The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-09-05
'sBrick,s POmerO

This incurable wag and excellent S. OF
NJ. favored our town with visit one day
last week, and we had The pleasure of TAX
ing him round little. His celebrated ad-
vertisement of our marrow city" year or
two ago travelled through nearly all the
western papers, and gave McGREGoR a
notoriety that didn't hurt us bit. We
intend at some future time to get testimo-
NAL for "Brick" in payment of his "nar-
row" article. At present we desire to air
one of his happiest pieces Of burlesque and
extravaganza of imagery written on the &C.
casion of the late Congressional. and Mass
Convention of Republicans at Lacrosse.
There is good deal more of it than we
print, but we have not space for all. 1t
will make anybody laugh, except some over
sensitive fellow who can't stand fun, unless
it is got up at the expense of his enemies.
Such ''take offs" as this are always got up
to weaken the force Of blow, and we con-
Guide that the meeting referred to was real
ly Large and respectable" though we are
not prepared to believe that there were
"twenty millions" there, or that they had
a pole 400 feet high"
This afternoon the Republicans are hav-
ing glorius-s-s time. For seven weeks
they have been preparing for big demon
stration, and it came to-day. This morn.
ing was ushered in by sunrise, the cooking
of crows, and gin cock tail for several Of
the Wide-Awakes. At ten o'clock kind
Heaven sent rain storm, and several other
Republicans to town, and we learn by a
boy who has been out all day trying to sell
peck of apples, that they are here yet.
Gov. Seward is here. The "Mounting Bir,."
is here. Sleeper is here. Abe Lincoln is
here. Hamlin is here. Randall is here
Greeley is here. Weed is here. Booth and
Daniels are here. Usher, of Onalaska, who
made the speech in Chicago is here Chase
is here. Banks is here Sumner, who
went to Europe to have piece of his back
bone taken out, turned and scraped, is here
Everybody is here The Republicans are
ratifying. Up at the Turner's Garden all
the speakers are speechifying. We counted
seventeen hundred thousand men in the
procession, which was over thousand
miles long, who will vote this year for Lin
coin. Last year they voted for Douglas
Upwards of twenty million of people are
now in the garden listening to the talking.
Nine hundred guns were fired for Lincoln,
and they intend to fire another one next
week Randall is speaking in ten different
languages, while Washburn is taking it all
down in back hand! Booth is telling the
particulars Of his rape, and Lincoln is add.
ing up the number of rails he split!
Delegations from the country are coming
in! One delegation from Bangor had a
pole in a wagon seven hundred feet high,
on which was likeness Of Old Abe en-
broidered in sheep skin. Over nineteen
thousand voters came in from Bangor,
drawn by twenty wagons attached to each
horse. Fifty bands are in attendance from
each town, and from Neshonoc, there are
sixty thousand mothers, with children at
the bosom, each one crying for Old Abe {!
Over four thousand towns in this county
are now represented, and two more towns
will be in tomorrow, if the weather don't
rain! The procession commenced moving
last week, and the tail of it has just passed
the southwest corner of the Augusta
House. 1t will all be around by potato
d
three quarters Of a mile long, with a rail
erect in the front end, and a yellow dog
couchant in the rear A boy who stood
with his ear over the touch-hole Of the can
non, said he thought he heard it when it
went off-the cannon, not the touch hole
but was not certain He will listen again |!
The procession stopped at the Nord Stern
office till Shanghai" Chandler could comb
his hair, when it passed on! All nature is
rejoicing. A young kitten over at Aunt
Betsys has its tail in its mouth-one end
of it-and evidently likes the show!
Over two hundred speakers are in attend
ance, each one speaking in different Ian
guage All will vote for Lincoln, if they
don't vote for somebody else. Resolutions
were passed and are now passing the CON-
mittee, denouncing the union in New York,
as joke they can't see the k-nub to-and
pledging the most cordial nursing to the
Breckenridge men-or the Southern Re-
publcans As the result of all this, Lin
coin will carry this State by over a million
majority, and if Shanghai Chambers
toast:-"D-n Rock County ~ which he
swears he will offer, prevails, Hanchett will
be elected to Congress by at least eleven
hundred thousand Look out for big re-
ports of the meeting! Seymour and East
man commenced writing it off yesterday,
and they are now just through with the
first half! Hurah for the ratify Such a
crowd. They can't get out of town in at
least q month, unless we build more roads
Correspondence Of the North Iowa TINES.
MoNEEk, Wmnesheik Co., Iowa,
Sept, l. 1860.