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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-11-24

MILWAUKEE, Nov. p.
Flour firm and unchanged
Wheat firm al l29 TOR No. l and
Il61 for Ne. ,.
Corn nominal
Oats steady ~ Use.
~~-~~>>---~-~-,~~~-~-~~
Nasty says that Andrew John
~ is still The Noses he claimed to
be has only changed his l.
r4efses
IHte Was great deal Of *
eltem ID Wall street on Satur-
lay, ami stocks largely advanced
Money was plenty.
Hon. e. B Washburne, Of IIli-
nois, the father of the House" will
with the next Congress, begin bis
ninth term.
-Waupun has circulating libra
~ containing 1000 volumes Of well
selected books.
The Darlington Union says the
cattle PLACE has appeared in that
place.
California has gained 10000 new
inhs bitants by immigration this year
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Schmitt's FIGURING Mill
IN FULL BLAST.

am prepared to or nd.a kinds of grain at ono time
and farmers my come with Ruckwheat. Wheat Rye
Corn &c. and return day with ali ground Re.
member. I grind all on 81 day. Warranted 10 give
full satisfaction. The highest market price paid for
Buoe wheat and Rye. A. SCHMITT.
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VOLUME XXxIII.-Ho. s.!

of which are inconsistent with the laborers'
status as freeman, and an accountable be-
ing. Such clauses liz contracts will be a con-
tinued source of annoyance and vexation to
both employer and employee, and SHOULD se
omitted in all future contracts. l'y.'@
If laborer absents himself from his ailot-
ted task, he should be charged for the time
go lost, at the rate which he would have re-
csived if he had worked all addition of ex-
ira fines for lost time is improper, and should
never be proposed in o community where the
free labor system is expected to succeed.
Time will not permit me to further discuss
this question, but it must be apparent to all
practical men that the planters in this State
must in the future look mainly. to the colored
race for the greater part Of their laborers. It
should therefore be the earnest endeavor OF
all rood citizens to fix the colcred people in
permanent 1ocatiors, to assist them in proYid-
ing schools for the education Of, their children,
in supporting intelligent, religious Instruction
among them, and by precept and example to
foster the virtue of confluence and sohriety
teach them respect for the marriage relation
and the laws of the country, and in fact by
systematic course Of fair treatment to. win
their confidence and respsct, and thus make
them valuable citizens in q con. nrility in
which, although. natives; they have acquired
new rights. R.K.t SCOTT,
Brevet Major General,
~ ~ - Assistant Commissioner
Official: q. NE1DE, Breyet Major q. S. A.
and a. A. A. G.
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Stella: "One of the Lost"

The great maritime disaster, sometime last fall,
the loss of the Eevening Star, filled many
household, both in this and the old world, with
mourning. Its victims embraced representatives
fnearly every class of society, and among Others
q large delegation of the frail sisterhood"
casts from society, whom we have the fashion OF
scorning here and damning hereafter. Among
these unfortunates was one who was born near
Louisville, KY, who was remarkable for her mar
vcllous beauty and reckless life. Betrayed by one
whom she trusted, she abandoned home and family,
and followed her seducer to New York, where she
entered upon life of nfamy, A Bohemian OF
that city tells her sad story in the following lmes'
Her record is like that of nearly all her sisters IN
crime, and the story of one is the story Of all:
Far out in the West, where the log huts lay
Bathed in the CLEAN of closing day
With paught her joy to mar,
Lived maiden fair, with golden hair,
Whose form did well with her name compare-
Twas Stella, the Evening Star.
Far away from the Nc-th the ienpter came,
And the log huts told : tale Of Bhame-
AS many such there arc
Of affection past, of a maiden cast
Adrift to encounter alone life's blast:
Poor Stella, the Evening Star.
Far away to the East, midst din and strife,
Bartering her soul for the means of life,
And bearing the branded scar
That the world bestows, with its sneers and blows,
Unsparingly on the heads of those
Like Stella, the Evening Star.
Far away to the South, aye, out of the world, =,
With her twin named ship, thatth tempest hurPd
And stript of mast and spar,
Went down in the deep-she lies asleep,
And the merciful waves increasingly weep
Ger Stella, the Evening Star.
