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The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-10-04

TIME! TIME!!
H. FOWLER,
"ArCH HMkNUFACTURER, WORKING JEW
~ ELLER, AND DENTIST, would inform the
M M OF Saint Paul, that he has opened store
De St Anthony street, in the building opposite the
noe nouse, TWO doors from Robns0n's old stand with
an assortment Of Clocks, Specacles of all ages Back
olde Combs in great variety, bosom pins goexles
chmhey ornaments steel beads tassels ladies work
oags cnarens teethng rings flutes, dice and boxes,
Dupsex, Horizontal, Repeating and Lever Watches
fully repaired.
Cae90'"'s 60'd h'sss made TO order. Essresias
aeotiy erecuted.
TEHfn cfKEFu61r ExThAcrED, scALED 4 pLpsalb
H. F. from his long experence in sone of The ffrst
shops In England hatters himself that he sifa he ~
TO give satisactOn to oil who may favor him with thei,
wofk. HIS motto ii Puncsanisy, Dispatch and Mo.fef
ate changes. .ii.Hl-..s5 .. \
ct. Paul, March 24st, 1858. 4 4S-y
WALL PAPER. tNf5t .
A LARGE and complete Assortment Just received, by
IL june u W. .. CoHHbS.
The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-10-04

JNO. MASTERS,
DOARDING HOUSE. in building formerly occupied by
ID G. H. Spencer Esq, Traversedes Sioux, Minnesota
The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-10-04

SIR ASHLEY COOPER, Bart, M. D., the eminent
y Medical Practitioner, has left valuable legacy to
the world in his GREAT PREVENTATIVE OF CON
SUMPTION, and UNFAlI,lFG CURE FOR Pull
MONARY DISEASES, without tie use Of medicine
Sir A. c., Bart invented and advised the of the
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-08-21
TO BE CONTINUED.

A PoRTRA1T.-A young man wishing to
be noticed in the gay circles Of the world,
buys an old watch for five dollars. At. the
end Of four months, finding it does not
keep time as well as a new one, he pays
three dollars to have it thoroughly repair
ed. Two months after, finding it is not
exactly a new watch, he pays two dollors
for further repairs. At the end of the
year, growing sick of it, he swaps it off fol
an old musket. He then tries to get rich
by hunting, but not finding game very
plenty, and receiving summons from the
merchant to pay for his powder and shot
which has amounted to eight dollars, he
says to himself I'll get rid Of the rotten old
musket somehow; so he swaps it for an
old horse and pays sfyesdollars to boot
He hires his horse kept at the tavern, al
which place he boards; at the end of the
year his bill for horse keeping has amour
ted to forty dollars, and his own to seven
|ty-fve. He says to himself this is moi
getting along very fast, so he sells his
horse for a barrel of brandy, which finish
les up his earthly career. Country Gen
tleman.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-08-21
Graduation Land nil.

The following is the bill passed by Congress
and sanctioned by the President. 1t is the on
" show for the homeless, vet while
AN ACT to graduate and reduce the price Of
public lands to actual settlers and cnitiya-
tors. Be it enacted blythe Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States Of A.
merica in Congress assembled, That all of the
public lands Of the United States which shall
have been in market for ten years or upwards
prior to the time of application to enter the
same under the provisions of this act, and sti
remaining unsold, shall be subject to sale at the
price OF dollar per acre; and all Of the lands
the Unitedstates that shall have been in the mar
ket fifteen years or upwards, as aforesaid, and
still remaining unsold, shall be subject TO sale
at seventy-hye cents per acre; and all Of the
lands of the United States that shall have been
in market for twenty years or upwards, as a
foresald, and still remaining unsold, shall be
subject to sale at fifty cents per acre and al
of taa lands of the UntedStafes thatsha have
been in market for thirty years Or more. shall
be subject to sale at twelve and -a-half cents
per acre: Provided, This section shall not be
so construed as to extend the lands reserved to
the United States, in granting lands to States
for railroads or other internal improp ements,
or to mineral lands held at over one dollar and
twenty-five cents pera
Sec. 2. find be it further enacted. That unon
every reduction in price under the provisions
OF this act, the occupant and settler upon the
lands shall have the right of presumption at
such graduated price, upon the same terms,
conditions, restrictions, and limitations upon
which the public lands of the United States are
now subject to the right of pre-emption until
within thirty days preceding the next gradua-
ton or reduction that shall take place and if
not so purchased, shall again be subject to the
right OF presumption for eleven months, as be-
fore and so on from time to time, as reductions
take place: Propided, That nothing in this act
shall be so construed as to interfere with any
right which has or may accrue by virtue of a.
ny act granting prescription TO actual settlers
upon public lands.
Sec. 3. .And be 1t further enacted, That any per
son applying to enter any of the aforesaid lands
shall be required to make affidavit. before the
register or receiver of the proper land office,
that he or she enters the same for his or her
own use, and for the purpose of actual settle
ment and cultivation, or for the use Of an ad-
joining farm or plantation owned or occupied
by him or herself, and, together with said en-
try ne or she has not acquired from the United
States, under the provisions of this act. more
than three hundred and twenty acres, according
to The established surveys; and if any person
or persons taking such oath or affidavit shall
swear falsely in the premises. he or she shalt
be subject to all the pains and penalties of per
jury.
Passed The House of Representatives, April
II, 1854.
Attest:
JOHN w. FORNEY CLARK
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-08-21

