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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-02-20
Cleveland, Feb. 7th'

Gov. Bigler arrived here to-d afy IN
MANY Of our citizens and Gov. Meus,'
called on him. The best feeling presan
ed. BY an amicable arrangement P@s
,senger trains now run on narrow gias.'
but one change Fat Erie } and tha' l.Vn
one side Of the platform TO the o'ne', !.
1t is hoped that the war of the guase'
ended.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-02-20

1t B. P. Calhoon will send US S3.O0, we
will insert mis- root advertisement once. We
must nave more Than your mere promise to
pay IN roots delivered at Madison, Milwaukee
or GAINESVILLE. We have s,wavs been cheated
~ sach operations.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-02-20

1.-THE Milwaukee News says that
'sa bill has been introduced into the As
sembly to create the office of Assistant
Bank Comptroller at salary of Sl0OO
per annum. What is the need OF I'M
posing this additional tax on the
people !? Have the burdens Of the
Office recently increased ?-or is not Mr.
Dennis as competent as Mr.. Baker -
or is it to save clerk hire, so that N.Y.
Dennis can get the $4,000 clear ?"-[ APP
pleton Crescent,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-02-20

Messrs. KIaKPATRIcK & KENpRcK. pro-
prietors of the boundless Lead at Wingvllle, to
which we have referred before, sold 100000
pounds of mineral some ten days ago,-the
product OF a few weeks Of labor by two or
three hands. There are several others doing
well, and preparations are making to do lar
ger business in the spring.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-02-20

Inc souLE DuEL.-The Marquis de
inrgot has had his leg amputated, and is
IN q critical condition.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-02-20

Ex-senator Douglas has lost at least
one faitlsfssi. pdlaerents ia this Stale BY
his bill to repeal the Missouri Compr5s,.
mise and legalize Slavery in Nebraska.
The Ozaukee Times (Dem.,) noticing
its introduction, says:
"This Senator Douglas, it will be re-
collected, we supported as a candidate
for the Democratic Presidential nonina-
ton in 1852. Our cheek tingles with
shame at the remembrance that we ev-
err, in the most remote degree, assisted
TO add to the political prominence OF SO
seryile dough face"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-02-20

rThe New York Senate he'e Pas
sed a series of resolutions Inssfuc''"o
their Representative in Congress u V
nose the Nebraska Bill.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-02-20
VOTING TAXES.

1t will be seen that our worthy and
respected Assemblyman from the west
ern district of Grant County, Mr.. You've,
strenuously opposes the adoption of the
law to allow counties to vote for and a.
gainst special railroad and other taxes.
He considers it abominably wrong to al
low the majority to vote taxes upon the
minority, and only justifles the practice
in support of schools and building school
houses. He is of opinion that even for
such latter purposes, majorities ought to
be exceeding cautious about voting tax
es that anything like reasonable men
would call oppressive. Mr.. You've en-
deavored to extort from the Judiciary
Committee, their opinions Of the consti-
nationality of such votes, but to no pnr-
P~~ss vonIrnIttec knew perhaps,
of the popular rage for voting, money
and taxes out of the property holding mi
nority, and so would not dare to give
their weighty opinions against such mea-
sures,-well knowing also, that they
dare not decide in favor of such perpet-
ual DRAWINGS by taxation after the man
ner proposed.
The bold step on the part of Mr.. You've
deserves for him much credit, and we
hope his position will be maintained
This thing of voting money out of the
tax payers for any and every purpose
that set of lazy.leeders upon the public
pocket infes'ing everywhere, can invent,
wants the seal of public condemnation
put upon it, and the sooner the better.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-02-20

DEPARTURE OF BEDIsI-The Pope's
Nunoio sailed in the Aflantic for Liver
pool en- Saturday.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-02-20

