Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-03-15

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Co. have selected that town az the
place Tor shipping all the supplies in
tended for the Utah expedition. The
gigantic nature of this costract-
amounting to nearly two millions Of
dollars--makes it a matter of great i'm
portance to any frontier town and
there is no doubt that the location will
be of great advantage to Nebraska
City. The citizens, however, entered
with great spirit into the arrangement,
and in a public meeting accepted the
terms proposed-that is, that the
Lcvce should be improved and com
pleted as required, "and that the
liquor shops which are likely to inter
fere with the moral programme which
they have adopted, be suppressed
Thirteen citizens were appointed to
abate this nuisance whenever required,
by moral suasion and every lawful and
honorable means. Competent engi-
neers were TO be provided to survey a
direct route to Fort Kearney, and to
build bridges, and to remove all OBJ
structions to good road.
The Nebraska Meas goes into exta-
cics at the prospect Of seeing this greet
train on the move to the plains. 1t
enumerates, rs necessary to complete
it, two thousand wagons, each hauling
fifty hundred pounds Of freight, sixteen
thousand cattle, two acres Of OK yokes
to hitch them up witch, two thousand
OK drivers; and then it proceeds to
imagine what a grand opera the caval-
cade would make
Suffice it to say that a thousand
whips are cracking, sixteen thousand
tails arc galy swapping the flies Of June
away, two thousand drivers shricking,
eight thousand wagon wheels squeak
ing, all eager to join the antiMormon
fray, when at the closing recitative, a
herd of bufialos and six hundred In
dams break in upon the train and a
general stampede ensues, then, and not
till then, do We show our true musical
strength"
Another regulation is alluded to as
being cardinal thing in this expcdi-
ton. The Ne~s says:
Majors 81 Russell will hire nor en-
ploy no man who tasteth, toucheth or
handlcth strong drink. We shall
therefore expect to see two thousand
teamsters OF temperance principles and
habits, a spectacle of moral grandeur
which we believe no human eve has
as yet rested upon. This regulation
of theirs will, we are sorry to say, pre-
cludc Bowen of Bellevue from cnga-
ging i'll his appropriate avocation, under
these gentlemen, who are excellent
pay. But they will give Bible and
Hymn book to every man in their en-
ploy, when he starts out upon the long
and dreary journey, thereby hoping to
do much good and cast bread upon the
prairies, which shall be found again
after many days. And, as Majors d.
Russell have been styled Border Ruff
ans by some of the Black Republican
journals OF the East, we take pleasure
in calling Abolition attention to the
above regulations of theirs, and trust
many seltrightcous Niger worship
peIs will profit by their example.
The st. Joseph Gazette, after referr-
ing to the fact of the selection of Ne
braska City as the standing point for
the expedition, gives the following in
formation as having been derived from
Mr.. Majors:
His firm will start from that point
from eight hundred to one thousand
wagons. They will require from six
to eight thousand yoke of oxen, and
will engage the services OF about
twelve hundred men, for which they
will pay twenty five dollars, out and
back.
The price which he proposes to give
for oxen is seventy five dollars per
yoke, which, in view of the present
state Of the money market, is certainly
a fair remuneration. They will require
the stock to be delivered at Nebraska
City, of the time Of which due notice
will be given through agents or the
press. 1t probable that Messrs. Majors
l. Russell will ask sixty, ninety and
one hundred and twenty days on their
purchases of stock.
The trains will commence moving
at the earliest practicable moment, GER
tainly not later than the LIST of April.
Our farmers have thus offered to
them a market for their stock at q
most seasonablc time, by which they
can realize the cash at a very early
date, and we cannot doubt that they
will promptly avail themselves of it
The money that this firm will pay out
for oxen alone will probably amount
to six hundred thousand dollars, an
, immense sum, which will do much to
give financial relief to the whole North
West.
Mr.. Majors tenders his thanks to the
business men of our city for their gen
erous efforts to induce the farmers tc
D bring forward their stock at fair prices
9 and thus enable him to purchase here
, rather than be driven to other parts.
We would add here that no distrus
of the ability and integrity of this firm
need be felt by any. Their high char
: acter as heretofore established through
ant tho Naet 10 a cnf4ie;ant r,uoranto,