The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1850-01-23
For the Express.
To the Ladies of Dubuque.

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Wimen of Dewbuke, have found out sum-
thing wod Civ lots to move, but shall not ask
enything for tellin if ule onli kcpe it from ure
husbands, don't tel them and lie tel u. The 9TH
er mite had pcpe into the cd feller loj The
wa it hapend, the suns of temprance had a NEE
tin and TUX it into their beds the wimen mite 60,
herd of and started out, says@I to myself, IF
| don't get invtashun before cum home, nv
nam aint Lizzy Ann Eliza Jane Maria Margeret
Mackfarlan, and if ule bleve me, did manage
by hook and cruck to get to go. The perform
ence was to begin at six, SO at the we're our VIC
started and tel it made my hart 90 pit pat,
thinkin of the vishun about to bust upon mi SEN
ses. We hapcnd to be the furst ones on hand,
and lhot wood tax gud LUX round. In eche
end of the rum war 2 pulpity lukn places with
posts runnin up lik the pnts on the top of the
Methodist Church. of EN- war tai and 9 shor-
ter, between EN- war 3 little red winders with pea
ked tops, that lukcd netc tel u. Then on echc
side of the pul pit was desk or sumthin which
luked lik witnes boxes in the kort hows, thes
wer cut full of little holes shaped lik flat irns a
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flat rms with the bottoms out. Tha had blew
cloth inside them maxim little blew windcrs-
Thar was 2 windcrs bac in the rune and thar
was ritin on the curtins, | thot by the luks that
it was Eplewribus Unum-but the woman next
to me sed it was "Faith, Hope and "Charity,'
and 'syounivcrsal brutherhud." gess she was
rite for she red it rite oph.
Tha had Shepards kruks al glded oph and
long silks with gold dagers on the top of um and
sum with nobs on, l kept thinkin tha mite be
gold, but then hapcnd to think what had herd
grand ma long time ago, al is not gold that
shines and so thinks |, CESS thare bras. Away
on won side of the rune ID big darts, uupids
| herd frum good Authority, ! kept gud wach
of them tel u for saw 3 or of the yunc uns
lukn at en- as much as to sa, we hav use for u,
| thot to myself lie hav the fust tech at en- any
way, CESS tina Sc it to for tina never tuched EN-
atal. On the other side of the rune hung an
orful lukin AK with hand painted on it, tel u
it made the cold chils over me to LUX 1T it, it
mcnes sumthn certin sure. A little further
down big black bord al picturs, Nocrs
4Ai'A> |iAAAN ia PliHti, pdlc VI ohdltS, lIc
shiney Of Creashun and the duv and div branch
A beau and sum little arros, a shepe lieing down
and then the last thing saw was hand with
| hart in the middle Of it, Tryin to make beve
that cd feers carrie tharc harts in thar hands al
the time.
By the time had lockd at thos pcturs tha
was such rite smart sprinklin of peple in,
darsnt LUX round much more but kept wach of
tharc big umbrelleys over he'd for fear tha mite
let en- down sum of US. After a little man
came round and Civ us al song l thot it very
kind i'll him but in flu minits | Sc what he dun
it for, 1T was to make us bevc he was not parshal
for in little while sum got up in the little
pulpit and rap went little wooden mallet and
along comes our singin friend with sum white
linen kollars with butul little rowsets on EN- and
white tassles tha did LUX so pretty, and don't
think echc of the suns had one to ware, when
tha mite out of kurese let the ladies ware one,
or ladies Good hav Worn won. l TUX pattern
of EN- and viii let Sc it sum da if u wont tel
ure husbands.
After the suns had al got thar yols on, the lit
Tie ndl III Tie pulpit jumps up anu rap, rap, rap
went the mallet The suns rose and sung, and
now yud better blevc twas butiful, no mistak, |
wish yud al bin thar and herd it, it sounded SOL
EN- to.
The chaplin ben absent worthy bruther red
the "a salm in an imprisiv maner and praied.-
Next we lisend to an excellent adrcs from the N
G of sum loj didn't here his name, as Spoke
shaw sez, whats in name, thot So if Id knone
his name don't bleve [ Good hav likd his lectur
eny better, wishd evry body that lows Ticker or
sells it had bin thar to here him. But al things
must end so did his dscorsc and the mctin cum
to close.
I was not satisfide with mi discovries, so l
kind hung back and dropd mi muf and then
mi gluv and then part of mi shawl and in arangin
= and pickin up mi gluv, ccntrivd to tax pepe
into al the cd lookin places, but without any
success until cumin out I chancd to LUX behind
the dorc, and lo that's the secret [ was tryin to
find out and want to tel u, but fereful cant bar
it this time II waite few weeks and then tel u,
until then am ure most obegcnt,
LILY ANN, ELIZA JANE, MARIA, MARcEREr,
McFARLANE. a..... ...
SENATE coMM1rTEEs.-Neither Clay, Benton,
Calhoun, Webster, Cass, nor Seward-the six
b,v hoe ,sod in