment: Buena Vista, Monterey and
California plaids, a new and cheap article for
Misses wear. In our stock may be found among
genteel and well selected lot, the following ar
J ticles in the line Of aNs
Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1847-11-06

PRoGsosTIcs OF THE WEATHER TAKEN
FROM RAIS.-1. Sudden rains never last
long; but when the air grows thick by de-
grees, and the sun, moon and stars shine
DINNER and DINNER, then il is like to rain
six hours usually.
2. Ii il begin to rain from the south. with
high wind for two or three hours, and the
wind fails, but the rain continues, il j. like
to rain twelve hours or more, and does
usually rain till strong north wind clears
the air. These long rains seldom hold
above twelve hours, or happen above once
year. FL
5. Ii il begins to rain an hour or two be-
lore surprising, II is likely 10 be fair before
noon, and continue so that day; but if the
Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1847-11-06
CAUTION.

NOTICE Is hereby given 10 all persons not to
' purchase any pretended tax title or claim
founded upon tax title, of the following described
lands IN Grant county, w. r., to-wit: the n Z
quarter OF section 5, town 6, north of range
west; the quarter of section %, town north,
range west. And all persons are forbid 10 oc-
cuPy or improve the same, OF in any manner to
interfere herewith the said tax titles are utter
ly null and Woodland suits will be brought against
al persons IN any way trespassing on said lands
or iniermeddling Herewith. Any persons wishing
TO purchase any of said lands and acquire
a good tItle thereto, are referred to- Alexan-
der Ac'5regor, at aicGregor's Landing, opposite
Prairie du Chen
JAMES MeGREGOR.
Pgairie da Chen, Nov 6, 1S47. 35-4,.
Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1847-11-06
BY ATTACHMENT.

Wisconsin Territory, SC
Grant county,
District Court, Grant county, W. T., March term,
A. ID. ls4s.
Lyman Howe vs.. George c. Rice--ln debt, by
attachment. a.n4a $3.50
M OIiCE Is hereby given TO the said defend
/ ant, and all others concerned. that ON the
llth day of October, "A. ID. Is47, writ Of at
tachment issued out Of and under the seal Of the
said court, at the suit Of the said Lyman Howe,
plaintltf against the said George c. Rice, defend
amt, for the sum of Owe hundred and nifty dollars,
debt, and one thousand dollars damages, against
the goods and chattels, lands and tenements,
moneys, rights and credits Of the said defendant,
returnabe to the March term, A. ID. 1913, of said
District Court, and which writ has been returned
by the Sheriff Of said county, duly executed.
Attest, l.. o. SfiRADER. Clerk.
ta ID. G., G. c.. W.T..
October 81, 1917. S4-6t.
5. @. Paine, plaintiffs attorney. p
Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1847-11-06
TAKEN UP

BY the subscriber, near jamestown,
2f;yg Grant county, w. T., an OK, supposed
80. to be five or six years old, white and
black belly, speclled sides and neck, is marked
with crop and slit in the right ear and a
swallow fork in the left; said OK came to this
neighborhood come time IN December last. The
owner will please prove property, pay charges and
take him away.
LYSANDER GILMORE.
November 6, 1s47. 35-4t.
Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1847-11-06
BARNETT,s HOTEL.

hs..t;S TIE subscriber having purchased the
lag, well known tavern stand IN Lancaster,
Grant county, Wisconsin,, lately owned by Dam
tel Banfl, has opened It for the accommodation Of
travellers and the public. The house and out
buildings, including a large stone stable. were
erected for the purposes Of tavefn. The sub
scriber will keep his BAR and TABLE supplied
with the best that can be furnished; his charges
will be reasonable and he viii Use every exertion
10 deserve public patronage. Ha
ANDREW BARNETT. =.
October %. 1917 33-tf
Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1847-11-06

MARRIAGE OF JENNY LIND.-The "Swe-
dish Nightingale has, it is reported, taken
unto herself mate. The envied man is
said to be a banker, of Stockholm, all En-
glishman, and related, by marriage, to a
gentleman in whom are united the charac-
tiers of a London banker and Grecian his
torian. The ceremony took place, we are
told, at Manchester.-London Meas.
Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1847-11-06
TAKEN UP

GLFs}S BY the subscriber, FIVE miles north Of
L.-Zl-. BeeiowD, a red and white COW, mostly
red, with white spot in her forehead similar to a
fralf-moon; without any ear marks, supposed TO be
about seven or eight years old. The owner will
please prove property, pay charges and take her
away. JOHN J. THOMAS.
November 6, 1s47. 35-4t