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Vernon County Censor from Viroqua, Wisconsin • 2

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I We trust too that the Volunteer Reg iraents act will be held in abeyance by the President He has no shadow of need of those regiments now while bis Secretary 1 er to add seemed to havo made op for not receiving anything from the La Crosse Company by their operations in the 'forth Eastern Land Grant Company was a 'friendless orphan whom misfortune ought to ha vo rendered sacred What to you is the sanction of custom Have "you not a higher law within yntir own breast? Ho tried to silenco the monitor by say-ing- Wben I have made ra littIo: more money I will return to tho North I will rnarry JjOO Looon tho way gind slioshall bo acknowledged to the world as roy wifo O' 9 as she now is in my own v' Meanwhile the orphan lived io lierfatb-ers houso as her mothef had lived before jt her She never aided thovoice of Alfreds conscience by pleading with him to make No members voting against thepassage I bullion to France had checked the expor-of tho bill participated in the spoils Theyr tationjthe demand for discounts was very were thirteen in number as follows light and the rates in market -were union Barber Amasa Cobb HH Giles Ed-changed ward Pier James Sutherland rind David I lNDrA--The idetailsofthe fall ofLuck-Taylor of the Senate and Levi Alden I now are published The plunder and debut no such' emergency now exists while I Issaa Brown- Head Knowlton I struction of property was immense It the Treasury is in a galloping consump-1 II Murray Newell and Allen Taylor was expected that 8 0 00 men would have tion It should be favored sofaras pos-l ft the "Assembly VI" I left to garrison Lucknow Symptoms sible 4 I Those of the Assembly who" did not vote were observed of a gathering cloud in the When the full truth becomes known on the bill and to whom no stocky or north west and preventive measures are I of the II estimated at $40000 No lives lost Two steam mills were ruined at Oquaw-ka and ten houses unroofed besides other damages done Damages estimated at from 1 0000 to $15000 So far as ascertained no lives were lost At Gala a large church was moved about a foot and a number of dwelling houses razed with the ground At Peoria-tfce damage done was enormous The hurricane struck the city about five oclock in the evening In the twinkling of an eye fifteeen or! twenty bouses were unroofed every church spire in the city blown down three canal boats loaded with luraljer sunk and tlie steamer Olin with twenty one passengers on board made a complete wreck vt he cabin being blown entirely away -t And what ceios really miraculous is- the fact that but one life was lost inall that furious disorganization of matter a nd utter demolition of structures It is saidithat little 'child was lost from off the! wrecked steamer The lumber in the yards was blown all over the city the gas lamps were all blown down and the signs were4 sent "flying in every direction windows and gable ends smashed in a whole train of cars blown off the track and the beautiful College building on the bluff utterly demolished MrIWorrllFs Land Bill Agrculta Colleges This important bill now pending in q0 gress grants to tho several states the gregate of 5920 000 acres of public lat This is to be apportioned to tho states ij quantities eaqual to 20000 acres for each Senator and Representative tO" which the respective states arc entitled New Yorl for instance will" be entitled to 700 OOq acres Ohio to 460000 and Wisconsin to 100000 Whenever 1 here are public lan In the State worth $125 per acre'e value to bo determined by the Governor 0 State) the quantity to which the State shall be entitled shall be selected from such lands To States in which there are no public lands of the value of $1 25 per aem the Secretary of the" In tenor is direct cd to issue land scrip to the amount of their shares jn acres said scrip to be eold by: the Stale and the proceeds t0 bo apply ed to the use and purposes prescribed inthe act and for no other uses or purposes yvhatever All the expenses of the man agementand sjilej of the lands are to be paid by the State out of their own treasur-ies so that the entire proceeds of the lands given in the United States shall be applied to the purposes of' the bill The money derived from the sale cfsucii lands is to be so invested as to "cinRiitu nrm t'Trnmrn'miTmTr'pn THE WESTERN TIMES A Somerby Virtua James Osgood Do Soto Vlroqiirt ZDo Soto Wednesday" Mat 2G 1858 Ll I STThe North western Farmer for May contains besides many other valuable articles Cane cultural jST- Godeys