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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-01-04

A Powerful Cement Wanted.

For the Grant County Herald
If we shall have anything left us
worthy of the name of nation, when
the 4th Of July again comes around,
orators will be in good demand +; and
to satisfy public expectations, they
will probably, as usual exert their ut
most powers of eloquence to persuade
the people, that we, as nation are
far in advance of all others that our
government is the model government
of the world and is slowly, but sure
ly, shedding its glorious light upon
the nations of the world causing
kings and emperors to tremble on
their thrones and their subjects to
rejoice in the hope that they may
one day be liberated from their bond
age, and be permitted to become a
part of the great Republic, whose
destiny is sure to be onward and up
ward, drawing all other nations and
people within its folds, and shedding
its benign light to the far-off ends of
the earth till time shall be no more.
Now all this is very eloquent, and if
people do not indulge in such flights
OF fancy but one day in a year per-
haps it may be pardonable. But
would it not be well for us to come
down to the real facts. Our nation,
when viewed from another standpoint
may be aptly compared to huge
earthen vessel that has received a vi
client shock causing it to crack in a
dozen pieces, the pieces all remaining
in place yet; and the people have
been for ten years trying to cement
them together, so that the vessel could
be used. But it now seems the ce-
ment was not good. 1t was composed
mostly of oaths to support the Consti
tuition tens of thousands of which
have been administered to persons
who knew little more of the meaning
of the word, or the requirements of
the oath, than does the humble ass
that draws the water-cart through
your streets. Now if we have great
Statesman in the nation, here is a
glorious chance for him; only let
him invent a cement, or anything else
that will cause the parts to unite firm.
ly, and his name shall 90 down to
posterity, as one of the greatest bene-
factors of the human race the world
has ever produced. But blood and
thunder will not make a good cement
the thunder would be more likely to
cause new cracks than to mend the
old ones. Yet among people where
the electric telegraph was invented,
| am not without hope that a man
may be found whose inventive pow
ers may be equal to producing the
desired cement.
1t is not pleasing duty TO go back
and criticise ones own party or friends
but it is sometimes necessary so that
we may be better prepared to AVOID
like mistakes in the future,
Let US go back, and look at things
as they were at what was supposed
10 be the close of the rebellion. There
was an immense amount of property |
in the rebel states, nearly all of which
had been created by wearing out five
Or six generations of slaves. To these
slaves rightly belonged the bulk of
he property they had produced, yet
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-01-04

Late News.

David Dudley Field was elected to
fill the vacancy caused by the resigna-
ton of Smith Ely, jr., from the Sew
enth New York Congressional district.
His opponent was Republican named
GoetZ.
J.. L. Gibbs is elected Speaker OF
the Minnesota Legislature.
George b. Sloan has been CT osen
Speaker of the New York Assembly.
Ex-Gov. Hahn is Speaker of the
House, in Louisiana.
There is apprehension of another
outbreak and massacre at New Or
leans, but President Grant says there
is no danger that Governor Kellogg
is equal to the occasion.
The conference of European pewers
celebrating on the Turco Russian
question, has adjourned to give the
Porte time to prepare reply to the
proposals made him on questions Of
an International commission, etc. II
he acts contrary to the wishes of his
own people he fears assassination.
Tilden is mad at Wade Hampton
for having written letter to Governor
Hayes.
Young hogs are dying of disease, by
the thousand, in central Iowa.
A $4,000 fund has already been
raised in Chicago for the support and
education of the two little boys left
orphans by the death of Mr.. and Mrs.
P. P. Bliss, by the Ashtabula rail-
road disaster.
Since the Presidential election
there have been three vacancies filled
in the Legislature of Indiana by spe-
cial election-two in the Senate and
one in the House. At the Presiden.
tial election those districts all chose
Democrats at the special elections
they all chose Republicans. This
shows that the Hoosiers are not for
"wah." The Republicans now have
maiorities in both branches of the In
diana Legislature
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-01-04
Murdered His Father-in-l law.

The first of December DR.. A. J
Shade, of Shade Gap, Huntingdon
County, Pa. wss brutalIy murdered
by his son-in-law, Creswell A. Reese,
The murderer also assaulted and
nsarly killed his mother-in.law. The
murder grew out of a long-standing
enmity between the two. Reese had
received much pecunary assistance
from his father in-law. The help
received was from time to time
squandered. DIR. Shade at last made
All agreement with him to give him
a certai1 amount and that there must
be 10 more opportunities for help.
This help was wasted as before and
the father-in.iaw was again called
upon. Reese was refused, became
enraged and knocked the Doctor
down with stove-wood and then shot
him three or four times. Reese is in
Jail His wife had previously left
him and would not see him for fear
of her life.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-01-04
Too Much Amnesty.

1t is reported that at the Congre-
gational Church in Washington, D.
c., recently, the Rev. DR.. Rankin,
10 the course of some remarks, made
use of the following laugue ge:
"There has been great deal Of anxiety on
the part of the American people, on what
score Why on the score that bygones be
bygones that the greatest crime ever com
mitted can be blotted out with pen full of
ink ia the hands of the Executive. Has it
cured anything? The same men who lately
tried to take the nations life by the bayonet,
are now bert on defeating tie will of the sso-
PIC 5y fraud and violence. Having been un-
fortunate in their little game of rebellion,
which only cost the nation few millions in
life and dollars, they now propose to succeed
by the other expedient of stuffing the ballot
boxes, making false returns and getting the
votes of innocent citizens"
This is it exactly. We are now
engaged in reading the history of
the rebellion, and the very same
talk and threats and insolence we
now hear are similar to the treason
able and defiant bragadocla bea in
80 and '6I. There has been too much
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-01-04

REV. STEPHEN H. TYING, JR., OF
New York, told his congregation
asst Sunday that if the ladies of his
church would give up their three>
button gloves and wear one-button
gloves instead, enough money would
be saved 10 prevent a great deal of
suffering among the poor people of
New York during this Indictment
winter. The next day be was waited
upon by committee of pLaiu-speak-
ing ladies, who suggested that if the
pastor and maIs members OF the
church would givc up their cigars,
they would save money enough to
csrry on two or three orphan as
ylums. They added in suggestive
way that three-buttou gloves did not
make any dirt, or any unsavory oder
and have no deleterious effect on the
nerves of tue other ladies who wer 9
them: while, on the other hand, the
brethren would be cleaner, sweet er
and healthier it they would quit the
uSe of tobacco and give to the cause
of the orphans the motey they now
exnepd 90 this carnal qualification.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-01-04

they were turned out on the cold
charity of the world, without dol
lars worth of anything. They were
told they might vote, and it now
seems that privilege should have had
a Pr0Uiso, making the whole read as
follows: "You may vote provided you
can get at the polls, and dare risk the
consequences" Then, as if to take
away their last chance in the world,
their old ensavers were clothed with
political power in the state and nation
and we are now reaping the bitter
fruit of that i'll advised, though no
doubt well-meaning act. Now sup
pose a score or two of the leaders OF
the rebellion had been executed, b
fate that would surely have beer
theirs in any other country, and a
hundred or two next less in rank ban
ished, and one half of the property
had been given to those who produc-
ed it, thus making them independent
of their old enslavers and then that
part Of the country had been treated
and governed as conquered territory.
Had this been done, what would have
been the probable condition of the
whole country to-day, as compared
with what it now is. This subject is
worthy of the attention of the master
minds of the country fol- it is within
the bounds OF probabilities that a state
of things somewhat similar to that
which existed at what was supposed
to be the close of the rebellion, will
again have to be met and acted on by
the Government
LUTHER Brown
Patch Grove. Dec. 2sth 1916.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-01-04

The Democrats were unusually ac-
tive in the county of Columbia, Flori-
da. In one case four colored Repub.
licans were threatened with death if
they did not espouse the Democratic
cause. The Senate Committee has
discovered instances where freedmen
had been driven from the polls, and
where the Republican votes had been
dropped between the ballot box and
the wall, instead of being placed in
the ballot box, so that it is now said
that the Republican State and Ma
tional tickets were cheated out of
more than 200 votes at single pre-
cinct in Columbia County, and il is
believed by the Senate Committee
that on fair vote the State ticket
would have had from $500 to 5000
majority.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-01-04

Soto, Jackson and Natchitoches. Of
these the following, to-wit: East
Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, West
Feleciana, Ouachita and Morehouse,
are parishes bordering or the states
of Mississippi aud Arkansas, and in
these parishes there is republican
vote of IL 1874, and republican ma
jority of 1870, to a democratic vote
of 4 1924 in the remaining eleven OF
| these parishes to-wit /: Richland,
Grant, Livingstone, Franklin, Sabine,
Cald Lafayette, Clay bourne, De
| Soto, Jackson, and Natchitoches,
| here was less brutal but not less
| ffeetive sy stem of intimidation, By
which a proportion of the republican
,ote was suppressed, sufficiently
arge to compensate for the demo
ratio voth which would be lost il
'ull-dozed parishes by the operation
! of law in multiplying the election IN
said parishes third, by the sudden
and simultaneous outbreaks of vio-
lence and murder in these parishes,
before aud near election fourth, by
the anomalous and unusual conduct
of white communities, among whom
these outrages occurred, as con-
trasted with those which obtain
among other civilized communities
where similar acts occur. They were
connived at, concealed meetings held;
they were secretly encouraged; there
were no attempts to discover or pun
ish criminals there has been no
condemnation of these acts by the
press, public meetings or by the
clergy. while citizens who have ven-
tured to denounce these outrages
have been menaced with proscrlp-
ton and persecution, and thus 81
fenced. The democratic managers
have pretended that these outrages
were not perpetrated, or where they
have been compelled to acknowledge
the fact, they have falsely attributed
them TO the neglect or inefficeOcy
of local officers, although we'll know
ing that these local officers were
rendered powerless by the same ter
rorism which rendered these out
RACES possible.
IL. That under our law there are
no returns of elections. and can be
none, except those made by return
ing officers, and that neither com
missioners of elections nor supervis-
ors of registrations are returning OF
ficers, nor have neither of them 'au
thoritv to make and declare returne
IL. That the effect of these out
rages and lawlessness and intimidat
ing colored people was not confined
to the limits of parishes in which
they were perpetrated, but that thl
effect spread to a great distance il
surrounding and neighboring par
ishea
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-01-04
RAILROAD AND SHIP WRECK.
Over y Hundred More Lives Lost.

Late papers are laden with another
horror. On the night Of December
29th train of cars going west, near
Ashtabula, Ohio, broke through an
iron bridge and plunged rs feet down
into the creek. There were six or
seven coaches pretty well filed with
passengers. Nearly all were injured.
1t was cold and stormy night. The
coaches took fire, and as passengers
could not get out many were burned
to death. The coaches broke through
the ice into the creek. by which
some were drowned and some per-
ished with cold. The whole number
Of deaths is estimated al over one
hundred. The bodies burned are
80 charred and blackened that they
cannot be identified. Just how many
thus persisted may never be certainly
known. Among the killed are Mr..
Bliss, known as singer and evan
gelist, and his wife and two children.
On the same night a ship was
wrecked off Bridgehampton, Long
Island, resulting in the loss Of 20
lives.
CLEVELAND, January 2. = Mrs.
Frame, Of Rochester, N. Y. injured
in the railroad accident, died at Ash
tabula. The wounded, both in this
city and Ashtabuls, are generally i'm
proving.
Nearly all the persons on the train
agree that there were 200 passen-
gers, instead of $50, as given by the
conductor, on the fatal train. The
only survivor of the burned car
Getty of Buffalo" corroborated the
statement of the witnesses at the
Coroner's inquest, and was of the
opinion that all the inmates but
himself were hurled to the end of the
car and mangled horribly. He be-
came wedged between some seats
and was resuced although with some
severe hurts. He says tho coach
was full Of people. and the smoking
car was also crowded. Superintend-
emit Paine has received number
more Of inquiries of missing people,
but declines to permit the names to
be published until he gains positive
assurance that they were on Friday
nights train.
A gold chain, burned black, and q
rib bone were found together in the
debres, and it is thought the chain
was in Mrs. Bliss possession. 1t will
be remembered that man rushed
into one of the burning cars on the
night of the accident to cave his wife
and was himself burned, and it is
now surmised that this heroic
person was Mr.. Bliss. People who
saw him rush into the flames give a
description that answers.
In the excitement in relation TO
the disaster on the Michigan South.
ern road and the anxiety to ascer-
| tain the actual loss of life; the condit-
ion of the mails has been entirely
| overlooked. The mail from New
England and the contiguous terri
tory is always large, ard the greater
portion of it IS sent over this line via
Albany. Iu addition to this there
are he large letter mails, and in the
| ahsanoa IF ayant knoyIa4pe tho most
office authorities have not been able
| to state to what extent the mail on
tue Train was damaged. Definite in
| formation has not been received at
the postoffice, or was not received
yesterday, and it is believed the en-
tire mail has been destroyed. The
extent of the loss has not been ascer.
tanned yet; but the damage will be
known to-day or tomorrow.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-01-04

Hampton, Of South Carolina, has
issued an address calling on the PEG.
pie to pay ten per cent of the amount
Of taxes paid by them last year, to his
pretended officers. He wants some
thing 10 start on as sinews of "wah.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-01-04
Printing.


n go. L. BU3D, CARRIAGE PAINTER, tOPP0-
VI site new Congregational church, Lancaster. Wis
Paints mixed to order, 1873
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-01-04
NATIONAL NOTES.

Tive weeks in South Carolina-Thc ChIyalry
The Two Races and Their Poiittcs--Adop-
ton of the Mississippi plan by the Shot.
"Carpet-Bag'' BenedictiOns-What a Fair
and Peaceful Election Means In south
Carolina.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-01-04
Republicans Of Louisiana.

Patch Grove. Dec. 2sth 1876.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-08-16
IFor the Dispatch.l
Duty Of the People.

The Conservative Convention has done
its work wisely and well. 1t has given us
good candidates and a good platform: III
now remains for the people to do their duty.
Let no candidate be nominated for the
Legislature who does not stand squareiy on
the platform. 1t would be useless to elect
Il Governor and Lieutenant Governor OF
patriotic principles and purposes II we
should fail to elect Legislature which VIII
sustain them in their efforts to revive the
credit and prosperity OF the commonwealth
The action of the Convention is not the
end of the contest. 1t is but the beginning
OF it. 1t has presented the issues for the
campaign. It will be for the people TO de-
eide them. IL we elect our State ticket, and
choose Legislature in harmony with it, all
will be well. But if we supinely reston our
arms. and allow our adyerSarics to carry the
Legislature, all that we have done viii bc in
vain. Discord between the executive and
legislative departments will bcgct distrust
and dependency, and defeat every effort TO
restore prosperity to Virginia.
Let all true men grid OH their armor for
Il vigorous contest. Momentons issues are
involved, and Virginia demands that every
man shall do his duty.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-08-16
Criminal Expenses.

The idea OF Introducing the whipping
most as an efficient means OF punlshlng GER
tain kinds of offences and diminishing the
amount OF criminal expenses Is becoming
nopular. We shall not be surprised to see
the majority OF the States using 1t as an cN'
cellcnt means not only OF Furnishing trans
crcssors. but Of deterring men from crime.
It is more dreaded than the penitentiary,
and decidedly more efficient than that mis-
named reformatory system,| which Is
ONLY process OF graduation for criminals.
They are seldom or never reformed.
Little Delaware has boldly maintained her
ground and the tcrrors OF her whipping
post have compelled rogues to give her
wide birth and seek fields for operation in
other Substantially, Pennsylvania-and
the Philadelphia papers complained much
on the ground that Delaware was forcing
the rorues into their city. Practically
Delaware had made Philadelphia her penal
colony. The rogucs that avoided her pre-
ferred lodgings and food in Philadelphia to
a sound thrashing and liberty in Delaware
Among the converts to the utility and
tonical advantages for criminals OF the whip
nine-post is the New York FINES, which
has logically expounded the effects OF this
most excellent remedial agent. Criminal
expenses are great and increasing. The
whipping-post, properly introduced, will
turn the tide. 1t will diminish the expenses,
and 90 on to diminish them steadily. Rogues
hate the lash, and they will stop stealing
rather than multiply the la>hcs.
A very adroit cXpedient was once en-
ployed in Alexandria. \ criminal was
awarded thirty lasheS, to be administered in
instalments of ten. The first ten were in
flicted with vim by the executive officer
The criminal was requested to come back
soon for the second instalment; but he
never returned, lie was an old offender
from Washington, who had been 4 great
pest to Alexandria; and by the eXpedien1
employed. Alexandria got rid OF him. A
| good hint to city authorities.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-08-16
Mr. Conklinp's Speech.

The speech OF Senator ROSCOE CoNhLiNG
to his Yeliow-citiZcns in Utica, n. l., upon
his return from his foreign trip, wos en-
cecdingly happy. Itwas remarkable Tor It's
entire freedom from politics and from every
mission and sentiment but what was Kind,
genial, loyal, and neighborly. a speech
like that represscs the rancors and jeaiousies
of political differences, and sets free the best
and most bcneticent inclinations and hui
manities. We feel 4 sentiment towards Mr..
CoSKL1SG that we never felt before. We
regard him as q man, indeed, VINO mas
higher devotions than purity zeal, and nobler
sentiments than are kinded by party con-
f,icts. He is man and true-hcarted
ncighbor, il we may Judge by what seemed
warm and sincere outpouring of the feel.
lngs OF Il noble heart. ....-s.. -..
Such u speech as that, so rnrcstrained ana
80 loyal to ncghbor and country, must be
good in its effects. Mr.. CoNKIING's posi-
ton entities him to wide influence, and the
declarations which lie made from his elcva-
ton shonc DER the land like the fiery cross
OF Scotland's clans upon the distant hills and
valleys. What contrast is presented be-
tween such a speech and the mserably ma
licnant and calumrious uttcrings OF such
men as MoRToN and BLAINE! On ono hand
we behold topaz. and on the other
ebony. One ditl'uses the genial spirit
OF humanity and the love OF country and
kin; the other, ghoul-like, broods over the
diving embers Of sectional hate and seeks to
fan them into flame with the remnants OF
the Is bloody shirt" CONKLING would BIND
up the affections OF the communities ana
add brightness to the flame OF national de-
votion. BLAINE and MORTON would inflamc
the ani,nosities OF the North against that
southern section so unfortunate, 50 long
PROSTATE and prosecuted, and still further
ALLEVIATE the two from one another, that they
may profit thereby and triumph amidst the
feuds and miscries of the people.
Mr.. CoNKLISG's speech is therefore OF inn
mensc national value, rs it presents this
comparison, which must increase the ma
tional horror for such vicious public men.
such vile plottcrs OF mischief, as BLAINE
and MoITON. 1t must rs effectively inspire
admiration for the genial inspirations OF
harmony and peace as it does cNecratlon Tor
the passions that tend to national feuds ana
vindictivcneSs.