The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-03-20


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AN ExcURsIoN.--If any body feels an in
clination to break up for few hours the
monotonous round of town life, to have al
his ideas, feelings, sensibilites thrown into
violent confusion and left TO reform and
crystalize anew, just let him follow our
tracks around the lower point of the city,
and up by way of Buena Vista along the line
Of the Fort Des Moines Railroad as far out
ms the spade has yet oloven the earth, and,
our word for it, if he does it within few
days, his desire will be amply satisfied
the railroad and see with our own eyes It's
actual present condition, on Tuesday we got
into the buggy Of friend Rice and performed
the trip. And such mixture Of mud and
sunshine, fresh spirits, yexatious shakings,
and bodily and mental confusion generally,
till we felt provoked into both mirth and
madness, we have not often experienced
The sun was bright and the earth firm NJ
trip was on our hands but we unlearned our
faith, and literally through ''the highways,
the hedges and the ditches,' through pools
of water that the frozen earth wouldn't
swallow up, through sloughs Of mud, 'yel-
low glorious, golden,' green, gray, black
and abomjnable, we waded, struggled, jog
gled about till we accomplished the task we
undertook. At noon we found ourselves as
far on our journey as the upper railroad vii
lage of Captain Black, and, good gracious
we ate such dinner as only hungry man
could eat, looked over the work in that vicini
*, and shot By the shortest cut for the plank
road. Arrived in town mt last, but couldn't
tell exactly who or where we were, and had
no definite thoughts, opinions, calculations,
Or designs Of any character in oar head
We are beginning to find ourselves now, and
the old individual seems likely soon to be re-
set, shaken up, infused with new spirits, a
little more fresh and elastic than before we
undertook the journey.
To return to the road We found il
much nearer completion than we anticipated.
There are only small gaps left occasionally
between here and the head Of the works.
Six weeks might, and very likely will, see the
whole closed up and finished for the ties
The tie contractors are preparing for their
work, and as soon as the IRON "a locomo-
tives arrive, (they are due in May,) they vii
commence laying down the track and vii
speedily send the am-horse twelve or ff.
teen miles into the country, over somewhat
smoother road than we travelled
Know NOTHING STATE CONVENTION Some
Of our Locofoco exchanges seem disposed to
magnify the importance of the action of the
recent American State Convention. That
Convention, however, was in truth a very
small affair, and did not embrace corpo-
RAILS guard of the original members of the
Order. Only fifteen Councils were repre-
sented out of two hundred, and few Loco
focos and old line Wings managed to secure
majority of the delegation from those If
teen Councils to endorse Fillmore's nomina-
ton and nominate Presidential Electors
The movement was entirely unexpected TO
the great body of the Order throughout the
State, and will receive no countenance from
them.
1t is distinctly understood that the Know
Nothing Organization is not in the ring at
the ensuing election, as distinctive BODY.
Farm AND WoRks.-We never heard
more felicitous illustration than this Of Sell
den's Twas an unhappy division, said he,
that has been made between faith and works.
Though in my intellect | may divide them
lst as in the candle know there is both
both light and heat, but yet put out the can
dle and they are both gone: one remains not
without the other; 50 It's betwixt faith and
works.
TnE LoNpoS QUARTERLY for January has
just come II hand. The table. Of contents
Is quite nylting but as vet we have not had
time to examine the contents themselves. ~
This Review, together with the Edinburgh,
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