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$7,OO7.22
Leaving undrarn of appropriation

ASafihSo uuuAo"n Va cPPioPAAo''SA
for 1876. ........ .S2,992.io
ynnr Excellency will perceive that our ex-
pcnscs, including the pay of an agent for
Ireland, have been entirely within the appro-
priation. 1t was the intention of the law to
have the three agencies of ireland, Germany
and Scandinavia filled, and the appropriation
was estimated accordingly. Subsequent de-
velopments would seem to make it desirable
to also establish an agency in France, if we
could, in any manner, accomplish 1t, which
would perhaps be possible By means of last
years unexpended funds. Several of our
Southern Sister States have now established
immigration bureaus. Louisiana pays her
Commissioner q very liberal salary and pro
vdes for two clerks and five agents. But
New Orleans has now steam communication
with Europe, and immigrants for Missouri and
the far West travel that route. Texas is in
creasing very fast by large immigration from
Germany, four resse!s with neatly q thousand
passengers having arrived at Galveston this
season. This is owing to her German colo
nies established hecore the war. Tennessee
provides only for agentsin the Northern parts
of the United States, and expects to gain her
share of immigration in that manner. But
her people arc very much alive 70 the subject
and are everywhere forming associations to
facilitate immigration by private contribn-
tions. BY reducing the salaries OF our other
agents, we might, perhaps, also have an agcn
cy in New York; but am not convinced OF
any great advantage from it. The better
class Of immigrants to that great port pro-
cced Immediately to their points Of desiina-
ton, leaving those without means and without
. settled purpose, and very often disincired
to agricultural pursuits, behind them. Such
we could not give employment to. We are
as yet TOO contracted in varieties of pursuits,
until our Industrial occupations and general
prosperity shall be orce more better deyel-
oDed. There are how number OF private
agencies ready to iii all orders Of planters
Tor lahorcrs or special contracts. Ny efforts
have hccn directed to an influence in Europe
which should give us class Of immigrants
that will not only bring us their personal
powers of production, but the means also to
make them available st once; and with
them and after them will come enoHgh of la
borers to supply all our demands without
overburlcning us with numbers Of useless
idlers, whom we are unable to support. And
we are in fair way Of attaining these OBJ
jects which, however, would be very much
facilitated by line Of steamers, rs | have
mentioned above. The city of Charleston
can and must be made the port Of arrival for
the immigrants to the State, that have
named, and when we arc once more undcr
our own government, if it SHOULD be at all in
cliucd to our speedy recuperstion, it must be
the aim OF the Legislature To literally assist
in measures TO that effect. have the h2nor
to be, your ExccIlency's obelient servant,
JOHN A. WAGNER,
Commissioner Immigration.
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A WONDERFUL TALE.-Mr. Edward Par
sons, just returned from Montana 10 Leayen- ven.
worth, tells marvellous story. Last July
himself and four companions came upon. an
Indian mound, surmounted by huge stone.
Dislodging this stone and several others, they
found themselves in an Indian catacomb, con-
tanning the skeletons of thirty warriors Ly-
ing beside the bones were numerous ofha,
ments, among them many twisted circles OF u
gold. Some Of these weighed one and hall
to two pounds. What chiefly attracted at
tention was massive basin or kettle OF pure
gold, and which was SO heavy that the party
had great difficulty in removing it from lis
resting place and bringing it into the upper
air. The adventurers, by means OF their
axes, severed the mass into portable pieces,
laden with which the party turned their steps
homeward, having themselves to walk the
greater part of the way, to give relief to thelr
burdened animals. The whole amount OF
gold was brought to Helena, and MIR. EDWARD
Parsons calculated that his share of the treas
ure amounted to about $2l, 900, the whole
bulk being at least 100000.
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PETITION FOR THE PARDON OF JouN G..
BREcKINRIDGE-A petition is on file among
the Executive documents at Washington ask
ing the President to pardon John G. Breckin.
ridge, Of Kentucky. The petition sets forth
that the war is over, rebellion is crushed, the
Union perpetuated, and the authority of the
General Government is supreme in the
country, and that in the hour OF triumph,
wisdom and magnanimity require US to be
mcrcirul to conquered foe. 1t urges the
pardon Of Mr.. breckenridge that lie may be
restored to the State where he can be SO use
full in restoring harmony and peace. This
ccmcncy is rot asked because the petitioners
believe Mr.. Breckenridge was right in resist
ing the authority of the Government and aid
ing to break up the Union cf our fathers, for
though many of the petitioners supported
Mr.. Breckenridge for the Presidency, they
sterny opposed his attempt to take Kentucky
out of the Union. They regarded that at
tempt es not only on error, but q grave of
fense. 1t is not from sympathy with the late
rebellion that they sought the pardon of Mr..
Breckiuridgc, but because they believed it
eminently wise, concillatory, magnanimons,
and calculated to soothe the discordant ele-
ments and restore peace to our troubled
country.
This petition is signed by the Lieutenant
Governor of the State and most of the SEN
ators and Representatives Of the Legislature
of 1866, and is urged by letters from j. w.
