The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1857-05-27


- orrrcx NEAR coRxER oY xAIS FOURTH
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The Coming crops ana Rusiness
Prospects.
The length and severity OF the past winter
and the apparently unpropitioas indications
OF the spring have for some time caused peo-
pie to anticipate short crop, generally, and
. dull season for trade during the coming
fall and the succeeding spring, in conse-
quence. II 10 true that the great proportion
Of the fall wheat has been destroyed, in
some quarters, but the same causes which
destroyed it there, have preserved it in 9TH
srs so that, though it may perhaps prove on
the average not a full crop, it will be much
better than for u time was anticipated, and
not far below the common average. In our
own state it is not a matter Of very great
consequence, for our farmers have learned
not to depend very much upon the fall wheat,
and there was not great quantity sown.-
The presen. prospect for spring wheat, and
all spring crops, Notwithstanding oil unfavor-
able indications and the fears of the farm
ers, is excellent. Probably We might say We
have never known q better. There was
great amount Of immigration into our state
last year. Those who arrived, lived for the
last season, mainly, upon the produce of their
neighbors. The winter, too, was unusually
long and severe. The consequences were,
that the crops that were left at home we're
hardly sufficient to sustain the population Of
the state, and totally insufficient to sustain
the lives Of our domestic animals in add.
ton and the prices Of everything that could
be employed Is food ran up to extraordinary
figures. The high price Of every thing this
spring has, furthermore, induced the putting
in Of an extraordinary amount Of seed, aud,
considering the present excellent prospects
for all kinds of produce, we may reasonably
anticipate harvest entirely unparalleled in
amount in the State Of Iowa heretofore,
even taking the ratio Of population into ac-
count. But the demand appears likely to be
good, so that, though prices will be much be-.
low the present ruling rates, they will still
afford an ample margin for profits to the pro-
Queer. This spring the people, considerably
in debt for previous purchases, with the fear
Of short crops before them, have been spar
ing in their purchases. With greater need,
in consequence, Of purchasing this fall, with
argely-increased population, and with a
bountiful harvest to market, the trade Of the
coming season in Iowa promises to be heavy
and lucrative, and probably the succeeding
spring will find the state 10 better condition
pecuniarily than at any period hitherto.
ANARCHY AND RrFFIASIsx IN kKoYuK.-
!. The Burlington Gazette comes to US with an
article, headed in flaming capitals as above,
and copying the articles which recently ap
peared in our city contemporaries, with the
following introduction: 'sWe learn from the
'"papers that the town Of Keokuk, in this
estate, is, at the present writing, and has
sheen for some time past, in the hands of u
"lawless mob, and that confusion, anarchy
sand rowdyism rule supreme in that Inflated
"locahty.' Those articles, it will be remem-
bered, assured the public that lawless vio-
lence and bloodshed prevailed here, that all
the legal authorities were set at naught,
that the public press was in imminent peril,
and that anarchy was the order Of the day
of course this portrayal Of the state and
condition OF things in Keokuk loses moth
ing by its transfer to the Burlington papers.
Well, all We have to say is, that commu-
nifty that chooses TO support papers whose
editors have no more discretion or regard to
truth, ought to have their reputation blasted
by them, and we only regret that the inno-
cent must suffer with the guilty.
gT Orr, member Of Congress from South
Carolina, and high in the confidence Of the
Administration, has gone to Kansas. II is
presumable that his object is to make such
personal observations on the condition Of
affairs there rs will enable him to support
with effect upon the minds OF Southern peo-
pie, the policy of admitting Kansas as free
State should the people Of the Territory de-
eide in favor Of a free Constitution.
G. Governor Robson, in speech lately
delivered by him, denounced Brown, the edi-
tor OF the Herald Of Freedom, as u trato,
TO the cause, and utterly unworthy the conf
dence Of the Free State men of the country
Brown rejoins through the papers. We infer
that public opinion in Kansas 10 with Cover
nor Robson and that Brown, notwithstand.
ing his unconquerable perseverance, vii
lose the influence which he has hitherto ex
ertea over Free State sentiment, and tn
power which he has had in their councils
CTThe editor Of the Burlington Gdsstt
complains bitterly Of a noisy Jackass ia
stable near his own dormitory, which night
disturbs his slumbers. We can't exactly SO
why the Jackass In the stable has not as 60 o
right TO bray as the other has to sleep q
nights, especially when Thompson brays .
much during the day.
PERPETUAL Morios.--Mr. Cyrus Putnam
OF iiallowell, Maine, has invented near
Of perpetual motion, he claims, which ful
nshes sufficient power to drive machinery
The motion is procured by ",he applicable
OF grayitation upon perpetual lever"
any body can get an idea Of the thing frol
that description by its author, perhaps be ca
also put a degree Of faith in the concer
which the fate Of similar inventions admou
fishes us to withhold until practical demo,
stratlon 10 given.