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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-02

The bullion product of Nevada
last year was SIG, 100000.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-02
SELECTED WITH CARE.

always have the farmers interest in view when
buying and combine goodness of quality With beauty
You will find our Dry Goods Department consisting
of strong AMI durable goods and the time hand
and fashionable Have the largest and best stock Of
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-02

g TATE OF WISCONSIN In prohata GRANT ro,,.
- County Of Grant, 81 Court "A''
In the matter of the estate of Iobn 2orh. 5uou..,
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talk about the small police force
watching every square in the city, is
to talk nonsense. The thing is physi-
cally impossible. The policemen are
all required to handle tho hose dur
ing conAagration, and must there
fore necessarily abandon their beats
until it is subdued. What, then, is
to be done? Shall the Council, in a
spasm of alarm, add largely to the
force or shall some other plan be
adopted2
1t seems to us, in an emergency OF
this character, the citizens themselves
should take steps for their protection.
Each square for few nights, at least,
might furnish its own patrol, who
could watch and give a warm recep-
ton to any lurking scoundrel who
might be seen prowling around.
When an alarm of fire is given, in
stead Of rushing TO the scene of con-
hagration, citizens should carefully
and promptly examine their own and
neighbours premises. On going home
at night it would not take long
for each householder to care
fully patrol the block on which he
lives, passing through the alleys and
examining those places which would
most naturally invite the torch of the
incendiary. This kind ofsurveillance,
well sustained for several nights, will
not fail to put a stop to the fires or
secure the persons, dead or alive
better dead than alive-of those who
are engaged in starting them.
Thus far our city has been compar-
atiVely fortunate. But il is evident
to all that we are now not only weak
as regards a fire department, but the eff
feiency of that department is greatly
crippled because Of the scarcity Of
water. 1t does no good to go into
tantrums now about water works,
The thing to be done is to provide the
best protection under the eircum-
stances. This can only be done BY
the citizens cooperating, instead
of finding fault, with the police anG
fremen, which they may do in thu
manner we have suggested. Let thu
people combine to capture or exter
inmate the rascals engaged in thes'
midnight misdoings, and the alarms
which have been so frequent Of lat,
will soon entirely subside. -
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-10-01
The Value of RaIIrOads

Hon. Peter Melendy, President of
the Iowa State Board of Agriculture,
made most excellent address at the
opening of their State Fair, on the
14th instant, from which We make the
following extract, showing what the
value OF railroads has been to Iowa
farmers:
1.-THE chief feature which distin-
0uishes this period from others which
preceded it, will be known in coming
time. as the railroad and telegraph
decade. Twelve years ago We had
forty or fifty miles Of railroad-to-day
over eighteen hundred. These great
railroads and telegraphs that have
come to us as if by magic, are the re-
vealers of our greatness. They are
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-10-01

almost the entire humiliation oFspace
bv the ono and of time by the other.
Fho entire relationships of the eoun-
trv its business, It's monetary opera
tions. its social intercourse, Its values
and productions, even its fashions and
tastes, If not wholly revolutionizsd,
are greatly changed.
" a bushel of wheat is worth more
to-day on the land which produces it,
by 80 per cent, than ten years ago
without a railroad. We are now
building more railroads than any other
State. with our five great lines East
and West. We are building, North
and South, roads reaching north to
Minnesota, teeming with all the life
and activity which characterize rig
orous climate; Astounding with for
ests of majestic pine; and south to the
great city Of St. Louis and the min
eral region of Missouri. Iowa has
not undertaken this immense work
without sufficient resources. The
growth of the State In population and
productions has been most wonderful.
The next census will show population
of nearly 1000, 900, more than doubled
in the last decade / here speak of
the prosperity of one or two coun-
ties that have come under my own OBJ
servation, and ] think we can take
them as an average. The county of
Black Hawk has a population of 49,
961, more than doubled in the last ten
years. In 1867 she raised about 5O0,-
600 bushels of wheat; in 1868, u.s.
10Y bushels. She will produce I, $780,
600 bushels this year. This county
has a population Of Il, ZIG, and Butler
county 8,096; in the three counties a
total of 33.177. The three counties
have l, 958, $50 acres of land, and only
about one-ninth is under the ploW,
The census shows that the amount of
wheat, corn and oats produced In 1868
was 6.619,916 bushels; they viii show
an increase this year C69) of one
third, at least s, S23, POI bushels. From
such estimates. what will our entire
State be when she has all her tillable
land under the ploW2 last- -
My fellow citizens. / do not wish to
be considered an enthusiast, but hav-
ing been permitted to see our State
bud and bloom as it were, aud con-
templating its grandeur and power
that seems to be the promise of the
future Of this young and giant State
of ours, if we are faithful to her in
terests, with the approval of Him
who holds the destiny of this great
valley in the hollow of his hand,
believe we nave not even dreamed oil
| what is to be. -.
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-10-01
me BlbIe and Public schools.