Ladys Book for June is a gem and the 'First Step 7 as natural as lifer "iAinowivolume will bo-commenced in July Now is tho Tiino to subscribe $3 per annum 2 Copies $5 and Clubs at Directors Tho I was believed Syftlm'natives arid tHe Gov I ernor' General bad proclaimed rewards to propagandisrn as the faithful and the confiscation of the estates of others tiieir "lives to be spared on condition of submission if they are hot guilty of shedding blood The Paris Press says that the revolt extends' daily and that Sir Colic Campbell asks imme- inforcements diate and large re-infi I if I The Outrages on the American Flag tber Gulfcr rf Washington Maw lp 4JKr'U' successive announcements! ot new -'J- -''fS Jf i outrages on our tGulfr commerce liurnish food to 'tho excitement already existing ierc on that subject The government has taken hold of the matter with vigor? issued to the I Orders have been eollectois'of Oustoms to rePf I al1 of the89 outrages which may also been sent to fit out tlie frigates Sa ra! toga and New York and the brig Dolphin at Boston for the strengthening ofa our 1 Gulf" suadrou Orders cn lho subject' wera also sent the Coiorado atNorfolk butthey did not rdacli there -until that had sailed Neither our rrornment nor Lord Napier JNeitucr our government nor lAjru rapier referred the qualifications of the Dm 1 of tho British Bank for a new trial 1 Bank of England had made no chahgo in the rate of discount and the outflow of has accurate information concerning the recent visitations of American Vessels by IBritisIi cruisers It is: supposed that the rr attcr ave excecded their instructions 01 lhat tho published accounts have been very much exaerated If the transactions wO are as allcsed it is hot believed they will Great Britain Our lower rates Subscriptions received Report of the Land Grant this office tion Startling Disclosures- Nearly the whole Legislature THE LAND GRANT -V I 1 of 1850 bought -The" report of tho Legislative commit-1 The report ot the Joint Committee 'to The following persohswho were State officers in 1856' also rcceived bonds as follow Dennis" 'Bank Comptroller 1 -Noof Bond? 10- $10000 No' of Bonds 5 5000 A Smith Noof Bonds '10 10000 1 The following persons who wete officers l006o Bonds at par Cilef Pitt'Dewej Asst Clk Egbert Moseley" 10 1 $16 000 Tb following persons who wero cot members of Ihq Legislature Stalo officers or officers of either thoEenate or Assembly in 1855 also received honds as yr a-: NoiofBpnd Amount Alexander Mitchell 10 $10000 Levi Hubbell 5 Eliphalet Cramer' 10 10000 I 10 1 0OOO JHSharpstein Ed Mih News 1 Edwin Goodrich 25 25000 13 Knceland 1 Charles Jenkins Byron Kilbourn" Moses Strong1 Ljidington Isaac Woodle SamucrHnle Norton 10 10 2 5 -5' of Kenosha 5 Thayer j- 1 a if 'irt iitv -'(i'' Reymert Daniel Wells Jr 10 Dimock 5 10O0 10000 5000 Vf Total amount ct par $246000 I 25 25000 25 25000 25 25000 25 25000 25 25 000 1 10 lO OOO J000 10OOO I 10GQ0 5 000 5000 1 1000 1 An Unexpected Assault A Washington correspondent of the New Orleans Crescent relates the follow ing Some of the fancy gentlemen and ladies at fhe Gwio ball improved the occasion to endowment and support of at least 0 twit old Buck about bis political measures I College in each State Nfbere the leading One lady who was dressed in Qiaker object inst(uction the dostume and played her part with beauti- fnl demurenere went up tothe old fellow turiJ and the mechHnlcal artsv and said very gravely rtFriend James thee I studies are not to be prohibited but to bo is doing a bad business in Kansas thee is I held as subordinate iu importance to the countenancing fraud and slave drivers practical education of the industrial clasps But tbeej not hardened in iniquity and jn te severai pursuits -and rofessiom of at the next meeting of the Friends I will ask that they pray for aheepyca Jf the LIfe- Ia castt PrU0Q uf su' is sjurit moveth me I will myself lift up I lost the State accepting it is bound to my voice to the Throne of Grace that thoe replace it so that the principal may coj- mayestbe turned from th terror of tby ways tinue undiminished No portion of the and make amends dor the isms thee has I committed 3Iy informant Hates that und or utcrest- 5'0 be C0d 10 tb Buck was so completely dumfounded by purchase erection or repair of any buildings this unexpected black repulican female as-1 but a sum not exceeding ten per cent upon eault that he was unable' to speak a word the amount received by a State may be expended under direction of the State Why did not his Excellency bethink himself and adviso the good woman td Leg8lature 10 the Purcha of Jands visit the Smithsonian Institutes before she sites and experimental farms a perpetual fund the principal of which shall forever undiininished aid the interest inviolably' appropriated to the justed by govern-50O0 men has addressed a letter to Lord Napier and it will by the" next steamer be forwad ed to Mr: Dallas- left the city From Mexico i 4 1 Washington Mav 17 ml- I -li' 1 Vf'i The Southern mail brings New Orleans dates' of the 11th inslrand all other points as late as due Thb New Orleans papers contain details of the pews bv the Tennes- 1 1 1 i I I ii 1 i j- i ri I rq -ja hi aM ldf Jof I I iz jof jsil ca to to I ini 1 dr ti iui ed iTi i 31 ity in 1st jEv jbe Flo see The arrival of Jurea and his staff at land pracruvsaysaletler from thence makes' nmething for cheap and scientific edu-that city tue provisional seat of Govern- ment Vera Cruz is said to be capable to withiLand-aD-' force which -Zuloga -can brftig against Jt: Gen Pekeagray it-is reported would shortly attack with 5000 men 4he crow of -the steamer Guerre ltio had revoltedand put into Turpan- the oaly point on the Gulf in favor of Zuloga with a lot of military stores destined for the defence of Taiupico Gen Zuldga with a ton gun steamer and a number of gun boats was preparing-to retain' her consent indeed of the President but I prompted by his own generous heart Ani I mated by an earnest desire to prevent 'a beodlow hdlWoie culpable effusion of human blood By his past services to I and experiences with the Mormons" he had won the confidence of their leaders while his knowledge of the purposes and preparations of the Government enabled! him to convince those leaders that rcsis-" tanco on their part teas hopelesst We season to save millions to the Troasurv I an( avert from our Nation the stain of I fruitless slaughter of thousands "and the I devastatioh'of their homes Blessed are peace-makers Tribune 1 morning It occupied about ah hourand ra half in reading The report andaccbm- Ji I panymg testimony make a volume of near- foar hundred pages We shall endeav- or to find room for the former -entire and I 80rdQ 0f the material portion of the latter i in a day or two At present wo are obliged to content oarselves with givinga few items" The membere ofthe Senate of 1856" to SW-Barnes tt A Clement 3o 000 000 George Dexter do' 1000( Ed! Gerndh Stock 10000 Gibson 1 do 'V 10000 bo GiiC -bbdVtV 16000 Jackson Hadley do 20000 Kelsey 'TfyoOO Mills '1 ylO000 ONeil do 10000 9 tv I Rose do t- 20000 SWei) ($5000 for" son) Stock 25 000 LSholes Bonds 10000 Total 3r $llbbQ0 Of these it appeara that Sholes did not accept the amount -v jj- i'- I Tho following members of the iAsserahly of T856 'voted for the land grant bill -and received' each $5000 in Bonds or Stock with the exceptions' of Robert Aiken' A A bird Wm Chappell Cram AW Farr Geo Parker Geo THompsoh and Wm Huff' who" each received $10000 and Thomas Falvey "who received $20 000: 'J i Aiken J'Anunson 'B Barney Charles Beger A A' Bird Louis TBostedc A Briggs" JT Brown II Bu tterfield Cameron Chapin Willhim Chappell Cheeves Chiprpan Cqjja- day Connor Crrh Crammond Crawford Drake Thomas Falvey A Farr DFlctcher Flood" A Gray A Greulfch 0 Hahn Wm A Hawkins Charfos UawleyG Havs Howe A A Huntington John James Johnson Knowlton Lauderdale La vis A McCormick Mitchell I) Morrison Murphy Noon Palmer Geo Parker Sell BF Seymour Smith Thomas George Thompson John Tobin Wm Vogeuitz Vagner Charles fH Walker Weaver Whi Wipperman Wood Woodman Wm Hull i-i I i 'Tho only members who' voted for the bill and received no bonds or stock were Chas Burchard Davis Potter and Joshua Stark i 1 Those of the Senate who voted the same wav oh the bill and to whom no bonds or -w- stocks was assigned were Adams Fitzgerald PHSraith and Worthington Chas Dubn was the only Senator who did not vote on' the bill and to him no bonds or stocks were assigned Harvey did not vote on the passage "of the bill but on leave recorded bis vote in favor of it the next day No stock or bonds were assigned to him Jritajsrald and Smith however it is prop- I I 9 I i i In addition tto this Pump Carpenter re- 1 day woleanxtthat a hurricane passed over ceiyed $5000-from the Company andM a large portion of Illinois Friday doing Schoe ffler of Mil a uke Ban ner 1000 0 immense damage to 'properly and1 it is Theremaining portion of the report I thought that there must be coolidcrablo 1 V- 1 r' jf-- Ifr Jf: 4 Ishows that $50000 in bonds were paid to lossof life nThe gale seems to have cross-I Gov Basbford apd then enters! upon! an cd the Mississippi near Oquawka- and to 4 exposition of the rascality improvidence hayextendcd Eastward ht least as far as and- fraud which has marked the