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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-01-12
The Spanish Race.
From the N. Y. Sunday Tiaes,

The profiigate women who recen-
tly 'levanted" from Spain, taking
with her the regalia and several mil.
lions of dollars, doubtless derives
comfort in her exile from the present
political condition of the country
that cast her out. The monarchists
and the Republicans are at logger
heads, and three or four ambitious
leaders appear to be equally anxious
TO obtain the supreme power. Gem
eral Juan Prim, it is very evident,
would have no objection to be his
most Christian majesty Juan l., En-.
peror of Spain. In. the meantime,
Espartero, who is probably the ablest
of the revolutionists, is offered tenn.
porary dictatorship. Ostepsibly, the
pending elections are intended to de.
termipe whether the government
shall remain a monarchy or be chang
ed into republic but we spprehend
that the question will not be settled
by the SURFACES of the people, but
the revolutionary chiefs, among
whom bloody scramble for power
seems to be highly probable. A
tasta for civil war appears to be part
and parcel of the modern Spanish
character. Throughout South and
Central America for the last thirty
years, intestine war has peen the
rule, peace the exception. The hor>
nets nest of republics-so>called--
into which the sometime provinces
of Spain have been transformed, is o
disgrace to civilization. to say MOTH
ing Of the principles of freedom upon
which the governments of the Span>
ish- American states purport to be
founded. The people are much
worse off than they were under q
Spanish vice-royalty. They had
but one despotio master then but
now they are the footballs of hordes
of pretty tyrants, who for the most
part are little better than common
bandits. Spain itself is now, 10 all
human probability. about to be South
We fear there is no
present help for the Spanish masses.
STEPPED to the lips in idleness, Super
stition, and ignorance they can only
be legenerated by ajudicious system
education. Common schools
and incentives to industry are what
hey need to tt them for self rule
Dor could they. under the most fav-
orable circumstances, he rendered
capable of peacefully enjoying the
Of a republican form of gov
in less than two genera
lions. The Cubanos are far in adj
vance of the people of old Spain in
all that constitutes fitness forinde~
pendence, and it is not unlikely that
hey will obtain it in the present
struggle, and either set up for them
selves as power among the atoms,
,r propose TO cast their lot for US
W neither tho revolutionary moves
nent now in progress in tuba be
or not, it may be taken
or granted that the brightest jewel
n the crown of Spain" will not long
orm an appendage of that sorry
,aupie.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-01-12

sN- The annual sales of merchan-
disc IN Boston amount TO nearly
81 900, 100000. This is second to the
sales of New York. Other American
cities report aggregate sales as fol-
lows: Philadelphia, 1862, 900, 600;
New Orleans. 1876, 600, 900; Chicago,
S342, 900, 900; Baltimore, 1924 600 600;
Cincinnati. $2l3,000,000; st. Louis,
S2l3, 900, 600; San Francisco, $751;,
100000; Louisville, Sl26, 900, 900
Milwaukee, S1l0,000,00O. None Of
the remaining cities reach 500, OOO,-
900 Of sales annually.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-01-12

sH The fifth number of the Re-
publican and revolutionary paper,
the La Commune Reoviutioaatre
which is clandesline!y circulated all
over France, contains very curious
list of The secret agents of the Inn
perial Government in the principal
cities of Europe and America. The
names and addresses are given in full.
Among the six agents named under
the heading New York and Wash.
ington," is an American journalist,
who has published several volumes OF
personal "reminiscences. One Of the
rest is a woman bearing a French
name.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-01-12
na The Tendency of cizilizaiion

n@- The tendency Of civilization is
evidently toward lessening the num-
Der Of hours of study for children.
An English paper says:
In Germany an experiment is be-
ing made upon lads at school, with
the object of discovering whether
more study cannot be got out of and
more learning driven into them, by
keeping them hard at it, as boy
would say, in the morning, and al
lowing them 10 devote the whole af-
ternoon TO play"
The fact is, that four hours of good
bard study in the morning is as
should be required of any child I'M
der fourteen years of age, girls espe-
cially.-NeW York Sun
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-01-12
State Institutions Renal and Chart
table.
TIE STATE PRISON.