Powell and j. Mallory, Of Kentucky. No ac'
ticn was taken on the petition, because no
personal application for pardon from John @.
Breckenridge accompanied the document.
A letter is also said to have been addressed
to the President by Rev. r. j. Breckenridge,
asking for his nephew's pardon, on the ground
that the latter was mistaken in his political
views but that his high character as q man
entities him to Executive clemency.-N. Y.
Evening Telegram.
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WoMAN's GRAvE.-I can pass by the tomb
of man with somewhat of calm indifference,
but when 1 survey the grave Of female, a
sigh involuntariiy escapes me. With the molly
name of woman, associate every soft, tender
and delicate affection. 1 think Of her as .ne
young and bashful virgin, with eyes sparkling,
and with cheeks crmsoned with each impas.
stoned sion feeling of the heart; as the chastc and
virtuous matron, tried with the follies of the
world, and preparing for the grave 70 which
she must soon descend. oh, thero is some
thing in contemplating the character of q wo.
man, maj, that raises her soul far above the level
OF society. She is formed to adorn and hu.
manize mankind, to soothc his cares, and
strew his path with flowers. In the hour Of
distress she is the rock on which he leans for
support, and when fate calls him from exis-
tcncc, her tears bedew his grave. Can you
look upon her tomb without enlotion2 Man
has always justice done his memory; woman
never. !. The pages Of history lie open 70 one
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however, oa our continued exertions, and the
liberality of our people in their offers of lands
am now preparing q scheme for aiding the
efforts of this Bureau, and at the same time,
giving an impetus to the industrial develop
ments of our State, which l will. soon have
the honor of submitting to yoar Excelency.
Several planters have already made offers of
donating to industrious settlers, portions Of
their lands; and if such liberality could be-
come general, it would certainly exercise
decided and favorable influence. But our
constant erdeavor should be to induce our
peopletu associate everywhere in the interest
of immigration and industrial progress. A
commencement has been made, but our dis
tress is so general aud our energies seem to
be so benumbed, in consequence OF the en-
barrassments of our labor system, and the In
security of our institutions, that it would be
unjust not to bide patiently for more favora-
BILE Developments in the course of time. Yet,
whoever among US has patriotism, should ex-
ercise it now, with his friends and neighbors,
for the general good. 'a7g'
The General Assembly, at the last session.
added the appropriation Of $4,000 to the
Executive Contingent Fund, for the expenses
of the Bureau of Immigration. Of this
amount, Executive drafts have been made of
$lOO7.22, to cover the following payments,
viz:
For salary of the agent in Scandinavia,
for the year, to April, 1868. Isl, 10000
For salary of the agent in Germany,
for the year, to May, 1863. 10000
For salary of Commissioner for 9
months, up to November Is,
.lSOl.... .....-.... l, l%o'uV
Contingencies, printing and advertising
in Germany .................. ..... 5OU.UO
Contingencies, printing and advertising
in Scandinavia. a..................5G .5G0.O0
For advertising in this State and in the
North, and sundry other expenses. .4GS.51
For postage, box rent and distributing -
expenses. ..............- 80. 10 l.A9
For books, stationery and fuel. ........ $3.50
For stereotype map, printing 5000
pamphlets in English, and 10000
maps Of State, &c................7 1890
For printing supplement No. L.. ....- .lG7.2S
Balance Commissioners contingent. ..424o oO
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A WOMAN CLAIMED BY TWO HUSBANDS
The Rochester Express has an account OF
singular case that has occurred in that city,
in which one woman was claimed as lawful
wife by two husbands, each of whom had
been legally married to her-the last mar ar
riage taking place when the first husband was
believed to be dead. The facts are these:
Two young men were very friendly to each
other. One of them had wife, for whom he
cherished all of loving husbands regards;
the other was all ardent student and expert
mentcr in scientific matters, and bachelcSr--
having devoted himself to perfecting seen
lific instrument to demonstrate a formula
which lie had conceived in his mind.
On the outbreak of the war, the young mar
ried man went into the army and before
doing so, exacted from bis friend promise
that in case &c was slain, and never returned.
he 1.-THE friend at hoinc) would marry his wife
and give her a permanent home and support
With this assurance that lis wife was proyi'
ded for the soldier went to the war. After
while report came that he was killed IN
battle, aud his wife mourncd for her lost hus
band. He did not return, at all events. even
at the end of the war, and after due space
was given 10 mourning, the promise given to
tue absent and supposed to lie deceased sol
dier was fulfilled the widow became the wife
of the husbands friend, and their JOY wa;
crowned by the birth OF a handsome child
OH which the parents doatcd.
