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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-02-04

How FASHION DETERMINES THE
VALUEoF FIRs.-The following is the
Introduction to far dealers adver>
tisement IN the Toledo papers Il
entered the fur trade just quarter of
a century ago, paying Is cents for
mink, % cents for muskrats, and 81
for little, yellow martin skins. Dur
ing these twenty-five years there has
been some wide ranges of prices. |
sold a lot of mink for $500 that now
would have brought $4,000. Then,
again, have sold lot OF coon for
$4,000 that in London, to- day,
would not bring $4,000. The little
martin skin is now worth the same
price Of a yellow dog skin-two shil.
lings. The opossum has been worth
from three cents to sixty; and now
down to eight cents. War has been
one cause of these fluctuations but
that mightier power than army, FASH
ior, has done the most. While the
combined armies OF Europe could on
lv put down coon and skunk so per
cent, that powerful goddess, fashion,
run IS cent mink up to S15, and
knocked the big black lynx mutf
down to four hillings. III should be
fortunate enough to see my golden
wedding in the fur trade, l expect to
be shaking the black skunk skim
worth more than the mink"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-02-04
Gen, Grant a Pennsylvania.

The Greensbnrg Herald OF the 8th
inst. claims the General as a native of
Westmoreland county, Penn, and
thus asks for further proof to corrob>
crate the evidence il already has on
this subject. The following is the
Herdtd'S statement
1t may be known to bat very few
persons in this country chat the faith
er Of General u. S. Grant, was born
in Westmoreland county. The old
gentleman says that is so, and that
his fathers name was Noah Grant,
who was q shoemaker, and lived sew
eral miles west of Greensburg The
old gentleman has expressed 10 Mr.
Covode desire TO visit this country,
and the particular spot where he was
born. Can any of the old settlers III
Hempfeld or North Huntingdon
township have any recollection Of
Noah Grant and where BE lived ?
Ii any one can give MS Information on
the matter, we will see tdat tue Old
gentleman is put in possession Oft
If we can get Authentic knowledge OF
the spot, the citizens Of the counts
will most likely be favored with q
visit from the father Of our General
and the next President Of the United
States
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-02-04
Great Fire in Chicago.

CHICAGO, Jan. 30.
The fire last night was the most
destructive that has ever visited us.
The list Of losses was hastily prepar.
ed and consequently imperfect. The
following list is given ia the Times
this morning; j. NJ. Bnrch, owner
of the building from SO to 43 Lake
street, 100000. This building was
erected nine years ago at a cost of
1888, 900. Insured for $50, 000.-
5. c. Griggs & Co., the largest book
house in the West, $175, 900; insur-
ed tor 1925. 30; Fisk, Kirkland 4 Co,
boots and shoes, 500. 600; fully in
sured Resented Bros, hats, caps,
and furs, s75. 900; insured for $50, 900;
McDougal, Niclos 4 Abbott, whole>
sale dealers in boots and shoes, 1925, /,
600; insured for $3.50 600; Schaeafedt
& Co., clothiers, 80, 000-insured 25,
600 Harvard, cartridge & Hanover,
hardware, 100 000-insured 10000;
Manning Bros & Co, notions, 100,
OOO-insured 10000, Seaman and
Strauss, furnishing goods, $50, 1000
insured 5000; kellogg K Co, hats,
caps and furs, IS, 0O0-insured 35,
600. All the above occupied Burch's
building, Smaller losses to other
occupants of the building, and dam
age by heat to the buildings on the
street directly opposite, will proba.
bly, reach $4,000 The loss and in
surance at the second fire, which de
stroyed the buildings.,from No. 4 to
40 Lake, are given as follows:
Whitney g. Co., boots and shoes,
100000; insured $4,000; Seymour,
Carter Il Co, hosiery, $50, 900; insur-
ed tor $50, 900; Carson, Pierce & Co.,
dry goods, s100,00O-fully insured;
Merrill & Hopkins, crockery, $35, 900;
insured for S25, 900; Foreman Bros.
$75, 0O0-insured for S45,-
600; Burnham & Van Setback, drugs,
1925, O00-insured for 200 900; Keith,
Wood 4 Co., dry goods, s80,000-in>
sured for $50, 900; Fitch, Williams &
Co, hats caps and turs, SIS, 00O-in~
sured for $4,000; c. N. Henderson
l. Co., wholesale dealers in boots and
shoes, S125, 0O0-insured for 800, 600;
Pierce & Co., clothing, $780,
OOO-insured for $40, 900. The builds
ings were owned by Fl. A. Lain,
G. III. Mccormick and Baptiste Law
yer, and were valued at $500, 900; in
sured for S250,000. Insurance men
are not prepared to give q correct res
port Of losses.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-02-04

