The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1865-12-06
WHOLE NO. 477.

skirt. which gave me a broad sheer to star
board. and jammed big CONVOY, butting him
square on his cut-water, and drove the fire end
OF my Princip" slap down his throat. There
was an everlasting tangle, and ali hands went
ssprawIing on the ice like q nest of Ineauga
land crabs r .
"Look here, cir what do you mean
yelled the big convoy, scrambling to his feet,
and maneuvering for boadside.
"Beg pardon. sir. I couldn't help it !"
replied mrekly; still sitting on the ice
Couldnt help IL? Why didn't you stop -
"Didn know how"
ooh. ho green on skates. eh T.
"Ye-. greencr'na cabbage!
That mollified The big chap, and setting me
on INV pegs again, he volunteered to educate
me in checking up. ...
"Oh, yes. can do that" and did directly.
OF shot again on one leg. steer ng this time
tor the shore-ior I'd sk.,ted enough.
Half way in, and there slid right down in
my course a crowd Of forty or so-sirls aud
men. women and boys Il tried down brakes >
according TO instructions, and broke too much.
up toes, and digging my heels into the ice,
sagged back like, and doubled amidslps, as if
were going to take a seat--and did I
went down stern foremost with a whauy that
broke thc ice like pane of window glass
shivered by pebble hurled through it. had
an idea just then that such bump az that
would have started the armor Of any iron clad
afDat.
SOLD those Internal skates Just as I sat, for
-FOUR dollars, under strong convi ctiOn that
there's no fun in skating. It's all umbug
can't skate. don't want to.
The Diskanded Volunteer.
This time. honored CORES 1ondent Of the
N. Y. Sunday Times and subsequently Of
the Sunday Mercury weekly advises from
Washington relative to public affIrs. The
extract below is not very fresh-having
been written before the late elections-but
it is very good. The puns made in spelling
are ahead of all the ,ffJrts Of other mis-
spelling fame hunters. His concluding
sentence of this extract is worth looking
a, bv those who really desire the welfare
Of "the cause Of the late rebellion"
The Republican party is in a blamed
aukard predickerment jest now As a col
ledge bred frend Of mine ses, it isent hom.
.rsen.uS. Wun porshin Of 1.-THE porshin
knows wi ch side its bred is buttered- -
is reddy to 60 in for the Presidents recon
struct shin pollysce shoder and clbo; while
he uthcr porshin is far pitchin inter him
tooth and to nail Prehaps the Andy Re-
pubIicans is the most noomerus; but the
anti An lies is as full Of v'gger as a fl "a on
, bender. Chase, Wade, Wilson, Sumner.
Gre lev, and Wendell Phillips heads the
Anty Andy wing They hev hysted the
black h,g, and with Sambo at the hellum
All Dinah in the caboose, AMI Cuff for
>a,ln master. they are fairly Oft on cruise
asen all as Il gh.s onder the banner Of An.
drew johnson.
understood last week that Wendell
Phillips, the sml lrtest Of tn: hull gang, was
to open the campan immediently, and see
oy the papers that he fired his first gun,
a reglar sockdollarger, at Boston, on Tues
dry evening His orashin is sum, and is
pernounst onekweld by Sumner. He sed
har warnt no Republican party, but oney
a goste in it's sroud, spookin throo the land
like vampire, seekin whoom it mite de
YOUR. The real ar,ickle, he intirmatcd, had
long laii molderin in its grave with Asso-
wotam Brown, and it was the biznsss Of
niln and hes a>soshlates to revive it onder
new form that should carry destruckshin
inter the ranks Of all poltishns, wether
they called tnerseves Republicans or Dem.
Ocra,s, as dldent spit upon the President
and his reb. prerceple. He paid his com.
plenents to Mr.. johnson in wot tbs Jacko.
b rs hev called strain of furvid elkwence,
ienouncln hlm as three parts a traitor, aud
declarin that his treason he'd given the
South victry over the North, art,r we
h d Sawclchri 'em by force Of arms Pail.
lips IS looked upon as the Profit and Grsat
Medca man OF the hull anti johnson tribe,
and Is now on an elecshuneern tour in thar
unrest He will be in New York next
week, | larn, to repeat his Boston lecter,
AID as it is sposed that his abuse Of the
President mought lead to sum disturbance
in your Democratic city, two hundred abel
bodied niggeroes Of Boston hes offlrd to
arm tharseivcs, and attend him as a gard
of homer. So ses a privit tel.agraphic
report received here to day. 1t seems on
cr.dahle. but the Nggero suffredge party
is ondoutediy prepar:n for war to the nfe,
AID will g enney Ienths, Encur,idged by
the white pollytishuns as wants to use EN-
at the ballot box, our cullerd brethren air
evrywhars settep up their ebbynezer in
sule that could hardly hev blsved possa
pul in setch materially mild and inafen.
c'ive race. Ell thy continey to be backed
up by the Nurthern ul,rees as they air at
present. We shell hev another civil war; as
Snoor as all men air born ekwil. The
>krimnage would be an oil fred short wun
tho. and when it was over there would be
great cry and affinity little wool.