Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-11-20

IN moDtn tnan MS taxes amount TO lE
whole year. Swivel is the type of a large
family-a gentleman who mistakes cigar
smoke for logic, and who runs away witFI
the idea that swearing at Eard luck will
overcome the drawback connected with in
dolence. as3
One EFFECT OF THE ASSESSMENT Law.
The new assessment law requiring
sworn list of taxable property. has had its
effect to call out the following document
from one of the interior tow:as:
E-B-lIst for 1857, fA'8
To 35 akers of land worth $4,000
House and barn nothinatal only a place
WHARF theafes and ROBBERS brake into and
steels all put into them.
NV head which people see must put in
which is so weak and febel is worth moth
Iinatal.
| III wife is no use TO me ata.1j' and she is
CORN all the ifffi5 nolhinatal. ~
: 1e sbeape D a2,oo
One old tom Cat a}Is 81
One Kline half prise ,er~3 l2t
| OK GESDER.-Puneh slanderousy says
'lhe sun is called masculine from his
supporting and sustaining the moon, and
finding whercwthal to shine away as
she does of a hight, and from his being OBJ
liged to keep such a family, of stars. s. The
moon is feminine, because, she is constant
y changing, just like Ship blown about
Iby every wiad. The Church is feminine:
because she is married TO the State; and
Time is masculine because he is trifled
with By the ladies'"
DINNER TO SENATOR .HAMMoSD.--The
Charleston Mercury publishes report of
the proceedings Of a meeting at Beech Is
land, ON the occasion Of a public dinner to
Senator Hamm md. The gentleman's
speech was of curse the great. feature
In speaking Of the relations OF, the North
and South he takes the following posi-
tons: $780,.
l. That if we were well out Of, the IN,
ion, with our Constitution and political
institutions established and acknowledged
the South would be more prosperous than
she is now, or seems likely to be, in the
Union. ,..,,,...v,, ay,,-f So
2. That W. are not likely to dissolve
the Union until some very substantial is
4 sue is made, viz; the North ruling US by
a confirmed sectional majority, or a re-
Inewal Of the tariff, banks, DC, or direct
tampering With our slaves, DE, .ezraN
3. That we have already achieved great
victories over the North, and that, if we
would unite, and stand firmly, watchfully,
with our arms in ORDER. on The sConstitu-,
ton, truth, justice, and our rights, with
lie alternatiye Of q. dissolution, there ia
reason to feel confident that we can not
only sustain ourselves in. tke Union, but
control the country, and through il the
world.
4. That the South should review. nj.
nutely and analvfically the, ground of the
prevalent opinion that we, want expansion
/ of slave territory, and should also ascertain
whether the thing be. possible for the
South with our limited supply. Of slaves,
which the Senator intimates that ne is adj
verse to increasing by re-opening the
slave trade, and which ne regards as
wholly impracticabe
EE The general impression is that the
emigration to the Kansas Gold Region
will be immense next spring, and the Sta
Louis Demo Graf reniarks that it, would
not be at all surprising if a delegate from
Lamarie Territory should be asking for q
seat on the floor Of Congress before the
end of 1859. The new Territory will Of
course exercise Popular Sovereignty q
la Kansas, and thus we shall have anoth,
er Free State to hold the slavery propa-
gandists in check
GERRIr SMITH's VorE.-Mr. Smiths
vote in fifteen counties in New York, a.
mounts to 2,l76, and he will probably get
5000 in the State. His apprehension.
that Mr.. Morgan would draw off enough,
votes to defeat hin, seems to have been