The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-07-10


DEPARTURE rnAINg. ASA.
Mail and Day Express Pass. 1000 4. N.
Wight Express Pass. ......... 500 r. N.
way Freight. ,..............5 20 4. NJ.
Through freight. .6:4or. NJ.
ARRIVES At PRAIRIE onIEn.
Nail and Day Express. $40 p N.
Night Express ......9 300 A. N.
Way Freight. $40 p. N.
Through Freight. .......... $50 A. N.
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The great day Of al, in the American polit.
ical calendar, came on its e5tl, errand, and
passed away. Extraordinary preparations had
been made to honor it here, and so far as we
could discover, the programmes Of all the vsri.
Gus orders and associations were complied with.
II was our intention to give very minute &C.
count of the various incidents of the day, but
at the moment Of writing we are expecting to
receive the Presidents Message, and not know.
ing but it may be lengthy, we are fearful of oc
cupying space with other matter. No Message
of equal import was ever read to an American
Congress; and it is our intention to give the
rea:ers Of the Times every word of it. Very
ur'cuy tueH we report tue rOu.tn:
1t. Phil. Dom, of the Gun ,u,d attached
TO the Prairie du Chen Greys, arrived here
on the evening of the 3rd, and walked up the
old hlufis to a sense Of what was coming or
he morrow. DORIS company Of artllerists, did
duty like men, and the citizens here IRE ex.
ceedinsiy grateful to them. At sunrise gun
was to be tircd, but Mayor Hobcrt, on rising,
saw a miserable secessionisi Flag floating at
the top OF the City Liberty pole. To climb n
pole so feet high looked serious, but the Mayor
drew his boots. and went after that aag-it
came down in hurry. Hobart took hold of il
very much as Moses did the Golden Calf, and
tore it into ribbons. Capt. Dorr used it for
wadding for the first gun Oh the Fourth!
Capt. Lambert, Of the McGregor Home
Guards. uniformed, marched through the
streets and took their places as an escort OF
the procession. o. c. Lee was sick, General
Bigelow, Mr.. futile and Mr.. Geo. w. Tenney
acted as marshals. MIR. Finch and Mr. James
Dymond also rendered good service in forming
the line of march. The lady omnibus drew up
in front of the McGregor House to receive the
representatives Of the States. Benton and
Burdick had the honor Of seating the fair, the
West Union Band he aded the procession, and
"Forward" was the order. Arriving at the
Grounds, (Giard Coulcc,) President NOBLE
called the grorc to order. Rev. Mr.. SLOAN in.
voked the blessings Of Almighty God; the Red
White and Blue was sung by the choir of 100
Mayor HoBART read the time .honored Declare.
ton, the Star Spangled Banner was sung by
the vast assemblage, and JOHN r. SroSeMAs,
Esq, was introduced as the orator of the day
In an address of nearly an hour, Mrs.. por
trayed the various governments which History
has recorded, contracted them with our own
referred to the peculiar features of the Amer
can system of laws, condemned any infractior
OF the Constitution, pointed out the evils Of
secession, CONNIE nded UNION as the only hop.
OF Liberty. His Grafton was carefully got up
and was well delivered, and if he lives thous
and years. we think he will have no occasion
to change sentiment in it. ...
After music by the Band and the Benedictior
by Rev. MIR Brunson. the procession re formed
and returned to the ''place of beginning" a.
the head of the party entered Main Street
they saw a sight which never before burst Oh
their astonished vision. Fifty members of tn.
Quixotic Legion, on horseback, and in the
most magnificent ds-unilorm that human in
vention ever conceived, were before them as a
van guard Of honor. Nothing but a daguer
reotype could do justice to the appearance Of
this company-long haired men, and feathered
men, red devils and black devils, paper face.
and glass faces. lean men and stuffed men
high caps and no caps, good horses and pool
horses, mules and asses, tin horns, ten fee,
swords, wooden guns of ponderous length, ant
every conceivable contrariety of color ant
character went to make up the tout ensemble
Of this magnificent corps de turles9ue Maybe
the crowd didn't shout any at sight Of these
children OF beauty and elegance! We never
saw. such display of taste ; and hundreds who
have before witnessed similar patriotic exhibi
lions, tell us that the McGregor show OF Jul,
9TH ''beat the world" When tho cayalcad,
reached the ''triangle," public square) ane
dis-organzed and mixed up generally, the eel
ebrated song Of "Thats so, That's 500 wa:
given by the whole company to an admirins
world. After this the Grand Guyascutas, in re
spouse to the presentation Of the "G.ea
Weapon" IAN immense Bologna sausage) rea,
an address replete with philosophy, patriotism
and morals. The 81 States (what splendi,
States they were) halted in front OF the Fantas
tics, and we could not bit mark the CONTRAST
On the one side angels in white, zoned will
s'shes of red, white and blue, and beautiful o.
the Hours which Mahomet promised his sold
iers; on the other side, devils and mountebnnk
of all conceivable hideousness. Swedenborg
"Heavcn and He'll" wasn't patching to it,
!. We, individually, approached the Daughter O
Of the Regiment" among these exiles fron
Pandsnonium, and requested the honor of
salute. She protested willingness to &C
code to our request at more convenient sea
son, and said; 80. X. Col, but just now In
internal dry-can't you bring me punch ~
This language, from lips feminine, cured us
wepolitely furnished the fluid "she' desired
aud passed to a less attractive member of tn
legion. The banners Of the Quixotics an
their programme, We cannot particularly refc
70 now, they correspondent with the rest of tn
proceedings. After flourish, peil nell rae
to the icvee, the company passed up Main ST
John Gilpin fashion, and vanished. The boy
ccscrve immense credit for this exhibition
they furnished the most entertaining feature Q
the day.
Atnight.fall the Fire w orks were dsplaye
from a stand near Hoffman & Benton's store
They were grand beyond anything we hay
seen in North Iowa, and for two hours tn
thousands in town stood, sat, or reclined il
snd about the Public Square to witness all O