AN ARTIST CRIPPLE,-Boston low
ers of art are delighted with an ex :
quisite little dra wing, the production
ola poor crippled English weaver
named John Carter, who drew and
painted it with his mouth alone, with
out instruction or assistance. He
died in 1853. His whole body, ex>
cept his head and neck, was paralyzed,
A visitor, about year after his dis
abling paralysis, loaned him a book
containing an account Of a young
woman, who losing the use of her
hands, amused herself by drawing
with her month. The account inte>
rested Carter, and he determined to
try to do the same thing. After long
continued efforts. he succeeded by
slow degrees in becoming marvellous.
1y efficient. "Resting upon his
couch, he has his paper fixed to a
desk, which was placed almost per-
pendicular before him and in close
proximity to his face. With his
head inclined toward the right side,
with his hair pencil between his teeth,
he produced, by means Of the motion
OF neck, assisted by his lips and
tongue, the most beautiful turned
strokes His wife or sister assisted
him only in filling the brush from the
palette with India ink, and placing it
between his lips, be continued to twirl
it rapidly round so as to bring it to a
fine pcint for use.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-02-04
Negro Scholarship.

tbs in the creed of many good peo>
pie that negroes cannot become schol ,
airs. 1t is not denied that negro
children acquire the rudiments OF ed>
ucation very easily, but a favorite ar.
gument is that when'a certain point
IN study is reached the negro student
stops short and can go no further
We commend to the perusal Of these
doubters the following extract of a
letter lately written by Rev. <. R.
Bower, q professor in Lincoln Uni
versity at Oxford, Pennsylvania
"You are, no doubt, anxious to
know something about the capacity
and department Of the students. OF
course | do not consider the African
superior to the anglo saxon but this
| must say, that l find no difference
in their ability to acquire knowledge.
| am now hearing class recite in
Anabasis, who commenced Greek
about year ago, and they recite as
well as any | ever heard. And so
with all their studies. Their deep
earnestness enables them to accom-
plisn wonders sometimes. Last We'd
nesday, one Of the literary societies
celebrated its anniversary, with es-
says and orations, in the University
chapel, and the performances were
just as good, both in manner and
matter as those you hear from col
lege students. One of them by the
name of Grimkie, who came here two
years ago, juss out of slavery, was
thrillingly, powerfully impressive"
One statement of facts like these
outweighs ream of elaborate theo-
res.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-02-04

A SHREwD FELLow-A cores
pendent Of the Cincinnati Commercial
desires the Republican party to nom
mate Judge Chase f9r The Presidency,
and not Grant, on She ground that
the party cannot sdeceed if il mons
mates "what is called an available
candidate"
That reminds us OF a story Mr.
Bcecher once told, Of boy who set
trap to catch wood chuck and
baited it with what he thought the
woodcnuck ought to eat, instead Of
with what the animal does eat His
theory and the Cincinnati mans are
precisely alike; but somehow the Boy
caught no woodchucks.-N 7. Eve.
Post
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-02-04
Supreme Courts-Their Power Their
Meddling.

