Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-03-21
BINS Passed ConsreAs.

Bulls Passed Congress za g
The Thirty fourth Congress closed lis
lsession and is gexis tence last. night. The
Geographic reports Of its action yesterday
are confused and conflicting. As nearly
as we can ascertain, however, the follow
ing are among the, most important acts
which have passed both Houses: !. -
| All the regular. Appropriation Bills.
The bill amending the Tariff. Its prin-
Icipal features are these: va.art
| H. fAriaree extension of the Free List,
| placing thereon many articles scarcely pro-
dnced or riyaled in this country.
q. A reduction Of the present rates Of
duty on Iron, Cotton and Wooden fabrics,
Hemp, Sugar, Wool, to twenty-five per
cent. Dea a2a6ea HflAQi@ sH1 AAa
1 8. Wool costing less than twenty cents
| per pound will henceforth be free.
a. Distilled Spirits, Liquors, DC, hith-
elto charged one hundred per cent, are re-
duced to seventy-fve percent sa
| s. Wines, Cut Glass, Meats, Rasins,
Snuff Cigars and all forms of mauufac-
tured Tobacco, all manufactures of Rose
wood, Mahogany, &C., Sweatmeats, Prunes,
&c, reduced from forty per cent. to
thirty. adi q ea''si 'tpo91s adi 'a
| 6. A general reduction Of twenty per
cent on all artic es not carried to t. g
Free List or reduced either to four to
eight pei cent. ia aoas aa ifa seefto41t
| The bill providing foran overland Mail
from the Mississippi to San Francisco. ssy.
| The bill authorizing Minnesota to form
State Government. e6Gleif 2eff1sses5
| The bill increasing the pay of Army of
fcers, with an amendment, giving Gen.
1scott the pay refused to him BY Secretary
! Davis. ..-..,. -, .sl f+
d The Fertilization Bill 9f} eei4 i
81 The Post Route Bill. go 81 4ai3a34c.e
Amendments to the Civil Approprla-
ton Bill granting $1,000 for the con-
struction of water works Washington,
land 100000 for new dome to the Cap
it00l's 8dI-.za
PUBLIC OPINION OF CRIME. -There are
just three stages Of popular excitement over
4 a great crime. ~ s51s 4ko sa ca
First, the .bloodthirstv, which is for
Selling somebody on the lightest suspicion,
and stringing him up on the nearest tree.
EOrit is for poking him into the fire with
,pitchforks, because changing is too good
for him." This lasts till the ctlprit is I'M
der sentences flock and KEY. lo iGfaaf 983
| Then the compassionate, when jurors
sign petitions for his pardon, and judges
regret the severity of the sentence; when
turkeys praise his gcntlemanly manners
and clergymen his repentant spirit; when
boys obtain his autograph and women trea-
sure up locks of his hair. These are the
times that try the souls Of Governors
And then the conteuptuous, which, if
dead, sneers over his coffin; if living bids
him 60 starve out Of the way of honest
men, and rails at the Executive and Ju-
dloial clemency which is just before be
sought. 80 ,ssesa@.sssys ana -, rgssss
This is the history of every murder case
from Abel down to Burdell. The, public
always hates criminals before conviction,
Epities them when convicted, and seorns
them when set free. We do not quarrel
with human nature for It's tickle phases
we must take it as il, is. But it should be
the Vatchful care. of the ministers Of law
that they are not hurried by the first, ca
joled by the second, or hardened by the
third Albany Ev. Journal: .g,. ,as
! TELEaRApu FROM ST.. p AUL TO DUBUQUE.
The ST. Hi Times Of the 9th inst.
states that several substantial men Of that
city have formed a company for the pur-
| poses Of building a telegraph line from St
| Paul to Dubuque. The proposed route is
to extend from St. Paul to St. Anthony
and Minneapolis, touching at all important
/ points on or near the river. 11z
LAW IN MASSACHUSETTS Supreme
Court Of Massachusetts has unanimously
decided that the United States Marshal,
the Mayor of Boston, and the Military Of
Ulcers engaged in maintaining the laws,
during the slave case of Anthony Burns,
are not responsible to any person for their
action in that case. satai
"A VOLCANO IN VIRGINIA.-The Rock
Iingham Register states on "most reliable
fauthority that the shock of an earthquake
twas felt in Pendleton county, Va.,s some
fdavs ago. and that an aperture has been
formed in the mountain, within two or
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