The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-06-22
HE is FULL OF FIRE.
THE MoxA A GOOD TONIC.

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expenditure Of gas, gunpowder and
pyratechnIcs, and q good deal Of saw
ing. The Union was saved. repeatedly
the Republican party was saved and
salted. Before shutdown the booming
cannon announced that some extra
ordinary event was about to come off,
and throngs Of people were seen hur-
rying IN the direction of Masonic
Hall. That spacious building was
soon packed almost to suffocationg BY
an audience composed of One-third
ladies, one-third Republicans, and
one third Democrats, with slight
infusion of the African element, scat
tered here and there throughout the
hall, imparting additional pugnancy
to the overlooking odor of the stall
fed patriotism which pervaded the
atmosphere. The ladies went in obel
dience to the irresistible inclination
the sex has for crowd. The Repub-
licans went to have their spiritual
strength renewed by draughts of I'M
diluted loyalty drawn fromSthea foun-
tain head The Democrats went out
of an excusable curiosity to gaze upon
man who has wrestled with para
plegia and passed the fearful ordealof
the French moxa, and the niggers
went to avail themselves of the ad-
ditional privileges conferred upon the
race by the civil rights BILL
The cannon Numbered; the bonfres
blazed; the brass horns brayed; fiery
rockets shot athwart the sky, while
wheels of fire revolved, and whizzed
and stank for the salvation of the
Republican party. The State House.
the Common Council, the city officials,
the pets of the Governor, the police
the stall-fed, who for the last five
years have banked ON their patriot
ism. without its costing them cent.
we're there. DR.. Thompson, Sheriff
Jack Robinson, and a number of 9th
ers, displaying wonderful activity,
acted as ushers, and the Private Sec
rotary percolated hither and yonder
through the crowd, fixing things.
Ladies, unanimously attired in the
most 4 m0nstrOus filters, crushed
through interstices that even the
thinnest of mortals would have shrank
from, bestowing involuntary embraces
upon fortune-favOred men, who will
look long for repetition of the treat
Heavy patriots tread upon the sensi-
tive corns of little patriots, and were
heartily did therefor Finally the
hall was full, and the hero of the
night. our patriot Governor, the sol
dlers' friend, and also the friend of
the soldiers wives, made his en-
trance, r. e., and took his seat. His
appearance was timed with due re
gard to the dramatic unities, and Gre
ated something of sensation. Men
tiptoed, while the ladies nudged each
other, amid cries of " Down in front"
We are pleased to see our noble Chief
Magistrate, the s. f., looking so WE'LL
MOxa has throttled the monster para
plegia, the fell disease which has ru-
lned SO many of our young men, and
though 1T has not been entirely dis
lodged. it has been brought under
subsection. All hail to the moxa.
French diseases require French rem
edies, and loyal Indiana owes a debt
of gratitude, which can never be paid,
to the French physician who invented
the idea of fighting fire with fire.
'Sanastia sipaaJtbus cardntur.
baa OPENING CEREMONIES.
The house being full, the band
played Hail to the Chief" the chief |
being, in this case, the s. T. before al
luded to. General Chapman arose
and announced impressively that they
were about to open the campaign,
that they were about to enter on the |
after it was opened, and /
about to begin the campaign after it |
had been opened and entered upon
on the platform laid down by Con- |
gress upon which all Union men
could unite. 1t was most proper that
the throne of grace should be address
the God who rules over the
people, over the Government, over the
nation, over the universe, over the
world, and over the rest of mankind
should be invoked to sustain the Re-
publican party. e
The General then introduced the
Rev. Mr. Holiday, who delivered
brief prayer, invoking the blessing of
heaven on Congress, and leaving the
President out in the cold. He asked
Providence to see that the work of re-
construction was so managed as to
leave large reslduum of liberty.
THREE CHEERS.
General Chapman proposed three
cheers for our noble Governor. Chap
lain Hallelujah Lozier, who had quiet
ly occupied a back seat ON the plat
form; making no sign, at this point
was suddenly galvanized, jumped to
his feet with as much alacrity as if he
had just sat down ON a needle cush-
ion, swung his leghorn in Che air, in
fated his lungs, and hiprhip hur
rahed. A few persons followed his
example, but most of them didn't
seem to be enthused. aa ma
THE FIREWORKS INVITED TO STOP.
The venerable Col. Blake. facetious-