g The French ladies who promenade
on horseback on the Camps Elysees and in
the Bots de Boulogne, wear according to
the latest mode, a cloth habit, having a
body with deep lappets, and sleeves with
mousquetaire cuffs. The fair equestrian's
toilette is completed by little waisteoat
of embroidered white quiItingor buff goats
hair fastened BY buttons, either coral, NAL
achite, ruby or emerald. The shirt collar
is embroidered with sprigs in satin stitch, or
having q double row of stitching and fas-
tened, BY jewelled buttons; the white sleeves
match the collar. The cravat Is watered
or plain ribbon. The skirts are Of black,
blue or gray cashmere; the hat Is general
lly of straw,or else black orgray felt,in the
Louis XIIIth style, with ostrich feathers.
Home Journal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-08-21
An Invocation.

Written by Miss MARY HUBBELL, of Connec-
ticut, short time before her death.
"Where on thy kindly pinions, tarrlest thou,
0 soft celestial breath
Sent to my spirit from the Infinite,
Why should call thee-Death?
On my white couch all day wait for thee,
And through the dewy night
Hath he commissioned thee to wing so slow
And calm, thy solemn flight?
In velvet .feldsI know the lambkins play,
And infant violets peep;
Come swifter, ere my almost part ed heart
Return, for these to weep
Where,shll and pale, / fade from hour to hour,
Eyes, keeping watch, like stars,
Make earth so deal, that stillmy spirit rests
Without the crystal bars.
sotrii5i repiifle- g5sfis ssssa,..,s afss love.
Just under Heavens bright gate,
Until the angel of the Lord come down,
y little while l wait?
This lower sky is gloriously fair,
/ am not tired Of earth
From other spheres | shall look love to thee,
Land of my mortal birth.
But haze caught vision of the palms
Around the mount of Cod
That mystic tree, whose branches spread the
way
Which Christ, the prophet, trod;
And underneath their shade my soul must
dwell
With souls beautifed---
heard it whispered in the holy night,
By angels at my side.
Then, where on thy slow pinions tarriest
thou,
o. soft celestial breath?
Sent to my spirit from the Infinite,
Why should call the-Death ?''
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-08-21

gTenier, perceiving thai the works OF
painters sold much better after the death
of their authors, wisely determined to an
ticipate the repersionary profits Of talent;
and to effect this, though he could not a
dept a better expedient than to cease to
live to the public. In order to execute this
singular stratagem, he absented himself
from the town Of Anvers, and bis wife and
children counterfeited affection by putting
on black. The trick succeeded, and in a
short time all the pieces Of the pretended
deceased were brought up at very high pri-
ces, which, besides relieving his present
wants, enabled him to realize handsome
sum for the future.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-08-21
TIE .M32acoukee Il. Nsssissi;330s r. r.

