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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-10-13
Gg-The Young Mems Conserv,

EWT The Young Mems Conserva,
tive Club, of Harrison county, Texas,
lately passed the following resolu>
tions: "Resolred, That we have ems
rolled our names for the purpose of
carrying out the principles of the
great national Democratic party.
and pledge ourselves wholly to its
support. Resolved, That we will not
give employment, assistance, or pat.
ronage in any manner (after the ex-
piration of the present contracts), to
any man, white or black, whose
name is not enrolled upon some Dem
ocratic club book, and who does not
zealonsly cooperate with the same"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-10-13

Ben. NJ. COATES. The Boscobel
Convention, to nominate candidate
for the ASSEMBLY to represent the
Fourth District, put in nomination
Ben. NJ. Coates. Mr. Coates is one of
the old citizens Of that District, and
has been long in active business
lie never held ar. office, but has Oft
en- refused such Donors Mr.. Coates
has always been republican, though
in early times he was not radical.
But the events of the war sent him
forward even beyond radical ideas
Times we fail to remember we discus
sod without effect radical opinions
with Mr.. Coates, but only the terri
BILE war served to let in. the light
As a man aud citizen we prize Mr..
Coates, and will vouch for his sound
ness politically.
GRANDEsr WoRK1N THE WORLD
The Pacific Railroad it is now be-
licved, will beget for the Unted
States all the war cost and from TIE
first will be worth more to the poo-
pie than they have to pay in the
shape of interest on the public debt.
The United States pay only three
hundred millions Of dollars for this
great work, besides alternate double
sections of land on either side 1t Ia
the costliest and grandest enterprise
ever undertaken in any part of the
world. This work was opposed by
the democratic party, because the
slave states opposed 1.-THE Niger
being in the way.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-10-13
STRAY COLT.

Taken up by the ubscTiber residing on land owned
by him. on Section Il, Town 4, Range 1, in Beete wn
IL 10th Sept 1868, bay two year old past geld
ing horse colt marks. The owner is requested to
prove property, pay charges, and take aail animal
FRANCIS TEBOT
Bceiown Oct 10th, 1865. 1Sw4"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-10-13

An American is driving an omni
bus over the new macadamized road
from Jaffa to Jerusalem.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-10-13
STRAY HEIFER.

Taken up tn premises Of the subscriber in the town
OF Potosi near Rodgers Ferry the 25th Sept one
red and white two year old hefer--n marks The
owner can have said heiier by proving property aud
psyiug charges. JOSEPH F0NDEAU.
PolOsi Sept. % lS6s lQ@4t
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-10-13

"A Boston house lately received
a dispatch from Calcutta in less than
twenty.four hours.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-10-13
How Grant Wouldn't.

The Washington Chronicle has a
story hitting at dire plots by the
President and his friends-plots
against the existence of Congress
and the perpetuity of the Republic
which needed only the absence OF
General Grant for their consumma-
ton. ln pursuance OF their conspir-
acy to get him out of the country.
he was to be sent t. Mexico as kind
of tail to Lew Campbell's kite, but
our hero fatty refused to go. But,
says the Chronicle, a day or two after
this refusal the President returned
to the subject, and urged the embas~
sly on Grant, saying be bad sent for
Sherman to take his place. La the
meantime Congress was about to as
semble, and the air was full OF runs
ors that the President would refuse
to acknowledge the validity of Con,
gress, and attempt TO dispense it by
arms Mr. Johnson had recently
seemed to have peculiar designs il
regard to Maryland. Grant remem-
bered all this, and again declined tc
leave the country, this time in writ
ing. After this he was summoned tc
q full Cabinet meeting, where his de
tailed instructions were read out by
the Secretary or State, as if the OBJ
iectons and refusals had been of NJ
account. They were determined t,
make him 60 whether he would o
motto drive him out of the countr,
which he had saved. Grant was nov
aroused, and, before the whole Cabi
net, declared his unwillingness t
leave. Whereupon the President
not answering Grant, turned to tn
Attorney General, and asked hir
whether there was any reason VIII
Grant should not obey this order
whether he was ineligible to The pc
sition in any way Grant at one
started to his feet and exclaimed
81 can answer that question, M
President, without appealing to tn
Attorney General | am an Ameri
can citizen, have been guilty of n
treason or other crime, and am elie
ible to any civil office to which an
other American is eligible. But tn
is purely civil duty, to which 20
would assign me, and cannot b
compelled to undertake it. Any lie
gal military order you give me | wi
obey but this is civil, not militar
and | decline the duty. No powe
on earth can force me to it," III
President and his Ministers were az
founded and silent, and Grant lie
the Cabinet chamber.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-10-13

