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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-07-20

Co.Parsnership.
The undersigned, having formed CO. Partner
ship uudeT the name and yle Of Haines Brother,
and purchased the entire interest Of H. 8. farrar,
will continue tho businsss Of Hring Sash,
Doors, Blinds. Flooring, Pump-Tubing, g., at
the old stand corner OF B ABlun Streets, near the
Keokuk i Fl. Des Moincs Rail Road Depot
ROBERT HAINES,
Keokuk Sept. %, Isl. p. q. HAINES.
octS-d
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-07-20

Lands in Northern and Southern Iowa for
sale on favorable terms, by
mchl0d STEWART / GRIFFITH, Agents.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-07-20

J, A M a 8 Q N
ID II N II 1 st
Go to DR.. Mason, where you can get the
best OF work done without paying
all you have got for it, and
Where you can have set Of Teeth made
that ,oiA suit you, tcithott hauing three
or four sets made, and paying
for them each time.
lie makes use Of the best stock--Gold Plate
made from the Coin.
lie makes the heavy trimmed and heavy round
lining Patchwork.
His work need only be seen to be admired.
N.B.-He makes his own specimens.
mySu
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-07-20

Dlssol Tuition.
VINHE Co.PAftpership heretofore existing be-
i tween tho subscribers, under the name and
firm Of F.rrar 1 Haines, IL this day dissolved BY
mutual consent. Robert 4 p. q. Haipes will coa-
tinue in the business, and sign the name Of the
firm in liquidation. They will also settle all ac-
be paid them. II. y: fARRAk,
ROBERT HAINES.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-07-20
INSURANCE.

PHOENIX INSURANCE CO., OF HARTFORD
CAPITAL $500, 900.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-07-20

rTyHE MAsTIC ROOFING Is we'll adapted -
L steep or dat roofs, 10 fire proof, and becoming
hard viii admit Of wear by trcading thereon,
which makes it desirable for piafxas, cars, steam
boats dc &c. For further particulars, please call
ct the Office, where samples can be seen.
febl7dly
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-07-20

PhBIadelphia city Property.
In Exchange for Farming Lands in Iowa
Missouri or Illinois.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-07-20

Policies are issued In the above reliable and
responsible Life Insurance Company, by paying
one half the premium in cash, giving note for the
other half At per cent. intercst--annual divi-
bends, averaging So per cent, paid to insured and
not to stockholders.
Call and see the agents for above Companies, at
their Office on Second street.
STEWART 4 GRIFFITH.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-07-20

500 Acres Choice Farming Lands,
In Lucas and Ringgold Counties, Iowa,
For Sale Cheap or Erchnnge for Ooods.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-06-12
From the Dubuque Herald.
TIE DUBUQUE MINEs-DEEP MINING.

Mr.. EDIToR-DEAR SIR:-I herewi,
send you a specimen of mineral taker
flotfi the second mineral strata, which
think is as pretty a specimen as any con
noisseur would wish to look at. 1t was ia.
ken eighty feet from the surface, some fif
ty miles above us on the Mississippi, which
point would Indicate depth at this local
ity of about two hundred and fifty feet
] had not time to ask the parties who have
this discovery, the particulars in regard to
its position or locality, but it is at point
where the second magnesia lin ,st)ne
crops out, and proves very conclusively
that mineral does exist in this second for
nation: and further, that beneath our pres
eni investigation, so far AS the various mi
ming operations Of this coun ty go to show,
it exists in large bodies.
In conversation with Nj. Mckenzie, one
of our old settlers and mihsfs; whose prac
teal knowledge goes as tar as any one in
this section Of the euuhtry, he informs me
that he believes he has gone deeper than
any one in the mines, and at the depth of
two hundred and eighty feet he found one
solid lump imbedded ia the rock, from
which he took eighty-seten thousand lbs,
and would have prosecuted his searcli still
deeper had he been able to get the
ground on such terms as woull have JUS
tilted him, as he was then paying one
third Which is ezhorbitant on any ground.
| hope Mr.. Editor, that the present effort
being made to organize Mining Company
will be successful So far as the sense of
this community can be ascertained before
they actually rut their hands to paper,
believe they will lend Helping hand to
this great work to deselope the rich re-
sources Of our mining country. Although !
may differ from the mode that will be
adopted of tuhueling and draining, yet it
is step, and ote that will naturally aid in
sinking "a deep Shaft to the second bearing
strata.
| will join them heart and hand in any
project that may 60 to develop the rich
resources of our mining country.
Respectfully,
w. L. JOHNSON.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-06-12

