Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1857-10-30
1t is said that there are three thousand OPP
eratives out of employment in Fall River.
A QUESTION OF SQUATTER soVER-
EIGHTY.

From the chise;o Tribune oct. 2.l
The long contested case of the site of Su-
pcrior City, Wis. as between the SUPERIOR
Town Comprehension of Stephen A.
Douglass, Jesse ID. Bright, John c. Breckin-
ridge Sidney Webster for self and Frank
Pierce, and number Of like Democratic pat
riots ON the ono 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
ago"d the politicians and in favor of the pre-
empturs. The circumstances of the case were
these Before the land constituting the site
Of Superior was brought into markot-we be-
heve before 1t was suryeyed-whon it could
only be held by actual occupation, these sharp
sighted Democrats, one of them a President
OF the United States, another Nico-prosi-
dent and third, who most anxiously yoarns
to be President, employed an agent to induce a
rabbie Of lrlshmen TO occupy the ground, build
CABINS and become pOsscsscrs of the soil of Col
umbla. The llibcrnians seized upon the tempt
ing proposal, built their huts. staked out a few
gardens and erected uncomonly large pig-puns
All over the site OF Superior. They fulfilled
the requirements of the Presumption Law to the
letter with the mlnute.oNception that they neg
lectcd to file their intentions to claim the land
IN the office of the Register of the Superior Dis
trlct, and neglected still further to prove up
their claims and pay tho minimum price,
~ 20 per acre when the land was brought
into market. These formalitics were exactly
those which 1t was intended they should omit
Probably not one in their whole number could
read the English language. They knew loss
of the presumption laws of the United States
than their swine did Of speculative philoso-
ply. OF course, it was nobodys business 10
go to them and explain the arcana of the Cen
eral Land Office
When the land came into market and no
ono appeared to have legal claim to the site
of Superior it was offered at auction accord
ing to law. The Superior Town Company
then came into existence its agent bid in the
property, and ordered the cattle off instan-
ter. This was Development evidently not
down in the bills for the cattle made huge
cutlery and filled the whole country about
Fond du Lac and Superior with threatenings
and lamentations. They finally made yir-
tue of necessity, pocketed their wrongs
shouldered their pigs, and decamped across
the mouth of the St Louis River. where they
have remained ever since, cursing the swind-
lers on the other side and plotting vengeance
1t was evident that these Irishmcn could
give tho Superior spectators trouble before
the titles in that region were regularly settled
The Presumption Laws of the Uuited States
were enacted for the protection of the actual
settler against the nonresident SPECTATOR
The ignorant dupes who occupied the site of
Superior, have perhaps, no title in law, but
they had very respectable one in equity
such one as the General Land Office was
bound to recognize. Several prominent law
ycrs in Minnesota, and others who passed
through Superior on pleasure excursions. were
solicited to argue the case, but either through
dislike to offend the formidable members Of
the Superior Company, or seeing the pros
peot of justice in a case involving so much de-
mocracy. it was not taken hold of in earnest
until recently, when the Hon. st. A. d. Bal
combe late President Of the Republican Con-
stitutional Convention of Minnesota. assumed
the management in behalf of the Irishmen.
and prosecuted it, as we learn. to a triumph
ant conclusion, The case will doubtless. be
taken on appeal to the General Land Office at
Washington