There is another Incident in this so far sim
pie tale, which gives it grea;er interest. Soon
after the soldier marched to the South, the
student was taken SILK in his forcrn dormlto
ry, and he WAS believed by his kind physician
to be very near to DEATHS door. lie mus
have careful and constant nursing, or mus,
inevitably die-with the longing Of his sou
unfulGlled. In this emergency, the soldier:
wife, who was earning her livelihood by sew
ing, was called in. She went to the lodgings
of the young man-in block in the centre
of the city-and there nursed him through
the fever, and back to convelescence and Ia
Dor: In this way the lady had established
claim on her own part to the (ulfilnent OF the
pledge given in friendship for her husband.
Now comes the conclusion: A short time
since the long absent soldier reappeared,, ex
planned the reason of his long absence tn
circumstances which detained him we have
not learned,) and claimed his wife The sec
opd husband was 10th to surrender his wife
wso was the mother of his Child also. and M
declined to give her up. The question as t
whah had the best right to the woman wa'
submitted to legal tribunal, and, on the las
day of 1867, the court decided that the hrs
marriage was binding, and the wife must pas,
to the former husband-a decision which oil
parties are understood to abide. What be
comes of the child we have not learned ou
of course the father will have the best rlgh
TO her custody.
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The Lees of Life.


\l4s' The Lees Of Life r
L have had my will, -; q. i'.2 .
. Tasted every pleasure; > .a -:
Ihave drank myf SH'''''' ~. l..i 4 =.
Of the purple measure. a.
It has lost its zcst, ~,
Sorrow is, my guest, -,
Oh the lees. are bitter.-bitter; a.a.l
Give me rest! ,.4 1
Lore once fllcdthc bowl,
Running o'cr with 'blissos,
Made my very.soul s.
Drunk with crimson kisses; o
But drank it dry;
Love has passed mo by;
oA! the lees are bitt'r-bittOr; .lsr .
Let me dio lt.a. ala-, ~
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iibdt the meek and unobtrusive excellencies of
the other sleep with her unnoticed in the
tgrsve. In her may have shone the genius of
:spoet with the virtues Of saint. She, too,
may have passed alcng the sterile path OF ex-
istence, and felt for others as l now feel for
der. r.AMortimer.
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rectlv what you are here for, and who your
accomplices are, or your life shall pay tne
forfeit" =,
"Mercy, mercy, in the name of heaven !, = .
shrieked out the poor, terrified wretch, as nc
staggered to release himself from Harry's
iron grasp "Spare me, entreat you, and
I'll reveal ALL"
HThen tell the truth, and nothing but the
truth, or I'll shoot you as you Deserve" re-
piled Harry, without moving hairs breadth
the muzzle of the pistol. -. 5.
And Dick Howe, in low, faltering tones, re-
vealed, without any attempt at concealment,
the whole story of the will from beginning to
end. That Thomas Sender, to appropriate
to himself the whole of bis fathers property,
and by promise Of one thousand pounds re-
ward, in case he succeeded, had induced Dix.
on to join him that the will had been writ
ten by him, and he had penetrated into the
dead mans chamber, and in presence. OF
Thomas and the two clerks for witnesses, had
affixed, by holding the dead hand EE;ithin his
OWN, his signature to it. He said that he
himself had practised to some extent the art
of ventriloqusm, and was able to initiate al
most any persons manner and gait, as well as
their voice; that Dixon, fearing an exposure
in case legal investigation was made IN the
matter, had hired him to steal the clothes; and
BY means of wig and paint, to personate old
Jacob, and appear to the family in the way
we have seen.
The next day all the sheriffs in the town
were out securing the country for the missing
rogue; but all to no purpose-Dixon had
wisely and prudently decamped. AS for
Thomas, his brother not only generously and
humanely forgave him, but divided equally
with him the inheritance of their father.
Years have passed, great change has
taken place in the old homestead. White
paint and green blinds have added much TO
its appearance; large, handsome piazza
adorns its front, and bay windows its sides; a
green house has been erected, where the old
Shed stood, in VIII l plants, rich and rare,
mc.., 'io"' ioreign importation, bloom
perpetua..y. The grounds, too, have been
laid out with unequalled skill and taste.
Fruit and ornamental trees, and an endless
variety of creeping vine and shrubbery, have
been set out, and flowers of every hue and
description blossom in its spacious gardens.
The old wall has been removed where Dick
Howe took his luckless leap, and thick,
heavy hedge, has arisen in its stead. Earth
can present no fairer, ovclier spot, no freside
more winsome, no home more happy, or hearts
more loving and devoted, than its inmates,
Harry Sender aud his charming family. @
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