IPOn thursday, in Louisville, pre- e.
ty lady cow-hided a dry goods CLERK ~
the street. He had been talking TAU
er sassq to her sister.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-02-20

got ID ask about that. Our Legislature
adopted standing instructions TO their
Senators and Members in Congress to
stand by The Missouri Compromise, and
oppose the extension of Slavery, they
are afraid to repeal those resolutions,
which were adopted four years ago.
We are reading people too. The pa
per you now held in your hand has well
on to thousand subscribers, principally
in the County having not quite 10000
inhabitants.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-02-20

EAll the circulars by the Pacific
agree in quoting breadstuffs as higher,
though the prices demanded had limited
transactions. Meanwhile the imports
were unusually large, fact that partly
accounts for the decline noted by the
.atrica, which sailed three days after
the Pacific. 1t is noticeable, too, that
the orders for produce by the Pacific
were limited below the views of holders
on this side. Accounts of scarcity of
provisions and high prices for food of
all kinds, continue to be received from
Ireland, France and Italy. There had
been several very severe conflicts be-
tween Russian and Turkish attachments
ION the Danube, attended with heavy
loss, though no general action has yet
taken place indeed it seems to be the
wise policy of OMER PAcHA to avoid
the pitched battle which Prince Corr
scHAKoFF seeks to bring about and ex-
Ipect TO VIM Milwaukee Seminal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-02-20

E~A friend at Madison writes us, dating
18th, that, ''the Nebraska Resolutions, oppo
sing Douglas Bill to repeal the Missouri Com
promise, have just passed the House under the
previous question, by majority of Al to 49,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-02-20

The PORES LETTER TO THE PREs-
DENr.-There was one thing that the
President and senate ought to have done
when the Pope's letter was received. -
The subject was fairly before them BY
the Pope's own act, and that was to de-
mand from the Pope the same privileges
liberty of conscience and protection to
American Professionals in Rome which he,
in lis letter, claims for Roman Catho-
lies in the United States. Just look at
the matter as it is. The Pope demands
protection to Catholics in the full exer-
else Of their religious faith !; but, if an
American Protestant goes to Rome, will
ne be permitted to build churches and
preach the doctrines of Professionalism ?
No ! Far from it. And, if he dies there,
he is not permitted to be buried ia a Cath.
|olic burying ground Monroe Sentinel
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-02-20
HAM ffNEs-WopsE Gov

ssHARD TtMEs-WoRsE COMING -
The price of flour in this city
is now eleven dollars and half bar
rel, and the probability is it will be still
higher before the winter is over. The
last advices from Europe have set the
flour dealers into a perfect fever of de-
light and for the time there is more spec
sulation in -four thanin fancy Stocks
Everybody wishes he had a few thou
sard barrels, sand if he hadn't bought
that Parker Vein the other day, he
would go into little" 1t is all very
nice, this for some folks, but is death to
others. While one already rich man so
adding to his wealth by hundreds of
thousands, there are thousands of poor
people who turn pale at the thoughts OF
a ''rise in -four The necessaries of
life are every week getting higher, and
the cost of living in New York is yearly
increasing. Flour at eleven dollars and
a half-potatoes at eleven shillings the
bushel, poor and small measures, at
that-beef eighteen pence a pound
eggs, four for shilling -coal, Sc
ven to seven dollars and half ton
wood twelve to fifteen dollars cord
and everything else proportioially dear
1t is wonder to us how poor people live
at all. Wages and salaries have increas-
ed somewhat, but not enough to keep up
with the increased cost OF existence
Every thing is going up, up, up-ever
paper is advanced some 80 per cent
within the last year, and it is wonder
to us how we continue to furnish the
weekly Reporter for the ridiculously
low price oftwo dollars year. Thomp.
sons Rep.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-02-20

Ez"WM. PITT FEssENDEN, wing, has been
elected to the U. S. Senate from Maine, for
the long term. Crosby, wing, has also been
elected Governor.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-02-20
The Veru Latest.

