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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14
What Has Become of the Thirty-fourth
Congress.

In letter written last spring by
the late Hon. John Covode declining
denomination for Congress, he gave
the following account of the history
of the members of the Thirty-fourth
Congress
SIN looking over a list of the men,
bers of the Thirty-fourth Congress,
being the one L first entered, / find
that nearly half it's numbers are now
in their graves, including from Penn
sylvania, Tyson, Broome, Fuller,
Robinson, Knight and Richie and of
the 1O3 that voted for Banks in that
great struggle, there remain in the
present Congress only Burlington,
Bingham, Kelsey, G. G. Washburn
and myself-Banks also being men,
Der of this Congress-six in all and,
as each of them has been out longer
than | have, it makes me the father
of the House that | entered on the
great struggle to preserve the rights
OF white-men in the territories, re-
sulting in freeing four and half mil
lions Of colored persons, giving them
political rights and endowing them
with suffrage, privilege not even
then contemplated. And we now
find the old shareholders appealing
to those that were once their slaves
for their votes. What a revolution,
and what sacrifices have been made
to accomplish it
While none Of the members of
either House fell in battle on the
Union side except Colonel Baker,
there were quite number fell on the
rebel side, including some of the
worst fire-eaters, such as Barksdale,
Keitt, Branch, Zollicoffer, and others.
OF the active men in the Banks strug-
gle, Sherman, Morril aad Cragin,
now in the Senate Colfax Vice Pres
ident Washburne, Minister in Paris;
Burlingamo, after having risen to
eminent distinction as a diplomatist,
fell victim to disease at ST. Peters
burg last winter, and his remains are
now on their way to the State he
has so much honored; Spinner,
Treasurer of the United States, and
Allison, Register of the same Israel
Washburne has since been Governor
of Maine, and Pringla on a mission
abroad Giddings, the great fle-lead-
err, is in his grave, as well as Brenton,
of Indiana Granger, of New York
Machain, of Vermont, etc. Of the
Senators | was well acquainted with
in the Thlrty-fourth Congress, Bell,
Broadhead, Butler, Cass, Q. G. Clay,
Clayton, Collamer, Crittenden, Doug
las, Fessenden, Foote, Houston, and
others, are no more, and mono of the
living remain in the Senate except
HamIin, Harlan, Sumner and wilson,
while Seward, who was IN the
great leader, has had a checkered
course since that time"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14
INDIAN AFFAIRS.

The following is the Presidents
message recently sent to Congress
on the subject of the civilization of
the western Indians
To the Senate and House of Representatives /:
transmit herewith an official
copy of the proceedings Of the coun-
Gil of Indian tribes held at Okomul-
gee in December last, which resulted
in the adoption Of declaration Of
rights and a constitution for their
government, together with q copy of
the report of the Commissioners of
Indian Affairs, and the views of the
Secretary of the Interior thereon.
1t would seem highly desirable
that the civilized Indians in the
country should be encouraged to es-
tablish for themselves a form of ter
ritorial government compatible with
the Constitution of the United States;
and, with previous custom towards
communities lying outside State linn
it's, | concur in the views expressed
by the Secretary of the Interior, that
IL WOulu Uc uuNlSdUlo 10 TeCclNe tue
new territory. With the constitu-
ton as now framed, SO long as the
territorial form of government is
preserved, Congress would have the
power of approving or disappearing
all legislative action of the territory,
and the Executive should, with the
consent Of the Senate, have power to
appoint a Governor, judicial officers,
and some other officers of the terri
tory. This is the first indication of
Aborigines desiring to adopt our
form Of government, and it is highly |
desirable that they become self-sus-
tanning, selfrelying, christianized and |
civilized. If successful in their first
attempt at territorial government,
we hope for the concentration of 9TH
er Indians in the new territory. |
therefore recommend close adher-
ence to their wishes.
u. S. GRANT.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14
Look Out For Fire.
Save embers and ashes in boxes and pals
And sooner or later thy domieil fails.

