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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-08-22

A BENEVOLENT OFFER.-Thc following
is said to be an accurate copy of a private
circular sent by certain Wall Street firm
to parties WHO contemplated starting q
Bank in this State. 1t tells its own story.
If our Banking Law, or the practice Of
donaJfde banks, allows such operations to
60 on, it is time that some action was ia
ken to stop them:
N. Y, No.-sWall Street July 2, 1851.
DEAR SIN: Understanding from
soma of vonr friends-nnw Oh y visit to
lish bank under the free bank Ia " estab-
cousin, we take the opportunity to offer
you our services to forward your views
Having had great experience, within the
past FIVE years, in getting up" banks in
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and even Wis
consin, under the free banking laws CT
those States,we are quite sure your inter-
ests would be served by employing us to
get in operation one for you.
Without wishing or designing to dispar-
age our neighbors, (sorne of whom are en-
gagged in the business, I'VE should say, that
to make bark move on successfully ,ther re
is much wisdom to be displayed in its or
ganization, which has not been displayed
BY those we have alluded to; for out Of 43
they we're instrumental in ''getting up in
Indiana, Al have failed, while Of those
we have got up, (27) only IA have failed
We have made it our particular study to
organize "free banks, and hence our great
success; and if parties who desire to "ge'
up" banks, will be governed by the advi
|ces we give, (iu our private circulars,)
there is no danger, but the protector OF
of the bank will make money AMI it IS to
the projectors interest we only look.
1t will, sir, cost you but little to get up
bank with 100000 capital, secured by
stocks. With the addition of the retaining
fee, of $4,000, as above mentioned, about
$4,000 for plates and notes, and $4,000
placed in our hands as margin for the
100000 stocks, we can naandgetc put 1t
in successful operation.
Yours, respectfully, O.P. y.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-08-22
Joux WENTwoRrH, the Mayor of Chi

JoHx W ENTwoRTIi, the Mayor OF Cht
cage, is thus described by the Chicago cor
responder. of the Boston Journals
did you ever see John Wentworth
No! Well, come with me to the street cor
near. Mark that numbering looking man,
taking short strides this way. He stands
six feet FIVE inches in his stockings. Old
straw hat turned down all round like cot
ton umbrella-no neckcloth-short, bad
fitting linen coat-loose unmentionables,
which looks az if he had jumped too far
into them and hadn't time to get back
unblackened, united shoes three sizes toe
arge--and slight stoop to the tall fig-
ure, and the picture is complete. You see
hims Well, sir, that shabby, elephantine
individual, who looks as if he had not
cent in the world, is Johannes Elongatus
Mayor of Chicago, and he is worth five
hundred thousand dollars"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-08-22
OF tho ocean Deptiss.

The ocean, especially within and near
the tropics, swarms with life. The re-
mains of its myriads Of moving things are
conveyed by currents, and scattered and
lodged in the course of time all over its
bottom. This process, continued for ages.
has covered the depth of the ocean as
with mantle, consisting Of organism as
delicate IA the immaculate frost, and as
light as the undrified snowflake on the
mountains. Whenever this beautiful
sounding rod has reached the bottom of
the deep sea, whether in the Atlantic or
Pacific, the bed of the ocean has been
found of a down-like softness. The lead
seems to sink many feet into the oozy
matter there, which has been strained and
filtered through the sea water. This mat
ter consists of the skeletons and casts of
of insects of the sea Of microscopic minute
ness: The currents do not reach down to
the bottom of the deep sea, there are no
abradiiig agents at work here, save alone
the knawing tooth of time; rope Of sand
if stretched upon the bed of the ocean,
would be cable strong enough to hold
the longest telegraphic wire that art can
draw. At the bottom of the sea there is
a protecting cdshioh of still water. Wei
have had soundings in the Gulf Stream
and all at the bottom there is as still as
the grave. If the stream, with its current
Of four miles an hour, reached to the bot
tom Of the sea, it would have worn through
the surface Of the earth, and we would
have gone down to the molten INTERIOR
We see the Table Rock, at Niagara, what
a small stream constantly wearing away
will do.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-08-22

WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, AT MIDDLE
TOWN, CoNN.-At the recent commence
ment Of this institution, thirty young gen
tlemen graduated, number received their
NJ: A., and che D. D. was conferred. The
Wesleyanan University is in d healthful
condition--out Of debt, with an income of
about about $4,000 q 90 dna-
LAGER BEER.-Thers is no more injuri-
otis liquor att1ong our common drinks than
lager beer. 1t dulls, blunts and deadens
the bodily energies, and Supplies gradual
" the faculties of the mind. There is
nothing sound in the body of habitual
drinker of lager beef. We have lived
where fifty thousand Germans, from the
father to the babe, are full of lager beer
every day Of the year. We have seen lit
tie ones Of three and four years, who have
been nursed on lager, toddled into the bar
room and receive their daily allowance
from "fodef,' and then toddle back
These men for the most part are fleshy.
But there is nothing sound and solid about
them. 1t is picked, soaked. II is dead.
rotten, shaky, bloat. An old lager beer
guzzler numbers along, great mass of tor
pid puff and sluggish brain. 1t is a motto
rious fact, wound made upon this turbid
flesh rarely, If ever, heals. The slightest
incision upon the hand or face that is
thoroughly beer soaked, will tester and
grow. We have seen butchers in the
West yitiated in this way, whom trivial
and accidental cut upon the finger has laid
up for weeks. Lager beer is slow out sure,
and it kills practically long before death
comes Worcester 4Egis.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-08-22

CAvsE OF BAD TEETH.-At the recent
Dental Convention, in Boston, discussion
was had upon the causes Of bad teeth
The general impression seemed to be; that
acids caused decay. DR.. Branch, Of Hi
nois, was of the opinion that the teeth
were not so much affected by anything
brought ia contact with them, but by the
general health of the party. Show him
a healthy constitution and he would show
fine set of teeth.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-08-22

capital move. He would get the Demo
Gratis from the Northern States to a man
Ransom was sound on the goose, as soune
as General Calhoun, and he must not b
suspected by the Pfo-Slavery men.
MIR. Buchanan and his Administration
were to come down to the work right ane
not play false. His sincerity and that o
his Cabihct was to be tested, and he
should and would be made to do right OF
they would blow him and his Admini.tra
ton into ten thousand peices. They
should do right or the National Democrat
ic party should be broken up, for Kansa.
was determined to have her right. He
expressed himself sanguine about the
soundness of Mr.. Buchanan, and knew he
had to do right or be blown up.
The National Democracy had elected
large majority to the Constitutional Con
sention, and Pro-SIavery Constitution
would be made, and he believed that it
would be submitted TO vote of all the
people that were III the Territory ON Ger.
tain day, Of which due notice would be
given to the people Of Missouri. When
that was done, the people must protect
their slave property, and get up the same
feeling they once had up, and that election
would be carried as easily as they had car
RED ally of the other elections. The
Frees meii in KANSAS were resting un
der the belief that they had large ma
lorlty in the Territory, which was fact,
but they were not on the guard ;the men in
the Northern States were not on their guard
either, but the Pro Slavery men were.-
He enjoined it upon them to keep this
matter still and not blab it about, but Law
low and keep dark, and work for the great
stake. Properly managed, success was
certain. He knew more about Kansas and
the Pro-Slayery party than any one else
He had spent a large sum of his own mon
ey, and raised great deal from others,
all for the cause in Kansas, and professad
to know all about it. He had organized
more of their lodges and taken more peo-
pie into them than any other man, and he
knew what was going on, all of which L
believed, and have suspected for a long
time.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-08-22

The Albany Argus renews the fol
lowing suggestion for masking water cold
without ice;
] "Let the jar, pitcher OF vessel used ton
water he surrounded with one or more folds
of coarse cotton, to be constantly wet
The evaporation Of the water will carry Of
the heat from the inside and reduces it to
a freezing point. In India and other trop.
ical climes, where ice cannot be procured,
this is common. Let every mechanic and
Iaborer have at his place Of employment
two pitchers thus provided, and with lids
or covers. one to contain fresh water fol
drinking, the other evaporation, and he
can always have . supply Of cold water IN
warm weather."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-08-22

