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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-01-02

ESCAPE OF NEGRoEs-BLooDHouNDs
ON THE TRAcK.-On Monday night last.
while the tailor, Mr.. Robert Haines, was
waiting upon Mr.. VIM. Smile with bis
supper, two negroes, escaping from their
room, ran down the hall, and before Mr..
IHaines had time to arrest them, escaped
at the door, and took their way acros, the
fields towards Port Gibson. Alarm was
Immediately made,and mounted horsemen
secured the respective roads from Fayette
to Rodney, to Natchez and Port Gibson
while a pack Of hounds were also dispatch
ed for, and about three hours after the es.
cape of the negroes, were bowling and run
ming on their trail. The negroes held
their distance with remarkable energy ant
endurance, and were not overtaken unit
after a race of about twenty-five miles
when they were caught neal the residence
Of DR.. Magrudee, about two miles east 0
Port Gibson. They left Fayette aboat
o'clock on Monday night, und about !
O'Clock on Tuesday they were returned tc
Jail, rejoicing for a spot whereof to lay
down. even be it the naked floor OF a cell
The strongest and most desperate of the
1.-TWO excused himself on the pretence tha'
he couldn't resist the temp tation to run
laway. and the other dashed out after hin
to catch him and bring him back.-J jeff
erson Miss Journal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-01-02

ate a disastrous aud sanguln
ary civil war seems to me most preposter
Gus. Not a drop of blood has been she(
by the federal troops in Kansas during my
administration but Instruction thro'out the
territory was alone prevented by the course
pursued by me on those occasions, and the
whole people abandoning revolutionary vi
~oIence, were induced by me TO go for the
first time into a peaceful and general cleo
ton. These important results constitute
"a sufficient consolation for all the unjust
assaults made upon me on this subject. -
| do not understand that these a~ssaulte
have ever r~eceiveJthe slightest countenance
from the President. On the contrary, his
message clearly indicated an approval OF
my course up to the present most unfortu-
nate difference about the so-called Lee
compton constitution. Inasmuch, however,
as this difference is upon a vital question.
Involving practical results and new i~nstruc-
lions, it Is certainly more respectful 10 the
President, on my part, to resign the Office
OF governor, and give him an opportunity
of filling it, as is his right unler the con-
stitution, with one VINO concurs, rather
than go tc Kansas aud force him to re-
move me- for disobedience to his instruction.
In my iudgnen! it would be incompatible,
with proper respect for the chief megis-
trate of the Union, inconsistent with the
rules Of M ,ral rectitude or propriety, an
could be adopted with no advantage to
the rights Of he people.
(Signel,) ROB'T ]. WALKER.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-01-02
To RoBr. J. WALKER.

NoRTH-EAsT MissoURI.-The settle
ment of CLARK, Scotland, Schuyler, Knox,
Adair. Putnam, Sullivan, Mercer and liar
rison counties, is very rapid. We under
stand 10000 persons have moved to
these counties since last spring. The large
prairies, formerly regarded as a barrier tc
settlement, are being thickly populated
It has been but a few years since these
growing counties were a vast wilderness,
s~narsely inhabited by a handful OF hardy
@nioneers aud hunters to-day the nine coun
ties will number a population of $4,000
souls. while neat and thrifty villages are
ABUNDANT, the whole country dotted ovei
with substantial farm houses, school edit
cas- mills and churches, and the glad song
If The honest yeoman is heard instead Of
the wild whoop of the savage, and the
busv hum Of trade takes the place OF desc
la,;on and barbarism. Such is the spirit
of the age, and true yerification Of tn
onotat,on. hat westward the star OF en-
pire takes It's way
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-01-02
Southern wisconsin Railroad.

We are in high feather, we are elated.'
We feel good. Why? Go with us a few
rods towards the southern portion Of abe
village, and we will show you two pa rallel
iron rails-leading to the east and co.,
Meeting with all hes roads-over which the
strong engine with its ribs and muscles Of
non anu steel, is hereafter to play back
and forth like a weaver's huttle, fetching
and carrying its load of men and merehan-
dise.-[Monroe Sentinel.
The formal opening to Monroe has not
yet taken place. The Sentinel makes the
following prediction az the amount Of bust
ness to be done at Monroe:
We make the assertion, which we will
prove by.and,by by the figures, thatMonroe
will be the heaviest produce station in
Wisconsin. 1t is a strong assertion, wo
know, but not overgrown, when it is con-
sidered that there will b. tributary to this
market alone over one hundred and fifty
ty.six square miles of territory, all we'll
settled and improved.
~ Id AiapaFna, on Tic iia"Sufo'ioh vi
the Governor, an oath is administered that
he will abstain from the luxury Of duel
inc. during his term of Office.
rNMr. Tiemann, the newly elected
Mayor of New York, is a native of Penn
~sylyania. He once carried on the red and
white lead business In Pittsburg.
GgThe New York Freensdn's Journal
(Catholic) says Of Senator Douglas posi-
tion: .That at any rate, is the ground the
whole democratic party, North and South,
must keep or commit suicide"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-01-02
How America is Ruled.

Negroes have ruled this sosernuenr
long enough. Since the days OF James X
Polk, they have, through their masters.
dictated the course of each successive fed.
eral administration. In all the slave
states they have uniformly dominated over
the interests of white labor, and driven the
lpoorer classes off to new lands TO seek
homes. They have controlled the power
both of the purse and the sword. They
have plunged he nation into wars of con
quest to make room for their expansion,
aud to enhance the value of their labor
The annexation of Texas, the seizure Of
California, the Gadsden purchase, were all
done in obedience to the behcsts of the
slave oligarchy, and when white men ven
tured to flock to the Pacific shores, there
to find a brilliant commonwealth of their
own, the south threatened a dissolution o.
the union unless slaves were permitted TO
enter and compete in gathering the golden
Treasure. More recently they invaded the
territories of the west, and the nation is
even now rocked 10 its center with tides of
passion, because they cannot displace the
white race there in order to make room
for the negro. Even the supreme court
has fallen into their hands, and the rights
of sovereign states are threatened with in
~vasion, hat slave colonies may be planted
in their midst, and free citizens made to
keep watch and ward over this preearious
property. We say, then, that negroes
have ruled this government long enough.
1t is time that the white race-the men
of Anglo-Saxon or Teutonic blood-had
come into the succession. =! Missouri Dem
0crat- IL 49, -
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-01-02

ILLINOIS AND IowA-{Ir 0 Tar
Not long since one of our merchants, be-
ing in Chicago as a witness On a case o.
"obtaining goods on false pretences" was
capiased and placed in the debtors prison
This was done on a Saturday evening,
when it was too late for a trial that night,
and our merchant was thus prevented from
reaching his home where a sick wife called
him. On Monday last the stables were
turned and the parties (being in this city,
notified that a suit would be commenced
against them in our Co. Court, by the lst
of Jan. next, laying damages at $4,000
They have now got to fight it out here
where they cannot have everything IN Their
own way.ITLyons Mirror.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-01-02
MY WHISPERS

Somebody has revived the memory 0
one Of his juvenile declarations by tn
following parody:
You'd scarce expect one of my age
To smoke cigars and look so sage,
And if l should a moustache wear,
(Although the harris. rather spare)
DON'T view me with a critics eye
Bnt pass my little whiskers by.
Big aches from little toe corn grow,
Long boards from downy faces flow,
And though my beard is short and young,
Offender growth and lately sprung,
Yet all the whiskers in the town
Once existed but in down.
But why may not Edgar's face
Become like Others of his race,
Exceed what Van and Frank have done,
Or any man beneath the Sun?
Where are the whiskers far or near
That will find a rival here,
Or where's the man scant five feet high,
Who has more fuzzy beard than |?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-01-02

BAD AND Coon TAsTE.-Gov. wise, o
Virginia, has so strong a dislike Of ths
Yankees that he would not appoint a day
|of Thanksgiving; but the Mayor OF Nor
'folk-remarking, perhaps, the merciful ex
Iemption of thai city from disease and 'ne
charity which came from the North to thu
suecor of its people in their hour oi trial
had no scrupIes,and the Norfolkers observ
ed the 26th as a day of thanksgiving ac
Icordingly. y
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-01-02

