St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-04
GOV. Grimes Message.

to the Iowa Legislature was delivered
on the 18th ult. The Governor con.
graduates the Legislature upon the
continued prosperity of the State. Re.
minding them that they were met for
the first time under the new Constitu-
ton, he proceeds to enumeratc some
of its principal provisions, and sug-
gcsts the Legislation which they de-
mand
The organization of a University,
required by the Constitution, "to en-
courage by all suitable means the pro-
motion of intellectual, scientific, moral
and agricultural improvement" is
urged upon the Legislature. -
The Asylum for the Insane at Mount
Pleasant is advancing rapidly towards
completion, and will be ready for oc-
cupancy some time during the year.
The amount expended is $l3s, s,Ol,
and more will be required.
The Report of the Geological Sur
vcy of the State has been printed at
Albany, under the supervision of Pro-
fcssor Hall, and will soon be ready for
distribution. OF its character the
Governor says: 81 am pleased to be
able to say that it is regarded by men
of science, who have had access to the
proot-shects, as one of the noblest con-
tributions that has ever been made to
the scientific history of the country,
and is spoken of by all as an honor to
the State"
BY the act of Congress of 1915 adj
Iowa into the Union, it was
that five per cent. of the
sales of all public lands in the State
should be appropriated to the construc-
ton of public roads and canals, as the
might direct, and an addi-
tional five per cent. was to revert to
the State for the support of common
schools. This the Governor regards
as Il contract between the State of
Iowa and the United States, and be-
licvcs that it's spirit has been violated
on the part of the latter by the issue
of bounty land warrants, on which the
former receives no percentage. The
military land warrants located in the
State up to the 3Oth of June, 1856,
covered 10, 929, 500, 80 acres. The per-
centagc due to the State thereon is
1862, 9SO,30. The number of acres
located in the fiscal year ending 30th
June, 1857, is not known, bat it is be.
lieved that the aggregate percentage
now due to to the State approaches
very near Sl,OOO,0OO.
The Governor very properly recon-
mends that Congress be memorialized
upon the subject, and that a suit be
instituted against the United States
for the amount due, in the Court of
Claims.
The Indian difficulties last spring
are referred to, and it is suggested
that the gallant men who pcriled their
lives in the expedition against Ink-pa-
du-tah's band should receive compcn,
sation from the General Government.
The concluding portion Of the mes
sage is devoted to a consideration of
Kansas affairs, and the persistent at
tempt to force slavery into that Terri
tory is characterized in fitting terms.
FiILIBrsrERIsM AT THE SourH-Judg-
ing from Southern exchanges, the people
are not at all excited about the down.
fall of Walker and his fillibustering
schemes. The Savannah Republican,
a high-toncd journal, which indicates
the conservative sentiments of Georgia,
says:
owe have been disposed. and still are, to
doubt the existence of the vast amount of
sympathy for Walker which the filibuster
press would have Ills believe is IA universal SEN
timent at the South, and especially in the
cities of the Gulf In fact, we believe the
whole thing to be an arrant humbug, got up
by few noisy men, and trumpeted abroad for
the accomplishment of a purpose. The people,
the bone and sinew moral and physical, Of the
cOuntry-care nothing for either Walker or his
schemes. There is more excitement about him
among the politicians at Washington than any
where else, and they are only using present
circumstances to aid them in the attainment
of an object long entertained, viz: repeal of
the neutrality laws"
The same journal declares that the
assertion that public sentiment is in
his favor, :" is fraud, is delusion
and fraud, Matched up by scanty
meetings and fabricated dispatches,
for the purpose of imposing on and in
timidating the Government"
The flourish of trumpets in Mobile
and New Orleans, calling meetings to
dcnouncc the conduct of Commodore
Paulding, express sympathyfor Walk
err, &c, were also comparative failures,
as we learn from truthful accounts of
unprejudiced papers.
The Baltimore Patriot says: