Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-07-17

again next Saturday, at o'clock P. M.
az" The Courier's highfalutin about the
immense turnout Of the unterrifed' Al
Desmoines is fittingly travestied by the fol
lowing from the pen of the inimitable Dixon
which we copy from the State Register: O.
The GREAT CONVENTION. The Democratic
State Convention is bound to be big thing
The Chief Fuglers of the party predicted tha,
$4,000 men would be in attendance. We arc
happy to announce the fact, on the authority
of our Copperhead reporter that there are
100000 delegates here already; and that be.
fore 10 o'clock A. N. of to-day, the number
will have increased to one million and halt!
The aforesaid reporter, whose reputation for
veracity is unquestionable, gives us the fol.
lowing memoranda of arrivals: Desmoines
House, one hundred thousand delegates
Savery House, seventy thousand dele
gates Blodgett House, fifty thousand; Cot
tage House, forty five thousand seven hundred
and fifty; American House fifty two thousand
four hundred; Union House, forty eight thou
sand; Iowa Central House, twenty five thou
sand; Grout House, thirty y-eight thousand
Walker House, six thousand; j. G. Turk,
four Copperheads and big jug. These mum.
bers footed up, including the jug, amount to
four hundred and forty thousand one hun.
dred and fifty-four! Besides this immense
host, our reporter AYERS upon his faith as a
Copperhead, that 10000 delegates have en-.
camped on the south side of Coon: 5000
mere in the vicinity of the Iowa Central Col.
lege; 5000 more are numbering about among
the coal shafts in the Northern part of town
The hotels are full the coal shafts are full
the stables are full; the saloons are fuller
the tree-tops for ten miles around are full oil
clamberirg Copperheads; the private residen-
ces are full and the very air is sultry with
the dense bodies and denser skulls of Peace
Democrats
Al 10 o'clock this morning Dennis a. Ma
hony astride of an elephant, and surrounded
by a body-guard Of 10000 Copperheads, will
make his triumphant entire into the Capital.
At precisely minutes after 10 o'clock, A,
NJ, General Augustus Caesar Dodge, mounted
on Spanish pony, and bearing Confederate
flag, will probably make his triumphial ap.
pearance on Court Avenue Bridge.
After the Trans-Alpine Gaul, will come the
renowned Clay Dean, who, through sweat and
dust, and great tribulation, and forty pounds
of solid dirt and grease, will enter Desmones
surrounded by guard of 10000 men, four
beer barrels, and copy of the Constitution
of the Confederate States.
After him will come in sanity array, long
line of Blessed Martyrs headed by Geo. W.
Jones and his two rebel sons, Dave Steward,
Bill Hill, Chris Mann the beauti6ed Hutchins
and the glorifed Thayer!
The last scene in this magnificent pageant
will represent Ben NJ Samuels, encased in iron
armor, and mounted ON dromedary, threat
ening death to every delegate who has the
temerity to believe in War Platforms and
War Candidates +e
P.S. We learn from our reporter that a
train of $4,000 wagons, containing A Cop
perheads to the wagon, is just beginning te
enter town. All the forage from the North
eastern portion Of Allamakee county to thu
Capital has been consumed as though the
army Of Xerxes, supported by thousand bat
talions of Egyptian Locusts, had been invad
ing the State. The sacred cause of Temperance
is progressing, simply because the entire
stock of intoxicating beverages for the State
has been engulfed by the delegates. The
Copperhead platform reads thus:
We must have more whiskey-peacefully
if we can-forcibly if we must" ~ ~.