SpuRaEoN ON BosNErs.-The Rev. Mr..
Spurgeon was.iately advised says theEdin-
bnrgh Review, to preach against the pre-
vailing folly in heal gear. As he took
his place on the platform, he paused, look
ed around him, and said, Il have been re-
~ouestei to rebuke the bonneis of the day;
but. upon my world don't see any, a.
zinc in front of The ladies', he could not
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-01-02

A DANGERoUs DocuMENT.-The Louis
vile Courier says that "in these times, so
pregnant with Black Republicanism, the
hold Judge Douglas had upon the South
makes his speech a dangerous document.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-01-02

SNAKE BIrEs.-Since writing our artl-
Gle an insect bites, we have noticed, that 9
child was bitten in the arm by a rattle
snake. 1t was bound up in wet ashes; nc
III results were observed to follow. Wins
kew was swallowed freely. But as spirits
have been known to fail signally in suct
cases, we may attribute the cure to the al
kali Of the ashes and water Hall Jour
nal of Health.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-01-02

On The Death of Little lido,

Little lido, far away,
In the realms of boundless day,
Look down on thy babeless home;
On the lonely ones that mourn
Often in the Silly night,
From thy starry home so bright,
Look upon the loved that weep,
Come and bless them while they sleep
Tell them, in a ~love-lit land,
With white robed angel band,
Little lldo's sporting gay,
God cares for him day by day.
NaugEt can weary, naught can harm.
Shielded by the Sayior's arm
Tell them, ali is gladness there,
All is pure, bright and fair.
Tell them, there is naught but love,
In thy happy home above,
Tell them up beyond the star
Little lido dweils afar,
With a crown upon his brow,
He is sporting even now.
Little lido while they sleep,
Come, and hess thy loved that weep.
;rove Home, Dec. II, 1857.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-01-02

A TERRIBLE FIGHT.-A terrible fight
occurred one night last week between a
fine blooded stallion and a jack, belonging
TO Major JAS. II. Webster, of this county,
which resulted in the death Of the former.
The lack literally lore n Of the horses
ears out by the roots, and then seiziug him
bv the throat 0 made a finish of him.
LColumbia Is. ca Mirror.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-01-02

WA Jolly doctor says that people who
are prompt in their payments always re-
cover from sickness, as they are good chs
toners and physicians can't afford to lose
tbor
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-01-02

Gg-"My brethren" said Swift, in a
sermon, "there are three sorts of pride
of birth, of riches, and of talents. shall
not now speak of the latter, non of you
being liable to that abominable vice."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-01-02

T1aJDITY.-It is said that the President
can manage all the distinguished men
i visit him with the ease OF an oil
|sebool,naster,b but the presentation OF a lady
Iat the white house .shorswoggles" him at
once. He looks out the window, bites
his lips, signs, and goes through a peffecl
I~sweat, while in the presence of a p%ettleoat
How curious it is there is Brigham
Young surrounded with 'em and not abb
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-01-02

Gy At a public sales of books the auc-
%tioneer put up "Drew's Essays on souls
which was knocked down to a shoemaker,
WHO, to the great amusement ofthe crowd.
ed room, asked the auctioneer if 'he had
any more works on shoemaking to sell"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-01-02

Hon. WALTER D. McINpoE,-The
Plover Herald thus disposes Of the story,
industriously circulated by some of the
Sham Democracy, that Mr.. McIndoe and
his friends had not cordially supported the
Republican ticket at the late election:
We are informed by gentlemen who
were at Wausau on the day Of ~election,that
the Republican ticket was we'll sustained
by Mr.. McIndoe and other leading Re
publicans-they not only voted but work
ed. The result at this locality shows the
fact. there were nearly four hundred votes
polIed, and the Democracy had but one
majority for Governor. We like to sec
.honor given to whom honor is due
We have this to say, but in no unkini
spirit, that if all the leading Republicans
in other parts of the State had gone to the
polls and done their duty as Mr.. Mclndoe
did, the whole Republican ticket would
have been elected; and in conclusion We
must be permitted to remark that Demo
Gratis have looked to the wrong place fo'
treason-the highland Regiment was nev-
Ier known to falter.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-01-02

