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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-08-11

ETA correspondent of the Agricaltu-
rist relates the following: A young man
who had recently entered large village store
as clerk very deslrous to appear well in the
eyes of tho ladies. Being very vain, be
naturally supposed be could best gain their
attentions by adding to his personal attrac-
tons, and accordingly he was in great haste
to raise mustache and whiskers, which
he thought would make him altogether ir-
resistab.e. One of his fellow clerks, mis-
ehieyous wag to whom he had told his
wishes, resolved to have some sport with
him. Accordingly he informed the beard
less youth that friend of his, physician.
could furnish preparation which would
bring om the hair in an incredibly short
space of time. The young man had seen
advertisements of such compounds, and
suspecting no trick, eagerly asked for a
bottle of the mixture. A few days after
ward his companion brought him vial.
with direction TO apply the contents care
fully wherever he wanted hair to grow, but
by no means to touch any other place with
it, as it was very powerful. Upon retiring
al night the young man gave his upper lip
and chin good dressing with the liquid.
and turned 10 to dream of splendid beard.
OF course in the morning he at once looked
at the glass to see the effect Produced
But one look was enough, bis lip and chin
were stained black as negro's, with a so.
luton of nitrate of silver. In vain he
washed and scrubbed; the color was fixed,
and could only wear off. To add to bis
dismay, loud shout greeted Lis ears. and
he saw all his fellow clerks. who had been
let into the secret, almost ccnvulsed with
laughter. Hastily dressing himself, he lauf
fled mis- face, rushed to his home, and 'on
cealed himself until bis face resumed its at
ural color. This was severe and unwar
rantable joke, but it partially cured thu
young man of his silly ideas, and on thu
whole was a benefit to him. Whenever
he assumed any airs, his father had only
to ask if bis whiskers were yet grown tc
bring him to his senses.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-08-11
Effect of the Emancipation Proclamation,


The following is an extract from letter
received by Georgian, now a resident Of
Boston, from fellow Georgian, resident
ofNew York:
New York, July %.
The exodus from the South you once
predicted, has fairly set in. They generally
come from the upper part of Georgia and
seem glad to get here. | know OF six GEN
tlemen who are here from one place. One
OF them says the Emancipation Proclama-
ton oil Mr.. Lincoln struck jeff Davis the
hardest blow he has received. He saws It
has caused large reduction in the South.
ern army by desertion, more so than the
people of the North have an, idea of. He
says the poor white people are determined
to fight for the negroes no longer. They
have no interest in them, and look upon
The war as one brought on by demagosu es
and shareholders, to ride over the rights of
the poor white people. He says be heard
repeatedly the soldiers say openly, they
would not any longer fight for the damned
niggers and their masters. The upper
part OF Georgia has but few slaves, anyhow
and | suppose the people there think more
Of their own comfort, and less Of the rights
Of the slave owners, than in the country.
| was surprised, however to hear from this
old resident, and one who is close obser-
yer of events, that the Proclamation tended
to divide the people of the South rather
than unite them. The effect doubtless,
was different on the seaboard, according
to information from competent judges
there, but Cherokee, Georgia, like Tennes-
see, has always been for the Union, and
now grows mora and more SOL as they suf-
fer from jeff Davis despotism. This is the
cheering sign. This pound sterling was
worth $40 in currercy-gold one dollar
for eight.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-08-11

CHARLES OF SwEDEN.-Our total alb
stinence readers are not, perhaps, aware
that Charles XII, "the mad King of Swe-
den." as he was called by some Of his CO.
temporaries, was pledged man, if not a
member OF tetotal society. The anecdote
on which this statement is founded is given
in M. Bury's "Essai Historique ct Moral
sur pEducation Franchise" Charles, as
everybody knows, in the commencement
of his career drank to his excess. In one
of his drunken bouts he so far overstepped
the limits of propriety as to treat the Queen
his mother, with great disrespect. The
next day on being informed of his rudeness
he took glass of wine in bis hand aud re-
paired TO the Queens room. "Madam,
said be to her, II have learned that yester
day. 10 my cups, | forgot myself towards
you. come to ask your pardon, and t.
prevent the recurrence of such fault
| drink this TO your health; it shall be III,
last during my life." He kept his word
and from that day he never tasted wine
We may add, by way of recommendation t.
the habit, that in bis subsequent life no king
was ever known to have undergone CREATE
hardships, and enjoyed better health, than
this cold water monarch.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-08-11

