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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1855-12-08

New Wholesale Dry goods House.
M. SeatOn 4 Sons.
KfLBOURNES BLOCK, MAIN STREET,
ID ESPDUTRULLf INFORM THE MERCHANTS
III Of Iowa, and the rest Of mankind, that they
now in receipt Of large and we'll selected stock o
Fsretgn and Domsssic Dry 0ooAs,
READI-MADE CLOTHING,
and full line Of Hosiery, Gloves, Mitts and
Notions, adapted to tue wants II country and city
trade, which have been purchased under the most
favorable circumstance, directly from first hands,
and will be sold at close figures 10 Cash prompt
city, We solicit call, hoping BY fair, honorable
dealings TO receive share of patronage.
keokuk. Sept Is, lS55.-dAw
Dry GosAs.
30 bales ~ muslin, prime,
100 pes satnets ass d, Is to Use. per yard;
so do KY. jeans do 20 to 40c., do do
1900 do prints, new styles;
20 do Colungo;
20 do Lyonese Cloths, and Alpaccas;
DeLaines, Black Silks, Coats Spool Thread war
ranted,) Stewards best Linen Thread, and general
assortment Of Yankee notions, just received by
sep22d&w b. A. WILLIAMS.
NEW GOODS AND GROCERIES.
TTNHE public will take notice that have received
L An immense stock Of Dry Goods, Boots and
Shoes, and Groceries, at my old stand on Main st,
near Fourth.
Families wanting groceries can have them put up
NJ Keokuk wholesale prices.
intend to give particular attention 10 the pro-
duce business, and expect that my long experience
in tina, line win enable TO give Satisfaction TO ali
customers. sep22 B. A. WILLIAMS.
NAsh paid for all country produce, al the old
~ stand Of sep22 b. A. WILLIAMS
"ANTED.- 5000 bushels Timothy Seed;
w 10000 do Flax Seed,
and all kinds Of grain and seeds, for which the high
ert cash prices will be paid by
sep22 b. A. WILLIAMS.
BOOTS and Sboes.--i7o cases Of boots and Shoes
- for men, women, boys, girls and infants, just
received by sep23dkw b. A. WILLIAMS.
Leather! Leather.
HAVING purchased the entire stock Of Pike. Tul
l. Ter Co, shall hereafter keep On hand god
assortment of Leather, Shoe -FndiI gs Beltngs Har
ness Leather, DC. All which will be sold low for
cash. Merchants from the interior requested to call
Cash paid for hides L. A. WILLIAMS.
noy2sdw
Union at the Nimole Slxpence.
g S. 4 d. c. BILLINGS have united their
~. stocks Of Dry Goods and Groceries, and may be
found ut the old stand Of 5. S. Billing, No. 81 Main
Street, Keokuk.
One Of the firm will spend bis time in the East
tor the purpose of watching the chances for buying
goods cheap, SO that they sell them lower than
ever. We have now hand over fifty thousand
dollars worth of goods, which will sell greatly
reduced prices. Please give a call.
S. s. ID. c. BILLINGS.
Aug III, lS55.-d6w
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Piano fer safe.
4 SPLENDID Seven Octave Piano, of BoardmAn
"A and Grays Manufacture, with the
DOLCE CAMPANA ATTACHMENT,
the finest instrument ever brought to keokuk-s
offered for sale Mt great discount.
No better bargain can be offered.
1t may be seen at o. c. Isbeu's Music Rooms
Call and examine before it is too late. noy29d
For sale.
GOUTH HALF of the north east quarter Of section
- Is in township 81, North Of Range 10 West, in
Appanoosc county, Iowa, we'll watered. Apply to
LLOYD ID. SIMPSON.
Over Post ONCE Kcokuk. oct. 10 diff
A COMPLETE assortment of Swiss and Book
IA Mouslins, Bishop Lawns, Carccnet Cambrics,
Linens Laces White Curtains, &C. for sale cheap at
Sept. !, 1855. J. D. MINCHELL / cos.
CABBAGE MANUFACTORY,
On johnson Street, between LIST and I'd.
DY OBRlAN co. Having permanently e.
ID tablished ourselves in keokuk, with ample
supply Of the very best material for the maaufac-
ture Of Carriages, Bugges, Gigs and Hacks, We are
prepared to make all articles in our line, in the
vsy best style and Of the choicest material res
sonahls terms and prompt notice.
6spt ~, lS66-dly
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STOVES
Timers Stock.

5000 ~. oval and round Copper Bottoms from 70
10 inches.
1000 bdis. Sheet Iron from No. l6 to 81
1000 packages Plymouth Ryets, iron and tin'd,
from S Oh. to IL lbs
400 boxes Tin plate.
zoo bundles Iron wire from No. to No. Is.
80 gross Tea kettle breasts and covers from 81 y
ia ncnes.
so gross Pressed tin bottoms from 9 to inch.
40 DO do scoiloped and piain dinner plates
so do Stove ornaments assorted.
20 d. Oval Tea pot Breast and Covers.
1855 do Assorted tin'd ears.
go do Iron tea kettle
Is do do do burs.
100 do Pressed tin pot
40 do of No p and peuter knobs.
100 feet Brass Wiz. Clota;
Bent ,,outs, assorted sises
Perforated tin N sheets;
Copper kiyeis and Barsi
Bucket Handles;
Maliets expressly for tinners
Stove Backing in papers or by the keg.
C0MoTOCk 4 BROTHERS. =
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yEN, NE Bears Oil, White Stick Pomad9, ja,t
~ received and fer sale cheap by
hoVit MOORE HOOPER.
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BEEF CArrLE-We noticed two lots of Beef Cat tie
nj the Scales yesterday. One lot sold by Mr. Mccoy
TO Heiner Heaight for q IS per hundred gross
The other lot q head of the finest cattle have
seen this season, were obtained in Illinois BY Mr.
Cove, and sold to Chapman and other butchers at
a Is Der hundred gross weight.
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MOORE HoopEk'o Giyeeum ointm M . ia
~ hsh'fni article for ehapped hands lips. DC NJ
MOORE iouPEH'S on Main
"o'i' near Third street
] ~. ~ received, supply Of Winter STRAINED Lard
- Oh, superior article.
now Mo0RE HOOPER.
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DLATFORM Scales. from 700'bs and upwards,
Fairbank : pattern, with and without levers, IL
sale by S. w. 4 III. TUCKER.
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a HOUSE and Lot stuared on Johnston stSsst,
"A between 4th and 9Th; Lot ., in Block -, street
NcAdamised and paved. Good title snaierns soay.
Appiyto kkBcCcA WAxtS.
q The prenisss. nss9<0w
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CORN AND COB-MEAL FOR FATTEN-
ING HOGS. o ~

MEssas. BATEHAM d HAREls;-A Mr..
Dole, living near the Illinois Central R..
R., has fattened large sock ofhOgs, the
past season, and fed them with corn and
cob crushed, and quite coarsely, his
mill being of an inferior kind. His
method was t, grind and fill a tight wsg-
on bed, and let it soak for some 10 hours;
then, having his lroughs in line, and
so arranged that he could drive his
horses or oxen astride of them, and
while the driver passed on, he went be-
hind and drew a slide from the bottom
of the wagon bed, and thus filed his
troughs, and in that manner could feed
large stock in FIVE minutes His hogs ate
all the corn and cob meal, and fattened
upon less quantity ofcorn than he had
ever before used to the same amount of
pork, and his pork was pronounced of
superior quality in the market.
Many farmers have told me, during
the past season, that where they had a
small stock, it would do to make complete
arrangements for them; but where they
had several hundred, they could not af-
ford it. Singular philosophy, indeed! In
all manufacturing operations, the more
extensive the business the more complete
the arrangement, and consequently
more profitable the result Yours very
huly, IA. HEDGES
Gr,,cj,,noti FEB I055. fg
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precious promises, and tender assurances
of Christ's love TO his followers. And
often BY his direction marked with pen
Gil the most consoling of these passages
for frequent reading and the old Bible TO
this day bears the evidences of a child's
handling and marking, not only at this
chapter, but throughout the book. And
what look of pleasure would illumine
his couutenance as l read those dear
words of Christ, such as, "In my Fathers
house are many mansions, ,"-I am about
10 leave you, but 81 will come again and
receive yon unto my self, that where !
am there ye may be also. o."-"And what.
soever We ask in my name, that | will
do."-''l will pray the Father that He
will give you another Comforter. I'D
will not leave you comfortless, will
come TO you." These, and such as these,
were dear words to that brother, and he
rested upon them as confdingly as babe
rests in the arms Of mother, and prayed
that Christ would soon "receive him to
HIMSELF The reading of these Scrip
lures, and the confidence thus bestowed
upon them, made deep, very deep i'm
preston on my young heart, and now,
after years of orphanage, and wandering
and sin, the reading Of them by this
mother 10 her dying son affected me ex-
ceedingly. 1t seemed to drive away the
shadow that iniervened between the pres
ent and the past, letting the sunshine once
more upon my beclouded heart, and again
in imagination, sat by the side of my
dear brother, reading to him from Eihe
Bible, and weeping in sympathetic joy
at the pleasure which the words gave
him. / would not have the mem1ry OF
that scene obliterated for a world, for
when my young friend is gone to the
''city of the Dead" with this memory
bright in my pathway of the past, and his
spirit like another star, beckoning from
above, how can miss the way? These
lights will ever guide me. ].
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me into one of the least pretending streets
in New York. This house is as unrrr-
tending as the street. Mr.. Spicer lives
here. Let us enter Mrs. Spicer and
fImily of Children from 10 years and un-
der, compose the household. 1t is said
to Ls singular family. Mr.. SPicer is a
singular man. No one ever sees him.
The butcher, the mikman, the landlord,
don't know him. Mrs. Spicer does all
the business. Mr.. Spicer comes in late;
he goes away cary in the morning. He
is business man; he has SO much bust
ness that he is never seen in his family.
Remain there day aud night, and you will
never see Mr.. spicer. The daughters
become young laies. They are all edu-
Gated. They 90 out into society, but no
one knows their father. Mr.. Spicer's
name is not in the business directori.
So have this family lived for tweuty years
in The heart of New. York; At length the
elder Miss Spicer is engaged 10 a most
worthy man. 1t is needful 10 gain the
consent of Mr.. Spicer, that the marriage
may take place. A time is appointed
and the expectant son.in-law is placed
face to face with Mr.. Spicer. He is told
bv the father himself that his name is not
Spicer, but is Mr.. Schuyler; that the
mother of his daughter is not wife; but
if the daughter is taken in marriage the
mother shall be welded. The double ac,
is consumaied; the veil is removed; New
York is agiiated for a moment by the dis.
closures; an elegant house is taken on
Twenty. .seconD street, and the family is
launched on the wave of fashionable life.
All the world knows the sequel With
so rotten foundation, how could the su-
Dersiructure stand?
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From the Mahoning Free Democrat
MEMORY RENEWED.

1t was my privilege few nights since
TO watch by the bedside Of triend-one
whaSe- hours on earth are almost mum.
bered. Pulmonary consumption, that be-
guiling yet hopeless disease, had rapidly
reduced him from an ambitious and PROM
ising youth to an emaciated and death
waiting invalid. The grim monster had
already marked the countenance OF his
victim with that peculiar expression which
belongs to the dead, and which makes the
Journey to the "long home" mere grad
uaI transition. Tne sunken cheek and
temple, the open mouth and fallen chin,
the quick and labored breathing, the pal
lid brow and features, occasionally flushed
by excitement, all told of dissolution
The eve alone was undimmed, and un-
change1 except by its seeming enlarge
ment, as if to give the soul, through It's
windows, clear view Of approaching
death. Calmly was this approach await
ed: it was neither desired nor dreaded.
A lowering angel was by his bedside
loving mother, that natural nurse, was
there 10 ease the pains of last illness
by gentle words aud tender deeds. Oh
the look of affection with which she viewed
her diving son, and how readily the waters
of grief found vent as she remembered
that she reformed the same labors OF
kindness in the same room, and upon the
same couch, for husband and father,
who years ago had died of the same dis
ease. As | saw this exhibition OF ma
ternal love and grief, prayer did 60 up
that such a hand and such love might
give me support upon dying bed, The
PRAYER was fairly uttered ere | remem-
bered that no maternal voice could ever
apain saw to me "farewell, that at the
early age of ten | followed mother TO
her grave. =,
But to return to my sick friend. 1t
was evening-Slbbath evening-and this
pious mother prepared the retiring family
for their rest by evening worship. She
opened the Bible, AMI read the 18th chap
ter of Johns GOspel-one of the very
best in all the good book, commencing
"Let not your hearts be troubled" Rea-
der, were you ever reminded by some
casual incident like this, OF some tender
recollection almost forgotten?-of some
spot of sunshine on your path in the far
distant past, which shadows and distance
had almost hidden from the view +. Thus
was | reminded, and il came upon me
like a fash of light into long darkened
room. Not because had not often read
this same portion Of Scripture, but that
its present reading was 50 similar to one
of long ago.
When was a mere boy it was made
nv duty 10 watch, day after day, by the
bedside Of dear brother, who has long
since gone to his rest, and who was hopa-
less invalid for very many weary years.
