The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1865-01-25

AettST from O0l Vtves
CHICAGO, Jan. Is, go.
A merry trio, in an elegant Ea-lor on
Washington ST, were sitting Before the
CRATE reading pretty nothings in the Goals
and talking over old times, when ,.sine host
entered and informed us that the following
morning he would take us to see the
Chicago elephant in its various positions
and from different stand-points, and that a
series of days would probably be involved
in the transaction. We waved our three
handkerchief, invoked blessings in various
little screams to descend Upon Mr.. II. and
ended by four games Of chequers played in
separate squads with 90" sparkling
talker, and with s"Anse," a rising limb OF
the lay, priding himself upon "prima
facies" and exaggerated cases of "attach
ments," in which games it may be we'll to
add that lady was invariably winner
Doubtless you, o TINES, imagine that
herewith will follow minute account Of
the Circassian lady, the learned Seal, the
Arab giants and Egyptian mummics of Col
Woods Museum, to say nothing Of the
wax 6ggers" wherein the mother of our
Lord is represented as wearing lace cap
and her Divine Son arrayedin Turkey red
calico! No, these shall not be mentioned,
but highly improper and unlady like as it
may seem, will tell you that we went to the
principal Grain Elevators and Packing
Houses of the city. Mr.. II. led US through
maze after maze Of stairways and interim
nable granares, until We begged for release,
but no, "see them we must" We beheld
| the identical spot where myriads of porkers
offer up their lives at the rate Of fourteen
dollars, eighty cents per hundred lbs, then
where they are suspended in mid air with
countenances strkinsly expressive, saw
them laid upon great table, where a stall
wart cutter, evidently celebrity, being
pointed out to visitors as but % years of
age and weighing 22o lbs, stands with 4
cleaver and cuts up a thousand devoted
swine in seven hours; all professions in
life must have their sunny spots, so we
were studying to know wherein consists
this pork. cutters happiness, but observing
that he smoked unimpcachable tobacco, We
concluded that in the cloud land wreathing
up from his pipes bowl even he had found
"chateaux en- Espagne."
What shall We say at this point of the
shifts from Bridgeport or Of the odors from
the River' Distillers at Cologne can bring
nothing a, all comparable in Ia belle France,
and the hours who wander in Araby the
Blest, have never known perfume.
On another day we saw Chicago's new
wonder, the Artesian well, being magnfi.
cent bore Of seven hundred and fifty feet,
the water ascending fifteen feet above the
surface through four inch orifice. 1t is
said that after attaining this depth the
augcr dropped into the famed "Symmes
Hole" and disappeared from sight, sages
supposing tina. it will finally fetch up in
China; also that Lake Michigan is lowered
several feet, developing, not far from the
tunnel, a " hirlpeol from which have already
emanated fragments Of the Lady slElgin,
wrecked some years since. Who knows
but that Capt. Kidd's pots Of gold, buried
"as he sailed, as he sailed" will yet come
up, worth $50 on the dollari ~
A careful inspection Of mammoth,
printing house, with IN old time friend,
Arthur E., was very instructive the
last We saw of him he was curvetting and
pirouetting, having attained the degree of
U. P. on Park ice, notwithstanding his
clerico editorial proclivities. In the Art
Galleries who can forget Sontag's "sunset,"
with the golden glory on the trees and the
water, or the charms Of Mountain
Scenery" yelled in a haze of blues At
Healy's we observed Lee, Franklin and
others before Louis Philippe, the Republic
and the Empire each in. characteristic be.
holding, a fine portrait Of Gov. Oglesbs of
Illinois, and many faces of the Chicago
fair. s.., afa7s r E..- e> svl-
The New Year being ushered in with
splendor, the gentlemen in faultless broad.
cloth and immaculate collars, in elegant
turn-outs or on foot, greeted the ladies
smiling at home in their best humor. The
experience Of the trio was charming
First, "Anse," radiant and legal, with in
comparable moustache, then six of
Creations lords ranged in semi circle, to
whom. with hands demurely folded, we
made remarks upon the weather, they re.
plying in highly appropriate manner, and
finally departing with six consecutive bows,
next two R. r. friends, ,unctuous of good
cheer and suave, then . magnificent
equipage, fearless strike of the door.
bell, cards with compliments, and 10!
Charley Giles, in :vo story hat. looking
as Of yore, himself. To him and his friend
we three wish fifty happy New Years!
Ladies'" Said Mr.. H. one morning, "a
ride to Camp Douglass to-day" or course
we entered the enclosure with great deal
Of the "suaviser in Hodo" upon our faces,
hoping, thereby, to have winning affect
upon the thousand deluded ''rebs" who,
arrayed in confederate quits captured BY
our own men, did not present as elegant
figures asfiwe have seen among our own
'boys, in blues" indeed the chivalry were
decidedly seedy, and looked as if they
would like to see their maternal relatives.