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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-11-21

ROMANCE IN REAL L1FE.-The Worces
ter Spy states that a few days since al
Irishman named Michael Smith, was sent
10 the state Almshouse at Monson, togetll
err with his four motherless children by
MIR. Bannister, clerk of the Worcester Over
seers of the poor. Yesterday morning, =
fine looking Irish lady called at Mr.. Ban
%nister's office, stating that she was from
Charleston, S. c., and was in search of a
brother whom she had not seen for eight
years. She stated that her husband was a
planter, Of large property, and that she
had heard that her brother had lost his
wife, was poor, and in this section of the
country. She said his name was Michael
Smith. Mr.. Bannister pointed to his rec
or!s and showed her the name of her
brother. She was overjoyed and sat down
and wept, SO deep were her feelings. She
stated that she left nine trunks full OF
clothing at Providence, which she hal
brought on for the supply of her brothers
family, and she should take them all home
with her, where her brother could be en-
ploved upon the plantation other husband
while her own attention should be directed
10 the education of the children. The lady
,ook the next train for Manson, and has, ere
this. communicated the glad news Of relic!
to her brother.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-11-21

The DEsrRoYER.-The fate OF the gift
ed Haskell Of Tennessee, should be a warn
inc to all Young men. He passed through
Louisville last week, in charge Of friends,
on his way to tie Llnat;c Asylum at Lex
inoton. While on the Frankfort cars he
arose, and in the most eloquent and pa
thetic terms appealed to the gallant Ken
tuckians, among whom he was, to protect
him from the relentless enemies he llnag-
ined were pursuing him. He became SO
excited and violent that his friends were
forced to e~onfine him. The career OF this
gifted but unfortunate son Of genius should
be known for the reasons " hich it teaches.
From his earliest boyhood, says the Nash
vile Banner, he has shown himself possess
ed of the highest order Of talent. While
at College he distinguished himself as Il
poet and an orator. His graduating speech
is spoken Of by those who heard it as wor-
thy Of the immortal Prentiss in his pallniest
Idays. He served his country on the bat
tie field and in the halls Of Congress. 1t
was bis residence a. Washington that con
I6rmed upon him those unfortunate habits
which finally blasted his intellect. AT
one time he broke the fiery serpant from
bis hands aud dashed it TO the earth
Ito make his own reformation, complete,
and aid in lifting up others who had fallen
Hike himself, he Wen through tue State
lecturing on temperance. The tour was
IN emlnently successful and brilliant one.
his lectures being fully equal to those Of
Cough. whose elo4uence has electrified
thousands in this country, and IN England
Bnt his old habits gained the mastery over
him again, and his subsequent life has been
but a fearful struggle between his appetite
aud his ambition; Il struggle IN which, 1t
must be confessed, his apl,etites have gen
~eralIy triunphed. So great. indeed, was
his craving for artificial sliinulents that
even while delivering his temperance lee
lures. he made use Of drugs sufficient IN
Quantity and potency to burn out the Vi
tails of an ordinary man. There was no
Isubiect whether ancient or modern, grave
or CAV, upon which he did not converse
with f1uency and elo~luence. lie passed,
with the most careless ease, from the pro
foundest disquisition upon the doctrines Of
the Bible, the religion Of Confucious, or the
Bacon;an philosophy to the highest litera-
ture of the day.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-11-21

INDIA.-India is a country that has pcV-
er belonged to it's natives. Two thousand
wears q Alexander ami his Greeks led the
dusky captives in golden letters from there
to Athens. After him it became the prize
of Parthian bows and Scythlan spears
Then came Mohammed and his Perslans
from Ghuznec, to teach, by sclmetaF, t e
new theology, Allah il Allah, and Mo
hamrned is his Prophet" Then the Afsans
drove out the Persians. Then the Tartars
drove ont the Afgans. Then came Iimour
the terrible Tartar, and the long princely
line of Great Moguls-Biber, and Akbar.
Jehangire and Aurangzebe. The Mognl
Empire got, like the British, too big tt
hold together. Down went the throne a.
Delhi, and up sprang a crop of Viceroys'
Nizams, Kings, Shays, Rajahs, Newoub-
and Nabobs, all over the princes. About
this time Fl. b. Nj. East India Company
came to trade and stayed to rule. By ca
iolirp one Prince, threatening another in
vadinc a third, and protecting" a fourth
they rot the whole concern into the hands
of John Bull. and the lion and the unicorn.
If the Sepovs succeed in securing a Hindoo
dynasty now, i: VII be The first they ever
had.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-11-21
VIM. Fl. BELcuER.
AS TLLIrERATE NoBLEMAN.-Lord Wi