me BLDG ana FuD1lC SCHOOLS
For some weeks past there has
been, a good deal of excitement in
Cincinnati. owing to an effort to ex-
clude the Bible from the public schools
of that city. The prime movers in
the affair were at first supposed to be
prominent Catholics, instigated there
to by Archbishop PURCELL. The
proposition came before the School
Board in the apparently harmless de-
sire to so arrange matters as
to influence the Catholics to
send their children to the public
schools, in preference to sup
porting their own sectarian schools
and, at the same time pay taxes
for sustaining the PuD1Ic schools.
This proposition seemed reasonable
enough, but it was soon developed
that important concessions would be
required to accomplish the end aimed
at; among others, the exclusion of
the Bible from the Schools. As the
negotiations proceeded, it became
evident that some German Rational
lists on the School Board we're more
hostile to the Bible than the Catho-
lies themselves, and apparently more
anxious to have it excluded from the
Schools. As soon as these facts were
developed, they oeoasioned great
excitement among the Protest
ants Of the city. "Reminiscences
against excluding the Bible were
circulated and signatures obtain
ed amounting to over ten thou
sand. These circumstances were pre-
scented to the Council and the vote on
excluding the Bible has been post
poned from week to week, showing
that while the opponents of the Bible
do not regard themselves as strong
enough, or at least hesitate, to carry
out their designs, they have not aban-
doned them. The friends Of the
Bible on the other hand have been
very active in organizing and CONSOLE
dating their strength. They now ask
the School Board to postpone the
vote until after the next city election
in order that the question Of exclud-
ing the Bible from the schools may
be made a test question before
the people in that canvass. In
furtherance of this plan a
tremendous mass meeting was
held on Wednesday evening, in
which the attendance was much
larger than the capacity of the build.
ing in which the meeting was held
could accommodate. Speeches were
made by several eloquent gentlemen
and the greatest interest was mani
tested. The following resolutions
were unanimously adopted, amid the
greatest enthusiasm. 1t is highly
probable that the School Board will
postpone the whole subject in accord
ance with the third resolution:
Resolved, 1. That the attempt tC
exclude the Bible from the common
schools of our city deserves the un.
qualifcd disapprobation of this meet
ing.
2. That we regard the attempt as 6
disturbing blow to the most precious
| and vital elements of our civilizations
a gratuitous assault upon the inspired
source Of all religion and morality.
/ 3. That we earnestly protest agains
any action of the School Board OF
| this important question until it shall
first have been submitted to the PEG.
pie at the next Spring election of tn
members of that Board.
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-10-01
Dissolution Notice.

wVHE PARTNERSHIP HERETO
fore existing under the dTm name
Humphrey, Patrick & Co., Forwarding
and Commission Merchants and WHARF
boat Proprietors, was dissolved by mutual
consent on the 18th inst, Il. w. Patrick
refirfng from the firm. The business win
be continued by +. M. Humphrey, George
7, Lewis, and Charles w. Kerney, under
the firm name of Humphrey, Lewis a. Co..
by whom the business OF the old firm viii
be settled
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-10-01

THE Chairman of the Republican
State Central Committee of Pennsyl-
vania seems to take a more hopeful
view of the situation in that State
than Congressman CovoDE. He says
the prospects of the party have been
rapidly improving Of late. At the
opening of the campaign the Demo-
Gratis had the advantage, aud main
. tanned 1t for several weeks. They
have, however, been relying on quiet
canvass, devoted principally to devils
ing means for rallying voters on cleo
ton day. The showing of the splen-
IA --I--->->4esAz.aAnk of the
Administration has had an excellent
effect, and very thorough organization
has also been effected, and o full Re-
publican vote is expected. The State
is confidently relied upon by the Com
mittee as certain for GEARY. There
can be no doubt that the steady de-
crease of the national debt and in
crease Of national resources, without
any corresponding increase in taxa
ton, must have a most favorable in
fuence Oh the minds of intelligent
voters. Added to this is the fact that
of all the States in the Union, Penn
sylvania is the last one which ought
to repudia.e the Republican party.
Much Of the legislation of that
parry has been in the interests of
Pennsylvania manufacturers, and of a
CHI. acter calculated to make the
party somewhat unpopular in the
more Western and Northwestern
States. Therefore, if Pennsylvania
votes tho Democratic party into
power, she will find the Republicans
of the West all the more willing to
wipe out the tariff whose operations
have been 80 much to her benefit.
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-10-01
what Shall be none2


