The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-06-12

Incidents 81 the Fair.

BEAUTIFUL FnHDUTE TO IOWA. (
Incidents ~ the Fair. II
We clip the following extracts from
the Chicsgo Journal ofthe 9Th inst. They
ere worthy Of perusal, and W trust that
our young and growing State merits the
beau lful tribute paid here BY the report
er WI penned the article:
Tire is beautiful srsa Of some City
thousand square miles, east Of the Missis-
sippi river. that once belonged to Lousi-
ana. Seventy-seven years ago there was
not white man within its borders. A
splendid wilderness, its prairies undula.
ted with great island groves and spangled
with jessamines, wild roses and violets.--
The deer, the elk and the turkey, we're
"free commoners," and it's rivers ran IN
fretted with single wheel. And this
area was named for one of those idle
streams, and they called it Iowa, meaning
the "Drowsy" And Iowa was handed
about the mighty sisterhood, much Is an
admirable infant about q household.
louisiana passed it to Michigan, and she
took care of il three years; then Wiscon.
sin took it, but in year it began "to run
alone" and became territory. At length
about the last days in December .46, an
audible knock from there away was heard
at the Federal door. Iowa stood upon
the threshold, was admitted, and became
sovereign State. Well, this region mis-
erably ssmisnamed "The Drowsy," had
three millions of acres Of grain waving
within it, six years ago, and six hundred
and fifty thousand souls keeping magnif-
cent step to the march of empire.
But that step has changed since then,
and there, in the fore front Iowa has kept
time to the music Of the Union.
She had forty-three thousand men, wo-
men and children all told, in 1910; and
seventy-one soldiers in the army. She
has sent seventy thousand boys in blue
to fight the battles of the republic; four
batteries have spoken for her; nine reg-
ments of cavalry have heard the bugles
and Numbered in the charge; forty-eight
regiments of infantry have closed up the
solid front and fifteen thousand fallen
And what heroes they we're, ADD how
splendid the record they have made for
Iowa, liberty and God How rich is the
meaning they have lent the legend of theis
coat of arms; 'Our liberties we prize
Our rights we will maintain ''
And Iowa followed her sons to the bat.
tie; her fathers sought the wounded where
they lay upon the field, before the drop.
ping shots had fairly ceased; her mothers
prayed and labored; her daughters went
forth to hospital and camp on mercy 9
mission; her blood and her treasure were
poured forth like water. When the gov.
eminent called for men Iowan's were
ready to march.
And Iowa has followed her sons to the
Fair; she remembered them in the strife;
she does not forget them in the suffering.
Near the center of the eastern wing is a
double pavilion canopied with starry fsgs
and graced With arches, one draped in
red, the other all in blue. A hawk upon
his perch between them betokens the
Hawkeyes' home, and pair of antlers
once tossed by some Iowa stag of ten
spread there for broad escutcaeon. A
curious pagoda-like cabinet catches The
eye-lhe visible story of an Iowa soldie,
killing creeping time in Libby. Fng
ments of wood, a pocket knife, q pool
prisoner, and 10, little temple A pic
ture on the wall is the work of another
boy in hospital.
Yonder is one of the most exquisite
groups of wax work fruit, that Pomona
might almost claim for her own true
work-the fashioning of the ladies' Of
Lyons, and the gift of its Young Men &
Association to the Fair There is natu.
raj chair, taken down from some lows
tree where God had hung it. The Iowans
accept the omen, and call it 'the seat oil
empire" Around are strown the em.
broidery. the baskets, the scarfs, and all
the graceful work of Iowa's loyal daugh-
tiers. A committee of thirteen, whereof
the Rev. Il. S Norris is Chairman, and
the Secretary of State, G. P. Abel, ESQ.,,
and the following ladies', members: Mrs
Ely, Marsh Plumbs, Mcclellan, Wicker
sham, Downing, May, Duncan, Bloomer,
Mills, Simmons, Hagar and Lathrop.
And thus and there our Western sister
is Sat home in Chicago. She has con.
tributed almost twenty thousand dollars
to the Fair, and remittances for almost a
thousand more have been received since
the delegation pitched their camp in the
eastern wing. Between March, 1864,
and March again, the State has given
more than fifty thousand dollars in cash to
the Sanitary Commission, and distaneed
whole group of Western States in the
blessed rivalry.
And Iowa has thrown a fold of her
neighborly tent over far Nebraska, that
has sent it's contribution of ak Thousand
dollars. Here again the bead-work and
the wampum, the bows and arrows and
necklaces, and other Indian bravery---
gifts of the Pawnees-the red mans offer.
ing upon the altar. Iowa is not alone 10
the splendid record, bu. she stands in the
front rank, aud for the soldiers every.
where, and for the honor of the broad
land, We give her thanks and greeting.
The quiet man given to musing will