Az ILLIrERATE NoBLEMAN.-Lord Will
liam Paulet, though often Chairman Of
Committee Of the House of Commons,
was a great Ounce, and coald scarcely read.
Having to read a bill for naturalizing Je-
Duchess of Kent, he called her
Jeremiah, Duchess Of Kent" A gentle
man writing to desire q fine horse he had.
offered him any equivalent. Lord William
replied that the horse was at his service
bat he did o know what to do with the
elephant. A pamphlet called The Snake
in the Grass" being reported probably In
joke) TO be written by this Lord William
P~aulct, a gentleman abused in it sent him
a challenge. Lord William professed his
innocence, and that he was not the suthor
but the gentleman would not be satisfied
without Il denial under his hand. Lord
William took q pen, and began-"This Is
TO s~eratify that the buk called the Snak-'
"Oh, my lori" said tie person, 81
am satisfied; your lordsiip has al
ready convinced me you did not write the
book"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-11-21

The MONSTER GuS.-The Monster gun
of the United States corvette plymouth
weighs 10000 pounds avoirddpois. II Is
covered with a coating Of verrnillion and
bceswax, and therefore has a red instead OF
the usually black appearance Of 4 slips
guns. The heavy Dahlgreen guns have
two vents, which facilitate their rapid and
safe firing. The weight of each shell they
discharge is about 1876 pounds, and that
of each solid shot ia pounds. The sound
of the she'll and shot trayersing a distanc..
of three miles, is lost in the enormous space
which it traverses. One popularity ofthe
Dahlgreen gun is it's enormou strength
and thickness where the greatest force OF
the powder is expended. in experiments
made 30 test the strength Of these gnns.
one Of them had been fired off nearly 1000
times, with a large proportion ofsolid shot,
without bursting.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-11-21

GEThere is a high old deacon at Watt
kegan, who stands six feet six inches in
his stockings, extremely pious, methodical,
not over benevolent, a man of few words
and a very hard cheek, and although rigid
in enforcing family prayers, was never
known to say grace at any meal IN his
life. His pastor, rather an odd stick him
sell, was one day questioned: Why Deacon
Q. never asked a blessing? Don't really
know was the reply 'but you know he
ISN'T much given to asking for anything,
md it's just like him to reach up and take
IL ~
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-11-21
The Slave Section Of the KANSAS
Constitution.

The following article on Slavery has
been adopted by the bogus Kansas Con
stirutional Convention:
PREAMBLE.-The rights of property are
before and higher than any constitutional
sanction, and the rights of the owner Of a
slave to such slave and its increase is the
same and as inviolable as the rights of the
owners of any property.
SEC. lst. The Legislature shall have no
power to pass laws for the einanci patton Ct
slaves, without the consent Of tlleir owners,
or without paying their owners previous
to their emancipation, a full equivalent in
money for the slave SO emancipated. They
shall have no power to prevent immigrants
10 the State from bringing with them such
persons as are deemed slaves by the laws
of any one of the United States OF Terri
tories, so long as any person OF the came
age or description shall be continued in
slavery by the laws of this State: Proyi
ded that such person or slave be the bona
fde property OF such immigrant; and pro
vided, also, hat laws may be passed To
prohibit the introduction into this State OF
slaves who have committed high crimes in
otherStates or Territories. They shall have
no power to oblige owners Of slaves to treat
them with humanity, to provide for them
necessary fool and clothing, to abstain
from all injuries to them extending to life
and limb; and in case of their neglect or
refusal to comply with the direction Of
such laws, TO have such slave OF slaves
sold for the benefit Of the owner or own
ers.
Sec. %. In the prosecution of slaves
for crimes of higher grade than petit larce-
ny. the Legislature shall have no power
to deprive them of an impartial trial by q
petit jury.
SEC. 81. Any person who shall mali
%ciously dismelnber or deprive a slave OF
life, shall suffer such punishment AS would
be inflicted in case the like otfense had
been committed on a free white person,and
on the like proof, excep; in case of insar
reclion of such slave.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-11-21

