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The Washington union., 1857-12-06

DLACK riband velvets and wide silk velvets, for
I'D mancs widths for trimming at much less than the
usual price ali widths for mantes, cloaks, &c
Lyons pure, all silk" at very low prices
pieces plain black ncasto Co thick for ladies' coals
pieces ribbed beaver CLOTH for circular caks and
basques
800 shass n all fabrics and styles at low prices
price only, marked in plain figures, and deviation
articles, low prices and fair dealing be relied on in all
cases .-a-
PERRY BROTHER,
Central Stores y west building,
Dec 2-1Otdf opposite Centre Market
The Washington union., 1857-12-06


II may not be generally known that after the con-
quests the Norman King William L. in order to be
cured against nsurrection took precautionary measures
such adopted afterwards during the disturbance
IN Ireland namely, that Ito quote Hollingshed) ito
make the people quiet and less able to REBEL he
caused all their weapons and aamor TO be taken from
them, and ordained also that every housekeeper should
be within his doors by eight of the clock at night
and then to and rake up his re, and go TO bed And
because they should pass that hour, he caused bell
to be rung in every town and village us at eight of the
clock the which is used in most counties of England yet
at this day and s called in the Norman language ooarr
kfa, which we now corrupty call curfer." Later it
was called the covereu bell from which get
few"
A HIRED HORSE TIRED NKvER, Scotch. THAT is the
User creed but not the owners for few tender
u other peoples property their "a hired horse
and ones spurs make short miles says one Ger
nan proverb and another declares that they out
stip the wind
a. flare hor@ Of thas oH, and thou may borrow dno
welsh People lend only 10 the rich :; Frenchl On
Pfts qf nr rches. People don't give black pudding
% one who kills no pigs Spanish qaep mata pue
, % no k dan mord In Spain il is usual, when pig is
alued, to make black puddings and present of
mem 10 one neighbou There Is thrift in this inter
mango OF civiy, for black puddings viii not keep long
~ tnat climate, and each man generally makes than
Guugh Tor his own consumption 'sTo one who has a
gS T IN the oven you may give bit of your cake ~
gaeu w f''' ''''' '" ~
The Washington union., 1857-12-06

LN0R HIRE.-A servant man competent in the
duties Of the dining and parr service temperate
Inquire So avenue between 7lsf and
27d streets No. 20 third story Treasury Building
Dec 6-7tco
The Washington union., 1857-12-06

Doc 6-2wstaw
The Washington union., 1857-12-06

ID III. GILLET Counsellor at Law, has removed
hs Franklin Row, and
He viii continue devote his attention principal
ly to United States Supreme Court
Oct 28-d6
The Washington union., 1857-12-06
CARD.

MISS BROOKE informs members Of Congress- and
v others placing school
Washington that she prepared receive few additional boarding
her establishment Seven Buidng No iss pennsylvania
avenue.
Circulars 10 had Al the book stores.
3-3taw0
The Washington union., 1857-12-06
GOLD AND SILVER PURCHASED

GOLD AND SILVER PURCHASED
At THE BEST RATES FOREIGN Bills EXCHANGE SOLD on
The PRINCIPAL POINTS IN EUROPE IN SUNS TO SUIT.
TOLD CURRENCY AND VIRGINIA MONEY
accounts will opened depotors payable funds
gold charging the current rates Checks must be marked ac
cordingy.
Sight drafts all the principal Cites IN the thoh SOFA 10 sums 70
....
Bonds aud stocks sold commission.
Uncurrent money bought and sold, st "
Land warrants purchased the highest rates
swEESY, RITTENHoUsE, FAINT, Co.
Dec Ann ........ .... .H...#. ..a. Bankers.
The Washington union., 1857-12-06
CABINET FURNITURE,

CHARLES =. ID. JONES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
oct 23--wr Dubuque Lo1oa,
The Washington union., 1857-12-06

A CARD.--For rent or lease, large and commo-
IA dious double house, with baths house ablng
and ornamental garden The house elegantly
central and desirable location The leased with
The furniture Tor term Of good tenant very
This property will not be rented for a boarding house
For further particulars apply to
wa WALL
Firm Of Wall Stephens n CO.
32z Penn avenue, between 9th and 10Th
Nov lI-lmif
The Washington union., 1857-12-06