State Prison Commissioner Cordier
gives in his report clear recital OF
the doings at the state prison during
the year ending September 80, 1868
At the commencement Of the year,
October l, 1867, the number of con,
victs was 206 There were received
from October 1st. 1867, to September
80, 1868 inclusive, 10, making to-
tai of 316. There were discharged
during that time 1872, in manner as
follows, to-wit On reduction of
time under the provisions of chapter
324 of the general laws of 1860, III !;
by governors pardon, II; by order
the the supreme court, 2; by expra
ton of sentence, / and by death, l,
leaving in confinement October l,
1868, 1874, of whom there were TIC
males and females.
The following figures, showing the
number of convicts in the prison for
several years past, will attract atten-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-01-12

sM- Letters have been received
from General Grants staff officer
who went to Arkansas. 1t is writ
ten that the State is in a very dis
turbed condition that many Of the
rebel accounts of militia outrages are
falsehoods or exaggerations, and that
the militia is doing something to pro.
tect The Union men and women.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-01-12

@-Governor Brownlow says in
his Knoxville paper: East Ten>
nesseeans will all be unit for sepa>
ration. We will accept, too, the
terms. We are ready togo empty
handed. Middle aud West Tennes.
see may have their railroads, public
buildings, turnpikes, and only their
proportion of the State debt. East
Tennessee will assume hers and ask
no more, leaving to the other Sec
tons all we have named, and the
rebels, Ku>Klux, etc., thrown i'm
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-01-12

sD-The next Massachusetts Legis-
lature will have to decide whether a
minoi is eligible to that body. VIM.
P. Tyler. Democratic member elect
of the Hose from Boston, lacks o
few months of being twenty one
years of age. There is no provision
of the Constitution that meets tbis
case, nor any legal decision, and the
House will have TO decide it under
the clause of the Constitution making
that body hejudge OF the qualifica-
tions of it's members.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-01-12

SENAToRIAL.-The bitterest fight
is in Minnesota, between Ramsey and
Donnelly. The Washburn- Donnelly
war is at the bottom of it. Donnelly
is the most eloquent man 10 the State,
and possesses many fine qualifications
AS public man, but he is unscrupu-
lous. His honesty is assailable. He
will be beaten, it is TO be hoped and
expected. Had his course been
straightforward aud honorable, be
would have reached the Senatorial
goal, if not as Ramsey's successor, as
Norton's but be has been found
wanting in the most important quail
ification of statesman, integrity.
1t Is passing strange that ambitious
politicians do Lot more generally
understand and act upon the fact
that in political life honesty is the
best policy. The defeat of DonnelIy
last fall, and his almost certain de-
feat again in few days, must serve
as warning to others Chicago
Journal
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-01-12

na. Buffers financial speech will
be delivered at an early day, and
promises, it is stated, to ,reate as
wide and perhaps even a more acri-
monious discussion than all the 9th
ers he has made. La addition to
maintaining his policy and making
arguments in support thereof, be will
review the plan OF Morton and make
a vigorous assault upon the idea OF
specie as "a basis for CURRENCY and the
standard of values. Butler opposes
coin currency as one which more
than all else has been responsible for
the fluctuations in values and mone>
tary circles, which afiict modern ex>
change and trade. He hold that q
currency like like our greenbacks,
based upon the faith of a great ma
ton, and for The security of which
all it's property is pledged, is more
desirable than specie.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-01-12

The number of convicts in the
Michigan State Prison, December 81,
was 632, being the highest number
that was ever confined there at one
time. During the fiscal year which
ended December l, there were 256
arrivals, 196 discharged, pardoned,
II deaths, and 6 escapes.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-01-12

egThe Memphis Post, Dec. Is,
says: There seems to be no doubt
but the election for Congressman in
the Second Arkansas District, vice
Kinds, assassinated, has resulted in
the choice of Hon. j. 7. Elliot, of
the Camden Journal. The rebel
vote was very light, and that for the
Independent Republican candidate
lighter still. Judge Elliot will prob.
ably be able to take his seat when
Congress reassembles after the holi.
days He will make a most useful
member"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-01-12

a4 Since the issue of the Presi.
dents proclamation, friends of the
prominent Rebels yet absent from
the country begin to call the wand>
erers home. Mr.. John C. Breckin-
ridge, who has so long refused TO be
entreated, is expected to return at
once. Ex-Secretary Thompson, ex-
Senator Mason, and Sheridan's Early
are also coming. Kentucky is thought
to be pining for chance to send Mr..
Breckenridge back TO the Senate
Certainly be would be the most fit>
ting representative Of her political
position and hopes now, as he was
throughout the war.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-01-12