THE RICHEST MARION IN TIE WORLD.
total amount of importations o.
specie and bullion into England for the
frs: nine months of 1857 is stated as fol
lows:
From Australia, 9~8.472,3oo; from tire
United States, e6,l82,4o0; from West
~(nli.s, M.xi;>, g., el,953.6)o; total,
e20,865,8 00-about one million pounds
greater than for the same period Of the pre-
ceding year.
England receives, hen,about Sl35,0oo,-
900 of specie annually. And this money
is the earnings Of her capital, her manu-,
features and her commercial marine
England lends money to all nations, sells
gools 20 all nations, and carries goods
in ships for all nations. But Eng|ands
capacity to do all these things, Is possess
ed in a far greater degree BY the United
States, and England's wealth will, in the
end, be transcribed by ours.
But With such enormous annual re-
ceipts Of specie, why may not England
now send us s25,oo0,0oo, without harm
ing herself?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-11-21

PRgacHING AND PRAcTIcE.-A worthy
clergyman in this city, following the prac
lice Of his ministerial brethren, recently
preached a very earnest discourse on the
hard times, enforcing the duty OF retrench-
ment and economy Immediately after
church the congregation took him at his
word by holding a meeting, at which his
salery was cut down from $1,000 to $500.
IN. Y. Post
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-11-21

A MOVE IN THE RIGHT DrREoTIoN.-
THE Wholesale drug dealers of this city,
Eave issued a circular to their country Gus
tOmers, stating that the following articles
b their trade, will be sold only for 'eash
o. delirery::"
Linseed OIL. Camphene,
Lard Oil, Spirits Turpentine,
Lamp Oil, Alcohol,
White Lead d Zinc Burning Fluid.
The credit system, as it has been mis-
fsed, has been the curse of all sound bnsi-
PCS, aud the present Revision is teaching
lhat no house is strong enough TO stand q
ffedlt business. The whole country would
Pc an Immense gamer of nine-tenths if the
ffeditS could never be renewed. 1t alike
runs The city, and the country merchant.
{hnd the farmer too.- Milwaukee Wiscon-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-11-21
TBanks create no real money, NJ

re- Banks create no real money, no
cold or silver, nor ANYTHING that will pro
luce them abroad. They create no val
and add moth ng to the demand for la
Dor, or TO the products or wealth OF the
community; but they create debt, initiate
nrjees. furnish machinery for speculation,
and expel gold from the country, to make
room for their own debt, and gain interest
thereon. They do not. and cannot make
any PERMANENT addition to the carren-
CT.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-11-21

INTERESTING TO CoSDUcToRs.-A. &.
Johnson, Of Mt. Vernon, Illinois, recovered
a Judgment against the Illinois Central
railroad company, in the circuit court OF
Union county, lately, for heavy damages,
for putting the plaintiff off the train al
night, some two miles from the station
Johnson had a 500 bill, the smallest,
and the conductor would neither change
the money, nor allow the plaintiff to ride
to tho next station where he had friends.
but dumped him down in the dark. The
court decided that a passenger as a passen-
qer, if he behaves himself, ever if his fare
is not yet paid. The conductors reason
was simply that he thought the money
counterfeit, and as the "tall young fellow
had on a white beaver, and bad the note
in question, he supposed him 70 be a gam
bier, and didn't care about hauling him
ANYHOW !"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-11-21

The WEArHgR.-When you wish to
know what the weather is to be, 90 out and
select the smallest cloud you see, keep your
eve upon it, and if it decreases and disap-
pears, it shows a state of the air, which will
be sure 10 be followed by fair weather; bat
if it increases in size, you may as well take
your great coat with you if you are agsine
away from home, for falling weather is not
far off. The reason is this:
When the air is becoming charged with
electricity, you will see every cloud attract
ing all lesser ones toward it until gathers
into a shower. And on the co~ntraty.when
the fluid is passing of, or ditfusing itself,
even a large cloud will be seen breaking to
pieces.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-11-21


