Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1861-07-03
Pole and Flag Raising at Me
Cartney - Observation-Disclosures

Pole and Flag Raising at Me
Cartney - ssville-Beetown
1 On Saturday we went with Lowry to
the pole and flag raising at tie School
House near McCartney's in Cass,ille;
number present, four to FIVE hundred, about
half ladies; day warm and dusty. The
Beetown Home Guards came in uniform,
armed with rifles and towing guns and
having with them the best marshal music
we have heard Lately; Captain Charles
Billings, First Lieutenant, John Showaltel.
Second Lieutenant, George Pond. Orderly
Sergeant, E. Block, Second Sergeant, D.
Arthur-oficers and privates enrolled, 80
men. The stars and stripes were raised at
2 o'clock, salutes were fired, with huz-
zahs, marches, &c. Stands had been
erected near by for speaking, and seats pro-
vided.
Mr. Henry T. Young was the Marshal,
and be also presided at the stand. Rev.
a. M Dickson opened the exercises with
prayer; Ed. D. Lowry, Esq, was the reg
/. ular speaker, and spoke for about an hour,
u be cheers and responses being frequent;
er tIS Lowry Others s2oke, and then came
rs a;-s .tiotio songs by choir, mostly la
Wilson,, the toasts read by Mr.. James
!, the fife anYhieh were responded to by
= :, bIaoe broke ~, after which the assem-
= The toasts spark3eud cheers and laughter.
! for them. " "e n''e not space
On our way from 1,
we noticed the stars ana s1oi = o''''' iiie
! upon hill tops, on trees andHIlPes WAVING
s valleys, from the shanties Of sSSs' N low
le over the brows of precipices-evSeI.s ana
? has our glorious flag resting place. 'e
u home. There may be those who secret
n despise democratic kind Of goyernlner
and love not our flag, but they, especial
" their ragged posterity, are to be pitied-
n not despisedl But the people are loys
it and true, God bless them and their pos
e terity foreverl
e In the evening we rode to CassyilIe AM
Il stopped at the Denniston House, kept b,
the generous Mason; this is the finest no
tel in the State west of Madison and i
owned by Ex-Gov. Dewey, who is making
; his home there. We expected to NEE
him at the pole raising, but he WASH
there.
Great business facilities re provided a
Cassville, 50 far as stores, wa rehouses, CAPT
tai men and men Of capital, tut thest
times little is doing here or elsewhere
Many of the men about Cassyle are grea
grumblers and talk as though other place.
are better for business, but such seldom
have much to do anywhere Their com
plainings add misery to duIlness; and as
country people abhor village grumblers
they peter to trade elsewhere rather than 90
among the miserable
We found II business at Cassyille oul
friend WooD r. BEACH, with his every day
face Of cheerfulness and sunshine. A few
more such about that most attractive
beautiful place in the State would posi-
lively draw double the present business Is
:
Cassyille and spoil the trace Of many
oilers whose only occupation IS sneering a
the Union and inventing regular take-off.
on loyal citizens.
Beetown is brisk for one Of her age and
bereayements; mineral is plenty and cheap
and money scarce but Of standard quality.
the miners standing by their resolutions tc
receive only goll Or silver for mineral
; Cotton is not king at Beetown, and the
best paper dollar in the Union wouldn't
buy glass Of whiskey or pass for quar-
ter dollar at a game Of poker. Mineral
sells at $4,000 per 1000, for gold or sill
yer, which is an advance over rates for
some weeks.
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