DTvERNOIS HOTEL,
Pennsylvania Acenue ba,cee Seuennh and Eighteenth streets,
WASHINGTON, D. C.
newly furnished arranged the mod
and improved principle, with private apartments
for either ladies' gentlemen.
ss supplied the choicest Of wines and liquors
and other dencaces In
cold lunch from IL s'clock a. until IL, m.
22-u
The Washington union., 1857-12-06

BEAUTIFUL MEN.-Mrs. Wright announces a lecture on
Beautiful Men,, at Caruss Saloon, Thursday eve
ning with delinsation of Miss Flora McFlimsey in
character, and recitation of Buffers Nothing to Wear
The Washington union., 1857-12-06

CONSUMPTION OF Cast has been estimated that the
gas consumed in lighting the hall of the House
Representatives will be 5000 feet per hourthe cost
which at the present rates will be s26.
The Washington union., 1857-12-06

FURNISHED ROOMS FOR RENT.--A suite of
immediate vicinity Of the principal hotels Break
last required Inquire al 400 street. between
the States oce or at 800 under Browns Hotel
Pennsylvania avenue DEC 4-lw
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-04-25

"SucKERs OF THE TERM.-
The Badger State, up on the Visions,
saws For two or three ' eeks past, we
have noticed in our streets squads of hardy,
.robustious' individuals from three or four
to dozen in squad) with their baggage
slunc upon their backs, in red shirts and
stogy boots making their way due north,
for The Pineries. They come from Illinois,
and the old settlers Of Wisconsin always
bail their appearance in the spring. as the
first run Of suckers Ever since the first
settlement Of the West, the Hllnolsans
have followed the business of running RATS
from our pinerics down the Wisconsin and
Mississippi rivers; starting from their homes
at the first sign Of spring, and running up
stream. as the suckers do. 1t was from
this circumstance that they were called
Suckers originally, and the name IS now
applied Unfortunately to the people OF
illinois. The Stevens Point Pinery OF the
ID. stats that the first run had already
reached there, and the indications were
that there would be no lack of the raw ma
terial' necessary, to get the lumber OF the
pineries RATED to market this SPRING
II Madison Patriot.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-04-25

gg-In trial of strength at Troy, n
<, on Saturday, evening, Prof Carl, the
stro, gest man in America, fairly boe'
paving stone was placed on Madison bTeaSI
and broken with sledge hammers. He
held an anvil weighing two hundred and
fourteen pounds upon his breast, while two
men struck upon it with sledges; held al
anvil upon each knee; broke a number Of
sto cs with his fist, bent q bar of iron a
quarter of an inch in thickness by striking
it over his arm; held an anvil weighing
two hundred pounds upon each arm, while
men struck upon it with slcdgos. Car
did all these thing, & more, letting two mer
take hold of his hair while he whirled then
about, top fashion, until their feet strucl
out an angle of forty-fve degrees.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-04-25

The Forty IN PowERsa-liQaags-s ,'es3t.f r
penter has just returned from Washing
ton. Having failed in bis mission of keep
ing the Barstow faction out Of favor at
Washington, he comes home and reports
as follows in his paper, the Patriot:
u is well known that in company with
A score Of Democrats from Wisconsin,
remained in Washington about a month
to aid in exposing the misdeeds of the
ssFortv Thieves that we should forever be
rid Of them hereafter-and it must be no
sorious ERE this that most of our endeavors
have failed; the hopes for oar party IN the
future are vanished, and we have been
cleaned osa! The $40" find favor al
Court, while the old standby Democrats
who have never been indicted for stealing
gambling or perjuries, are permitted g
..uck their fingers at a respectable DIS
lance. There are several grand acts u
this drama, however, which will be duly
ooted as tie eurta rises befines.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-04-25

"A RECIPE WORTH one THOUSAND Dot
saas.-Take one pound Of sal soda, and
half a pound Of unslacked liine-put in a
gallon of water, and boil twenty minutes
Let it stand till cool; then drain off, and
put it in stone Jug or jar. Soak your
dirty clothes over night, or until they are
we'll wet through-then ring them out,and
rub on plenty ofsoap; and in oae boiler OF
clothes well covered over with water, add
ono teaspoonfu Of the washing fiald.--
Boil half an hour brisk ly-then wash them
thoroughly through one suds, and rinse
with water, and your clothes will look bet
Ter than the oh way Of washing twce be-
fore boiling. This is an invaluable recipe,
and | want every poor tired woman to try
1t. think, with patent wash-tub, to do
tie little rubbing the washwonan might
take the last novel, and compose herself
|on the lounge, and let the washing DO it.
self. The woman who can keep a secret.
has known this year or two, but her hns-
band told it while on an electioaeering
Itonr. So says the Ohio CnltiYator.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-04-25
Tsev Kansas is TO be Managed.

