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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-04-24

4, lime FOR GRArrlsG rHg AprLE-
Inc In best time is thespring when the
O. euds : are beginning 10 swell, the soions
1T grating il3S1ng been cut few y, eel
- p;s'ousigs ssSand kept in a moist COOL nlace
~ ~ k5ox of damp moss If. a cool celler
- rs TO be neither shrivelled or wat :,
Soaked. Crafts s.s.ay be cut and insert =
tue same day, if the buds are not swollen
muen. Crafts are someiimes set much
la!sr' but starting 50 late, they do net
make 50 good growth. d.sring the summer.
- Country Gentleman
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-04-24
GRArrIso W.x-nna = -.

successful grafters we know of makes h;s
grazing wax Of two parts Of rosin an5
one part OF beeswax, adding a small
quantity of lard or tallow-sav ono ,h;ra
/ l4s' OF oeeswax. His object is to make
ms. ms wax ofsuch consistency that i will
10. r''n III warm weather, and will
~. cree, g sa ~ y dry windy weather. These
are Inc important qualities in grating
r maA, OF whatever it may be made.
| country Gentleman.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-04-24

A BombsheH in Queen Tictoria's gor-
ernmeat.- to advises from ST.
Petersburg, the Russian government
proposes publishing various documents
on the Eastern question. Among the
Idocume rents destined for publication are
some letters written by Prince Albert.
These letters may create good deal Of
ANNOYANCE. If it should turn out that
Prince Albert favored theR - r1|ls
ance, the British would feel ~
.o.s,y.ls tic Prince Cons
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-04-24
Send your Children to achooI

eUT be sure and call at the Cheap Cash
4 Store, and get them supplied with such
school Books as they need
io'en's, Sander ,amd Nc Gafie's Series of Rea-
ders,. and all other Books needed in any Of our
district schools with States, pencils, writing
BOOKS, lnk, pens, paper, &C., SC, are constan-
thy on hand, and for sale BY
]. ALCORN, Lancaster.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-04-24

PLANTING FOR PosrERIy. -"Fhere, !"
said gentleman to us the other day,
pointing TO group of cvergreens and 9TH
er trees, my brother is about TO build
himself house; those trees were plan
ted for him by my father upwards of
twenty years ago" How fortunate
this man 10 have such father. Here he
builds his house among these fine trees
and enters at once upon the enjoy
nents. He gains twenty-five years Of
time, and not only tha,, the plantation
has ten-fold value in its history and
associations. II is a family monument.
A beautiful example this for fathers
Such an inheritance has moral as well
as material value dorticulturalist.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-04-24
M O. e Z 6 e s.

HEALING VIRTUEs.-It is fact, authenti-
Gated here as well as all over the State, and in
dit psethe whole western States, that Sloan
Medicines have obtained a wide spread cele-
brity and reputation, to which they are justly
entitled for their s'healing virtues' and pow
ers. We are not among those who are prone
so endorse every patent humbug that comes "a
long, and in this instance, have delayed our en-
dorsement until we have been able to make as
surance doubly sure, not only by testing them
personally ourselves, but from the testimony
of numerous portion of the community liv-
ing around us.-E1ll. Globe, Charleston. [4o
See Sioan's advertisement in another column.
NOtIce.-Advertisem 10 insure an ear
ly insertion, should be handed in by IL O'Clock
Saturdays.
"Ciergymen and Justices specialiyinvitet
% send US notices Of all Marriages and Deaths tina
they may know of.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-04-24

|
PREsrRvArIos OF ER.-This is
an important item to dairymen. In
hooking over the last Patent Office Re-
port, we find the following recipe from
from Madison Reynolds, OF Canton, Stark
county, Ohio
A good cow will yield 200 pounds of
butter per year. Oar best butter ma
kers have what we call a "spring house"
"a small b uildirg Of sitne o. lri,k,
with large shallow troughs through
which run streams OF spring water
After milking and strainiug, the pans
or crooks Of new milk are placed in these
water troughs, and the cream soon rises
10 the top. The barrel churn is the
1 kind in general use here. To preserve
butter in warm weather for a week, it
must be worked over until the milk is
all expelled; to reserve for winter use
1t may be packed in stone jars, contain
ing about twenty pounds each, with one
10. pulveriZed rock salt ,one fourth pound
of loaf sugar, and one half ounce salpet-
tire. The crock or jar should then be,
covered first with clean white cloth
and then with drilling or heavy muslin,
dipped into preparation of melted tai
low and beeswax, and bound round with
wire, TO exclude the air, and then de-
posted in the spring house for winter
use. assisted in preparing butter on
the above plan for the California market
and it was sold there fresh and sweet
for one dollar and fifty cents per pound
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-04-24
- G ROC ERI Els, q
At Wholesale or Retail.

