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The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1859-11-19

FREIGHT BY THE JAMESTOWN.
NOTICE.
DERSONS having freight to ship by the
Jamestown, are notified that she will here.
after take what is offered at Norfolk and then
go to Portsmouth, at which place she will leave
Tor New York after the arrival of the Southern
cars.
Shippers must have their freight Oh the wharf
by O'clock Wednesday afternoon. ocl9
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1859-11-19

H'ooD, BUT NOT FERNANDO Every
'1e has heard the WORKOUT story about
t9e hostler's bill, wherein the astonished
higher found the words and figures
To anosafada So 90
/ fechinimome 100
-$3 90
y hiGh was translated-''Io u horse, tor
half g. day" and Fetching him home.
But We have in our possession a bill
which rather takes this down. A friend
bought couple of ivory boxes the other
Say. On being sent to his house one
was found to be unsuitable, and was sent
tack. The next day he was handed the
following bill:
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1859-11-19
/. STEWART EDWARD sTEEvER
STEWART d STEEvER,

4, MOTHER lot of that delicious Turkish
N Smoking Tobacco of our own importa-
son rom Constsntinopls. Can and get smell
* Il. for sala at New York prices by
i HAMBURGER & co, Main street,
10 ]" Sign OF Big Indian in tiouL
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-03-16
sides.

A man In his carriage wAs riding along,
A gsily dressed wife by his side
In atin and laces she looked quite queen,
Ard he like king in his pride.
A wood sawyer stood on the ttreet as they passed
The carriage and couple he eyed
And said, u he worked with his saw on a log,
II wish was rich and could ride"
The man in the carriage remarked to his wife
"0ne thing would give If could
would give all my veal h for the strength and
the health
OF the nun " no saweth the wood"
pretty young maid, with bundle of work,
Whose face a. the morning was fair,
Went tripping along with q smile III delight,
While humming love breathing air.
She looked on the carriage--the lady she saw
Arrayed in apparel so fine,
And said in whisper, II wish FROM my heart
Those satins and laces we're mine"
The lady looked ont on the maid with her work,
So fair in her calico dress,
And said, II d relinquish possession and wealth
Her beauty and youth to possess"
Thus in this world. whatever our lot,
Our minds and our time we employ
In longing and signing for what We have not,
Ungratef ui for what We enjoy.
We welcome the pleasures for which we have
sighed,
The heart has a void In 1t STILL
Growing deeper and wider the longer we live,
That nothing but heaven can fiji.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-03-16

The Supreme Court Of the United
States has declared the action of the SUI
preme Court Of Wisconsin, in the case Of s.
II. Booth, illegal and unconstitutional. The
case was one arising under the Fugitive
Slave Law Of the United States and the laws
of Wisconsin, and the decision OF the U. S.
Supreme Court in the premises, is another
step in the onward march Of our Govern
ment to imperial consolidation, and the over
throw OF State sovereignty. A few more
such decisions win leave the States with no
more show of sovereign; = So. ,1nelation
to the Federal Government, than that Which
is possessed by the several counties in their
relations to the State government.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-03-16
New Invention.

AT the request Of Mr.. Rufus Wilsey we
have examined model for a steamboat
wheel which he has spent considerable time
in designing and improving. The perfect
simplicity OF the Improvement will strike the
observer at the first sight. The buckets are
90 arranged as, apparently, to overcome the
~ Of the ordinary wheel entirely. They out
into the water like knife, and come out in
the same way, withou. producing any jar and
without waste Of power, and appear to allow
OF any rate of velocity in the REVOLUTIONS Of
the shaft which steam power can produce
SO far as We could see this wheel will be
equally effective in backing.
MIR. Wilsey has fled a caveot, and it is his
intention to proceed soon to some Of the
large river cities-probably to Cincinnati
and have hs invention thoroughly tested
Mr. Wilsey has long been an enterprisinp
citizen Of this place, and we commend him
and bis invention TO tho attention of those in.
terested, and trust he may reap entire sue.
cess.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-03-16
VITO AhouId 20 To rIke'A Peak.
The Leayenworth Ledger If the 18th nj

