The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1859-06-30

MEssRs. EDITORS:
The "Kemosha Telegraph made us call yes
terday,and you have no idea how proud it looked
| 1t had on a "bran new dress" and was so bright
and withal such an Improvement on the sold
Style" that in spite of all the rules of courtesy or
etiquette, we inspected it CAP pie, wondering how
it could manage to be complaisant when ii kneac
we We're dying to find ont how it was So We
looked and stared, till at length we met an explain
atory ribbon in the Editorial. Well, now, we won
der how much approb0tircEeg" Won have got M in
your Sanctun Enough i.e..st,se if you have
we would not barbarousy add to it by pressing
your new dress; we will only say, We are right
glad TO see It
And now we are sin fix" Here we have said,
"Messrs. Editors" but we can't write letter TO
day !! We have not single idea The few, for
lorn, little seedlings we have been eoaxing into
sight, have been fairly washed away! We are
notwithstanding; so all we can do, is to catch
at the first straw of thought we can find. The
streets rivers of mud, and the atmosphere ia
filed with flowing streams whose ceasless patter and
splash sweep away thinking till we IRE nothin-
but ia condensed mist. Rain, rain-nothing but
RAIN 1t is wonder we are stiff and odd here in
dull, old, Easf-winded Boston where we have not
seen Tue sun lSI SfI WoItm udyb, excepting q
beam or two, that could not help coming on the
Sabbath where all the vanes on all the churches
in the city, pertnaciously whe round to the East,
rs if that the only point in the compass It's
enough to make amiabty's self cross And then
we have had only a little bit of the Seventeenth
of June" Haven't had the light of sun. moon nor
stars, nor rocket to celebrate with for the
rain obstinately drops down just where the Charles
townans put up the skeleton of some fireworks
Then there was to be balloon ascension; but the
rain said "never!" 1t would be a sailing into
Egyptian darkness to go up there and yet, away
| up above this sea If clouds and rain. we Suppose
the sun is shining splendidly, having a grand time
and p'ling up his golden beams in reserve perhaps
Tor The Fourth
| few days ago, the mystic characters burst up
| on from all sides of the streets-'FO. K f." VIVA
does this mean says one. 'Some awful meaning J.
says another Look out for omissions and errors
said the Merchants. "a union of she Ostrians anC
English y cried the war-news-ites; and one indi
vidual insisted that it meand "Open and Enter, "a
he found one stack on his front door But "oh
what a fall was there, my countrymen! !" All tht
wise men and prophets drew in their heads and step
ped from the sublime into the rediculous, as tn,
initiated informed them that the cabalstic letter.
wore only signal of the colds and Ends" 81
we must be content in anticipating only the antique
and horrible That is the first lesson. The secont
is all over the city: "Y. Q. u. l.. H. E. Y" w,
have no translation oft, but it is probably som,
other signal. Three hundred extra policemen are
appointed to check all extravagant patriotism
You know we are to have Geological Garden
and the Committee have Mt last decided upon
plan of a holiday which will cost 81 200. The,
were restricted to an appropriation of 81 $50 Thi
reminds us that real, lneal descendant of the ra
vens which fed Elijah, has been added to the orn
biological collection in the State by Mr. Flint tn
Secretary Of the Board of Agriculture One woult
have to be as wise as an owl to trace its descen
from the
'stately realms of the sanity days Of yore"
The war-uews is the topic sin the house--ou
the house, and Italians embrace their friends an
flock TO the battle-ground, as fully the same enthu
siastic. Italy lowing people as though they had new
er been under the wing of the amounting bnd' o
America. What a relief the 'Ca5ie'' would DO t
the suspense we all feel
Alden. P s.