LADIES SKArISG.-We noticed q con
pany of ladies and gentlemen skating or
Lake Monona, last Saturday afternoons nd
were surprised at the grace and pimbleness
of the former, who equipped for the occa-
sion, managed their footing most almira
bly,. They were costumed something af
ter the Turkish or Bloomer STYLE, with
tasteful velvet riding caps on their heads,
and elegant skates attached to their feet,
moving in genuine skating fashion.
There is no more healthful exercise, and
zone affording better sport, either for la
dies or gentlemen, than skating, and as ii
was the rage among the fashionables 0
Boston last winter, it will no donbt become
popular here after its once fairly started.-
Madison Argus.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-01-02

Forney'sPhiladeliphia Pressdoes not like
the sort Of warfare commenced by the
Richmond South upon Senator Douglas.
It urges chat Douglas "whole career is
crowded with victories won for the South
1t appeals to his support of the annexa-
lion Of Texas-his championship Of the
Fugitive Slave Law his "defant attack
upon the fanatics of Chieago"-his late
campaign against. Northern palpits and
presses"-as "a record Of bright deeds
which ought to be forever remembered by
the Southern people"
1t is bad!
Forney mutters thunder, and warns the
South in large capitals, saying:
'sThere IS a point beyond whtch for
bearance may cease to bea virtne. 1t
HAS BEEN REACHED, GENTLE
MEN OF THE SOUTH"
s Do not make the plea that you
have no time to read. Your family need
IA good paper. 1t is a bond of union II
the family. IL ihsures you a welcome
home when you return from the Post VI
flee, AMI fixes home habits. Your boys
will have no desire to roam in the streets
and the daughters prefer home quiet, to
the dance and dissipation attending it
Some one will read the paper if you dc
not. But we know by experience, thai
the man who subscribes for a good paper
takes time to secure the worth of his money
and he does too.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-01-02

Gg A little daughter Of the Rev. L. G.
Hay, who WAS born in India, where frost,
ice and cold weather are unknown, upon
waking up in Indiana, and seeing the snow
that had fallen over night, exclaimed,
.Oh. who has painted the ground"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-01-02
Conn saae C is Ming-The Purse
is Stronger than the Scepter.

40 D<AOA9tA = oC1RtOA
Henry Ward Beecher, in his nervous
style, thus shows how much more powerfully
a commercial panic now affects the world
than a war does:
"a bank explodes in Ohio; then a line
of banks gives way in Pennsylvania. 1t
shook lhe continent more than all the can
nonade Of Sevastopol. Next, the banks
of New York suspended. All business
stopped. Society was tremulous from top
to bottom! The tidings are borne across
the ocean. That wonderful Islaod, whose
top is narrow, but whose base is broad as
the whole earth, began to culver, and that
silent panic brought her down quicker than
an axe brings the OK! Var could not
make her plumes CULVER; but Commerce,
by a look cast upon the ground. And it
stands apparent to the world, by the great
est demonstration, that Commerce has
supplanted War, and is its master. The
Generals sword, the Marshal's truncheon,
the Kings crown, are not the strongest
things. The worlds strength lies in the
million hands Of producers and exchanges.
Power has shifted. No matter who reigns
the Merchant rules. No matter what
the form Of government is, the power of
the world is in the hands of the people
The Kings hand is weaker than the Bank
ers. War cannot convulse the world
but Capital can.
There are undoubted evidences of the
advance Of the world in true civilization
Within the last ten wears the most extra
ordinary wars and civil revolutions have
taken place on the globe. Once such a
combination and movement as we have
but lately beheld, would have affected tie
whole globe with terror. Since the French
Emperor put bis bloody foot upon the steps
of the throne, there have been set on foot
the most wide spread combinations of gov
ern%nlents, the most prodigious armies and
Gayies. such az turn the historic Armada
into a mere affair of yachts. Once the
glohe would have trembled to the footsteps
Of such an unparalleled war! So much
did the spirit Of the past dwell in military
that a hundred or two hundred
years ago, such a thing would have drawn
with it the worlds nerve, and blood, and
But now all Western Europe
rose up, and the world did not Tefnble.-
All Russia gathered together, and the
dill not feel it. ANA the pounding
of war in hat gigantic conflict disturbed
the world as little as a thresher's fail upon
the barn-nnor disturbs the firm earth be-
it. Not even the nations that car
riod such battle i'll their hands thought it
heavy. Great Britain took but her left
hand. Not a wheel stopped in her man
nfactories. Not an acre the less was TILED
ia France; and the world upon this side
read the account simply as nevs. It pro-
luced no more effect than the last serial
story that drags its long and tedious tail
through the cheap AMI studied magr-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-01-02

