| the flag was to be raised. The Democrats of

-Laporteans reached the village between 1 and

in, and received and escorted to the tables |

‘presented t6 the audience by Mr. Joseph |
| Mack, President of the Grant and Colfax

| dinner was fully dispatched, the crowd moved
cheers of the-péople- and strains of music
hundreds mingling their shouts together, and |

the band playing the national air. The pole

‘of two shapely poplars strongly spliced—

band-and-glee club

Saturday lng was not favorable for out-
door gathering. From morn till eve it was.
darkly clouded, very chilly, with a raw. biting
wind. Nevertheless a ‘good erowd of Union- |
ists mustered in Laporte, and headed -by the
Brass Band, moved out with flying banners a
little after 11 a.m, Our liberal Republicans
furnished wagon transportation for the. Tan-
ners, who numbered in all about fifty. Sev-
eral buggies joined in the line of march. The

The Waterfordians and the brethren

Vieinity were waiting em masse to re-
ceive us, ‘at the School House, where the din- |
ner was being spread and arranged by as
fair and friendly-faced ladies as any Union:
eyes would wish to see. Here the procession
was formed, reaching almost to town, and}
making quite an imposing demonstration. It
moved north, to the intersection of the roads,
thence ‘fetched a compass’? round by the
residence of Dr. White, halting near where

the place (and they are said to be in large
majority) looked very much as did the Con-
federates when the Union cohorts poured into
Richmond—half surprised, hardly half resign-
ed, and more than half cregtfallen. In their |
faces you could read defeat. The Radicals |
were exultant. ‘'he vehicles fell out near
the crossing, and the Tanners fell
porteans, Sergeant Paul, taking 1 advance,
the Coolspring Boys (25. uniforms) Captain J
Harding, coming next, and a concouise of:
the citizens bringing up the rear. The line
of march was baek to the school House. |
Arriving there, the Tanners filed around, |
opened ranks, passed down the loaded tables, |
“faced inward,” and attacked the piled up
eatibles with such appetites as we have not
seen since we marched and starved with the
Sth Corps in East Tennessee. We never saw
finer havoc made of cold fowl, peach pies, but
ter and bread, cake and pickles. Ladies of Cool-
spring, the memory of the dinner will stay
with us as long as we haye a taste for good
eating. After refreshing, the companies fell

the newly arrived Michigan City Tanners.
The clubs cheered each. other lustily. After

to the pole-raising.” After some delay, the
flag-staff was lifted to the sky amid the

from the band. “At 3 o clock the superb ban- |
ner and streamer es given to the breeze,

is a mite over 100 feet above the ground, and

straight, tapering, beautiful pieces of timber.

After the raising, we all repaired to the
school house on one sid ereof a stand had
been erected for the speakers. When the
-enlivened “as by

. W. Catheart was

some capital music, Hon.

club. Owing to the lateness of the hour, Mr.
Cathcart did. not attempt uy discuss the i iggues

reas There
- words ot the
“seen a grander
press @ as Sis stood with his sil-
and undimmed fiery. eye, “See the

As the evening was
wearing rapidly. away (it was past 4 «’clock),
e would not. ask the Laporteans” to
pecially. as they would have to be on
parade at home soon after dark. We left the
Doctor opening a rousing speech.

~ oolspring is now a hot ‘spring of Union
enthusiasm. Be assured she will give a ila
poapintsai neta) é: next incon 2 yee: d