Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1862-03-12

NeHs tens.

The Russian Government especially
states is expenditures 1T "a, 100000 ru-
bles, aud its income at I0,o00,o0C rubles
less. "a rabIe Is about 70 CENTS.
Cotton, it VII be seen, has fallen to Fl
a % cts. pef Is. for MiddEng Uplands-a
great decline which will stop further i'm
ports FROM England. The increase in re-
caiPts of cotton from Port Royal is great
The California Legislature las passed
nrgeus resolutions against t.sxiag the gold
mines. If It were LETT for each interest to
say whether It should be taxed Of not, The
Federal Treasury might whsle fl money.
Some Of the parties Interested in the
Atlantic Telegraph are moving with the
intention Of having another cable laid du-
ring the coming summer FL is said that
decisive Improvements in the structure Of
such cables haye been made.
Messrs. Mason and Slidell appear in the
photograph shops Of Paris, by the names
Of 1fusoa and lSildeU. Fame, according
to q celebrated English commander, is ITO
have your name mis-speed in a gazette"
The more compromising class Of politi-
clans at Washington are schemng to carry
lie United States into war about Mexi-
co, with the thoroughly sneaking and dis
honest idea that the plan will serve to re-
unite the North and South.
Many rice plantations are being made at
the Sandwich Islands. Il has been found
that two crops a year, each oi nearly 1000
pounds yer acre, equal to the best South
Carolina rate, can be raised The whole
Sandwich Island crop for 1852 is expected
to be at least 100000 pounds.
The English are submitting to a ridicu-
lous fright lest the public debt Of the Uni
ted States should be dangerously increased
by the expense of clearing out Charleston
harbor after the war, which would require
simply lew days diving-bell work and
submarine blasting.
Some movements in the rebel interest
gaSe been made in Parliament, but Earl
Russell definitely declared some time ago,
to the Southern Commissioners, Mann,
Rost, and Yanoey, that England could not
recognize the independence Of the Confed-
eracy, until either fighting or negotiating
had established it at home.
A sergeant in the 59th New York regi-
ment, some time since, disposed Of his
wife, buxon Swiss woman, to captain
in the same regiment, for pecuniary con-
sideration. Tie captain has now got sick
of his bargain, and, mean man, won't pay
ANYTHING, and the case has got into the
New York Conrts The woman don't
seem to care which man she has for hus-
band.
She English Ministry has issued strin-
gent orders to keep American beligerents
out Of all British ports. The Sumter is
said to be still at Gibraltar. 1t is said
that Mason and Sldeli have offered to
England and France, as the price Of recog
milton, free trade for fifty years, abolition
Of African slaye-trading, and fleedom Of
all slaves born after recognition. 9lidell
was coldly received at Paris.
The Louisville Journal gays, that the
Collector Of tho port of Louisville will in
s future permit the shipment of such goods
Is arc intended for family use down the
line Of The Louisville and Nashville Rail
road, AID presunes, that upon the return
of the Governments special agent to the
Cumberland and Tennessee rivers, the
same class Of goods will be permitted to
90 forward in that direction. This indi-
Gates tba policy Of the Government
Trade will be opened with States in rebel
lion just as fast IS tle people return to
their allegiance.
1t is nov pretty extensively known
that Col. Scctt, Gen. SCOTS son-in-law
but not his ielative, was proven guilty Of
communicating to the rebels information Of
our military movements, and that in a
consultation Of the members Of the Ad-
mih&tfation, Il was concluded not to have
him shot or hung or tried for treason, Iit
sent 7a.e away out Of the country. This
was il Difference to his father-in-aw and
shows plainly enough that no harm viii
happen in any event to the person of jeff
Davis, or any other rebel, provided he has
taken an influential part ia she rebellion
IF he IS only solder or farmer, be
may DO shot or cfippled or robbed
and ruined. If he is a manager, be will
be respectfully conveyed to Europe.
CT al couple Of peor and handsome