Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-09-15
Correspondence Of the Sentinel.
AFFAIRS IN GRANT COUNTY.
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from Grant County, and therefore | take
the liberty to write few lines concerning
matters and things hereabouts.
Politically speaking, we are fourishine
very finely. Every day sees additions
made to the number that will cast theil
votes for Honest Abe" The democratic
party this county is yery much divided
and the vote for Breckenridge and Lane
will be more than most persons acquainted
with Wisconsin politics imagine. Wher
such men as Nelson and VIM Pitt Dewey
60 for breckenridge, it is not likely thai
there will be no one to follow them. Sc
| you may draw on Grant County for / SOC
10 1000 majority for Lincoln and Hamlin
The Z. NJ. at Piattevile, Mai. j. IL
Rountree, is 'erazy for Douglas" How
this happens ! know not. The Office is
worth some $500 per year, and there are
plenty of "true blues here who would glad
ly step into the Majors shoes. He de.
nounces Breckinridge and Lane as the dis.
union, fire-eating candidates, and makes il
a part of his business to circulate Douglas
documents. | am afraid he will wake IN
some of these fine mornings and find him
self politically decapitated.
The nomination Of Hanchett for Con
gress is very well received here, and he will
poll the full strength of the party in this
country. His election, presume, is be-
yond doubt
As the time for nominating candidates
for the Legislature approaches, the old ques-
ton of county division begins to be agita-
ted, and many are firm in the belief that
something will be done by the Legislature
this winter to settle the matter.
There can be not doubt that the county
is entirely to- large and unwieldy. Why,
it requires cyeral years to get a judgement
on a civil suit in this county, as the num-
Der of cases on the docket range from two
hundred and fifty to three hundred every
term, and are never all disposed Of at a sip
gle sitting of the Court. The salaries of
those county officers, which are paid by
| fees, amount each to several thousand dol
lars per annum, and this gives rise to
another great eyil-and that is the contin-
ued strife among SO many for the honor of
serving the "dear people" 1t is proposed
to divide the county into three, as follows :
The County of Du BAY, to consist of the
towns Of Wingyille, Blue River, Muscoda,
Waterstown, Hickory Grove, Fennimore,
Melville, Marion and Wyalusing; Grant
county, to consist of the towns Of Potosi,
Lancaster, Little Grant, Beetown, Waterloo.
Cassyille and Patch Grove; the county Of
Platte, to consist OF the towns of Hazel
Green, Jamestown, Paris, Smelser, Platte
vile, Harrison, Ellenboro' Lima, Clifton
and Liberty. The county seat Of Du Bay
county would probably be Boscobel; of
Grant County, Lancaster, and Of Platte,
PlatteyiIle. If the county is divided as
above, the division viii be about equal, and
will be better for all concerned. except a
few who grow fat out of fees for various
services.
This county is one Of the finest agricul-
tural regions in the West, and is not, as
many suppose, devoted almost wholly TO
mining. Fruit seems to do better here
than in any other place in the State
There is hardly farm without an orchard,
and they all appear to ne doing weil.--
Persons in search of farms can do no bet
ter than to purchase here.
! have already written more than in
tended when | began, so | viii say no more
at present.
Yours, &C., W. s.
REMARKs.-We acknowledge receipt of
the above slip cut from the Milwaukee Sen
tinei, and sent to us, with request that it
be printed with such remarks as truth may
warrant " in making. Two such requests
have been made from BoscobeI and one
from Platteville, one gentleman from each
place fixing in his own mind the name and
objects of writer. who unquestionably re-
sides at Platteville and last year was the
leader in agitatiDg the question which the
writer calls "the old question Of county d.
pisioa.' The political references to Dew
eys and the democratic party IN this coun-
tv being very much divided is untrue, ex-
cept so fir as refers Ex-Goy. Dewey who
probably supports breckenridge. W =
Dewey supports Douglas, we think. Gon.
Rountree is believed to prefer Dopgas' bes
i % far from being "crosy for Do1gfos
that he says but very little about politics 81
Presidential candidates.
In reply to 49, who states above that
ut requires several years 70 get ajudgment
son a civil suit in this county, as the num-
der of cases on the docket ranges from
$3.50 to 800 every term, and are never all
"disposed ofat single sitting Of the coart.
we called on the clerk who says that the
records in his office show that there never
were. at any term Of Court, fifty cases for
trial on the issue calendar, and never to ex-
coed forty Of them ready for trial. There
my be 50 many as 200 cases on the dock
ct, but excepting the forty to fifty cases
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