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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-07-20
miscellaneous.

AUSTRALIA, AS SEEN BY A CALI.
roRNIAN.--A Californian, now III Aus
trailia, writes to the Sonora Herald:
"This country is low and flat, and is a
great deal worse watered than Califor-
MIA. What water there is, is nearly
all brackish. Sometimes, it is tinctured
with sulphur and iron, but mostly salt
The flies are an intolerable nuisance
there is no end to them in the mines
Many persons have almost lost their sight,
on account of their darting into their
eyes. [ preserve my eyes and face
by continually wearing veil.
The laws Of this country are exceed
ingly opp essive on the poor laborer,
taxing him to death all tie time and lea
wing him no chance to accumulate wealth,
by any regular course Of industry
Hence Lis only hope is to strike what is
here termined a "dollop," or in our Ian
guage "pile, in the diggins; and even
then his license money and the per cent
age OF getting it through TO the settle
ments, ard converting it into specie, eats
up good deal of his god-send. To get
this "dOllop" in the first place, he stands
only one fifth the chance that he would
in California so you may judge that it
is all lottery. And yet there are men
who have made themselves independent
and comfortable fer life, by spending
only few weeks in these mines"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-07-20

A Converts ADv1cE.-W Woodward.
who was lately convicted Of the murder
Iof his wife, in Washington, has address
sed the following warning TO the young
men Of that District:
gro THE YOUTH OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
GAS | have but few days to live, |
feel it my duty to caution you from fol-
lowing my course of life if you would
live long and be respected by all who
know you. No matter how humble your
situation in life, keep the Sabbath holy,
refrain from profane company, and above
all things refrain from that great des-
ltroyer, ardent spirits. Look at my con-
dition-instead of being one Of our best
citizens, beloved and esteemed by all,
you find me in my lonely cell, under
sentence Of death, charged with one OF
The most awful crimes that could be per-
lpetrated on earth from once pions
youth, the cause referred to above.
| DANIEr. t. WooDwARD."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-07-20

1.-the Chambers Tribune, an Alaba-
ma journal whose editor is Democrat,
referring to the public action in Mobile
relative to Mr.. Fillmore's visit South
says:
''If our citiz ms have any thing like
reasonable notice Of his coming, there
will be a strong turnout to see the ex-
President. He has more popularity a.
mong the masses in this section than any
man ever had, except Henry Clay
Whenever he comes into Alabama he will
see evidences of the most genuine regard
and appreciation on the part of our citi-
Zens y
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-07-20

LpThe Boston Herald gives the con-
fessions of a dealer in the ardent of that
city, who has been sending off varieties
.'down east" since the renowned Maine
law passed. He says he has packed kegs
of liquor in nsolasses casks, filled up with
molasses, he has packed them in oil
casks, filled around with water; he has
placed piece of sponge saturated with
oil over the bung and covered it with a
piece of tin, SO that when.sthe cask is roll
led over little oil will be squeezed out,
thus deceiving the most knowing. He
has packed them in cheese-white oak
was visible. Such is the ingenuity of
trade-thus does necessity stimulate in
vention.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-07-20

MARRIAGES AND DEBrs.--Formerly
a man who married wife became re-
sponsible for all her debts, and often
found his sponsibiiities' (not always
little ones) considerably extended by
wedlock, even during the honeymoon.
In l848, our Legislature passed an act
Iexempting the property Of wife from
execution to satisfy her husbands ante
nuptial debts though all the husband S
property was still holden for the debts
contracted by the wife during her preyi-
Gus maiden Or widowhood. Our pres
Ient Legislature has redressed the inc
quality by enacting that the husband
shall no longer be responsible for his
wiie's ante-nuptial debts. Thus one OBJ
lsnt usfcsleTors IS removed afss \ e t! X
next Legislature will enact that matri-
mony shall henceforth be held full H.
quidation cf all the outstanding debts OF
both husband and wife, we shall doubt
less have an increase of marriages, tc
the signal advantage of popular clergy
men and other practitioners of the art Of
tying siiken noses, tending perhaps &c
the publication of public morals and the
increase of human happiness. Then ado
a liberal Divorce law, allowing people te
unmarry themselves at pleasure, with
out reviving the debts that had been nul.
lifted by marriage, and we shall doubt
less have brisk business done in mar
rying and unmarrying for the next few
years. II New Y ork paper.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-07-20

