The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1862-12-13
The Grand PoW-Wow.
A Great Big Ovation Of the Lions
skin--Thc Funeral Sernion by
the Griddlc Greaser.


Much to our credit for giving the thing
notoriety, the grand, imposing jolifcation of
the unterrined in honor of the prodigal's re-
turn, took place on the 25th. The day
came, and although cold, the crowd came
with it. The hall was filed, and Dodge and
Dean held forth With that inimitable and
choice eloquence for which they are so no
ted. AT night Wide-Awuke procession
beg pardon Messrs. Wide Awakes--we
mean conglomcrated mass Of men and
boys, with coal oil lamps and transparences
marched through the street.. One trans
parency particularly attracted our attention..
at the top were the words: "The last Re-
publican Underneath was jackass to
represent the Republican, rnd on it was
man with his back to the jacks head, and
his nose in undesirable proximity to its tail.
We could not understand who the man was
intended to represent, until Bleakmore made
a speech and entered into many small mat
ters. We at orce concluded it was intend
ed for him, pursuing his vocation as Chair
man Of the Smelling Committee
The hall was crowded at night. many
Republicans being present. The Funeral
Sermon was opened with a hymn by the
Griddle Greaser, followed with prayer by
the trans-Alpine Gaul. He very compla-
Gently told his audience that the Crittenden
amendment would have been secured, had
five or six Republicans with no more back
bone than himsslD voted for it, and passed
q high eulogy on Gov. Morehead, Rives, and
Others. They were eloquent and truth tell
ing men. He was a Democrat, but had
b, been Republican would have thrown
party aside and saved his country. Consid
cred Lincoln rs hostile to tue Constitution
as jeff Davis. Berated Gov. Kirkwood and
other patriots, and concluded his shillY shall
y remarks, in which he proyrd himself as
much of traitor and in sympathy with jeff.
Davis as words could do it. Dodge grace
fully ended his prayer, and the choir sang a
hymn-"Kindom coming"
And now with vest covering the entire
front Of his capacious stomach, and pants
nearly up to his chin, appeared the Greaser
We cannot give synopsis of the concentra.
ted ribaldry Of the sermon Suffice it to
say that Dean tumbled high, and Dean
tunbled low. "He quivereth we tail in the
air." ''he diveth down, lower, and lower
and lower, and lower, and lower, than any
body except ys Dean can go; and coraeth
up nastier, and nas!ier, and nastier, and
nastier, and nastier, than any body except ye
dean:can come, and then on the wings of a
buzzard he soareth higher, and higher, and
higher, and higher, and higher, than any
bird soareth except a buzzard, and when be
g.tteth up there he smelleth, he smelleth,
he smeleth, he smelleth, he smelleth, he
smsleth, 3 SMELL" which il his own nasti
less. He denounceth ye Black Republicans
as secesh, and getting mad because some
man won't QUARREL with HIM. "He wallow
eth foaning he gyrates, gestlculates, gyas-
ticutes, gymnassicates and dynasticates-
Dean tumbleth lofty and Dean tumbleth
low" Dean chargeth ye Republicans with
being Abolitionists because q nigger mar
led a poor widow woman. .Oh rotund,
pusillanimous, mucilagenous, oleaginous,
cartlaginous, dean shooting at stars We but
faten in the mud, for dirt thou art and unto
dirt shalt thou return, only to hear 1t said
of thee, he that is filthy let him be filthy
still" He worketh himself into perspira.
tion, and then openeth his buffalo vest to
show ye audience where bis pastiness come
tn from, and then wiltseth. Another hymn
by the choir.
Calls were made for Steward. And the
delegate from the Old Capitol proceeded to
pray. He prayed the good God to give him
life and health for forty years and he would
follow to their graves those whc had caused
his arrest. He was on their track at early
morn and after nightfal. Perhaps his were
the footprints in the ashes which Bleakmore
discovered. David looked savage, he look
ed direful, he scowlsd, he growlcd, he con-
tracted his brows, he looked gloomy and
frowning, he was defiant and contemplate
Eve mean contemptuous,) he was naughty
he was supercilious, he was wrothy, and it,
really appeared that he would do something
desperate before The ladies but those who
know David know him to be a sweet man.
nered and harmless youth one who would
do no injury when there was any danger,
He, however, after frothing considerably,
wiltesh down, and ended his prayer. The
choir then gave another hymn.
Blsakmore now appeared upon the stage
with all the eloquent of Demosthspes. He
cavorted, and snorted, and rarsd, and pitch.
ed and tore, and fumed, and splurted, and
blurted, and foamed about, he shook one
finger, then two fingers, then several fingers
he shook his fist, then both of them, and
hen his head and body, he trembled, and
quivered, and became nimbls and active
lie exhibited . covert to Democracy. The
covert arose and said that four years ago he
Joined the Democracy. The convert was
not new one. He was old at the business,
nearly as old as Rlsakmore himself. At
he conclusion Of this prayer, the choir sang
mother hymn. O'D,nn ell made the clos.
ng prayer, after which another hymn was
sung by the greassr, and the bubble bust
ed.
The attempts to raise money to pay ex-