The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1864-08-31
Editorial Correspondence.

BRIGGS, CHICAGO, Monday, 8 p. NJ.
JOINT promised to write you letter
but the pledge is as irredeemable as TIL
cerdoat paper on which are inscribed The
portraits Of Lincoln and Chase. Do no,
understand me to indicate Reputation
only want to illustrate the entire poverty
Of language to describe tho state Of affairs
at present in Chicago. We cot here all
right on-!Thursday night-last, and found q
home such as no Hotel in America can
beat. Gp. Bigelow and lady, Senator
Hammer and lady, Mrs. A. P. r. and
worser half, b. D. Fraser, Charley Stafford,
Lewis Hirshfeld, and others whose names
at this moment forget, we're of the com.
pany. and of course we had happy time
under the guidance Of WINNIE, conductor
Of the Mil. & Pr. du Chen Road. By the
way, how would you like to 60 to Here.
after from which Winnie, Rock, Prescott,
Reddington, Boyle or Little Mack" were
excluded l think I should prefer their
company to the straight-laced chaps who
wear. the livery of the court of Heaven to
serve the Devil in: (this used to be quo.
tation, butts originality is worn out and |
fail to point it.)
You doubtless remember the story Of a
hard-swearing old gent in Vermont who
one day lost the tail-gate of his wagon and
spilled all his marketing in going up bill
towards town. When asked why he didn't
swear at the sight Of his pumpkins and
potatoes rafting in Wild confusion to the
foot Of the hill, he replied that the bad sluck
twas so internal bad that he couldn't do
justice to the sutject!' This convention
is so extensive that cannot do justice to
it. I have met hundreds Of North Iowa
acquaintance and thousands of men from
Indiana, Wisconsin, Ohio and Pennsylvania
whom | knew years ago. On Friday night
VALLAHDIaHAM and others spoke from
the Court House steps to an audience Of
immense size; on the same evening Col.
"Dick" Richardson, Of Illinois, talked at
Bryan Hall to full house, and on Clark
Street, in front of the Sherman, there was
scarcely standing room for the people who
were listening to Gov. Powell, of Kentucky,
S. S. Coz, Of Ohio, and others. On the
evening Of Saturday, the Grand Mcclellan
demonstration came of on Court House
Square, and if you can imagine the best
oratory in the west, the most magnificent
fire works ever shown in Chicago, and
Sixty THOUSAND enthusiastic democrats for
an audience, the streets blocked so that
neither horse car, bus nor team of any kind
could pass, you can form a faint idea of
what was the matter. The Earth rolls
round once in twenty. -four. hours and
fraction, but it has taken almost four years
to roll public opinion over. Within the
last few weeks the whole country has
changed its mind, and now, instead of
Lincoln and his supporters being in the
ascendant, the PEOPLE have taken the reins
into their own hands and the true patriots
declare, without fear of molestation,
Theirs God in America as well as in
Ireland ~
l will tell you more when see you, but
it is impossible to write today. The papers
Of the city will tell more than it is possible
for me to say MCCLELLAN is the favorite,
and it is conceded that his nomination is
certainty. Some who are always anxious
to distinguish themselves by taking
course that few approve, and thus earning
a prominence which all malefactors have,
assert in advance that they will not vote
for Mcclellan if he is nominated: have
had the pleasure to hear and the honor to
propose to such men that the sooner they
quit the democratic party and its gather
ings the better for us. Sense is sense, but
nonsense is no sense at ALL The uncom.
spirit of such men is the curse
Of our country, and while they preach con.
Citation to the South they are so inconsis.
tent as to refuse Cancellation at home.
Twenty thousand people assembled to-
day at the Coliseum or Democratic Shanty.
Ex-Gov. VIM. Bigler was temporary chair
man. l cannot tell you what was done
you will see the main part of it in the
journal Of this morning. All thus far is
AL that success with Mac,
Seymour or Fillmore is certain, is not
doubted by any. Everybody is here. Not
less than $50 thousand strangers are in the
city, and such earnestncss as is exhibited
was never before SEEM No row is antici-
pated: gentleman told me that if McClel-
Ian stock continues to advance "the Gov.
eminent" will not trust the Pennsy lvania
regiments sent here to keep democrats in
order. Chicago was never full before
The Convention will probably not adjourn
till Thursday there is large job before it,
and the intention is to deliberate carefully.
I'll telegraph you tomorrow if any exciting
event transpires. The great decline in gold
is attributed to the prospect of Little Macs
nomination and hope that the country
may yet be rescued from the perils which
environ it. Reports from all parts of the
country are confirmatory of an overwhelm-
ing change OF public opinion on the war
question. II we are to have no peace ex-
cept the negroes are made free, then
GOO bye John" A P. r.
Now is good time for those, either in
town or country, who have magazines,
newspaper files, miscellaneous literary
works, photograph albums or any keep. sake