North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-07-15

Cows eymour's Acceptance.
Gen. Morgan of Ohio, the Chairman o
the Committee to tender to Seymour anC
Gen. Frank p. Blair their respective nom
nations, performed the duty in Tammany
Hall before IN immense audience. TIL,
Governor (soon to be President) respond.
I ed as follows:
MIR. Chairman, and Gentlemen Of tn,
Committee thank you for the courteou.
terms in which you have communicated tt
me the action Of the Democratic Nationa
Convention. [Chcers. have no word.
adequate to express my gratitude for thu
good will and kindness which that body
%unsought and unexpected. 1t was my
ambition to take an octirs part, from which
l am now excluded, in the great struggle
going on for the restoration of COED gov
eminent, of peace, and prosperity great
cheeringl; but l have been caught up by
the whelming tide that is bearing us on
to q great political change, and / find my
self too weak to resist its pressure. Loud
cheers.
You have also given to me a copy of the
resolutions put forth by the convention,
showing its position upon all the great
questions which now agitate the country
AS the presiding officer of that convention,
l am familiar with their scope and import,
and as one of it's members am a party to
their terms. They are in accord sciM my
IRISH, and l stand upon them in the contest
into which We are now entering, and l
shall strive to carry them out in the future,
wherever l may be placed in public or
private life. [Cheers.
l congratulate you, and all conservative
men who seek to restore order, peace,
prosperity, and good government to our
land, upon the evidences everywhere
shown that we are to triumph at the next
election. prolonged cheers. Those
who are politically opposed to us,
1attered themselves that there would be
discord in our council. They took the un-
c%ertainties of our views as to the best
methods of carrying out our purposes for
a difference of opinion with regard to those
purposes they mistook an intense anxiety
to do no act which would not be wise and
judicious for a spirit of discord but. du-
ring the heightened proceedings and earn
est discussions Of the convention, there
has prevailed an entire harmony of inter
course, a patient for bearance, and a self
sacrificing spirit, which are the sure to-
kens of a coming victory.
Accept for yourselves, gentlemen, my
wishes for your future welfare and hap
piness. In a few days l will answer the
communication you have just handed me,
by letter, as is the customary form. Ire
mendous and long-continued cheering.
REMARK BY GEN. BLAIR.
At the conclusion of Gov. Seymour's
speech, Gen. Blair made some remarks,
accepting the nomination for the vice pres
idency, pledging himself to adhere to the
principles enunciated in the platform.
EXCITEMENT IN THE STREETs-sEYMoUR
SPEAKS AGAIN
While the proceedings were going on
inside Of Tammany hall an immense gath
ering collected outsidc, and seemed ami
mated by the greatest enthusiasm for
S%cymour's appearance on the platform,
which had been erected in the street, and
greeted him with tremendous cheers. In
a few words he thanked the multitude for
their expressions of appreciation, and ex-
cused himself from making Il heightened
speech.
CEN. BLAIR,
was loudly called for, appeared. and
thanked the meeting for tho enthusiasm
with which they had greeted him. He
entertained no doubt that the democratic
party would triumph in the impending
conflict, and restore to the southern peo-
pie the freedom Of which they have been
dispossessed.
r. R.-A committee of MEG. gentle
men were appointed recently at a meeting
held here, to wait on the MEG. Western
managers. An interview with Mr.. S. s..
Merrill. Of Milwaukee,, learned the COM
mittee that it was the intention of the Nil.
Directory to survey a line to South Nc
Gregor, as some call it, with a view to the
location of a general depot at this place
and the probable construction of a bridge
to the island, less than half a mile from
this shore. The right of way can be Sc
cured by one cent on the dollar Of taxable
property here, and this the company ask
as a city donation. 1t is also in contem-
plation by them to, possibly, extend the
track below the city to Pictured Rock
coulee and there to construct a bridge 45
feet above high-water mark, thus saving
the expense of a draw. The elevation
required to reach that coulee will be only
so feet to the mile.
A member of the committee gives us
this information and it will soon come
before our people for discussion. We are
SO tired of writing about Ry's that we
make this notice brief and waive entirely
any remarks about the extension of this
Road west-a subject that continues to
agitate our country contemporaries toward
Sioux City.
FARMERsBURG, Iowa, July IA, 1868.
The dodge No. l Self-Raker l bought
Off. J.. Roberts this day. Have just given
it a severe test in badly tangled barley, on
the farm of John Polas, in trial with a
Mccormick sic foot reaper. The same
work was done with ease by tuo horses on
my machine that it required four to do on
the Mccormick. 1t did not upset it had
no side draft. The self.raker worked to
my entire satisfaction, Keeling on the grain
the grain and delivering the gavels in per-
feet order at the will of the driver, by
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