The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-10-04

How TO sway children.
DER maynard children wouldst thou hold firm
And sun thee IN the Tight Of happy faces
Love, hope, and patience these must DO thy
graces,
And in thine own heart lot them frst keep school.
Depierabie Condition OF AfTairs.-A
Change Demanded.
OF all the furnaces in the Union, one-half
at least must be closed the remainder being
only partially employed. So, too, is it in
the rolling and machine shops-not one
half Of their productive power being in ac
ton. In the coal region, as We learn, the
distress among the working people IS likely
to be greater than has ever yet been known.
Last winter, they had the little savings Of the
summer, but this seHs IN they have been but
half EMPLOYED. Our railroads are likely soon
TO pass into the hands of the bondholders-
the original propretors being utterly extin-
guished. Our farmers have little wheat,
scarcey any oats, and but small supplies OF
corn. Heavily in debt, with enormous inter-
est to pay, their farms must pass through the
sheriif's hands. Our shipping interest is
now, Of all, the mos I ruinously depressed ];
and yet it is likely to be still worse--the car
riage Of really valuable commodities tending
to pass entirely into the hands of owners OF
foreign ships. As regards our factories and
their owners generally, the following para
graph from one of our exchanges exhibits, as
We think, the true position OF great MAORI
t. OF them:
"Therc is to be an immense sale of prop
erty By the Sheriff of Burlington Co., N. j.,
on the 18th OF September. All the extensive
mills, factories, print-works, and the whole
village OF Shreveville, some two miles from
Mt Holly, are to be sold under foreclosure.
THERE'S an elegant mansion and twenty dwell
ling houses, beside the water-power OF the
Rancocas, and in fact group OF improve
nents on which an immense amount OF mo-
ney has been expended, muon Of which has
been hopelessly sunk. The proprietors were
both deceased before the hard times cnme on
But though for years they have manufactured
about the best article Of spool cotton ever
made in this country, yet they had TO strug
gle on under all the disadvantages Of compe-
tition with British capitalists, who, under the
benign influence Of free trade, drove our own
manufacturers to the wall. The once flour
lshing village around these extensive works
became silent and idle under the crushing
! blight, and now, when manufacturing ia so
many other places Is stagnant, il 10 absolute
ly desoate. The cotton thread business Is
carried on in a small way ut Mt. Holly. but
| It has hard time to keep up and earn what
it ought to. Worse than all this, there can
be but little hope that these factories and i'm
provements will fall into the hands Of parties
courageous enough to put them in operation
while this curse OF free trade hangs over the
industry of the nation.'
Toe Treasury is rapidly tending toward
/ bankruptoy--the expenditures being 1T til q
rate OF nearly S. ,0oo,00 per week, and the
receipts being likely not to exceed $7O0. 900
In the midst Of all this, what is the Admin.
istration doing he President is shutting
the cards, in the hope Of obtaining re nom
nation, that deing the object next his heart
The Secretary Ut the Treasury is assuring his
friends Of his extreme surprise that trade 90
very obstinately refuses to grow and revenue
refuses to increase. So far, however, as re
CARDS the condition Of the people, or tbs
country, both are as calm as q summer.
morning being, like Micawbe quite DON
tent to wait, in hopes that something NAV
turn up. The history OF tho world may b.
safely challenged for the production OK &C
utterly contemplate an Administration q
that OF james Buchanan.
Such being the manner in which the PEG
Plies interests are managed, it would seem L
be time that the people themselves ehoule
look into their own affairs.-[ New York Trib
une.
Direct frOm tho Kansas Cold nj e.
During the past week there have been sew
eral arrivals in town from the gold region,
Of the Rocky Mountains. From Mr.. Baker
who wac one OF the original Lawrence com.
pany, We learn that that company have con,
|, to the Spanish Peaks instead or Cherr,
Creek, The Spanish Peaks are in New Mex
100, about six days journey south OF Pike,
, Peak. The Lawrence company have beer
encamped nearly all summer at Pixies Peak
) and have sent prospecting companies into al
the country round about. They found gols
IN all the streams, but not in sufficient ouan
titles to prove profitable mining with theil
present facilities. Mr.. Baker 10 confden
G that there are rich deposits Of gold in al
that region, and that, with the proper facii
tiles for mining, itcould be made to pay well
lie confirms the account that there is y Geor
9 gia company at work on Cherry Greek, /
; is from this Georgia company that the arri
walls OF gold At Kansas City have been. TIL
Lawrence company have gone to Spanish
4 Peaks and will probably winter in New Mex
/. 'fico.--l Lawrence Rep, 23d.
: GT-Ebenczer Francis, we'll known mil
llonaire OF Boston, died last week. Mr.. +
! went to Boston, poor lad, at the age Of lG
as an apprentice, and has left o fortune o
$i,000,O10.
GTA Berne correspondent states that al
Switzerland 10 in q state OF insurrectio,
: against railroad lords, whose political powe
: il rapidly extending over the whole confed
. eracy.
4 E~S5S At n aola ~ 81 Ne,
monu, Va, on the 18th nit., negro bo
! aged about l3 years and luxuriatiDg in th
!. grand mama AZ Is Y. tor 1anDtaa - -
far k2Ql