The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-06-08

EXPENSIVE tastes en- b suited here IN this
line, As our lady public already very we'll
know. If skating were in June, HuGH would
in his polite manner, set out for your selec-
ton, Oh lady friend Of ours, the most in
viting Of skating caps. As it il, he will pro-
vide you with hats and caps for the summer,
I'D libitim. Hats and capsl And for the
ladies Isn't thk queeri The ser used to
wear bonnets in the days of our mothers
young wommhood, and leave hats to the
masculines. Very stupid Of them, want itY
Well, never mind there's . truce to moral
izings, but for every thing in the line Of the
trade call on WORRIES h BRo.
A VERY GREAT NuIsANcE.-That's the Sc
we're process undergone by the unfortunate,
hundreds in getting tickets at the circus the
other evening. In one half hour some two
or three thousand tickets were to be gotten,
and from one ticket box, and the result was
humanity squeezed and damned and crowded
and tramped upon in such manner as was
too much for the most Job like patience. AZ
another great circus will be here on Wednes-
day, some have suggested to US that if the
city Government would insist.upon the pro-
prietors keeping the ticket box open all day
for the benefit of purchasers, it would &C.
commodate the public and prevent such
semi-riot as took place Wednesday evening.
We advise the public in the cities along the
line Of these large circuses' travels to beware
of pickpockets. The craft were very busy
the other evening at Dan Castello's Show.
One of them placed himself under the ticket
wagon, in the dusk, open knife in hand, and
made successful raid upon the pockets Of
the crowd that pressed forward for tickets
He was observed after time by some little
BOYS and Marshal Bartlett brought to the spot,
meantime, however, the scamp had varnoosed.
THAT RAILROAD ExTENsIoy.-We noticed
the organization some days ago of the keo-
kuk & st, Paul Railroad Company. We find
the following in the Washington Press urging
the reasons why the people of Washington
county should favor the construction Of the
Iowa Northern Central railroad through this
place. We are glad to see the earnestness
displayed by the Press. Also that the Mt.
Pleasant Free Press urges this matter upon
the people of Henry county:
The following are the leading reasons for
embracing the proposition to build the road
via Mt. Pleasant TO heokuk:
/. BY touching the Mississippi at keokuk
we will have the benefit Of the river for at
| least ten months in the year and have low
rates of freight for most of our shipments
and importations, and also direct connec-
tion,. through Illinois, with st. Louis by rail
/ some seventy miles nearer than by the North
i Missouri.
3 We believe the road can be built. The
distance from Iowa City to Mt. Pleasant is
fifty-fye miles. The cost of grading and
bridging the road between those two point:
being estimated at about $4,000 per mile
the whole cost will be $4,000 TIE cost O
grading the road from Mt. Pleasant to the
present terminus twenty miles north OF keo
kuk, distance of thirty miles at $1,000 pei
mile. would be S1S0,ooo Total cost o
grading and bridging, 100000. OF thi
sum Mr.. kilbourne and the people of Lee
county propose to furnish at least. Sl50,0oG
/ Henry County l25,o0t
johnson . 10000
/ Washington I25. 0ot
Total $3.50. 00t
There viii be left for the purpose of furn
ishng ties and for engineering $4,000.
will be seen that the road can be built
johnson county has more than sufficien
funds already subscribed, to grad, tie, ans
bridge the road from Iowa City to the nortl
line of our county. Mr.. killbourne inform
us that about $4,000 have been expended
from the junction in Lee county northward
and he is ready to go to work and has th'
means to finish up to the Henry county line
The people of Salem, Henry county, have
bscribed $4,000, and no doubt Mt Pleas
ant and the northern part of the county vii
furnish the rest of the $4,000 at once.
1t will thus be seen that the building O
this road depends on the citizens of thi
town. For il we subscribe freely, the PEG
pie ofthe county will also freely aid US. TIL
interests of the town and county are in
separable.
What we do must be done at once. Tha
) road will be built from Iowa City to keo
, kuk, we have no doubt. Whether it sha
run through our town or not depends upon our
selves II We help build it we can have it
: if not, We don't deserve it.
This is our best opportunity for obtaining
i, Southern railroad line. Shall we fail to Sc
cure it while it is within our reach?
The whole action of the company is su!
pended till they know what we will do. Tn
Engineer Corpse is ready to 60 on the lin
from here to Mt. Pleasant. Our either
IS should then at once determine to act. Pr
+, dosvn what you can pay. The Books al
now open at the Bank. We say to all: Ac
: and act at once.
L. The 21sT Mo. VET. VoLs.-Col. Davi
r Moore, the gallant late commander of tn
IF gallant regiment, was in the city yesterda..
e The regiment has been mustered out of Il
vs. service. We find the following notice OF it
the Canton Press, from the pen of Col. Moo
a himself Many of the members of the reg
:. ment are Hawkeye boys, and there will
;, ,. many whom the sketch will interest
"This brave old regiment has been music
y ed out, after five long years of service, ar
a no regiment has returned from the field vii
:. more honors than the 21st. They ha,
marched more that twenty-five thousan
miles. and have been on all the great battl
fields ofthe West
This regiment marched out at day-ligl
on the 9th of April, 1862, and commence
= the great battle of Shiloh-and for one no,
TX it withstood the shock of the whole reb
lg army, fifty thousand strong. 1t was Il
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