Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-04-18
LETTERS FROM THE SHORE.
The Connecticut Rlection--C oIored Vote-san
Domingo-The Arctic Explorer.

were cast anu yeb Iuo poOpi0 nav
failed 10 elect Governor. The day
after election the report was that the
ticket was elected by |
100 majority. The next report had it
the Democratic ticket was elected by |
IL majority. The third day report
declared that neither had it. What
q falsehood maker Rumor is If the
last report be true, the election OF
Governor will come upon the Legis-
lature which meets in May. The |
is Republican in both i
Houses, SO there is no doubt but that |
Jewell will be our next Governor.
The rest of the State ticket the DEM
ocrats have elected-so present re-
port says. Never before within the |
memory of the oldest voter has there
been such close election.
The colored vote this year, it was
supposed, would give the Republic
ans an easy victory. There were
about thousand of them in the State,
and they went with but slight excep-
ton Republican. But the effects Of
the San Domingo agitation at Wash
ington counterbalanced fully all the
advantages of the negro vote. In
this district (the 3D. there was di-
vision among the Republicans on
Congressman which alienated some
thing moro than 300 votes. But the
chief cause of the excited election
which has just passed, and the close
ness of it, was the Capital question.
1t is proposed to do away with ono
of the two capitol buildings, and
have but one capital. Hartford and
New Haven are the suitors. Party
considerations have been second to
these rival interests Money has
without doubt been used profusely
by them both. The lions of Repub-
licanism and the bears Of Democracy
have lain down together, Half of
the bears and half of the lions have
lain down around New Haven, and
the other half lions and bears have
taken their nap around Hartford,
and the result is no election by the
people on Governor.
The San Domingo question has
produced great excitement here.
Everybody has been opposed from
the outset TO annexation. We want
no more hot blooded territory. Give
US cool. 1t may be beautiful island,
but in free country where suffrage
is universal the inquiry should be,
what is the population We might
get charming island, but a vile
population, and so curse ourselves.
1t il unfortunate that Carpenter and
ConkIing and Chandler should speud
the time which their States have sent
them to employ for the good Of the
country in seeking to destroy the
Republican party. That coterie oil
politicians are really destroying the
Republican party for the benefit O.
Tweed and Hoffman and their allies
and the Democracy all over the coun
try have laid down their weapons anC
folded their arms to await the issue
of the strife in the Republican camp
These mischief makers have succeed
ed in pitting the two great champion
of the Republican party, Sumner ant
Grant, against each other, for mer,
envy. They are envious of Sumner
HE who ascends to mountain tops shall find
The loftsst peaks most wrapt will clouds and SNOW
| Ill who surpasses subdues mankind,
| Must look down the hate OF those below.
/ Though high above the sun of glory glow,
And far beneath the earth and ocean spread
Round him are icy rocks and loudly blow
/ tOntendtng tempestS his naked head
And thus reward the tolls which to those submits lead
They envy Sumner, and to tear hin
down they tear down the Republican
party. When they have pulled
down this pillar of state we shall fine
we have got nothing left but ruins
l have written you about G. F
Hall, the arctic explorer. You
readers perhaps do not know that ht
is Western man, but he is, He il
an Ohioan. His home is Cincinnati
1t was in 1860 that he first set sal
for the Arctic regions, and since ther
he has passed Z years within the Arc
tic Circle. He is an enthusiast, JUS
as all great explorers, reformers, anC
poets are. He said to me what y oil
will find it hard to believe, and tina
is, that ''tor g permanent home
would rather pass the rest of my
days in the Arctic region than any
where else on this globe" Now
when you take into consideration
that the only Injuries of the Arctic
regions are raw walrus meat anC
blubber, and that the only abode
are snow houses, you will be incred
ulous. But he has proved his at
tachment by years of residence Their,
and by his anxiety to get back Their,
again. The vessel which is to tax,
out the expedition is now fitting a.
the Washington Navy Yard. She il
four hundred tons burden and il
a steamer of powerful engines, was
built for ice navigation on the Dele
ware. Mr. Hall tells me that bis
company is nearly complete. Henry
Grinnells son now travelling in Sibe
ria is on his way home to take
passage with the expedition. Grin.
nell is a young man, not more than
%. Prof Bessels, Of Heidelbure
University, Germany, is to go out as
Naturalist of the expedition, and DR.
Walker, who accompanied McClin.
tock's English Expedition in 1859, is
to go as Astronomer. Sidney O.
Buddington of Groton, Conn, is to
60 as Ice-master. He is sailor OF
more than 20 years experience in the
Arctic seas. Mr.. Hall confidently
expects to reach the North Pole 10
two years and half, but he will stay
five years if he doesn't accomplish
his object before that time. The ex-
petition will sail about the LIST of
June.
| will close this letter in the words
of Charles Sumner to G. F. Hall the
last time he called on him in Wash
ington. Sumner took Hall by the
hand and said to him these words /;
$50 conquer space Conquer ice
Conquer the North Polel" Good
bye to the Herald readers.