The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-07-22

stump contest with hlrkW00u.
AGood improvements.
friend who lately visited the farm Of Mr..
C. G. Van Papplendam, situated two miles
north of Charleston in this county, gives US
the following items:
so acres, GO of which are timbered, the bal
ance being prairie and under cultivation
from Mr.. Leighton Of this city, paying $25
per acre, oil cash. He is now absent in his
native country, (Holland,) and is expected
back with his family in a short time. Such
men as Mr.. P. will be Of incalculabe benefit
to our country, as he has already made val
liable improvements, having from twenty to
thirty hands employed all the time. Mr.. w.
ans-carpenter-has the contract for
building his house, which will cost when
completed some sc 900. 1t is one story and
half high above the basement, is 40 BY Sc
feet, contains IL large rooms well ventilated,
and is to be heated by a furnace in the base.
ment, and has cistern holding 400 gallons.
The Misunderstanding, lathe, rafters, sheet
Ing, and the principal par. of the timbers of
the building before being put up were satu-
rated with preparation of hot tar and SCOT,
which, besides rendering the timbers almost
as hard as iron and impervious to the wealth
er, will efectually exclude the bed-bugs.-
Mr.. P. says the preparation is now being ex-
tensively used in France in oil new buildings.
It is very simple, and consists of one gallon
of tar boiled with four ounces of SCOT. The
second coat is tar, mixed with fne sand,
| which is afterwards whitewashed, the white
wash being the same as that used on the
"White House" at Washington. Before put
ting ON the whitewash, his house was known
about Charleston as the "Back Houee.''-
| He contemplates making further valuable
| IMPROVEMENTS barn and out-houees, and
large garden, and intends planting out 800
apple trees this fall.
eT-The Chicago Herald, Administration
Organ, has come to the conclusion that the
Democracy Of Iowa acted "patriotically and
wisely in neglecting to endorse the Admins
tration.''
To be sure they did. 1t would have been
most sunpatriotic' and 'unwise' to have en-
dorsed in Iowa an administration, in regard
to which the Democratic State Convention
of California truthfully resolved,
That the Administration of James Buohan-
an, by its outrage on the rights OF the people
of Kansas, its unrelenting prescription Of
| tried and worthy Democratic principles, it's
constant violation of the pledges which
brought it into life, its attempts to make the
Legislative subject to the Executive depart
ment, and its gross extravagances, misman
agement and corruption, has forfeited the
respect and lost the confidence of the Amerl-
can people.
The HELYrsoMErER.-At meeting of the
American Photographic Society, held in New
York, on Monday evening, Mr.. John Cakes
exhibited his Helypsomcter, an instrument
intended to take the altitude of the sun when
the horizon is obscured. 1t is described as
follows
1t is the lower half of hollow sphere, held
level by pinnacle apparatus. Over il ia
: laid metallic plate, with q small hole in the
t center, through which the sun shines on SEN
siiive paper, which is stretched on the inner
surface of the hollow hemisphere, marking
: his path. With this line marked, it is easy
to read the greatest altitude of the sun on O
I scale accompanying the instrument, and it il
d claimed that latitude may be determined by
it to within one or two miles.
0 Sicklcs ON the street.
q The n. I. correspondent Of the Baltimore
Patriot writes
ar. oloies - stunned by mis- old polltica
!, associates. He walks Broadway and fasten,
a upon every leading man to walk with him
They cannot shake him OF. He Joined /
, leading statesman on Broadway, one fin,
- morning last week, and walked by his sid,
/. about two blocks, when the gentleman apol
Id ogizeo TO Slckles Tor leaving him to buy
u book IN store. Siekles said he would wait
The gentleman went into the New York Ho
y tel. Sickles waited till he came out. It wa
ia no use.
The gentleman stopped ut Stewards to bu'
re apair OF gloves, and stayed purposely hal
an hour. II was with no success Sickle
~ waited, and walked down with him to Wal
G. street. Sickles' political power has gone
en- and bis sole aim now is to be recognized q
4. OF old. Ii wont do. His old friends do no
wish to be seen with him, or to endorse hin
In any way. Dir. Sickles will never be hear,
90 OF again. He will attempt to claim bis sea
M next December, but even that will fail him
Facts are against him. He was not fairl
on elected, and Mr.. Williamson will claim an,
will get his seat.