HE KEPT REsuAISo.-The Missouri
Democrat ie accountable for the following
anecdote of a T,crsevering Dutchmen i'll
Louisville, who kept resuming" as fast as
he could "realize." He evinced a good
spirit which might to profitably followed
by some who are not Dutchman:
At the height of'he panic an run upon
the banks and bankers in Louisville, a Ger
man banker ofthat city, named JohnSmidt
found that he had paid out all bis money,
and that he was compelled to stop. In,
stead of Writing a earl for publication, he
announced his. suspension by = handbIll fixed
to his Office doors, in which he said he had
no money on hand, but he expected in a day
or two 10 make some collections, and that
he would then resume payment. Accord
in2lv, in a day or ~t"o,another handful APP
peared on his doors announcing that he ia
collected some $4,000; which he wouisi
pay 10 those of his creditors who should
cali on him for il. THIS was soon paid Out
and the first hanlbill again displayed, AM
in a few days he announced that he had
collected some more money, which he was
ready to pay on demand. This manly and
straightforward course had the effect which
was 10 have been anticipated. His Ger
man fellow-citizens seeing that John Snldt
was in earnest about paying his debts, and
was not disposed to higgle for an extensions,
concluded he was "a nun who ought to he
sustained, and accordingly calne forward
AM deposited the sums they had Withdrawn
and induced Others to do the same thing.
He was doing a peri ct land office business
anu was able to assist those who were IN
want, by the money Of those TO whom his
pluck had given conf lence.
The banks and bankers of ST. Louis,
who have SO long and cou~rageou~ly main
tanned specie payments, in the face of all
the panic, and after the fall Of the great
metropolitan city Of New York, deserve to
be sustained by the people, to whom they
have proven true, as John Smldt was by
his countrymen in Louisville.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-11-21
n BIZ hop Hughes, in a sermon to

w Bishop Hughes, in q sermon to ms
Pensioners, repeated the quotation that
sAil flesh is grass" The season was
Lent. and a few DAYS afterwards be en-
couniered Terrence O'Collins, who appear
ed to have something on his mind. "The
TOP o. the morning to your reverence, said
Terrence; did | fairly understand your
reverence to say, .All flesh is grass last
Sundav?' TO be sure you did" replied
the Bishop, '.anl You are a hereto if you
aonbt It." ..Oh, divil a bit do doubt
ANYTHING your reverence says said the
wiIv Terrence; shut if your reverence
phases, | wish 10 know whether. IN TINS
Lent time, | could not be after having
a small piece of bafe, by the way OF q
saladg"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-11-21

A CALIFORNIA ExHIBIrIoN.-Asout
twenty of the most incorfigibie thieves in
San Francisco were recently exhibited or
he Plaza BY the police. The exhibition
vas face, and was we'll attended by as
nanv as three thousand citizens. The
.ogues were fastened two by two to a
which extended about thirty yards.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-11-21

BRrpGE OWES TIL WISCONSIN ATPRAIRIE
mn Cn1Ex.-1his bridge Is at last compile
lsa at Borrett's Ferry. ltconsists of ttifee
spans OF one hundred and sixty-ive fee
each. with a draw at the north end, of So
feet more. So says the Lasder,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-11-21

ESTl II is said that the new Democratic
tecret political organization known as the
molly Mcguire Party" is composed of
Calholics, whose Ultimate object is t, rev.
plal;onize the country and establish the
Nalhoie religion. Brownson, the enown-
Fl Jesuit, Is the reputed father of the CON-
pact
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-11-21

likes to own u good COW, buL people do not
always agree in what really constitutes 3
good cow. Some cows will give a g~eat
dow Of milk during the year, and then fall
of greatly, while others will be more nsI
form a greater part Of the year. II is
evident that the latter is the most prefta-
bic, and therefore the better GOV. A wri
ter in an exchange paper, (and we are scr
ry the nane Of the paper has. escaped US
gives us the following definite rules or fig
ures as constituting a good cow:
"a COW that will average five quarts of
milk a day through the ycar,makiag 1925
quarts, is an extraordinary good COW. One
that will yield five quarts a day for ten
months is a good COW, and one that will
average four quarts during that time is
more than an average quality. That wo'd
make 1900 quarts a year, which at three
a quart, is $36. We believe the
Orange county milk diaries average about
$40 per COW, and the quality Of the cows
is considerably above the average of the
country. 1t is as important to keep a COW
good as it is to get ner good. This cannot
be done bya careless lazy mixer. Always
milk your cow quick, perfectly clean, and
never attempt to counterfeit nature by tax
ing away her calf. Let it suck and DON
BE afraid it will but her TO DEATH 1t vii
distend the udder, make room for the Sc
erection of milk. Be gentle with your COW
and you will have a gentle COW. Selec
we'll. feed well, house well, milk, and you
COW will yield well.".- MaineFarmsr.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-11-21