Out of ITO convicts received last
year, Milwaukee furnished 80; Dane,
IL La Crosse, Z; Waukesha, 6. OF
the total number of convicts, CTS
were natives of the United States,
300 being of New York, rs Of Ohio,
56 of Pennsylvania, 46 of Wisconsin,
% of Vermont, % of Massachusetts !;
while 256 were from Germany, 1879
from Ireland, 55 from Englar d, So
from Canada, 16 from Norway, II
from Scotland, 10 each from Switzer
land and Holland of the convicts
last year, 81 were natives of the
United States, % of Germany, Ii of
Ireland.
The following table shows the
crimes for which convicted
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-01-12

"A manufacturer IN Berkshire
county, Mass, has offered to give to
the ladies in his town all the cotton
cloth they will make up for the poor
Of that town during the winter.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-01-12

OF the convicts this year, % were
sent up for larceny, ~ for burglary,
4 for murder In the first degree, 3 for
msnslaughter.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-01-12

hUGUsIA, IAN. D.
Unofficial returns from Florida
show the election OF Colonel Hamil.
ton, regular Republican candidate for
Congress, by a majority of 1000.
The vote was light.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-01-12

Superintendent Thoma. H. Little. NJ A.
| Ieaehers-Miss s. A. Watson, Miss II A. Dagsett
music
Foreman Of shop-Joseph Horton
| Matron-Miss l.. IL. Phelps. saM
The trustees complain of lack oil
room, and say that they have spent
about $4,000 for o new building
within the year they ask for SIS 600
To complete the building in process
of construction. The receipts of the
institution were $50, 450.27 disburse
ments, S31, 433 49,
Great attention is given To tho ed
ucation OF the pupils, and classes in
geography, arithmetic, reading, spell
ling, writing, etc, are taught. Music
is cultivated To liberal extent.
Work'ls taught. The boys learn
to make brooms, and the girls to sew,
knit, crochet, aud make bead work.
THE STATE REFORM SCHOOL.
This institution is located at Wau-
kesha, and is under the control of a
board of five managers, Edward
O'Niel being president. John Hodg-
son vice president, Andrew f. Ell
more treasurer, Charles K Gibbs
secretary. It's officers are as follows
snperintendent-A d. Hendricksoa.
Assistant Observation-Disclosures smith
Matron-Mrs. A. d. Hendrickson.
The institution is designed for the
confinement, instruction in useful
arts, education and reformation of
boys and girls who have offended
against the laws, and, if left to them
selves, or committed to common
prisons, would be likely to become
hardened criminals, but many of
whom are now transformed into use
full and reputable members of soci.
ely.
The following is summary of the
number of inmates, and expedses, du-
ring the year:
The number of inmates in the school at the be-
ginning OF the year was boys l45, girls lS.... 1856
Numbercon united during the year, was, boys
90, girls 3........ SO
Number OF escaped returned boys 3............., 3
Number returhed from out on ticket of leave,
boys IL, girls 3d.. l6
While number in school during the year......,.. 227
Highest number IN school during he year........ 1876
... sss... ~
Current expenses for the past year. ....& 74ls S.
Estimates -, 5000
Leaving dencit 25ll 33
We estimate our expenses for 1859 2676l o7
Which tog Their make the sum S2g 27s %
Deduct due from counties .."-....~ i,z730I
Leaving balance to appropriated of..... SIS COCOON
The managers report u thriving
and prosperous state Of things in the
school, on the farm, and 10 the shops.
Good crops have been obtained. The
garden has yielded great variety
OF vegetables. The manufacture Of
willow ware and brooms, tailoring,
and shoemaking, already yield or
shortly promise handsom return.
The health of the inmates has been
good, only two deaths, the first 10 the
institutions. having occurred.
The following are given as the OF
lenses for which the inmates have
been committed the past and previ-
Gus years
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-01-12