A CANDID MiND.--There is nothing
sheds SO fine light Upon Che human mind
as candor. It was called whiteness by the
ancients, for its purity; and it has always
won the esteem due to the most admirable
of the virtues. However sought for or.
practiced, ssIl feel the power and charm Of
its influence. The man whose opinions
make the deepest mark upon his fellow
man, whose influence is the most lasting
and efficient, whose friendship is instinc-
lively sought where all others have prov
ed faithless, is not the man Of brilliant
parts, or fattering tongue, or splendid
genius, or commanding power; but he
whose lucid candor and ingenious truth
transmit the hearts real feelings pure and
without refraction. There are ether
qualities which are more snowy, and other
traits that have a higher place in the
worlds code of honor; but none wear bet
ter, or gather less tarnish by use, or claim
a deeper homage in that silent reverence
which the mind must pay to virtue.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-06-12
Posting the Books.
Severalpersons have expressed to us de
sire to learn..the amount each of the politi-

Severalpersons have expressed to us de
sire to learn. the amount each of the politi
|cal parties received of the corruptionBo Bond.
in the Land Grant swindle Of 1856. Tt
crafty their curiosity we have looked ovel
the list, and find the following to be the
the result:
Of 13 Senators to whom Bonds OF
Stock was appropriated, nine were Demo
Gratis, and four Republicans. The aggre
gate paid to the Democrats was Sl35, 1000:
to the Republicans, $4o,o OF the Re
publicans, Mr.. Sholes refused to actepi his
$4,000, which leaves $4,000 to the
Members of that party. Six Senators (all
Republicans voted against the bill.
Appropriations We're made to SO Mem
bers Of the Assembly, SO of whom were
Democrats and 20 Republicans. To the
former were appropriated $255, 1000, and
to the latter $4,000.
Two Republicans and one Democrat of
the Assembly, deny having received the
amount set apart for them. Of The Mem
bers Of the Assembly who voted against
the bill, six were Republicans and one
Democrat.
The Clerks of the Assembly GALL Deiiid
crats) received $4,000.
Of the State officers, Gov. Bashfofd re-
ceived $4,000, and his private Secretary
B. F. Hopkins-$5,oo0. Lieutenant
Gov. Macarthur received $4,000, and
Bank Comptroller Dennis the same amount
making $4,000.
Among the outsiders, of those whose
politics we know, $4,000 was paid to
Democrats, aud $4,000 to Republicans;
$4,000 was paid to persons whose pc litics
we do not know. Judge Smith also re-
ceived $4,000.
As near .as we can ascertain, the &C
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-06-12
AWomANs QUESTION .

BEFORE trust my face to thee,
Or place my hand in thine,
Before let thy future give
Color and form to mime
4ls peril all Tor 'hee' question my SO"i TO niSn
for me.
break all slighter bonds, nor feel
one shadow OF regret:
l.. there one link within the past
That holds thy spirit yet:
j. thy faith as clear and free as that Which e''n
pledge to thee:
Does there within tIY dimmest dreams
POSSIBLE future shine,
Wherein thy life could henceforth breathe,
Untouched, unshared by mine:
o. al any pain or cost, tell me before ali Is lost!
Look deeper still. If thou canst feel
Within thy inmOst soul
That thou hast kept portion back,
While have 5taBed the whole,
m false pity spare the blow, but, in true mercy, tell
me
7. there within thy heart need
That mine cannot fulfil:
One chord that any other hand
Could better wake or still:
j. p,,y lest at some future day, my whole life wtier
and decay.
lives there, within thy nature hid,
The deD,on-spirit, Change,
lSctitng Il passing glory still
On all thin - new anl1strange:
,c no. be thy fault Alone but shield my heart a.
giinst thy own.
couldst thou withdraw thy handlone day,
And answer to my claim
That fate and that tO-day's mistake,
not thou, had been to blame:
m ,5the their conscience thus; but thou-0 surely
tbou wilt warn now!
Household Words.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-06-12
From the Dubuque North Western Farmer.
THE HUNG ARIAN GRASS Its ORIGIN, &C.
In Ia e number Of the Farmer, I find