BooT ON THE OTHER LEG.-Chief Jus.
tice Tauney's opinion given in the Booth
case some years ago, in which he was sus-
tanned by the Supreme court Of the United
States. was apparently put upon the record
in the behest Of slavery. 1t was gwen 10
case where pro slavery men (and some
times Judges are but men) gave all their
sympathy to the General Government, and
rseioioed at seeing an Abolitionist held by
the United States authorities above the
reach of State courts and their processes.
II was sound law however, and the prece-
dent was happily then established which
seiis with crushing weight upon Copper
headism now. Copperheads can only
cnash their teeth and execrate the fruits OF
their past enterprise in strengthening the
Government by such precedents, made
chiefly at times when United States Off
Gals were made negro hunters, and the
prosecutors Of the black man.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-08-11

YAzoo DAILY YANKEE.-Mr. Isaac
Durand of Lancaster has shown us copy
of the Yagoo Daily Yankee, sent to him
by his son who is in the feGeral service at
that place 10 Mis- sissippi State. The
Yankee is edited by Messrs. Mudsill,
Small FSsted Farmer, Greasy Mechanic
d Co., and deals in precisely the SOFT of
abolition rant needed down South. In re-
ply to the rebel boasts at Yazoo that "we
of the South have growing peace party
in the north, headed by Seymour and Val.
landigham," the Yankee says:
ssLet us advise you that the northern peace
party is not more respectable in numbers than
John Browns army for the invasion of Virgin
ia, and not half so patriotic, and too cowardIy
to fight on either side except by the invention
of secret ISLANDERS upon the soldiers and wives
of the war party of the North. They answer
to offset negroes who look to the North for al
lies while the Eopperheads look South for al
lies. You can't swear by the Yankee Copper
heads; like the officiating tribes of Africa they
are as treacherous as the serpent that crawed
Il
our first PARENTS"
The Yankee, speaking OF what is to be
done with the negroes under the Procla-
nation goes on TO say that, "This question
is propounded as poser, by all the rebels
at the South and by all the tories at the
North. 1t is the easiest thing in the world.
Let them alone. When labor is needed in
the south, let those who raise cotton give
the negro 100 out of the 8 hundred dol
lars that he earns every year, and he viii
work all the better. Aye, there's the rub.
The avaricious master is obliged to divide
the negro's earnings with the negro, who
works and earnsl Horrid thought But
then, says some sapient cuss, you put them
on social equality with the white race if
you free them! That depends upon wheth
er white men and women want to associate
with them and marry them. And by the
way they might better marry and go into
the bleaching process in systematic way
than to bastardize both races as is now be-
ing done. Nearly one half of the negroes
in the south have white blood in their
veins. Says another, you will crowd out
white labor! Indeed! This is pure non-
sonse to a man who knows the extent of
territory yet unoccupied and needing labor
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-08-11
arErTha f,altimore cores .ondent Of

re- The Baltimore correspondent of the
New York Commercial states that Ex-Gov
Aiken, of South Carolina, has been incsr-
ceratod in the Libby Prison, at Richmond,
for refusing to submit to the traitor tyranny
of Jeff Davis. Gov. Aiken was one of tho
most wealthy men and the largest slave
holder IN South Carolina, AID, according to
the writer hes laid his three thousand slaves
on the alter of his country as slaves nc long
or, but as free men, and adheres TO the Star
Spangled Banner.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-08-11

The GAME LAw.-The game season
has opened at last giving our sporlsmen
anv desirable amt Of amusement. We call
attention to the following law for killing
game, so that persons may not be misl-
ed:
Partridge, ruf1ed grouse or quail. any
time between September lst and December
lst. Grouse and Prairie chickens or hens,
any time between August 18th and Dec
LIST.
Woodcock can be killed any time be-
tween the LIST Tuesday in July and Deem
her lst.
The game above mentioned can be ex-
posed for sale only during the periods
above stated.
Deer can be killed between August LIST
and January lst. A week being given al
ter the last date 20 allow holders to dispose
of their game.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-08-11

g While the rebels were at Salem,
Indiana, squad of three Of them went to
stable in which was the splendid stallion
Tempest owned by Mr.. Geo. Lyman.
Upon entering his stall, Tempest gave The
first rebel kick which sent him sprawl
inc. Upon the others be made demonstra
tons with his teeth which kept them at
bay. An officer then went off swearing
he would fetch squad Of men who could
take him. ;He started Of for the squad.
when the groom jumped upon Tempest's
back and rode him off on gallon. soon
getting beyond the rebel lines. The ami
NAL is valued at a thousand dollars.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-08-11