1t is not necessary 10 say g Call at the Brick
Store on the corner, for everybody knows
is The PEOPLES STORE" d. I. PARKER.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-04-24
list OF LETTERS

w EMAINING in the Lancaster Post-office,
X, April LIST, 1854
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-04-24

ksfuiI FRUIT!,sFRUITa.t-A Fresh
supply of Dried Apples and Peaches. ins
ie,teiyed and for sale. BY JOHN B. CATIiS
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-04-24

IL. p. LTSCUM. r. M.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-04-24

NIL SACKS BESTts. "A. SALT-For sale
- By JOHN b. CALLS
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-04-24

yOLcEN SYRUP & S. H. MOLASSEs-
= For sale BY JOHN B. CALLS.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-04-24

M EW ORLEANS, CLARIFIED &LOAF
IN SUGAR-For sale By JNO. B. CALLS. {
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1854-07-20
The Nebraska Question.

For many yOars past few journals have been
more popular with the Wing party, particularly
of the Northern States, than the Louisville EJour-
nal" The bitter but often witty filings of PREM
TICE at Democratic men and measures, have at
one time or another found place in the columns
OF perhaps every Wing paper in the land, and been
eagerly quoted and endorsed by the rank and file
of that party. At the outset Of the Nebraska
agitation, the ''Journal'' opposed the new bill
mainly on the ground of the danger of its renew
ing bitter sectional strife, but it decidedly
denounccs the absurd project of repeating it., and
concludes an article ON this subject with the fol
lowing unanswerahle argument in favor of the
bill itself which the old admirers of the journal
sayings will do we'll to ponder
"And, after all, the main principle of the Ne
braske bill is certainly in itself right. We do not
see how any man of good sense, who examines the
subject, can come to any other conclusion. We
can see no reason why the general government
should say that the people living on one side Of
the parallel of latitude shall have the privilege of
deciding for themselves whether they will have a
certain institution not, but that the people on
the other side Of the parallel shall not have that
privilege. Such discrimination appears to US to
have no foundation in justice, reason, or common
sense. We cannot but regard il as odiOus and
wrong. Give to the people of all territories to
choose their institutions, give il to none.
We should almost suppose that the northern people
would have too much sectional pride 10 be willing
even to submit to the discrimination which they
advocate. How can northern folks reconcile it to
their feelings that northern folks should not have
the same privileges of government as southern
foks-that persons living north Of thirty-sx thir-
ty, should be denied powers freely exercised by all
persons south of thirty-siX thirty? When before
was it known that the people of any portion of
the country contended zealOusly for denial TO
their section of powers privileges and rights,
belonging to other sections Will our northern
friends do Us the favor to bestow thought two.
and word or two upon this view Of the sub
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1854-07-20
ADDRESS OF THE STATE CENTRAL
CONVENTION.