The following is said to be the admins
tralion policy towards Kansas;
The Hon. F. P. Stanton starts for Kan
sas with some regret at having accepted
the place. His ultimate aim Is the oena
torship, which was urged among the con-
sideratlons proposed by way of inducing
him to accept. In this he will be sustain
ed by the Administration.
The possibility that Mr.. Rrobert J
Walker may not go finally is not remote,
and Stanton was originally selected with
some reference to this. If the Chimes
mission can be put on the footing desired,
that is by the pledge of President to rec
ommend to Congress as an increase OF the
dignity and emoluments, Mr.. Walker CT
forts viii be concentrated in that direction
A most important feature OF the ipten
ded policy of the Administration IN nan
lsas has Just been disclosed, and is worthy
of seris.is attention. The purpose Is
wbanever the State Government shall b
oroanized under the management OF th'
hacked Pro-Slasery Convention III oePtehl
her 70 have elections ordered promptly ahS
| ,ban to direct the Territorial oiilcers t
owe way TO those of the State, and 10 ina
Condition to present themselves 10 Con
DRESS next Winter, urgently claiming az
mission upon the plea that inc uo'sln
nant which Congress created no longer ex
lists.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-04-25
vvEsaa 1t has esone-ygnat Is.s.


i Democracy" is ever on the side o Sa-
VERY. It opposed the Wilmot Pfoviso.-
1t supported The pso-sfaFafy Compromises
and the Fugitive Slave bill ID tie Gonsrgss
'Iof 1850. 1t violated the Slavery Prohibit.
ing Missouri Compromise, in 1865. Ii Be,
came the champion of the Border Rnffians
who sought, by fraud and violence, to drive
the opponents Of slavery out of Kansas, Id
1856. 1t gives its sanction to the bold
Ifllibuserisln of Walker, who is fiehtino
the battle of Slavery in Central America
l. Incorporated the whole platform of the
Slave Power into its National creed during
THE last Presidential contest, and openly
assumed position of hostility to Northern
principles and Norhren rights
The democratic" party at the present
moment occupies the position before the
country Of the sectional party of Slavery,
giving It's aid and comfort 10 the enemies
of free institutions in Kansas, and boldly
endorsing the infamous decision of the
slave holding majority of the Supren7e
Court, which nationaIizes slavery and re-.
cognizes freedom as a secondary matter
Henceforward, until this question of
Slavery exteution shall have been settled.
there will be but two great parties in this
Democratic" party of Sa-
very,and the Republican party Of Freedom.
The friends of huna9 liberty and our ma
tional honor will be found on the right
side Chicago Journal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-04-25
Mezx work regisEafEire.

The Legislature Of New York has pass
ed the following resolutions as a result Of
their views of the Dred Scott decision:
RESOLVED, That this State will not allow
Slavery within her borders, in any form, or
under any pretense, or for any time, how
ever short, let the consequences be what
they may.
Rosoz0ed, That the Supreme Court of
the United States, by reason of a majority
Of the Judges thereof having identified it
with sectional and aggressive party, has
lost the confidence and respect Of the peo-
pie Of this State.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-04-25
.Bay;srd Taylor under the Aurora
EArpaEss


