The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-12-31

ccmber, in the city Of Cork, in the 9th year
of his age.
Impressed in early life with the dreadful
evils resulting to the poor from the prevail
ing intemperance smongst them, he devoted
his energies to stay the tide which was
sweeping the people of his native land to
destruction. His labors were blessed with
abundant success at home, and their inHa-
ence reached our shores and prepared the
way for the triumphal ovation with which he
was received and attended throughout his
tour in this country.
He died poor, and thereby evinced to all
the world the sincerity and disinteressed
philanthropy Of his labors and sacrifices for
the promotion Of the welfare Of his fellow
men.
c. The Times says Ed. Johnston did not
attend either the County or State Conven-
ton, when DIR. Eads received the nomina-
ton.
Whew! What Of that! Every whipper-
snapper Of the party in the county runs
when Johnston whistles, minds his beck and
obeys his nod. The Court house clique
sneeze when he takes snuff, and the concus-
sion shakes the Locofocos Of old Lee and
agitates the Democracy to the utmost limits
Of the State. What use for his personal
presence, when scores of his active tools
were on hand to carry out his plans.
Cinctnuan Forty flour Years Age.
We publish the following extract from .
Lecture recently delivered before the Mer-
camille Library Association Of Cincinnati,
by Gen. Leslie Combs, as an interesting REM
iniscence Of life in the then far West.
Speaking after the manner of q celebrated
Novelist, said General Combs
Upon blustry evening, in the year 1912,
q solitary traveller, might have been seen
vending his way down the valley Of the
Licking river. tLaughter.) In his holsters
were q pair Of pistols Of the old fashioned
kind with holes big enough for you to put
your fist in them, and BY his side an old
sword that had been used in killing Hessinns.
his long tailed, bsld-face, sorrsl horse some
tiiuSs oud bVmGtt0c8 tTONtlUY, &C
cording to tn, circumstances Of the case.
Cheers and Laughter.)
Thus he came to Cincinnati, then little
muddy town of 1000 inhabitants, in the year
lst2. Cevington, that now almost emuiates
Phiiadslphia, was then an Indifferent corn
field, with single log house that had stone
chimney at one end aud cat and CLAY one
NJ the other, that was on fire hslf the time:
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some OF the windows and glass in others.
The merchants Of Cincinnati, then went to
Lexington TO lay in their stock Of goods for
retailing, aud when the Lexington merchants
started to Philadelphia, they packed their
silver on horse back and made their Wills for
fear they should never return.
The whole frontier (from Cincinnati, North
and Vest was then filled with Indians.-
Tecumseh and other formidable chiefs that
We now read Of in history, we're born in
Ohio. There was not then civilized inhab-
liant from Lake Erie to the Mississippi river.
Hull had surrendered Detroit. Fort Meigs
had been burnt, its site was marked only by
few standing chimnies, and the whole coun-
try was full OF hostile savages.
| Look at me said the speaker) with nv own
i black hair--no wiz. no dye--so fashionable
now -a-days--with my own teeth very 6rm,
stll upright before God and imam, have
seen all these changes. Forty-four year,
ago oil your merchandise was brought down
/ the Ohio river in broad horn boats. There
were then no steamboats,, no railroads, and
not turnpike road west Of the ALLEGHENY
mountains. A short turnpike road from
Philadelphia towards Lancaster was the only
! solitary one then in America. Goods we're
not even cnrted over the mountains, but car
ried on pack-horses across the Alayhauies
to Pittsburgh. What changes have taken
place in forty-four years! How MANY OF
you, my hearers OF the Young Mems Mcrcan.
tile Library Association, are forty -four year,
old? Not many, think, and Of the ladie,
present ann sure not one. (Laughter.)
remember, said he, when my elder broth
er started to go as common hand on dai
boat to New Orleans. Father, mother, snc
all the family assembled on the bank of this
Ohio to see him start, and shed bitter tear,
at parting, sorrowing lest they might see hi
face no more.
Calico was then Fifty cents yard, and fou,
yards was considered . pattern for dres!
for small lady, and SIX yards for . larg,
one. man had TO be particular then no
to marry too large woman, for fcv i
would break him up, but row the ladiel
dress in all the gorgcousnessW military e.
aggeration. Why it takes me Eve minutes 4
walk around my wife, Daughter and cheers
and she's perfect model Of the human form
-abou, the height of Powers Greek Slave
(Cheers.)
Forty-four years ago We had burnt ry,
for coffee, and drank ten made from sassa
fras roots, sage and other yarbs--excellen
for children. Our pots and kettles were al
brought over the mountains on pack horses
for there was no worker on iron, steel 0,
brass west Of the Allegheny mountains.
Sach was Cincinnati in 1872. What i,
she nowl The arrivals and departures Of
steamboats, at her wharf for the past yea
were over 5000. She has 81 foundries
employing 1000 laborers, and producing
$3,sDo,0uo worth Of manufactured iron
ten rolling mills, producing -four millions an
nually. A hundred blast furnaces around
Cincinnati furnish l20 200, 900 tons OF iror
annually for manufacture and market il
this city. Last year there were brought 4
this city ll,00O,O0O bushels Of coal, bu
notwithstanding this great quantity, coal i,
worth forty-hye cents a bushel here to-da,
showing that the import has not kant oacs