The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-07-27

l. UUNKIND, vERY.-At the Fourth of July cel-
ebration in Oswego, N. Y, the Mayor, Mr..
| Colver, made speech in which he took occa-
sion to 'spread himself about "ruin, slavery
| and the usual themes of fanatical rant. This
unfit and disgraceful exhibition of fanaticism was
rebuked by Joseph Richardson, Esq, in this
| style:
GAS the speech just delivered by the honor
| able mayor is not i'll the programme, | think it
| may be well that you have another, which also
is not in the programme. The mayor has in
troduced two subjects which are not proper or
necessary to Fourth of July celebration. am
here to denounce his isms, and do denounce
them, and will denounce them on all occasions,
when unfairly aud improperly brought before
the people [Cries of'Good,' sgood''] This is
Fourth of July celebration. | like men to do
what they do openly, and not preach one thing
and practise another, be it temperance, or be it
what il may. Fow, know, and the honorable
mayor knows that know, that he who is preach.
ing temperance here to day has drank-drank
out of my bottle-within the last Two weeks ;
and what is more, drank more than | did. Now
when any man undertakes to talk abotionism,
or temperanceism, or any other ism, on such an
occasion as this, will denounce him and when
that man turning to Mr. Colver) began, left
my little girl in that crowd there, and came up
! resolved to denounce him, and have done it
Let the Fourth of July 60 on (waving his hand
to the crowd
"Ihe conclusion Of this speech was crested
with great applause, laughter, and cheering,
which lasted for several minutes
We fancy the honorable Mayor felt like sell
ing himself for a button, during Mr.. RS re-
marks. Hwas wrong, though, for Mr.. r. to tell
| about the "bottlc" business, and that the Hon
| Mayor "drank more than he did For, if these
excellent gentlemen, who throw up their caps
and shout ssilurrah for the Maine Law" desire
| to drop in on friend, Immediately after spout
| ing phll:fic against intemperance, and ease
his "bo,tle" of half its contents, why the thing
should be kept secret, Of course. II is too bad
to bring man down in this fashion. And, if
and with great gust, be ii hinted-"behind The
door, cannot be allowed to denoupce their more
manly neighbors, who refuse 10 add to their
fault the meanncss of deceit, then, slhe gig S
up" that's all.
B We understand that the indomable en-
terprse of the Galenaians has determined to
build scow thirty feet long and, on an average,
nine feet wide. This, they hope, will carry
from eleven to seventeen tons, and is intended
as reserve to supply the commercial wants of
Galena, in case the lola should again be run
| down by canoe. This scow is called "Fhe
MudDefer and Galena Champion" Her crew
St- rf ofI 1 4
was launched the other day anon. the enfhu-
| sasiic shouts of the assembled Galeneans =
Several speeches were made, songs were sung,
,osts drank, caps darkened the air, the ladies
clapped their lily white hands, the boys let of
two hundred and thirteen fire cracke s. and ali
Galena gave tokens of joyous jubilee The
Mayor and Common Council wore badges
whereon appeared in conspicuous letters, "TnE
MUD DEFER AND GALENA CHAMPION, roR-
EVER" owe are indebted to an eye witness
for these particulars.
Well, we are not ungenerous. We witness
with admiration the daring enterprise of ou,
ncighbors, and trust that sthe stars ngled ban
ner in triumph may wave over the peak of the
"Mud- Defer and Galena Champian," until
Time snail ring his ultimate peal
MoTHER shouldn't be surprised if our Katy
get choked some day.
"Why, my son ~
''Because her beau twisted his arms aro,lnG
her neck the other night and if she had not kis
sed hun 10 lei ber go, he would have stranglet
her
: Du'chman on being called upon to hell
pay for lightning rod for the village church