HENRY WARDBEEoHER has long arti-
Gle in the Inaependeaton the Inconvenience
| of modern conveniences and the perplexi-
ties of living in a frst-class dwelling house.
He gives His own experience of a sapacious
bfown-stone dwelling on BrooklynHeights.
| Here is his description Of tho door-hell ar
Irangement:
There was grand arrangement Of bells
at our front door, which seldom failed to
make everybody outside mad because they
would not ring, or everybody mad inside
because they rang so fnriously. The con-
Itrivance was, that two bells Should be ,nng
by one wire; common bell in the SER
wants entry, and gong in the upper Ell
try. The belltrain was SO heavy to draw,
that it never operated till lie man got mad
aud pulled with the strength Of an OK
But then,it went off with such crash and
jingle, that one would think band of
music; with all its cymbals, had fallen
through the sky light down into the entry.
Thus, women children, aud modest men
seldom get in, and sturdy beggars had it
all their own way. 1t was quite edifying
to see experiments performed on that bell.
A man would first give modest pull
and then reflect what he was about to say.
No one coming, he gave longer pull, and
returned to waiting and mediation. A
third pull was tho prefate to stopping
back, surveying the windows, looking into
the area, when, seeing signs of undhes-
tionable habitation, he returns with, flush
ed face to the bell now for it! He
pulls as if he held lire by the side of
river with thirty pound salmon on it;
while all the bells go off, up and down, till
the house SEEMED fill Of bells. Things
are not mended when he finds the gentle
man Of the house is not at home We fear
that much grace has been lost at that front
door: s.
He is Writing from the country, whittier
he has gone to recrute, and concludes the
article with the following:
We are now living at peace. We are
in plain two-story country house, with
out "conyeniences." We are recruiting.
Nothing gets out of order. We do not
wake to hear water trickling from bursted
pipes; the gas never leaks; we have no
chandelier to tall dowti We are not afraid
to use our furniture; our chairs have. no
linen clothes on; the carpets are without
drugget. The children Bless the ooltptry
and country house, in which they are
not always scratching something, or hit
ting something with,s hoe, button,or finger
nails. And we already feel that few
months life Id modern house with con-.
f,enie.Icpe. -
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-08-22

TaE Russian MILLESIUM.-l five year
from the present date Russia will have at
tanned the age Of one Thousand years; an
event to be celebrated by the erection OF
monument, for which subscription mas
met heen set ON foot. The monument Is
to be built in the city Of Novgofod, and
voluntary contributions in aid OF It's cree
ton will be recsived by government Off
Gals throughout the empire until 1852.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-08-22

CoME OVER TO THE R1GHT SIDB.-We
learn from the Watertown Democrat that
the Aazeiger, German paper, Of that city,
has zone into the hands Of Mr.. Carl
Scb1rtz. and forssken the Democracy
We shall be glad to see q thorough Ger.
man ,,auer in Watertown. It IS needed.
-TMilwaukee Sentinel.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-08-22

OHto.-The democratic" State Con
vention of Ohio was held at Columbus on
the 9th. H. B. Payne of Cleveland was
nominated for Governor; w. II ty..;,-- :;
Hamilton. fn- c~p.ume Judge, MULES =,
Monroe, for Treasurer; J. Reinhardt, Of
Franklin, for Secretary Of State; and A
Backus, Of Lusa., for Board Of Public
Works. ~ go t4te
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-08-22

No DouBr or 1r.-1'he Richmond En-
quiirer makes an open breast and declares
"For our own part, we have no hesitation
in expressing the opinion that every Gov
ernor who has been sent to Kansas has
been instructed to act always with especial
nartiality to the South"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-08-22

PAssMoRK WnL1AMsoN.-This quiet
Quaker gentleman is beginning to look to
his rights. On Saturday week he institu-
ted legal proceedings against Chief Justice
Lewis, of the Supreme Court of Pennsyl-
vauia, for illegally refusing to grant him
writ of ha6eas corpus during the period
when he was detained in prison by Judge
Kane
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-08-22

TAKING THE ADvANrAGE.-A thief was
recently caught at Brussels who pretended
to be dumb. At the suggestion Of ply
sician present, chloroform was administered
to the culprit, and as soon Is consciousness
was destroyed the rogue began to pour
forth copious stream of French. This
NAV serve as hint to our own anthori-
ties, v 8 as
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-08-22

How TO MAKE jury AeREE.-An OBJ
stinate jury in England was brought to
terms, after getting very hungry, BY the
constable. who poked in dish Of beef
steak and onions at the door, Withdrawing
it as soon as the aroma-so grateful to En-
glshmen-filled the room. They soon a.
greed, for human nature could not with.
stand that appetizing smell.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-08-22