Tie able and patriotic address of the Demo
cratic central committee Of this state, will be read
with pleasure and pride by the friends of republi-
principles.
After showing the dissolution of tire old Wing
party in the repudiation by tue people Of their
fusty tenets and stand notions of public po-
Gcy, the address takes up the position assumed by
the Wings at the time of the late presidential eec-
ton and the ultra-oppositiCn taken now by their
most potent ales-the enemies Of religious l.
berty.
The arguments contained in tie address are un-
answerable for the that they are fthe very
essence of truth. They are sustained by the good
sense of every candid man. They are based upon
the constitutions both federal and state, and the
present great and 'flourishing condition of our
country is but the resultant action of the doctrines
they support
The flashing demonstrations of diseased public
mind in certain populous and peculiar localities,
can no moreslast through any considerable time,
than the explosion of powder, or the glare of the
meteor can remain long in sight. The past histo-
ry of all false political contrivances even down to
to the Nativism of 1874, has recorded for them an
early grave. Thus it will lie again, for the con-
tinued and general triumph of party like that
which now constitutes the right wing of whggery
must virtually abolish the constitutional franchise
which says no man shall be prescribed for opinion
sake, and its next step will lie to advance from its
insdous lurking places, and boldly demolish the
free provisions Of the constitution thenselyes.
The disastrous results are not hard to be dis
ceahed. Anarchy of the most abhorrent kind
would succeed and troubles, compared with which,
all that have heretofore been mooted are pgnies
would come upon u.s.
But we have too much confidence in the inaegri-
ty of the people, in their intelligence in their love
of peace, liberty and order, and in their attach
ment to conservative democracy to apprehend
much evil from the cabalng delusives that now
seek to undermine us.
Fellow Democrats, whose love of equal Justice
ard the supremacy Of constitutional law has held
you firm in former times lie not swerved from
your moovings. Stand fast in the right and God
VIII vindicate it with success.
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1854-07-20
T H E COUN RY.

The philadelphia Inquirer in an excellent ar
sice upon the condition and prospects of the
country, alludes to the recent stupendous frauds
which have been perpetrated in New York, and
50 compi ,tely Stunned the whole mercantile com
munity of our large cities. The disasters from
these frauds will no doubt be felt far and wide bv
numerous persons, but caused as they have been
by the spirit of extravaganza which has been so
rife in our cities, of late years they are hardly to
be wondered at In looking to the future it saws
eve can discover indications of serious calami-
ty in the national horizon on the contrary, the
prospect is of the most gratifying character. a
great country ike this, with resources in indus
try, in agriculture, in commerce, and in manufac-
lures, to the extent of hundreds of millions per
annuIn, is not likely TO be affected but for a mo-
ment, by any individual fraud however stupend-
Gus, and especially by mere stock gambling
transaction."-
The conclusion of the article is virtual acknow-
ledgment of the present prosperity of the coun-
try, and Of the wisdom of the policy of the demo
cratic party under whose guidance the affairs of
our state and national governments have been
controlled almost since the days of the Revolution
Coming from enc of the leading Wing papers of
the state it ccnnot fail to attract attention. and
should stimulate every democrat to renewed exer-
tions at the ensuing election to secure the success
of the time hcnored principles and measures ofthe
party.
1t concludes as follows:
1--WE repeat, the Republic at large Is sound, i
pecially the commercial and manufacturing clas
SIS, and the check that has been gwen to legit-
mate pursuits will prove but temporary. Let us
look at the facts:
1. The National Treasury is full to overflow
ing.
g The Government has Just effected treaty
with Mexico by which right of way has been
secured TO the Pacific, and other important consi
derations and advantages.
g. The yield of gold in California continues TO
be abundant, while Australia is contributing its
millions pear annum TO the common stock.
4. The advices from Europe are favorable, mo-
ney was easier, and the demand for American Sc
curitieS was quite active.
8. treaty with Japan has just been effected,
and is now before the American Government.
6. The crops throughout the Union are full of
promise, and the yield of grain is likely to surpass
that ofany former season; The chances are, that
we shall have surplus Of many millions of bush
cts at our disposal.
7. Tho manufacturing interests of the country
are in the full tide of successful experiment and
for most qualities Of goods, the demand is quite
equal to the supply.
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1854-07-20
The Fisheries Treaties.