The signal of Admiral Doundas on
entering the Black Sea was Sour du-
ty is to protect the Ottomon Marine and
Territory from all aygressions in the
Euxine.''
a rumor was circulated on the Paris
Bourse, that the fleet had returned to
the Bosphorus from tress of weather, but
1t proved to be untrue.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-02-20

W Tie FesI VIII SHOW themselves Wor-
thy of their past history, and as they
live in country which is developing
the greatest power and the greatest hap
piness to the people under JEFFERSON
famous Ordinance of'87, they will not
readily yield to the repeal of a Compro-
mise which has been regarded as scarce
ly less sacred than the immortal Ordi-
nance Of ST. Wisconsin.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1854-04-19
Mrs. Mowatt's Autobiography.

We are indebted to the Publishers Messrs..
Ticknor & Co. Boston, for copy of Mrs.
Mowatt's book.
We have been amused, interested and ed
flied by its perusal. II is written in hap
py vein, and with such pathos, that when
You have finished the book and laid II ono
side, your thoughtsJevert to the author, and
instead of considering her rs an ACTRESS"
an actress in the sense in which the world
defines the word, you consider her as having
filled sphere honorable, nay, exalting ito
woman; under the circumstances. a sphere
which exhibited the woman's soul, one
which she filled artistically we'll, which
draws forth the praise from every pure
loving heart, and one which, rs an honor to
to the profession, must elicit kinder feel
ing for "stage actors" from every one.
Price Sl.25. Address the Publishers.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1854-04-19
The Minutes again,

We have received letter from Captain
Twitty, in which, though he does not accuse
us Of an intentional wrong, intimates his un-
unwillingness to be accused of any error in
the transcript of the original sermon. He
states that so far from his being any way
culpable he sent us the teritisn manuscript
from rchich The sermon Tas preached.
We beg to assure Capt. L. that it was
not our intention to accuse HIM of any Inten.
tional omission-we only mentioned it as
a probable or possible consequence why the
whole sermon was not printed We are
satisfied, and we are sure our friend Hcnder-
son must now be too, that he, (IL) made
the omission. As we before stated, il was
not done Intentionally, and sir. Henderson
has since informed us, that although the fault
may be his, it was very far from his inten-
tion to commit such an error.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1854-04-19
Parson Brownlow.

During the sitting Of the Convention last
week, in Charleston, at time when there
was temporary suspension of business, a
vocifcrous call was made for Brownlow. He
mounted tho rostrum, and the Courier thus
speaks of lis speech:
Mr. Brownlow, however, did make speech
and not the worst it has ever been our for
tune TO hear.
Mounting the rostrum, he deliberately
and with much self-possession, he adius-
ed his hat and stick, and began to "orate." ="
He had expected (he said in substance,)
to find many intelligent gentlemen here-he
was not disappointed. He had calculated
that many Of them would be anxious to
hear their own voices-he had not been dis.
appo ;nted. He had been led TO fear that he
would not be able to obtain hearing him
self at the Convention, and accordingly he
had announced, en- route, n series ofappoint-
ments from Knoxville to Charleston.
He had addressed the people along the
road on all questions, for at home in Ten
ncssee, he was a general superintendent Of
religion, morals, politics and agriculture.
These interests, accordingly, are well attcn-
ded to in Tennessee. He concluded by re-
ferring to an old historical incident Soon
after the landing of the pilgrims, n number
Of them, who had penetrated some distance
in The interior, held 81 Convention" and
adopted, rs is said, by tradition-for our re-
porter was not thcrc-the following resolu-
tions:
lst. Resolred, That the Earth is the Lords
and the fullness thereof.
End. That the Lord designed the earth for
the use of the Saints
3rd That we are the Saints.
Mr.. Brownlow would amend the rcsolu-
tons so far rs TO read thus:
lst. That Cuba is the Lords and the
fullness thereof
and. That the Lord designed Cuba for
the Saints Of the South.
3ri. That we are the Saints of the
South.
The resolutions brought down the House
from the third tier to the pit.
Mr. Brownlow, on retiring, was loudly
and Justify called for, so that he was in
duced to return. Looking towards the Ia
dies in the private boxes on the left from
the stage-there weie many in attendance
he addressed Temperance speech 70 ths las
about the ladies OF f ceftsin ftifH town @ IN ohio
the moral of which was, that the ladies'
should not run their hands or arms into
Jug handles" This may be very good ad-
vice for Ohio ladies', for aught we know,
but our ladies are not prone either to bloom
crs or jug handles
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1854-04-19
COMMUNICATION.
For The Ledger.
Nix. EUIToR,