In a Ia e number Of the Farmer, 1 fine
quotation on the Hungarian Grass, ta
ken fr m the Patent Office Report-ast
issue. Now, dissent wholly from the
state nent made there as to the origin oil
this Hungarian Grass. This crop the
wriCsr states, was first grown in the Town.
sf Up Of Mantua in this County. But this
n srson who raised the seed firstly, procured
! a worry small quantity of seed from one OF
the Hungarian Exiles, who came to the far
West some five years age. Whatever be-
came Of the Hungarian, or the balance of
bis seed, no one knows; but he had a
small bag which he carried in his pocket,
from which he took the seed and appeared
to be very choice of it. Now it must be
born in mind that the emigrants that came
to the United States at that time, came
direct from Turkey, not daring to return
to Hungary, since its downfall, which
leads my mind To the conclusion, that the
Hungarian Grass seed came from Turkey,
and the fact strengthening this conclusion
is, that none of the German or Hungarian
residents in our section of country, know
anything about it, OF ever saw Anything
like it, in their native countries. Since
that piece was written, we have raised two
more crops Of the grass, and have had
more experience with it, and we find that
it out yields his statements by considera-
ble-the average crops of our county be-
ing, the past season, four to six tons per
acre, while the premium crop of the coun-
tv, was eight tons and thirty five pounds.
The hay is of superior quality and seed
Very nutrious. consider it quite as much
so as ordinary wheat; it will weigh when
fully ripe, from fifty to sixty lbs. per bush
ell, and has very thin bran, while the
grass furnishes such an abundance of feed
for cattle, horses and sheep. 1t does MOI,
AS the writer supposes, diminish, our abil-
ity to grow straw in the least, for in addi
ton to grass, we get! as much seed as we
gather from corn, taking into consideration
the usual method of growing and the av-
erage yield. II should also be known
that, this crop is not a spring crop like
wheat, oats, OR timothy, but is simmer
crop ana SHOULD, 10 40 well, Oe sONu Idle
and not until the weather and earth get
entirely warm. The ground should be
clean and not be ploughed until all weed
seed is sprouted and up so as to be clean;
then SOW and harrow before and after
sowing. l should SOW the grass, provided
could get the seed, any time before the
10Th of July. The time to cut is when
the tlades begin to turn yellow and the
seed is nearly ripe. This makes good hay
and good seed. 1t is very rich aud horses
should not be fed too freely upon it. Il
is of quick giowth and requires but a short
season Of about fifty or sixty days TO ma
lure it. 1t is one of the greatest acqui-
sitiors Of agricultural wealth | have ever
seen, and earnestly recommend all per-
sons who have an acre of oats to raise it, AS
one acre of it is worth one Of oats and one
of timothy. w. G. C.ark.-Albia, Mon
roe Co., Iowa. j.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-06-12
ORCHARD CULTIVATION.

MEssRs EDIToRs Having read that
the best way to raise an orchard was to
keep the ground pIowed, free from grass
and weeds, and cultivated with some hoed
crop, such as potatoes, corn beans, etc, |
thought for few years that experience
rather confirmed that view; but now, sad
experience has made me think quite diff
ercntly.
Ny orchard consists Of two parts one
where the trees are never disturbed by the
pillow, and where they stard rather close,
say about ~ feet apart; each way. These
continue to grow, slowly, it is true, but
still they live and bear abundantly. That
part occasionally receives light coat of
manure. The soil is in grass, and the sod
never disturbed except by a light hoeing
around each tree about as far as the roots
are supposed to extend. Some of these
trees, II years from the seed, have borne
as many as many as six and even eight
bushels Of apples in single season.
The other, and by far the larger portion
has the trees planted nearly forty feet a
part, and have each year MANFRED the
land, plowed aud planted with hoed crops.
More than one half Of those trees are
dead, dying or injured; hardly one is
thrifty in body and limb. The borer
makes frightful ravages among them
Here are facts, Messrs. Editors, Of the
truth of which any one can satisfy him
self.
And now for the causes;
Either the pillow INJURIES the roots, OF
disturbes them, and leaves them in loose
ground,-whereas roots of trees love to be
Icompactly surrounded by soil adherirg to
|thenf-or the loose soil admits the frost to
| the roots in winter, and hurts them by not
taking it out at thawing time in the usual
way; or the cultivation makes them grow
too fast and too late; or they are too ten
der and soppy to withstand the intense
lcold Of winter. At any rate the trees do
not thrive. Let every one draw his own
conclusiorfs.
| have seeded my whole orchard to clo-
ver, and the pillow shall not enter it again.
I shall plant the trees closer, continue, to
manure lightly and hoe each tree around
as far as the roots will be supposed to ex-
tend.
Besides, The pillow is Objectionable, as
you can hardly get man careful enough
to avoid hurting the bodies of young trees
Iby the whippls-trees while blowing. The
trees are barked and hardly ever recover
1.-The wood fsmains exposed, and the tree
suffers. ks
/ / believe blowing among trees while
! young, say for two or three years afte
|setting, taking care not to pillow very close
to be beneficial, but after that, hurtful.-
lTCorrespondence Wisconsin Farmer.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-06-12

