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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-12-01
WHINING.

The Platteville FITNESS has resumed It's
whining about local matters. The Fitness
editor attended the sitting Of the County
Board. and could see but little to approve; ]
could sec much jealousy brewing between
towns; could see sectional feelings; could
sec county division; asccrtained that near
" half the members wanted the comfy dis
membered md the county seat made TO
scatter and follow him away from lancas-
ter; imagined that because membes OF the
Board exhibited friendship towards him
they must be on his side and growl like
him and want the county divided.
He was Mortified in talking with the
members about the state Of things; thought
it impossible that enough tax had been lev
led; thought there must be a cat under the
meal; examined the finance report and
found things right--contrary to his hopes
and expectations; wanted a vote taken on
division; thought it could do no harm !;
wanted the Legislature raemorialized fol di-
vision; members Of County Board thought
him crazy; dashed into the several offices
to see what would be the cost Of transcrib-
ing records; smelt a rat; got snipcd several
times; threatened to call convention to
take into consideration the state Of the
Union; alarmed at the prospects Of peace:
thought ms eminent services for party and
public poorly appreciated; members Of board
complimented themselves on their own ablI-
lily to manage this 1gttle5at 7itmouse Of
the Witness, and more Of the same sort
returned to bis official post; wrote three
editorial articles on the evils he saw
Preserving enough scalding stock to write as
many more.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-12-01

ny-The value Of produce y the crop o.
go, sent east from Chicago up to this time
is S50,ooo,o0o. Probably as much more
has been forwarded from other western
marts; yet, not even half the surplus CROP
has been parted with. Then comes up the
hog crop for account, and something for
oats, hay, potatoes and corn, Which articles
viii be in heavy demand for the Southern
market next spring.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-12-01
CHICAGO MARKETS

Wheat-Northwestern Club, roc; No
/ Spring, se1; No. 2 Spring. "a.
Flour-DuIl. Spring extra, $5.l5.
Corn-3lc. for new.
Oass-l7to Is. Barley SOC. Lard lo4
Hogs Live hogs average about $500
CattIe-Priees Of live cattle range from
50. 80 to $500. Dull demand
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-12-01
Tma PRESIDENTS MESA Is.

Congress will assemble on the first Mon
day il December, and the Presidents Mes
sage will doubtless be sent in the first day
of the session. With regard to the forth
coming document, the Washington cores
pendent Of the n. Y. Tribune says: "Its
main features, after i review Of the foreign
policy during the last three years,wilI be in
reference to the present attempt at disun-
ion. So far from fayoring these schemes,
or being pledged to secession, as alleged by
Mr.. Keitt am others, his whole argument
viii be directed 20 overthrow any such as
sumption, and to establish, by historical
facts, that the contingency was not only
never contemplated, but was expressly for
hidden by the concurrent declaration Of
the trainers of the Constitution, and the in
depreciation Of themost eminent expounders.
Mr.. Buchanan has always held this theory,
and, perhaps, viii take peculiar pleasure in
announcing it now under sense Of public
duty, and for the purpose Of striking an eff
fectiye blow at the conspirators who have
never exhibited lie least recognition Of his
services to the South, or any sense Of com
mon gratitude forthe sacrifices made by the
administration during the Kansas contro-
versy."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-12-01
gsTThe entire deficiency of mail

GEThe entire deficiency Of mail ro-
ceipts over the cost Of carrying the mails
10 the Southern States is annually $4,000
600. Last year, owing to the miserable
Of mail affairs in the North
ern States, there was Northern deficiency
Of 100000; previous years the receipts
always exceeded the expenditures in the
North.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-12-01
WISCONSIN BANKS


Most Of the state stocks pledged BY the
Banks of Wisconsin as a basis for their
paper are Southern Stocks, principally OF
Missouri, North Carolina and Tennessee.
We have beard it said that Southern
Stockswere always preferred BY former
Bank Comptroller as being in his opinion
sounder and not 50 liable to fluctuate in the
stock markets, We presume his prejudices
for the negro and hatred Of free white la
Dor were at the bottom Of his notions.
This foolish prejudice Of the Comptroller,
it is understood, had much to do in under
Icing our currency with southern bonds.
However, we are ia for ii, and there is no
use Of whining Southern stocks are
down, and just as liable to remain down as
to rise. The stocks Of Illinois Banks are
mostly u. s. stocks and Northern State
socks, and Of course are good, although
the paper Of Illinois is cried down for the
present as low as Wisconsin paper, which
shows an absurdity. There IS ten to one
more danger Of Wisconsin paper than Of
Illinois paper, although in our opinion the
paper Of either state is as good as any Ii
the Union.
The present raid against Wisconsin and
Illinois banks is mere speculation, begot-
ten in Wall Street. The stock and ex-
change dealers have the democracy every
where on their side to blow for them; il is
the resultof an agreement among rogues,
some to speculate ON stocks and money,
some to speculate in politics, the ammuni-
ton of both being secession and disunion,
neither of which is desired by them, only
to scare people and coerce Lincoln into the
camp of the Union savers and fusionists.
When these rogues fall out, as rogues al
ways do, then honest men will get their
dues; the banks viii be right, Lincoln viii
be President, wheat viii 60 up, higher than
ever pork viii 60 up and secession and
disunion 60 down. Farmers, hold on to
your wheat and hogs till after the panic
makers and sccessionists play their games.
They can't eat money nor smash the Union.
Let South Carolina howl, and let the panic
makers deal in financial damnation till they
70 hungry and naked--then feed them on
wheat and hog at higher prices than ever.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-12-01
THE STATE JOURNAL AND THE FEEDER
AL COuRT.

1t has long been understood that the
State Journal belonged soul and all to the
Federal or Judge Miller and Judge Howe
persuasion branch of the republican party
at least that such Federal branch held a
two-third's ownership in the concern, and
that such Federal connection was repre-
sented in the persons Of Atwood and Ru-
blee, Harrison Reed dissenting. The signs
Of wayering are, however, Of late, clear and
highly interesting. One of the strong ar
guments of j. B. SMITH, who has of late
been publishing series of articles show
ing the domineering Of NIiller's family
court, through the Milwaukee Peoples
Press, appears in the Journal with patri-
otto Endorsements. The accompanying in
dorsement Is evidently from the able pen of
Harrison Reed, but he doubtless had the
concurrence Of his partners Atwood and
Rublee, SO far at least as TO be allowed to
commit the Joaraq1 against Miller's court
] bis accession to the heavy branch Of the
republican party Of Wisconsin, embracing
at least seyen-eights Of thewhole, is highly
satisfactory to the enemies Of Judicial ty-
ranny throughout the State. We think the
Journal has left Judge Howe to honl, aud
Millers family court to do its own grind
ipo
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-12-01

EE-The Governor If South Carolina
will not recommend in his annual message
an unconditional secession, but will back
out decently BY recommend ling the purchase
Of arms IN view Of some future treason
stephens Of Geotgiais canvassing thatstate
against the traitors, and is appealing for a
Convention to be composed Of delegates
elected fresh from the people. He says
the leaders in the seccssiop movement will
be taken and hung ifthey commit an overt
act, and a vast majority Of the people Of
the South viii say amen, just as the North
said when John Brown was hung.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-12-01
AN lLLloNIsAN ABR DAD.

Edmond About, in his new book N
/" King Of the Mountain" gives the follow
inc account OF a native Ilinoisan-Jon
Harris known TO many Of the citizesS
the Southern part Of the State:
"The first time tlat saw this trsDn
fellow | compieheuded America. Jim
was born at Vandalia, in Illinois. He h.
hailed at his birth that air Of the New
World, SO viyaeious, 50 sparkling and %
brisk, that it goes to the head like cham.
p igne wine, ind one gets intoxicated d
breathing t. | know not whether th
Harris family are lich or poor; whether
they sent their son to college orleft hnb
get his own education. 1t is certain that
At twenty-seyen years he depends only On
himself, trusts only to himself, is astonihd
at nothing, thinks nothing impossible, uey.
er fiinches, believes all things, hopes al
things, tries all things, triumphs in all
things, and rises up again if he falls, b.
gins again if he fails, ncver stops, never
loses courage, and goes right whistHng bis
tune. lie has been farmer, a schoolmas
ter, lawyer a journalist, a gold-hunteE a
manufacturer, a merchant; he has read
everything, seen eve ything, practisedeveyl
thing, and Travelled over more than half The
globe. When Imsde bis Acquaintance b
was commanding steam yacht in the
Pirseus, with sixty men AMI four guns; be
was discussing the Oriental question in the
North American Review; be was dong
business with an indigo he u Calcutta
and he found leisure to conc three or 6n
times a week to dine with u.s.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-12-01

GE The remarkable number of suicide
that have aiken place lately has greatE
occupied the attentionof psychologists ani
Psychologists. NJ. Bierre dc Boismcnt b.
lately read an essay upon general ParaIyS
and its premonitory symptoms. ThesynP
tom to which he attaches most ;mPorlang
is Q complete change in the habits an
character Of the person attacked. Wn@
an individual who, naturally gentle and p
tent, becomes subject to fits Of violent y
ger, or Il person sincerely christian andg
pu-e morals, assumes a strange liberty
thought and manners, we shall not once
a hundred times deceive ourselves i
take thee symptoms as prognosiIc' =
disorder Of the brain, which viii sooD"
generate iuto general paralysis.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-12-01

EgFor tue present, Wisconsin and lli4
inois paper is rated in New York at II 70
II per cent. discount. Exchange on the
East varies from three to twelyeper cent
This late political, secession, WalEStrcet
panic is the most successfully played hum
bug ever offered to a crowded house
Let en- rip, subject only to thsconstitution
and navigation laws.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-12-01

TON MARsHALL.-The Cincinnati h
quirer thus notices this drunken, insbH
ated cx-member Of Congress and talented
Orator:
A red-faced, blotched-nosed, diaph
ted individual. who answered to the name
.ot Thomas Marshall, was before the 20
ice Court yesterday morning accused Of
drunkenness. When asked what be bad
10 say for himself, he made an attemp! 70
palliate the otfense, attributing it to an at
tack Of rheumatism, making an eloquent
appeal to the Court for clemency. POa
Tom, a descendent of one Of the most tal
ented families in Kentucky, the time wa
when, as Senator from that State, thl
walls Of its Legislative halls rung with BY
eloquence; but that time Las passed, ana
we lind him now 9 poor, degraded vags
bond. How hath the mighty fallen!
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-12-01

G.s John Gordon, James EnTight and
Bill Mulligan, three celebrated fighters and
rowdy democratic politicians q New York
City, have just received their sentence and
been sent direct to the pelitentiary fl
ticket swindling.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-12-01

gg-The commercial chambers Of Eng
land report that the deficiency Of wheat to
Sc supplied after the Sd Of November is
100000 quarters, which amonnt wien
imported will answer till next harvest.
Large quantities Of wheat are being ship
ped to England from New Yerk since the
late decline Of price ia this country.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-12-01

IMPORTS AND ExPoRTs. Since the \
Of January the imports Of dry goods S ~
general merchandise RI the port o. ~
York has been S204, 100000, a9sl.
s20s,835,929 last year. There has ~ I,
a con parative increase Of Exports thl8 "A,
in the same time Of Sl9,3ls,4V0. /
comparative decrease in the exPon, In
specie, during the same time, has -
$22, 1854.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-12-01

TIE EFFEcr.-No Southern money ID
taken at any price east or west, except Mis-
souri,, Kentucky and Maryland paper. The
paper Of all States wavering in the least on
the disunion question is being sent south ;
and no credit is allowed to southern dealers
except in the States named. Cotton is
Gown 70 lower figure than for many yeais,
and an insuficiency Of breadstufs is com
planned Of from Virginia 70 Texas. A
Georgia correspondence New York rner-
camille house, writes that near half the ne
grocs of the cotton States are offered for
sale IS per cent. below prices ruling in Sep
tember, and that lands have fallen in pro-
portion, while money is scarcer than known
since 81. Good, stout laboring men,
blacks, viii be hired at the usual time,
(Christmas) at $50 TO $40 per annum, me-
chanic's at $50. Corn is worth $3.50 per
bushel. Starvation appears inevitable
among the poor whites.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-12-01

EBThe Panona Miss. Star reports
that a planter Of that State called or Mr.
Lincoln few days APO and in course 81
conversation, said to him:
suppose, Mr.. Lincoln, South Carolina
should sccsae!" "Why, my dear sir" said
Lincoln. q am States rights secession-
lists, and if South CAROLINE goes out Of the
Union, she has q perfect tight to dteo, and
| shall not Interfere with hsy exercise 81
such right she will ask for admittancc to
tie Union long, long before | ask her even
to return"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-12-01

IS The New York World Of Sat-
urlay, figures up Lincolns majority in NeS
York 1T 5l,l41. 1t says chat the complete
returns increase the Republican majority
IN nearly every county.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-12-01
IOWA coUATY DoAnD OF sUpEnvlsoRs


Our venerable neighbor, Iowa County,
is composed Of fifteen Towns and Wards,
each Town and Ward being represented in
tho County Board by one Supervisor, ma
king fifteen personal pronouns Of the first
person singular on every unanimous ques-
ton. Some years ago, in the days Of un-
atuitefated democratic triumphs, when no
man could see deep enough into futurity to
read in the next chapter which treats Of
Honesty tie best policy" Iowa County
was poorly offcered-just as Grant viii be
after a succession of Republican party tri-
umphs, unless our as oirants are watched
mighty closely. Regular salaries and legal
fees were insufficient IN those days to re-
munerate official mercenaries; resort was
had to oyer-issuing county orders and o,her
certificates, all regularly signed and sealed,
thus holding the. county bound for pay
mont Of paper for which nothing had been
rendered or received. No account had
been kept Of such false issues. nor indeed
of any genuine orders and certificates, so
that the county authorities were never able
to discern the true from the false. Tho re-
suit was that Ill had to be redeemed. The
county debt very soon overtopped Platte
Mounds, bat only the shadows thereof
were visible in the form of interest, for the
whole debt had been funded and certifi-
Gates Of stock issued in the usual style, the
interest Of which stock we believe over
shadows the county to this day. Osertop-
ping all came the 100000 Of railroad
bonds, voted to be taken BY the people and
supervisors of that county in aid Of the
Mineral Point Branch Railroad The in
terest on this debt also overshadows the
people Of that county, and the matter has
got into litigation somehow; we believe the
lawyers Of that county who were instru-
mental in creating and engineering the
bonds have now turned round and proclaim
unconstitutional and Illegal the entire issue
of bonds; modern democracy always has
way Of making anything constitutional
and then making it unconstitutional TO suit
circumstances. Regarding the matter Of
Iowa County Bonds, tue following resolu-
ton, passed unanimously at the late meet
ing Of County Board, explains itself:
Resolred, That in the opinion Of this
Board, the suits in which the County is
engaged with the holders Of the Iowa Ca.
Bonds, should he prosecuted with the ut
most rigor; and that for that purpose the
sum of Five Thousand Dollars be and
hereby is appropriated.
Iowa Comfy pays bounty Of SIS on
wolf scalps; also pays her District Attor-
noy $500 per year and CLERK Of the Board
500.
Iowa County tax Z mills % the dollar
FOR this year, which is some less than last
year,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-12-01

EgWhite and light colorol cloihiD s,as
chat which i best adapted for al ssD
md climates Of The world. Dark colost
orb heat III the summer when il i uol NJ, nsF
q, aud radiate heat Ia the wiaser' WIZ
needs 10 be husbarded.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-12-01

GTIt is supposed from Latin ln. y. (.
ton found ia newly discovered ca'y \
Florida, that this country was lnhaO'Fa \.
visited by Europeans in the eleventh ~ :.
fury, and consequently our country J, Il
known to the people Of Europe before
discovery BY Columbus.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-12-01

s-The New York Banks. under the
new central arrangement for suppressing
the crisis, discounted ss.ooo.0oo to.
5s,0o0,ooo on Saturday last and were 4 L
70 keep on At the sare rate for twenty
DAYS.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-12-01
gg-LincoIns official majority in u

Eg Lincoln's official majority in Wis
consin viii be about q 900. Sloans ma
iority over Larahee Tor Congress il about
5000. Potter's majority over Arnold p
500, and Hanchett's majority over Rey-
nsFt mar be $4,000
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-12-01

a9T The rout in Minnesota Of the De
mccracy has been almost Overwhelming. -
Ont Of II Senators the Democrats hAv
but 3, and Of AZ Members Of the House.
they possibly have 8, but pro5aolynot more
than 2,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-12-01

~ Lineolii's majority in New York is
believed TO le 1927; Morgan's majority
for governor i 64,oo0.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-12-01

PERsIsrs.-The Crawford County Coar'
ricr persists in saying that Judge Larabee
is dead, which is certainly not the case.
We suppose however that the Coasler
means that t.arabce is a goner, political
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-12-01

gE Tie people IF Illinois have .., 's
fol a Contention to revise the Coisu'''
Of the State,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-12-01

WARSAW, NO., Nov. 81.
A messenger reached here to-day bring
ing the following dispatch, which has been
forwarded to the Administration at Wash
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-12-01

Sr. LOUIS, Nov. 81.
A special dispatch to the Democrat Gays !:
The border expedition under Gen. Fross is
encamped near Smsthton, the terminus OF the
Pacific Railroad, awaiting orders from the
Governor. kumors are current 10 Jefferson
city that the Governor hes ordered the troops
to return in consequence Of the President
having given orders to General Harvey to
pursue and arrest Montgomery wherever
found.
Another probable report 10 that tho troops
will remain in camp for the present, and .
small mounted squad under competent oom-
mAnd, to be sent ia the neighborhood Of IT.
Scott to report to headquarters with all
possible epeed the movements OF tho troops
to be 10 accordance with official information
brought back.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-12-01

The last statement OF the Wisconsin Banks
will be found on the BscUnd page. The Wis
oonsin Law 10 better than that OF Illinois, for
the reason that the Wisconsin, Banks are
bound to redeem their issues under penal
ty. 1t is humiliating, but the truth may 90
we'll be told, that Wisconsin currency in eur
own city has borne . premium for tho past
week or ten days over that Of Illinois Of
from to per cent. Exchange in Milwau-
kee for Wisconsin currency has been cheaper
by about the same figures. This is . condi-
ton OF things which We again call upon our
Legislature TO remsdy.[Chioago Trib., %.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-12-01

WARRINGTON, Nov. 81.
The Treasurer's Report will be brief
business document, merely rehearsing the op
erations for the fscal year, without making
any special recommendation. The condition
OF finances will be its must interesting fea-
ture. Immediate relief for the Treasury
upon the mseting Of Congress- will be neces-
sary to save the department. from actual sus.
pension. Tbs warshousng system 10 found
to be = great drawback IN the Treasury, at
= tune IKE tho present, when large quaint
ties Of merchandise can be stored and pay
ment Of duties withheld. This experience
has satisfied even MIR. Cobb that it ought to
be abolished.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-12-01
From Washington.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.
There has been no official notification con-
oerning the reported resignation Of Chief
Justice Tansy, - far ~ can be learned
There 10 certainly no such information 1t the
Attorney Generals Office.
By the recently ratified treaty with the
Kansas Indians, the intrusions on their lands
have been adjusted. These Indians are now
concentrated within defined limits, outside
OF which the whites will be undlsturbed. A
few intruders are still on the Usage Reserva-
ton, but notice has been served to them to
remove thefefFem. TIE intrnders on the
Cherokee neutral lands have been forced to
vaoate them through the energy Of the Com
missioner OF Indian Affairs.
Horatio King has returned from family
visit to Maine, and not, 40 enormously re-
ported by some Of the newspapers, from a
visit TO Hannibal Hanlin.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-12-01

CHAkLssToE, Nov. &c.
The city 10 quiet to day. The members OF
the Legislature have mostly gone to Column
bia. The regular session opens Tonight
Tho Governors Message will be read on
Tuesday. 1t is rumored that troops are
coming to Fort Moulsric. II IL now evident
that none will be sent to the Convention an
less strongly committed to secession.
CoLUEDiA, Nov. &c.
The Legislature has just read for the first
time bill to arm tho Safe and to raise
100000 for that purpose. Tenders Of aid
fIon other States continue to come to the
Governor, and so strong and universal is the
feeling that the moment the command shall
have been given, 10000 soldicrs within her
own boundaries, from the mountains to the
sea will came forward to the defense OF
South Carolina, and they would oil sooner
die or see the State subjugated province,
than pAssiveIy submit to continuance Of
Northern Entertainments on her rights.