Judges are like other men, 40 less,
no more, biased by prejudice and ear>
ly formed opinion. Thomas Jetfer-
son considered the Supreme Court a
dangerous body. In 1920 be wrote
as follows:
You seem to consider the Judges
rs the ultimate arbilerssof all consti>
tutional questions-a CRY dangerous
doctrine, indeed, and one which
would place us under the despotism
OF an oIigarchy. Oar Judges are as
honest as other men, and not more So
Ihey hare, ruth others, the same pas,
Sums for party, for p0tcer, an the prtU-
l{ege o. their corps. Their maxim is,
boaj jad'cis est amptaire jurisdiction
en-, and their power the more dam
gerous, as they are in the office for
life, and not responsible, as the other
functionaries are, to the elective con-
troll The constitution has erected
no such single tribunal knowing that,
to whatever hands confded, with
corruptions Of time and party, it's
members would become despots 1t
has more wisely made all the depart-
ments co equal and co>sovereign
within themselves. y
In 1874 the State Court of APPEALS
Of Virginia, always radical, demo-
cratic and Jeffersonian, and Jackso-
MAN democratic, adopted this Ian
guage;
I'm times Of violent party excite>
ment, agitating the whole ration, to
expect that judges will he entirely
exempt from its influence, argues
profound ignorance of mankind. Al
though clothed with ermine, they
are still men, and carry into the judg-
ment seat the passions and mot,ves COM
mon to their kind. Their decisions on
party questions reject their indiuidudL
opinions, rhich frequently betray them
unconSciouSly into error. To balance
the judgment Of a ,ohole people by that
Of tlco or three men, no matter tchat may
be their official elevation, Is to erdH the
creature Of the constitution above the
creator"
Gen. Jackson, in his message in 49,
33 said as follows:
of the opinion of the Supreme
Court covered the whole ground of
this act, it ought not to control the
coordinate authorities of the gov,
eminent. The Congress, the Exec
utive, and The Court, must each for
itself beE guided by its own opinion Of
the Constition. 1t is as much
the duty Of the House of Representa-,
tives, of the Senate, and of the Pres
ident to decide upon the constitutions
atty OF any bill or resolution which
may be presented to them for l,assage
or approval as it is of the Supreme
Judges when it may be brought be-
fore them for judicial decision. The
opinion of the Judge has no more au>
tholity over Congress than the opin-
ion of Congress over the Judges.
The authority of the Supreme
Court must not, therefore, be per>
mitted 70 control Congress or the
Executive when acting il their leg
islative eapa les, but to have only
such influence as the force OF their
reasoning may deserve"
just now the Copperheads, who
hate Jackson and Jefferson for their
radical or democratic notions just as
they hate the devil, are urging the
Supreme Court to overturn all the
reconstruction acts Of Congress
said Court having copperhead ma
jority, and in that body all decisions
being made by majorities. We guess
the Court will hesitate.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-02-04
res~The Richmond Examiner |

eas~The Richmond Erdmlner has a
sympathizing letter from "a Michi-
gan Copperhead, who certi6es that
be is not exempt from military duty,
but ready to take up arms against
Radicalism. But the ugly fact that
be and his crowd didn take up arms
for the rebellion when they had a
chance stares him in the face, and
here is his explanation of it,
"Could you travel through differ
ent Northern States, as | have done
for the past five years, you would be
fully satisfied that there arc ten, yes,
| may say hundreds of thousands, of
the democracy Of the North whose
opposition to Radical reU0tuti0n is
deeper seated than any other politi-
cal feeling. 1t may be asked, why
did they not openly take up arms
against Radical revolutionY TO this
it may be answered that the mlSman
agement of the Government was in
the hands ofthose Jacobins, and they
(the democrats) not in apparent per
Sonal danger, had too much confidence
in the pretended honor of their enc !,
mics, and did not discover their error
with, of course, the exception of the
more observing,) till the shackles
were upon their hands and their feet.
And, when l state my own case, on
" represent that of tens of thouss
ands OF others like minded, that the
happiest reflections of my past life,
since the brutal ,oar be- IN, is. that l
never gaze one cent for t. payment
of the mercenary war beyC I'd what
was extorted by the bogus congress
ofthe United (!ll)States in the form
Of taxes"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-02-04

pea-The engineer who made sur
veys for the proposed short railroad
line from La Crosse to the present
terminus Of the Mineral Point Rail-
way, reports that four different routes
were surveyed, and that he considers
the route by way Il Bad Axe Valley
to be the most feasible. His esti-
mate for the grading and bridging Of
the entire line from La Crosse to the
Wisconsin River, places the cost at
about S13, $50 per mile, which IS by
no means large sum for SO import
ant road.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-02-04

eg Fred. Douglass having been in
vited to lecture in Meriden, Conn,
was obliged to stop in the leading
hotel in that place over Sunday
The landlord, however, informed him
that MS boarders would not allow a
negro to sit at the public table, aud
so he was served with his meals in
his own room. We suppose these
boarders would not refuse to eat food
prepared by colored cook; nor hes,
itate to receive it at the hands of a
colored waiter; nor would the males
refuse to ue shaved, shampooned, and
frizzled by colored barber. But to
sit beside man with negro blood in
his veins, although he had brains
enough to equip whole regiment Of
these sensitive gentry was intolera
BILE
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-02-04

