The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1844-10-11

had oecn sounding in our ears for the last month
OF two came of on the g. Inst. We have not vel
.ccn an account Of the dolnes in any Of the viii
p1Ders, hat have lit,Ie doubt we viii have the
number present put down at from 10 to 30 COO
oud all the speeches, &C., will have been the best
cyrc listened too in Illinois, If course. In the
meantime, we ily before our reader, less poeti-
c,t account Of the affair, furnished Us by friend
rc,'d.ng IN jacksonville oo whose statement We
rely with infinitely more confidence than on what
can reach us through any wing newspaper:
bcEsoNvrLLg, Oct. 4,h, 1874.
W@0s. Hjw D. O,maH.-Perhaps short ac-
count of the great Coon Barbecue held in the H.
lino7 College grove on the 81 inst, would not be
unntcres,ing at least to some Of your readers
The Preparations which were under the SUPER
visoo Of l. Henry, Senator elect of this district
were indeed srea! aud pra'sewoGhy. The length
of the cave or trench over which their meat wa,
roasted was at least eighty feet, and must say
that the wings of old Morgan turned on, many a
Gnc pig, fat sheep, and nice steer to saliate the
ever greedy coon appetite. From esimations
made by the college students, lhe number in al.
tendance was near eight thousand; so great
number on so base an occasion, we before have
never witnessed. The day was very fine, except
windy, which rendered their miens as dark as ote
their principles, on account Of the dust. The
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his usual tantasing spirit followed by Brown of
NermiIlion co.., who spoke ull all had left for
dinner. Having the field alone, he too left. The
tables, which were five in number, the whole
length of which was near one thousand feet. were
crowded Ivy as rannercsS set of domestic coons
as e'er ran uncased, Truly would YOU have
thought, from the nervousness with which thew
jeleshed the bones, that they were as carniyorous
set of hungry coons as ever raN wild in the
woods. After the rcpast, (Which was sufficient
for alI) three speakers harraosued at once in dil-
iereot parts of the grove. Wooison Of Green,
some old Joab from Scott, and Brown of Negmil-
lion co. again. Woodson was followed by andc-
vet, he by Furgeson of Sangamon CO.; Joab had
no successor aud Brown was again followed BY
Lincoln, none Of whom tried to do anything bot
TRADE the democracy. Many were the portraits
of Clay; and Coons themselves, that is, the real
"hairy haste itself were protusc, Flax, Hemp
a,d Tobacco dourshcd erandly. The most no.
ted wagon was six horse ash omnibus contain
inc abou, twenty-five young ladies', dressed in
white, bearing an insignia with inscription
Took this way, Gentlemen; we ladies' go for
Clay" TIE aboninabe coonskin caps, coons
tails on their hats, and all that klnd of thing,
wc'e sufficient to set all the horses crazy (hrough
lca) in the country. The college and all the
whig houses in Jacksonville were Illuminated the
following night. can say, upon the whole, that
the effect is a favorable one to the Democracy.
Though great was the number of wings IN atlen-
Dance they were not unmixcd with Polkites
The Democracy are up and doing, aud in great
spirits. should not the least wonder il Morgan
would give Polk q Dallas handsome little ma.
jority next month Many of the wings themselves
are greatly disguised At the conduct OF their party
here. Yours 10 haste, A.
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