Bayard Taylor has the following de
Iscription of the Aurora Borealis in a reeen
letter from Swedish Lapland:
1t was dark when we reached Ersuas
whence we had twelve miles to Old LuIeaa
with tired horses, heavy roads, and laz,
driver. lay down again, dozed as usual
and tried to forget my torments, (occa ion
Jed BY an aching tooth) So passed three
Ihours; the night had long set in, with .
clear sky, IS below zero, and sharp
wind blowing. All at once an exclana-
ton from BREASTED aroused me. | opened
my eyes, as | lay in his lap, looked upward
and saw narowshelt or scarf of silver fire
stretching directly across the zenith, with
Its loose, fray ends slowly swaying to and
fro down the slopes of the sky Present
ily i began to waser, bending back and
forth, sometimes slowly, sometimes with a
Iqulck, springing motion, as if testing its
elasticity. Now it took the shape Of
bow, now undulated into Hogarth's line
LOT beauty, frightening and fading in its
Islnuous motion, and finally formed IL shep.
lard's crook, the end Of which suddenly be-
gan to sepeFate and fall of, as if driven bvI
a strong wind, until the whole belt shot
away in long, drifting lines Of fiery snow.
1t then gathered again into dozen dane
ing fragments, which alternately advanced
and retreated, shot hitler and thither,
against and across each other, blazed out
IN yellow and rosy CLEANS or paled again,
playing thousand fantastic pranks, as if
guided BY some wild whim.
We lay silent, with upturned faces,
watching this wonderful spectacle. Sud-
denly, the scattered lights ran together, as
BY common impulse, joined their bright
ends, twisted them through each other.anl
fell in broad, luminous curtain straight
downward through the air until its fringcdl
hem swung apparently but few yards oyerI
our heads Tnls phenomenon was so I'M
expected and startling, that for moment
| thought our faces would be touched byl
the skirts Of the glorious auroral drapery.-I
1t did not follow the speric curve Of the
armament, but hung plumb from the re
NTH, falling apparently, millions Of leagues
through the air, It's fold gathered together
among the stars, and It's embroidery of
flame sweeping the earth and shedding al
pale, unearthly radiance over the wastes
Of snow. A moment afterward it was
again drawn up, parted, waved its fam
beaux and shot its lAnces hither d tiththerj
advancing and reireating as before. Any
thing SO strange, SO capracious, SO wonder
ful, 50 gIo'iously beautiful, scarcely hope
20 see again.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-04-25

THE RELIGION OF PAYING DEBTS
Men may sohislicate as they please; they
can never make it right; and all the bank
rupt laws in the universe cannot make i,
ght for them not to pay their debts
There is sin in this neglect, as clear an6
deserving Of church discipline, as in steal
ing or false swearing. He who violate:
his promise TO pay, or withholds the pay
ment of debt, when il is in his power t.
meet his engagement, ought to be made &c
feel that in the sight of an honest man, he
s a swindler. Religion may be q rery
comfortable cloak under which to hide, but
if religion does not make man IDEAL just
"" it is not worth having.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-04-25
How seaAroRs ARE MApE.-The Blu

How SENATOR'S ARE MADE.-The Bu~
chanan organs east have way of manu-
featuring Western Senators as follows:
at is generally believed that Mr.. Rice,
the late Delegate, will be one of the two
new Senators from the anticipated state
Of Minnesota, and that the contest for the
other Senatorship will be between Gen.
Shields and ex-Gov. Gofman.o
Unfortunately for the negro worsbippers
at Washington, the Black Republicans are
a medtllesome set in Minnesota aud may
give trouble,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-04-25
Not at seEg Ssssnrfsfug.


The Patriot contains letter from Mil
waukee, in which the following sentences
occur:
"The Democracy Of this city--and it il
fair TO presume Of the entire State, lookeJ
forward with pleasing anticipation on the
elevation of James Buchanan to the Presi-
Dental chair, and could dream in the fil-
ture, of the State redeemed from Republi-
can misrule and the Democratic party re-
su stated, united and harmonious. But all
has proved mere phantom. They were
doomed to disappointment"
The next sentence runs thus:
"A blow has been struck; fatal wound
made, and the true and tried friends Of
Democratic principles outraged and naset
tied by some Of the federal appointments
for this State
But the following paragraph contains
the unkindest cut of all:
''Mr Buchanan received in this city and
county some forty-6ve hundred majority
over Fremont-and now, what do we be-
hold in little over a month since he as
oumed the reins of government, the De-
smcracy distracted, divided and disheart-
ened and q Republican Judge elected by a
majority Of two thousand over his Compel
itors."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-04-25

THE KNow-NoTHING DEMocRAcT.-
TIL buchanan democratic" press are swift
to endorse, aud prodigal in their praise o.
Chief Justice TAsEY's decision IN the Dred
Scott case.
A great majority ofour foreign-born cit
izens have obtained their papers from
State Courts; probably more than nine-
teen wentieths Of them.
Let il be remembered that BY this decl-
sion. endorsed by President Buchanan aid
his Cabinent, and profdseiy laaded by the
Ihoous democrat press throughout the coun
.try every foreigh-born citizen, naturalizee
Il the State Cou.ts, is DISTINGUISHED, 50 ia
| a. to be rendered incompetent to sue 10 In
Federal Courts.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-04-25
wait tia 1862.

