Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1850-12-05

pr THE GOVERNOR OF WISCONSIN,.


The T,uelth day Of Decembsa. merit i
hereby, by the Governor Of the State o.
Wisconsin, appointed and recommended
to be observed by the people Of this State
as day Of Public Thanksgiving ane
PRAYER to our Spirit Father, for The
manifold kindnesses and blessings which
from the plentitude of his goodness, has
fallen upon US, both as State and Ma.
ton. 81.
Gratitude for benefits received is a.
mong the highest traits of American
character, and no people entertain more
elevated sense of their moral and relig-
ious duty in manifesting, in proper and
becoming manner, the obligations they
owe as the recipients of favors invalu-
able and unnumbered.
No State enjoyss in higher degree,
the requisites, physical, moral, social and
intellectual, conducive to the happiness
and prosperity of its people than our
own. @
For the acknowledgement of our obi
cations, for the enjoyment of life, liberty
and happiness; Of fertile soil and a
healthful climate; of the rewards of sue
cessful labor, mental and physical of
liberty of conscience and of speech of
governmental protection and all wants
supplied, the annual day of prayer and
thanksgiving has become endeared to the
American people, and is regarded as
happy and impressive occasion, worthy
to be observed by religious exercises
1t calls up the memory of the early pur-
ity Of our forefathers, whose gratitude
and piety instituted its observance. 1t
tends to gladden. with joyous hopes re-
ligious sympathy and faith, the family
fircside, and to re-unite, with mutual
love, the domestic circle. 1t is domes-
tic as well as a general and public occa-
sion.
Let us. then, as becomes grateful peo-
pie, observe this time-honored occasion,
and on that day let the voice of praise
and prayer, blended with the voice of
gratitude, be raised from every place Of
religious devotion and from every heart
and fireside, to that kind Providence from
whose hands all our blessings and en-
joyments have been received during the
present year.
In Testimony whereof, /, NELSON
4+++++ DEWEY, Governor of the State
IL. s. Of Wisconsin. have hereunto set
4++ ~ my hand and affixed the great
seal Of the State. sH aaa
Done at Lancaster, this tenth day Of
November, in the year one thousand eight
hundred and fifty. atfa9 H
ba aebaq1 NELSON DEWEY.
BY the Governor:
d WIN. A. BARsrow, Secretary OF State.
.ia MILWAUKEE & MISSISSIPPI Rail-
noAD.-We are informed upon good au-
thority that it is not the intention of the
directors of this road to put it in opera
tion until it is completed to Whitewater.
It has been expected that the cars would
run between Milwaukee and Waukesha
as soon as the road should be completed
to the latter place; but the directors are
of the opinion that the road will not pay
well for SO short distance. The road
will not be completed to Whitewater be-
fore September, some delay being antici-
pated in consequence of the contractors
for iron failing 10 deliver the full guam
tity this fall, on account Of break in
the Erie canal, which delayed large
quantity which was on the way.
We also understand that two wealthy
individuals in Rochester are invcstiga-
ting the prospects Of the enterprise with
view Of taking half million Of the
stocks, if they consider the inducements
sufficiently strong. Should this sub
scription be made, the company will be
relieved from all embarrassment for
want of funds and the route will be inn
mediately located through 10 the Missis-
sippi and prosecuted with increased yig-
or.-.Nadison .4rgss.
AHARDsHIr.-Under the operation Of
the taxlaws of this State, counties are
compelled to bid off all the delinquent
lands not otherwise sold, and advance
the taxes on the same to the State, in
money. In this county over $4,000 of
such lands have become forfeited under
the laws, and the citizens are taxed to
pay the State tax upon them. There
would be no hardship in this if there
had been a judicial decision settling the
validity and constitutionality of tax titles.