sR~ The First Assembly District
Convention nominated Joseph Har>
ris, of Hazel Green for the Assembly.
and J. FL. Evans, of Platteville, for
Supervisor-which nominations give
entire satisfaction.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-10-13

egn. The New York Herald of the
3D. inst. says that "a large m eetine OF
the Irish Rights Association, socie-
ty which numbers in its ranks mum
Der of prominent Irish-A merican citi.
zens and is rapidly extending, met
last night al IL East Broadway
The meeting was called for the pur>
pose Of eliciting from the members OF
the society an expression of opinion
on the duty of Irish Americans IN the
present political crisis. After good
deal Of discussion, which was conduc-
ted in a very good temper. as to the
relative merits of the two great po-
litical parties from an Irish point Of
view, it was declared unanimously
that the Democratic party had forfeit
ted the respect and confidence Of
the Irish masses and should no long.
er be supported"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-10-13

eea.The Vinconnes (Ind.) Gd1ette
says that train loaded with jack
asses was to pass through Salem, Ind,
few days ago. The telegraph oper-
ator circulated "a report in the town
that large delegation of democrats,
with music, was TO pass on the train
at the hour given. Crowds of DEM
ocrats gathered at the depot ready to
cheer. AS the train moved up ven,
cradle possessor Of couple of long
ears stuck his head out of the stock
car and gave q long, agonlzing hee-
haw that fairly shook the hills around,
and CONSERVATION seized the crowd of
democrats, and they instantly disap>
peared.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-10-13

EE- The Tuscaloosa (Ala) Banner
declares thas although that paper is
Democratic, and its editors have been
Democrats all their lives, they cam
not and will not swallow the new
tangled Democracy, now attempted
to be fastened upon the people by
the same leaders who in 1860 brought
on the war, and ruin of the south.
The Banner says it opposed those
leaders then and opposes them now
as the same spirit turks in the bosom
Of those leaders, and if their advice is
followed again it will lead to the
same results as in 1860 The Banner
believes that the aim the Seymour
and Blair party to-day is the same as
was that of the Breckenridge and
Lano party in so Then that paper
supported Douglas and Johnson, and
now it will support Grant and Col>
fax. The State Journal, published at
Montgomery, filings the Grant banner
to the breeze.
JUDGE CHASE ON THE PoLITICAL
SITUATE oN.-Chief Justice Chase ex-
presses himself freely to his friends
concering the political situation. He
feels entirely confident of Grants
election, and not only This, but says
further mat be will be President for
eight years ifhe desires it, for be will
be cautious, will bring good men
around him, will make no serious
blunders, and that his influence upon
the republican party will be to con-
solidate il. On the other hand. Mr..
Chase says in his judgement the dem.
ocratic party will be hopelessly divid
ed, by the fact thatit has fully identi,
fed itself with rebels and rebel ideas,
and this will surely drive off large
Numbers of Northern democrats and
leave the party powerless against the
republicans. Mr.. Chase expects to
be able to sympathize fully with Gen.
eral Grants administration.
peA- The Winterset Iowa) 1Nadi-
soaian tells q good story on one of
the school districts of that county,
where the Democracy are in the as
cendant. The people concluded it
wonld be a good thing to establish a
Sunday School, and had meeting
for that purpose. Everything went
on smoothly until the matter of pur
chasing library came up. One
thought they bad better buy Of the
Baptist Publication Society, another
of the Methodist and so on, until fin
ally Republican suggested as it was
a Union School, they should buy OF
the Union Publication Society An
old Democrat Immediately arose and
said he thought it great pity that
days they must bring politics
even into the Sunday School. For
his part he didn't want any Union
books
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-10-13