D~We mentioned last week that several
German girls had gone to service in the har-
vest field, where they receive as wages one
dollar day. The German girls are not the
only ones who engage in this employment
Last year, in many districts around US, where
the men volunteering for the war left a scare
ity of outdoor assistance on the farms, women
who are women turned out and assisted in
gathering the crops. In many instances, in
peculiar cases, the women of settlement
would go in body and harvest large fields OF
corn for some poor soldiers lone wife, in a
single day.-GaIenG advertiser.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-08-11
nETha Executiya COMMITTEE Of Die

NEThe Executive Committee of the
American Anti-Slavery Society have pub
lished a card, repudiating Mr.. Conway en-
tirely as an agent Of that Society, and his
action. The Society deem the Govern
ment wholly right in this struggle and its
success the best hope for all races and in
terests on This continent, and regard any
overture to the Confederate States, except
that Of immediate and unconditional sub
mission, to to equally uncaled for and mis-
chieyous.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-08-11
HThe Home League suggests that {

RThe Home League suggests that as
the copperheads are in bad way about
the law allowing the soldiers to vote. the
legislature enact law allowing all the
sneaks now absent to escape the draft,
whether in Canada or elsewhere biding,
to also vote. This would give the Palmer
state ticket boost equal to the soldier
vote.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-08-11

TORPEDO DIGGING.-Upon the occasion of
the occupation of Jackson, MISS, General
Sherman discovered that in the roads leading
out of the city, General Johnston had buried
torpedoes. Having some two hundred Con-
federate prisoners on hand, General Sherman
set them at work digging up the torpedoes
which they had planted. They went at it I'M
willingly, but accomplished j: without any fa-
tai results.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-08-11

EE-The United States Armory at
Springfield continues to turn out about one
thousand muskets per day, and this num-
Der will not be diminished at present. Few
and small orders for muskets have been re-
ceived from Washington Of late, and there
are fifty thousand Of the model Of 81, and
one hundred thousand of the model of Ca
now subject to the demand of the Govern
ment.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-08-11
Muscatine. Iowa, AUG. 4.

uAhoSneauOp AOWoe mug ne
The Journal of this city has the follow
ing:
A collision occurred between the Copper
heads and Union men at South English,
Keokuk, Co. Ia, las Saturday. About fifty
shots were fred. +. man named Talley, a
leader Of the COppeShosds, who eommenc-
ed the firing, was killed instantly, and
two others died of their wounds shortly af-
Ter. The CoppSheads were driven ont Of
the place,
LATER.
The sheriff Of Keokuk county reached
this place this morning at daybreak, on a
hand-car, en- route to the military head
quarters Of the State, al Davenport, fog
military assistance. He reports that tho
insurgents have gathered to the number
Of 500. and hourly increasing 10 num-
Der. They claim to be 1000 strong
in the county, all armed and full Of fight
The citizens Of Washington, about
fifteen miles from the scene Of the Difficult
ties, are much alarmed for the safety Of their
town.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-08-11

MoRaAN DEsRoNl ~ While Morgan
was Oh his way from StSabensi!Ee so Column
bus. Col, MeGroarty. Of the elst o. V. I.
had an extended Conversation With him. in
which Mosgaa says that his instructions re-
quired him TO pass throughIndiana andOhio
and to meet Lee ia Pennsylvania, where il
was anticipated by the rebels that they
would be victorious. But Lee having been
DEFEATED, Morgan concluded 70 get out OF
Ohio as soon as possible. Within the last
few DAYS doesn't see,n TO have made much
progress 10 the matter. He distinctly ac-
knowlsdged to Col. McGroarty that owing
% Lees defeat, aud the fall Of Vicksburg
and Port Hudson. the "Southern Conieder-
acy was gone up
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-08-11
rThe Mayor of Charleston, on the 10th