KEEPING HousE.--A young married
woman, who has not had the opportuni-
ty of proiting by the advice and exam
pie of good mother, viii find some diff
ficulty at first in spending her money to
the best advantage for there is really
an art in spending money, though not in
getting rid of it. Some women can keep
house respectfully and plentifully on one
third less money than will be required
by others, and without either meanness
or illiberal dealing. But to do this,
judgment, forethought, and experience
are necessary. One woman shall be "a
able to tell you how much her house
keeping costs to shilling, while anoth-
er cannot even guess within ten. The
former has method, rule, regularity, and
certain sum assigned her with the
latter it is all haphazard-it comes and it
goes, she neither knows how nor cares.
And this is almost sure to be the case if
the money is doled out by her husbaId
in a few shillings at time.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-07-20
Common Sense VS.. Nonsense.

DR.. F. Tuthill delivered an address
the other day before the Agricultural So
ciety of Suffolk county, N. Y, and in
the course of his remarks he touched up
on sstbe false shame of labor" in the fol-
lowing manner:
"The day has already come in our CT
ties that if a man stout as Milo of old
has load of wood brought to his door,
and he really aches for the pleasure of
handling it yet must he hire man to
pitch it into the cellar, while he stands
idly by, nor burst as much as touch o
stick of it on pain of losing caste. If a
stout and vigorous citizen, whose mus
Icles swell with an excess of strength
has load of wood laying. on the side
walk, he may as we'll hang himself al
once as to be foolish enough to save a
dollar and saw it up himself; yet if the
man has pitched ii in, and the gate is
down SO that he shall not be seen, we
are not sure but he may saw on till
Idoomsday, and no one esteem him man
and a gentleman. If he curry and tackle
his own horse, or lead hila to the stable
when he has done with him, he is un-
pardonably vulgar. He would no soon
Ter be caught carrying trunk the length
of block to an omnibus than stealing a
body from graveyard /; yet he will boast
among his friends of the enormous weight
he carries in the gymnasium, having paid
a fee of thirty dollars year for the pri-
vilege. And his friends applauded his
Igymnastic expenditure as wise and ex-
Iceedingly judicious, for sure say they,
how can a man live without exercise =
In short, labor which promotes the ends
of economy is an abolninable thing, that
which advertises their imbecility is a
source of pride. These soft-handed
gentry may be our sons and brothers but
we fancy they must at times feel asha-
med of our common father, old Adam,
who farmed it Paradise"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-07-20
ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILRoAD.-This

ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILRoAD.-This
road is being pushed forward with a
great deal of energy on the part of the
contractors. There are now over l0,-
GOO men engaged on it. Over 100
miles Of it is already in operation viz :
from Chicago to Bloomington. About
two thirds Of the distance from Cairo to
the junction is graded and ready for the
rail. This includes the first and second
division, upon both Of which the track
layers are about commencing their Ia
oors. On the second the work will
commence at Big Muddy river, for
which place an engine and cars for the
construction train have just been sent
down. On the First Division it will
commence at Lower Cash river, where
an engine is daily expected. A large
amount of materials for the superstruc-
,ure have been landed at both these
points. Within year from this time,
The road will be opeued its entire length
between Chicago and Cairo - st. Louis
Int.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-07-20

A CAUTION TO FREE-SolLERs.-The
n. Y. National Democrat has the fol-
lowing:
"7he President and the Free-soiLers.-
The President freely and openly announ-
ces that he will remove any man
from the Office which he may hold, who
identifies himself, in any shape, with
free-soil movement or organization. He
says he has appointed no free-soiler to
Office he took every man who took the
platform of 1852, and who asked Gov
eminent patronage, to be compromise
democrat and that any man holding of
flee un Ter him, who in any way what
ever fayors a free-soil faction, Shall be
instantly removed"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-07-20
Government has become $,