VITO Should 70 To Pixies Peak.
The LeaYenworth Ledger Of the 18th ult
says:
Eve often hear young men, who never did
any hard work in their lives, talk about 20
ing to Pixies Peak. We ask such what kind
OF work they think gold digging is2 Let
them turn out here and get themselves into
practice by digging wells, cellars. coal, GUAR
riying rocks, mauling rails and rolling saw
logs, and eat dry bread and wash ii down
with water, and sleep on the ground in fair
weather and foul, and then form An opinion
aDont tbs WORK 81 digging gold. Digging
gold il no child's play; and Il l. oniy The
strong, able bodied, hard. working men that
will suit for the business. The men who
succeeded at the mines in California, were
strong OF arm, stout at heart, and only such
men can succeed at the gold mines. bull
has just as much business in china shon a.
glove handed clerk or fair faced mechanic
has It Pixies Peak"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-03-16

GVThe Albany Journal says, rather
qusrulonsly, our "Minister to France speaks
only broken French +; our Minister to Spain
is ignorant Of Spanish; our Ministers to
Germany, as general thing, cannot tell
High Dutch from Hebrew; one Of our Min.
listers to Italy knows equally little Of Italian;
our Minister to Russia speaks NO Russian ;
our Minister to Constantinople cannot talk
Turkey = our Minister to China doesn't know
the first word of Chinese As the rule is
invariable there must be good reason for it.
Probably it IL intended that they shall do no
mischief. Did not Mr.. Soule know Spanish?
And what muss he made Of it! Let we'll
enough alone.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-03-16
BUyINEss NOTICE.

Subscriptions for the DAILY aArE CIrr, and
WEEKLY Valley Vine, must be accompanied by
the cash in all cases.
Daily subecrib can pay the carrier if they pre-
fer, once In two weeks. The carrier Is advised to
require payment In advance, in all cases.
No Job Work delivered until paid for.
All advertisements must be paid for in advance,
except In the case Of customers with whom we have
mutual accounts. With such, settlements win be
made quarterly.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-03-16

ID Denver is about to return to Califor-
MIA, and will leave vacancy for the Presi-
dent to fill by placing some other scamp
whom the people have rejected, in the post
OF Commissioners Of Indian Affairs, now held
BY him.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-03-16

GYThe New York Journal Of Commerce.
leading Administration paper Of New York,
IN reply to the Washington Union, places
the responsibility Of the defeat Of the Post
Office Appropriation bill upon Mr.. Toombs
OF the Senate, where it unquestionably be-
longs.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-03-16

60 Hughes, Of Ind, one Of the most
rampant of the Northern Lecompton cohort
in Congress, has been appointed Commits
sioner OF Patents by the President. Fitness
for the post does not seem to be matter Of
any consequence in the eyes Of Mr.. Buchan-
an. He has just so many friends to reward
and votes to pay for. and he finds places for
them as rapidly as possible.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-03-16

0The dead body of drunken Scotch
man was found, afew days since, on the side
OF hill in Clinton county, New York, in the
immediate vicinity of a rhttlcsnake den. A
great deal Of flesh had been picked from his
bones, and from tho trail made to the den il
seemed evident that the "sarpents" had killed
and eaten him.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-03-16

GIThe story going the rounds Of the pa
pers about the discovery of certain remark
able caves, ancient coins and gigantic skele-
tons, is pronounced to be an unmitigated
hoax By the Darke County 20 J Journal.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-03-16
ATTENTION, OLD soLDIERs77.

.ssIE 1s.sI $. s.s1s hereby give n.s;os - n.
! OLD SOLDIERS Of the war OF 1917, whoV
volunteered or were drafted under the aeenersl os
deFs Of the Governor Of the State Of New York.
TOT ne detence that they are entitled 10 additional
equipments, By tho " Act passed April 3lst, 1878.
and April 10th, 1919 by the state OF New YORK.
and that the proofs Of said claims 10 BE- I'd
70 the Commissioners for adjustment and pay
ment' thereof, will be taken ct our ONCE IN the
city OF keokuk, until the 10th Of April mort.
TURNER a CRAIG.
Keokuk, March Is. 106Q-dlm
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-03-16

oTThe Reading Railroad Co. 10 placing
gas fixtures in the passenger oars. The trans
vii! in short time be lighted 10 this way, Us
. substitute for oil lamps.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-03-16

GTH you see wife carefully footing
her husbands stockings, you may conclude
that be will not find it difficult to foot her
bills.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-03-16

@"I would not be woman,o said
Joan Paul Richter, "for then .coald not
love her."
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-03-16

