The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-05-07

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nee m etnes River Contract CioseA.
Our reader. generally will hail with pleas.
urs the following iten slipt from the Dss
Dloines Citizen:
1.-THE psepossd contract between tbs Susie
1owa nd - Dcmoinc Navigation Con-
/, has Aesn formally accepted By the
any, " meeting hela IN New Ystk
Gov. Lowe c. sast) has
lied with the ~ the joint
fSsclutions adopted 2Ss Lsgislaturs,
2 Ill - suldy made.
If - plses6iS t68 announce this
it seems the most feasible
- osine o. the vexed question,
~ involving protraotcd litigation: The
lands, which are among the most valuable in
the State, will be ut once placed in market
by the Company. The State will sesure from
the General Government the remaining $780,
900 acres Of land. That portion Of the i'm
provcment which has already been COM
menced, will be promptly completed; and
BRsT or ALL, TIE PROPOSED DIVERSION TO THE
KEokUx AND MIxNssorA RAILRoAp, WILL EN-
SURF THE COMPLETION or THAT ROAD TO DEs
Mors.s IN LRss THAN TWO YEARS"
From the ~ Y. Express, April 1sd
The Red u publican spe
The apotheosis Of tho would-b be assnssins
OF the Emperor Napoleon 0risini, Pierri,
and Pianori--took place in our streets last
evening, 10 strict accordance with the Steu-
benz % programme. 1t was--what We
sid 0ould be-altogethcr the most extra
ordinary spectacle ever witnessed in the city
of New York. II Was . demonstration"
without precedent must stand for oil
time upon the roll OF theinfamy that attach.
% to such things solitary and alone.
The pageant Of last al not to be I'M
derrated. Al least e w persons,
experienced calculate y. ~.
wcre in the processic
thousand Wanincteen. q wore
whose or md ants0u - al unddf :
cloud; felS1 lacking foreigners, speaking
strange lanaGe, and enunciasing senti.
.ments that Sn166Hly wo1A never cnunciated
before awdy 49, the 3aabenrgs Of Paris,
- cellars Of Berlin, md ~ garrets Of Mi
IT.. Murder Was sxhihited g one Of the
Graces land Go0inatioa- the meansst Of
al crimes.-Was Sol0etxcd - not only right,
but q 1aty Aieh no ttue lover OF liberty
anyWko3s shrink from!
- ~ well that this shameful
- l ~ 1oe-because the Mstropo-
Ho& oo ~ know, now, how many AS
IeeoDinG ~ Aseassin advocates, We have in
Ais CITY. True. il was known before that
mysterious murders were on the increase
that men were. stabbed, when the nightsv44
1Qfh1 and flung into the river that horrible
pations have been Of frequent occur,
speciaAl Ia quarters wherein theal
/ h0 epktt4 ess1agers are most In the hab'
I Sing But It was never knswr
enlghes 49, TEN THOUSAND assassin'
II nsops 49, their rendezvous here
Assassins, Ntesylfor II these "Ked', mer
are sincere anu honest 10 what they them
selves say in their spceches---As sketehed by
our reporters-they are ready to Stay, or q
stab, in the dark, ~homsoever may chanc'
to come under their condemnation - enc
mics, or an enemy OF what they choose 4
call the "Rights OF the Peoples. ma,
DO an Emperor to-day. It may bsaQueer
or President Tomorrow. Their doctrine
and not hemmed n ~ eeoeraphical bounda
rios. ltmay be psasSscsd 4 the White Mous'
in Washington, 10 woll o. at the Tuillerie
in Paris---or 1t may manifest itself just NJ
legitimately 10 destroying the Governor o
| an Ansrican State, or the Mayor Of an Amer