1t is wonderfully easy thing to
manage affairs so carelessly that a
house may take fire. A fire will kin
die so easily among dry paper, shaw
ings and boards, that it IS really sur
prisiDg to contemplate how many
people arrange combustibies in good
condition for taking fire, and fail OF
general confagration. We remov-
ed two wooden fireboards recently,
in the upper rooms, and, to our sur
prise, found bushel of dry paper in
the fire place, piled against the dry
boards, all ready for burning SCOT to
fall from the chimney and ignite pa
per, fireboard and the entire house
But there was striking failure.
We recently paid visit to a dis
tinguished farmer, horticulturist and
pomologist, who scarcely knows what
failure is in his bne and yet he has
failed to set his wood-house on fire,
although his ash bin has been in one
corner of the wood-house for several
years He will, doubtless, succeed if
he pursues that practice for few
years longer. When be does really
start a fire, he will be favored with
an excellent opportunity to plan and
to erect new dwelling house or out
buildings.
A near neighbor, who has kept his
ashes for several years past in barrels
at one corner Of the back yard, never
succeeded in starting fire until re-
Gently, when he happened to place a
few small pieces of live Goals against
the dry slaves. There was a death
like struggle on the part of the little
bit Of fire to kindle. But, about three
o'clock in the morning the forked
flames had licked up the last barrel
stave, had taken hold of the board
fence, and was making rush for the
dwelling house. Many persons have
actually succeeded in kindling fires,
SO that the doubling need not con-
graduate themselves that their dwell
lings are as incombustible as asbestos.
Wood and timber will burn. There
is no mistake about the matter,-
NeiU York Observer.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14
THE SIOUX VALLEY.

The Elk Point, ID To Leader has
the following description of this vast
and fertile valley:
OF the valleys in the southern part
other than the Missouri, that of the
Big Sioux is probable the largest and
best. 1t extends along the eastern
border for $50 miles to the Missouri
at the southeastern corner of the
Territory, forming the boundary be-
tween it and Iowa for the last half OF
the distance. Sioux Falls is at its
central point, This valley grows
broader generally as it is assembled
while the bluffs become lowcr and
less abrupt. The river overfows a
small margin usually, in some places
much larger than others. These
parts and those protected by more
abrupt bluffs are mainly covered
with timber, though in places only
rank grasses. Eden is about 80 miles
above the mouth. Canton 45 miles
and Sioux Falls rs miles. Between
Canton and Sioux Falls the bluffs
cease almost entirely and the valley
merges with the rich prairie lands,
forming very rich region. The
places mentioned are villages COM
mencing an active life and centers Of
prosperous and enterprising settle
mentS.
Settlements rapidly advance in
every part of the Sioux Vally, over
flowing it and reaching out upon the
rolling prairie lands to the vest
The vacation Of Fort Dakota Militia
ry Reservation about Sioux Falls has
been the occasion of rapid settlement
about there, which is pushing its
way vigorously up the valleys and
about the lakes at the head waters Of
the stream. Along its whole course
and particularly about its head wa
tiers, the rich land extends very
broadly until the whole region is one
vast body OF the finest farming and
grass lands. The God timber and
water supply, with it's fine grazing
facilities justify the early settlement
of the valley by heavy population;
railroads soon to follow, will in q
short period render it most valuable.
The region is easily reached in sum-
mer and fall across northern Iowa,
and southern Minnesota, but in the
spring more easily by a more south
ern route through Sioux City Iowa.
The Big Sioux is a clear, rapid
stream of pure water with firm shores
and gravelly or stony bottom. In
addition to the great falls it has
numerous rapid places and its des-
cent is greater than any other stream
in eastern Dakota. 1t affords num-
erous advantages for the economical
use of water power, several of which
are being improved. Thus here are
few obstacles to the proper settle
ment of the whole valley. Though
the present has been very dry sum-
mer, | saw crops of wheat in the val
ley, grown upon land broken three
years which threshed 80 bushels per
acre of the best quality. Corn was
growing by the side Of this which
was judged to produce from 90 to 70
bushels per acre.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14
The Arithmetic of War.

