The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-12-01

from Dubuque 10 Keoknk.
We predict that continuous Railroad of
100 miles, will be completed from Dubuque
10 Keokuk within two years. Let us exam
Inc the evidence:
Me- miles No. miiss Nc niiss |
buiis and usdsr saprovi- |
COX uk to Mt. Pleasant, Id Is
Mt. Pleasant to Columbus, Is
Colu u bus to Muscatine, 20
to Wilton, IL
Wilton 10 Elournoy, 20
Fiornoy TO Anamosa, %
Anamosa To sand Spring, l6
Sand Spring TO Dubuque, "a
Total, 81 81 as
Thus il will be seen that 81 miles are com.
pleted, GA miles now under construction, and
only As miles remain unprovided for. We
give our friends notice in Henry and Louisa
counties that Jones county will try to weld
the link between Anamosa and the junction
OF the Chicago, Iowa, and Nebraska Railroad,
as soon rs you will weld the link between
Columbus and Nit. Pleasant. This will CON-
plete chain Of road Of 100 miles from Du-
buque to Keokuk. See the map
Railroad from Dubuque TO Keokuk, from
whence steamboat navig alton may be depend
cd upon almost every month IN the year, will
open channel for southern products to
reach us, viz: sugar, molasses, coffee, tropi.
cal fruits, 6c., and at the same time give US
southern, or choice of markets for our
wheat, corn, pork, and all the products OF
our fertile soil. ST. Louis has paid moro for
wheat and pork in the last three years than
~
the river from Muscatine, for tho last three
81 for wheat while the same kind Of freight
from the river to Chicago has been from Is
to 20 cents per bushel.
Railroad communication with Keokuk
at the head Of navigation, would not only aid
our farmers and dealers in produce who de-
sire to transport the surplus of their products,
especially in the winter, but in turn would
benefit jobbers at Muscatine, keokuk and ST.
Louis, who might supply our merchants with
goods.
This portion Of Iowa desires direct COM
munieation with our southern marts. We
| hail the prospect Of such q communication
in short time with joy Anamosa Jones
Co. Eureka.
Trial of Monteiambert.
/ A political trial OF novel character is
impending in France. Count Montalembert
the untiring champion Of the Church Of
Rome and relentless enemy OF Louis Phiiipe's
government, has at last got into serious
scrape. There was no kind OF liberty be-
tween 1880 and 1850 which he would no,
have assailed in the most bitter terms he
denounced in turn the liberty Of conscience
OF the..press, and of association, and con.
tinually reviled constitutionalism. He wal
the first to suggest publicly the necessity oil
the coup d'etat, and one Of the FIRST to ap
piaud Louis Bonaparte for destroying tn,
constitution with bayonets and cannon balls
Seeing, however, that ho was discarded b,
Napoleon, who cannot bear men OF talen
and eloquence,, and likes to surround him
self with Adventures and swindlers, Coun
Montslembert began to turn his back on hi
former ideals. lie learned to appreciat
: England and constitutional life, and, in a
essay on the India debate in Parliament
> which appeared in French monthly
! Correspondent--he eloquently proclaime
!, his new faith. sThere are men, be says
! ssfor whom quetness and silence are not tn
: highest boon there are soldiers who, struc
down, wounded, fettered and doomed to moi
n tai inactivity, comfort themselves and reviv
Q on seeing the struggles and dangers Of ott
n ers. belong to these men, and have
q remedy against that malay which is now 4
/ DAYS thought to be objectionable. When
q feel that marasmus sel1es me, wnen nv eAl
!, Jingle with the buzz of ante room newspap,
h writers, or with the shouts Of the rabid a.
:. thors, who believe that they are our maste
or that they humbug US, when | feel OF
il pressed in an atmosphere saturated with Il
n miasma of seryility--then hasten to En-,
K land to End renewal Of lite." In the san
eloquent strain he goes on to defend the DO
icy of England, and in an indirect way
N stigmatixs the present condition Of Franc
a The French Government, however, b
: seized the article and will try the Count, vi
delights in having an opportunity Of mskir
himself heard once more, though from Il
dock, and at the risk Of imprisonment.
IT is to defend himself in person.
Explosion M Eddyvilie-.ThreeP Pc
J, sons kiilcd--The Engineer woun
10 ed.
~ We learn from Mr.. w m. Tool, that to
9 rife explosion ACQUIRED at q steam mill
~ Eddyville on last Saturday, in which one M
~ and two boys were killed, and the engine
y badly wounded. The man was from /
~ country aid had just gone below to wal
10 10 himself al, the furnace, when the accde
~ happened. lie was killed instantly. T
,'e boys, It's said, we're horribly mangled, a
'e suffered awfully during the few hours tn
they lived. The engineer, il is supposed, m
y recover. The boiler burated at the safe,
W valve, and was blown from fifty to one hu
- dred feet from its bed, tearing everything
=, pieces. Blame is attached to the inexpe
w ence and unskillfulness Of the engineer.
:. Keosauqua Rep.
its Mantacss story.
The Leavenworth City Ledger reports /
incoherent sayings OF maniac whom the q
itor met recently, in that CITY. What COZ
- be more touchingly sad and tender than
~ poor fellows disjointed sentences:
eu lie lives, he sad-no, he didn't live,
ne staysd-up the river, and was going home
- = the boat-his boat, he quietly remarked,
~ ~ had Just bought her for the mountains.
" y, "Look at these pants," he said solemn
~ "who'd We think made 'emf ga tailor
:. wo hazarded, as reply. "No such thir
w w sir; no such thing-they grew on ire in I
as Island Of Tranquil Delights--found' em thu
=" myself. What's the time? All. | fore