Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-02-17

noe, ana a vessel passing througn
is liable to be nipped, as it is called
that is, caught between the drif,
and the foe. Then, nnless she is 50
shaped that she will rise on the top
of the ice, she must inevitably be
crushed. Nothing that ever was
built is strong enough to withstand
the pressure. So this steamer, if he
takes her, must be strengthened by
beams and cross-beams, and her
bow must be made entirely solid fol
at least ten feet, so that she shall be
a ram. Then the propeller must be
so arranged that it can be lifted out
of the water instantly. By using
steam Captain Hall thinks the OBJ
jects of the expedition can be most
certainly attained. No exploring
expedition has ever before had this
agent to help them. All his crew
will be trained to live as the Esqui-
maux do, and then they can stand
the cold, but they must eat raw
meat, and stick to train oil. He
(Capt. Hall) has eater in one day
fifteen pounds of raw meat, washed
down with two and a half pints OF
train oil. While men thus live they
can defy King Cold. A whale in
those regions is a godsend, one
whale being equal to 600 oxen, and
affords the best eating that Captain
Hall has ever enjoyed.
THE COOPERATION OF THE GOVERN
The President and Congress have
aided him most literally. Mey
have confidence in him, and believe
that he will plant the Stars and
Stripes on the pole, attaining a,
last the object for which the world
has been laboring for three centur.
les, and if he does succeed that mo-
ment will be the happiest Of his ex-
istence. There was an exhilaratine
feeling that could not be described
in the knowledge that one has gone
little further than any of his tel
lows have done before him. There
was one sentiment that had stuck
by him through all his former voy.
ages. 1t was, "Look out, be care
ful, keep judgment on your side"
HIS ONLY ANXIETY.
When he will stand on the North
pole there is one thing which will
trouble him, and that is how shall
he keep his chronometer regulated;
how shall he tell whether they are
gainin" or losing. Every direction
then will be south. There will be
no north, no east, no west. The
North Star will be directly over.
head, or nearly so, and on the Is,
of March the sun will just appear
above the horizon and 90 round and
round, day by day, never rising OF
setting, but gradually attaining a
greater altitude, until finally it will
get to a height of 23t degrees, and
'hen gradually get lower and lower,
until on the 23d of September it will
disappear, to be seen no more foI
six months. What object can he
sight to regulate his ehronometersi
He has asked the question of the
best talent in the country, and nc
man can answer him. In the win.
ter of 1872 he will be where no sun
can shine, but in a fine place for
people fond of eating, for it will al.
ways be dinner time-always l2
o'clock. He is having his chronom.
eter constructed to mark the whole
twenty-four hours, and he thinks all
chronometers should be made in
that way.
He will never give up. Ifhe can
not reach the pole in 1872, he will
stay another year, and, if necessary,
five years. No man can tell the
time necessary. 1t may be thirty
months and it may take five years,
but his crew will all be shipped for
the greater time, and at the end of
that time he hoped to stand again
on that platform and tell them Of it.
Captain Hall was frequently ap-
plauded during the lecture, and at
its close vote of thanks was ten
dered him, and with three hearty
cheers for the success of the expc-
dition, the audience dispersed.
Valuable Political Information.
Twenty years ago, when portions
of New York were about equally di-
vided between Wings and Demo
Gratis, many times great efforts were
made to get the news of an election
from the different towns of a county
to the county seat, where the poll
ticians of the village on the night of
election were usually assembled at
one of the hotels for the purpose of
receiving the couriers as they came
in. Railroads and telegraphs not
being so numerous in those days,
the returns were usually sent in
charge of some jealous politician on
the victorious side. One dark, and
rather stormy November night, an
elderly gentleman, quite rattle
headed politician, started from the
village inn of Livonia for Geneseo
with the election news. On he sped
astride Old Highlander, a fleet horse,
making good time through the
splashing mud. When he reached
Lower Lakeville he might have
stopped and wet his whistlc-he
could if he chose have stopped at
the Upper Lakeville House, q mile
beyond, and taken another drink or
two. At Hill's tavern, a mile out of
Geneseo, he could have drank again,
even if he had been compelled to
arouse the obliging landlord from
his slumbers to get in. All Of these
contingencies could have been in
those days without rufiiing he tenn
per of the most fastidious. Our hero
arrived at the hotel in Gcneseo at Il
good pace, alighted as quickly as
his trembling limbs would permit,
gave the reins to the hostler, and at
once went into the reception room,
where the comfy nOtablpS were in