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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17
n<a 1t apears 10 DO quite eyiden

n@- 1t spears 10 be quite evident
that the members of the State Legis.
lature are determined to give the
people an opportunity of voting upon
the proposition of giving money to
railroads TO be built hereafter We
have yet to read an argument of any
weight in behalf of this project, and
there are hundreds against it. It is
nothing but an attempt at an i'm
mense steal under the guise of devel-
oping resources and opening up the
thinly populated sections Of the
State. If submitted to the people,
we have no doubt when the time
comes for the expression of their
opinion, that the amendment will
meet with Waterloo defeat at their
hands. as it deserves.-Bcloit journal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17

THE CoPPERHEADS insist that ohm.
son has a right to believe any law
unconstitutional and refuse to en-
force it until the question of its cons
stitutionality has been determined
by the courts. We presume no
Democrat will question the Democ>
racy or ability as a lawyer or states
man of Hon. Robert j. Walker
Listen to what he says concerning
the duty OF obedience to law on the
part of executive officers:
Il called" says Mr.. Walker, upon
General Thomas early on Saturday
morning, at the War Office, and
communicated to him in a friendly
way my opinion that any such order
would be nudity, and would sub.
ject him TO serious consequences, es-
pecially if any such collision should
occur. | told him that he had no
right, nor hal the President, to dis
obey a law of Congress upon the as
sumption that it was demonstrations
al, and that if this were not so the
President might set aslde all the laws
of Congress since the foundation of
the government, upon the ground
that they were unconstitutional
That the President possessed no such
power, because it was not an execu>
tive, but exclusively judicial pow
or, and that all the laws of Congress
must be obeyed and executed by the
President, unless their execution was
restrained by the highest judicial
authority. That to declare a law
unconstitutional was not only the
exercise of judicial power, but the
highest judicial power, and only to
be resorted to by the courts where,
in their Judgment, the act was clears
ly UNCONSTITUTIONAL, and that in all
doubtful cases the court had uniforms
ly refused to interfere with the ex-
ecution of the law"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17
Reputation and Whaling.

a democrat paper in st. Louis call
ed the Repadiator devotes most Gifts
space 10 advocating Reputation OF
the National debt. 1t says few 9TH
ers than constitution destroyers and
President impeachers are advocating
a payment Of that debt which was q
fraud from the first and created for
unconstitutional purpose.
These southern organs learned
nothing by the war. They still play
the same tune as before-one of which
is, that everything which diffess from
their notions is unconstitutional. We
guess there's no help but to whale
'em agar, and next time tax every
dollar of the costs uron their proper
~
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17
General Spinner as a Religious En-
thQsiast.

The Treasurer of the United States
is the homliest man GU earth-as a@y
one may see by referring to his like
ness on the fifty cent postage stamps
When l was introduced to him at
breakfast, he smiled--and it broke a
saucer. In the course of his remarks
be CHANGED to smile again-and it
broke plate. Out of sympathy for
the landlord, | checked this calami
tous cheerfainess by deity changing
the subject to funerals. But it was
another matter | wished to speak
of. Now, many people arc not aware
OF it, outside of his church, but Gen
Spinner is devout and sensitively
conscientious Methodist, in religion,
and in politics is radical. But even
the purest of us are not safe from cal
umny-as | know from my own ex
peronce. 1t began to be whispered
around that under very trying and
extraordinary circumstances, Gen.
Spinner was guilty Of swearing little
sometimes. Tho church took the
matter in hand as quietly as possible,
and appointed discreet sister (the
growing mourner of husband and
three gallant brothers slain in the
war; to inquire into the matter. In,
stead of gathering evidence at sec
ond hand, she went to the headquar-
ters; she posted herself among a
crowd of waiting ones in the Gener,
ais Office. The old man was alb,
sorbed in business, and working away
like a steam engine. File after file
of men passed before him, and he
shot his decisions at them in sharp,
curt sentences as they moved on
Finally a tall, handsome man APP
pros ched, and handed in his docu-
ments for examination. The Gener-
al ran his eye down the pages, and
thunder. cloud settled portentiously
upon his countenance. He threw
down the papers and shook his fist
tiercely in the gentlemans face, and
said:
You are to come TO me with thisl-
You bring a paper here, signed by
the President of the United States.
setting forth that when you deserted
from the regular army to go and
fight four years against your coun-
try. there were four months paw
coming to you from the Government
you SO outraged, and ordering me to
pay You these arrearagesl I'd see
you and the President a hundred
million miles in the hottest hole In
hell first"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17

