North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-07-29

CHICAGO, July Goth. 1868.

Correspondence.
CHICAGO, July Goth, 1868.
DEAR TiMEs.-I might begin my letter
with an explanatory and disguised
"whew.' but ! won't; for | fancy you
have all used or heard the cxplctive be-
fore during this reign of an incensed
thermometer, that for weeks has steadily
adhered to an evident purpose of scaling
the 'bluc empyrcan,' and placing this on
Dry of that traditionary humbug, "oldest
inhabitant."
The mercury has for days and days
lurked in the decade just above 1902, so
that the city has been literally scorched
and parched, until we are like unto Shad-
rach and his comrades (only they were
three, and we are three hundred thousand)
but delivery has come to us, as it did to
them, in the shape Of n cool, cloudy day
with the most grateful of breezes spring
ing from across the lake.
CONSOLATION.
The city Dailies, as a sort of mitigant
Of eur woes, haye been showing by
meteorological letter that Chicago is several
degrees colder than other cities on the
same parallel. They predict on the
strength of this, that the city will
finally become a summer resort, and that
ere long we will welcome the citizens of
other places to the cold comforts of this
during the heated term. Whether this be
true or not | cannot say, but | do say,
most imprcssively too, tits been awfully
hot"
POLITICAL.
When the ballotings began to shower
upon us from the late New York Convcn-
ton, and were shown from the different
/, printing Offices, you should have seen the
excited and enthusiastic crowds that eagerly
!, read them. But when the twenty-second,
, the final ballot, came and told Of a con-
!, fict ended, and of harmony restored, you
should have heard the glad shouts, the
, cannons roar and the inspiring music that
f greeted the news. They may talk as they
please, Messrs. editors; radical orators
may grow hoarse, and radical writer's de-
nented preaching and writing the obituary
of the democratic party, it is not dead yet.
nor has it any idea of dying. Though il
may not grasp the reins Of government ir
next November; though radical corruption
and rottenness may dog the %nationa
wheels for another term, who can tell Of
the glorious future that lies before it ir
. correcting past abuses, in again enthron,
!. ing principles Of justice and right at thu
/ national seat, and in again uniting a PEG
pie distracted by a political conflict mor'
S terrible than the bloody war that preceded
it.
, Slavery is dead. The issues that thro
h such a series of years furnished ground,
S for political parties, are dead. The divis
n ions must soon be oycr-new topics ant
y new questions: who shall say what futuri
ty holds in its clasp for a party distin-
guici'ed throughout its whole life by prin
a ciple, by liberality, and by the creates
o intelligence? The nomination of Horati,
y Seymour meets with unqualified commen
g dation. lie is a man tried, true, and able
capable Of leading the '%'eailant youn
democracy to- success and TO the ne,
n %triumphs that await it. His views ar
$ broad; his morals unspotted; his intcllec
peerless, while his eloquence is strongl
enhancing. Frank p. Blair, the secon'
on the ticket, is q man of good parts
soldierly and fearless. a bitter hater O
It slavery and oppression when ther existed
full of earnest hope that our country ma,
soon secure under judicious Democrat
1t rule-liberty, progress and reform.
The voice Of Illinois was rc-cchoed il
the cheers that went up from an audienc
e of forty thousand, which filled cur street
the other night, and til. heartiness wit
$ which they shouted the names of the can
didates, was somewhat significant.
BUSINESS.
Business has been rather stagnated du1
ing the warm season, though it give
! tokens of rejurention. The commerci'
y y~astness of Chicago is something marve
Gus, considering that where the city no,
d sits, thirty years ago there was nought bt
marshes and Indians. 1t is colossal i
size and capacity, grand in its beauty (fc
N - hos oa,,,.N aud c,I,51o,,s 80 80 ,rS~l.I,
At the intersection of Washington an
d State streets, Potter Palmer, the mil!ior
W aire, has nearly finished a magnifcer
le white marble editicc of six stories. il is
complete illustration of the grandcst a
chitectural beauty and finish; when con
y pleted, Field, Letter & Palmer, dry-geot
ID jobbers will occupy it. Diagonally aero.
the street, a building, though less prefer
O. tious, of equal beauty, is being erected
* the habitation Of the First National Banl
to The Columns that stand like. yigilant sci
OF tinels at either side of the massive frol
a are pure marble of most exquisite polls
ar and design. OF course there are mar
o."eis SoinS UP IhdI any WHERE eise WoN
&c be "a nine days WONDER" but We, in vie
IN Of the splsndor Of those named, pa
or them ihdifercntly BY.
II: MINOR TOPICS.
On Just now there is a dearth in thcatric
at matters, though Chicago, unlike sist
ct cities, (yours for instance(, rarely clos
her n~ir7etic temples during tic sease
generally used for summer rerovd:ion.
Die The Black Crook and White Favr h,'