In alluding to the necessity that exists for i'm
mediate action upon the Fishery controversy, the
Washington Union says:
1--WE implicitly trust that Congress will not
think of adjourning until this most important
poets the government to adjust all our outstanding
differences with foreign nations in just and honor
able manner, and the State Department has exert
ed lttelf with an energy unsurpassed by former
administrations to accomplish such a result. The
faithful Secretary, with the earnest cooperation
of the President, seems to be acting upon the ad-
age that ''nothing is done while anything is left
undone." Every international question present
ed to his considerations, engages his prompt at
tentlOn, and is urged to speedy solution. No one
was prepared to learn that momentous mat
ter the fisheries should have been brought to so
speedy and favorable termination. Two years
ago, when Mr.. Webster so boldly and unqualified
'hook and line, bob and snker," there seemed to
be more than an even chance that the relations of
the two country's would be disturbed. Diploma
cy of more than ordinary skill required to
prevent resort to the ultima ratio ofmighty pow
ers. One shot fired from the British vessels at a
fishing schooner in the grounds in which she had
been accustomated to enjoy her pursuit, would
have excited the resentment of our people to such
degree as to have rendered the avoidance of a
war, extremely difficult. But the cloud has passed
away, and forever, provided Congress will con-
firm that which has auspiciously been con
summated by the administration. There is. in
our opinion, no good reason to be assigned for
delay on the subject, while there are cogent. IN
answerable ones, for immediate action"
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1854-07-20

g. Labor is every where active and cheerful,
and the rates of wages have been advanced IN al
most every mechanical pursuit
g. A Treaty of Reciprocity and for the adjust
ment of the Fishery Question, has been arranged
between the United States and Great Britain, and
thus source of discord and apprehension will, III
all probability, be speedily removed.
TO- The Nation at large has not for many
years experienced any serious calamity, but has
been rapidly increasing in resources and extending
in territory.
II. The Union is more firmly knit together
than ever, and there signs of discord or dis
affection worthy Of note, in any section of the Re
public.
Surely these are cheerful features, and are cal
culated not only to inspire confidence, but TO make
us grateful to Divine Providence. Indeed, the dis
position of the American people is to go too fast
II is well occasionally therefore, that some Wild
scheme should burst before them, or that some bold
franz should be discovered, and made palpable to
the popular mind, in order not only to admonlsh
but to check and restrain. In this aspect OF the
case, the Schuyler fraud, however painful and me
lancholy Will exercise a salutary influence 1t has
already done in in luciDg more caution but
we repeat the country at large Is full OF prosper1
ty We are eminenily favored by Providence Let
us have only confidence in each other, ana without
indulging in any extravaganza or excess, avail our
selves of the many advantages that we enjoy and
the countless blessings that poured upon us.
and the FUTURE OF TIE REPUBLIC viii realize the
expectations of even the buoyant, the progressive
and the sanguine''
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1854-07-20
For the Democrat & Sentinel
Hone,

MESSRs. EDfTORS -
When tossed to and fro on lifc's billowy waves
till our very soul shrinks with instructive horror
from the yelled future rest it should bring with it
some new and untred scene Of action that would
quail an adamantine heart. Hope, buoyant hope,
comes to cheer up our languishing spirits, and
bids us brave the worst, and expect haven OF
happiness in the far off futnre, and If we ever
reach that haven of happiness we despair not, for
hope is ever with us, like some guardian angel,
sofeniug life's present trying scenes and fitting
for the future by saying Oh! mortal, thou hast
had thy trials here. but thy sufferngs and SORROW
ings will cease when the sand of this life shall
have run out; if thou hast fulfilled thy appointed
mission on earth, thou shalt go to thy home in
Heaven. where - trials, sickness, sorrow, pam and
trouble" will mar thy happiness no more.
In all the various scenes Of human action and
suffering Hope is the true friend OF man. 1t Is
Hope that sustains the spirit of the friendess or
phan and prompts him to meet with heroic man
Gness the scorns leers and scofts, OF this selfish
and unfrendly world and when wandering from
place to place dependent on the charities of the
uncharitable, the bright and effulgent rays of
Hope forsakes him not, but speaks to him with
gentle voice known to no one else, saying, son of
poverty despsed by thy fellow man, persevere,
/ will never forsake thee, thou mayest yet be
ranked among the noblest lords Of earth, and
leave 50 footprints on the sands of tme," worthy
of imitation. Hope is one of the noblest incen-
tives to action the hope of distinction will prompt
or cause one to do that which he would not 9TH
erwise think of doing, and has often resulted in
incalculable good to mankind. Had hope forsak-
Ell Columbus when his crew mutinized, and des-
pair taken its place, in all probability, America,
g the land of the free and the home Of the brave,
would vet remain unknown to the Europeans, and
still be what it was then, the abode of the wild
man of the forest,
There is, indeed, no condition in which man
can be placed utterly deplorable that Hope does
not seek it out to give relief The poor sufferer
lingering under some malignant disease, which
has well nigh destroyed all his physical powers,
and almost rendered this earthly tenement a
wreck, would cease to drink the bitter draughts of
medicine were it not that he hopes by so doing,
to regain lost strength, and be made whole.
Muncy Lycoming Co, Pa r. A. NJ.
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1854-07-20
The Treaty with Japan.

