The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1860-03-21
Correspondence of Milwaukee News.
Good Railroad Tickets Narro'O Escape-- chi
cago Hoetion.

Good haitrodd 1tekefs-Ndrroio Escops-Cht-
cogo Eicetion
To the Editor of the Milwaukee Ne,cs:
CLEVELAND, March 0, go.
How easy-like it rained Tuesday after
noon, as l left your ambitious, democrat
ic, and well-to-do city for another trip
east. Carriage drivers pulled up their
coat collars, grew "choleric," and as they
watched the little streams running down
the cutters till stopped by mass Of rub
bish, said "dam" Ladies tripped along,
their paper soles wet through, their spir-
itual souls in danger, and their dresses so
raised from below and lowered away from
aloft, that il was hard 10 tell whta style
of garment they wore. The usually dry
sheets of your evening cotemporaries were
,0et enough this time, and the only beau
ty of it was that rain must be blessing,
inasmuch rs it comes from above.
DENIsoN shouted "all aboard" the po-
licemen, news boys, hack drivers, railroad
agents and people generally, started in one
direction, while the we'll laden train start
ted in another. There was on board
rough looking customer, with low fore
head, pug nose, little twinkling eyes and
firm set lips, who handed DENIsoN, the
conductor, ticket TO Chicago, dated
June Z, 1857 DENIsoN looked at it
turned it overlooked at the man-then
looked at the ticket again. "It's all
right" said the passenger. Rather
DID," says d. ats good, / reckon"
said the passenger. "Well, l don't hard
ly know" "Take fair look at me, and
| guess you will recollect seeing me about
three years since on this train," said the
passenger, whereupon the conductor said
"oh yes"-took the ticket and passed on.
The mystery about the case was this:
In June, 1857, the i'll looking passenger
purchased tho ticket at the office and had
just stepped on board the train for Chica-
90, when Chief of Police Beck came up
and arrested him. He was taken to the
Jail, tried for stealing, sent TO Waupun
two years and q half-served his time
out, and on Tuesday afternoon resumed
his journey on the same train, the same
ticket, and with the same conductor that
he started with nearly three years since.
What curious world this is for all.
When about half way to Chicago, the
whistle called all hands TO the brakes,
just in time to stop the train and drive
three cattle off the track. They had run
along ahead of tho engine till they came
to a culvert, where, affrighted they stood.
Had the engineer been anxious TO spite
the cattle or their owner, he might have
crowded them into the culvert as did the
engineer on the Chicago u Fond du Lac
road last fall, and we should have had
another "Bellevile slaughter" AS it was,
there was not passenger on the train
but spoke of escape and contrasted the
different styles of doing business, and
the difference to the credit of the Chica-
90 q Milwaukee road.
The greatest excitement prevailed in
Chicago consequent upon the election for
Mayor. IL was "Hurrah for Gurnee,"
/" Hurrah for Long John," from the time
we entered the city limits till the hour of
midnight. One who was not there can
have no idea of the excitement. Other
business was neglected or forgotten.-
Rain, mud and whiskey were free to
all. | do not believe there were humid
red sober men in Chicago, either stran-
gers or citizens. Men ran bowling and
shouting like devils, till it seemed as if
hell had opened its back door and let its
guests out for noonl Men were out with
bloody noses, raw heads, black eyes, teeth
absent but not forgotten, torn and soiled
clothes, battered hats, knife and slung
shot wounds, intent upon nothing but the
success of their respective candidates.
By seven o'clock it was known that
Long John was elected, when the storm
commenced anew Bonfres wero built
in fifty different places in the city, and
rot cut flowed like water! Men ran shout
ing for Long John. They rode by on
horseback, in carriages, on carts, cars,
coaches and buses, shouting and yelling,
"hurrah for Long John" Hundreds who
were too drunk to walk, sat down on box
es, steps and on curb-stones, yelling like
fiends for the object of their adoration.-
Others lay sprawled out in cutters, in
door-ways and other places, shouting,
yelling or grunting, in maudlin tones =
"H-o-o-a-w f--la-a-n Shonp BY mid
night the carnival was at its height.
From our room at the Briggs House,
we could see the crowd madly rushing
hither and yon, acting like devils incar-
nate. There never was another such
drunken, beastly, devilish, degrading dem
onstration made, as that on Tuesday
night over the election Of John Wentworth
to the office of Mayor of Chicago. Across
the street from the Briggs were the re-
publican head quarters, and all night long
was the drunken revel kept up. l MOTTO
ed one man stripped till the only garment
he had on was his shirt, addressing the
crowd! He told them that he had bet all
his other clothes, on the election, which
no doubt was the naked truh! At all
events, his remarks, oaths and all, were
received by his auditors with unbounded
applause!