Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1868-11-18
Notes on the Election.

Hath slain the traitors, heaven shall bless the land.
None the kindred Of The unjust shan own
Forget the slaughtered brother and the son
Each future day Increase of wealth shall bring,
And Ger the past oblivion stretch her wing.
Long shall Ulysses in his empire rest
His people blessing. by his people blessed;
Pope's Translation.
Frank Pickett wheeled Thomas
Quinton five blocks along the main
street of Poughkeepsie, to express his
grief at the reelection of ketchum to
Congress.
Shakespeare comes to the aid of
those who fear that President Grant
viii not leave his seat at the end Of
four years. with the assurance that "a
tanner Will last you nlne years"
The Chicago Pos, referring to
Gov. Morton's annihIlation of Sev-
mours recent speeches, says it has
completely upset the Universalist do
ctrlne, that there is no punishment
after death.
Dudley Hall, of Medford. Mass.
eighty eight years old, went to tho
polls Tuesday, remarking. as he de-
posted his ballot This is the last
I E.
home and died IN an hour.
Abraham Lincoln was ar-ae Ted
IN New / ork on election qav.. sar
illegal voting, while Daniel WEBSTER,
Henry Clay, George Waship-taa,
/ John Milton and Thomas Paine were
among the registered voters of Augu-
sta, Georgia.
There is one view of the case in
which Seymour may be said TO be vict.
orlous, and Grant to have been beaten.
Seymour didn' want to be Presi.
dent, and he isn't. Grant was content
with his position as General, and it
will be taken from him.
When Connecticut votes alone.
as she did this fall. she is surely Rep
ubllcan; but when New York goes up
and votes for her, as was the case at
the last gubernatoria election. her
destiny is doubtful. Everything with
IN reach of New Y ork city is polluted
/ by the touch.
-DeerfIeld-the home of Seymour
= heretofore Democratic, gave a
majority for Grant Galena-the
/ home of Grant-hererore Democratic,
gave a majority for Grant, and the
/ county gave HIM majority hundred
greater than it gave to Lincoln in
1864.
Speaking of the recent election
/ Of Grant, the Toronto Globe says:
| The new administration will not come
into power until the fourth of March
next; but the moral effects of this
/ election must be felt at once. Now,
that the contest for the Presidency
IS over, we may surely hope for
cessation of the horried murders and
outrages at the South"
The Republican papers of New
York regret that Seymour did not
make more speeches in that state. and
thus give it to Grant over fra uds and
all His first elaborate speech was
made at Buffalo. \ Republican gain
Of over two thousand is the response.
The same result followed in Pitts
burg. where he made one OF his most
elaborate demagogue speeches.
The Brooklyn Unions avs: "A
legion might be made. out of those who
claim to have first proposed General
Grant for the Presidency We be-
1--we the real original nominator has
not been found yet nor ha, he taken
the pains to announce himself. He,
though it may be a she. is to be looked
for among those who thronged around
the cradle of the infant darling. and
after pronouncing him the very image
Of his father with some features of
his mother, exclaimed ''Who knows
but what he may be President yet?'
A BAD RECORD FOR ONCE HONOR
ABLE PARTY.-Governer Seymour car
RES seven States, but the following
is the dishonorable record which will
have to be recorded by the historian: