Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-05-23
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i IdyAOf In Norway
j Bayard Taylor penetrated SO far Nortl
THAT daylight was only two hours long
The sun arose scarcely more than tn
breadth of his disc above the horizon, ant
Ished faint orange light over the broac
|snow- plains, and sunk out Of sight fo
TWENTY-FIVE hours. Says Taylor:
j "Here we are, at last, entering the
i Arctic zone, in the dead of winter, the re-
'Ialization Of dream which has often flash
led across my mind, when longing under
the tropical plains, 50 natural is it for one
lextreme to suggest the opposite.
To-day has been day to be remember
|ed;. such a glory Of Twilight splendors .fol
six full hours was beyond all the. charms o.
ldaslight in any. zone. :. We started at seven
With a temperature, Of &c. deg. below zero
still keeping up to the left bank Of the
'rorenea., The country now rose into bold
Ehills, and the features Of scenery became
broad and majestic. Tie Northern sky
was again pure violet, and pale red tinge
from the dawn rested on the tops Of the
snowy hills. The prevailing color. Of tho
sky slowly Enlightened into lilac, then into
lpink, then rose color, when again gave way
into q flood of, splendid orange when thesun
appeared. li5gya hs4s 81 asssa 8sse
Every change of color affects The tone
of the lac dscape. The woods, SO wrap
ped in snow that not a green needle was
to be seen, took, By turns the hues
Of the sky, and seemed to give out rather
than to reflect, the opalesent lastre Of the
morning. The sunshine heightened in
stead Of dispelIing these effects. At noon
the suns disc was not more than o above
the horizon throwing a level golden light
on the hills The north, before us was as
blue assthe Mediterranean. and the vault
Of heaven over head, canopiedus with pink.
Every object was giorified and trsnsfigured
in the glow. -.s gsa
| Our road now cross, d the river and kept
ND the Russian side to place with the
charming n me Of Torakankorw. The ,af
ternoon twilight was even more wonderful
than the forenoon. There broad bands d
purple, pure crimson and intense yellow all
fusihg together into fiery orange at the
lsouth, while the north became semi-vaul'
lof pink, then lilac, and then the softest VI
Toilet. The.dazzling Arctic hills participated
lin this play of colors, which did not fade
as in the south, but stayed, and stayed, a
lf God wished to compensate by this twi
light glory for the loss Of the day. Moth
ling in Italy, nothing in the tropics, equals
1.-THE magnifcence of these polar skies. The
Twilight gave place. to moonlight scarcely
less brilliant. Our road was hardly bro
ken. leading through the deep snow, some
times on the river, sometimes through close
little glens, s5hedged in with frs dropping
with snow, fairy Arctic solitudes, white 81
lent and mysterious @
i CoNSEcTICUT LEGIsLATuRE.-The Leg
Iislature Of Connecticut met on "Wednesday
last and organized by elec.ing their officers
Ammi Giddings was elected President PR
Item. of the Senate. He received the en-
tire Republican vote, / 6, to I scattering
E. A. Bulkley was elected Speaker Of thu
House bv the following vote: E. A. Bulk
Hey, Repl29 James F Fratt, Dem, 9:
This shows large Republican majority i,
Iboth branches. The Hartford Press wa
chosen as tie official organ of both branch
es of the Legisture. Gov. Holly sent in
very sensible message, in which he devote
considerable attention to the slavery ques
ton. He remarks 81
/ Free Labor is the corners tone of OH
political fabric, upon which has beer
reared that prosperity which has peoples
flthe hills and valleys of the Northern State
! with an Independent and intelligent pop
Iulation, while free soil has been the ineite
!! ment to that unwonted flow of im1nigra
4 ton which has covered the fertile plain
!, of the west with cnterprising and industr
! Gus inhabitants. s .4 - sss
4 A STATE WITHOUT TAxEs.-rhe Stat
of Texas is in a most movable condition j
regard TO her fiuanees. She is the envy {
4 the country. Her Comptroile, in a recen
report, presents the following hatterin
picture of her scondition:--z aea %zI3
i 1.-The State is out of debt. with SUI
: ,lus of over ambition of dollars in the treas
A ury--a permanent 5sper cent. school fan
] Of ten. millions of dollars; an unappropr
! ated public, domain estimated at one hun
bred lnillens of acres, whichsif judiciousl
used, would subserse all the purposes 4
internal Improvements required by tn
State, and a tax lighter than is Timposed Q
! any other people, and which is adequate t
all the wants Of the Government. Til
aggregate anonnt Of taxable property
very nearly s25o,oo0,oOo, being 70, 800
1000, osef the previous year"
i H We lind the following paragraph
lin The Lecomptom Union: 81 sf7ai s''
i "a large party Of wealthy einigrants
Ell Gays the Louisville Democrat, from Lin
! coin County, KY, passed through this cit
: Hast evening, on their way to Kansas
n xry,,c NJ, n,