Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-07-06
South Carolina i'm Parliament.

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e South Carolina i'm Parliament.
In the British House of Commons on
the goth ultimo Mr.. Kinnard inquired
> what was the condition of the negotia-
fItions with the Government Of South Car
DINA respecting British subjects taken
, out of British ships at Charleston, lodged
IN jail, and charged considerable sum
: Tor their maintenance there.
Lord Palmerston replied that he was
! not able to state the precise condition of
the negotiation, but the question was one
lof great interest and considerable diff
! Guilty. The slave States in the South Of
the American Union had passed laws
T which he should forbear from character
izing, but the result of which was that
, |any man of color belonging to the crew
Of any ship which arrived al port in a
slave State was Immediately arrested and
kept in Jail SO long as the vessel remain
ed in port.
\ The British Government for a long
course of time had represented to the
Government of the United States that
such proceeding was in. violation of
treaties with the Union at large. That
assertion had not, he believed, been de-
lnied by the Federal Government, but the
IConstitution of the United States was
such that the action of the Federal Gov
ernment on the separate States was next
to nothing; and it had been fairly repre-
sented to the British Government by the
Federal Government that, to insist on
the repeal of those laws under which the
fproc ceilings in question took place, and
which, whatever they in England NIGH:
think Of them, arose out of the feelings
OF the local States, would raise questions
between those States and the Federal
Government which would be exceeding
ly announcement, if not destructive to the
Union.
The British Consul at Charleston, by
instructions from his Government, had
}entered into communication with the To-
cal government for the purpose Of obtain
ling certain notifications of the obnox-
ious laws, but up to the time when he
Lord Palmerston) left the Foreign Of
flee he knew that the negotiations had
not led TO any satisfactory result; and
he much feared, though he was not pre-
cisely Informed on the subject, that
they had not ended in any desirable ar
arrangement. Nevertheless, the attention
of the Government, he was confident,
was still directed to the subject, and no
efforts would be omitted calculated to es-
tablish more satisfactory condition of
thins.
IIssInternal improvements are char
acteristlc Of our time, and withinreason-
BILE limits nobly characteristic. But
| 4 ,,,o -, IL even casually acquainted
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Tut seeing extravaganza here also.
Posterity, we may be assured, will look
with amazement at these times. The
velocity of railway train may be fear
full, and yet by custom we forget the
immense speed. At the city Of Dayton,
in Ohio, we found recently constructed
land constructing nearly dozen rail-
roads. At Indianapolis, in Indiana, the
case is still more extreme and at Chi
cago, in Illinois, fairly wearied out we
Igave up trying to understand the pro-
iects. Some Of these roads are hundreds
Of miles long, and all in ne w States yet
in infancy, at most, extreme youth. But
this is not excitement enough. Men
are toiling to invent new plans for bus
liness and to open new avenues for trade.
An American, we heard, has, just taken
a contract to cut pine spars in Oregon
for the Dutch navy. The only question
touching railroad to the Pacific is which
of half dozen routes shall be taken, and
two years more may witness three or
four roads, thousands of miles long, run
ming parallel to each other, commenced
almost simultaneously. We have re-
Gently heard that lot, thirty-fve feet
by seventy five, was rented in an Eastern
lefty for twenty years at fourteen thou
sand dollars year. The earth is NOV
ling at fearful velocity around the sun,
land yet we seem to be standing STILL
A rate that to an Anglo-Saxon seems
slow to a man Of any other race mingles
sky and earth together, and turns his
brain into idiocy. u Eastern Paper.
| NEWSPAPER FILEs.--Even the poor
est newspaper published in the world is
worth being filed away for future refer
ence. They are sure to come up some
day as important "reminiscences, and
even as evidence in important law suits.
We see this daily illustrated. Persons
are constantly called to examine our files,
and not circuit court is held but that
some one--and often two or three
connected with our office, receives a
Summons to attend with files of the pa
lper, to be used in evidence. This SUBJ