The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-12-04
For the Gate CITY,
For the Gate City.
rhe Purchase Of MT. Ncrm hoss
c~o rhe Money be kAtnC0s

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| pxcn..e 81 mi. Vermon.-H ovs
can the Money be Katscd.
MxssRs. EplroRs: The sum agreed to be
! given, BY the Ladies' Association OF tho Union,
for the Mount Vernon property, is SOL, 900,
more than half Of rhich is already collect
ed. Divided equally among the 81 States OF
the Union, it would require from each one
| Of them about sc, 500 to make up the whole
amount Of the purchase money. In Alabama
alone, in the month Of July, over 81, 900 we're
raised for the purpose; and in New York, by
the very thorough plan which has been adopt
cd, and is now in successful progress there's
three or four times that sum, it is confidently
believed, will be collected-say an eighth or
sixth part of the whole amount required.
Can not the people Of Iowa, then, afford
| to contribute half the sum that they would be
called nron to furnish, under q general av-
erage embracing all the States2 1t appears
to me that they should endeavor to do this
much, and have no doubt they will do it.
i But how, it may be asked, is the money to
be raised? As it has been, and is being
below few examples, from the great mum
Der that have been reported. Outside OF
these examples, there are very many cases
where the subscription lists embrace names
with the sum of $40 set down opposite to
them less frequently $25, and occasionally
! $50. Most generally, however, the amount
, subscribed by individuals varies from | to
, dollars, Of which there are long lists report
ed everywhere.
But, to the examples above referred to -
7 Mr.. b. NJ. Whitlock, of Fordham, Westchest-
!, cr Co., New York, has given $3.50 the fam
q lily of VIM. p. Mole.t, Of Dallas Co., Ala
bama--c consisting Of himself and wife, his
son, daughter in law and seven children
$50 each, making an aggregate of $3.50; Mrs.
. Hill Garter, of Charles City Co., Virginia,
q and her two daughters-Eliza and Anne
n $33 33 100 each, making 500; Mr.. Ii. Far.
g mum, of Chicago, 800; Masonic Lodge No.
D. High Sbhooi' of boys, in Boston, 81 4l-l0o
at the Young Ladies of the "talhoun Institute,'
at Macon, Mississippi, $S5; the yigilant Fir,
* and Hose Co., Of Augusta, Ga, S32; from
I'd "Lady Managers in Florida Gin sums from
$. each, ranging from $l4 5o-l0o to 1888,
IL 1856 the High School, in Charleston, S. c..
j. 1927; from Ladies Strawberry Feat, il
Tuskogee, Ala, 1884 $1,000; from Hon. w
L. Yancy, of the same State, raised through
y his addresses to the people, and his exertions
NJ and influence, through different channels
So $50; from l3 small counties in MISSISSIPPI
a. pi, 81, 2ol from "a Masonic Lodges, in S. c.,
f. Tin sums from each, varying from SIS &c
If $lo0) nearly III 900; from he"Montgomer,
st Blues" a military company, in Ala, 1912
i. from Madame Lie Vert, received by her il
.. Mobile, on the 4th Of July, between the hour,
.. Of a. m. and p. m, 800; from Master
a. Theodore Lee Shute, 1885, collected by hin
m in sums, mostly, from 81 to s., 10 less thar
ut weeks, during his hour or two Of daily re
he cess from school.
Such are few of the examples set US b
CHI other States; and why may they not be fol
dis lowed-if not upon the same large scale, up
dc on smaller one, more nearly suited to GU
jr. conditon--in Iowa2 Where are our orators
,e- our Masonic and other associations, our mi
the itary and FIRE companies, our boys and girl
no schools, &C., &C., and our citizens with the
ro- individual subscriptions Arewe less patr
otto than the people Of our sister States P
lof Assuredy not Let us, then, be up and d.
is ing, and accomplish only half, or even THU
on- of what has been done, in most OF the cas-
- above cited, and We shall have psrforme
nj. perhaps, our share, under all the circumsta
Of ces, in the great work to be performed, b
or not until then.
- FRIEND TO THE CAUSE.
BILE;
ag- The QuAKKas.--It is noteworthy that thr
Is prominent Americans Benjamin West,
ken great painter; Charles Brockden Brown, i
the noted novelist, and John q. Whittier, /
gifted poet, should be OF Quaker lineage.
This fact IL n remarkable one, inasmuch
am the Society Of Friends, both in principle a
,uth practice, manifest repngnance rather tn
sympathy with the products OF the imagin
VT ton. Thomas Paine, the noted destical q
We political writer, was of Quaker parentaE
the but 10 early life reaeanced the faith Of
now family. AT bis death, the Quakers refus
ls,. to allow his body to be buried among tn
dead. John Neal was of n Quaker fami
ioe' but in his boyhood was "read out" OF |
,ore drsb fraternity for "knocking a man, "
insuited him, head over heels; for paying
"a. military fine for making tragedy; and
y. desiring to be turned out, whether or nc
tue 1t 10 singular that while Neal does not a
pear to have inherited any Quaker placid
Of mind his first novel was entitled "ke
81 Cool" Boston Transcript.
reas IliSpoo SroRY.--Ihe following would
ION. sacreligions, il relating 10 ph lie folks, but
orm it is it will pass
nsin "a poor llindoo, having been releas
~ from tho cares Of this world, and from
.As scurvy wife, presented himself at the gates
ltes Brahma's paradise. Have You been throu
purgatory y asked tho god. No, but hs
The been Married. he replied, seriously. Co
AID in, then, its oil tie same AT this nom,
"',l arrived another man, just dofupct, who b,
essls ged to 70 in also. Softly softly iii