Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1850-11-14
Notice to Bounty Land Claimants.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, }
Washington, October 81 1850, (

q DEpARrMErT or THE INTERIOR,
Washington, October 81, 1850. (
Applicants for bounty land, 'or for in
formation in relation thereto, are request
ed TO address their communications on
that subject to the Commissioner of Pen
sions direct. Their trans miss sion througb
the Department proper imposes on Il q
very great and Unnecessary amount Of
labor, and the additional examination thew
must thereby necessarily undergo ONLY
creates delay and liability to be lost or
mislaid.
Whenever new questions arise under
the law, the decision of the Department
will be communicated to the Commission
er of Pensions, and he. will thereby be
enabled, as he is required to do, promptly
to acknowledge the receipt of all COM
munications, and answer such inquiries
as may be made, ssagssaa
As numerous inquiries have been d.
rected TO those points, it may be we'll to
state rs o.;fesf s.5egs ~.
LIST. That where the service has been
rendered by substitute, he is the person
entitled to the benefit Of the law, and not
his employer. SIS ve ss @ II
I'd. That the widow of a soldier who
has rendered the service required by the
law is entitled to bounty land, provided
she was widow at the passage of the
law, although she may have been married
a second time; but if not widow at that
time, the benefit of the act enures to the
minor children of the deceased soldier.
Sd. That no person who has received
or is entitled to bounty land under prior
law, is entitled to the benefit of the act
/ of 28th September, 1850.
4th. Thatno soldier is entitled to more
than one warrant under this act, although
he may have served several terms but
where soldier has served several terms,
he will receive warrant for the greatest
quantity Of land to which those several
terms, consolidated will entitle him.
ALEX. H. HI. STUART,
$500 Secretary Of the Interior.
i A PREACHER OF DIsUNIoN.-Gov.
l Quitman, of Mississippi, is making
] speeches, in different portion of that
! State, in support of the Secession doc
trines put forth in his recent Proclama-
ton. At a late meeting of 6 Seceders"
in Natchez, where but small gathering
was collected, Gov. Quitman made,
] speech of which the Natchez Courier
talks as follows:
i :" 1t was dilated elongation of his
proclamation, ending with his positive
enumeration that for one he would not
submit to the laws recently passed, until
his State made him to do it; that any,
thing was preferable to such acquies-
cence."
i The Courier thus castigates the Gov
ernor for an outrage which no man, not
Host to every feeling of self-respect,
could have been guilty of: fAad
i Gov. Quitman, yesterday, drew some
:, Iinvidious distinctions between Southern
, and Northern troops. Shame was it for
: lone indebted to N. York as well as
4 South Carolina regiment for noble sup
|, port upon the hills of Mexico, to at
! tempt TO excite sectional prejudices at
the expence of those men, to whose
courage and daring much of his own
personal glory is due. While we take
) pride in the reputation of the Mississip-
+, pi rifles, and forget some of the freaks of
$ South Carolina when thinking of the
i Palmetto regiment, we could but blush
: to hear a General in the service, who
!, had led Northern and Southern troops
f alike and at their head achieved person
. al renown-to hear him say, /" Northern
regiments had shrunk from positions
e which Southern regiments had main
0 tanned"
t We made melancholy estimate OF
e how powerful was that prejudice which
n had made John A. Quitman forget that
but three years since, in an official re-
port detailing the assault upon Chepul-
: tepec by New York and South Carolina
troops he had told far different tale
: "Here was short pause; but soon
i the flag of Mexico was lowered, and
r the stars and stripes of our country floa-
: ted from the heights of Chepultepec,
a high above the heads Of the brave men
t who had planted them there. The gal
o liant New York regiment claims for their
e standard the honor of being the hrst
j waved from the battlements of Chepui-
5 tepec." 80
',l CAUSE OF FAILURE IN BUSINESS
!, An excellent writer in Hunts Magazine
o enumerates the following cause OF failure
e among business men: