Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-02-28
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versity Of Wisconsin: Horace A.. Tenney,
Ezra s. Carr, James G. McMynn and j
L. Pickard. These are good appointments.
The gentlemen take the places of ]. D.
Ruggles, Befiah Brown, E. M. Hunter anu
Alonzo Wing.
Woman's Rights' to Scamp Lands.
Near La Crosse several ladies pre-empt-
Rted tracts of swamp lands.g The La Crosse
Democrat informs us s.that in every in
stance the Commissioners granted then
the certificates for land thus showing thai
in their opinion, women have rights, to
swamp lands at least!
A Committee 10 inpestgate leqislaHue
bri5ery.-A resolution was introduced in
the Senate by MIR. Barber, of Grant Co.,
and adopted, instructing the Railroad
Committee to report bill providing for a
commission to investigate the charges Of
bribery and corruption preferred against
members of the last Legislature, and State
Officers IN connection with the disposition
of the Land Grant, to the La Crosse Rail
road Company. Those who did not get
any stock are anxious to find cut the lucky
participants.
Mr. Humboldt, in his personal
Narrative states that in the thirteenth
century the habit of eating human flesh
pervaded all classes of society. Extraor-
binary snares were spread for physicians in
particular. They we're called to attend
persons who feigned to be sick, but who
were only hungry, and it was not IN order
to be consulted, but devoured.
TELEGRAPH FROM ST.. PAUL TO DU-
BUqUE.-T heSt. PaulTines Of the9thsinst.,
states that several substantial men Of that
city have formed company for the pur-
pose Of building a telegraph line from St.
Pail TO Dubuque. The proposed route is
to extend from St. Anthony and Minneap-
oils, thence to Hastings, thence down the
Mississippi, touching at all the important
points on or near the river.
Sc The infamous fraud perpetrated by
the sham Democracy Of the Indiana Leg
islature, by the Illegal election Of Bright
and Fitch to. the United States Senate, is
likely TO lead to a political revolution.
R1cHMoSD Micro. M&RKRr.-The editor
Isof TIE Warrenton, (Va.,) Wing, who was
recently OF a visit 10 Richmond, was in
formed by Messrs. Dickinson. Hill Il Co.,
apctioneors Of that city, that the gross
amount If their sales Of negroes last year
year reached Che enormous sum Of 81, 0QO,-
I000i The entire sales Of other houses OF
similar kind in Richmond, it is said,
would make the amount go over $4,000
600. And still the business is increas-
ing
gw From an elaborate table published
in tie New York Courier and Enquirer,
we lean that the total exports from the
port Of New York to Foreign ports
during the year just ended amount to the
enomnonr sum of $lI9,841,756. This is
about 20,ooo,O0o more than last year
The total imports during the same period
was $213,596, 5s2, nearly double that Of
last year. The total Of CASH duties re-
ceivcd during the year was $40, $40, $40,
being an Increase Of mere than $4,000,
600 over last year.
A Rich SLAvE.-Tllere is said to be s
Slave IN Memphis who possesses an estate
worth $50, 1000. Ills wife is a free colored
woman. She owns him as slave, and tie
property is he'll in her name.
s1 The Commissioner of the General
Land Office has decided, that locations Of
public land, made by land warrants, On
pre,emptions,are rot assignable.
The GaaMAss FOR EaAEclrATIoN IN
MlssouE1.-The Conan papers of Missouri
very generally come ont in favor Of free
Labor in that State, as likely to advance
its domestic prosperity. The .Anzeiger
declares that the question cannot be too
much discussed" and that ''the Eneanc
patton party IN 81. Lom;s is already
stronger than the Benton party eper agas. =
The same paper declares that, notwith-
standing the movement was so sudden, 1t
has gained many unexpected friends and
supporters in the ranks Of the National
Democracy. The Anzeiger adds: ''it Is
certain that ST. Louis, and probably a few
other counties, are ripe for this agitation,
and that any movement on the part of tile
borlerers in Western Missouri to interfere
again in the affairs of Kansas will certain
" be the signal for the uestion of eman'
cipation in Missouri" The Yolksblati
also occupies much The same ground.
SPANISH SILVER CoIN.-Ishe Officers o.
| the U. S. Mint OF Philapelrhia, state thai
Spanish silver coins, which are not clipped
or punched, are in reality worth more char
Inc American coins of the some denomln
ation.g The Inconvenience of this currency
+ is the reason for the law which proposes te
Get rid Of them The Bill for that pur
4 pose, passed by the House Of Representa-
tive$, will be amended by the Senate so a
! to avoid if possible sudden movements a
gairSt this curreney-in which Speculation
only gain and the people lose. One q
these Senatorial amendments will author
ize the payment at the Mint for two year
TO come, Of the uewly coined cents, in ex