The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-11-02
THE WISCONSIN ELECTION.

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WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOV. =, 1863.
THE WISCONSIN ELECTION.
In sonelhng over week the elections Of
Our sister Stale Of Wisconsin will come off
So far as we can judge from the tone Of ths
press oflhc Stat, the canvass is Of a somewhat
mixed character. The policy of politics, if we.
nay use the phrase, has become involved in the
question Of the Maine Law, and /, if We may form
any inference from the harangues Of Mrs.
Nichols and others, in The somewhat more deli
cl.e question Of !" womcns rights as the cant
OF the reformcrs has it, This peculiar state Of
affairs might be called anomalous, if the Demo
cracy of Ohio had not just gone through can-
vass in which they were encountered, on every
hand, by similar enemies. What the issue Of
that struggle was, every one knows. Every art
was tried, every possible zeal in the misused
names Of morality aud temperance was made BY
the Wing party. The effort was in vain. The
intelligence Of the people looked beyond scords
to things, and foled tie attempts OF these pseudo
reformers by majority ofover sixty thousand,
which will be the majority for Gov Medill. II
makes the victory the more gratifying and com-
paete 10 know the issues, one and all, trunk and
branches, were met openly and fearlessly by the
Democracy. They did not like the Maine law,
because they believed it erroneous in principle
and inexpedient in practice. And all over the
state, they were not afraid to say SO. :" They
called a spade spade," and the astonishing
result Of their candid appeal to the reason Of the
people as we'll atlests the wisdom, as it does the
honor Of their course.
The same questions are now before the PEG.
pie Of Wisconsin, and we look with natural
degree of anxiety for the result. We think
there can be but little doubt Of the success OF
Gov. Barstow. We are at The same time aware
Of the extraordinary attempts making by the
Wings, who have coalesced with every 6gment
Of q faction, and whose activity in misrepresen.
tation is equal 10 any displayed in 1870. But
we cannot believe that at this late day, when
Wisconsin has received the news from Califor-
mia, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Ohio that she
will be the fret TO be found unfaithfuR to that
flag which now waves in triumph over nearly
every state Of our Union. The result of the
skirmsh in the second district between Judge
Doolittle and his antagonist, given some time ago
is, as we trust, an index 10 the state canvass.
We believe that the same devices were then
tried, which are being developed now on a
somewhat larger scale. The Maine law and
the old ladies' took the field for Mr.. Spooner,
and his prospects were extremely fattering un-
Ill very unfortunately the day of the election,
the people flung his hope to the winds.
The Democracy can claim the benefit Of
" having drawn the first blood" and we trust
and believe shat the omen will prove q true one,
in the course Of the coming fortnight.
THE CHOLERA IN ENGLAND
By the last steamer We learn that the cholera
still continues in the northeastern districts of
England, although the mortality is beginning to
decrease. It's ravages have been terrible. In
Newcastle, a city Of $4,000 inhabitants, there
had been 1888 deaths. In the same period (35
days) during the prevalence Of the epidemic in
1912, the number Of deaths was but 255. In
Gateshead the number Of deaths has been 3S7
in 1872, they amounted to 14l. There has
been proportionate mortality throughout nearly
all the principal cities of that section.
But though the virulence Of the disease is de-
creasing in one portion Of the United Kingdom,
it is gradually progressing through others. In
the north it has appeared in various parts Of
Scotland-in Ed;nturgh, in Leith, in Glasgow
and various smaller towns
To the southwark it is rapidly extending. A
number of fatal cases have occurred in the low,
filthy courts and streets Of various quarters Of
London, and large increase Of bowel COM
plants in several districts, seems the Fremont
tory symptom Of an approaching pestilence. The
local authorities evince much zeal in the work Of
abating all removable nuisances and improving
tIl<0Dndition Of poorer parishes. The greatest
evil lies in the horrible condition of the public
sewers.
In Liverpool several cases have occurred
Ga board the Isaac Wright, an American ves-
sci which returned 10 port on account Of an &c.
cident on the coast Of Ireland, Fifty deaths had
occurred. and the passengers were taken from
from Rotterdam Of the 9Th Of october, says the |
cholera is still carrying off many victims in tha.
city and Amsterdam.
SAur CANAL CoAPANx LAND CLAIMs.-ltI
) stated that the Com missioner of the General
Land Office has decided against the Saul Cam
al Company the question Of their right TO about
thirty thousand acres Of mineral land selected |
by their agents before the approval Of their
contract by the governor, and which lands
had been pre- empted and entered BY other par
ties.
n The result Of the late election in Phila-
delpha favors the consolidation ofthe various
districts into one municipal government, and a.
% secures radical change in the present
organization Of the Ere department Of that city.