The University of Michigan has
l,0l8 students, divided nearly equally
between the literary, law, and medi-
cal departments.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-01-12

nm-By divine command. commu~
nicated through Brigham Young, all
the sanity shopkeepers of Salt Lake
are now obliged TO surmount their
signboards with a mark of their
faith, I MS consists Of an arched in
scription, Holiness to the Lord"
with the All-Seeing Eye in the cen
tire. Mormans are instructed to
trade only at these bulls eye shops"
as the Gentiles irreverently call them,
but it is limited that the injunction is
very lightly needed, though the pen
atty of disregarding it is being cut
off from the church.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-01-12

The Siamese twins are divided
on the question of their DIVISION
Eng is a secessionist, but Chang in
sists upon the bond.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-01-12
NEW YoRK la

NEW YORK, Jan 8.
vigilance committees are being orr
ganized IN most of the wards of this
city for the purpose of bringing
rogues to justice,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-01-12

EF Two and half days staging
is the only and trifiag gap now d.
viding the two great railroads which
tap the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-01-12
say-A negro girl has been astonish

aN-A negro girl has been astonish
ing the people of Vicksburg, Miss, by
her performances on the p'ano. She
is eighteen years old, and as black as
The ace of spades, does not know a
single note of music, and cannot
spell the simplest word. She was a
house servant, and as such was per-
mitted to play upon The piano. She
can play any piece. however difficult
it may be, after hearing it played ;
and her accuracy and delicacy OF
touch is really something very re-
msikable. For the past two years
she has been employed as a field hand,
and has had no opportunity of play
ing or listening to others play.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-01-12
sE GaR VOL. 26, NO. 43.
POETRY
The Immortal Soul-Its Location and
Office

1. DURAND,
Down in the profound depths of thought
There dwels the living soul
Through all our acts in lie 1t ought
To govern and control
Twere we'll if all would heed its voice
This mouitor within
And live al upright nfs from choice.
And shun the paths of sin.
1t speaks unto the young and says
In friendships sweetest tone,
. rush not into ell ways,
Make virtue paths your own.
To you who print mems thoughts and acts,
lis thus il strongly pleads:
Stand 10 the rig Int, for truth andifacts,
Good morals and good deeds.
II warns the idrunkard Ger HIS cup
To Bhun the accursed bowl;
II bids him now his course to stop,
Ere ruin destroys his soul.
The merchant man it says to him,
In whispers to his heart
Fill up the mesure to the brim,
Cut not the yards too short.
To those who deal in drugs and pills,
1t says with fearful eye,
The more you drug Tor human ills,
The mote your subjects die.
Thou man of law for justice strike,
Counsel tor age anu youth.
Don't let your onscenee, rubber like,
Stretch far beyond the truth.
Perchanca you AMI the man of pills
Has heard il whispering say,
Pray don't foot up enormous bills
For customers TO pay.
1t tells the messenger OF peace
TO buid upon the rck
To care but little for the heece,
But try TO save the flock.
II bids us all to turn aside
From every evil way.
Through passion envy, lust anu pride
We're often led 8strsy.
Thus is the soul our guardian kerc,
To mOrtals kind given;
Obey its voice. We need not fear
Twill guide us safe TO Heaven
Lancaster Dee. y, 1865.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-01-12


The following is given as the mode
of conducting the school The in.
mates are divided into five families
under efficient men and women as
overseers. two containing 40 boys
each, one q, one "a, and one IA
girls. Inmates rise at 500 in the
summer, and 800 in the winter, re :
firing at 500 and 7:30, spending the
day in school, work, meals, reading,
devotional exercises, and recreation.
The school is classified by grades
based entirely on conduct ; all enter
the school in the fifth grade; they
are entitled to promotions on the
first and middle of each month. The
order of grades is fifth, fourth, third,
second, first and honor. Inmates
are expected not only TO reach the
grade Of honor, but to maintain DO
sition for several successive grade
times before being discharged. A
record is kept of all promotions and
prnishments.
INSANE HOSPITAL.
Tho number of patients at the
time of the last report was 1870; adj
mitted during the year, IT'S; dis
charged, 100; remaining September
30, 1868, 246, of whom 1874 were
males and liz females.
The total number of patients adj
mitted to the hospital from July 18th,
1860, TO September Both, 1868, was
GAG, of which Vernon county sent IL
and has 5 remaining.
The following table gives the sup.
posed causes of insanity OF patients
admitted into hospital from July
18th, 1860, to September Both, 1868
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-01-12

The following table shows the ages
at which insanity first appeared in
838 patients
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-01-12
Unfading Beauty.