E5-Our Government has become SO
strong, or in other words, the popular
base is so widened and solidifed at the
same time, we do not require to gid
the apex of the pyramid. The world
has been SO ruthlessly humbugged with
the fetish of Government-with its mil
itary pomp, sacred pomatum, and con-
catenated swiadle-gag, that positive SIM
plicity is difficult to teach even on this
side Of the ocean. There is always
certain set who wish to render TIE honor
paid TO a Chief Magistrate reg,l affair,
and necessary index of popular sover-
eighty vested in him. They actually
persuade themselves that such parade
is necessary to the conservation Of So
ciety. Unhappily, however, for this ar
gument it precisely incountries where
there is most parade of the kind there
exists least sincere love and respect Tor
the Chief Magistrate. In Persia, for
example, for a Shah to be poisoned is al
most as common as for one. to reign.--
In Russia, to strangle the Emper-
or is considered the Magma Char
ia of the mobiles, and it was said of the
Emperor Alexander at bis coronation
that he was preceded in the cortege by
the assassins of his grandfather, follow
ed by the assassns Of his father, with
those who were to be his own assassins
on either hand. The French have been
preeminent for the superb parade with
which they surround their monarchs,
but that did not not save their heads
in the Reign of Terror it did not pro-
tect Napoleon, Charles X, Louis Phil
iippe, and will not protect the reigning
sovereign, whatever else may. In Eng
land no sovereign has been so simple in
her court as Victoria, and none accor-
dinghy so secure or SO respectable. And
if the Presidents of the United States are
safe from the tragic vicissitudes which
mark the carers of sovereigns in Europe,
il is due to the short periods Of their
official service, attended for the most
part by a simplicity corresponding to the
popular nature Of their Office New
York Tribune.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-07-20

E5@Dr. Reid a traveller through the
Islands of Peru, is said TO have found
lately, in the Desert of Alcama, the
dried remains of an assemblage OF be-
ings, five or six hundred in number, men
women and children, seated in semi
circle, as when alive, staring into the
burning waste before them. They had
not been buried-lile had not departed
before they thus sat around; but hope
was gone the Spanish invaders were at
hand, and no escape being left, they had
come hither to die. They still sat i'm
movable in that dreary desert, dried
like mummies by the effect of the hot
air; they still kept their position, SIT
ting up as in solemn council, while over
that dread Areopagus silence broods ey-
erlastingly.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-07-20
THE PASSIONS What mistake to

THE PAssoNs.-What mistake to
suppose that the passions are the strsn-
gest in youth! The passions are not
stronger, but the control over them is
weaker. They are easily excited-they
are more violent and apparent, but they
have less energy, less intensity and con-
centrated power than in maturer life
In youth, passion succeeds TO passion,
and one breaks upon the other, as waves
upon rock, till the heart frets itself to
repose. In manhood, the great deep
flows on more calmly, but more pro-
found its serenity is the proof of the
might and terror of its course, were the
wind to blow and the storm to rise. A
young mans ambition is but yanity-it
has no finite aim-it plays with a
thousand toys. AS with one passion So
with the rest.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-07-20

C1eARs.-Letters from Cuba state that
it is exceedingly difficult to obtain CT
gars, particularly these of fine quality
The causes of this scarcity are said to
be the death of an immense number OF
wOrkmen by smallpox and cholera, and
the increasing demand for high priced
cigars for California. The last crop of
tobacco, though of good quality, yielded
but very little wrapper, and the manu-
featuring goes on slowly. There are
but few workmen who can make the
Il prime article, and they receive such good
wages as to make them caprioious and
often refuse TO work. Hence, say these
letter writers, it is difficult to answer
orders for first-rate cigars.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-07-20

ia Kentucky traveller, dining at
large hotel in Albany, was annoyed by
the showing off of some of the members
of the Assembly, who kept calling each
other from their respective counties, af-
ter this fashion: "I'll thank the gentle
man from Oneida" sc, whereupon the
Kentuckian said to the the huge darby
waiter, cpl thank the gentleman from
Africa for slice Of ham," This cool
ed off the fashion of addressing tho
gentleman from, -, and SO and
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-07-20

BAD TAsTE.-Our contemporary Of
the Buffalo Commercial, is assai!ing Sec
rotary Marcy, for instructing our Rep
resentatives abroad to dress like Amer
leans. We think the Secretary right
and the Commercial querulous. Some of
the officers Of our army and navy, make
themselves sufficiently ridiculous at home
by copying foreign manners, without "a
ny necessity Of the same being done by
ConsuIs and Ministers abroad.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-07-20