HSg" Alex Mitchell the democratic
candidate for Congress in the Mil
yankee District, supports Grant and
Colfax. This is obliging indeed, and
shows the elasticity of democracy
Some have doubted whether the par
ty would have supported Chase for
President, but the like is undeniablc.
They would support Fred. Douglass
or any other Niger Democracy,
since its descent into treason along
with its Southern wing, stops at
nothing. Four years ago during the
heat of the war it was for peace. 1t is
now for war and Alex Mitchell. a
wool dyed Johnson republican.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-10-13

s<s- Howell Cobb, Bucbanan's Cab
met officer who stole all the funds in
the Z. S. Treasury and then resigned
to help the Confederacy died the
otherday ofapplexy. He was stump
ing Georgia for Seymour but was in
n Y. at the time Of bis death
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-10-13

Errors CCRREcTED.-rhe Boston
Pilot, prominent Catholic paper, has
investigated the charge of Colfax
having been a Know Nothing years
ago, and finds the charge totally
false "Colfax," says the Pilot, "du-
ring the days of Know Nothingism,
made several speeches of warning to
the young men to stay away from
Know Nothing lodges"
The Pilot has also taken the pains
to learn the facts as to the alleged
drunkenness Of Grant and reports as
follows: "He may have drank in the
army, though probably not to excess,
as his successes were anything but
drunken triumphs. But at Washing
ton and at home in Galena, since the
war, his habits have not only been
temperate but totally abstaining."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-10-13

CARPENTER.-Matt IL. Carpenter
and w. S. Carter, Of Milwaukee,
spoke at Lancaster on Thursday ev,
ening last The Court House was
full to overlooking Carpenters
speech, we have herd many say,
was certainly never excoIlod for abil-
ity in argument and for plainness.-
He made all things so easy that none
tailed to understand. The Recon>
struetioa and Bond questions were
explained at great length and with
rarfnrt satisfaction 10 oil
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-10-13

Three of the spans of the
bridge across the Mississippi, from
Dubuque to Dunlieth, are completed,
and the draw is nearly ready for the
iron work. Three piers are yet to
be built. One Of the abutements is
nearly finished, and the other we'll
along. The tunnel through the bluff
on the Dunleith side of the river is
so nearly finished that men pass
through from end to end
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-10-13
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Comprising every variety and novelty in
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-11-19

fowls. They NOPE around the barnyard,
tipping over the hayracks and stepping on
the yung goslins, aud every now and then
crow confusion.
If emmy body should give me shanghi
rooster, should halter him, and keep him
in a box stall, and feed him on cut feed,
and if he would work kind in a harness,
all right; if not, would butcher him the
fust wet day that cum, and salt him dow n
tew Civ tew the poor.
But thare amt noboddy a going tew Civ
me one ov this breed, knot if know it /
don't think there IL man on earth mean
enough tew do it.
BOOSTERS do but very little household
work. They wont lay emmy eggs, nor try
to hatch emmy, nor see tew the young ones.
This satisfys me that there is some truth
in the NEUROLOGICAL ackount ov the roost-
er's first origin.
1u kant get a rooster to pay emmy atten-
ton to a yung one. They spend their
time In growing and strutting, and occa-
sionally find a worm, which they make q
remarkable fuss over, calling up theil
wifes from a a distance, apparently to trea
them, but, just az the lens get thale, this
elegant and elaborate cuss bends over anC
gobbels up the morsel
Just Ike q man, for all the ,Uorld
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-11-19
First Locomotive In America