The Milacaukee G Mississippi r. e.
Co.-The condition Of things has been re
peatedly stated by those who hnoa0 them, &
IS plain to any candid person. TheCompa-
ny has not entertained, and has not now,
the slightest thought of abandoning the
Prairie du Chen Route; but it has, under
the late arrangement. resolved to have a
second and very important connec-
ton through the rich Southern tier Of coun-
tries, and a large portion Of the means is
already provided for it, Milwaukee Sen
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-08-21

THE SLEEP OF ARCTIC PLANTs.-Mr.
Seenann, the naturalist of Kellett's Arctic
Expedition, states curious fact respecting
the condition of the vegetable world du-
ring the long day of Arctic summer
Although the sun never. sets while it lasts,
plants make 40 mistake about the time
when, if it be not night, it ought to be,but
regularly as the evening hours approach
and when midnight sun is several degrees
above the horizon, droop their leaves and
sleep, even as they do atsunset IN more ia
vored climes. IF man." observes Mr.. See
mann, should ever reach the pole, and be
undecided which way to turn when his com
pass has become sluggish, his time-piece
out Of order, the plants which ne may hap
pen to meet viii show him the way; then
sleeping leaves tell him that midnight is a
hand, and that at that time the sun is il
the north.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-08-21

THE MARRIAGE COVENANT OF THE Oh
DEN T1ME.-The following is a transcript
Iof the Marriage Covenant, used by cler-
gyman, a century since. In reading it,one
is forcibly struck with the delicate distinc-
ton made between the man and the wo
man, in their separate VOWS, and also
with the peculiar solemnity attached to the
promise by the phrazing Of the fourth par
agraph;
'sYou, the Bridegroom and the Bride
who now present yourselves Candidates OF
the Covenant Of God and Of your Marriage
before him in token Of your consenting af-
fections and united hearts, please give your
hands to one another.
Mr. Bridegroom, the person you now
take by the hand, you receive to be YOU
married Wife, you promise to love her, to
support her, and in all things to treat hei
as you are now, or shall hereafter be convin-
ced,is by the Laws of Christ made your
duty. A tender Husband, with uraspotteo
FSdezity,till Death shall separate you.
Mrs. Bride, the person whom you now
hold by the hand, you accept to be YOU
married Husband, you promise to love him
to submit to him, and in all things to treat
him as you are now, or shall hereafter BE-
convinced, is by the Laws of Christ made
your duty as an affectionate Wife, with
unreliable Loyalty until death shall sepa
rate you.
This solemn Covenant you make,and in
this sacred oath bind your souls in the pre-
ence Of the great God,and before these wit
nessess.
| then declare you to be Husband anc
Wife, regularly married according to thu
Laws Of God and the King; therefore wha
God hath thus joined together, let no mar
put asunder.'
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-08-21

E-Baron Humboldt rightly assigns an ear
lier date than that of Columbus to the actual
discovery Of the American continent. Reject
ing as exploded the tale of tribes speaking in
Celtic dialect having bean found on the coast
Of Virginia, we are bound by very sufficient
proofs to admit that t3e coasts of Labrador
and New England were known to the Icelan-
ders and Norwegians, through their interview
ing settlements, more than eight centuries ago
--that they partially settled in Vinland--as
the country forming the New England States
and that bishop went on Christian mis-
sion to the colonies thus established. These
narratives, hitherto known and accredited by
few only, have of late years received ample
confirmation from the researches of RAIN, the
greatest northern scholar of our times. The
documents which he obtained and has publish
ed, attest not only the act of discovery, but
indicated, by The course and length of voyage
by the times Of sunrise and other curious par
ticulars, the exact coasts discovered, inc luding
Newfoundland, Nova, Scotia Massachusetts,
etc. ETC. Humboldt speaks of Lief as the dis
coverer of America; and perhaps he may be
so regarded from extent of his southern COURSE
though we find reason to believe that La
brador had already been visited in A. D. 1901
by Biom Heriolfson, an Icelandic navigator
The records Of this event, both numerous and
authentic, come TO us from that extraordinary
island OF Iceland, which, dnrlng the eleventh
Twelfth and thirteenth centuries created and
maintained, amidst its SHOWS and volcanic
fires, literature which would have hoHored
the happiest cline of Europe. succeeding
the period thus signa,ized to US, series of
physical and social calarnities extinguished this
great northern light--at which later time, and
in the same storm, we lose sight Of the land of
Vinland and all traces of this remarkable discos-
ery disappear. Should we ever regain them, it
must probably be on the American coast it
self. But the simple Mortimer left behind
them no temples or palaces like those of MIN
rod, 10 be disentombed for the admiration and
Instruction Of distant ages, and the written
records alone remain to attest this ancient dis
corery.-T Quarterly Review.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-08-21
AAooertisiinQ a|ates

