Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1866-10-06

D0eo6 Of0 0o0o0-uoW0e
NJ ,. '. TAILOR.
lCorrespoodencs Of A. CAtesvs Sssrsal.l
Iowa, September, 1866
A broad date, but you cannot better It
FOL, 4ehtag iteseQy aS11ea proDise 4 man
ouikt n - roudio Ne ssSwhere in 1owa.
, ANsgis while 4 p Hardly Ddascs than On
aloe is ssltia1 gsady t0h)oGBom-there was
q splendid wilderness Of more than fifty
thousand square miles, lying between the
two great rivers Of the continent. lt had
magnificent woods that stood up gsaadiv
before the Lord. Il had glorious rivers that
flowed on IDLY - Tho sea-. Is bed praisies
that undulAled Sway, dotted With goat L.
land groves, and spangled With jcasaminss,
roses aud violcis. II bad valleys tair - TIA
valleys Of Sharon. Il was pan Of Louisi
ana, within the domains Of New France, and
US lid dem very dioly upen ouy NAP
Il vas mol state. II vas not Territory,
but just = psrt Of Gods uninhabited globe
ws11og ~ W cesnlne o6A Niasty years
ago there Was not white man In oil its
empire. 10 1k4l OsSeto Discovered Il In
1878. man who could not speak the Eng
Dish tongue. p ddled along river nov cali
I'd Des Ao,nes-l eroo1ed - hesr ago.
aud cav foetsteps in the sand upon the
shore, an1 slDoAsr trail 1sawA acsess The
wilderness, - Il 70 score il out from the
open beek- Ae- eisilisatiosa NJ followed il
aud ovG G&ea go y,llAee. And % this
empire was ~ discovered. That man was
Marquette.
Aseue The 1T yoas. Of The sevsutsenth
century, Hennspin discovered II again, and
80 il was born third time upon human Wis
ion. I'D Aa1 nsvsr goNs ut q sight Sen
entyseohe yeaes 90. ehe sstrocsuns OAs-
tilisk gtsnted 70 Juliaa Dubuque '1hs
u,ines Of SPAIN" and strangely enough.
they lay in the wilderness clasped BY the
two great river. aud . few piqnpn hae.
rewed like gophess In she nino Of Spain
And they handed lhis do0aia ahoue The
| mighty sisterh0Od, much % an admirable
iniast about houssh"ld. Louisi%ns pass
ed Il TO Michigan Territory, and ane took
care Of il three years. She rsared Il into
two counties, each With one t0wuship in it,
That vas thirty two years ago. II Vas too
DOR to 10 named. and Wisconsin took The
mo,hcrless child and gave il few laws Of
her swa.io use. - hck Of hsttes. Il va
Enc Black Hawk purchase. In 1888 it wss
born a Territory, aud twenty EIGHT years
Ago last Fourth Of Jnly it VAS formally
CUTS encd lowa-lowa the Drowsy, some
| say. but not so. A band Of Indians seek :
my home behold It aud loved il aud cried
out, "lOwal i0war'-,this - tho, place r.
And what spiendid vegioni All the plane,
betwssa Ahe Aiasissipps cod W. Amssusi,
North to the British sessipns-ly5. OOO
eQuase miIse. Ard there it vas, ffssh FROM
the in6ccasincd foot Of the Sacs and Foxes
Al length. about the last days u December
&c, IN audible knock from hereaway Va.
heard At the Federal door. Iowa stood upOr
tho threshold, was admitted aud .hUsamo
edvereign State.
took up a 0axstter the other. day, tsul
few summers ago rs the books Of 0ooes
4 - 0nd whither vas going. aud rcd d
kypss very ANAL and very contemp4uuus
Iowa: Bounded on the North ~ u
! British Territory Of the Hudson Bay Com.
pany. The Indian title il not sxtinguished
T. I learned, ton, that .loua- he'd sishtesG
counties; that thru hdkdrsd ard adv a.,
souls we're engaged in commerce through
out this empire that 1890 bushels .
wheat he'd been growing 1t one time within
ito borders. and twenty thousand cows cam,
home u the mikingi looked for Clinic,
county and found il, but no accidental do
upon the map betrayed the existence Of ON,
Of the towns cd eitioe nor strung like Jew
els along che 1oWo Division Of the Ctsics1,
4 and Northwestern Raileoad, and flvog Nike
necklace across the State.
am crossing this empire to day hav
looked upon . few faces Of its 776, 600 souls
have heard the rustic q ito uailliou Of ecro
Of growing cUsh havS' sesnn TIA pasture
fiockcd with million and half Of sheep
aumber il two and . half millions q
swine and its lnillion sesolle, w)lDss Aegs
tions have zone oqsealiu4 I'D 1oWinl
across the cohtinsat 10 the Atlantic ses
heArd q the rate Of twenty miles On hour
Cihink Of III two hundred thousand aeses .
mcaaDw0 QQino11 The 01ny3es H 1ildSa
Of broad acres under the pillow; IL twelve On,
half million buahele 81. wheoea il siift,
million bushels q eJrn; II hefd 81 thrcs
hundred suA Ten .thouoasa eovss eoenin1
hDms % thS &ftide; lie daaehtess, IS;
made leas yseNe)eesefi fess Willbarshdaa
Of butter ensdsh to lubsicats the axlss O
t:me-and million pounds Of cheese.
eouussBUgvuU 6uu0sO6 M ny <Gufehes
! its faety epllcgp, csevaing IL heights like
Aie young Qssseoo upon Ahsis thrones: il.
gwen thou5Aod ooheols, md their Ne,
knndvsd and twenty Ave thoueand caudi,
datee fer the kiaedem Of Heaven. tsoas
=: "a ~
! Thu Black Hawk parcha51, the oovsesigu
! safe, whitPspA t61sAssa IKE I auUvy ~
a With eeo0papes tieeu1s0iou Il ten 6iilion
Ief copies. And - 1ek0 ho1ps makaiRc8n
step 70 the march of ennlfn. AnA - !,
fi6sSan With, = Nm oukAt Is IS proud 4
, liv6 VoyWlnpoiW loUn." AZ. $500
But shsAoo10s more, and more esanaly
Dor she hes chaaGpa sAae sesQ, "a SSW. &
klhe I'm ftuat IN kspe time 70 The nusie .
Union. Out Of the beeaibless wilderness
,isf nesyysxkt& s6t5tkus Shoelen
q ma 4mnissS-l fnfor iovAlw On a.
j ,sen Ssss6 49, SsSssd rs 'r ssss
leCons There has been precisely tim
enough sin . $4,000 growQeo man % priu
| and in that ysasHtnes d. wes, soesi 2
tAsny hasnan beings in al the State By NOR
than forty thoasandl She he'd Forty>thre
Thousand men. EA1sa - sia1nArsn ~
in 1910, and ses 4d3 y1ldo ~ ivlse =
!. my, Four ba,1(ss6s nv spd1txsiSf M
s.sssS ;;sT;;'; z siIs''I s.si ss:'! a =
! esiments Of infantry bssp, clesed 'sp .
4 tolil front, and 0fieeo tlsJuuna fyljsn.
! Aud what heross they were, end hSs sules
did the record they have made for Ion
\ Liberty apd0R tMALn4 - ais
they have lent ~ leqpnd - sAsie o. (
Fluals: ''Ous libSstisf " pr,se.our ricbs
i1,s:.. =: 49, s'I1ffA; e, g.,s r.pis !
49, = ss,lss ~ se:s y =. ssll - -