The experiences of Tuesday and
Wednesday nights must convince the
most skeptioal that very alarming
condition of affairs exists in our city.
Nine fres-all the work Of the incen-
diary-are we'll calculated to startle,
with a thrill of terror, the most indif-
ferent. It's not only property that
is in danger. Life itself holds BY a
frail tenure if the dark and devilish
plots of the incendiary are not unrav-
eled and defeated. No one can retire
to his bed at night without expert
encing a feeling of uneasiness which
viii deprive him of sleep and harrass
him with anxious fears. The number
and character of the fires show that
formidable conspiracy has been organ
lied for the purpose of destroying the
city by fire. The indications are,
also, that the censpirators are not
animated so much by a desire for
plumber as by the spirit Of revenge
for some real or faneied injury. We
have heard Of no attempts at robbery
on either of the nights while the fires
were burning. The incendiaries
seem to have employed their whole
time in applying the match, rather
than in pilfering houses whose guar
dams were helping to extiDguish the
6res already kindled. These facts
confirm US in the opinion that the de,
sire for revenge is the motive which
prompts the desperadoes to their acts
Of iniquity.
There is no just ground for accuse
tons against the police. They seen
to have done all that could REASONABLE
have been expected. The force il
weak in numbers and was not select
ed with the expectation of having
to contend with well organized anC
systematized incendiarism. But tn,
fact that while seven fres were vel
started on Wednesday night. only on,
Of them resulted in The destructio,
ofthe building in which it BAs kipdIed
shows that somebody must have beel
pretty wide awake and active to,
Our inquiries satisfy us that the polio
and fremen did their whole duty. T
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-10-01

stand on the reconstruction laws Of
Congress, nevertheless come right to
Texas and In their District Conven-
tons nominate men for Office who
cannot qualify according to these very
laws. Examples are Stribling, of
San Antonio, fer Congress, and Nc
Earland, of Austin, for the State
Senate.
They denounce such men as General
VIM. I. Clarke, who was nominated
for Congress by a convention, but not
of A. j. Hamilton men. No fault
can be found with such men as VIM.
I. Clarke, whose military and civil
records are without blemish. No
reason can be given for any Republi-
can to oppose such men as Clarke I'M
less, to be sure, they are included in
the class that A. j. Hamilton has de-
nounced from the stump, and called
. carpet baggers and gcallawags."
The circumstances, all considered,
l am constrained to believe that CO.
alition, which has been charged as ex-
listing between the Conservative or A.
j. Hamilton Republicans and the
Democrats generally ex-rebels) does
actually exist.
The platforms of the two wings of
the Republican party are precisely
the same. The Radical wing act out
their profession of adherence to the
reconstruction laws of Congress, and
present for Office men who are quail
fed under these laws.
The Conservative wing frequently
nominate men for Office who are
known to he disqualified under the
/ reconstruction laws, but who are also
known to be acceptable to the Demo.
Gratis. ,.i ss
The success of the A. j. Hamilton
| faction, as it will be produced by
Democratic votes, will be the defeat
of Republicanism in Texas, and will
| put the State in the hands of the very
men, who, during the entire period
of the rebellion. exerted every nerve
to destroy the Union, and who have
uniformly opposed the reconstruction
laws with a persistency worthy of &
/ better cause. asia
This letter is already too long; usC
it as you please.
Believe me, very truly yours,
.]l--llg j. j. REYNOLDS,
Brevet Major General, u. s. Army.
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-10-01
mocracy feel bad.

THE announcement that q formid-
able privateer, well armed and
equipped, is at large to prey upon
Spanish commerce, will occasion con-
siderable excitement in Spain. The
Hornet is the name of the privateer.
She is Clyde built, and can, under
heavy pressure, make fifteen knots
per hour. She has seven guns, three
on each side, aud pivot bow gun, a
one hundred FOUNDER PARROT Of long
range. Her side guns are two thirty
two FOUNDERS, two sixty-eight pound
ers, two grape and ease-mate pieces,
also sixty-eight Founders. Her crew
numbers 153 men, sixty of whom are
Americans, who saw service during
our war. She has sixty-two expert
enced gunners, and all munitions,
boarding hooks, and complete para
phernalia. She is a regularly COM
missioned man of-War, commanded
by a Cuban, and commissioned from
Cespedes. Her mission is to capture
Spanish merchantmen and take them
into Mexican ports. She is also tC
capture and destroy Spanish trans
ports and all passenger steamers en-
gagged on the Cuban coast. The
Hornet can hardly fail to prove more
damaging to Spanish commerce thar
was the Alabama to American ship
ping during the rebellion.
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-10-01
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The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-10-01
JOURNAL
PuR1nHED By THR
ALAS, alas, for Democratic predic-

ALAS, alas, for Democratic predic-
tionsl The revenues Of the Govern
ment under this perverse Republican
Administration Of a pleasure-seeking
President, are steadily on the in
crease, and the expenditures as stead
lily on the decline. The receipts this
month from internal revenue have
been thirteen millions and from Gus
toms sixteen millions. The reduction
Of the debt for the same time will
reach four millions. Yet, it must be
remembered, there has been no IN
crease in taxation. The surplus is all
found in the fact that the revenues
are being more honestly collected and
expended. There are no STEADMANs
to pocket Government funds BY the
half million. That's what's the mat
ter; and that's what makes the De-
mocracv feel bad.
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-10-01

Evansville & HrayVills Stage Line
EAVFS EVANSVILLE EVERY
IA FRIDAY, at AM, from the corner.of
Locust and Third Streets.
Leaves GRANVILLE every WEDNESDAY
ate Am fr on the GRANVILLE House.
Fare So for the through trip, and IS for
the round trip. Jy303m
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A Man Drowned I'm n CoaI-pif.
f,orreanondence Of the Richmond Dispatch.


I. .edssd i MASAK1H, January 1s, 1859.
A serious aud distressing occurrence took
place here last nil CHIT. A gentleman by the
name of Richard Craze left the village st q
late hour Of the night to repair to his usual 81
place of abode, but, d missing his way,
walked into an open pit. the property OF Mr.
James @! Deaton, which pit has not been
worked for several years, and is aoont TWO
hundred feet deep, with, twenty-five rect OF
water at the bottom. The gentleman. being
missed this morning from his, usual VEGA
ton, an early search revealed the unfortu-
nate affair, and Mr.. Josiah Hadley, an ex-
perienced miner at this place, went down
into the pit and found the dead body OF the
deceased. We learn that the deceased was
an Englishman by birth, a noble and gen.
erous hearted gentleman, and an expe-
rienced miner. He some years ago mar
ried Virginia lady, whom he now, with
out a moments warning, leaves with flve
small children to mourn his untimely death
and their irreparahle loss. A coroner was
sent for, but he believing the causes OF
death so apparent did not order an inquest
to be summoned. % o. o'
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without and within.