Nix. EpITOR,
SIR viii you be so kind as to give
me place in your columns, to make a
suggestion to the citizens Of the Indian
LdHd.
Fellow CITIZENS I'm this progressive
day, when not only Nations and Govern
ments are consulting together, and devils
ing plans for the convenience and advance
ment of the interests Of their citizens, but
sections, communities, and the different
professional classes, have taken the mat
ter into hauds,-Then why not the citi.
zens Of the Indian Land be up and a do.
ing something for themselves Have we
no convenience TO consult--Do interest TO
advance! Let us view the premises, and
secl
The Indian Land boundary is a section
OF country fifteen miles square, located in
the easter corner Of York District, and
north western corner Of Lancaster District,
the Charlotte and South Carolina Rail
Road intersecting it at right angles near
y through the centre, giving us good and
ample facilities to market.
But, yet, we are laboring under great
Inconvenience. Our section Of country, in
both Districts being quite remote from the
Court House, many OF our citizens have
to travel twenty. eight miles, and thirty
miles to get to the Court House, where
they are called by law, many Of them
once, some twice. others three four and
six times, in the course Of year, in the
shape Of Jurors, witnesses, plaintiffs, and
defendants, administrators, executors, guar
dians, commissioners, &c, subjecting them
to Hotel bills from five to eight and ten
dollars, according to the length Of time
detained, and many other Inconvenience
too tedious to mention.
Now this is burthensome, yea, in manv
instances, provoking; and is, in reality,
jus: and sufficient cause for complaint Of
which we hear so much. Now having
given a slight and very imperfect glance
at the inconvenience TO which We are
subject, aud complain Of, e: us look
around and see il there is no remedy, is
there no way TO remove those complaints,
AMI at the same time advance the in
te' est and promote the welfare Of citizens
and make them q contented and happy
people. Yes, mos. assuredly there is, but
let the people better themselves, and the
object is gained; let the people be called
together and nominste candidate in the
bounds Of the Indian Land, in both Dis
tricts, pledged to carry ont our views and
at the same time get up q petition TO the
Legislature TO incorporate US into a Judi.
cial District mot an Election District, 1
have no IDEA il could be carried,) which
| have no doubt can be easily done, then
We would have no more OF these COM
pants. ! have thrown ont this sugges
ton to the citizens OF the Indian Land,
hoping TO draw out others on the subject.
Come, sonnebody, SCI day for meeting.
At some future day you may hear from
me again. Yours CArAvRA.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1854-04-19
Grafton.

We learn from the Carolina Times, that
the Anniversary Grafton of the Euphradian
Society WAS delivered in the College Chapel
on Thursday evening, by our young towns
man, J. ID. WIrHEEsPooS, Jr. The audience
was unusually large, ana The Address
which WAS highly creditable to the Society
rs well IS to the orator himself. was iste.,
TO with great attention. We have seldom
seen more attentive audience. The subject
e Observation-Disclosures Iof the i0iccsion
and the manner in which it WIS handled
could not fail to make it interesting. The
address displayed great taste.as well rs study
and search, an the portion requiring the
most judgement and tact namely, the closing
remarks to the Society, was very successful
YorkriNe Rremcdu
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1854-04-19

Somebody asked, as it lawful to hang
clothes on Mason and Dickson's line n
just as lawful as planting beans aroand
the North Pole.
And just AS proper, too, rs for tenn
terance man to "doubIe the Horn"
And as safe as it is for hungry man
to make hearty meal on the wings of
the wind.
PIoUs GENELEMAN.--"My boy, my boy
you DO very wrong to fish on Sunday.
BoY.--lt can't lie no harm, amt
catching nothing"
"Doctor. do you think little spirits
now aud then would hurt ne very muci.." :"
why no, sir" answered the doctor de-
liberately, | do not know that a little
now and then--wonld hurt you very much;
but, sir, If you don't take any it won't hurt
you ut all"
Oysters, as every body knows, is per-
sonal properly. but they are no sooner
eaten than their shells become real estate.
There is boy in Chicago, fifteen years
Of age, who measures in his boots, Cow
hee'edl, six feet and eight inches. His
name is Long.
A drunkarIs nose is said to be a LIGHT.
house warning us Of the little water that
passes underneath.
Haydock tho temperance lecturer,
was arrested in Washington. ID. C., few
days since, and imprisoned for collecting
crowd in the street.
QvERY.--Does man feel girlish when
he makes his "maiden speech"
les, ifho bushes.
Since the divorce bill has gone into one
ration in Ohio, the marriages are placed
under the head Of "liniiieI partnerships. {"
The aulacity which is one of the es.
sentials Of genius has always laughed at
what the conventional would describe as
decorum. Genius is discovery. How
should is submit the training Of its ewes
70 those by whom no discoveries have We,
been made -
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1854-04-19
WEDNESDAY. APRIL 10, 1854.
c-sy- The Lancaster LEDGER is printed
A Call for Money.

1t is impossible for US to carry on our
business without money. Our subscribers
are aware of this fact. Why then, do they
not come forward and pay us our just and
hard-earned dues! Two dollars is n small
amount with them and yet, in the aggre-
gregate, this small amount from each in
debtcd to us, would make sum sufficient
for US to pay our debts.
A number in the village have not paid
their present years subscription, whilst some
have not even paid fer last year this is the
case likewise with many in the district and
elsewhere. We are sadly in want of money.
Delay no longer, but oblge the printer by
paying him his just dues.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1854-04-19

| than the whites, and that it was with diff
tlculty, after they heard of the crimes he
had committed, that they could be re-
strained from tearing him to pieces-that
he himself addressed them to prevent them
from taking vengeance of the nhuman
fcnd.
The region in which these criminals
committed their horrcd crimes was then,
and Is now, to a great extent thir W Nopu
lated, region of gloomy and almost I'M
passablc swamps.
The circumstances we have detailed are
undoubtedly the basis of the foul abolition
caIumny. The yillainy of that calumny
consists i'll its pretending to relate a Ger
tam occurremcc-in its assigning as a rca-
son for the burning of slave alive"
that he "mercy raised his hand against
white man." and in the fanciful details
OF horror with which the scene is pictured
the story Of four thousand slaves being
aSScmhlcd,an addressed from magistrates,
ministers, &c, is totally false. Not mora
than thirty slaves, at the utmost, could
have been present.
Had the perpetrators Of these awful
crimes, for which they terribly atoued,
been white men instead Of negroes, they
would have met the same fate; nor is il
probable th Il the story would have been
revived at this late day, or that the phi
Ianthropi>tS of the north would have found
time for the expression of sympathy or
the outpnur;ng Of Indignation. 1t is only
Tor negro slaves, who crowded into a short
space of time a series of crimes too black
to be given i'll all their horrid details, that
the aboIitioniSt has a heart to mourn. He
does not think OF the two households des-
oIated-"f an Old man on the brink Of the
grave, hing in quiet sccusion with an
only and beloved daughter, murdered in
cold b'nod-of an honest trader brutally
assaS>inatcd after he had administered TO
the wants of the murdercrs--of an inno-
cent Young q ri and II virtuous wife doom
to a fate which makes the heart shudder
All these things are frgotten by the ne
grophilist i'll his savage sympathy with
the stare
II there ever was case in which sum-
mary execution was justitiable, from the
chara> ter of the crimes committed, the alb.
soIute certainty Of their commission, and
the necessity of terrible example, this
was one. None ever occurred appealing
more powerfully to every noble feeling,
of every generous sympathy, to mans
high sense of inexorable justice. They
periShcd--pershed terribly, but justly
and they who read the story will ackuoSl-
edge in their hearts a perfect harmony
between the crimes they perpetrated and
the fate they met.