THE TAX ON WHIsKEY.-Congress
has been in session nearly three
months. The revenue has been de
frauded day by day, for eighty days
of at least a 100000 day! And
the fact of this appalling condition is
known to every member of Congress.
But nothing has been done. Mean
time, the work of robbery and de>
moralization goes on, the whiskey
ring growing stronger the govern
ment weaker, revenue officers either
corrupted or discouraged, and the
public sentiment turning from the
question with disgust.-Philadelphia
Commercial list.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17
The Lords Day.

Richard Hooker-"We are to ac-
count the sauctifcation of one day in
seven duty which Gods immutable
law doth exact forever"
Justice McI.ean-"Where there is
no Christian Sabbath, there is no
Christian moraity "; and without this
free institutions cannot long be sus>
tanned"
Archbishop Lcighton-.'The very
life of religion doth much depend on
the solemn observance of the Sabbath;
consider, If we should but intcrmit
the keeping of it for one year, what
a height of profaneness would ensue
in those that fear not God !"
DR.. T. MISUNDERSTANDING that
our need of a Lords Day is as great
as ever it was, and that, therefore, its
observance is Gods will, and is likely
80 far as we see, to be so to the end
of time, shout think it most mis-.
chievous results to weaken the re.
spect paid to it."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17

nA- Hon. John Stuart Mill, in his
pamphlet on the discomfort of the
Irish people. says it has assumed a
desperate form of disaffection which
''does not demand to be better gov
"erned, which asks US for no benefit,
'no redress of grievances, not even
'any reparation for injuries, but
sssimply to take ourselves off and rid
"the country of our presence
Mr.. Mill prescribes land reform as
one of the chef remedies tor the cure
of the disaffection. He opposes the
barbarous measures heretofore and
now resorted to for quietiug and
lquelliug Irish grievances.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17

SENSIBLE PRoposITIcN.-We see by
the Lacrosse Republican, that Gen.
G. G. Washburn proposes to fill the
vacancy in q Cadetship at West
Point for the Sixth District, which
will occur in June, by an examina~
ton by board CT examiners, con-
sisting of Rev. Father Marco, of the
Catholic Church, Rev. n. Chaplin, of
the Congregational Church, and
some gentlemen to be appointed
hereafter, aud whoever they find
most competent and worthy will be
appointed. This reward of merit
which will be worth having, and it
IS an excellent way OF awarding the
Cadetship.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17

nara Democratic leader in Mars
shall, Mich, made speech the other
day which, if brevity is the soul of
wit, is witty to a fault At all events,
brief as it is, it expresses the soul of
Democracy, and we copy it for the
benefit of callow Copperhead orators,
who will save themselves and their
hearers much trouble by adopting it,
He said: "Gentlemen, am no speech
maker; but d-n the niggersl DIN
the Renublicansl"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17

f@A young lady, while walking
at party recently, met with very
sad accident, which should put 9TH
ers on their guard. She was shack
ing" in the dance, when her foot
caught in her dress, and she fell with
great force on the back of her head,
becoming instantly insensible. She
is in critical state. The fall caused
four large pins which were fastened
in her ckigpon to prierce her skull
and brain.-Boston transcript.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17
ma The Boston Journal saws: 81

bA-Tne Boston Journal says: "a
report has been printed that Presi>
dent Johnson would escape impeach-
ment, even if found guilty, through
the influence ofthe Masonic members
of the Senate. If be depends upon
this loop>hole his chances are very
small, for mans Masonic obliga>
tons are not political in the slightest
degree. Such paragraphs are made
up by foolish reporters in Washing
ton, who are in search of sensation
item. This one is scarcely worthy of
contradiction"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17
wThe Evenino Star of Philadel-