Major Horatio Allen, the engineer of
the New York and Erie Railroad, gives
the following account of the first trip made
by locomotive on this continent:
When was it Where was il? And
who awakened It's energies and directed
its movements? 1t was in the year 1928,
on the banks of the Lackawaxen, at the
commencement of the railroad connecting
the canal of the Delaware and Hudson
Canal Company with their coal mines
and he who addresses you was the only
person on that locomotive The circum-
stances which led TO my being on the road
were these
a The road had been built in the summer.
The strntig was OF b bbfmloGk u timber apd
rails of large dimensions, notched on caps
placed far apart. The timber had crack
ed and warped from exposure to tue sun.
After about three hundred feet of straight
line, the road crossed the Lackawaxen
creek on trestle work about thirty feet
high, with a curve of three hundred and
fifty-ive to four hundred feet radius. The
impression was very general that the iron
monster would either break down the road
or leave the track at the curve and plunge
into the creek.
My reply to such apprehensions was
that it was too late to consider the proba-
bility of such occurrences there was no
other course than to have a trial made of
the strange animal which had been bro't
there at great expense, but that it was not
necessary that more than one should be
involved IN its fate; that l would take the
first ride alone, and the time would come
when should look back to the incident
with great interest.
AS pressed my hand on the throttle
valve handle l was undecided whether |
would move slowly or with fair degree
of speed, but believing that the road would
prove safe, and preferring that if we did
go down, to go handsomely and without
any evidence of timidity, l started with
considerable velocity, passed the curve
over the creek safely, and was soon out of
hearing of the vast assemblage. at the
end of two or three miles reversed the
valve, and returned without accident, hav-
ing thus made the first railroad trip by
locomotive on the Western hemisphere.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-11-19

Farmer Burton, who lived iu a lonely
house on the edge of his own private
prairie, was famous sleeper in general,
before tie dawn, and, though he turned
and turned again, he could sleep no more
So at last he said to his good wife, whom
he had kindly awakened to inform her of
his unaccountable insomnolence, Sits no
use ; I'll just get up and dress myself, and
have a look at the comet"
The next that worthy woman heard
from her wakeful spouse was a hasty
summons at the door. 1t seems that no
sooner did he step forth from his house
than his eyes fell on strange, portentous
shape hanging in large pear tree about
twenty yards distant He could see no
likeness in It to anything earthly. and he
half fancied it might be the comet, who,
having put out his light, had come down
there to perch. In his fright and perplex-
ity he did what every wise man would do
in like extremity he called upon his
valiant wife. Reinforced by her he drew
near the tree, cautiously reconnoitering
Surely never pear tree bore such fruit.
Suddenly there descended from the
thing plaintive, trembling little voice ::
'.Please take US down we are very cold. :"
Then a second little voice said stAnd
hungry, too please take US down %
why, who are yous And where are
you 20
The first little voice said: "We are
Mr.. Harwood's little boy and girl, and we
are lost in balloon
The second little voice said, ''It is US
and we runned away with balloon
! Please take US down"
Dimly pretending the situation, the
/ farmer, getting hold of dangling rope,
succeeded in pulling down the balloon.
He first hfted out little Johnny, who
ran rapidly few yards towards the house,
then turned round and stood for a few
moments, curiously surveying the balloon.
Tba-fssiithful little sister was SO chilled
and exhausted thai she she had to be carried
into the house, where, trem0IEfs-,Ii' Ii'.o y
+ sobbing, she told the wonderful story.
/ Before sunrise mounted messenger
was dispatched to the Harwood home,
with glad tidings of great JOY. He
reached it in the afternoon, and few
hours later the children themselves arrived,
in state, with banners and music, and
conveyed in a covered hay-wagon and
four.
Joy~bells were rung in the neighboriny
town, and in the farmers little brown
house the happiest family on the conti-
nent thanked God that night
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-11-19
ROOST