Far sale.
All kinds of Fruit and Ornamental Trees,
Grapes and email fruits, At No. SO Main st.,
Keokuk, Iowa. WI. BARNRs, Agent.
fb3d&w2m
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-03-16

pUBLlC NOTICE e hereby given that en the 1lth
day Of March, AID. 1850, In front Of The CLARK z
once In the City OF keokuk, We win ssll 10 ths
bidder Tor cash, the following real estate
In the County Of Lee and State Of Iowa namslv
Lot IL in block 10 Of the addition Of Reeves !
Perry and W. II. Williama 10 the City 81 ksokuk.
Said sale Is made By virtue Of power Of ssls givsn
to " In mortgage, or deed Of trust, nAds % -
cure US in the payment Of certain pFomssory notee
which instrument and notes were executed - s. ~
Barnum, and said instrument duly acknowlsdeed
and recorded. w. H. AUSTIN = CH
March IL, l06o-mshl5d10t
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-03-16

A Nrw DoxoLoGY.--One of the illiterate
who chad called to PREACH" recently set his
congregation on the broad grin, ut the close
OF hammer-and-tongs sermon, be request
ing them to Using tho Sockdologer."
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-03-16

Great WostGrn ImsuranC0 ana Tru0s
COmpany.s
AUDITORS OYvIcn, iowa.
TT il hereby certified, that the Great Western
/ Insurance and Trust Company Of Philadslphis,
Penn, has hlsd In this once renewed Statement,
in accordance with Section 8, Chapter lao, Laws
OF 81. which receives my approval. / do there
fore renew the certificate Of Agency Of Samuel n.
Rankin, Esq, for Loe County, which 10 hereby
continued in full force and effect for he year 1885,
II il further certified that the annexed 10 . true
copy Of the Statement ~ filed.
Witness my hand and seal ct Des Mcinss, this
IL.s.1 ninth day Of February, 1859.
j. W. OATTELL,
Auditor Of State.
STATEMENT OF the Great Western insurance and
Trust Company, Of Philadelphia, Penn, Dse.
3Ist, 1858.
l. The name and locality Of the Company-"Grsat
Western Insurance and Trust Company Of Phil
adelphia, Penn"
!. The amount Of its Capital So0, oee -
8. paid up, 12S ,So0.ee
LIST. Amount Of cash on hand and In
hands Of agents and other per-
sons. $lo, 3oo1z
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-03-16
w An n Ed

rI,O EXCHANGE, good dwelling house an N
for unimprcved lots in city, or lands in visini-
ty. Also, aGARDENER, to take house end irem
q to 10 acres Of land, outside city limits.
Apply to X. NJ. REYNOLDS.
mrh1RdEt
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-03-16
NEW ADVERTISEMENT.

M. w. wEaTCOTT.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN
BOOKS, STATIONERY,
Paper JIangangs, window ShAAs0, -
a L 20, Sheet Music; Musical Instrustors ~
Fife Ia. No. 81 Main-st., Keokuk, lows.
1.-THE highest market price paid for Rags.
neh16d
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-03-16

And Regulations Of the Eighth Annual Fair of the
Lee County Agricultural Society, 70 b held at
West Point, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,
October 9th, 9th and 7th, 1859.
Opon to the whole STATE, Clark County, Mo-, and
Hancock County, Ills.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-03-16

LIST OF PREMIUMS.
Glass A...CRItlo.
]. v. HAMPTON, Superintendent.
No. l.-sHoRT HORNS, DEvONs, 20.
Col. WV. THOMPSON, keokuk,
J. McCoY, Waterloo, Mo.
JNo. HADLEY, ClArksville, Ohio, Judges.
New London, Iowa,
RnRr RRnxA. Dae Moines Comfy
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-03-16

The girl obeyed, but there was no affection
in her manner, and she moved in listless
sort Of way toward her father, and reached
out her hand for his coat. Mr.. Crandall
gave her the garment. saying "Thank you,
dear.o
The words were spontaneous, not of de-
sign; and spoken with q tender utterance.
He was but repeating the tone that was still
| sounding in his memory.
That instant life seemed to quicken through
the child's frame. She gave one glance Of
surprise into her fathers face, and then step
| ped away with the coat like one pleased to
render service.
Mr.. Crandall was surprised at himself; md
fer e. Instant, half ..hs.ned Of What he had
done as il il were o weakness.
"Will you have glass Of water ?" asked
Jane, coming back to her father.
eff you please"
MIR. Crandall wondered at his own reply.
An almost cold, abrupt "yes" or ssno"
was bis accustomed answer to nearly all
questions.
How lightly did Jane trip from the room.
La twinkling she returned with cool glass
OF water for her father, who az he received
it from Der hand, said, ssThank you"
/ To the child, unaccustomed to such On &C
acknowledgement for any service, those two
| little words felt to be sweet reward.
The fathers altered manner and way of
| speaking was perceived BY the children a.
well as BY their mother and, as II by some
magic, the whole Of their, lives seemed
changed.
"Shall bring up your slippers p" asked
Jane, returning 10 her father.
eyes, that's good girl my feet are ach-
ing with these heavy boots," no replied.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-03-16