THE LAST WoRD.-The last word is the
most dangerous of Internal machines
Husband and wife should no more fight to
get it than they would struggle for the
possession of a lighted bombshell. Mar
RED people should study each others week
points, as skaters look out for the week
parts Of the ice, in order to keep off them
Ladies who mary for love should remem-
Der that the union of angels with women
has been forbidden since the flood. The
wife is the sun of the social system. Tn.
less she attract, there is nothing TO KEEP
heavy bodies, like husbands, from flying
OF into space. The wife, who should
properly discharge her duties, must never
have a soul above trifies. Don't trust toe
much 10 good temper, when you get into
an argument. Sugar is the substance
most universally diffused through all nat
ural products. Let married people take I
hint from the provision of ne lure.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-01-02
.,poarANT Faom WASHINGTON.
RiglatieH Of Gov. Walker.
WAsH.NGToN, Dec. II.

he following is the letter of RI. Walk.
the Office of Governor of
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-01-02

AGRICULTURAL AND POPULA-
TON OF New YORK STATE FALLING OFF.
The New York State census shows a
considerable relative decrease in the agri
cultural and laboriug population of the
State. From 1850 to 1855 there was a
falling off of the farming class of nearly
lone-eleventh. In 1850 there l74,66O la
borers; in 1855 only 115,S00. In 1850
there were 52,so4 engaged in various de-
partments in the mercantile profession; in
1855 there were 65.432. In 1850 there
were 1858 in the learned professions; in
1866 there were 1890. The figures also
show a relative diminution in the number
Of dwellings in he city and State. These
facts prove that the people have been de-
s%erting these normal, productive pursuits,
which are the very life's blood Of a nation,
and have been ov~ercrowding the more su
perluous and speculative pursuits which
derive their existence, to a great extent,
from the industrial community, and which
can be dispensed with far mere readily
than the different branches of productive
industry. Men have too much forgotten
the idea of labor and a home, and have
rushed into financial speculation, with the
hope of becoming suddenly rich. This is
what has caused. to a great extent, the
present revulsion. This desertion from the
ranks of industry, necessarily causes a ma
terial advance in all the products Of indus
try. At the present time, the fields of la
Dor are the only true spheres for a sound
and healthful reward to labor. Prices are
depressed just at present, but they will ere
long rebound again, and industry and en-
ergy can find no safer quarters now, than
in the productive fields of labor.
FoR THE SCHOOL CHILDREN-How Ma.
NY OF THEM CAN READ T?-Mister Edit
or: Will q X cuse me if Pen u a : OF
2 or 8 lines, 2 let U know I've Isl rate
lux g. have found the gal that fills my |,
IL U may Dpend she's Mira and more &
all, I've got married and keep house p
U no | sed I would tell q all about my
wife when ] got !, & now I'm going q
Wal, sir, she's 2 H some for me,-that
is, | dod,t desRve her but bless my **#*
We got her. Shes notl z OF Ur NJ.
IT. headed wimminn that r 2 often 2 B
found; she's not 2 young, nor 2 old; she's
lust Xxx. She's chok full Of N R G but
not 2 swift, plenty of grit without N V.
Her is R bright but not 2 sharp, she's
moderately plump & not 2 much 0 Bet.
u need not think this 2 my wife 2 Xtra,
for | nor U can't find her in his 5 of the
country. It did not take me long 2 pop
the - I didn't edge along by 600, like
some timid thing, but kun right 2 to the
Iouestion in less than a second. Says T.,
l.Wil B Q me a loving wife? She said,
I.Yes sir E. Then says she, will you B
2 me l O B D ent huzg q seq | yes'm,-
so we 2 became Life Illustrated.