We are not sanguine that the cost
of war will ever deter nations from
engaging in it. Certainly the French
did not challenge hostile conclusions
with the Prussians without knowing
it was exceedingly expensive. Before
the beginning of the present struggle
M. Leroy Beaulieu. an intelligent
statist of France, had devoted himself
to the preparation of a work in which
he maintained that all wars between
1853 and 1866 might have been avoid
ed, if those concerned had cared to
avoid them, and then proceeds to foot
up the bill that war had called upon
the human race to pay. The follow
ing table will give the results at which
he arrived:
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14

Daniel Wadsworth, of Prescott,
Wis, a man 20 years of age, has,
within the past five years, made six
trips on foot to point in Iowa, some
two hundred miles distant. He is
remarkably vigorous yet.
The Appleton Times says the
lumbermen are beginning to feel the
absence of snow. Some camps in the
pineries are under an expense of
5000 per day, and the loggers unable
to do anything on account of a lack
of snow.
The Dodge Co., Wis, Democrat
says there is a girl in Hustisford who
possesses a claim to notoriety from
the fact that she is only ten years
old, and weighs one hundred and
thirty-nine pounds.
The Court House at Sheboygar
cost S65. 900. 1t is said TO be the
most beautiful structure of the kline
in the State.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14
Senator Carpenters Speech.

Senator Carpenters late speech at
the unveiling of Winnie Ream's Stat.
ne OF Lincoln at Washington contain
ed a fine tribute to the great Prssi-
dent, as follows:
"To illustrate, let me refer you TO
the speech of Edward Everett, New
England's accomplished scholar. and
the speech of Abraham Lincoln, the
hooiest specimen of the naturalness
u tne west, at the dedication of the
gettysburg cemetery. Mr.. Everett
thought of the Punic war Of Tho
great Grafton OF Pericles over The
Athetian dead, and he went on as
untouched by human emotion as
though Re were, indeed, buryinr
Athenians, who had been dead these
two thousand years. His speech was
polished, scholarly, and cold. Per-
haps Mr.. Lincoln had heard of the
Punio war, and perhaps not. What
Pericles had said he neither thought
ofnor cared for. He was thinking
not of Greek or Roman, Scythian or
Turk, but of his constituents, his eli
ents, his neighbors and friends, whose
warm palms he had pressed in hap
pier hours, who were sleeping in that
dreadful field and bis speech was
as natural, as fresh, as warm as the
blood that was flowing in upon his
heart.
Oratory is, indeed, the only art in
which Americans have exhibited
originally and attained great excel
lence. Patrick Henry, Clay, and Mr..
Douglas-three consummate orators,
who bear comparison with the ora
tors OF any age or nation-achieved
their prominence untrammeled by
ancient rules. Each possessed great
gifts each was inspired by great &C.
'asions, and each let his own light
shine"
The Senator has valuable thoughts
% offer and most felicitous way of
lttering them, whether in the Senate
Or in court-in iecturing law students,
character, or speaking of
lrt and artists.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14

tG- The reason of the strange dis-
appearance of Gen. Sam Houston, in
the early part of his life, when he
left lovely bride and the Governor
ship of Tennessee, and exiIed him.
self among the Indians for many
years has lately been revealed. He
discovered, within a few hours after
his marriage, that his wife did not
love him, but had been urged into
the match by an ambitious family,
while loving another man. He at
once retired from the house, and by
his subsequent exile gave the lady a
right to the divorce which she OBJ
tanned.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14
Total..............l,752,I9l


So that fifteen years cost mankind
in useless wars 1852 491 men and
II, 036 MILLIONS of dollars. When the
account OF the German-Gallic war of
1870 comes to be added to this mourn
iul balance sheet, the follies of nations
will be set forth in a yet more start
ling arithmetic.
When it is considered what good
might have been accomplished with
this money, how many hospitals,
universities, railways, agricultural
colleges, workingmen's homes. could
have been built with it, we can the
better comprehend what seems an
extravaganza in the saying that a
great war retards the progress of
civilization by century.-Post.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14

ETA story, attributed to Wendell
Phillips, is told to the affect that he
went on Sunday to fashionable
Gotham church in company with
colored man. Several of the pew
holder wished to eject the Melanite
in spite of Phillips assurance that be
was a gentleman by birth, breeding,
and education. They were all in
exorable until the orator declared
his companion to be worth $1,000
900, when all the New Workers at
once clamored for an introduction.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14
How Vanderbilt Started.

Every little while the newspapers
contain an account of Vanderbilt's
beginning. Most of these accounts
are apocryphal. His own statement
OF his first real success is this: He
was young man on Staten Island.
de was master Of rowing. He was
athletic, strong and daring. One
night stranger came to the Islands
and wished to be rowed across to
Gowanus. The night was dark and
stormy, and the wind blew a gale.
Not boatman could be found who
would leave. The landlord said,
There is nobody who can row you
over but Corn. Vanderbilt, for so
he was called. 1t was doubtful, he
said, whether he would do it. Van
derbilt was found, and in answer to
the request replied: "It's pretty
rough, but if you will give me ten
dollars, lay down in my boat and not
stir, or do just what | bid you, I'll
try it," He rowed the man over
and back in safety. AS soon as he
landed at Staten Island, the stranger
said : "Young man, how would you
like to run an opposition steamboat"
Nothing would suit me better was
the reply. "Have you pluck enough
to obey orders 2" said the stranger.
81 have" was the response. Sup
pose | was to tell you to run into a
steamboat, what would you do ~
"Run into her, by" The bargain
was sealed amid the storm that night,
on the Island, and Vanderbilt enter
ed on his well known career as steam
boat man.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14

s5s-ln the Strasburg library there
was wonderful collection of the
Bibles first printed, the oldest bear
ing the impress of "Mentolio, 1866"
In it Moses is pictured with horns !;
and there is also picture of Satan
shifting Job with boils, in which the
figure of the devil carries us back to
the prehistoric and Pagan ideas of
evil spirits, for he is no other than a
hairy Satyr, such as we find in clas-
steal mythologies. In manuscript
Bible, written with great beauty,
and Examinations in the year A. d.
1892, we come to very primitive
realm ofideas indeed. For example.
Adam and Eve are pictured as two
plump and pretty children, and the
devil, which offers little Eve the ap.
pie, is beautiful woman with gold
en- hair rolled up SO as to form q
crown from the waist down she is q
serpent. Among other Examinations
belonging to twelfth century MSS,
there was one in perfect colors rep
resenting God the Father. He was
represented as o young man of great
but severe beauty, and flowing hair,
looking upon an open book. In an
other the Trinity was pictured as
three beautiful youths with physiog-
Monies similar enough for themi to
be regarded as triplets.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14

GJ Gail Hamilton, talking about
the work of girls in the Treasury
Department, inquiries if there is any,
thing pleasant about counting green
backs till the fingers bleed. We
should say not; but we would be
willing to do it until they got a lit
tie soreish.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14

aA-A will, bearing date of 1856,
has been proved fraudulent in Provi-
dence by the fact that the paper on
which it is written contains the
water-mark ga. P. Co., superfne,"
when no paper thus marked was
sold before 1860.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14
PHELPS HOUSE.

IL u PHELPS. proprietor, Lancaster, Wis Having
furnished the three story brick hotel on the
old hotel corner prepared 70 accommodate guests
reasonably. Rooms well furnished and table well
provided. Ample stable accommodations. 20-45
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14

sn-A young lady wishes some
one would invent a "legometer" to
attach to mans pedals, so that wives
NAV determine the distance travelled
by their husbands when they want
to go inst down to the post-office" of
an evening.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14

a@-Of three thousand men who
went to the diamond diggings of
South Africa, only eight or ten were
what is colled successful. The rest
either came near starving, or secur-
ed barely enough to live upon by
the hardest kind of work.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14
cARRlER HOUSE,

~ CARRIER, proprietor Boscobel, Wis. Meals pro
vided before car time and patrons assisted with
baggage Promptness, and no delays at the Carrier
House. GtablinR attached.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14
tG-Pius The Ninth, should he sur

t@ Plus The Nlnth, shouiu ne sur
vive until June of the present year.
will have completed the twenty-fifth
year of his pontiicate, and have out
numbered the years of any of his
predecessors in the see OF st. Peter,
unless it be true that st. Peter him.
self held that dignity for a quarter
of century. Should the greatly de-
sired event be attained, the faithful
of his flock throughout the world
will make it the occasion of high
ceremonial.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14

s@-A Virginia youth shot one of
his neighbors last week for tamper-
ing with his dog. The cbivalric
spirit of the Old Dominion is in no
danger of dying out.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14

