The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-09-26

DelauItcrs on the Rise.
Eads, the great School Fund defaulser,
and editor OF the organ OF Lee county Dem
ocracy, has taken fresh courage since Judge
Loves DECISION In favor Of BAbbits. In his
paper Of Friday he claims that he is not
only not in debt to the State, but that there
is balance due him from the State Of $780,
COL 65.
If Eads could only manage to get his case
into tho q. s. District Court, where ii could
be submitted to Judge Love, As the jury in
that court il usually composed Of Locofoco
politicians, he might possibly make his claim
against the State goods
Defaulters are on the rise in Iowa and the
food tide may lead him to safe haven.
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Gen. Dodge and the Homestead
Law.
General Dodge parades with great deal
OF satisfaction his position ms m advocate
and friend OF the rights Of pioneers and set
tiers upon the public domain. He would
have the people Of Iowa believe that no has
always been in favor of the passage of .
Homestead Bill. Let us try him by the rec
ord and see what his pretensions in this re-
spect amount to.
On the ed day of January, 1853, joint
resolutions passed the General Assembly OF
Iowa, instructipg the Senators and request
ing the Representatives Of the State in Con-
gress to suse their best efforts to procure the
passage of some bill the object Of which will
be to secure to the honest industry of our
country permanent home, and oil the at
tributes Of freedom These resolutions
were sent to Washington and laid before tho
Senate more than two years before Gen.
Dodge was superseded by Mr.. Harlan. Now
what did Gen. Dodge do to carry out these
instructions Of ihe General Assembly? Here
was an opportunity given to show his devo-
ton to the principles of the Homestead Bill.
How did he do it2 Did he introduce bill
into the Senate embodying the doctrine Of
free homes to the homeless? Not that we
ever heard Of, and his friends do not pretend
that he did. lie sst there more than two
years after receiving these instructions of the
General Assembly, and made no effort, so
far as the record shows, to Garry them into
effect. 1t cannot be said that he did not un-
derstand parliamentary law we'll enough to
introduce bill, because on the 23d dav of
December, 1858, he introduced HE celebra-
ted bill 10 organize the Territory Of Nebras-
ka. II he knew how to get one bill before
the Senate, he knew how TO get two, and ig-
norance in that respect certainly cannot be
pleaded. II is true he might not have been
able to find among the old files some defeat
ed, cast OF Homestead bill Of former ses
sion to re-introduce, as in the case Of his Ne
braska bill, bat, surely, il he was always so
very earnest in his support of the claims Of
poor men and settlers, and so exceedingly
vigilant Of their rights (and, especially, in
this case, when instructed by the General As
sembly he might have procured for mode
rate compensation, some one TO prepare
proper bill for him.
The facts Of this case are all 10 nutshell.
Gen. Dodge, as one Of the Senators of Iowa,
Was instructed By the General Assembly SO
use his best exertions to procure the passage
OF Homestead BILL two years before be
ceased to be Senator. Did he use his bost
exertions' to accomplish that object2 Was
such bill introduced into the Senate during
the whole seven years of his continuance in
that body, by any one? II not-and We aver
that no such bill was introduced into the Sen.
ate, until it was introduced by Andrew John
son, Of Tennessee, after Gen. Dodge had left
the country--we would respectfully ask what
becomes OF Gen. Dodge's pretonsions of
early and constant devotion 30 the Home
stead Bill? Ia it possible that Gen. Dodge
believed himself to be obcying his instruc-
tions and using his best efforts to procure
the passage Of . bill to secure to honest in
dusty home,' by remaining perfectly quiet
and paying no attention to the subject during
the entire two years that be renamed in the
Senate after the joint resolutions were intro
duced; and will he now seriously claim cred
it for his zeal and attachment to this great
principle9-[Hawkeye.
The Harvests ~ the World..Pros.
poets for Cheap Markets.
y The blessings Of bountiful harvests have
not been limited this year to any particular
quarter or the world. ALI nations and PEG.
pie are rejoicing alike in the fullness with
which the earth has Welded her fruits. Our
own crops are larger by an average OF twen-
ty.iive per cent. than they have ever been
before. The harvests in England and Ire-
land are represented as excellent. In France
the yield Of wheat has been but little below
the average, and that decline il counterbal-
anced BY large reserves of old wheat, which
will prevent tho possibility OF high prices
All over the Continent the harvest has been
either equal to or better than that OF former
years. Cur latest dispatch from Liverpool
speaks Of breadstufs and provisions being
very dull in that market and sales unimpor-
tant.
II lie, therefore, quite clear that our agri-
culturi.ts need not expect to get high prices
for their produce this year. Our exports Of
grain to Europe will not be on very large
scale. The excellence Of tho harvests there
forbids such On idea. But of late years the
social condition Of the working elasses OF the
population Of Europe has been improving,
and consequently the consumption Of -four
has been increasing. This may tend meAs-
urably to augment our export Of grain but
still, oil things considered, that export can-
not be very large. The Farmer, therefore,