/ The Great Northern Hive will swarm a
gain IN 1862. Then the neyt appointment
will have taken effect. and whatever il
may BE-, whether 10000, 10000, Of
10000, Michigan will have eight mem.
bers of Congress, instead of four, Wiscon-
sin will be at least equal, Judging by the
past four years. In 1852, Wisconsin gave
an aggregate vote at the Presidential elee-
Ition, Of 67,7l2, which represents a popu-
lalion of 402,272, at that election, Mich.
gan gave an electoral vote of 2,938, rep
Iresenting a population Of 497, 628.
In 1855, Wisconsin gave an aggregate
vote of 1852, representing population
Iof 7l4,o72, and Michigan gave vote Of
1858; representing an aggregate popu-
lation 753.348. The same ratio of growth
for five years to come, would send her a
head Of Michigan, giving to each, al least
a representation Of eight members in the
Lower House.
Instead Of two members, Iowa will send
four, five or six. The vote Of Iowa in 1852,
was 35.323, that of 1856, was 80.295,
which represents an increase of population
Of 324,s32. Minnesota will BY that time
be ready to place two or three members in
the House, and at least six more will be
sent from Northern Illinois, and four
from Indiana. the increase in population
IN Illinois, between 1850 and 1856, was
39l,447, $50 per cent? and this Increase
has been confined almost wholly to North
ern Illinois, excluding Egypt, except on
the line Of the Illinois Central Railroad.
Indiana is not far behind in this respect
Her increase, from 1850 to 1856, has been
l61, 100.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-04-25

g 4 locomotive between St Louis and
Springfield, day or two ago got attached
TO the wire Of the telegraph line, which :
storm of wind had thrown down, AMI a
way it went or its course, tearing down
the poles for distance Of two mil, 6 and
keering up a most tremendous crash and
CHATTER, as one after another came tumblipg
down and we're added to the queer retinue
of the train.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-04-25
A calm, sedate, intelligent Indiar

gE- A calm, sedate, intelligent Indian,
named Mathew, is pursuing his researches
at the State library at Albany, preparing
a history of his tribe, the Mohicans, OF
whom there are now but four hundred.-
The senior Of the tribe, Metoven, resides at
stocSbridge, IN Wisconsin, and remembers
the part taken by his kindred in the war OF
the Revolution.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-04-25

SALERATus A PoIsoN.-George Sumner
said in a recent lecture, ''the excessive use
Of saleratus is cardinal cause Of Ameri-
can ill-bealth. 1t is a deadly poison, the
use of which should be Stunned as the
slaughterer Of The infant, and the destroy
er Of the strong man.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-04-25

BE- louisiana Senator was profered
a fee of $50 if he would exert his influence
for certain private bill. He imn ediate-
ly read the epistle to the Senate, when
that body ordered the bill in question to
be burnt By the Clerk in front of the CAPT
tol. which was done forthwith.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-04-25

A YASKEE TALKING LlGHrININe.-An
engine on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne,
and Chicago Railroad broke down recently,
at nine o'clock at night, nine miles distant
from Station. The conductor went on
foot through the snow to get another ma
chine. A telegrapbic operator on one Of
the cars, named Stager, (of course a Van.
kee, )hearng of The detention, got out, and
taking down the main wire from the pole
alongside :he track, cut it;"dotted the dis,
tress of the train to the Pittsburg and
Brighton stations; and putting one of the
brass points to his tongue, read the an-
swer that an engine should be immediate
" sent, and III he talked off this pleas
ant lightning to his anxious and impatient
fellow passengers!
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-04-25

Gg A letter from Vermont, one OF the
largest (maple) sugar growing states, say5
the season thus far has been one of the
most favorable for manufacturing this ar
tiele which has ever been experienced, and
expresses the opinion that the state vii
produce enough for her own consumption
with some to spare.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-04-25

A FATAL VIcToRY-The Charleston
Mercury, in speaking ofthe results of the
late SUPREME Court decision on the South,
SAYS: THE victory we have won may III
deed be glorious-more glorious because
Of the disaster ofthe engagement. But 1t
is a victory more fatal perhaps than defeat,
the forerunner of complete Subsection.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-04-25

ag.John S. Spsague was indicted at
parrIaud. Maine, for polyganly, the indlct-
,ueut charging him with having two wives.
H,s counsel proved that he hal three, and
.bns ouashed the indictment.