Jraught Horses to be tested by drawing at load.
CONCLUDED To-KoRRow.l
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1859-02-09

The number of soldiers within easy call
of this fort is about $4,000. They have
not the skill or power in conflict that
we find in the troops of the leading ma
tions Of the world, but they are by far the
best troops In South America. Their
liberal mixture Of Indian blood makes
them much more formidable in battle than
the pure Spanish. They do sometimes
get into confusion. but they do not run or
retreat, unless ordered. No Paraguayan
leaves his post and lives another day
Every lance, lasso or knife in the republic
is commissioned against him in summary
execution.
They are wanting in expertness in using
heavy guns, and the foreign instructors
whom they have employed will not engage
in actual conflict, being released from that
obligation by contract. But they are
not wanting in savage ferocity, or in fatal
skill in the use of the "bolas,n or the las
SO, or the lance, and 10000 men, can be
concentrated at one point upon very short
notice. For distant fighting they are not
prepared. Judge Bowlin will doubtless
be detained at or below Humaita until it
shall please Lopez to let negotiation
commence. The result of it can only be
conjectured. The sentiment here is that
he will offer q serious and tedious resis-
tance. -ieIH ,'--. ,st'Ea "ih'
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The Isaphene Allen Tragedy.

&c Considerable excitement has been pro.
.duced at Clarington, and vicinity, by a
revival Of the Isaphene Allen tragedy
The whole affair." oat of which the
Wheeling papers have made so much, can
,beatold in q few words. Some time since
the friends of Martin Troy, jr,. noticed
/, that he exhibited symptoms of insanity,
!, and while in that state he left home. A
few days since q letter was received from
"a physician, not far from Cincinnati, sta
ting that a young man, by the name Of
Martin Troy, was under his care; that be
ithe said Troy had said that some time in
1857, he had committed an objectionable
ierime. aud did not wish to live. The
physician desired the friends of young
Troy to come for him. Some persons at
Sun6sb, thinking that Troy might have
committed the murder, procured war.
rant and started after him. We have NOT
learned whether, the officer has YET
Sotutneu' iff,o .4le fse4s--.P al. o. -s.
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FAMINE IN Iowa.

..rrr = .er II 80.
The Courier published at 0rtumws.
in Iowa, under the date Of the 9Th inst,
says: sya4r4 81 hHsl =Fi haEa7s va2
We have never approached SO near
famine in this country, especially in tho
West, where we inhabit, as we have the
past year. The weather which prevailed
and characterized almost the whole of tho
season, filed. our soil and kept. t.itso full
of water as to prevent the growth aud
maturity of our crops. the effects ofAwhich
are now manifcsiing themselves in an M.
wonted scarcity of breadstufs,, threaten
iIg rise in price which will occasion
general distress if not actual want to
thousands Of our population. Already
do we see a reversal in the direction Of
the trade in breadstuffs, in our own re-
gion, which ought, and in ordinary sea-
sons will, export largely of wheat and
-four, having become purchaser to .
large extent, of those articles, which are
now being shipped largely from the East
into this State, One of our citizens ID
now absent at Chicago for the purpose
of buying wheat to be manufactured into
-four by one Of our mills. It is distress
ing to think of the large amount which
must be taken from onr limited means at
this time of severe pressure in pecuniary
matters, for bread to feed, not only our
cities anu towns, bat our farmers them-
selves. Pecuniarily,, 1858 has been .
| hard year
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ne now came here to learn political con-
sistency of one whose whole life was a
series of political somersets. The bill
was passed Ayes Ga, nays 25.
A Resolution was passed providing for
Joint Committee to revise amendatory
acts passed since the adoption of the new
Constitution. This is the same Resolu-
tion introduced few days since by Mr..
West, of Logan. Also, a resolution in
structing the Judiciary Committee to ex
anime and report whether there is any ir-
regularity in the act of 1851, regulating
descent of property. s-
The following bills were introduced
By Mr.. Andrews, to repeal certain act
therein named; by Mr.. Jackson, to COM
pei railroads to make bitches and culverts
in certain eases, by Mr.. Cox, of Knox, to
exempt from attachment certain property
therein named; by Mr.. Chase, authorizing
County Commissioners to fill vacancy in
the Office Of Coroner.
A motion that when the House ad-
journed on Friday evening, it be until
Tuesday morning, Monroe county voted
''fernenst"
Noble county is represented here by at
least dozen delegates, all diligently la
boring for the benefit of their constitu-
ents. The committee having their case in
charge have notyet reported. Although
not prophet, wear the name of one OF
the chief of the prophets somewhat abbre-
waited, and will therefore venture to pre-
dict-frst, that the committee will report
against authorising vote on removal,
and secondly, that it will be defeated
whatever may be the report. a..
The interest bill drags in the Senate;
1t will be very close vote in that body
in this question, but it will probably pass.
The mail is about closing, and l must
do likewise, have been preparing my
papers, documents &C., and have little time
to write to-day, l will try to do better in
future.
.-- JERE WILLIAMS
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IFor the Spirit.] 2.