Bio HoGs.-Mahony, Rockford K
Co F., of this city purchased to- day Of
Mr. Address Hatch, of Elk Grove
Wis, three dressed hogs, of the Ches'
ter white breed, which weighed 1870
pounds. They were as handsome
porkers as one is likely to see in q
lifetime Mr.. Hatch keeps this breed
of pigs for sale and has sold during
the last eighteen months, fifty ofthem
at four to twelve weeks old, which
brought one thousand dollars.-Ga-
lena Gazette.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-02-04
s6y- The Milwaukee ViSc0i

RAJ The Milwaukee Wisconsin
shows that the farmers of Wisconsin,
Minnesota and Northern Iowa have
already received SIS, 000,0 more for
their products Of last season than
they did for the crops of 1866. This
surplus is sufficient to make the farm
ing interests of those States tolerably
strong The Wisconsin adds There
is still room fer millions of people in
this land of plenty. OF an hundred
million acres directly west of LAX e
Michigan, not one tenth is und r cul /.
tivation, ard that one>tenth is not of
tho average productiveness Of the re-
mainder."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-02-04
nen "Neyer." said Theodore Hook

near Never said Theodore Hook,
'let man and wife play together at
whist. They arc always telegraphs j;
and if they fancy their looks are
watched they can always communi-
cate by words. l found out l could
never win of Smigsmag and his wife.
| mentioned this one day and was an
swered, No, you can never win of
them Why SAID l. Because,
said my friend, they have established
a code Dear me signals by ooks?'
No. said be, signals by words. If
Mr.. Smigsmag is to lead, Smigsmag
says: Dear, begin, Dear begins
with d, so does diamonds, and out
comes one from the lady. If be has
to lead, and she says S, my love,
she wants spade. Harriet, my
dear, how long you're sorting your
cards Mrs. Smigsmag stumps down
heart, and gentle Come my love,
on either side, produces club"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-02-04
sage Of said resolution by the legis-

sage of said resolution by the legis-
lature of 1867.
The republican majority is justly
held responsible for the character OF
It's legislative acts and resolves, and
if it would avoid the fate of the sui,
eide, it must defeat the ratification OF
the foregoing amendment, because it
involves interests far more enduring
and altogether paramount to party
ties and party organization,
For the foregoing among other
reasons,
Resolued, That the representatives
OF said county in the Senate and As>
sembly Of this state are hereby re-
quested to use every possible exer>
ton to prevent the ratification of the
proposed amendment.
Dated at GAINESVILLE, January 10th,
A. d. 1867.
DANIEL JOHNSON, Gu m.
VIM. ii. TRIP
A. STEBBINS
CHAs. Ii CONCORD.
THOMAS HOLMES,
E T.. CARPENTER
r. T. powell
DANIEL MOVIE
PETER SCHNITZ
WM NJ. pALLMAN,
Supervisors of Rock County
| hereby certify that the above is
true copy of the original on
file in my office.
In testimony whereof have here
unto set my hand and affixed the
seal of my office, at GAINESVILLE, this
22nd day of January, 1868.
II. t. WARNER,
Ger Board of Supervisors, Rock County Wisconsin
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-02-04

The educational question in
England is likely to result in reform.
The public press Of the country is
graphing with precedent and Gus
tom, and talkingin the plainest words
against the present sectarian system
of education. A recent article in the
PaU-MaH Gazette condemns IN toto
the practice Of placing the schools
under denominations control 1t
saws that schools in England are not
properly place of education at all
They are places IN which religious or
sectarian influence is put first, and in
which education is regarded as a
means to an end. which end is the
propagation and maintenance of va
rious forms of Observation-Disclosures. "
The Gazette has no hope Of q change
for the better unless the control Of
public education is taken out Of the
hands ofclergymen and given to lay
men.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-02-04

EEThe Liberal authorities of the
City Of Mexico have Gnearthed some
Imperial documents, which show that
the New York Herald was in league
with Maximilian' Minister of State,
to write up the monarchy. This IN.
earthed correspondence likewise con.
taius letter from Mr.. McMasters,
editor of the New York Freeman, S
Journal, offering his services to the
Emperor In hearty sy mpathy wit h
those who were attempting to build
up an oligarcey in the Southern
States, the Herald and journal very
naturally desired TO aid those who
were endeavoring to overthrow con-
stitutional liberty in Mexico.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-02-04

