The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1857-06-29
sob Press for sale.

ny efaer Of the County Central Committee
PHILIP vTRLE, Chairman.
Job Press for sale.
We have Tor sale Job Press OF Mon
tagae's patent, manufactured at Hartford.
Conn. We used it year or more. until i,
was superseded BY other machinery. and
have now no further occasion for II. !,
could be made very serviccable in country
ONCE, and We will sell it at a bargain,
WRsrKRx SPRcuLATioS.--The Philaaelrh;.
North American very properlv avs s.rh .
speculative mania which nov cnrs4s ~. W.,
carries with It neglect Of those product; -
branches OF industry, agriculture and mann.
features. without which all the seeming nro.
perisy OF community must be hollow and
snabstantial,n etc., etc. '
We hare seen good deal such stuff this
season IN orr Eastern exchanges. We would
ADVISE our contemporaries to draw more liner.
Any upon Western statistics for their infor-
nation, and less upon their fancics. tn rro.
ceed more upon facts and less upon theory.
~nen they talk about the West. All this
nay look very plausible to man who n,ve,
examined the facts. But IL the North Am.r.
'cdn looks At them, it will be ashamed OF its
nonsense. That paper may fancy what It
chooses, but the authentic statistics Of Iowa
Tor instance, show that tho ratio Of proauc.
'aon to population is rapidly decreasing. And
is' Us direct your attention, just now, to d
figure or two.
Inc population Of Iowa in 1856 was about
one-fifth that Of Pennsylvania in 1850. Ia.
ENG out the immigration OF tina, rear. which
produced next to nothing, it was a little over
ohe's'shth. fctwe find that Iowa, with one
e'gn'h OF the effective population of Penn.
fyisania, produced one third as much wheat
one NTH as many potatoes, wo.6fths a.
many hogs, little less than one third a,
many oats, and eleven millions bushels NOR.
OF corn than she.
ana u you are SO terribly afraid that the
vest IS going to destruction in consequence
q speculation, JUS. find some way to keen
your population and capital little more
prontably employed at home, and YOU will
W us good turn. Blu, as you probably
wont DC able 10 do it, and MS we are willing
10 endure little more such ssruin,, an we ara
sunering at present, and have laid IN for us
10 such abundance prospectively, we viii try
20 mako room for them in our fields. our
WORKSHOPS and our counting rooms. We
Kindly appreciate all your good advice. and
your tremnlous fears for our safety. Indeed
we DO.
FRo-SLArERYiTEs IN kAssAs.-At tho late
e'ecsion the Free State men staid at home
Only the Bnrder Rufhans voted. They cust
not over 800 votes ia the whole Territorv
That is their strength If the election served
no other good purpose, il made the Free
state men acquainted with the utrnest
strength Of their opponents. And what :
pitiiui number they are! More pitiful vet Is
u, IN another sense, when we ref.ec, TINT thu
delegate districts were SO constructed as TO
give this small number OF men the control Of
y majority in the convention, even il the
Tree state men could all have got their
names on the lists and voted.
Br.--The Pro Slavery Democratic ;oor.
hais commenced republishng the articles Of
Judge Hall on the new constitution. nre-
pared for the Burlington Gazette. Being
one OF the old siand-by's Of the Black Dem.
ocracy, whose position and party soundness
was nnqnes'ionable, they seemed to suppose
tnat o. course he was going to oppose the
adoption OF that instrument. But after
copying couple Of his articles they found
be was preparing the way for q strong APP
peal IN favor Of its adoption, and they
dropped him like hot potaso.'' His third
article fails OF appearance in any Of their
papers that have come under our notice.
"a We notice in both the Nhig and Re.
publican, Of Quincy, lately, sundry sarcastic
rsdersnoes TO keokuL, intended to disparage
ne Importance and character of our city,
Bat they canno; provoke us to reply, for Ke.
okuk has arrived al u point where dr,rac.
ton cannot damage her, and almos, anything
which addsto her noioriety is an adv antage
We feel thankful for all efforts 10 keen u,
"before the people," The town moves righ
along, JUS, as the moon does when dogs ba,
At her. Rail on, good ncighbors! Give u,
your keeness shots and your wittiest sneers
DorclAa JEggogD DgAn.-This gentle.
man, well known Throughout, the world 81