E"Poor thing, it is gone" S.
said tender father to friend, as hi
was speaking of child of two month:
old, which death had just robbed him of
"But it was the will of Heaven. W.
did all that was possible +; l have moth.
ing to reproach myself with. 1t was
only sick week, and in that time we
had four physicians. They gave it cal
omel eight times, put blister plaster
up0n its breast, and sir mustard poul.
tees; they also gave it anthony ant
other medicines, as much as was neees.
sary, and it had to die, poor thing
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-07-20

AN ORIGINAL UNCLE Tcm.'-A cor
respondent of the n. Y. Post suggests
that an old black man named Pierre
Toussaint, who came TO New York from
St. Domingo, sixty years ago, and died
last week, could have sat as the original
of the character of "Uncle Tom" He was
pious, simple and benevolent, and the
successive pastors of the St. Peters
I hurch, all expressed the same opinion
of him, and when the present pastor bur-
led him, he observed That he had moi
such man left amolg his congregation.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-07-20

I9Everett, the late Secretary of State,
computes that the use Of alcoholic bev-
erage costs the U. S. directly, in ten
years, $780, 100000 has burned or 9TH
wise destroyed ST, 10000 worth Of pro-
perty has destroyed 100000 lives
sent 100000 to our prisons, and l00,-
600 children to the poor house; caused
1900 murders; 5000 suicides; and
has bequeathed to the country 100000
orphan children.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-07-20

Spiritual DeluSi0n.-A young WON.
an who gave her name as Marina Ham
mond was arrested yesterday morning
by the Second Ward Police, on charge
of lunacy. She called upon Mr.. John
S. Kissing, of 81 Cliff street, it appears
and claimed the $500 which that gentle
man had offered for the apprehension OF
the murderer of Ann McElroy. She
stated that she was Spiritual Medium
and belonged to the North American
Phalanx in New Jersey. She said tina!
Charles Fourier was her guardian spir-
it, and that she carried with her the spi
rit of Miss McElroy who was murder
ed. This spirit has informed her that a
certain minister of the gospel in this ci-
ty, whom she named, was the perpetra-
tor of the awful deed. The prisoner is
a very fne-looking girl, about eighteen
years of age. She presented sad and
melancholy specimen of the lunatics made
by the spiritual mania. The police CON
veyed her to the City Prison, where she
was taken in charge by DIR. Covel and
the matron of the institution.-TN N. Y.
Cour. and ENG.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-07-20

JAPANESE MARR1AcEs-SinguJar no
lions Of beauty, SEA- very singular
custom at the marriage of the Japanese
is, that the teeth Of the bride are made
black by some corrosive liquid. The
teeth remain black ever after, and serve
10 show that the woman is married, or a
widow. Another circumstance, is, al
the birth of every child, to plant tree
i'll the garden or court yard, which at
tains its full growth in as many years as
man requires to be mature for the du-
ties of marriage. When he marries,
the tree is cut down, and the wood is
made into chests and boxes to contain
the clothes and other things which are
made for the new married couple. The
japanese may marry as often as they
please; marriages with sisters are pro-
hibited, but they can marry any other
relative.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-07-20
KEEP READY TO STAND FROM UK

KEEP READY TO STAND FROM UK-
DER.-It seems to be generally agreed
by financial authorities, that the indebt-
edness in the shape Of loans, stocks,
&C., of this country to Europe, at the
present time is over three hundred nlI-
ions of dollars-heing an increase OF
lebt in the last FIVE years, of one hun
fred and silty millions. When the crash
comes, he ready TO stand from under
If you can't be ready, be as ready as you
can be.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-07-20

