Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-11-10

each man and have him enlist lhel' pecu'ai
J institution is, he says, dead. !, 81. ~
One Of The most singular results OF me ial'-
ure Of the hay crop in Ohio, y iilai over ~,
600 head of sheep have already peeh snipPse
| from Harrison, Jefferson and other counties,
! 10 the West. to be pasinred on the great prai,
/ ,ies Of Illinois andfIowa Two hundred ana
6ftv sheep can be placed in one car, ana me
/ freight on these is 500 from Canton, Stark
comfy, to Chicago, III. - Yra;on
| ticket. and Cook county about 1000! no con,
ment IS necessary on these figures Hufran'
Last Spring the city gave 100 Copperheau ma
jority. ..o,. hoe
received intelligence that clothes and blankets
sent 10 Richmond, by our Government, have
! been received and distributed to The prisoners
for whom tEev were intended No further
nropress had been made by the Commissioners
toward an exchange of prisoners.
The Union men everywhere VIII De glad 70
learn, that General b. Il. Butler has been as
signed to the command OF the Department OF
Southeast Virginia and North Carolina, ana
the troops Of The 18th Amy corps. lie super
sedes Genera Foster, who, il IS presumed IS
assigned 10 he command of the Notifications
at Washington.
| The news from Arkansas is full OF promise.
The Union tokens IL that State are unmistak-
able. A that is wanted is firmness and good
Judgment on The part 81 Federal commanders;
The rebel cause in that section IS badly irayed
out, and is on Y in danger Of beng restored 70
full vigor if our Generals thereaway fall 10 saw
ing the fragments oil Slavery. It's dead uhoer
tile Proclamation.
The leading New York city hotels are now
asking $3.5O per diem for board-that - ~
say $2450 per week Rather steep, thati
A woman in Chicago has sued landlord OF
that city for damages in the loss OF her nus
band and chill, under very peculiar clrc'iih-
stances. The family hired house belonging
to the land ord, the lormer occupants OF wnich
had sckened and died OF smallpox. The ian-
lily had been in the house a week or Two Wien
the father and child were fatally attacked by
the disease No measures had been taken 10
remove the infections; and Tor inns negiect anu
the fatal results the law Of Illinois holds the
landlord liable TO action.
parcel of property ON Lake Superior,
owned by Ex-Gov. Aiken, Of South Carolina,
has been seized by the United States Magshai.
Mr.. w. W. Corcoran's property was also a.
tached, said owner having resiied i9r nearly
year past in Europe.
A private letter from Paris Thus refers TO the
"pIaniaton manners OF the distinguished rep
resentative IF Virginia gentlemen in France;
"The rebels, Morehead and Mason, are daily
TO be seen at the new grand Hotel. A rev
minutes ago saw the latter there, rolling ms
quid as a New England boy chews gum and
expectorating all about him in the court oil the
hotel, as well bred New England boys would
not do y
refugee from Richmond, a northern wool
en- spinner brings the intelligence that at Man
chester, near Richmond on the james river, a
eunboat clad with three thicznesses Of two
inch iroa is within six weeks Of competition,
that at Rockets, at the foot OF Main street,
two other iron-clads are on the stocks, and that
a sense Of security is so complete that large
iron works, private property, are IN process
of construction by mar named Bradley IN
Manchester, and machine shop at the Cen
trail railroad depot has been greatly enlarged
Two cotton mi Is have been erected III Man
chester, permanent improvements have been
made on the Tredegar works anG the bridges
over the rivers. Two wooden mills in Man
chester turn out l,4l0 yards of army cloth,
which is sc'd to the government for $50 q
yard.
The force ui,der Lees command is posiiive-
ly stated TO be now OILY 30,0On
The new Hudson BAY Company will get out
ID, poes for me fe egraph ire between Fort
Garry and Ppgetas Sound This winter. The
wire for the telegraph IS exnecied at Montreal
ihis fall.
} A firm Of biscuit manufacturers in Carlisle,
England, b. way Of showing what could be
done by apid woIk, recently had lied OF
wheat reaped, the grain iIirashed and ground,
and the flour made into biscuits, which were
served hot on the breakfast table at O'Clock,
in exactly four hours from The time the sickle
was put into the Standing grain.
When he Sultan OF Turkey dIsmisses a Min
lister, he orders him 10 be strangled, that he
may not divulge State secrets There is no
necessity to adopt this custom in our country,
unless ~ the way Of punishment, as our Min
listers dIvu'ge all the secrets while in office.
A aolLe PTosequi has been entered in the case
OF the Ozaukee rioters pending in the Circuit
Court OF that County, on the ground that two
oil the Grard Jury which found the indictment
against them were not citizens of the Unite,
States.
The Agricultural Department at Washing
ton mas received quantity Of Anautka wheat
from Odessa, and also large quantity of very
me red bearded wheat from Nice, in Italy.
ms wheat viii be ready for distribution to
agriculturists, ID small quantities, in few
Gays Ayarletyof handsome samples Of seeds
have also been received from the Royal Agri-
cultural Society Of Russia
Inc great ram Dunderberg, now being built
" New York, is 37S feet long 68 feet wide
ana 81 deep, with an armor l-2 feet thick,
FORMED OF timber and ID inches Of iron.
one Of her revolving turrets will be armed
WIN iour heavy guns, and the other with six
1ioausiue and two pivot guns. 1t is expected
mat her speed viii be sixteen miles an houy.
General Sykes, that corps commander Of the
army OF the Potomac, who, while General
warren was recently engaging the enemy at
brislow Station, sent word he was eleIsurely
moving off, is one Of the corps commanders
VINO voted at Willamsport against Meade at
lacking Lee. Warren was one of the Gener-
as who voted the other way. Sykes, moreo-
yer, Was one Of the corps commanders who
subscribed twenty dollars towards Little Macs
late begging petition. Warren was one of
those who did not. The parallel of the con-
servatlve General OF the Mcclellan Fitz John
Porter stamp runs faithfully the same all the
way through.
! The Raleigh, On. g., Standard appeals TO the
conservatives to unite against the destructives
on election day. In abiding to the recent de-
feat of the Democrats in Ohio and Pcnnsylva-
MIA the Standard says: "The last ray of hope
for the South from the North has departed.
The North is banded against the South BY I'M
mense maiorities.v 1t says: "Lincolfi will he
reelected, and the prospects peace are rlage
distant than ever;'' that s'the Southern pecilia
stand alone, with the world against them, cl2d
they had better make peace with Providence