Without the veil. 49,
Dread doubts and fears assall. 80
The world sweep, on It's way, E,st
Turning night INTO day laar -
And day to nigh again, .s.g q"
Ea In ceaseless revelry. -rr1
Without-o'er all r ...
Death presses like a pail,
Chilling the youthful heart, -
Bidding sweet Hope depart, SIS
AS beyond this world ,.@
Were no eternity. sr ..
Without-the wall f1e
OF souls lost in the gale, r7E
Striving through toll and pain ~ ta
Eternal rest to gain. .,-r ;.-.ss E,sr
Yet shrinking back when Time
Points to the happy shore.
And all earth's bitterness
Of anguish and distress:
Ambition goddess CLEAN,
And Folly's idle dream t-.@
These are without the veil, SO
And darkness ever more. .-
Within-where none "@ ~"
May enter. save alone; "Es
Where, with uplifted hands, ... ra
The trembling suppliant STANDS -
Before the awful throne,
90. Where God Himself doth dwell
Within-a calm .-. ..-. -s
Nor earth nor hell can harm.
: The loving heart doth rest
Il Upon the Saviours breast, "
Looking through Him unto
The Light Ineffable.
TPutnanl's .lfaga-ine
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wa,h g received - on New-Year's day for
.her father, General DIX, aasssssasrssss.assa
M. and Mrs. Jefferson Davis have ar
lived ut the Grand Hotel; they live very
quietly; the former has had few quiet
dinners with Mr.. Slidell. 80
. Arrivals during the ,oeek: Chicago-G:
]. G. Prussipg and family, 7. L. Doibins
and family, l.. de Pelyroin. Alabama
Hiram Haines and family. Philadelphia,
Deelon Hersenbrsch, ". P. Ellison and iady'
Mr.. Hulme and + family. Boston-The
Misses walsworth {2l. Mr.. and Mrs: New
man. New York-H. Anot, Mr.. Lecler,
Isaac NJ. Singer, W. Herrick and family.
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A @ - sss Go {;
RICHMOND AND DANvILLE Raj
s4gtkOAp.gHANaE or sCHEnIu PAIL
aaa n5seT FKlDAY, January 18th. 10 ~ 80
follows: -' i"ad WIZ be run a,
y SO soIS s ~, VEST, ,LYNnHBuRe plssEvev,'
leave Richmond daily Except sundaysS :, ,oERs
M d. arrive at Burkevfile ut 1Las A. 'n
close connections with trains or sio a.; maklsg
road for Farmville, Lynchburp. gTi,,,G1' gthsics
vile. Nashville. Memphis. &C., Re, lib 66hoI.
MAIL AND EXPRESS leave Rinbmnnnh =. Oh
2.4sP. NJ leave Danville daily nj 10 !. "a "a Al
arrive 1t Greensboro; daily at l7$s 4. u r. ~ !:
close connections for ali stations ON H. mskisg
Earolins road both east and west OF Grssr. Ntr't
South. - = = = %, "Ha 81! point
soIMe EAST, THROUGH MAIL AN,
PhESS leave Greensboro daily AZ / " X.
Danvflle daily at ANA. N. arrive NJ b D. t'aV.
daily at IL a. NJ. LYECHBURG P.Sspp1S SbIInoni
leave Brrkeville daily texcep. sundaysI :, ,ssRS
NJ; arrive at Richmond AZ mp. W'i a. hbP,
Through tickets Can be proeurad =, -,
office In Richmond to AL important notr. e gckt
and Southwest and at Greensboro AMI nA sortt
all points North, East, and West. ' o"nYi!Ieh
IhohAs DODANRAD
ia ~ Eurayip.n..''
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STEAMERS.

r. MOUTH, AND ALL REGULAR - ssz
LANDINGS ON. TIL JAMES RIVER. :, ne las.
and elegant steamer ELIZA HAkCOA, Gap.
for above-named places on MONDAY, WE'D,
NrSDAY, and FRirhY, a. 81 o'clock 4; M ana
returns on ucsdly, Thursday, and Saturday.
Passengers arrive In Norfolk In time To con-
meet WITH steamers for Baltimore and points
North. ,,
Train leaves City Point for Petersburg on arrival
OF steamer.
Fare to Norfolk, $50.
FREIGHT
received Tuesdays, Thursdays, and SATURDAYS
from IL NJ 10 e5 T.. II. for Norfolk, Portsmouth
Boston, Baltimore, and principal lanii9gs Oh
Chesapeake bay, and all regular landings On
James river, at reasonable rates.
Freights for way landings must be prepaid.
In Consequence OF the mail being discontinued
at Grove and Brandon Point wharycs, the steamer
will not stop Al those landings.
Apply to L. Is. TATUn, Agent
4, 20 Office steamers wharf.
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sCHEDULE.-RICHNoyn

Wv AND PETERSBURG RAILROAD.-Or
and after WEDNESDAY the ID December Tho
trains over this road will be run As follows -
Leave Richmond at A. M. and 2:35 p. NJ
Leave Petersburg at GAS A. IL. and S:soPM
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN, with passenger
car attached win leave Richmond daily Al i.IS p
NJ, and Petersburg daily at $40 A. N. (sundsy;
excepted).
The 4 a. II. train win not leave Richmond q,
Sundays, and the $50 2. u. train VIII not lesy.
Petersburg on Sundays.
Passengers for Norfolk viii take the ?:,sP.M
train, running through daily.
Fare to Norfolk, 81. Baggage checked through
The passenger coach attached to the coal train
will leave Glover Hill at A. NJ. and returning
leave Richmond at $40 P. N. on Tuesdays, Thurs
days, and Saturdays.
THOMAS H. WYSNE,
4. de Superntpntent