Eg-A Chicago woman asks for a
divorce on the ground that her hus-
band has never, in all their seven
years Unmarried life, kissed her once.
How hungry she must be by this
time.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14

s1A soldier who had been re-
proched with cowardice, philosophi-
cally remarked that he had rather
be called coward all his life than
a corpse fifteen minutes.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14
FAST
br ELLA WHEELER

whittier away, fair maid
Decked ont in your costume gay,
Do you know what the Bible prophet said
or a modest woman, pray
Are your colors bright and your oily white"
Meant for the street to-day
DO you want the men TO gaze?
Doyou coyet a strangers stare
Do you want the loaiers to turn in amazei
And hsar them say, Look there ?"
"Ant she gay, though" ana "Nobby you know.
"Who Is shel' and IL declare! !"
Is for this you dress,
Q maia, with the form Of gracel
That you irizz up, stack up tress on tress
And walk Ia the public place
In colors 80 bright, they dazzle the sight,
Aud with no veil over your face
know In word, and act,
You are as pure as you are in thought
But you want to dazzle, and attract
To be admired, and sought
You do not know the way you 60
With kissing serpents Is fraugbt
Turn from it while you can,
With stain, or faint Of wrong.
Better the love Of one honest man,
Than the stares OF motley throng.
Seek not to attract, but be worthy in fact,
Some heart that is true and strong.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14

~ ). HYDE, proprietor, Lancaster, Wis corner Of
W Main and Spring SITS. Having bought the above
nouse and Tehttsd and refurnshed ~, am prepared
Go give every attention 20 the accommodation Of guests
and viii provided good table aud clean beds A good
hoHtler always on hand. 2i-3O
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14
BROOI1s.


~ ENERAL COLLECTING AGENT aud CONVEY.
~ ANGER, Bloomington, Wis Titles Investigated and
perfected Collection promptly attended 70. Rector
cnces given when desired. 2l-23
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14

BsTRACT and CONyEYANCING once, Lancaster
a VIE Abstracts furnished on snort notice; Titles
tgated and perfected. ConyeyancDg in all its
branches; Taxes paid land bought and sold 22-l4
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14
PLATTEVILLE HOTEL,


by q. d. STREETER, corner OF Mineral and Second
ID streets, Platteyile, Wis. Good stabliHg and at
tentiye hostlcrs sample rooms attached.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14
DENTAL.

nENrIN Al l would respectfully in
IVIIN n 4. - form those who may de
sire my advice and services that conhne my dental
lhbUrs Go my Office In noscobel sS-ARrHIcIAL TEETH
inserted any base desired Teeth nlled with COLI
or ANAtGAM aud warranted DURABLE BY keeping post
OF Ia tho Dental Art we'll prepared 10 take diff.
ncult eases. Office over Ruka Brothers hardware
store 22-lT On. \. C0OMES.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14
RAReER AND HAIR DRESSER.

GEORGE ". NOTHROP, respectfully ntQrms the
N public generally that he has opened Barber
shop Ia Meyers building north Of the court house
shaving shampoong and Hair Dressing attended to.
Also Ladies' switches, Curlsi frz1cs, &C. made 20
order. 2l-lo
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14

NOTARY PUBLIC, Claim Agent. and Agent for sew.
~ ernl Of tho best Life and Fire Insurance Com
panies in the country. Also Licensed Aucti0neer. All
business entrusted 10 him will be promptly attended
10 Al CassVille Wis 2l-l7
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14
DIR. Q. +. FALLEY,

physician aud SURGEON. Lancaster Grant Co
/ Wis May be- found at his residence 200 yard
west Of Jones Drng Store. 22-30
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14

II. W SMITH. M. d,
DUNsCIAN ASp SURGEON once at residence, 2
L doors west - Arcade Hotel Georgetown, Grant
county, Wis 24-36
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14
CANES HOUSE,

n a GATES, proprietor, Platteyillo, Wis. This
~. now hotel y situated on LIST Or Oak ST., doors
south 81 Main. II Is newly furnished and fitted up Ia
rst class STYLE Cool sample Room aud stabling at.
iached. Five minutes walk from the depot. fl.5O
per day. 22-23
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14

PHYSICIAN and SURG EON and Pension EXAMINING
Surgeon, Lancaster, Wis. Once over Meyers
store. 2O-2l
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14
DIR p a CLARKE

D, W. CARLEY, M, D.
DUysTCIAN ASH SURGEON Bo-cohol. Grant county
/ Wisc8u.in. once AZ hi- residence. 22-30