The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-01-16
FROM THE CAPITOL.


DES MONIES, Jau IL lCVV'
This, the day for the inauguration, opened
drearily. Were Des Moines London, which,
despite its ambitious corporate extension, it
isn't, one of Dickens descriptions of a morn.
ing fog in the British metropolis would have
been descriptive of this morning here. There
was not any defined outline of earth and sky,
only thick folds of mist over the town and
over the river, and wrapping one in and forth
from it there jutted the corners of buildings
Immediately beside you and those only, and
hasty pedestrians emerged from the thickness
and darkness few PAGES distant, and a few
PAGES more and were lost in them again.
Through the mist, as though generated in the
vapors that surrounded Que, came the rain,
that increased discomfort and covered the
low lying part of the city with water, and
-rrcested an initiate deluge. A capacity to
contain water is one ofthe characteristics of
this place. The whole surface of the east
side would seem now to be navigable by all
variety of water-erafts from small schooner
10 ''dug- out"
The afternoon was but little more favorable
for the Inauguration ceremonies than the
morning, but by o'clock P. N. the gallery
....s allsd With laiiss, am the lower door, SO
lar as the public was admitted, was also
densely packed Shortly after that hour the
Governor and Lieutenant Governor, elect,
were announced and followed by the Judges
of the Supreme Court and officers of State,
they proceeded up the aisle to the Speaker S
stand. The the band struck up "Hail Co
. mbia' AID tie strains OF tne national an
them filed the hall. There was prayer by
Rev. Mr.. Phillips, after which Lieutenant Gov
ernor Eastman administered to the officers
elect the oath Of Office. The choir sang the
1.-The Star Spangled Banner" the entire au
dience joining in the chorus. Then Governor
Stone read his inaugural. His declarations
concerning slavery and the status of the ne
gro, that the latter should be acknowledged as
lie pee, If lis traitor master; that treason
should be punished, and that the prayer of
the memorialists for negro suffrage should be
granted, were received with loud cheers and
tdiutSt lOhtbs VI apPAOfoA AuC &c oS
semblage. The address will be carefully
read and pondered by our people. The SEN
timents enunciated, we apprehend, are but
expressive of the radicalism of majority of
the citizens cf lowe. Governor S.cne closed
his address amid loud and prolonged cheer
ing. "Mine eyes have seen the Glory of the
coming Lord was the noble piece that fol-
lowed to the "John Brown chorus and again
the hall was filed with the swells of stirring
melody as the vast crowd took up The "Glo-
~, Glory Hallelujah and sang it with vim.
Then the band followed with another national
air, Rev. Mr. Phillips pronounced benedic-
ton, and the executive machinery ofthe State
is again in running order for another two
years.
Governor Stones late administration has
been very satisfactory to his party and the
people of the State at large. He made a
most efficient and vigorous campaign last fall
and won CALAMITY. His inaugural is an able
une. At the concusiop of its delivery he
received congratulations from the officers OF
State and many of the gentlemen of the As
sembly.
Senator Patterson offered the following
resolution upon the conclusion of Gov. Stone
address:
Resolred, That we, the representatives oi
the three branches Of the Government of the
State of Iowa-the Executive, the Judiciary
and the Legislature-here assembled, do de
clare that we pledge ourselves and the State
,.Ia al ,artnofrlao nf Erootprs, Ipettpe
and Political Equality to all men, regardless
of color or nationality.
The resolution was enthusiastically adopt
ed-there being small number of votes il
the negative.
Following the Inaugural ceremonies the
House and Senate adjourned and went into
joint convention for the nomination Of U. S
Senator. The result viii be told when tht
election is held in regular joint convention.
Col Wright makes capital presiding Off
Ger. Prompt, courteous and firm, his dis
charge of the duties of Speaker is giving gen
eral satisfaction.
We leave the matter of legislation until i
is resumed tomorrow.
The roads leading to and from this capita
are in a dreadful condition. Bad as thos'
thai caused the General Of the Mackere
Brigade II remain all winter before th
wooden guns of Manassas. After variou
and sundry experiments in the matter O
coach upsettings, coaches have been aban
doned and the travelling public has resorte'
to Wagons primitive conveyance that di
Il Al e avJ l,u,b
We should before have noticed that Mr.
Allen, the Attorney General, resigned som
days ago, and Mr. Bissell, of Dubuque, wa
appointed in his stead. S. NJ. c.
DEs MoINEs, Jan. ID, 1866.
In the Senate, upon Saturday morning, 1t
Governor Cue took Official occupation of th
Speakers Chair In doing so he made Fl
and happy address. Invacating the position
Gov. Eastman, who has faculty of saying
the best Of things in the most unaccountabl.
disagreesbie Of VOICES, addressed the Ssnat'
in farewell speech, which is model Of il
kind He concluded thus:
Senators, now bid you each and an ,
kind and generous farewell, with the hop,
that your lives and healths may be preserved
and that our beloved State and our common
country, with all our free institutions, may b,
perpetuated and when our earthly missio,
shall have ended, may We each and all hav
credentials to a seat in the sacred chambe
of rest where the Supreme Lswgiver Of tn
Universe presides.