~The Chicago Ledger says, that 9
friend lately saw, near Dixon, ted
which only broken last year., and the
spring wheat dragged inupon the praHie
sod. Where the yield would average ninety
bushels to the sers for the whole field.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-08-22

The NIGHT CHARGE. = Magistrate,
"What has brought you herel" Prisoner,
"Two policemen, yer honor" Then |
suppose liquor had something to do with
it :" Eyes, sir, they were both druk."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-08-22

Eg-Thc Louisville Courier states that
the proprietors of one Of the largest -four
og mills in that city have closed contracts
70. upwards of 10000 bushels Of wheat at
one dollar per bushels
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-08-22

rR. B. Colenan, late Coleman q
Stetson Of the New York Astor House,
ha. leased the ST. Cloud Hotel Dubuque,
Iowa.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-08-22

A DESERTED CIrY.-The New Orleans
Times represents that city as being even
more desolated than the "Deserted Viii
Iage" sung of by GonDsMrTH. The editor
says:
awe can look out of OUT windows at
neon to-day on the once busting Camp
street, and see no one. Who opens the
stores we know not; but We expect it is
done by machinery, as we never find any
body in them 1t is our intention to count
the number of persons in town, and give
their names and addresses in short para
graph. Money is said to be SO awfully
scarce, that the man Of business remaining
here thinks of dsmissing his collector and
hiring burglar in his place. We are the
only editor left in charge of the city in
terests, and we have serious thoughts of
letting out the streets as fine pasturing
ground for sheep. Any body in want OF
grass will please apply"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-08-22

DE Eccentricity, for the Most part con
sists in nothing more than following one 3
own and not submitting it to the govern
ment Of others.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-08-22
~Rey. Thomas Stockton, noted di-

aERev. Thomas Stockton, noted d.
,;ne saws in late number Of his Bible
Times: at is not in bitterness, but in sor-
row that / look upon the Church in too
MANY instances, people-not called out
from the world, but with the world called
overcoming the world, but over
come by the world ewl
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-08-22

MORE THAN WAS BARaAfNED For
Some time since F. P. Blair of St. Louis,
got up map of Missouri, for circulation
in the eastern States, showing the strength
of slavery in the various counties in the
State, by means of black lines drawn a.
cross their face-the size of the line being
in proportion to the number of slaves in
the county. The Republican Immediate
ly branded the map as an emancipation
movement, and was very severe on Mr..
Blair for getting it up. Subsequently,
however, that paper had the map 1.-the
araphed and circulated extensively with a
view to making capital for the National
Democracy" These maps were found in
the hands of slaves in Cooper County, and
a dispatch to St. Louis, from Bonneville,
states that the masters are taking steps to
prosecute the Republican for circulating
abolition documents" Are "masters'
ungrateful.-[ Gin. Gaz.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-08-22

AN INDIAN ADvENTURE.-The follow
ing incident was narrated to Lieut.. Beck
with, of the Pacific Railroad Expedition
party, by a Delaware Indian guide, as they
were traversing mountain pass which was
marked by numerous gullies and rsvines
He was traversing this pass at midnight,
accompanied by his squaw only, both
mounted upon the same horse, and the
night so dark that he could neither see the
outlines of the hills nor the ground at his
horses feet, when he heard sound (which
he imitated) so slight as to be scarcely
perceptible to an Indians ear, of an arrow
carried in the hand, striking once only with
slight tick, against bow. Stopping, he
could hear nothing, but instantly dismoun
ted-his squaw leaning down upon the
horse, that she might by no possibility be
seen-and placed his ear to the ground,
when hs heard the same sound repeated
but q few feet distant, and was therefore
Satisfied that however imminent the dan
ger, he had not yet been seen or heard, for
no Indian would make such noise at
instantly arose and took his horse by the
bride close to his mouth, to lessen the
chances Of his moving or whinnying, and
one hundred and seventy Of his dead
lest enemies, the Sioux, filed past him
within arms reach, while he remained
wholly unobserved.'
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-08-22

