Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-10-08
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AFFAIRS, and Farmers Almanac for 1853,
containing practical suggestions for the Farm
er and Hortculturist. Embelished with one
hundred and thirty engravings, including
houses, farm buildings, implements, domestic
animals, fruits, flowers, &c, SC. By J. j.
Thomas, author of the ''American Fruit Gull
turist,' and Farm Implements" &C., &c,
Albany, N. Y, Luther Tucker & Son.
We may always feel very sure that any thing
with the name of ]. ]. Thomas to it as author or
editor, especially if published by Tucker & Son,
will be valuable to the farmer and horticuturist.
The three preceding annual numbers of this
work have been peculiarly so, and the present
one is an improvement even on them being equal
ly well filled with matter Of the most useful kind,
and brought out at greater expense of illuatra-
tons, &c. We especially commend it to
every farmer and gardener in the land.
DEMOCRATIC SPEcULAToRs DEFEATED BY
IRISH SQUATTERs.-We suppose there was
never set of men in power in our govern
ment who had so many private irons in the
fire during their official lives, as the members
of the late administration. All their nice lit
tie operations were not equally successful, and
the following article from the Chicago TTi-
bune chronicles their failure in a joint specu-
lation in Wisconsin =
"Ihe long contested case of the site of Su.
perior city, Wis, as between the Superior
town company-conssting of Stephen A.
Douglas, Jessie D. Bright, John G. Breckin-
ridge, Sidney Webster (for self and Frank
PIERCE and number of like democratic pa.
triots on the one hand and the poor Irish
dupes who occupied the ground before it was
brought into market, on the other, was
brought to a close at the Superior land office
week before last. The decision was rendered
against the politicians and in favor of the pre-
emptors. The circumstances of the case were
these Before the land constituting the site
of Superior was brought into market-we be.
lieve before it was suryeyed-when it could
only be held by actual occupation, these
sharp sighted democrats, one of them Pres
ident of the United States, another a Vice
President and a third, who most anxiously
yearns to be President, employed an agent to
induce rabble of Irishmen to occupy the
ground, build cabins, and become possessors
of the soil of Columbia. The Hibernians
seized upon the tempting proposal, built their
huts, staked ont few gardens, and erected
uncommonly large pig-pens all over the site
OF Superior. They fulfilled the requirements
of the pre- emption law to the letter, with the
minute exception that they neglected to file
their intentions TO claim the land in the office
~
elected still further to prove up their claims
and pay the minimum price, 81 % per acre,
when the land was brought into market.
These formalities were exactly those which it
was intended they should omit. Probably
not one in their whole number could read the
English language. They knew less of the pre-
emption laws of the United States than their
swine did of speculative philosophy. OF
course, it was nobody's business to 60 to them
and explain the arcana Of the general land
office.
When the land came into market and no
one appeared to have legal claim to the site
of Superior, it was offered according to law
The Superior town company then came into
existence; its agent bid in the property, and
ordered the seattle" off instanter This was
development not evidently not down in the
bills, for the cattle made huge cutlery and
filled the whole country about Fond du Lac
and Superior with threatenenings and lament
atoms. They finally made virtue of neces.
sity. pocketed their wrongs, shouldered their
pigs, and decamped across the mouth ever
since, cursing the swindlers on the other side
and plotting vengeance.
1t was evident that these lrishmen could
give the Superior Spectators trouble before
the titles IN that region were regularly settled.
The premptory laws of the United States were
enacted for the protection of the actual set
tiers against the non resident Spectator. The
Ignorant dupes who occupied the sites of Su-
perior, had, perhaps, no title in law, but they
had very respectable one in equity such a
one as the general land office was bound to
recognize. Several prominent lawyers in
Minnesota and others who passed through
Superior on pleasure excursions, were solicit
ed to argue the case, but either through dis
like to offend the formidable members of the
Superior company, or seeing no prospect of
justice in case involving so much Democ-
racy it was not taken hold of until recently,
when the Hon. st. A. d. Balcombe, late
President of the Republican constitutional
convention Of Minnesota, assumed the man
agement in behalf of the Irishmen, and pros
ecuted it, as we learn, to a triumphant con.
clusion. The case will, doubtless, be taken
on appeal in the general land office at Wash
ington.