w The Erening Star of Philadel-
phia publishes the following despatch
from Washington: sit is well as
certained, on the authority of the
Hon. r. J, Walker, that at least TO-
900 thoroughly armed and well-dis-
cipIined troops, known as the Mary
land militia. are in readiness to march
to the Capital if asked to do so by
the President. These men are for
the most pait ex >rebels, who served
during the war in the Confederate
army"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17

rm-A drunkard in CharIestown,
Mass, bad the horrors, and was there
after Frustrated by illness. His wife
got barrel of whiskey, put it at the
head of his bed, and arranged it SO he
could fill himself at any time. lie
looked at the barrel day, and resol
we'd TO drink no more, VOW be has
religiously kept for three years.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17

Ey Mr.. e. Robbins, of Arena, in
this County, writes to the Wisconsin,
Farmer for February, that he planted,
last year, one half peek of each of the
Goodrich and Harrison potatoe, from
which be raised four aud one half
bushels Of the Goodrich Oh one rod
and one eight Of a rod OF !, round, and
five bushels Of the Harrison on the
amount Of ground all by actual
measurement ?-Mtnerat Pt. Demo-
crdt.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17

s9-A good way to stop our Indian
wars is to run railroads through the
Territories. An Omaha editor calls
for railroads all through Nebraska.
Railroad locomotives sre the en-
ergizers of civilization and the con-
.queror of the Indian. The Union
Pacific Railway and its contemplated
extensions will do more to subdue In
dams than dozen lum bering armies,
with or without banners.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17

The ONO PLATFoRM-The Re-
publican State Convention of Ohio
passed the following resolutions;
"Resolred, That the Republican
party pledges itself to the faithful
payment of the public debt according
to the laws under which the five-
twenty bonds were issued. Said
bonds should be paid in the curren>
.cy of the country which may be q
legal tender when the government
shall be prepared to redeem such
bonds -
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17

w The first conviction for mur>
der the Civil Rights bill, has just
been had in Kentucky. The case
was that of William Bell, indicted
for the murder of Tony Candiff, a
colored man, in Daviess County, in
1866. Bell was convicted on the
testimony of colored men. The case
will be taken to the Supreme Court
of the United States, for the purpose
of testing the constitutionahty of the
Civil Rights law.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17

psa-John Lee, of Vernon, VT,
died recently at the age of ninety
seven years. His wife, to whom he
had been married seventy years, sur
wives him in her ninety five year.
and WIS able to attend bis remains
to the grave.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17

A New CURRENcY.-Ap proposition
is before Congress to call in the notes
under twenty-five cents, and the
small coins now in circulation, and
substitute for the whole OF them q
uniform coinage of one, three, five
and ten cent token coins of the same
material and relative weight as the
present five cent nickel coin. 1t is
proposed that this coinage shall be
upon the basis of one gram in weight
for each cent of represented or nom
inal value; the one, three, five and
ten cent coins to be one, three five
and ten grams in weight, respective
ly. Or, if the French gram is not an
acceptable standard of weight, that
the tr y grain shall be substituted,
IN which case it is proposed that the
weights shall ne ten grains to each
cent of nominal value, making the
three cent coin thirty grains, the five
cent coin fifty grains, and the ten
cent coin one hundred grains.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17
TAFTON HOUSE.

BLOOMINGTON. Wis:
a. w. HARGBR, PROPRIETOR,
uas leased FOR term Of PEARS DIS well Known rAvres
Wousu Of aEana SGD 1srsby fcAs the travelling pub
- Nhat ever vnns will be aiken y make all who may
~ o. Aim 90 afoEtasis sad OF homo
60 aarsfHl asstleT always on hALd, 10 tAat thsre
,~HI hsHe neomsiN hr cay oae 70 "hNh up" hts OWE
eeGM.
BlosminsSa. Msyls, iSc7.-ly'
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17
The Impeachment.