ECs- y DUeTstduQ LHaI IL is Idl5e LDaC
the Republicans are keeping the
Southern States out of the Union
They are doing Their best to get those
States back into their proper position
in the Union. but not rebel side up.
That's what's the matter" 1t is
also false that the Republicans are
seeking to prolong military rule at
the South. On the ontiary, they
are trying to hasten the suppression
of that rule by governments elected
by the loyal people of the respective
States. We favor government by
the whole people; our adversaries
would perpetuate the rule of a caste.
We seek to educate and elevate all
the people of the South. They would
keep the blacks in ignorance, and
make that Ignorance pretext for
their Acknowledgement. Judge then
by what they are doing in Maryland,
Kentucky and Delaware, where they
have full swing.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-02-04

THE FRENCH NAvY.-The greatest
activity prevails in the French ma
rine arsenals. There are 80 ships in
course of being built, of which four
are armor-plated trigates, four coast
guard iron-plated vessels, an armored
floating battery, a wooden frigate,
six corvettes, screw and iron plated,
and q screw transport. The fleet
ready for sea comprises 343 steam
vessels and ll6 sailing ships, with
the 80 10 course of construction, the
whole will amount to about 500 ves>
sells.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-02-04

GooDs BY MAIL.-The Helena Mon
tana } He aid noticed in the post Of
flee large quantity of goods, prob>
ably silks and other articles Of the
kind, that had come through from
the States by mail. Some of the
packages were as large in size as halt
a sack OF -four. They were all duly
stamped and prepaid through.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-02-04

EE The n. Y. Ledger that boasts of
never trailing its immaculate skirts
in the dirty mire ofpolitics, and who
don't usually care who is President so
that the ledger" thrives, has at last
come down and announced Gront as
its candidate for President. 1t admires
him because he is "fond of a good
horse
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-02-04

A MIXED CAsE.-During the seige
Of Petersburg, Bowden, q negro SOL
der, was missing and supposed to
have been killed. Recently be turn
ed up alive, and claims Communication
money for rations for the whole time
up TO the period his regiment was
discharged. The Second Controller
and Adjutant General Townsend de-
cided he had no claims on the gov
eminent, he having been a slave after
his capture at Petersburg, until the
confederate army surrendered.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-02-04
nwThe Vicksburp Herald believe

EE The Vicksburg Herald believes
it would be hazardous to Conserva>
tive interests in the South to attempt
to rally under the name of Democra,
cy, las its very name. in the opinion
of vast majority of the people, is
Synonymous with secession which
the people hold was the cause of all
our troubles"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-02-04
Death of John Jacob Astor, IL.

John Jacob Astor, the second son eft
John Jacob Astor, the millionaire, died
in this city yesterday the II inst.
in the Goth year of his age. Mr.. As
tor gave much intellectual promise in
early youth. but at about the age Of
II he accidentally fell, striking his
head, and thus his mental faculties
were impaired. His father, after
vain efforts to effect his restoration,
built on fourteenth street, near the
North river, mansion for his accom-
mediation 1t occupies an entire
block, and is surrounded by high
fence, to prevent prying aud curious
eyes from seeing the movements of
the occupants On the death of the
father, one of the principal items in
his will was a provision intrusting
the younger John Jacob to the care Of
a physician in whom he placed i'm
picit confidence, and settling hands
some income on the Fourteenth st.
mansion.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-02-04

~The Gainesville (Florida) Neac
Era says the winter in that section
has been but unusually mid, there
having been two slight frosts.-
Cotton blooms are still abundant, and
squash and cucumber vines in flowers,
and ripe tomatoes in many gardens.
Peach trees are beginning to bloom
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-02-04

REMrTTANcEs TO IRELAND.-From
ireland 1T is announced that the Irish
in America are again sending remit.
tances to their friends in that countrv
During the war it is said that remit
tances were to a great extent suspend.
ed, but they now nearly equal the
amount sent in former times.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-02-04

ee-Ihe Freeman's Journal, Cath
lic,) takes the pains to warn the Dem.
ocrats against running Mcclellan for
the Presidency, and tells them there
are 10000 Democrats in New York
who will vote for Grant rather than
Little Mac"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-02-04
EEA man stoppinp his Mana,

GEA man stopping bis paper,
wrote TO the editor, 81 think foalks
ottent to spend Their mummy for pa
purs my dad didn't, and every buds
dy says he was the intellygentest
man in the hull cuntry, and he'd
the smartest family of boys that ever
dugged taters in Arkensaw."