course of McLean county where wohearpfjome of' the managers of the Company -This part its disastrous effects Lr the West 'there 14 axrwiQundingvnanyiTptber! portionof I wasVnnchbailaccomnanyihA the wind anti- the report--: lurjial ir I everywhere a great foil of rain Wq hear 5 1 -j that at Lexingtonjm tho line of tbeSt Louis Alton and Chicago Road the storm was terrific! -i Jt f- 4 -n1 i The from tHouiwas icrrible Haib Storm rRiCHMOND YA May l6 A terrible hail storm occurred in Clies-tsrfield Co! Jast eveuingo iSome of the hail stones were of the size of a hens egg I the enormous expenditures of the National Vegetation WHS desfrnviVr? tbAorr'miiVl (jovcrnmcDt Some th ing to check" the passion ofindl- a egetation was destroyed the grou ud strewn with the leaves and branches 5 of I trees and a great rhany' windows broken oolljeiui and common schools Something to enable sterile railroads fs to pay dividends Something to enable the people to bear Q0 1 r- vrttmVw bnf receive any pay tor voting tor tno uili out bad bonds assigned them without their knowledge but concluded- that $50001 or $10000 even in "Railroad Bonds cobid not be -had every day for the taking and accepted what: was offered' -Wo hope the investigation will prevent any future -'members of tho legislature Forty Thieves? heretofore has contain-1 inated' more or less bur whole State vand I the samo men were the leaders and4prin- cipal actors in this wholesale purchase of our Legislature I The Legislature have held a verjr labo- I' nous session and have accomplished a good work in this investigation and in completing! for publication a new volume of Revised Statutes i ch iu 1 Gov' Rajtdall has covered himself with honor as a consistent straight-forward governmental Reformer and has taught future legislators a lesson in relation to unnecessary local legislation where gen- eral laws orthe jurisdiction of: the County Boards of Supervisors is sufficient T- i The Utah War i A fThe Utah War is ended: We believe there isn longer reason to doubt the fact that Gov Gumming peaceably entered Salt Lake City on th first ult and that a considerable portion of 'the Mormons had already left or were deaving for some point in tho South-west We may fairly presume that1 Brigham Young and his chief counselors1 were in the advance of this movement and that neither marshal nor troops will bo able to arrest them! -We sliall be disappointed if the Mormons do not make their: way out of the territo-" ries of the Union and found a new Zion either in Sonora Lower California or in some of the isles of the Paci6c If such bo their purpose" wo trust they will-be al-: lowed to "consummate it without further molestation -on the partefour Government --This is the third distinct settlement within our National boundaries from which the Mormons have been driven by force thcy: are how tvillihg to leave tbo couhlry why should they be obstructed or harassed! If they are willing to leave lot thdm depart peacei Wo trust Orders will forthwith bo dispatched from Washington by telegraph to arrest tho djspatch of provision-trains from Fort Leavenworth westward Tho corn tho cattle tho horses th(V wagons collect'! ed in or near that Fort for the Utah Ar my present and prospective' am all needed and will do good service in Kansas and Nebraska the Contractors and forwarders havo made their fortunes now lot' whatever is Dot needed be fairly sold in small lots to the highest bidder so that the seb tiers may have a chance of beneiSt Mt would To absurd-to send forward Another man or ox or bushel of grain if this' news is to bo credited The hail was from two to threefeet deep -and of the nation for indefinite in some places in ihe1 roads 1 Thevtrain territorial expansion and ultimate decrepi-from Petersburgh last evening came in tude Something to prevent the dispersion of our population' and to concentrate it around jhe jbes -lands i pfo the'coimtry where the' consii mer will be placed at the door of the procucerand thereby Something ta obtain higher prices for I A i contact witb a jalen jtree and the engine and cars were much damaged The storm is unprecedented 'iLiiV' Another Kailroad Accident m- May "The Yl express train on the Elmira In concluding an able speech in support of bis bill Mr Morrill said pass this measure and you will have done Something to enable the farmer to raise two blades of ass instead of one Something for every owner of land Sometbins: for all who desires to own catlon Something for every man who loves intelligence and not ignorance Something to induce the farmers sons I i 4l ad daughters to wulo and cluster arouad I tbe old nomesteads I Something to remove