White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1857-07-16
Correspondence.
ono. Mo- July 8. lss7.

man events II becomes neSesSA'y
per should be enabled to record current events
of great national importance, We that isour-
self. have claimed the patriotic pleasure OF sub
hitting report Of the Celebration held here on !
the glorious Fourth, according to previous
arrangement" Believing thatthe Border-Ruf-
fans - Of Kansas, and the q outside barbarians "
, who comprise the " balance Of mankind p need
the light which this highly interesting occasion
hasevolved, to illuminate their (" onward march"
70 civil renOSn; and also believing that these
proceedings " will largely swell the rising tide
of historic events, which are flowing q far down
the vista of future years. to enrich and frueti-
fy the political and intellectual soil of some
"nodel Republic " yet to come; We turn to the
narration, /" crushed to earth with the magni-
tude of our responsibility.
On the night of the ID, we retired to our
virtuous COUCH as in duty bound, to dream Of
pyroteehnics and booming cannon, not doubling
the eventfal day would be ushered in with all
" the pomp and circumstance of glorious war;"
but So A. NJ, found US struggling against pres
sing consciousness Of our mortal existence, with
out the aid of =" fire cracker" to break the
spell with which natures gentle, sweet restorer,'
had bound rs. At the late hour Of six, we made
our exit to the cutter world. 'TwouId be in
trnsinA, you knJw, TO peep into the great east
room " Of the King of Day." to see his maj
esty don his holiday attire. We found Him greet
ing our Country's natal day with as sunny a
smile as heart could wish. In fact, we believe
He is ardently attached to "our free institu-
tious;" not excepting the " peculiar institution,
since he has sDGTmly backed the natives of the
sunny SOUTH for 10. these many years. But,
pardon this depression. AT 8 O'Clock, we noticed
a squad Of daring youths making preparations
TO "let slip the dogs of war" Two anvils were
brought to a corner of the public square, and by
placing one upon the other, with powder between
or under them, most terrific explosion was pro-
duced. Nobody less than Captain of Artille-
~, could describe the peculiar report produced
in this way, TO refresh the already jubilant pat
riotism Of the moment. II you, Mr. Editor,
would put your head in " bee gum" and say
bang! or fling dead cat against cottonwood
house, you might have some faint conception of
the delicious reverberatons that greeted our ears
for half an hour. This august izzle - being
over, silence prevailed for the space of two hours
At 10 O'Clock, a procession was formed by some
sort of spontaneous evolutions, which bore down
upon the grounds arranged for the Grafton, pic
mic, &C., like the rushing Of many waters
The order adopted was about as follows, to-wit:
thirty three rampant specimens of " Young
America" progressive, jubilant and blatant;
color, mixed. Next came three " fast" young
gents, armed with canes, kids, r1oustache, i'm
perial, goatee, "briek in the hat" with shang-
hal developments; order, biped; genus, elonga-
ted auricular; species, assinine Then an OK
wagon, heavily freighted with mixed humanity.
Next. seven "eld fogies," garrulous, obese and
conservative. Then came a conglomerated mass
Of pedestrian sovereigns, muItform and mix.
ed" in an endless variety of irregularity, age,
sex, size, color, ct eefeTa, not counted The iapse
of few minutes sufhced to seat Us all beneath
the spreading branches of a few pretty :. mon
arch of the forests" trees which that Wood.
man spared" no doubt, for this very OCCASION
Then came the organization, with venerable
representation Of the relic of our revolutionary
sires, in the Chair. The managers could
not have ished up" more fitting occupant
They had reasOnSo congratulate themselves, in
the language Of the ilustrious statesman, when
he "hooked " an unusually portly cod'r-
venerable relic of former generation! Wei.
come to our shores" Added to great specific
gravity and personal dignity, were those shining
qualities possessed by the ancient Siward,"
whose history and demise have been so long eel.
ebfated in song. The reader recollects the verse.
and he had no har,'" &c. Next came the
"opening by prayer" the resident clergyman
ofheiating-solemn, pertinent and brief-it was
soon ended; yet we are not sufficiently we'll pos
ted in theology, to tell whether gatherings of
this kind, attended with the usual amount of
free whiskey, free fights, blood, thunder and red
eyed Publications, are "down in the programme
or not We are free to admit, however, that the
occasion loudly called, notOnly for the " benefit
of clergy" but also for the fercest prayers of
the church " militant and universal" The Dec
laration Of Independence being read, seeun.
dem arteHi," as per programme, we come to the
speech" On occasions like these, the Orator
is ever the alive lion of the day." the OBJ
served Of all Observers" Forth steps the dis
tinguished speaker" amid the plaudits of the
patriotic throng, with the fire of patriotism fash
Ing from his eye as he scents the battles of the
Revolution from afar." Booming words of el7-
-qnent wisdom, words pregnant with the fate of
empires" issue from his mouth. while, with his
~red right arm" extended on high, he pau
seth the moon in his eloquent fury. But Just
at the conclusion Of the Prayer, we fell asleep,
Glow very naturally TO dream ga dream that
.wasnof all dream" Of course we didn't hear
the Grafton Gaze how could wet We were
At Thermopyie. Then came one Of the he &C.
Mi Of the Revolution. and " in jiffey " trans
formed Us into sprite or fairy. and 5sde Us fol-
low. We started in the direction Of that 4" fiery
courser Of the sky" whether on his back or MT
We would not tell, but thought lce saur tall
Presently We " lit in "prOud imperial Rome"
" city Of the seven hills" mistress Of the
world" and all the other pretty names which we
forget We shook hands with Caesar, bowed to
Pempey, " smiled y With SeipiO, took a peep at
the "assembied WISDOM saw the veritable
J" NestOr," and spOuted s. E plzribus uaasz at
Cicero, who replied temPors, o mores."-
Here we took our latitude and departure" and
were soon presented at the Cont of Ferl;,.,a