BY prof j billings.
Thare is not on the whole horizon ov
live natur more pleazing and strengthen
ing study than the Rooster. This re-
markable package of feathers has bin for
ages food for the philosophik as well as
the simply curious mind. They belong
to the feathered sekt denominated poultry,
and are the husbands of menny wives. =
In Utah it is konsidered a disgrace tew
speak disrespeckfuI ov a rooster. Brig
ham Young's coat ov arms is a rooster, in
full blast, Growing till lie is almost bent
over double backward.
The flesh oy the rooster is very similar
tew that ov the hen it is hard tew distin-
guish the diffiance, espeshly in yure soup.
Roosters are the pugilists amung the do
mestik burds ; they wear the belt, and
having no shoulder TO strike from, they
strike from the heel.
Roosters, according to profane history,
if mi edukashun remembers me right, were
formerly man, who come suddenly upon
one ov the heathen gods, at time when
he want prepared tew sec company, and
waz, for that offense, rebuilt over into the
fust rooster, and waz forever afterward
destined tcw crow, kind ov warning.
This change from man akounts for their
fighting abilities, and for their politeness
tew the hens. Thare is nothing in mau
that woman admires more than his read
mess and ability tew smash another fell
low, and it iz jiss so with a hen. When
a rooster gifts licked, the hens all march
eff with the other rooster, if he aint haf
SO big or handsome.
1t IL pluck that wins hen or a woman.
Thare il great variety ov pedigree
among the rooster race, but for stiddy biz
ness Civ me the old fastened dominique
rooster, short legged, and when they walk
they alwus strut, and their buzzums stick
out like aIderman's abdominal cupboard.
This breed is hawk-colored, and has a
crooked tail on them, arched like sickle,
and az full Nv feathers az new duster.
But when you come right down to grit,
and throw all outside influence overheard,
there amt nothing on earth, nor under it,
that can out-style, out-step, out-brag, or
out-pluck reglar Bantum rooster.
They alwus put me in mind ov a very
small dandy, practicing before looking
glass.
They don't weigh more than 80 ounces,
but they make az much fuss az tun. /
have seen them trying tew pick a quarrel
with two hoss wagon, and don't think
they would hesitate tew fight meeting
house If it waz the least sassy tew them.
1t seems tew be necessary that there
should be sumthing outrageous in every
thing, tew show US WHARF propriety ends
and improperly begins. This IL the mel
ancholly case in the rooster affair, for we
hav the shanghi rooster, the greatest out
rage, in my opinyun, ever Committed in
the annals of poultry.
These critters are the cameIs amung
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-11-19
0risinal 4Oettg
JUSTICE STILL LIVES +:
BY ANTONIA.


Freemen what tho the Day was not yours?
What tho your labor is spent on the air ?
Justice has ever, and still she insures
Success for the Right-so never despair!
Because this fair land is by tyrants NOW crushed,
Think you that Justice s consigned to the
grave
Never I! till Hope in your bosoms is hushed-
Then, and no sooner, each freeman s a slave,
Will you calmly look on and see the flag that
you bore
Insulted. and styled the Emblem of Shame?
Will you wait till in chains on the dark dun
geon floor
Stand off and hear tyrants curse Washington g
name 7
VIII you wait till the despots have accomplish d
their end
Or now will you boldly stand forth for the
Right?
VIII you list while they promise to you to amend,
Or hurl them as traitors from power and
might?
IF ever fair Justice gave this good land breath,
Again shall she come and revive our desire
A gain shall she wake from this torpor of death,
And pass FER this land in whirlwind of fire.
In the very defeat that you now have sustained
Good victory smiles, and bids you come
So unfurl your proud banner, fair and unstain d
And say to these ungodly usurpers, Begone!
And what, tho, ere peace on this fair land may
dawn,
The bones of our heroes must bleach or the
plain
Thank God they will know that the swords
they have drawn
By those who survive will be sheathed with
out stain