Demoine courier., 1854-08-24


features, and the towns already started
whore dams have been erected give evi.
dence Of a prosperous future. At b.
naparte may be found a wooden factory
with men and women busily engaged
doing good work. Their machinery is
very good, but they have Just begun. A
Touring mill, too, gives out lis cheerful
hum. Pennington is a pleasant town
25 miles from Keokuk. Here a fine
bridge spans the Demoine, leading the
way TO Keosauqua, the seat Of justice of
Van buren, county, also a flourishing
village. Blu. | nigh, fill columns and
yet not get 10 the end Of these flourish.
ing new towns, springing up as it were
by magic between night and morning.
Blu. The peorle-what Of the people!-
exclaim your readers. what are they?
Shall J say wha. | think! The people
are the strong, earnest, energetic. right
thinking and right feeling people Of the
land. ls founders must have been wis
er than most men, or they would no. in
the beginning have recognized all giog-
shops as nulsances. and have made the
vender of ardent spirits liable for his
own transgressions. They must have1
been more just than common men, or
they would not at frs! have secured the
property rights of the wife, and made
her The joint guardian with her husband 1
of her children. They must have BEEN
men more humane than common men, or
they would not have secured the home.
stead TO the family. These good laws
have led those of other States who wish
to be wise, just and humane, to become
The jewellers OF this fair land. Hence l
hesitate not to say that II ID the most NOR.
al and progressive. as well as The best
improved State OF It's age in all the coun.
Try. The people o. the Eas, may cease
to ,hink Of Iowa as "way out Vest
IL is but hat past n out here; not yet
fashionable dinner time; and The people
who last ear, or last week. or even day
before yesterday left New England, New
York, Pennsylvania or Ohio, with the
last Harper or Putin I'M in their pockes
the last tribune in their hand-,he
las, fashion on their heads and shoulders,
and The last reform in their hearts, are
very much The same people IN Iowa tina,
their n~eighbors found them al home-on-
ly that u new country, log cabins and
llltle depriva,ions calls out their laten.
power--cultivales the fallow grounds OF
heart and fee!ings--makes them more
free, more earnest, more charitable; in
fact, expands, enlarges, and fits them all
The better for life and its duties. Why
will people live pens up in cities, amid
the dus, and smoke and din, while .heres
is here so much of beauty, freshness and
utility unappropria,ed. ..There are mil
lions OF hands wanting acres aud millions
OF acres wanting hands," True, Iowa
may be said 10 be We, in it's log cabinage,
but what of that! Ten years ago the
farmers of Marion wen, sixty miles TO
mill. What now! Steam mills are a,
their very doors. Then, as my sister
said, for weeks | saw no face of m
Now, from my door, l coun, tie friendly
cheerful smoke Of twenty home fires
We ate and slep. in these cabins. There
vas peace, plenty and cheerfulness.
No. one d~esponding wifi, or mother
did We fnd--nos one willing TO GO back
anu live IN ,he old States. Look" they
would exclaim, al our corn-ou young
orchard, our cows are so fine, our chick.
ems are almost ~Shanghe's, our gardens
astonish Us; we can afford to I've cramp.
ed ourselves for houseroom when every
thing else expands so fast. We shatk
build in a year or two when we get our
plans laic. Fourth rate lawyers, doc-
tors and ministers will do well to remem.
Der tina, The people Of Iowa have moi yet
forgotten the sound Of the voices of the y
good and great they have lief. behind
Merchants need not take old goods to
Iowa. nor faded bellies fatter themselves
that las, years. fashions will answers
Anything won't do out west any more.
/ went, with other ladies', TO a political
meeting al Oska!oosa TO he ar the ~freesoil
wing nomlnee for governor talk to the
dear people. The men looked Just like
men elsewhere. only they were a little
more civil and g%enieel. and did moi make
quite so general a spi.loon OF the Cours
House; and | did not see one that leaned
towards drunkenness. though the house
was full. went to church; fine astrals
and polished walnut and crimson velye,
mace The pulpit look like home; ladies
ruslled rich brOcades or fliried in lawns
as natural as life. The only points of
difference that struck me was that their
bonnels, with afew exceptions, did not
hang so exactly upon nothing as al the
East; probably because there was less Of
nothing TO hang IN. Then, rosy cheeks
and sparkling eyes, tree. vigorous steps
were every day affairs. Altogether the
women were very healthy, and the chill.
dren. poor little vulgar ,hings-.aking
after their mothers, as children always
will--looked as though they had all the
air and sunshine they needed, and would
positively be SO Questionable az to live
mine lenshs Of lhem) through the secondf
summer; and be men and women despitsS
teething. chincups. mumps and measles.
Burlington and Keokuk are important
towns. but too well known and undsr4
stood in their infan, prosperity TO need
comment. 1t would require a chapter 10
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