THE BAD CLocK.-I have a clock or
my parlor mantle piece. A very pretty
little clock it is; with a gilt frame, and
a glass case to cover it. Almost every
one who sees it says, "What pretty
clock" But it has one great defect-i
will not run; and therefore, as clock
lit is perfectly useless. Though it i:
very pretty, it is bad clock, because il
never tells what time it is.
Now. my bad clock is like great ma
ny persons in the world. Just as my
clock does not answer the purpose for
which it was made-that is, to kee.
time-so, many persons do not answer
the purpose for which they were made
What did God make us for? "Why,'
you will say, she made US that we
might love him and serve him.'' Well,
then, if we do not love God and serve
him, we do not answer the purpose fol
which he made us. We may be, like
the clock, very pretty, and be very
kind, and very obliging; but if we DC
not answer the purpose for which Goo
made US, we are just like the clock
bad. Those of my readers who live in
the country, and have seems an apple-tree
in full blossom, know what beautiful
sight it is. But suppose it only bore
blossoms, and did not produce fruit, you
would say it is bad apple-tree. And
so it is. Everything is bad, and every
person is bad, and every boy and girl is
bad, If they do not aas,uey the purpose for
a0hich God made them. God did not
make US only to play and amuse our
selves, but also that we might do his
will.
May be some of our readers will say,
How can do Gods will? l will tell
you. 1t is Gods will that you obey
your parents. 1t is his will that you al
ways try to do what is right. 1t is his
will that You keep out of bad company
1t is his will that you pray and read your
Bible. And it is Gods will, my dear
young friends, that you believe in Jesus
Christ, and trust in him for the pardon OF
your sins. Now, be sure that you try
to be not like my clock which, though
it is very pretty, is bad clock, because
it does not answer the purpose for
which it was made. Let every one,
therefore, ask himself the question,
"Do | answer the purpose for which
God made me ?"- Child's Paper.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-07-20

EThe old building known as Wash
,nnston's Head Quarters, at Peekskill,
NJ T., was torn down last week, to
make room for modern buildings. 1t was
sOOut one hundred years old, and was
.ne residence of Geo. Washington. while
nc nc was stationed in Westchester county.
uen' Lafayette was also an occupant Of
,,'iS now demolished tenement, and the
Mev' George Whitfield once preached in
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-07-20

TAxEs.-Under the new revenue law
the tax levied in this State for the pres
ent year and to continue hereafter, on
account Of State purposes, Is 40 Is
cents on each 500. Under the old law
the same tax was so Is cents on every
800. The reduction has been made
principally on the revenue assessment and
on the tax for the Blind Asylum Ga
lena ADV.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-07-20

Ez-At the late Woman's Rights Con
vention resolution was reported ant
and laid over for the next meeting, tina
if Justice is not fully done to the ladies
and soon, then they will stop the popu
lation of this country! "Angels and min.
listers of grace, defend u.s." They'll
have us there!
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-07-20

TThe Pittsburgh Journal is respon-
sible for the following:
Said heavy sided but clear headed
old German, Democratic member of the
Legislature Of Pennsylvania Lease de
public works and pass dis Maine Liquor
Law, and | wouldn't give cuss for de
Democratic party
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-07-20

TJohn Smith, bell-hanger, once
went to printer, and desired his name
inserted in the newspaper. What was
bis surprise and Indignation on finding
it conspicuously displayed in the next
number, thus :--ssJ John Smith, hell-bang-
err
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-07-20

IA young man tina. has gained a.
way his fortune is not without use he
stands as guide post that with an ex-
tended finger, directs the road to ruin.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-07-20

zP"Now papa, tell me what is
humbng z" at is" replied papa "when
mamma pretends to be fond OF me, and
puts no buttons on my shirt
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-07-20

1.-THE Book Of Life: it is a great
work. Every year is volume, every
month is chapter, every week page,
every day paragraph.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-07-20
aDoetifal.
Would You?
BY ALFRED WARD.

Baby growing on your knee,
While you sing some little ditty,
Pulls your hair or thumbs your ssee,''
Would you think it wasn't pretty?
Tell me, could you?
If you owned ''the baby'' would you?
Wife with arms around your neck,
Says you look just like the baby
Wants some cash to make a s'spec -
And you'd refuse her-may be?--
Could you? should you?
If you owned 'the woman,' would you
Little labor, little strife, ea
Little care and little cot
Would you sigh FOR single life2
Would you murmur at your lot7
-... Tell me, should you?
Ii you owned ''the cottages" would you Z
Health and comfort, children fair,
Wife to meet you at the door,
Fond hearts throbbing for you there;
Tell me, would you ask for more?
Should you? could you?
you owned ''the ready,'' would you ?