column, per year Ssei 6fcolunla. per ear, Sle
coiamh, DO Is spare, peryear, 5
Transient advertisements Of t2 lines or less, 81
for the first and 20 cts. Tor each subsequent inser
ton. Business Cards, lines orlesss per year, So
Yearly advertisers will be allowed four changes.
Legal advertisements inserted at statute prices.
Notices OF strays, published four weeks, l,7o
Advertisements sent il without the number OF
insertions indicated, will be continued til other
wise ordered.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-08-21
Doings of the Last Session Of Com
greSS.

he following are among the most impor-
tant bills that have passed both Houses and
been approved by the President:
The regular Appropriation bills
The Kansas and Nebraska blll
The bill providing for six first class war
steamers
The Ten Million bill, OF, the Gadsden Urea
".
Tie bIlf exteHtttirg the Wareiiousiris sya-
tenn.
The bill TO give effect TO the Canadian reci-
procty treaty.
The bill repeating the Minnesota Railroad
Land Bill.
This last bill was altered after its passage
through one Of the Houses; and Congress re-
pealed it.
The following treaties have been confirmed
by the Senate:
The Gadsden treaty.
The British Coonia' R eciprocity treaty.
The Commercial treaty with Japan.
The Neutrality treaty with Russia.
Sundry treaties eXtinguishing the Indian
titles in Kansas, Nebraska and other Terrific
ries.
Among the defeated measures the more i'm
portant are these:
The Cot Patent extension.
The Minnesota Railroad bill, before men-
toned.
"a udtCl vi HldiiJ HliliiORS IN amount OF ian1
jobbing railroad schemes.
The French spo!iation bill of FIVE mil
lions.
The Pacific Railroad scheme--postponed.
The Senate biz of eight millions for the re-
lief of Texas
Senate amendments Of several millions to the
general appropriation bills including half
million % the Washington Water Works.
Mr.. O'ds' bills for the increase Of the rates
of postage.
Mr.. seward's bill for line of steamers be-
tween San Francisco and China.
The River and Harbor bill--vetoei.
The Insane Land bill-vetoed.
The proposition to place ten millions in the
secret service fund.
The list of private acts passed and approved
numbers 1877, mostly for the relief of individu-
ais. Among them we observe one for the re-
lief of Jean Baptiste Beaubien, another con-
firming II. L. Dousmen, in his title to land ad-
joining Prairie du CHEN and a third giving five
years half-pay TO the widow Of Capt. j. w.
Gunnison, massacred by the Indians on the
Palms. Chic. Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-08-21
Poetry and Love.
BY c. II. CRISW ELL.
PO u Il II v

BY c. II. cRIsWELL.
POETRY. ...-
4 GIFT from Heaven-and as rare
Az angel music 10 our ears;
Ills born above, 'tis nurtured there,
Meath angels smiles and angels tears
Sweet Poetry? thou blessed thing
Thou holy, soul-inspiring power.
Thou teachest summer birds to sing
In eafy tree AM fragrant bower:
Thou teachest man to feel and know
That, else he'd never know nor feel;
thou teachest woman's heart to glow
With thoughts too precious to reveal
Sweet Poetry we owe thee more:
Thou givest US the power to tell,
lnhymn5 Of praise, how we adore
The blessed ONE in whom we dwell.
love.
There is 4 silent, rapturoas spell
That sleeps within the secret heart:
Foet, thou knowest its power full well;
Minstrel, it WEEDS thee to thine art.
lhere il Z sweet and trembling thrill,
4 something which we can't express,
That courses through TIE heart antil
It's Drumming DER with happiness.
VITO hath not felt Love burning power?
1r@'a q" hill arbn d0th not Rpowl
ba aef i.te's c,eids mist da. KY los-eF
Wren youths heart Love 4 9th uot glow
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-08-21

