The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1855-12-13


S'pose we haint got no real spunk?
Yours respectfully, his
Many Voters. X
mark.
Finally a meeting was called. II consisted
of some 200 persons. Mr.. HAYDEN was in
vited TO be, and was present. He addressed
the meeting calmly and boldly. He reitera-
ted his views, but denied that he wished to
make himself ofhcious. A committee re-
ported series Of resolutions, exculpating
him from any overt act, and recommending
no action. The committee was sent back.
and reported that as Mr.. Hayden was avow-
eddy ''higher- laws man, he should be re-
quested to leave the county in seven days.
He did so, of course, and so furnished anoth-
err illustration of the beauties of Slavery
Albany Eve. Jour.
Hail Columbia happy land
SOUTHERN SENTIMENT. - \ gentleman in
kenton Co., Kentucky, writes to the n Y.
Tribune rs follows:
''Still, south of Mason and Dixon's line.
there are more warm admirers Of William III.
Seward than of Stephen A. Douglas. And
IN reality the rights of the South, doubt
not, would be safer in the hands Of that
faithful champion of Liberty, than in the
hands OF this time-server who has bid so
largely for popularity in the South"
"The absence of backbone so frequently
exhibited at the North, excites repeated re-
grets from large portion of the people Of
the South"
"When will the North learn that the great
heart of the South loathes political dema-
gogues whs assume to be leaders in slavery
propagandism? And though from their pc
culiar position the people Of the South NAV
apparently assent by their silence to the III
ira pro-slavery sentiments put forward in
their behalf, they cannot cease from " on
dering why the people of the North, not in
their position, do not speak out nobly and
unanimously for Freedom"
BUTTER AND CHEEsE.-The great scarcity
of Butter and Cheese, the former especially.
not only in our own State, but in our west
ern and eastern cities, is an indication that
our farmers do not give sufficient attention
to those things, which they may consider TOO
triflng, when compared to our great grain
crops. Prominent among those neglected
are butter and cheese. Beyond every thing
else, the wealth of Iowa lies in her capacity
for feeding and raising stock of all kinds
II IS emphatically grazing State, and every
product contingent upon this fact or feature.
should receive the first attention of her ng-
riculturists. AT least one half the grain we
produce has TO seek a market out of the State
Tor want of consumers at home, whilst at
least one half of the butter, and perhaps
live times the quantity of cheese, more than
IS made at home, would find a ready and
profitable market almost at your own door.
And suppose there was produced at home
ten times the quantity needed here, are they
not more profitable articles for export than
any kind OF grain which can be produced
Let US see. The cost Of taking bushel Of
wheat to New York from any part of Iowa.
not more remote than fftv miles from the
Mississippi river, is not less than IS cents.
or three -fourths OF the price for which it
Will sell at the nearest market town, suppos-
ing the price paid then to be one dollar per
bushel. The cost of making pounds of
butter and pounds of cheese. which can be
sold at the next country store for one dollar.
Is not one half the cost of producing one
bushel of wheat. The butter and cheese can
be taken to New York for Is cents. or 81 cts.
less than one dollars worth of wheat. The
difference IN time is much greater against it's
conveyance to an eastern market. Again,
Tor the best qualities Of these articles there
IS never failing market at home, at the
highest prices, whereas for grain the prices
are fuctuating.
we are OF opinion that the dairy offers to
the farmer OF lows never failing source of
wealth, and were we possessed Of the means
we would rather invest them in that channel,
than any other branch Of husbandrv. Iowa
Farmer
NEW YORK PoLITIcs.-The last curiosity in
that line is John Van Buren's letter, publish
ed IN the Albany Argus, in which the Prince
announces his desire to have nothing to do
with the National Convention to be held at
he means to retire from til q
field. but gives notice Of an earned neutrali-
ty." He will wait the action of the Cincin-
matt Convention, but says, if anything should
be done there ''from which plausible infer
ence can be drawn by any gentleman, that the
portion OF the Democrats of New York. with
whom it has always been my pride and pleas
ure to act, is subjected to reproach. | shall
oppose and use all proper exertions to defeat
the measures of the Conventions
The Administration has not vet got rid of
John Van Buren,. Should it offend him by
ITS action at Ciucinneti, John has the power,
as parties are now constituted in New York,
70 defeat it's candidates, and he will do it.
| o. 5. Jour.
- Somebody asked Baron Rothschild to
take ycnison.
No. said the Baron, 81 never eat yeni-
son; don't think that is SO good as NUT
ton"
on" says the Baron's friend, g wonder
al your saying so; if mutton is so much bet
Ter than venlson, why does yenison cost 50
much more?,
II VIII tell you WIN this world the peo-
ple always prefer vat ish deer to what is
sh eep."
The total valuation of real personal prop