Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-01-16

1 washington case, on trial at Columbus,
ia question arose as to whether an officer
had right, under any circumstances, to
break the seal of letter addressed to
lanother person. Judge Mclean said
that, ''if any person opened letter I'M
der any pretence whatever, he was La
bic TO be prosecuted under the post-of-
flee laws. If suspicious letters came it
would be better for the postmaster to
send them to the Department they had
no authority to open them, neither had
marshal, police, nor that court"
An important legal principle was
Isettled by the decision of Judge Grier
lin the T.. S. Circuit Court for Penn.
lately. The decision was in the case of
Calvin E. Stowe and Harriet Beecher
Stowe Us. F. w. Thomas, for translating
and publishing Uncle Toms Cabin in
Herman, the compliments alleJging the
same to be an infringement Of Their co.
Upright, &c. The Court decided that a
translation was no infringement of the
copyright law, and that the author of a
work had no right of property after pub
,Fiiaetion, except in the book as published
by him.
] The renewed life means the same
as the angelic state /; and no one should
pretend to the former who has not the
Igraces and dispositions Of the latter vi
tally formed in him, and productive of
their proper actions.
The California papers ADOPT the En-
|glish custom of publishing births. and
add truly American or "Yankee" Pc
culiarity, by giving the sveight Of the
young citizen.
1t is said that the amount in the YER
diet in BENEFITS case is the largest ever
awarded on trial for libel in this coun-
try. The same amount was given in a
case against the Beach Sons, of the N i.
Y. Sun four or five years since.
"A tipler called at one Of the New
York hotels, and asked for room with
-four beds in it. He said he usually re-
tired SO drunk, that he could not find the
bed, unless there was one in each cor
liner.
The Cherokee marriage ceremony
us very expressive--man and wife join
ing hands over running water, indica-
ting that their life may flow on in one
Istream.
MANS actual knowledge may east
ly be measured. His ignorance is for
him unfathomable; he is ignorant of the
extent of his ignorance.
II like better for one to say some
foolish thing upon important matters
than to be silent. That becomes the
Subject of discussion and dispute, and
the truth is discovered Dideret.
/ To drive rats out of your house
: let the basement to new band practis-
ling on wind instruments.
: Statistics, Just made public, show
that $4,000 children are born in Paris in
Ia year, and that exactly ons-third of them
iare illegitimate!
The Old Colony Railroad Company
have had lawsuit with poor man for
breaking ten dozen of bis eggs, and been
beaten.
Baron Humboldt proolaims himself
the first intreducer of guano to the
world, as manure. He iexplaiued its
advantages, published an analysis of it,
and endeavored to introduce it extern
sively, for forty years, but in vain.
The Boston Post says "There are
) thirteen thousand manageable girls now
in the factories of Lowell" It is plea
SAINT to know in this world Of misery,
F that there are thirteen thousand men yet
to be happy.
Commend us TO lazy fellow he
always finds ont the shortest and best
way of doing everything.
The man who earns his living s'by
the sweat Of his brow complains that
it is hord times just now, when the mer-
curry is getting down towards the zeros.
An excellent writer has very tru-
ly said that Choking at q map of the u
nited States, one might almost fancy an
cient history and modern geography had
been chopped up and put into a bag, and
then scattered abroad over the land"
They have got up pig in Ohio SO
thoroughly educated, that he has taken
to music. They regulate him by twist
ing his tail-the greater the twist, the
higher the notes.
self were SO unlucky," said an Of
J flcer," as to have a stupid son, | would
certainly, by all means, make him par
J son." A clergyman, who was in the
company, calmly replied, "You think
differently, sir, from your father
One of the most important, but one
!, Iof the most difficult things TO power
Iful mind, is to be its own master; a
pond may lie quiet in plain, but a lake
: wants mountains TO compass and hold il
lin.
The number of miles Of railway in
operation in the United States at pres
ent is l7,776, against 1886 miles in
Operation on 1st January, 1858, or an
increase Of 4,5l0 miles in twelve months
The number Of miles in operation in
1852 was l0,843.
The name of the Queen of Portu-
gal, just deceased, was Maria da Gloria