MAN.-We take the following rich NOR
sal from one of Dow, Jr.'s, short paten: SER
mons:
"Man looks upon life just as he looks
upon women-there is no living with them
and he can't live without them. He will
run after them, and rather than be heid,l'e
will lose his coat tail and characteristics
them for leading him into trouble. So with
life. He partakes of It's pleasures, and
curses it for its pains; gathers boquets of
bliss. and when their blossoms have faded
he finds himselfin possession Of a bunch OF
briars, which is all owing TO little incident
that occu red in Paradise, when man was
AS green as a tobacco-worm, and as unsus-
nieio,ls as a tree toad in a thunderstorm
He was told 10 increase and multiply, and
50 accordingly increased his cares, and PEG
pled the world with Il parcel OF candidates
for periition. and [ ain one OF them.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-11-21

s- An old writer ,avs pithily ard sugg-
,es,iyely: .sThere are countenances tar
aora indecent than the naked form Of the
fe licesn Vsnus-"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-11-21

,Cass fs1e @yssfp sR Chinese Sugar
care be ssgaaEssased into Sugar.
This is now the great question with all
those who have raised the cane. Recently
the editor of an agricultural paper in south
'ern Illinois, has applied to Wm.H. Beicher,
the distinguished sugar %refiner, for his ex-
perience in grannlatmg the syrup Of the
Chimes uga cane. 1t will he perceived
that he thinks that it cannot be done:
"Ofice of Beicher's Sugar Refining Co,
St. Louis Oct. 26, 1857.
DEAR SR-Yours Of the Esd, making
enquiries relative to my experience and
success in graduating the syrup of the
Chinese Sugar Cane, is received, and l
have carefully noted your remarks.
/ have made some experiments with
the syrup but have not succeeded in gran
uiating it,and | very much fear thatf 1t aoiN
pyoue a failure so for as sugar making is
concerned, and if it will not granuiate, the
syrup does not contain a due proportion of
cane sugar.
l ara not prepared to say that %refners
would buy The syrup of the Chinese Su-
gar cane to any extent unless it would
granulste. Some large fields Of this Cane
has beeu planted in South Carolina, Geor-
ola, and other Southern States, with a
view of testing its sugar making quail.
ties, an if they do not succeed in granl-
lating to syrup into sugar, you may be-
gin to doubt its virtues as a sugar pro
ducing plant.
VIM. II. BELcHER.
IN. B.-A Louisiana sugar planter
made this season some seventy five bar
rels Of the Chinese Cane syrup. | have
seen his report; he could not g%ranulate
and some barrels of this syrup from Louis
lana came to the market. The color was
COOL bit the taste slightly acid-not SO
sweet as the syrup or molasses of the sugar
Icane-and | am under the impression
that it would ferment rapidly in warm
weather.
Yours, w. Fl. B."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-11-21
Ladies who love practical jokes vii

~ Ladies who love practical jokes viii
Ienioy the following:
TaE ELECTRICAL KIss.-Tbis amusing
experiment is performed by means Of the
electrical stool. Let any lady challenge q
gen leman not acquainted with the exper
finent to favor her with a salute. The la
DIV thereupon mounts the glass stool and
takes hold of a chain connected with the
prime conductor. The machine then being
set in motion the gentleman approaches
The lady, AMI Immediately he attempts to
imprint the seal of soft affection upon her
coral lips, a spark will fy in his face which
generally deters him from his rash and
intention.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-11-21

Gg~ A woman's life was curiously pre-
served by her husband, in sStaffordshire,
lately by the process Of TRANSMISSION. She
lag at the point Of death. when, as a last
resourse, a wien was opened il her arm,
and in one arm of her husband, and as the
blood flowed from the latter it was rams
mitled by suitable apparatus into the veins
IF the wife. After seventeen ounces had
been thus injected, the pulse became per
ceptible, aud the colorless lips redeemed.
the CLASSY eye frightened, and she thank
fully said, 81 am better" The case has
progressed very favorably, and the wolnan
is. recovering.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-11-21
HleH RATES OF INrEREsr.-The Banl

TIrGH RATES OF INTEREsr.-The Bank
f England has raised its rates to s per
cent, the Bank Of France TO = per cent,
and the Bank of Hamburg to 81 per cent.
In view Of the recent doubling of the
general rates of interest in Europe, it be-
comes a question whether the legal rate
in this State, I per cent, is not lower than
what capital is fairly worth. Strange
that the great increase of late years of the
amount of coin and bullion, should thus
have produced a corresponding increase,
instead of decrease, of the rates Of interest.
We suppose it is in consequence Of the
immense impetus given by the abun
dance of capital to the busiIess of the
world