D-The Mayor of Charleston, on the 10Th,
issued three proclaInations:-
/. Impressing all the free male negroes, mu-
lattoes and metizoes residing in that city, be-
tween the ages of eighteen and sixty, and all
able bodied male slaves within the same, to
finish the defenses on Morris Island.
2. Ordering all business suspended within
the city from that day until the safety of the
city is assured.
3. That all women and children be removed
from the city, at the earnest request of Genera
Beauregard.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-08-11

The MINERAL NINE.-There are some
peculiar combinat ions of which the figure 8
Is susceptible thai may not have occurred
to a good many of our readers. For ex-
ample, take the multiplication table, and
running the eye down the 0 column note
that the combinations Of the figures compose
0 according to fixed rule: thus, 8 times
are Is, and s and ! are O.; 8 times are
81, and and Q are 8, etc. Suppose we GO
beyond the multiplication table, aud say
9 times II, for example,. is l5a; then you
have 5 and 8 are 8 and is 8, so on. Null
tiply. say 75s by Q. the result is 1922; add
these four figures and tLo result is Is two
nines,) etc.
The numerals composing the number Of
the present year are susceptibility o: some
such combinations. For example 1868
added together make IS, and and are
9. Add the two first figures and they
make 9, so do to the two last. Set the two
first under the two last and add them, they
make 81, 9 times Q, together they make 9;
subtract the first two from the last two,
the result Is As, and and A are O; divide
the SO bv the Is, and the result iG with
remainder of g.; multiply all the four
figures together - thus lxSx6x3 and
your result is 144--4 and are 8 and
/ is O and SO forth and so on, Odd. isn't
it2
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-08-11

THE Truth ADM1TTED.-The Richmond
Dispatch of recent date says:
ga sufferer by the Combahee raid sums up
his sorrows in the following sentence: 'Whai
contributed most TO my modification was, that
in my whole gang of slaves, among whom there
were any amount of Aarons, Abrahams, Isaacs
and Jacobs, there was not one Abdiel-not one
remained loyal to their masters This is the
complaint of hundreds and thousands of suffer :
ers. The most petted, trusted aud seemingly
deUoted slares are found W1nting IN the hour 81
tTiGL0
The assertion SO often made by northern
truckers as well as southern masters, that,
in event of hostilities between the North
and South, the slaves would stick to theil
masters under all circumstances, was sim
ply false, just like a thousand other dema-
gogue lies.
None are true to their southern masters
but northern Copperheads.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-08-11

EEM ValIandigham's classic friends
remark that he is reposing under the sagis
Of the British lion. The @gis is the ami
mails tail. ii is a nice place for Val. The
agis Of the lion is an appendage always
carried high by the Leo Britdnnscus.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-08-11
REThere was exhibited at the Char

EE- There was exhibited at the Cham
Der Of Commerce, yesterday, a bunch Of
wheat heads Of variety bat little known
in this section. 1t is called the California
Star wheat; the heads are very large and it
is said to produce 20 to go bushels to the
aero under favorable circumstances. This
specimen was grown on the farm Of Mr..
Forbes, OF Bloomfield iltOaukee Negs.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-08-11

THE CoNFIscAFoN Acr.-lt is intlma-
ted that one of the first acts OF she next
Congress will he the amending Of the pres
ent confiscation law. so as to deprive arm
ed rebels of their property perpetRsly
The present law Only coDfiscates proper
~ daring the life 81 tie disloyal person
after which the property goes agaln TO BIZ
or her heirs,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-08-11

gCAPT. CHAs. E. STEVENS of the
goth Wisconsin, is visiting his friends at Bos-
cobel. We learn he has been promoted,
but to what position not stated.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-08-11
Communicated
LINES ON THE DEATH OF A. PAL
MER.

MES ON THE DEATH OF A. PAL
MER.
Far away in sunny southland
Where the Mississippi flows,
Rests a brave and noble soldier
In his long and sweet repose.
He had left his home and loved ones,
Left his brothers, sisters, all,
Left hi fathe and his mother;
Went to conquer or to taii.
Andrew was brave, true, soldier
One who never thought of fear;
Cne who never shrank from duty,
Was oar gallant yoluneer.
He was young, but loved the danger
OF the march and the battlefield,
With this motto, "Death t1 Traitors"
He would fight but never yield.
Sissersi dry your tears Of sorrow,
Heaven has now one angel more;
His body lies in Mississippi.
His soul has reached that peaceful shore,
Has reached that land where loyal soldiers
Rest from all the cares OF lite:
Rest from the dreao thought of battle
And the sound of mortal strife.
Brothers, mourn no more for Andrew,
He has done the soldiers part.
History knoweth not his actions
But this mark is OF the heart,
Mourn not for the lost and loved one;
Follow in the path he trod
And protect thy counrry's banner
Stand for UIion and fo- God.
Parents. bowed with cares AMI sorrow,
Mourn not for the one you loves
Cast thy sorrows all on Jesus
And strive to meet thy son above.
Let us tread the narrow pathway,
Follow him who knows no fear,
Do the will OF our dear Savior,
And meet in Heaven our dear Volunteer.
LULU.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-08-11