the last vestage of pauperism from our land peece good order arid the better support of Christian churches sorts of agricultuml productioca aWI Somethin to increase the lovelioesio tbeuAmwican Jamlape Sweniific'CTl- ture the 6ire precursor oforder' ana beauty! OFFICERS OF THE TOWN OF BER Ci GEN Canandaigua Ni Falls which left Suspension Bridge yesterday "morning at 20 minutes six oclock ran off tho track half a mile west of' Penn Yann'Statiou mu r- I The accident was caused by the" equalizing bar on the tender breaking which foil on the track thereby throwing the baggage and two passenger cars off the trek stripping liie latter of their seat The follo wing Terrible Tornado In Illinois 1-rrGrcat Destruction of Property 5 Z' tvl Fromour Chicrgo exchanges of Satur- feouse of which wa unroofydiand many of them blovyu down 'ru- about twenty minui lasted 5 'J it had cleared -up to all appearance itwas suc ceeded by the'most terrifiewind ever know a in that portion of the state amount of the damage at Galesburg is The scew steamship Indian which left ortland'on tfie! 24lh of April' 'reached I 7th' lust 1 Tho political he ws 'brough by the agara is not bf much JmpoVtaVcebtif pos-1 sesses some points of interest IwhatMpieoe of AVGRK f- A ij JJ MAN Aye but how easily is that par- persons were injured Bird of I agon of animals put out of order and then jbally cut in the face but no bones unless immediate "remedieb'are" at baud broken lie is on his was to New York ib- teoimes plagno to hiiseff day Geo Waters brakeman cut above his eye Mrs Hurd and Mrs Williams aD(i a 80Urce of roischief to his fellows- mother jof JMrs: Hurd bruised a An attack of dyspepsia will reduce a giant physician from JU-wrist dislocated aiady to a dwarf' and -bring down the intellect Iroin Addison Yr sfightJy cut in the cf a philosopher to that of the meanest 1 iace All the iu: urea have gone to their r6spectivo dtiuauons' Honce the necessity of recuper- ating tjie body aud restoring the mental Capture of inkpadutah I power by the Life-Fills and Phamix-Bit-Prairie du Chien May 19 ters as sold by the Proprietor IE The St Petars Free Press announces I offai 335 Broadway New Yorky ani the capture of Iukpadutab whose band Ijij 'Agents committed number of murders Ja the "The British Government had announc-f Ther Tribune- learns from a passenger ed to PariiamenLlhat theyhaj disajjpfov-1 who waVohthe capsized- train that great ed: of the proclamation of thcr Governor damage was done by the tornado at the General of India' confiscating the lands in junction of the Peoriaand -Chicago HaiH Oudc roads Botli station-houses Avere unroofed Sir Colin Campbell was to be created five or six empty freight cars were blown bPeer from the track" dwelling -houses were uri- The Spanish Cortes had been suddenly roofed moved bodily twenty or thirty feet prorogued and some of the ministers had I or entirely demolished -and yet amid al tendered their resignations! 4 this wide spread disaster he could Jearn of' Yliere is nothiDg later from India 1 do one seriously injured Mr Cady The Niagara passed the Africa on the Mr Eberhart' (editor and proprietor of the North-western Home Journal) and Hrea the Com- other citizens of Chicago were on the cap inons passed to the second reading the sized train but escaped unhurt" 5 bill legalizing marriage with a deceased All though the western portion of the wifes sister by 40 majority Qd the 6th State the effects of'tho tornado wero terri-' thh bill abolishing tho property qualifica- ble "At" Gaurg' the Engine house of tion for Members of Parliament was pas- the railroad' company and two" churches sed to a second reading amid great cheer-J just" completed were blown down and a no number of- dwelling liouses1 lihrqpfed Tli great Chester cup race was" won by Three cars standing on tho track were1 Sir Monks Variety in a field ct 28 jblowh off and turned upside down Thd South of Minnesota last year Death of item Pcrsifcr Smith -V I St XiOUis May' 1 9 Gen Persifer Smitli Commander-in" Chief of the Utah forces died at headquarters at Fort Leavenworth at half past twelve oclock on Suuday night The officers of the 8teamer Dickey just arrived Horn BoouviUe report that the re J'w(cr the Peacet John Greening maius -of General Smith were to leave! Levi Shore 3 yt Leavenworth for the East on Wednesday Constables Wesley Pul ver' Gen Haaney succeeds to thn command Benjamin Grecnmad I Supervisors -Levi Shorey Chn John Greenman i John Ricbarda Town Clerky Wesley Pul ver 'j Assessor and Treasurer Alfred Dvis School Superintendent A hc-co The court of Quecas Beach bad I.

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