The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-10-16

in trip shout Id room, it Win b. admissible
for rs to make : few notes Of IN excursion
made Saturday up the line of the Des Moinss
Valley Road u FIR - Pei]h-
Our friend Kinnaman. Of the telegraph Of.
fice and ourseN, started upon tho morning
train. He wished to observe the progress that
is being made By the party having II charge
the construction Of the new telegraph line to
Dies Moines. We wished generally to gather
items. Our friend Of the State Register in
quires anxiously concerning the status and
prospective early completion Of the line afcre.
said. Know We, then, Oh, Capital cotempo-
rary that the work goes forward bravely.
Laborers are busy boring holes, setting up
| and distributing the poles and adjusting the
wires. In two weeks an Office will be opened
in Ottumwa, giving us direct kilograms from
that place, and in four weeks more, Heaven
willing, and all being well, an Office in your
own central city, and the line completed,
there shall 60 upon the lightning the messages
of mutual good will, and ofthe qualification Of
each municipality at thus having q new con-
Meeting link between Keokuk and Des Moines
Then will your business public be brought
more directly in contact with ours, to the ad-
vantage of both, we may hope, and that prof.
liable relationship shall be increased and
strengthened by the early completion of the
Valley Railroad.
Past Pennington we go, and should like
to get of and survey with our own optics the
oleaginous labors of our friends in that local
ity who are still industriously seeking to
'sstrike ile." Unable to stop now, we prom
Use ourself an early visit and personal inspec-
ton Of the grounds. Meanwhile, we remark,
parenthetically, that we met DR.. Smith of
Pennington, and Col. Wall of our city there
prospecting, and were shown by them fine sam
Piles fthe marble, struck instead of the "shod-
dy'' fluid by the borers, and of which there is
fine bed at the distance of eighty feet from
the surface. The samples are pure, firm,
beautifully crystalized, and susceptible of q
polish as fine as Italian marble. The discov.
cry of this marble will compensate the Com
pany for their efforts even though there be no
| further results.
To the thriving little city of Ottumwa and
dinner, which latter unimportant matter of
deglutition we should not notice were it not
for the purpose of passing in indignant con-
demnation upon the execrable hotel system
reigning in the interior, where impossible
compounds of "most villainous stuff are
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punishment, we suppose, for having the te-
merity to leave home. Upon our return we
met humorously disposed old gentleman,
formerly member of Congress from Ohio,
who facetously remarked that the constella-
tons in the heavens had apparently changed
their places, he had lost his geographical
identity and was totally oblvious ofthepoints
of the compass. all owing to the agonies he
had undergone in attempting to masticate the
beef steak at a hotel not thousand miles
from the city of which We now write.
i From Alpine to 0skaloosa we are in the
coal regions, where are several mines extend
ing great distances under ground, and from
which our own city largely draws its supply
of fuel. We meet our friend Rodefer OF
these mines, who offers to take us on a tour
of exploration through them; kindness
that We shall claim upon some future occa.
sion.
/ Cottages by the wayside, and there is one
from which childish voices ring out orally
round the flag, boys, fling it to the breeze y
with an earnestness that thrills you and car
ries you back into the late mighty strife
Thence was evoked war lyrics that shall live
with the Republic, and this rallying song Of
the hosts Of the Union is one Of them. How
it swept over the Iowa prairies, sang by maid
ems and shouted by strong men, until the
storm wind of patriotic PASSION was reused
and the States thousands went pouring
steadily to the front. 1t found q response
from the household to which these young
singers belong, for yonder we see blue jacket
and an armless sleeve, and thus manned, the
father attempts to till the soil which he tough
to retain as part of an undivided country
The river upon the left and the many tinted
woods stretching to the right, beauteous q.
October woods only are the latter shut ou
occasionally by jutting masses of concretion
airy sandstone and limestone, those nea,
Ottumwa especially rich fields for geological
adventure, are the points of the scenery. Pass
ing Eddyville, we shortly emerge into ths
prairie, swelling with gentle undulations, ricl
in fertile fields and fine groves, and bounded
south and west by the Des Moines woods
upon which rests the veil of mist with which
Autumn robes our landscapes and make,
them genial and lnxuriant as in the Orient
That isn't rhapsody. 1t is an invitation ane
inducement to universal civilized and respect
able humanity to seek home in the Hawk
eye State, help to develop its resources and
hasten its advance to greatness and empire.
u Here is Pella, with its queer windows
amply filed gardens, wooden shoes, Holland
dialect, handsome public park, rich surround
ing country, and its Democratic maiorities
But we cannot tarry long. A hurried lool
through the grounds of Rev. Mr.. Scholte
among the handsomest in the State, and VIC
return to the train and start home, stoppins
only to thank our friends, conductors Patch
Livington, and Griswold for kindness shown
us.
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