Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-12-26

900 lb hoes. for $3.50; flour $3.50 to 81
per bbl.; and butter from IA to IL cents
for the lest article.
y-Fitz Green Halleck, the eminent
poet, is about to publish a po-
en-.
SW Charles Fenno Hoffman, the insane
poet, is said to be SO i'll that he cannot live
much longer.
ggr The Rev. John Pierpont, of Mass,
widely known as a poet and advocate OF
Total abstinence, was recently married, tor
the third time, at the age OF ~ years.
w-The Corn Crop of Southern Him
DIS turns out to be less in quantity tar
in quality to what was expectedln
he month of October. The berry Is mil
ky-the autumn not being favorable to a
full ripening.
sgThe Tammany Hall Sachams, H.,
York, refuse to let the Administration De-
mocrats have the EIall for a demonstration
in favor of sustaining Buchanan IN his Pc
sition in favor of the Lecompton Constltu-
ton.
@Land Warrants are selling in New
York as follows: 40 acres, Csc; 80 acres,
soc; 100 acres, Toe, and 100 acres, at 90
cents per acre.
NAMES OF M. C.ss.-In Congress there
are five Joneses, six Davises, four Clarks,
three Mrights, three Washburns-broth-
ers-tbree Thompsons, two Marshalls. two
Stewards. three Smiths, two Shaws, two
Tavlors, two Clays, two Houstons, two
Shermans, two Wilson's, two Masons, two
Halls, three Stewards, two P~helpses, two
Morrises and but one Brown.
SENT HOME BY HARD TIMEs.-The A
merican pleasure-seekers in Paris are all
hockine home, for want of money to spree
it on any longer.
BcTTER IN New YoRK.-The Roches-
ter Democrat says that the quantity of but
ter in the hands of farmers is believed to
be larger COW than at any previous time
for many years. The best roll is freely Of
fered at Is cents, and frkin and country
store lots are difficult to sell at IA cents.
Even at these prices the article will scarce
ly bear shipment to the New York markets.
A GIFTED DRUNKARD.--Hon. Thomas
Marshall, says y Louisville correspondent of
the Boston Transcript, has been giving
here a series of centemroraneous lectures
upon the "Hi>torv of Popery," and "The
Philosophy of History which have exhi-
bited a depth Of research, a familiarity
with the subjects, and such rare powers OF
oratory, as | have seldom heard equalled,
Many years since, I knew Mr.. Marshall in
as a teetotal temperance ora
tor; bu. low he is as far on the other side
of .he fence. Once he appeared before
his audience here, so intoxicated that he
could hardly stand up.
SOUTHERN Wis. r. R.-The southern
branch of the Mil. & Miss. R. r. is now
completed to within a mile of Monroe,and
lie trains will run into the depot this week.
The people Of Green County have nobly
aided the company in these trying times,
and viii doubtless reap the reward other
Sentinel.
rg God rules in the market, as He does
on the mountain; He has provided etern-
al laws for society, as He has for the stars
or the seas: and it is just as impossible to
escape Him or His ways in Wall Street,
or State Street, as it is anywhere else.
ABOLITION OF SERrDoM IN Russia
Last Friday, the 18th day Of September,
1857, was the appointed time for the De
cree to go into effect, abolishing Serfdom
in the Russian Empire, and the Union is
not yet dissolved.
HEAVY MArLs.-On Tuesday of last
week toyty-eight bags of mail matter were
received at the post office in this city
Since the 10th ult., the receipts have aver
aged upwards of twenty-five bags daily
From ST. Paul, as many as twepty-eight
bags have been received at onetime; by
the cars the number hasreached as high as
forty-two. Remarkable as are these re-
|ceipts, they are no more worthy of com,
ment than the promptness with which the
mails are made up. Arriving in the even
ing, on nc occasion has a bag been suffer-
ed to remain in the office beyond the de-
parture of the first mail Prairie da
Chen Leader.
TREASURY NorE BILL.-The Treasury
Note Bill will be among the very first mea-
sures reported in the House next week.
Its provisions will embrace the authority
asked for by the Treasury Department to
issue and keep in employment, for one year
only, twenty millions Treasury Notes of
the denomination Of $50 and upwards;
the rate of interest to be left in the discre-
ton of the Secretary, and which it is now
understood, will not exceed three per cent.
per annum.
Nor BAD.-The following story is told
by the Mobile Tribmne,of Judge Hawkins,
the representative to Congress. from the
State of Florida; a man, by the way ,brim-
full of genuine wit. During the wal with
the Florida Indians, he commanded a vol
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