FueIr1yE SLAvEs.-During the last
three weeks more than twenty runaways
have passed through this city enr6ute for
Canada. One Of the latest passengers
was Kentuckian, vino was SO white, in
feature as we'll as color, that he travelled
through Kentucky and crossed the river
unsupported. When he presented himself
to the Under Ground agents Of this city,
they thought him no runaway, but white
man, and would have continued to regard
him as an imposter had not one Of his for
mer fellow bondsmen recognized him
Another of the late fugitives came from
Memphis He secreted himself upon a
steamer, and arrived in this city five days
afterward, without seeing any one. His
ONLY subsistence was one biscuit, and such
drops of water as the paddles, in their rev.
olution. threw to his hiding place. Gin
china! Gazette.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-06-12
HThe flute with which John Bunys

H The flute with which John Bunyan
beguiled the tediousness Of his captive
hours, IS now in possession Of Mfr. Howelis,
tailor, Gainsborough, England. In ap-l
pearance it does not look unlike the leg Of
a stcol-out of which it is said that Bum
yam, while in prisonj Manufactured it.
When the turnkeyy attracted BY the sound
of music; entered his celf to ascertain, il
possible, the cause Of The harmony; the
flute was replaced in The stool, and by this
means detection was avoided.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-06-12

AN INF1pEL CONFERENCE.-The En-
g ish correspondent of the lions Herald
writes:
"Thomas Cooper, Che noted sceptic, and
author of "The Purgatory Of Suicides, has
recently become convert to Christianity !;
and after having spent thirty years Of his
life III featuring and writing against the
bible, he is nov striving to make repara-
ton for the mischief he must have done
by lecturing in defence ofthe Sacred Scrip
lures"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-06-12

BILLY BowLEGs OUT oFFLoRIDA 1T LAST
"A despatch from Maj. E. Rector, su-
of Indian Affairs, dated head
of Pass, via New Orleans, May 18th, says
81 am here with Billy Bowlegs and one
hundred and sixty five Florida SeminoleS
on board U. s. steamer Grey Cloud
This is good news; the people of Florida
may now rest in quiet, without having the
fear of Billy Bowlegs constantly before
their eyes.-[St. Louis Republican.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-06-12
nAt the meteing of the East Indial

HAt the meteing Of the East Indian
Railway Company on Thursday,th the Chair
man stated that the loss by mutiny was
not so great as it might have been antici-
mated. Two hundred and ninety miles
will be open by autumn, and another
one hundred and Fifty before the end Of
the year.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-06-12

ADMINISTRATORS STUMPERs.-Senstor
Bigler and ]. CLANCY Jones Of The House
are threatening to stump Penney fyania, in
favor Of the policy Of the President, CHS
summer. IF Mfr. Buchanan allows them to
do it, it will be proof that he is more de-
mented than the public generally sup
Ipose.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-06-12

re- circumstances are fayorebfe to you
only as they are to the pine which possesses
Within itself the strength to entwine its
roots among the rocks, and to spring in
to the air from the mountain peak.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-06-12

H Grape vine cuttings are best propa-
gated by laying them horizontally, and
then covering two inches deep with earth
that will not bake.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-06-12

wSomebody says He who marries
Or beauty only, is like q buyer of cheap
niture-the yarnish that caught the
(ill not endure the fre-sIe blaze.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-06-12

roTEs OF A LECTURING TOUR IN GRANT
e0TETY-H GREEN, aLa rTsVILLE,
P0r0sI, LANCASTER, BEEroWE, PATCH
G23FE.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-06-12
anxious to educats.their sons and daush-

anxious to educate their sons and dauyh,
tiers thoroughly and nationally.
| Lancaster, the county seat of Grant, and
situate some lS miles from P, in a north.
westerly direction, is one of the handsom-
est towns in Wisconsin, "a regular New
England village, 10 the midst of beauti-
full country. Of the character of the COM
munity, it is only necessary to say, they
are chiefly Eastern people Eberalized by
Western sentinel Mt and Western scenery.
Of the many whom we met and whom we
shall ever remember, J. G. Cover Editor
of the Grant Co. HeEdld-a man sai gen
eris, able earnest, honest and indepel.
dent; J. G. Holloway, Treasurer of Grant
Go. Ag. Soc. and eur host; j. G. Clark,
Clerk of the Court. of whose bounty we
partook in the form of apples, vine and
honey-three of the real luxuries of ma
terial living; Hon. Joe Mills, scholar and
philanthropist; the Messrs. Earl er, Harel-
son and Hyde, are gentler.en of the true
genuine stamp, Our lecture was deliver
ed to a crowded, intellectual, and enthu-
siastic auditory, and we left Lancaster the
following day, delighted with our visit, land
saying in our heart, "If we ever leave
Madison -" &c.
Beetown was reached through the aid
of hessrs. Holloway, WEIGH and Dr.
Dodge, who conveyed us successfully from
point to point, after the manner of couriers
with relays Of chariots, as in the olden
time The last named gentleman became
our escort into the city and arranged for
the meeting, which it became necessary to
hold in billiard and whiskey saloon! A
queer place to be sure, but the people
didn't seem to be afraid Of an Institution Of
that sort, and gathered in numbers so
large that some fifteen or twenty were
TERED away upon the billiard table, where.
with cliin supported upon the palms Of
their hands they presented most lu IL
crous appearance, strikingly reminding us
Of an array Of mud turtles on some old
loo, looking out for an assault. The hour
having arrived for the lecture to com
lnence. the clerk called the house to orier,
and for an hour and quarter, we "plead
III Lllc IitT Will uSlal earneStHeSS anu
with apparent satisfaction to all present
excepting one old fellow who was denied
any more grog uutil we had done speak
ing. Spent the night with the gentle
manly Dr., and the following morning,
after careful inspection Of bis splendid,
but halfruined orchard, WAS by him con-
veyed TO
Patch Grove, where wo were welcomed
by full house of the real substantial yoe-
many Of that fine farming district, and
whence, after most agreeabe..nights en-
at the house of E. Patch, Esq,
who became our escort thlthor, we directed
oar course over Il rather billy country, to
,ur next appointment.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-06-12

w A silly person looks for enjoyment
abroad. A sensible one finds it at home
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-06-12

EVERY MAN HIS OWN WrTNEss,-A
law passed through the Legislature at its
late session taking all restrictions from
witnesses-the principal party, or any 9th
err party in interest may swear to the facts,
and his testimony will go to the jury as
that of any other witness-they to estimate
his credibility as they think it is worth. =
This is starting innovation and there will
probably be many startling Dugald Dalget-
on the witness stand when ease comes to
my oath, it is a won case" - Argus.
It is a startling innovation, but very
good one in our opinion. There is no rea-
son Why party in interest who may
know more about the facts than any other
person else should not be permitted to tes-
tify in the matter being liable to the same
penalties for perjury that any other witness
Is. and the credibility of his testimony to
be subject to the scrutiny and opinion O
the iurv.-TFree Democrat.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-06-12

CONGRESSIONAL PRINrING.-We notice
that among the recommendations for cur
tailment in Congressional printing, is that
of suspension of the publication of vol
une XII, of the Pacific Railroad Survey
being the one which was to have been pub
lished. tolsuspend the publication Of the
Northern route, seems to US great injus-
tice to that portion Of the country that
paws the most of the taxes. Particularly
Unjust and unwise, as the Southern route is
one comparatively we'll known, while the
Northern route is new and interesting.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-06-12

ewThe charter Of the Hudson Bay
Company expires in 1860 and that CO .'or-
alton are endeavoring to secure an extern
sion Of their monopoly, representing that
the country over which it extends to be
unfit for the abodes of civilization. The
Canadian government has sent out party
to examine the country and they report
the land as being very fertile. The value
of the company's Improvements is 81, 00o,-
900.
HA man sometimes retains bis youth
by doing little to make his manhood