The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-09-16

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IL only itsm OF interest not brought by the
last Overland Mail, Is the arrival OF Horace
Greeley at San Francisco. The following 10
from the special correspondence Of the Pica-
yune;
#'4ss SAN FaANcIsco, Aug. 20. 6
The eccentric white-coated philosopher OF
the Tribune arrived here on the 18th instant.
lie vas escorted from Benicia to this city BY
conmittse Of arrangements appointed for
the purpose, and he has since been iionised
10 bis hearts content. Night before last he
addressed an assemblage Of 5000 or 5000
persons near the Oriental Hotel, on the sub
ject of the Paei6e Railroad. Nothing was
said in relation to it that the New Orleans
and San Francisco papers have not torn to
tatters no new ideas were advanced, but old
sentiments coming from . prominent man,
like Greeley, were invested with peculiar
interest.
OVERLAND IMMIGRATION.
One remark made by Greeley il importans,
and gives graphic picture Of the great move
ment of Pixies Psaksrs westward. He said:
81 have passed through the food Of emf
grants on the Plains this year. have seen
10000 people and 100000 cattle on their
weary way hither, and have beheld their way
worn, tiresome labors, in their long and suf-
fering march. III there had been Pacific
Railroad, oil these might have been here in
May. With that facility, il would not have
required over fifteen days, with the slowest
travel, to transport them all, with all their
necessaries, and without the exposure and
sufferings they have to bear. Ii will take
them now an average OF four months to get
here; they will arriveat the verge Of winter,
worn out, weary, footsore, and reduced by
their struggles. Had they been able to cross
the continent in ten days, they would have
arrived here healthy, hearty, strong, vigor-
| Gus, and ready to 60 ct once to work; and
before aatumn, they would have been able to
earn more than enough to have paid the az
pense Of the trip, while they would have been
spared all the anxiety Of tho severe and pain
fnl journey. IL have seen women and children
Flooding slowly along in the hot plain, tam
ned And sunburnt, working their way through
| long stretches of grecse wood and sage brush,
weary and sad, and thought ~ Hooked At
them, with how much sorrow and regret they
must recur to what they had left behind; and
my heart bled to think how far Was the dis
lance, and how grent the interval of time
| which separated them from the land Of their
| aspirations. thought not Of them only; but
Of the great armament which il following
their wake across the plains, coming to as
| sist you, to aid in snriching your valleys, and
developing the resources Of your country"
Last night Greeley delivered an able ad.
dress before the Mechanics Institute on ssIn-
dustry and the Mechanic Arts" favorite
theme Of his. Barring the socialism which
be has not yet eradicstsd from his system,
the matter OF his speech Vas very acceptable.
Two or three thousand persons listened to il.
| TO night he addresses another association II
the American theater, subject "Great Men,"
But for no afaiction u boils, csused,by riding
mule back, Mr.. Greeley would return by the
Southern Overland Mail Stage, which leaves
on the 22d inst; as it is, he must remain IN.
til the following Friday, the 26th. His visit
here will doubtless do much towards ahapine
his opinions and the influence OF his journa
favorably towards California.