This beautiful sonnet written over two hundre,
years ago, by Thomas Carew, of the gentlemen o
the private chamber TO Charles l., OF England.
He that loves a rosy cheeke,
Or a coral lip sdmres,
Or from starlke eyes doth seeke
Fuel to main tain his fires,
"A old Time makes these decay,
SO his flames must waste away.
But smoot and steadiast mind
Gentle thoughts and calm desires,
Hearts vito equal love combind,
Kindle dying flames;
Where tn SO are not despise
Lovely cheekes or lIps or eyes.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-01-12
LANCASTER. WISCONSIN, TUESDAY. JANUARY 70, 1868

Observation-Disclosures II. Little. NJ. A,
Teachers--Miss s. A. Watson, Miss II A. Dagsett
Miss L. Baldwin, John W. Bisehof---tbe latter of
music. ss
Foreman Of ehop-Joseph Horton.
Matron-Miss l.. II, Phelps t4
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-01-12


Taere is "a farm connected with the
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-01-12

This institution is located in James
vile, and is designed for the care. ed
ucation and training of the blind
The number of pupils during the
year was 60; admissions, 10 dismis,
sails, Z. All are expected to be sup
Piled with good comfortable clothing.
Board and tuition is free. The term
of instruction is determined in each
case by the acquirments of the pupil
and consequent fitness for graduation.
The institution is under the care of
a board, of which r. B. Treat, NJ. d.,
is president $. W. Smith, treasurer.
and Orrin Guernsey, secretary. Tie
officers and teachers are as follows /:
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-10-22

4 MELANCHOLY AFFAIR.-We are sorry
to have to record q sad accident which
occurred last night, and resulted in the
death of one of the crew of the F'Cuba."
About 8 o'clock one of the seamen
sprang from a fourth story window of the
Seamen's Home. where the crew of the
Scuba" were stopping, and after linger-
ing for two hours died, his skull having
been fractured by the fall.
Around his death-be stood many of his
comrades, and we noticed Commodore
Higgins and Captain Ingraham also pre-
sent.
The Rev. Mr. Patterson was called in,
but came just as he breathed his last and
offered up prayer over his remains-all
present kneeling around the humble cot
which held their dead shipmate, and the
sobs that came from many brave man
proved that the deceased was not unloved
Ddily Journal 2OM.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-10-22
Cape Fear Agricultural ISOLATION.


WILMINGTON, n. c., October IS, 1860
To THE PUBLIC. The Executive Com
mittee of the Cape Fear Agricultural Asso-
citation believing that it is of Importance
to call the public attention to the very ex-
tensive preparations that this Association
is making for its first FAIR AND EXPOSITION,
have directed the undersigned to address
you this communication.
This Association has for its object the
promotion of agriculture, commerce and
the mechanic arts in that section of coun
try of which Wilmington is the CONNER
cial centre.
To that end we desire every farmer and
mechanic-every good house wife and
woman engaged in the manufacture of
articles useful, as we'll as ornamental. to be
represented by some article of their own
handiwork or production.
Let no one hesitate to send any excel
lent article of their own growth or their
own manufacture to our Fair.
We have erected large Exhibition Hall
a building equal in area to one hundred
and fifty by thirty feet. two stories high.
In addition to this we have hall ninety
by thirty feet the whole equal to eleven
thousand seven hundred square feet of
floor, for exhibition of articles, such as
machinery and manufactures Of oil kinds
that our friends and the public of any
State or country may desire to present.
Large accommodations will also be pro-
vided for live stock of every kind, together
with fine trotting course for the exhi-
bition of animals.
With our arrangements and accommo-
dations we trust the public will be fully
satisfied, and that it will come forward with
abundant specimens.
We arc now to have q "Fair and Tx.
position " for the first time by the waters
Of the Cape Fear, and we say to nil good
North Carolinians everywhere, and to all
that love the good old North State and
desire to see her rise, Phmnix-hke from
the ashes of the late civil war-tIlouGh
they may reside in distant State or 4
foreign land-and to citizens OF all the
States, come and help u.s.
Bring something new, useful or curious,
and it shall have place upon our grounds.
S. L. FREMONT,
President.