The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1857-11-10
capital correspondence

kpIToRs or THE uArE S,lryi-- Your corrcs-
ponden, sojourns in thfnew Capital City,
Washington is no longer what John Ran
dolph termed it, the Getty Of magnthcen.
distances" Des Moines must surpass it Ia
this respect at least visited the now cap.
itol building yesterday. ltissu surrounded or
every side, save one, by the heaviest fores,
that can be found in the country. The Cap.
itol Square lies on the summit Of the hill
three fourths Of mile east of the river
and is covered over with dense growth Of
brush and forest trees but two streets or,
opened to it--onc bounding il upon tn,
South the last, leading to the Capitol build
ing, is now being graded and otherwise i'm.
proved. The view from Capitol Hill is ont
Of the finest to be found in the Vest
When everything here is finished upon thu
scale designed, Iowa will boast Of as fine
Capital City ns can be found in the Union
The sass embed wisdom must expect, how
ever, to submit to many Inconvenience here
during the present winter. The people have
done all in their power in the way Of prepa.
ration--far more than many would have
done when their efforts were rewarded by al
most inserminable delays. =
The contract for removing tho State pro-
perty has been let, and teams are now on
their wsy to Iowa City to bring it hther.-
The different apartments Of the Capitol
building are ready for it's reception, and it
is probable that within three weeks the State
Offices will be opened here. 1t 10 understoo cd
that the different members Of the State Ad-
minis.ration, including Governor Lowe, will
remove their families to this city, and make
it their residence, at least during their re-
spective terms of Office. You have doubt
less noticed the change in the proprietorship
of the Citizen newspaper. DIR. Farmer has
already retired from its editorial manage
ment, and Mr.. Teesdale now of the Repub-
hcan, at Iowa City, viii take his place on
the lst 81 January. The last named gem
tleman assigns as bis principal reason for
making this change the requirements Of
the law making it necessary for the State
printer to keep an Office at the Capital.
Finances here, as elsewhere, are exceed
ingly tight. There is not, however, the dis
treas that is apparent in many other portions
of the State. The land speculations that
were carried on here for few years past
though the operators find no sales in these
tight times, they have no fear Of foreciosed
and overwhelming balances for
property sacrificed ut forced sales. There
was OF another place in the State so well
prepared as this for the present crash.
The feasibility Of asking Congress for
p ermission to use the lands donated for the
Des Mones River Improvement in the con-
struetion of the keokak, TT. Dcs Moines and
Minnesota Railroad to this place, is now be-
ing discussed. 1t will be seen at glance
that this is u bargain in which four parties
must necessarily each have word-Con-
PRESS, the Iowa Legislature, tho Railroad
Company, and the Improvement Company.
The whole matter will probably be canvassed
Turing the coming winter.
The District Court, Judge Stone presiding,
5 now in session here, and has been for two
reeks past. The docket embraces something |
yer four hundred cases. The business Of |
he courts, owing to the rapid settlement Of /
ne country and the ''revulsion," has been
augmented; not in ratio, how
yer, with the increase Of lawyers. The To-
alton Of the Capital has created very con-
derabie influx of 'legal," MS we'll as every
Their description OF gentlemen. Judge {
tone is deseryedly very popular. The peo-
lie, who have been cursed for years by the
,dical administration of Dogberry McFnr-
md, who, by the way, was once, as |
earn, public officer in your old county of
ee,--are in very proper condition to appre-
ate the luxury of having lawyer and
enteman on the bench. Your model of ia.
ieial courtesy, Clagett, is gaining an cnyi-
bic reputation through the State. II the
'coming Legislature were Democratic, it is
robablc that proposition to annu the
constitution and abolish the CO. ordinate de.
artmen,s, - Legislative, Executive and Ju-
cinl, - and 10 establish upon their ruins
composed of Clagctt and Me-
ariand, would be seriously discussed.
WARREN.