The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-09-29

why this disregard OF the law by the
County Judgep There we're debts owing BY
the County. There are outstanding warrants
to large amount. There arc short bonds
Tor the purchase Of Court House and Jail.
There ID debt 1T 5000 for money borrow
cd by the Judge. What other debts the
Judge has contracted, we know not neither
did the people learn of these from him
The County 10 badly in debt, therefore 1t may
be, the Judge disrsgarded the Law and
failed to exhibit the amount. The Judge
strained = point by the issue Of short
Bonds for the purchase Of Court House in
Keokuk and 90 didn't like to tell the people
about it just yet. The Judge had borrowed
$1,000 without authority Of law and in viola
sion Of every legal principle and Of sound
policy, and would not make open confession
OF his transgression to the people. The
whole course and condition Of County affairs
seem bad, confused, dark and damnink, and
so ought not to be revealed to the public eye
before the election, said the judicious friends
of the Judge, and so tho Judge copied his
County "Blotter, )" valued the Poor Farm and
property at $3l, 500 and footed it up in the
Assetts, and then posted the voluminous con-
fusion of jumbled items, without word
about the ordinary or extraordinary or Rail-
road liabilities Of the County, ~ the Exhibit
OF Lee County. With such financial agent
no wonder that the County 10 in such
wreschsd condition and that County War
rants are no sale.
keep ~ before the People
That the loudess and most persistent agita-
tors in this State on Republican extravagance
are the sworn friends and supporters Of Ba-
chsranss ADMINISTRATION.
KEEP III BEFORE The PEOPLE,
That Mr.. B1shananss Administrations has
Coz, The country mere IN . SINGLE ysas than
the whole eight ysars Of Mr.. Ie1s-son's Ad-
| ministratioo-
KEEP 1T BEFORE TIE PEOPLE,
| That Presidsnt Bachanan reserved @5e, 600
for salary, servant hire, green house,
plants, 6c., in . single year, ~ the highest
exhibition Of Democratic policy.
KEEP 1T BEFORE THE PEOPLE,
That Gen. Dodge, who il trying to get yotsa
by cutting under and desclaiming about high
salaries in Iowa, the highest being $4,000
per annum to the Governor, drew from the
Treasury $57, 900 for four years services ~
Minister to Spain.
/ KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE,
That the virtuous Babbitt, who breaches
against corruption and extravagance with tbs
consistent and ardent seal OF An Eads, made
a grab Of ten thousand dollars from thu
United States in addition to his $3, 900 sal.
airy.
This Orabbers want tho state Gsv.
ernmeMt.
The ordinary annual expenses Of the Stat
Government Of Iowa are $92, 900, whicl
makes only about Is cents spieee for escl
person in the State.
The ordinary expenses Of the Unitst
States Government are $8l ,000, 900, whicl
makes about 1910 for each person.
1t 10 hard to say what are the ordinary ex
psnditures Of Lee County, but they vary TO
each individual from six times to sixtse
times as much as that for the State Govern
meot.
And yet, with this showing, the hungr
Locof0co ONCE seekers ask the people {
commit the State Government to the sam
economical party that administers county an
National affairs. The times are too hard an
: the people too sharp to be guilty Of any sue
stupid proceeding.
- nCivnIxlng nnd ChrIstianizing.'
o In less than Eve years, Ut the ordinary rat
. Of 'sprogress," the Northern dough fac
5 Dcmoorcy will be advocating the re-openin
2 OF the African Slave Trade. They will nc
: do it on the usual plea Of "cheap niggers,
8 but will resort to tho higher motives, an
plead for it in the name and behalf Z
Christianity and civilization. They have a
ready given US u striking example Of THU
mode OF sanctifying wrong in the repeal {
the Missouri prohibition, and the 70 -opsnin
" Of free soil to the occupation OF SLAYER
: throughout the territory Of the United Stat'
I in the name and under the pretence Of pop,
a lar sovereignty.
10 Mr.. Forsyth, late Minister to Mexico, sr
:, present editor Of the Mobile Rsgisisr,
: Southern Douglas man, gives the dough
: faces Of the North tho cue, = follows:
y Africa's principal commodity has slws,
been slaves. Thousands Of years ago me-
IN chants brought thsu ACROSS the Sahara to Il
70 mediterranean; they were m important .
n sicle Of trade on the Red Ses; and eve
- child knows from the Arabian Nights th
~ African slaves were common in the Ia
at from time immemorial. III We take the OIL