,sd KeapnEblican paper to be started IN
Washington, D. C.,the first of next month.
It's Editor is Mr.. Weston, from Maine, as
sisted by Daniel R. Goodloe; of North
Carolina, both able writers. The veteran
Editor. F. P. Blair, heartily endorses the
project and the Editors. The paper will
be issued weekly and semi-weekiy at first,
but will probably grow into daily.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-08-22

SrGs'fIcANr.-A correspondent of the
New York Herald at port of Spain, Trini-
dad, writes On the 9th of June as follows :
"This has been, indeed, golden year
for the sugar planters. From being heav-
lily indebted, most of them are now free.
The crop is nearly all in; it cannot fall
short of 10000 hogsheads; most OF it has
been sold at rate Of $3.50 per 100 lbs.
'iThe coolies do not work near as we'll as
WAS expected. Three-fourths of the for
rier sugar-estate still lay barren.
"The indignation of the negro popula-
ton was raised above the boiling point by
the arrival, short time ago, of two ship
loads Of Africans. They came here to
serve their apprenticeship, for they are not
Portuguasae oes papers they aEfs s ssIid
here to serve voluntary apprenticeship Of
ten years."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-08-22
~ A lady occupvipg room letter B at

Eg A lady occupying room letter B at
one of tho hotels, wrote on the slate the
following: awake letter B at seven and
if letter b says, Let us be- don't let us be !;
nor let letter b be, because if you let let
ter B be, letter B will be unable to let her
house to Mr.. B., who is to be on hand at
half past seven" The porter, better
boot-black than photographic, after study
ing over the above all night, did not know
at seven whether to wake "letter B" OF
.tlet her Ee:''
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-08-22

GE Truth and halinnss. saws Robert
Hall, are SO intimately allied in the Chris
tan system, that the warm and faithful iu-
cucation of the one lays the only foundas
ton for the other. sz.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-08-22

months life Id modern house wiM con-,
uenielces:
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-08-22

cided in the case of the Union a has de-
surance company of New York, Vi. In
indianapolis and Cincinnati railroad, that
the defendants were liable for goods de-
stroyed upon their trains, by fire ., Of winch
The cause was not known. The court
ruled that, failing to show that the fire
was unavoidable, the defendants were la
blo
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-08-22
Financial Opinions i'm BRIEF.

l. Our opinion 10, that the sscrisis" 81
long talked of by the whole tribe of long
faced Bears, has been indefinitely postpo
; ned. So -
i 2. We believe that the money market
will improve, that the present "street'
rates of Interest will not be riiaintaifed
through the remainder of the season, and
that the bank rate will be easy at I pei
cent.
8. In regard to crops; having had the
privilege lately of personal observation in
at least thirteen of the Northern States
we are of the opinion that the aggregate
yield will be far greater thia year than ev-
err before.
4. 1t is our opinion that the most de-
scriptions of stock have 'stouehed bottom, y
and those who have money lying idle had
better be in haste about making invest
ments.
8. We believe the prospect for trade
generally is encouraging.
6. 1t is our opinion, based upon private
adyices from California, that the yield of
gold at the mines and the shipment thence
the remainder of the year, will be larger
from now till January, than during any
other corresponding period, i. e. Fail
months.
7. We believe that financial matter. A.
broad will, from this date, steadily i'm
prove; that the Bank of England and
France, will, continue to reduce their rates
of interest, in consequence Of rapid accu
mutations of specie.
8. In conclusion We gisu it as our opin-
ion, that all croakers should stop theif
mouths, that idlers should go I'd work, and
that every body should expect prosperity if
they "mind their own business.
These are our deliberate opiiiIons, bas,
ed upon peculiar and reliable information
We may be mistaken; if so, We will con-
graduate ourselves that others, much wiser
than we are have made similar or worse
blunders,-@ st. Louis Int.
SrGs'fIcANr.-Ac correspondent of the
Nou, VotL Ho.S34 a. x,ou4 S..s..
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-08-22
Ine PIet Exposed Mysttrtos Re.
vealed-a peep behind Democ-

racy.
The following correspondence of the
Missouri Democrat gives the fairest history
of the mysterious past and most probable
view of the future Of Kansas Of anything
that has yet come to light. The Demo
srat veuches for the correctness of the
whole thing, while the st. Louis Rspa6-
Asan denouaces the correspondent for ex
posing what was not intended for the pub.
lie: