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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-01-06
New Capital Completion Of Vest Wing.


Messrs. Monkey & Harvey, the coptsact
ors for building the west wing Of the new
Capital, have completed their contract,
the work has been accepted and they have
been paid.
An appropriation Of 100000 Tor t his
purpose was made during the session Of
1861. The following spring proposals
we're received for doing the work. Messrs.
Moxley q Harvey, Of this city, were the
lowest bidders, proposing to execute the
job for $4,000. AS the east wing, which
is somewhat less in extent and in other re-
spects not involving as much expense in
its construction as the new wing, cost over
100000, many predicted that the con
tractors would not be able to do the work
under their bid, and that they would pre-
sent large bill for extras to the Legisla-
ture.
Mr. Harvey informs us that they have
completed their contract, TIL they have
paid everything, and thai they have no
bill for extras TO present to the Legisla-
ture. All that they contracted to do has
been done within their c. ntract, and they
ask for no additional pay.-MadisOn
Journal
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-01-06
sg-Tbe present house Of Representa-

GE-The present house Of Representa-
tive viii, it's said, pass resolution instruct
ing theClerk, when he calls the list oil mem
hers at the opening of the next session, to
call the name of no person who alleges he
has been elected from District not now
represented in Congress. This is to pre-
vent number of men who may have pro-
cured certificates Of election" from the
Southern States from coming lin and or
ganizing the House in cooperating with
the Democrats. 1t is also claimed that the
House has the only right to say whether
men have been duly elected from the re-
bellious States, anI until they do they
should exercise none Of the rights ola mem
Der.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-01-06
Farmers Boys.

The following article, which we find in
the Valley Farmer, we commend to the
attention OF every farmers boy. Parents
should also point it out to their sons, and,
II necessary, read it to them carefully, and
then hand the article over to them, without
comment, unless the remarks be of mild,
pleasing nature:
9ln the wide world there is no more i'm
portant thing than farmers boys They
are not so important for what they are as
for what they will be. At present they are
OF little consequence 100 often. But farm
ers' boys always have been, and we pre-
sumo always will be, the material out OF
which the noblest men are made. They
have health and strength they have bone
and muscle; they have heart and will they
have nerve and patience; they have ambi-
ton and endurance; and these are the ma
terials that make men. Not buckrams
and broadcloth, and patent lea her ard
beaver fur, and lid gloves and watch seals,
are the materials of which men are made.
1t takes better stuff to make man. II is
not tat and flesh, and swagger and self-con-
ceit; nor yet smartness, nor fippancy, nor
foppery, nor fastness. These BOYS make
fools, not men, not men such as the world
wants, nor such as it will honor and bless.
Not long hair, nor much beard, nor a
cane, nor a pipe, nor cigar, nor quid Of
tobacco, nor an oath, nor glass of beer or
brandy, nor dog or gun, nor pack of
cards, nor novel, nor a vulgar book of
love and murder, nor tale of adventures,
that makes man, or has anything to do
with making a man. Farmers boys ought
to keep clear Of all these idle, foolish things.
They should be employed with nobler OBJ
jects. They have yet to be men of clear
grit, honest, intelligent, industrious men
men who shall love their country and their
kind. With tie means they possess how
easy for them to be in fact first class men.
They have land and stock and tools; they
have health and time and mind; they have
schools and churches and papers; they have
books aud peFse yerance, and the heart and
hand for work. More than this they need
not. Let them awake and work and read
and study. 1t is not all work, nor yet all
study, that will make them men of the right
stamp. They must work intelligently, and
study with an earnest purpose Of being ben
Gifted, and then they will become what
they ought to b., the real men of the
world"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-01-06
HEADQUARTERS EASTERN ARKANSAS,
HeIena Ark De-. II. 1862.

The following IS a list of casualties in 20
G, I'd Wis. Cavalry:
George B. Blakesley, died at Jefferson City
May 3lst, 1862.
James w. Jones. died at Mound City, Oct
7th, 1862.
Vim. ] Cooper, died at Helena, Ark,
Aug. 18th, 1862.
Edward D Gulick, died at Helena, Ark,
Oct. 9Th, 1862.
Peter E Hueson, died at Helena, Ark,
Sept. 9th, 1862.
Lindsey Kee, died at Helena, Ark, Sept
2Sth, 1862.
VIM. G. Murray, drowned May 10Th, '62.
Francis L. Pember, died at Helena, Ark,
Nov. 18th, 1862.
Edward Stonebouse, died at St. Louis,
May 18th, 1862.
Isaac N Londun, died at Keokuk, Iowa,
Oct. 10th, 1862.
John Farris, died after arriving home at
Fenninore. have not been apprlsed
of date. NJ w. WOOD.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-01-06

FINANcIAL.-The debt of the country
(frauded, audited and foating) is, in round
numbers, S9000C0,O00. The. floating
debt is at present as large as can be car
ried; hence the requirements Of $I5,000,-
600 per week must be met, step by step as
weeks pass away. With the end of the
rebellion plainly in view, and its duration
limited, the confidence aud enthusiasm of
the people could berelied upon to furnish
the required amount. on fixed or stock
loans, at prices within some bounds of
reason; but with no such pleasing prospect
it would be financial disaster unparaIlel-
led, to reply upon direct and simple borrow
ing.
The disaster would not stop with the
Government, but it would run rapidly into
a commercial and financial reyulsion sweep
inc down the very pillars Of the money
market on which the Treasury now rests.
The Secretary Of the Treasury must
have the power to use Bonds, or Treasury
Notes, or Certificates of Indebtedness, or
Deposits, or Currency, each and all, and
be must use from time to time, just which
viii meet best the emergency. Any ma
chiHery less complex, any powers less COM
prehensive, will throw up rank growth
Of doubt and suspicious that will over
whelm him, and hasten a commercial and
financial disaster Thompson'S Reporter.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-01-06

Gov SEYMOUR understand tha
Governor Seymour has rendered 10 Mayor
Sprague, Of lie United States army, the
position of Aajutant- General. We are
further informed that in the letter inviting
him to assume the duties Of the office,
Governor Seymour expressed his desire to
have some one to fiji it who will act IN
harmony with the Federal Government
and whose practical acquaintance with mi
itary affairs will enable the State OF New
York to maintain the proud pre-emnence.
she has thus far held in the work OF
maintaining the Union and the Constltn-
ton. The tone ofthe letter indicates any
thing but the purpose Of obstrueting the
war, which has been ai,sibated to Goyerno'
Sey our by some Of his political friends as
we'll as msay of his opponents Ne"
York Times.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-01-06
8ates Of 9obertisillg.
Latest War News!
FnrelLe,ilIe. Ark. dec. 2l.


Additional particulars Of the raid 10 Van
Buren, have been received. sEstt
Our army was 1 0 miles this side of Van
Buren, yesterday morning, and would bi.
vouac on the mountain top last night
and expected TO reach Prairie Grove again
to day. o1e
Gen. Scbo6eld joined them few miles
hey oud the foot of the mountains. The
steamers Frederick, Violet, Key West,
Ross, Erie, Douglas, No. s and Van Blu
rem, with their cargo of grain and proyis-
ions for the rebel army were burned; also,
large amount Of army stores.
Tie rebels burned their arsenal and fer
ryboat at Fort Smith, 10 prevent them
falling into our hands; also larses quaint
~ of forage and provisions on the opposite
bank Of The river
a general coniagration was il progress
when our forces left. Many deserters came
INTO our lines who report that two regi-
ments of Missourians stacked their arms q
few days ago, crossed the river ard went
home Another regiment Of Mssourians
left short time after, taking their arms
with them.
Two regiments Texans also stacked their
arms ard started for home. A regiment
Of cavalry was sent in pursuit, but instead
Of arresting joined the runaways.
Everything goes to show that the rebel
army Of the Mississippi is completely
disorganized.
The Arkansas river is at boatable
stage, and the country bordering on the
river from a point % miles below Van Blu
rem to Little Rock is well provided with
forage and food to subsist an army.
Our troops are in splendid spirits, hav-
ing accomplished most daring and sue
cessful raid without the loss of asingle life.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-01-06
Improvements in Farm Machinery.

Ii is feature OF the FIRST importance in
the agriculture of this as well as other eoun-
tries, that the improvements in agrcultur-
al machinery are receiving so much atten-
ton, and accomplishing SO much of real
practical benefit to the farmers. This fact
alone has done much to revolutioh;za The
operations upon all large farms, and to
some extent to change the system and prae-
tees among small cultivators.
Every year brings with it new inyen-
tons, numerous and pretentious; and we
believe, also, that nearly every year gives
to the public some decisive advance towards
the perfection of agricultural machinery.
1t would be too much to expect, under the
high pressure demand for improved ma
chimes, that all inventions will prove valn-
able; and, on the contrary, it is doubtless
true that nine tenths of those offered to the
public are failures but out Of this great
wealth of mind and skill, something must
be evolved which will simplify agricultu.-
al operations, and benefit the farmer.
Taking our observations at short inter-
walls, or by single years, the changes may
not appear to possess very great signii-
canoe; but when we extend them TO dec
ade or to a score Of years, the results achiev-
ed are astonishing. ard fill us with admira-
ton. When we revert to the exhibitions
which it was our practice to attend twenty
years ago. of the State and County Agri-
cultural Societies, and compare the inple-
ments and machines then in use with those
now offered for inspection on similar occa-
sions, we are filed with admiration for the
genius and skill Of American mechanics,
and prompted TO congratulate the farmers
Of the United States upon the advantages
thus placed within their reach.
This subject has been brought forcibly
to our notice on reading, in The Prairie
Farmer, a sketch of the exhibition of agri-
cultural machines and implements at Dixon.
Illinois, under the auspices of the Illinois
State Agricultural Society. That exhibit
ton was great and proud triumph for the
cause of American mechanical skill and for
American agriculture, and proved conclu-
siyely to our mind the steady and e. en- rap
id progress Of the farmers in this country
towards the dignity of labor, and the tri-
umph of mind over muscle.
Events ale fast proving the practicable
ty Of applying SCIENCE, in the form of skill
fully constructed machinery, to the practic-
al work of the farm. Henceforth, in farm
ing as in other pursuits, mind shall be
worth more than muscle, and the intelligent
educated farmer enabled TO erIploy his
powers to better profit and greater adyan-
tage, in the direction of bis business, than
in the mere manuel drudgery of routine
work, which the machines of the present
day will perform vastly quicker, cheaper,
and more successfully than it can be done
10y hand labor.
The West is peculiarly the field for the
introduction and use Of agricultural ma
chinery.-Fanring there is done on q broad
er scale than in the Atlantic States, and the
nature of the soil, at well as the face of the
country, specially invites this system Of ag-
riculture.-Er
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-01-06
nEThere are two reasons NH,

GEThere are two reasons why Gen.
Butler has been superseded-one is, that
the French Government demanded his re.
moval on account of alleged acts of oppres-
sion he imposed upon French residents in
Louisiana and the othor is, that his SER
vices are wanted in another quarter. We
would not be surprised if, efore many
weeks, he should hold at the city of
Charleston the same position he held at
New Orleans.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-01-06

THAT IMPENDING BLow.-The faint
hearted or sympathizing opponents of the
Government, who are using the recent re-
verses of our arms as arguments for the
acknowledgement Of the Southern Confed-
eracy, have forgotten that the whole OF the
Union army is not in Virginia; and that
the mismanagement and delay there may
be only the forerunners of gratifying sue
cesses in the West, where ono brilliant
stroke may change the whole aspect Of the
war and put that Confederacy in the way
Of quick dissolution. We are not afraid
that any truly loyal man will be influenced
by the appeals for separation and peace
that have become SO common; but we
point out for those who are on the point OF
Encouragement, the fact that single week
or a single day may prove that our success
is but a question Of brief time; and that
we have only to press vigorously forward
to insure all for which the country con-
tends. We approhend that, in spite OF the
dimensions to which the Southern Govern
ment has grown, and the vigorous front
which it presents to the world, i IS but z
poor piece ofcrockery after all, and that it
needs but one vigorous blow planted in the
center TO shatter it into thousand pieces.
That blow is, we believe, impending.
When it will fall depends upon the pleas
ure and judgment Of those who now WITH
hold {.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-01-06
"MY MARYLAND Miss Fl. Car,

"MY MARYLAND Miss FL. Cary
was arrested in Baltimore few days ago
and held to bail on charge of violating the
State Treason Law by Haunting a rebel
flag in the faces ola New York regiment
drilling in front of her fathers residence
She is said to be superlatively beautiful and
highly accomplished, and had just returned
from Dixie where she bad been for year
past. She was the young lady who, IN
the grand tableaux before JEFF. Da-
Wis, at Richmond, personated Maryland
as a "cbMned slave" jeff. seyering
the manacles Perhaps she would
like 10 have jeff sever them for her again.
What was fiction in Richmond IS now fact
in Maryland.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-01-06
IRON The Wisconsin Farmer

A REMEDY FOR BARK LIcE.-Friend
Hoyt:-l have read the Farmer with in
teresl tile past three years, and have prof
tied some by the hints and suggestions that
| find in them, and can cheerfuly recon-
mend il TO every farmer in the State.
1 have searched in the columns Of tue
F'ormer for remedy against the Bark
Louise on the apple tree, but haye not seen
any that is 50 cheap and effectual as this !:
Sow good, dry ashes through the tops of
the trees after a shower Of rain, while they
are wet. This can be performed with a
very little labor, and it improves the tree
wonderfully. P. PALhTER.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-01-06

THE AFRICAN REGIMENTs.-Som of
the African regin ents, upon the organiza-
ton ofwhich the President has determined,
will be employed to guard the banks Of
the Mississippi after it shall have been
pened by our fleets and armies. The i'm
mense black population resident on the
great river viii, when freed and armed, be
amply sufficient to protect peaceful COM
mcrce from molestation. Other African
regiments will be employed TO garrison the
forts below New Orleans and on tie coast
which are exposed to the diseases OF a
Southern climate. Others still will doubt
less be used to enforce the proclamation of
freedom for the benefit Of their brethren.
1t is surmised that General Phelps will
have an African command. 1t is the
realization of General Cameron's plan of
year ago.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-01-06
re- 1t is a little curious thai those VI

Eg- 1t is little curious thai those who
profess the greatest devotion to "the Con-
stitution as it is, and the Union as it was"
ara the very men above all others who are
foremost in proposing radical changes in
the Constitution. Witness Crittenden's
proposed amendments to the Constitution,
guaranteeing TO slavery all the American
continent now IN our possession, or here
after to be acquired, south of $50 80.
Witness Vallaudigham's proposition in
Congress to divide the Uniol into four
distinct confederacles, and more recently to
change the constitution SO as to make il
satisfactory to traitors. Witness the prop
ostion of Garritt Davis, of Kentucky, now
pending in the Senate for radical change
of the constitution so as to take away from
the majority the power Of electing Presi-
dent These propositions all come from
the men who boast their devotion to ''the
Constitution as it is and The Union as it
was. - Madison Journal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-01-06

"SAw Buck RANGERS. There is a
new ganization spreading like fire in
Iowa. 1t is called the '.Saw Buck Ran
gers" Their principal duties are to visit
the families of soldiers in the army, and
saw up their wood pile, and when no pile
is found, they take the trouble to secure
one for the destitute family.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-01-06

Gov. Hicks ON EMANcIPATToN.-Ih The
Baltimore correspondent Of the n. Eve
ming Post says:
aThe .Old War Horse" as Elk Cove rnor
Hicks is Familiarity styled, has got upon the
right track at last. The war has opened BIS
eyes. In the presence of a number OF gentle
man be recently declared that he was now
convinced there never would be any peace
for this country until Slavery was abolished
throughout the land, and to this end he sup
nartad President Lincoln's proclamation
plan of compensated emancipation, heart
and hand z
The declaration was published in the
Cambridge fDorset) Iutelligencer, and the
Tx Governor stood up to it like a man. !
do not profess TO give the precise words
bat tliey convey the substance Of the dec
laration.
This dsfnation Of his position will IN
sure bis election to Congress from The
First district, for there is no withstanding
his popularity when be is on tie tight side.
[ believe have already written you that
nearly all the principal citizens Of Dorset
are in favor Of emancipation. ana the good
work is rapidly spreading. The friends o.
emancipation now consider two districts as
! ,rtain to return emancipatioiiists Holt
liday Hicks and Winter Dayis--and we 90
not despair Of carrying she other TIRES ans
tricts in the same cause.
49, CraaL;..0 cpras hoUs. but it kills
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-01-06
R-EThe Cedar Falls Gazette has d

The Cedar Falls gazette has dis
covered that sorghum molasses won't do
for the manufacture Of printers rollers,
1t had one made TO test the matter and il
says:
"To all appearance the roller was tip
toe one, it was soft and had smooth sur.
face, but it would not do good work nor
could it be made TO. There is some prop
erty in the stuff that will not amalgamate
with printers ink, and if you do GET the
ink, distributed on the roller you cannot
get it off Oh to the type.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-01-06

GE-The Prince de Joinvile relates as
an instance Of the GOODNESS of the Northern
people, that during one of the hottest bat
Ties Of the Chickahominy, newspaper men
went up and down the line crying out the
latest news from the North, and in the
ranks OF the army found purchasers for
the journals they had for sale.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-01-06
CTRAY STEERS.

Taken up by the subscriber, residing in the Town OF
Paris on lands owned By him in said town. about
the 2lst day of November 1862 two Steers about IS
months old thereabonts: One dark red color, with
white forehead two white fore legs up above etock
joint and white under bis belly and white hind legs and
tail; the other pale red color with stan in mis-
forehead and white spot his fore left knee, white
belly and middle parG Of tail whtes The owner is
quested to prove property pay charges and take sal
Steers.-Pars, December Sth, 1862.
274w paid $3.50 NAHUM SMITH.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-01-06

Ey-A person who buys cattle to stock
bis own farm, and by keeping them there
on be adds materially to the value is not
cattle broker; but if it is his business to buy
and sell without materially adding to the
valve he is taxable as a cattle broker.
Farmers profits are those Of producer,
and those of the latter a trader.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-01-06
ng-There are on ' six copper smeltir

EE-There are on y six copper smelling
works in America, situated as follows: one
at Portage Lake, one at Detour, one at
Pittsburg. Pa, one at Cleveland, and two
at Baltimore, Nd. The Baltimore works
smell nothing but sulphate of copper, which
is procured entirely from South America.
The other four works are engaged solely
in smelling Lake Superior copper.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-01-06

EE Our San Francisco dispatches give
an interesting budget of Pacific news. The
intelligence from China and Japan is varied
and interesting. BY the wreck of the Amer
lean ship Weymouth, is reported the loss
of one of the most valuable cargoes ever
put on shipboard.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-01-06

EEThe news from Ro'encran's depart
ment is gratifying. Knoxville is reported
to have been taken. This sewers one Of the
most important lines of rebel communication
Rosepcrans has driyenthe rebels from Mum
fordsyille, and Morgan is skedaldling back
To the South.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-01-06
Jefferson City, Dec. 90.

Both Houses Of the Legislature compile
ted their organization to-day by the cleo
ton of all the emancipation candidates.
There seems to be a general opinion that
Congress should lead off in the emancipa-
ton movement, and there is 70 doubt that
a prompt liberal tender of compensation
would greatly facilitate the emancipation
measure in the Legislature.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-01-06
DECLINING IN RAGs.--A Boston paper

DECLINING IN RAes.--A Boston paper
says:
Rags are gong down. On Wednesday
they fell two cents, and greater declines are
threatened. The amount Of paper stock
which the present high prices have brought
forward is immense. Old paper has fallen
to four cents a pound, and one party in this
city who has been buying very largely
has stopped purchasing, having now over
$4,000 lbs on hand. Those who are hoard
ing their rags or old paper had better sell
it once.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-01-06

Rg- Permission has been granted to the
Indian Bureau to raise three additional reg
iments Of Indians, to be united with the two
regiments now in service as an Indian COM
mand under Col. Thomas Ewing, Chief
Justice Of Kansas. The line officers are to-
be Indians. This force is to act as Home
Guard for the Indian Territory.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-01-06

Why - Taaity Fair says: I'VE hear
i good deal about suspending tie habeas
corpus; but whel4 the government catches
a traitor. why doesn't it suspend the corpas
and let the habeas go r.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-01-06
The following are given by the Tribune
as the official majorities in the recent cleo

Or about two administration to one OPP
position. Not so much Of a dernocraiie
storm; especially when we take into con-
s.deration the large administration majority
OF the non-voting volunteers who are lat
ting against the rebellion.