CHARAcTERIsTIc.- President Lincoln has
not drawn his salary for the past year from the
Treasury. When reminded by friends that by
putting the same upon interest he would re-
ceive an income of at least twelve hundred dol
lars, he replied that he thought the United
States needed the money quite as much as any
person, and he would LET it remain.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-08-11

w Christ was born among the poor.
grew up among the poor, toiled with the
poor and died for the poor. The cases in
which he ever came in contact with rich
me2, are noted with emphasis in Scripture,
as remarkable exceptions.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-08-11

RE Whv is there such demand (oT
nurses in the army! Because Of the rapid
increase Of infantry.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-08-11
DENTISTRY.
DENTISTRY!
.nr nr rRETH FOR THIRTY DOLLARS

NJ W. Fl. DeHenbaeher win positively visit Lancas,
,sr two months per year: the months OF March and
H SL Oeace over A. & T. A. Burr's Store. En-
s""s on east aide. Room formerly occupied BY DR..
Thompson. rNAo. "a cuvor n
ssrr.d Teeth 6lled In crown with Gold and Tin foil
n.sn sirss viii cold only All Rubber work warran-
~ ~ ri, az durable as Gold. Persons from dis
lance Wanng setts will find 1t to their interest to call
early as possible in the month. IS.
Nj .--w. Fl. Defenbacher Is the only De1tls tA ~
, art NJ tbe state licensed work the hard rubber
work Persons are liable be prosecuted If obtaining
tho rubber work Of any not having license az wen as
ths Dentist OF GoOdyear's X Co.'S Patent.
Tavelng dentists cannot get the right at any price,
Ti4s6.T WIN. H. DEFFENBACHER, Dentist.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-08-11
Whaalinn Va Ann. 4.

The Western Virginia legislature. in
joint session to-day elected w. T. Wiley,
Of Morgantown. aud F. G. Van Wirsle, Of
Palkerstnrg. u. 8. Senators. The former
ON the first and The latter on the sixth bal
Lo4
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-08-11

EEA An excuse is worse and more terri
bic than lie; for an excuse is lie guard
ad
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-08-11

wWhy is colt like an eggg Because
il can't be used until it's broke.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-08-11
MILLS & BLESSING.

M ILLS +" DA4I1N0'0AA'" u
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
JOSEPH T. MILLS H. u SLSS''""
LANCASTER, GRANT COUNTY WIS.
Oges (up-sEairs) in Meyers building on M@G'soA
OS''' Street, opposite Court House,
mil, OraeAiee in all the Courts of this state.
W promptly attended to and remittan-
80 made Immediately
&c % viii nav taxes on lands of ana give
srlar attention any business relating 10 real es
~. b;cb NAV be entrusted to our care.
viii attend to claims against the COVE nment BACK
49," honnties PENSIONS &C. Lancaster, Oct l7th' 1893
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-08-11

y.We'ye only met to divide" as tht
guiIlotine said to the criminal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-08-11
DENTAL NOTICE!
PHYSICIANS.

DIR. ]. H. HYDE.
Physician So Surgeon.
Office one door north OF the Mansion Bouaes
LANCASTER, WISCONSIN.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-08-11

BARBER & LOWRY.
Attorneys 81 Counsellors at Law
= ALIEN BARBER. I'D. D. LOWRY. J. J. BARRIER
LANCASTER, WISCONSIN.
Will practice their profession in counties OF Grant
Crawford and Badax; also, act as agent IN buying ana
inV lands paying taxes procuring land PATENTS ar,
rs az nav to soldiers soldiers bounty, pensions ano
atber business connected with the Department OF
ySaSa Lancaster, Dec lat 1862