The NEBRASKA TEsT.-Sone of the Adj
ministration presses in other States seek to
produce the impression that the Nebraska
bill is not test measure in the ranks of
the Democracy; but one about which they
may differ without dividing their forces
The Washington Union, the national organ
Of the party sets its foot down against any
such shift. 1t says:
"Ihe Nebraska bill IS q Test Of Demo
cratic Orthodoxy. The majority have spo-
ken, and in this country the majority must
be obeyed. 1t is not necessary that an adj
|ministration should say what is or what is
not a test Of faith; but the viii of the ma
jority of the democratic party is no less po-
tential in making a principle test and in
constituting that principle an article of the
Democratic creed" Madison Journal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-08-21

LARGE RAFT-A raft of lumber con-
tanning 600, 00e feet, arrived at the leFee
at Alton on Friday. About one half Of it
consisted Of fencing and flooring, which
has Of late been ia great demand. It was
floated from Chippawa Falls, Wisconsin.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-08-21
Col. Benton.

We give the concluding part Of BEN
TONS address to his constituents, after ac-
Iceptlng their nomination of him for re- cleo
ton to Congress; it deserves serious atten-
ton from all:
The condition of the Democratic party
lis now seen in New Hampshire and Maine
two old line flagstaff Democratic States
now torn to pieces and if to be saved at
Jail, only saved by the Anti-Nebraska can
ldidates. The condition of Congress is seen
in the general apathy for public business
one third generally absent-debate crush
ed under the previous question, and per-
version of rules-all kind temper destroy
led, and that in Congress which met in
more harmony, good feeling, and public
Esprit than | have ever seen. lis present
condition may be seen in almost every vote,
and especially in that on the. general APP
preparation bill yesterday, bill freighted
with eight or nine millions in money, and
the life Of the government in its conse-
Iquence. 1t was defeated SO nays, IA
lyeas, rs being absent. Certainly it will
be passed yet; for we have not yet got to
the place where the federal government is
/ to be broken up But the vote is not the
less significant and ominous significant
both Of dissatisfaction and apathy. Sew
enty-six absent. being two more than vo-
ted for the bill.
The notification of this day is as much
worse than that Of Mr.. Calhoun, as its
champions are below him in talent, in p,l-
|rity Of private life, and in decorum of be-
hayior. He only nullifed the laws of Con
lgress; they nullify a treaty-that with Mex
leo about the "Messilla Valley as that des-
olate mountain is called--to get up pre-
text for getting a broadside from Mexico,
| to bring on another slave question. lie
was for peace with all countries; they are
for war. He was for economy; they for
extraVagance, and would have carried the
appropriation to ninety millions this SEES
sion if all their plans had succeeded, they
will probably get it to seventy millions as
| it is. Mr. Calhoun was for the reduction
OF duties, and commenced notification up
on that point; they are for keeping up du-
ties, and have caused all idea Of reducing
the surplus, $50 earnestly put forward BY
the President and Secretary of the Trea-
Isuy,) to be silently and sneakingly aban-
Idoned. He was against the high tariff
Iparty; the present nullifers are with them,
and they vote together for enormous APP
preparations to keep up duties. The Mis-
lsouri nullifiers are worse than the rest, in
this, ttiet others are friendly to their own
section Of The Unica, those Of Missouri are
traitors to their State--opposing all her in
terests and every man that is doing any
thing for her, witness their opposition to
1.-THE Central route Ito name no more) and
their vengeance against Fremont, who ne
yer did them any harm, because he proved
lit to be good.
x x x X x K x
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-08-21

CITIZENS: By-gones are by-gones. I
claim nothing for past services. Forward
is the word. If [ can do anything for you
in future, it is for you to say SO. If you
think not, | have something Of my own to
attend to, more suitable to my age than
the turmoil Of public life. / want an in
terval Of repose before l die; but am not
Of a temper to give way before nullifca-
ton faction as Insignificant in numbers as
it is wicked in spirit-who cannot elect a
man to Congress, nor corporaPs guard to
the General Assembly, except by coali-
ton of Wings, or fraud upon the De-
mocracy-and who have nothing against
me except that ] stood by jackson against
nullification-and that they canneither Sc
duce me, trade me, or scare me into the
support of their reasonable doctrines
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-08-21

NThe editor Of the Culpepper Oh
server wishes to unite himself to an Owe
Nothing Society, and hopes all his sabseri-
bers win do likewise.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-08-21

An American hotel Is nota house-it
il a roy7n