He was pious, good brother, and every
day il was my privilege to read to him
from the Bible in low, whisper, for he
could not endure loud reading or conver-
sation) And oh! how often l have whis-
pered to him the 25 chapter Of Johnl
Itwas fayorite chsp'cr, lccause Of IL
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abandoned the animal, and stripping off
his clothes tied them around his neck
Leaping from fallen tree TO fall, n tree,
swinging himself from branch to branch
scramblng in mud and water oftentimes
up to his shoulders, he, after several
hours succeeded in making his way
through.
Col. Totten, the Engineer, received
"all honors' as the man, with Center and
the engineers, who accomplished the
great work, amid difficulties almost in
surmountable. A writer says:
We were much amused on our arrival
at the station at Panama, in Witnessing
the embarkation of the passengers for
California. The steamer is obliged to
anchor about two miles from high water
mark, and the passengers and their bag
gage are carried to the ship in small
boats. They are generally carried on
the backs OF negroes from the beach TO
the boats, and you can well imagine what
an amusing scene it is 10 spectator, es-
pecialIy when larger wave than usual
comes rolling in and dashes on some
po1r unfortunates. The negroes are
hurrying hither and tLither, jabbering
every language under the sun-all anx-
ious to secure a dime. But, with all
their eagerness, they are unwilling tc
overwork themselves, as one poor fellow
of our party found to his dismay and
amusement. He escorted to the beach,
with all sallantry, a finale friend, whose
weight was not far from 200 and on ar
irving near the boat, he overheard ne
gro exc aim, in bld Sp 'nish, that no one
man could carry such a lold as that
and then to re obliged TO explain to NJ:
ir end that she would be Obliged to en-
plov the shoulders of two negroes, in or
der;o get safely on the boat!
The party returned TO Aspinwali OF
the 17ih, and sailed the next day 70
New York, where they arrived on th'
1St
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HICKORY NUT OIL.

1t is a fact not generally known, that
oil manufactured from Hickory Nuts, is
equal if not superior to the best lard or
sperm oil for burning and for machinery.
Mr.. Eastabrook has manufactured oil
from hickory nuts in small quantities for
several years past. The nuts are crushed
under the tempering stones like faxseed,
and the oil pressed out in the same way.
The cake of nut shells is used for fuel,
and a cord Of it is said TO 90 further than
a cord of the best hickory wood. The
nut oil remains in faid state at very
low temperature, and il does not gum
like the ordinary qualities of oil. 1t is
used in very delicate machinery, and
when properly refined eoull be used by
watchmakers. The pignut is preferred
in the manufacture, on account of its
thin she'll, and greater abundance of the
oily material.
Mr.. Eastabrook believes that oil man.
ufactured from the ordinary shellbark and
large sweet hickorynut, would co ne into
general use for the table. We have
heard of some Individuals who prefer the
oil manufactured from the Pignut to The
best ''clive" for their salad. MIR. L.
pays fifty cents bushel for the thin
sheIlcd nuts, and we suppose would buy
the thick she'll at lower price Dayton
<.es-s
Journal.
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fm tbt farmu.
WHAT is THE BEST GARDEN PEA 2
HOW DEEP SHOULD THEY
BE PLANTED

The questions here asked, are of consider
able importance at this time. The writer
made experiments, some two years since,
towardSthe solution of the first question,
but unfortunately has mislaid his notes of
the result. His memory. however, is
this, that sEarly Kent, "''Prince Albert"
and "Hill's Early, "came to bearing at
the same time, "Pince albert and
"Early Kent had the largest pods, and
are therefore most desirable for market
purposes. The "Hill's Early" is most
productive. 'Early Washington"
proved few days earlier, productive, but
pods small. ''Cedo-MulIi," if true, is
very early and very productive. I have
never had them true but once. Fair
boards Surprise" and ''Essex Champion"
are now quite new; and so Of many others
catalogues now enumerating some six
ty different sorts. "Blue imperial comes
later than those named above, and isvery
productive, and very sweet Pea. The
Tall Marrowfats, ~ for richness, eontin-
ued to hold their good reputation, although
"Champion of England proved a bold
competitor, and most productive Pea,
with large, full pods, and when cooked,
not excelled iu richness. li
About the depth which Peas should be
planted: upon this point, experiments
have shown that one footdeep, is thebest the
time of coming up varies. from those sown
three inches deep, only forty-eight hours,
while the producing season is continued
two weeks longer, owing to the fact that
the roots are kept cool-a necessary con-
sequence to successful Pea growing.
Planted at one foot deep, they do not
require earthing up, as is the case with
those planted in the ordinary manner.
Thus a considerable amount of labor is
saved. In very heavy soils, and those rat
uarlly inclined to be wet, eight inches
deep may, perhaps, be most advisable, as
the soil where the experiments were
made, was a clay loan, but well drained.
QUERcUs. Ohio FaInaer.
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Gboite Mlistellanp,
THE VACANT CHAIR.

You have all heard of the Chevolt
Mountains. If you have not, they are
a rough, rugged, majestic chain OF hills
which the ! oct might term the Roman
wall of nature; crowned with snow, bel
ted with storms, surrounded by pastures
and fruitful fields, and still dividing the
northern portion of Great Britain, from
the southern. With their proud sum-
mits piercing the clouds, and their dark
rocky declivrties frowning upon the glens
below. they appear symbOlical of the
wild and untameable spirits of the Bor-
derers who once inhabited their sides.-
We say you have all heard of the Che
volts, and know them to be very high
hills, like huge clasp riveting England
and Scotland together, but we are not
aware that you have heard of Marchlaw,
an old grey looking farm house, substan-
tial as a modern fortress, recently--and
for aught we know to the contrary, is
sill--inhabited by Peter Elliott, The pro-
prietor of some five hundred surrounding
acres. The boundaries of Peters farm,
indeed, were defined neither by fields,
hedges, nor stone walls. A wooden
stake here, and stone there, at con-
.Ill- l:.,o-ao E.o,,, aocl ofber rr-ara
the general landmarks; but neither Peter
nor his neighbors considered few acres
of land worth quarrelling about; and
their sheep frequently visited each Others
pastures in friendly way, harmoniOusly
sharing a family dinner, in the same
spirit as their masters made themselvc:
free at each others tables.
Peter was placed in very unpleasant
circumstances, owing to the situation o.
Marchlaw House, which, unfortunately
was built Immediately across the "idea
line," dividing the two kingdoms; and
his misfortune was, that being born up
on it, he knew not whether he was an
Englishman, or Scotchman. He could
trace his ancestral line no farther back
than his great grandfather, WHO, it ap.
peared from the family Bible, had, to.
gether with his grandfather and father,
claimed Marchlaw as his birth place
They, however, were not involved in the
same perplexities their descendant
The parlor was distinctly acknowledged
10 be in Scotland, and two thirds of the
kitchen were as certainly allowed to bt
in England; his three ancestors were bOrr
in the room over the parlor, and there
fore were Scotchmen beyond question
but Peter, unuckily being brought int,
the world before the death Of his grand
father, his parents occupied room i'm
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For the Chronicle
CHERISHED MEMENT0Es.

All, well love to gaze on them when
all alone; for they take me far back into
the dreamy past and wake all the music
of memory there. When shadows deep
en- around my pathway, when affections
nurtured in the heart aud fondly cherished
prove traitors, when | am weary of life
and the world | turn TO them and they
bring 10 remembrance many things that
were, but have passed away with the ar
dent anticipations of earlier youth. They
take me back in dreams 10 innocent
laughing childhood, when not cloud of
sorrow or distrust had thrown a shadow
on life's sunny way. They bring to my
ianguid heart those 1 remember to have
loved when the morning of life was young.
Let me see-I have pale faded flower.
It's name is Forget.me-not. Its recalls
the time when a fearless child | roved
with Lillian along the wildwood walks,
seeking its beautiful blossoms and twining
them in her hair. Lily has gone now
where they never say forget me not -
so I'll not talk of her now-not now.
And l have a dark curl of hair, very
glossy and beautiful, which is dearer to
me than all the rest. Once it shaded a
fair brow, and clustered around the snowy
neck of happy gladsome child: but an
gels loved her, and you will not chide
me for cherishing it, if 1 tell you it was
worn by a sister!
Far down in an humble corner of my
depository is plain white card on which
is traced in delicate lines the words "when
shall we meet again" might answer
the question now, and say " never until
| life's filful fever is over, and enter inIo
the Joys OF life eternal" Here are some
old worn papers. What may these be p!
Whispering papers surely, and PeePing
up through the pencil marks are family
visible a few names and disconnected SEN
tences. There are names l had almost
forgotten - not quite - Estella, Harry,
yes, l remember them.
Well love to read even whispering
paper, for it takes me back TO earlier
school days, and awakens in the heart
many pleasant recOllections.
Oh! yes-these cherished memen-
toes" ever cause a sunbeam to light the
soul when they bring to remembrance
happy hours that have fled. EMMA.
BsAcEvILLE, March 2.