A Washington dispatch to the
Chiago Tribune has the following as
TO the programme .sd ara 49, fs8as.3
1.-The President slawyers intend to
show that the whole practice for all
administration has been TO remove
under the constitution, and that the
Tenure of office bill is an act so pal>
pably unconstitutional as to justify
Mr.. Johnson in regarding it the same
as If an act bad been passed saving
be should send no messages to Con-
gress when the Constitution says he
shall. To meet the Butler and Bing-
ham articles, however, they find no
presidents, and these really give
them considerable trouble. II is un.
derstood that the counsel for the de.
fence will first challenge various
Senators for instance, Mr.. Wade on
the ground of interest, and Messrs.
Sumner, Chandler and others for
having expressed opinions. Next
they will contend that the Senate is
Court, and that the president has
a right to have full Court present,
and that ten states with their twen-
ty members of the Court are absent.
If the votes upon these two points
should be strongly against them as
few now doubt it will be, then the
next step, it is thought, will be for
long continuance. If this should be
refused, and the time granted only of
moderate length, it is stated by some
in the Presidents counsel, that he
may offer his resignation on the
ground that such votes and refusal
BODIED no good TO him, and that a
resignation would save him from the
political disabilities following from
impeachment. As to the challenge
of Senators, the Board of Managers
have looked into the question closes
~, and find that all tho presidents in
England and in this country are en-
tirely against any such right"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17

aa- Mr. George Francis Train apoi.
ogizes to the Revolution for the brew
ity of his letter, because he is in deep
correspondence with the authorities
on the purchase of Ireland for $3.50
000, 900 in gold
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17

RG~The Belfast Me.) Age says that
the experiment of building wire
fences by roadsides to proven. snow
from drifting proves to be success
ful. 1t has been tried in that negh-
borhood, and the result has been all
that could be wished.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17

sn-The theory Of free trade is be-
ing practically abandoned in Eng
land. Even Mr.. Gladstone in re-
cent speech does not defend it. For
the want of sufficient protection of
80 1000 taliors in London 5000 are
SUM, in the depths Of misery.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17

w England is now second rate
power, Napoleon hates her, Bismark
rules her, and she cannot help a
friend because Ireland will stab her
in the back; she will never be = frst
power until she practices justice.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17
MANSION HOUSE,
Lancaster, Wis

Mas. MARY HYDE & CONS. PRoPRIEToRs.
Thankful for the catering patronage heretofore
landed 20 the MANSION we give notice that the
iR,ass w Be well kept IS heretofore By the Ssh
scribers
Tbs stable On the premises enc Of the best in the
soantTy. :.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17
pea The municipal election in

Bea- The municipal election in Mem.
phis on the 7th inst. resulted in the
choice Of the Republican ticket by
from 1900 to 1000 majority. The
Republicans also elected their ticket
in Nashville by small majority.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17

rA- The south has for years worked
against freedom, and now it Is said
that the South is starving; of course
she is, she has banished brains.
There has not been man bred in
the south tor the last thirty years
who could build a railroad. The
South has no mechanical talent. She
has for years held that it was not
gentIcmanly TO work. That has been
the lesson she was taught.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17
6otels.
JAMESTOWN HOTEL,

Jamestown. VIE.
l. W sIsSoN PR0eRIYr0R.
The above house, long kept . Hotel Is large and
uell arranged The Hall 10 arranged for parties Good
gtablirR attached NI.u
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17

s6y-The depth Of frost in the
ground this winter is pronounced by
railroad men greater than for any
winter for forty years.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17

f@- Ward Eleven, Boston, pays
5000, 900 income tax yearly This
is an hundredth part of the total tax
of the United States.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17

cySt. Louis has contracted with
Pittsburg firm for four Cornish
Bull pumping engines for its water
works-each with lifting capacity
of II, O0), 900 gallons per day. Cost,
$3.50, 900.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17

