The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1848-09-08
[FOr the Gazette
LOcOfOcO Pole IkaisInp.

For the Gazette.
LOcOfOcO Pole Raising.
Mr.. EDrToR-l must beg the indul-
gence of your readers for sholt sketch,
descriptive of Locofoco pole,raisiug,
in Amanda, on last Saturday, an affair
which had been heralded far and wide
by bombastic hand. bills, and verbal tele-
graphs, promising that it would be one
of The "taIest" raisings thatevcr couldb be
Imagined; and so it truly was.
The day was very propitlous-beau-
tiful and clear. A few delegations
from the country, arrived early on the
ground, and preparations were immedi-
arely made 10 raise shear-poles. The
means by which to raise these, though
they were very heavy and so or GO feet
long, were amply sufficient.
Every thing being ready, the command
was given: pull! puI!! And pull they
did, until the poles reached perpeudic.
ular position, when by some mismanage-
nent ofthe ropes, the poles could not be
held in that position, and down they fell
with tremenduous crash, amid shreaks
and groaus, and fealful anticpations of
the result; but fortunately none were Sc
Iriously hurt. The crowd having by this
time increased to respectable size, an
effort was made after short lapse, and
the poles again were brought to perpen-
dicular position. when again they fell
down with like lucky resuli-none kill
ed-none hurt, except few Colonels
who were slightly graaed, but not much
tore but who had very narrow escape
from being killed. A third effort was
soon after made, and with success; and
all things were now ready for the "tall
pole raising"
: These ups and downS had occupied the
, day to about 2 o'clock, and by this time
; the affair had assumed a sort of military
aspect; the Colonels and tine Captains
: were all designated by sort of uniform
] Of collars and badges-a sort Of Rcgalia
= the meaning of which |, as high private
, under the old man z. Taylor, am not able
to pry into. Their forcos were nowin de,
I tachments, and different duties and places
{ for operations assigned 10 them. One
, detachment of horse and Dragons, were
] constantly accommodating out of town,
9 aud bringing in delegations; they did
{ their duty well. and deserve promotion
from headquarters. The CircIeville dele
e CATION was The last, but not the least; it
. consisted of one band wagon drawn by
= four horses, one two-horse wagon, and
/ two or three other vehicles. The band
wagon contained six little children, one
man with fife and one boy with drum
, that's all The two horse wagon, pre-
= sumo, fell in ranks somewhere .on the
: route, it contained one or two men, six
little children and some good looking
smiling old ladies'. The buggies came
> scalterng-not IN ranks at all. The
main force had, at this time, made de,
> monstraton upon the main pole, and the
attack was conducted by rank and file
with spirit aud valor, and the pole yield
cd to the superior forces that were appli
. ed, and suffered itself to be drawn up Il
/ an angle Of As degrees; but then it halt
- ed-and hung afteri had thus huns
:. for three hours in consultation with th'
:, r-poles, for they had now joined thei
:, forces, the main pole in conjunction will
:, The hear.poles determined to resist
- One more charge was now made-th
pulcs were victorious! Sooner than sur
render, the main pole br0ke, and run it
head into the ground. Then the pole
having good fastening, with both end
- in the ground, stood, while DR.. OLDs, o
- Circlcville, addressed the forces from
one side of the sreet-.and J0hN ;
- BRooKs, of Lancaster, at the same time
~ from the opposite side; but the "nois
l. and confusion" that was caused by tn
- 70 reireating forces-by their drumming an
, quick marches towards home, prevente
=, the DR. from eingheard, aud in lesstha
. two hours the field was clear Of Colonel'
Doctors, soldiers and Sergeants all ha
r left except BnooKs, who still barrangue'
= from his stand. Thus ended the "tal
y pole.rnisin."
:, Ihave given these few particulars Of tn
y pole.rasing, for fear the Locos may no
y do it, and thus the public would be with
;; out this information, and besides, the
:. we're kind enough to inform the peopl
- " in regard to our (whig) pole raising
= which took place some time since. The
d" " we're even kind enough to say more tina
was necessary and true. CON-
Amanda, Sept 9Th, lS4s.
! DCmOCrnIiC Promises in 1914.
The Democratic Committee of fColum