Mr.. EDITOR II have just treturned home
from the capital, of our beloved State; aud
you will please permit me to express
through the colamns ofyour paper, my sat
isfaction with the aspect of affairs at Colum
bus. Our new state house is indeed the
wonder and pride Of the West. That it
has cost the people of the State entirely
too much money cannot be deniedi but
when our citizens see it they are natural
ly filled with admiration and pride. My
stay in the capital was made exceedingly
pleasant by our gentlemanly Senator and
Representative--Me Messrs Morrow and
Stout; and for their many kind attentions
permit me to address to them my sincere
qualification. On Friday I visited the
State prison and public institutions in
company with Messrs. MoRRow, STouT
and ARcHBoLD. The penitentiary is truly
a great affair. The Benevolent institution
and more particularly the Institution ,for
the education of the unfortunate Blind
are not only credit to our State. but a
patteru of charity and benevoleEee worthy
to be initiated in all future time and by all
nations. I,envy not the man who could
visit the Blind Asylum Of our State and
his heart be not touched with sympathy
for his unfortunate fellow beings. Or
Thursday afternoon Ihad the extreme
pleasure. of listening to q most splendid
speech in the House, of Representatives
| by our talented member DR., JAMES NJ
STouT, on the Resolution reported by him
self, as Chairman of the Standing Commit
tee on Temperance, to strike from the con
stitution the clause prohibiting license t
to sell Intoxicating liquors, Tho Docto
spoke some three quarters Of an hour il
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see the force of the arguments" of the
majority. We are not at all, sir, aston.
ished at that. A set of men who cannot
see, how liquor may be easier obtained
when itmay be had at every house, than
when it is scarce, cannot be expected to
see' the force of an argument N
1t is alleged that thereis not such gen.
eral expressed desire for change, as would
warrant this Legislature in submitting to
the people, the proposition, Now, sir,
what are the facts! During the last session
quite number of petitions were present.
ed and referred to our committee, some
asking for an amendment of the existing
law on the subject, some for its entire re-
peal, and some for a prohibitory law, while
great many more petitioners asked for
the submission of this question to the peo-
pie, and how is it this session. While
net one petition has come into the hands
of the committee, on the other, points
named, I find my drawer filling up with
heavy lists from east and west, from north
and south, asking that this question may
be submitted. s t.a'j F -Gl c..
find Mr.. Speaker, that am occupy
ing more time than 1 had any intention
of speaking, but the great Importance OF
the subject, and the unusual attention o!
the House, seemed to demand that
should say thus much. Permit me, in
conclusion, 10 advert to the closing SEN
tence of the report of the minority:
ARRIVING at this conclusion, we unite
to recommend the indefinite postponeInent
of the resolution reported by the MAORI
ty of the committee. ss rs 81
was not aware, sir, that the House
had referred the resolution of the MAORI
ty to the minority, for its investigation and
Recommendation, and I have yet to learn
that such is the fact. Yet, sir, the mi
nority have seen proper, without authori.
ty, to exercise a fatherly care over oul
bantling, and mercifully Recommend it te
a premature death On behalf of the ma
jority, l tender to the minority our sincere
thanks for this manifestation of their un
interested tenderness and regard, ant
hope that hereafter they may :. bt
able to see' and comprehend when thsJ
are usurping authority that does not prop
erly belong them.