Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1853-07-20


road from Lyons to Council Bluffs will not be
half as much as the building Of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad from Cumberland to Wheel.
ing. the distance being on one third as far.
Ipredct the day is not far distant when car
leaving the utmost part Of our eastern borders
on the Atlantic will 60 to the extreme west
Of our country where the gentle waters OF the
Pacific wash the glittering banks Of far off Cal
| ifornia.
And what is the cause of these great i'm.
provements ,iook yonder and the fact will stare
you full in the face. The Star Span yed Ban
ner, the emblem of our faith, the palladium
Of our rights, in war as well as peace we have
prospered under its influence to an extent that
has surpassed the widest dreams of those
who advocated most ardently its adoption. 1t
was given BY the hands Of the Continental
Congress Ito the father Of his country Wash.
ington, wlrpcarried it trlumphantly through
our Revolutionary struggle and obtained for
Us that 1ibSgty which we now enjoy-handed
from him q that old hero Andrew Jackson
who retainer its honor and dignity at New
Orleans ana added many wreaths to his vene.
rable brow Transferred from him to Zachary
| Taylor WIN with equal success bore it amid
| Tie thun41{ng Of cannon. gloriously through
the bae(1osyo "a Pala Alto, Resaca de la Palma
land ICED himself on the bloody
groundsOf hens Vista, Presented by him to
Major Ger: jA6e!d Scott who planted it in
the very AS{lS:6f M ontez1inl ln Mexico, and
here on the 77fh Of our countrys history are
we found celebrating its existence.
After Mr. B. concluded, the audience were in.
vited TO par,ake of sumptuous dinner pre-.
pared by the fair ladies of Clinton. may they
long live to cater for the sons and daughters Of
! the great vest Dinner being over the toasts
were then read amid the most enthusiastic and
undivided acclamatons Of the bys.anders who
participated IN the festivity with the greatest
possible decorum and evinced that sense Of
duty Unprecedented in the annals Of Iowa elicit
ing as it d the significance of some OF our
illinois men who appreciated the proceedings
, n the language Of the poet
Fortasse ct haze dim memnisse juvabit.
, TOASTS.
S. Coy, offered the following. The signers
of the Declaration Of Independence: May the
memory of their deeds be perpetuated in the
minds and hearts of the American people unit
univers sal peace shall reign throughout The
!, Earth aud until time shall be no more.
G. W. Stumbaugh. The orator of the day.
, J. P. hurry. America as she is,
Great glorious and free
Fir't flower of the ocean,
: And gem of the sea.
A. G. Taylor. The mothers of the Revolu
ton and thei. fair descend ants now present
1 While rejecting upon the virtues of the former
} and gazing upon the beauties of the latter
yankee hearts are irresistably filled "chocl
full of 4h of July's"
j. J Mathews The Hawk Eye: Character
lied by the most indomtable energy aud per
severance. he invariably accomplishes wha
he undertakes. Give him fair chance at an,
thing, and we defy the world to compete Will
him successfully.
, J. Z. Davidson. The Lyons Iowa Centra
f Ra lroad May all assembled soon see the day
, when it viii become part of the main trunk o
4 the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad land the grea
thoroughfare for the commerce of the world
yielding to iss energetic projectors rich dvi
: dends. and to the farmers of. Ciinton increased
lsafilitiesuof exports. making their harvest
\ a. 70 bis military glory: But H.
J Adams h Co will cross the father of water,
to promote their countrys prosperity.
Thos. Grew. Adams & Co. The Pioneer.
Of Iowa Railroads; may their success be equa
to their untiring energy.
! NJ B. Crew. The Narrows of the Mississip
pi river at Lyons and Fulton City Long ,un
unknown and unnotced by the enterprising
yankee. has at last been found to be the mos,
prominent point, in the connecting link of the
two great Oceans.
Thomas Grew. William G. Haun, the wor
thy Vice President of the L, ons Iowa Cen
trail Railroad to whose indefatigible exer,ions
we owe the success of this enterprise
4 Here Mr. Haun came forward and responded
in few pertinent remarks commenting upor
the prospects of the early completion of tn,
n Lyons Iowa Central Railroad and retired amid
vociferous cheers.
\ INDIAN OurRAGEs-The Winneb agoes ar,
committing alarming outrages in this vicinity
1t is we'll known large number of them hav,
left their home on the Upper Mississippi, ant
been proving about Elk river and the country
intervening between that stream and this vii
Iage. On the l4th inst, one of them while un
der the influence Of liquor. attacked Mr.. Der
ny with an axe, inficting severe and danger
Gus wounds on his arm and head few day
since, one Of the band while drunk, discharg
ed his gun twice. at or in the direction Of Mrs
Leonard, wife Of G. E. Leonard, Esq, o
Cold Spring. They also shot COW belonging
to Mr.. Leonard Several other similar outrage
committed by this tribe of Indians have com.
to our knowledge. heavy responsibility,
rests somewhere, in allowing the commission
of these crimes week after week; but we forbea
comment until We are in possession of certai;
facts which vii! set this matter right befor
tbs public MINI.
uThe N. Y. Times says of the Excise Com
miss toner's Of the Nineteenth ward now actin,
upon the spplcAtions for licenses to sell iiquo
in the immediate vicinity of the Cry stall Palace
thus:
ANY one Who will visit the neighborhoo
Of the Crystal Pslace. will be struck by the ea
tensiye preparaiions which have been mad
he sale ofiiquor Being without the fiji
Nly(ls. the restrictions of the law forbidden
the erection of wooden buildings are there