New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-08-11

might s columns and yet not get b the end OF these
Gcurishing new towns, springns up as 1t were 9y
magic between night and morning.
Rnt the people-what Of the people i--exclaim your
readers. WHIST are they Shall say whaI thnk :
Tho peoIe are the strong earnest energetic, right
thinking and rshtfeng people OF the land. isioani,
r rrst have been wiser than most men, or they would
lot in the beginning have recognized all As
uuissncss sud have made the yendeF 81 aFaens spus
able for his own trsnsgressions. Inc! hilSt n's
teen more lust than common men, or tney Wou'a no'
Al first have secured the property rights ot the "e
ard made her the Joint guardian with her husband OF
her children. They must have been men more nuinine
than common men, OF they would NOS Nave secured tue
homestead to the family. These good laws have iei
these Of other States VINO wish Ia De wise, lut anu
humane 10 become the jewellers OF this lair lana:
Hence hesitate not to say that is the most moral
and progressive well the best improved State OF
It's age in all our country. The people OF the East
NAV cease TO think Of Iowa as way out West" IL
/. hut baE past out here; not yet fashionable dinner
time; and the people who last year or last week, or
even dsy before Yesterday left New Englan New
York PENNSYLVANIA Ohio, with the last Harper or
Putnam, in their pOcket-the last TRIBUNE in their
bspd-the last fashion their heads and shoulders,
sud the last reform their hearts are very much the
same people in Iowa that their neshooTs found them
Al home-only that new country log cabins aud little
call out all their latent pOwers-eutvates
the faow grounds of heart and teellngs-maAes them
more free more earnest, more charIaoe' Ia ac'' eA
pands enlarges and fits them all the better Tor lie ana
is duties Why will people live pent mp IN ces amid
the dust and smoke and din, while there IS mere so
much of beauty. freshness and utility Inappropriate
There are millions of hands wanting acres, ana mil
"lions of acres wanting hands" True, Iowa may he
said 10 be vet in its log cabinage but what oil tnaI
Ten wears ago the farmers of Marion went % miles 70
mill. What now Steam mills are at their very
doors. Then, as my sister said, for weeks saw no
face of woman. Now, from my door, | count the
friendly cheerful smoke of twenty home-res. We ate
and slept in these cabins. There was peace, plenty
and cheeriulness. -
Not one no not one de spending wife or mother did
We nd--not one willing to 60 back to Lce IN the old
States Look" they would excaim, "at our corn
our Young orchard are So hne, our chickens
are almost Shanghais our gardens astonlsh US; we
can afford to live cramPed ourselves for houseroom
when everything else expands so fast. We shali
build in year or two when we get our plans laid
Fourh-rate lawyers, doctors and minister's Will do
well to remember that the people OF Iowa have not YET
forgotten the sound of the voices of the good and great
they have LETT behind. Merchants need not take OLD
goods to Iowa nor faded bellies atter themselves thas
last years fashions will answer. Anything won't 90
ont West ary more went, with other ladies, to
political meeting at OscaoOsa 50 hear the Free-Sod
Whq nominee for Governor tak to the dear people Inc
men looked lust like men elsewhere only they were
little more civil and geneel and did not make 9ate
so general a spittoon Of the Court House; and did
not see one that leaned toward drunkenness, though
the house was full. went to church; fine as; rails
and polished walnut and crimson velvet made the pull
pits look ike homes ladies' rustled rich brocades or
nirted in lawns natural as life The only points OF
difference that struck me that their bcnnets, with
few exceptions, did not hang so exactly upon nothing
as at the East probably because there was less OF
nothing to hang on. Then, rosy cheeks and sparkling
eyes free vigorous steps, every day Affairs Al
together the women were shockingy healthy and the
children, poor little vulgar things-taking after their
mothers, as children always will-looked as though
they had had all the air and sunshine needed, and
would positively be Questionable as TO live (nne-
tenths of them) through the second summer, and be
men ard women despite teething, measles, mumps and
chin cough
Keokuk and Burlington important towns, but
too well known and understood in their infant pros
perity TO need comment. 1t would require chapter
to give them their due. | hope your reporter, who
was at Keokok while we were there, will do them
justice. 49,
TO sum up all, this is the most beautiful country
that have ever seem aud when the hand OF active n'
dustry and energy has the difficulties neces
sary dependant upon a new country, and art and
wealth have embeshed what nature has made SO
grand it will be the old man said, almost the gar
eden Of America" Yours, FRANCES d. GaGE.