lNsENsIBILITY From CoLD.-By
the local application of sufficient
degree of cold, insensibility car be
produced in any desired part, so that
q man with most exquisiteIy painful
wound on his armed, or felon on his
finger, can now look quietly down,
in his perfect senses, upon the most
difficult operations without giving
him the least pain. Modern science
has constructed an instrument by
which vapor of ether, or other VIOLA
tile substance, is thrown out In the
form OF spray, which so rapidly
absorbs the natural heat of the parts
of the body exposed to its operations
as to produce perfect insensibilitv to
pain, without the loss of volition or
consciousness.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17

sez@Tbe Boston wool trade is re.
wing; 100000 pounds were sold
last week, ne firm selling over 400,
600 pounds.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17
CARRIER HOUSE,
BneCt,l1el. VIC.

BOeCoi0el, Wis.
T. CARRIER, :; PRoPRIEr0R
Meals provided before Car time and Patrons assisted
with Baggage Proaptnsss and delays st the Carrier
Honae. Nsblanq attaehad.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17
LANDFOR RENT.

hAvsoue hundred acre " prairie. rev breaking,
q kue condition Sns mls vest OF divers Nils. Glen
Haven for rent fappled foT sooa W. = p1mki
LancAster Wis, Hsreh 10th. lass $o'I
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17
LANCASTER HOUSE,
OrneT Of Main ana spring StreFts,l

q
Lancaster, WiE-
c JEHIEL HYDE, ; ; PROPRIETOR.
Having bought the above House and re ntted and re-
furnished IT, prepared 20 give every attention 20
the accommodation ei guests and will provide Gooo
table and clean beds. g0od hostSr always on hand
lO-Sm~
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17

ABOUT TIN.-The tin mines in
Cornwall have been worked for 3 600
years. They are now yielding $500
tons per annum. The Spanish tin
mines have been known nearly as
long as the Cornish ones. Tin was
first discovered in Bohemia and Mics
sen in the 18th century. There are
tin mines in Saxony, France, Sweden
and Siberia; also in Peru, Chill, Boz
livia, and Mexico. Those ia Mexico
and South America were at work at
the time of Cortez's invasion. The
United States imported tin to the
value s6,000,000 in 1860. 1t chiefly
came from the Maylay peninsula.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17
ENNOR HOUSE.


PotOsi. Wis.
Wv. HODGES PROPRIETOR.
Ihave taken and refuruished the shove heuss. Ny
tables will be supplied With the best the country can
AFFORD A Eood barn lie attached to the promises At
teptivs hostlers always hand. The travelling public
will nnd IL 10 their bsneat to give call. 10 ms
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17
Notarirs Public,
JESSE BROOKS,

NOTARY PUBLIC
Aren't for War Claims and Bounties, Land ConveyAn-
ser will prepare aud Deeds and ohsr Legal
paua-s Real and Personal Estate Agent. All sorts OF
Blanks kept on hand for any business
Collections promptly made and paid. Revenue
stsmRs always on Land.
TAFTON, WIS 4s-tf
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17

How THE PYRAMIDS WERE Built
"fhe stones were brought from the
opposite side OF the valley of the
Nile, twelve or fifteen miles dis,
tant. The first work was to build a
great cause way or road, over which
to transport the stones. Herodotus
says one. hundred thousand men were
employed ten years on this part of
the work. After this preparatory
work, came the leveling of the rocky
foundation, the cutting out of sub,
terranean chambers, and elevation
of the huge masses of stones. This
work, the same writer says, occupied
three hundred and sixty thousand
men twenty years. These men were
drafted by the authority Of tyrant
sovereign, as men are drafted 10 time
of war; each levy serving a number
of months, then others taking their
places. "-Rer. d. A. Randall,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17
w. R. CLARK,

NOTARY PUBLIC
Deeds aui Other land conveyAnees drawn sad &C
knowisdged Prompt attention given 10 the prepare
ton Of Mortgages Bonds, and sill legal iustrumsnts
PATCH GROVE, WIS.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-17
j. III. SNECLGDE,

Will make out Deeds. Mort cages, and others papers
cSnAeysncing sAds, bounty claims back pay and PEN
slons applied for under u. g. Laws.
CAssVILLE, WIS.