The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-08-01
lcGREtiOR, AUGUST l, go: !: 1860.
aud 1Ii..Is.ippi Railroad

Night Express Pass. ...... 1885 A. NJ.
nil and Day Express Pass =. $40 r. NJ.
DEPARTURES TRAINS.
~ and Day Express, -. 500 A. NJ.
4ht and Accom-. .ll:2O A. NJ.
Express Pass. ......... $40 r. NJ.
he Road.
LAST week we had another glorious ride
Z the country Immediately West and
IS th-wcst Of McGrcgor, embracing in its
5gc portions of Allamakce, Winneshcik
Clayton counties. By invitation of
In, the host of the NcGregor, we, in
hany with BURDIcK and Stafford,
ourselves behind team as good as
Brock has any business to drive,
word was given for Decorah Pass
hgh Giard, Monona, Hardin, Frank
ia Lybrand; over country unex-
beauty and fertility, and an equa-
Gsion Of prairie, woodland and water,
lllScd at the fremont House on Tues
dark found II. d. Evans and Sena-
4ANER there, and next morning we
oincd by SAMUEL BAcmMAN Esq, of
lIbia Co., N. Y, and l.. BENTON Jr.,
lcGregor. On Wednesday morning
ms went to Oronoco. HAMMER returned
cGrcgor and the remaining six of us
Idcd by CHARLEY FEREN, gentleman in
true sense of the word, put out' with
poies and lines to tickle the palates of the
! trout of Canoe Creek. On the ground at
Een-and fishing till three in a clear day
low stage Of water, did not result
At haul Of the specklcd beauties !;
g9t enough for supper and did not
On our return FEREN brought
way of the Spring Mill, curiosity
ID often heard Of. The water gushcs
pof chasm in the rocks one hundred
up the bluff, awooten race carries it
hundred yards and drops it, for the
pulsion of two run of stones in grist
Il. The stream looks small for the work
ql g @ af Of ptz is GGFsath au
hat small dornick falling great distance
will seriously affect the head Of that human
being who is under its drop.
After a short rest at home land PIoTu-
HoEs' fremont is home most emphatically)
fEREN led US to an exploration of the famous
Ice Cave, about half mile from DEBORAH
We omit any attempt at describing the
Ppath to teach one of the party will re-
plember with painful distinctness its ups
nd downs, its sinuosties, its briars, its
kwampiness, its rocks, its ererythiag but
greeablity took the wrong path
Iet was alive got there at length and
a look at the terrible ''hole in the wall"
nughts Of the Griffons of the Arabian
is, Of "Open Sesame" of Putnam's
of Dante's Infernum, of Fingal, Bayard
or in the Kentucky Mammoth" of
Yah going into the belly of the whale, of
Greeks who filled the body of the
Wooden horse at Troy, well, we thought of
Il the caves and horrid holes which reading
had acquainted us with till we actually felt
like Gazing before the yawning mouth piece
Of that grand old Iowa cavern. One of our
party did "cave," patiently and apprehen-
sively waiting the return of his comrades.
FEREN went ahead with fluid lamp,
lighted Of course, and the party followed.
The path is wild, enough for two men or
one woman; it dcsccnds, through rocky
overhanging crags at an angle of nearly fif-
ty degrees to distance of 60 feet, then
there is an ascent Of 20 feet, then descent
Of 25 to 80 feet, and here you find the sides
Of the cave incrusted with ice of half an
inch in thickness. Beyond this the path
goes down to the end-wherc that is no one
knows, though we were told that "HANK''
CLEGHoRN had gone 800 feet down. (Proba.
bly, for trout , DURHAM got the lamp and
crawfished down several yards, but on,
fears that he would find the bottom and
step out in China, leaving us to grope oul
way out in the dark, induced US to call him
back
At the Hotel again in the kind charge o.
PRoruEnoE and his attentive assistant, Mr.
POWERS, we rccounted our wanderings ant
"took comfort" The DEBORAH Band, tn,
best in North Iowa, favored the Trcmon
folks with excellent music in the evening
and the McGregor boys request us to &C
kowledge with gratitude the pleasure the,
had the happiness Of participating. Mex
morning we paid our respects to the Messr.
BAILEY and the 'short jour" of the Repub
lie Office and found all of them just sucl
persons rs we could live with always, M
matter how different our political views
The Republic is paying paper, and
credit to DEBORAH; it cannot be otherwis,
than courteous, because its editors are gen
tlemen. We saw kimball, and Clark. ant
Hughes, and Wilson, and Goddard. ant
Gibson, aud Smith and his pet bear. (sorr,
Jim had him in ''chains of slavery ~
and "Hank," and "Doc" Green, and Logan
and many other friends whose acauaintanc
is treasure to us. A unanimous rcsolu
ton Of thanks to Charley Feren was passe,
and we left DEBORAH at 10 o'clock for home
Arriving at Frankville at noon, we got din
ner with p. LArHRoP, had milk punch witt
TEABoUT, looked over his magnificent field
OF grain, heard him expatiate on the beau
ties OF his village, and a. o'clock we star
TED Tor McGregor where we arrived at
o'clock, pleased with the prospect of sue
harvest as was never seen here before
pleased with ourselves for having had en-
teTPrise enough to get away from thes
bluts tor few days, and well satisfied tina
4nhsd sustained no loss at home or aLroa
snfpri''g our absence.
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