The long-talked-of treaty between the United
States and Japan. is by this time at Washington,
and when it shall be ratified by our Government,
its conditions will be publicly made known to the
country. All that is promulgated with reference
to it is that the document is simply treaty of
amity and peace, and not full commercial treaty
Still it contains some features which are of great
importance to us in commercial point of view.
The treaty, known as the Treaty of Kanagowa,"
is drawn up IN four languages-English, Dutch.
Chinese and japanese. The treaty provides for
the opening of Simoda, Island of Niphon, lat "a
deg. SO min. N, Ion. 1873 deg 50 min. f.. Napa-
kiang Loo Choo Islands; and kakadade on the
Island of Yesso, near Natsmai. Simoda has been
surveyed by Lieut.. Burt The harbor, though
small, is easy of access, and will be useful to our
whalers Provisions and assistance are to be sup
piled to all American ships visiting the coast, and
distressed seamen are to be provided for and pro-
tected. \ treaty of commerce, and an established
tariff, will be negotiated shortly, and thus the
whole benefits of the trade of these two ports
opened to the commerce of the United States. 1t
may be some time before the barrier of national
exclusivenesS is broken down which has for 50
many ages guarded Japan still this is the entering
wedge, and Yankee enterprise and energy may
well be trusted to perform the balance Of the work.
From our ports on the pacific, line ofsteamships
will soon branch off to these ports and thus China
and Japan will became familiar on Charge as
London and Paris are at the present time
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1854-07-20

WHIG CoNsIsTENCY.-Duringt the canvass Of
1882, the Whig presses of the Union constantly
invoked the people of the United States to oppose
the election of Gen. Pierce, on the ground that
New Hampshire, contained in her Constitution a
provision authorizing religious test TO all appli-
cants for office-a test which it was utterly be
yond its power TO remove. In 1854, the Wing
candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, basis his
faint hopes for election upon the fact, that he
joined the secret order of '' Know Nothings," one
of whose avowed objects is to establish such test
in defiance of the Constitution of the United
States and of this State. In 1885, 1888, and at
an earlier period in our political history, the main
spirit Of opposition to the democratic party was
on account Of its refusal to join in unconstitu
tional and tyrannical crusade against secret
charitable society, the Freenasons. In 1854, the
Wing nominee makes it az object Of primary i'm
portance 10 join secret society identical in It's
character, and the democratic party is denounced
because it will not unite in an unjust crusade
against adopted citizens, and infringe upon the
rights Of conscience.
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1854-07-20
The Fourth at Rochester.

The Rochester Democrat relates the following
ioile,t tho celebration Of the 4th Ia that city
Previous to the Grafton, the President of the day,
Mr.. kempshall, announced that one of the martial
airs of the Revolution would be played upon the
tenor drum by surviving soldier of that war, the
venerable father Of Hon. J. p. MIlner. assisted by
a soldier of the last war, on the snare drum, and
a fifer attached to Scott's Band. This announce
ment created a sensation, and the old man was
received with cheers. He played with good deal
of animation and correctness, for some minutes,
and when the tune completed, three stentorian
cheers were given. The orator was next announc-
ed but the enthusiasm of the people had been
awakened by the scene that had just transpired.
and with one voice, they demanded to see the We
nerable patriot once more. He was brought to the
front of the platform again, and was greeted with
tremendous cheers. Another tune played by
the drummer of the Revolution, and again enthu-
siastic cheers We're given and repeated. Mr.. Mill
ner is in his 93d year, was at Saratoga, at the
surrender af Burgoyne, i'll the nine days fight at
Fort Stanwix at Yorktown, where Cornwallis sur
rendered and at other battles and Scenes of the
great war. He still possesses many of his facul-
ties in good state of preservation, and his martial
soul seems to be animated by the sound of his
own drum.