The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-12-25

The wreck was total. N0shine i len but
the iron thai may - bsonshs mn ~
notion of the river. That the fronsidee did
NOT siph wAs because she lay with hsr keel in
TIE mud. There 10 report that . gua-1
Noat besides her had shared her fkts, afspofe
That re are veryGlad 70 state was without
foundation, There Wa nothing in the vessel.
Her armament had been removed, and there
was nothing in her but her machinery.
Ba.narn, Francis Joseph ana oarasaiai.
[By George ALFRED Townsend
sIsxARK.
Three times within three months | ~ in
the presence OF Count Bismark. A reac-
tionist-in other words, IN enemy OF every
idea on which an American repobiicanism IL
bssed-by sheer boldness he prscipitated the
great war of 1866, and made himsslf name
n spite of his arrogance and INSCRIPTIONS
ness. Almost . giant, both in height and
industry, measuring six feet two, huge and
homely in feature, of terrible eye, full OF
banefiil FIRE, with creased skin, and an ear
big enough for railroad depot, Q mouth 50
vide and so cruel that it could bite State IN
two. and neck into which you might turn
river-of anything but water; his powers OF
mind are profound his speech resolnte; but
with YOU and me, common people, who de-
mand chance and an influence, Count Bis
marx has no more sympathy than with so
many horses did not love him more than
he was bluff and atfable; no tyrants are more
amiable than his great enemies Of the House
Of Hapsburg, the Imperial family OF Austria
FRANCIS JOSEPH.
Francis Joseph, the Emperor OF Austria,
!. .h;rtysavep years old q mild faced, grace
fnl man, come prematurely to the discretion
of one who feels that q sceptre, seven nun
bred wears potential, is barren in his gripe;;
The weak inheritor of barbarous fame, and
An Empire built upon plumber and treaty, the
only. lessons taught him by reverses were to
ninch his subjects the more, and kneel the
meaner at the ieet of the Pope. Twenty one
dissimilar nations are bound to his dynasty,
the mastic of his Empire being force or des-
tpotisna In this Republic we number thrice
as many varieties of people; but freedom
makes them peaceful and true; they are so
difFuscd upon our soil that they mutually peu.
tralize and strengthen each o.her. hat
auie, should we have, think you, if OHIO were
exclusively made up OF Dutchmen, PennEyl-
wants of Africans, Virginia entirely fe1ian
Republic, and Indiana Of docIle Camanche
or Sioux Indians. and directing them al q,
Washington, a soft>spoken German gentle
man, whose claim to their gratitude lay otto
oe,ber in the fact that he had subdued their
ancestors? When saw the Emperor review
an army corps at Prague-his delicate hands
and limbs almost woman's, his soft GREY
breeches and sky-blue jacket too neat fol
battle, and in the perpetual repose OF hi
handsome face, and the quiet mldness OF hi
brown eye, a school>teacher rather than q
King, felt, like q rising stormseloud, ths
Escewl on the peoples faces the bright hnt
of troops burned score of differing disliAes
ifusipg their nationaltes for the moment il
one moody obedience. They shifted arms
but their souls made no consent; It wab {
spectacle of the European word loyalty, rer
haps, but not of patriotism. found It hare
to see the despot in the half sad face OF thi
Young Emperor; yet every hour OF his crown
ed existence is by necessity and legacy |
Ecr,me. With the same repose he counter
signs. the mortal findings of courts-martSal
which hang score of volunteers, who WI
not serve against their brethren and freedom
With the same sweet yoathfalsess his sister
go TO the infamy of marriage wHhon. tote
and to the arms of tyrants. ike Narla Loalsi
in her girlhood to the breast of Napoleon
his true wife tears yet wet on the kiss will
whichhe killed her. And | wondered as
All.
on the face of Macmillan, this Emperor
brother. who held with the true Hapsbdrl
tepacity to his Mexican bauble, though th
shrieks of his wife, gone mad, troubled To,
world.
As between Austria and Prussia, the right
fitness of this recent war Was so inhnItisemR
that yen might put both causes into drug
eist' q scale, and overweight them with a Law
yers wafer Prussia is a young ambition!
nation. in which the barbarsm OF war, ant
the cultivation of the intellect are almos
equal passions. A land of poets, philos9
piers, musicians; the streets of Berlin shot
the statutes of soldiers only; the reignink
| family is made up of thick-headed despotsI
the military system of the country is irresis
tible in its powers and Infamous in its concep
ton Prussia in a word, Is intelligent feu'
| dslism vet her victory over Austria was de
sirable in the light of the century in which w
/ live. The campaign she treacherously precl
plated grew glorious by its brilliancy aud III
energy king who had broken his oath d
| the Constitution, seized money without law
and stabbed his brother and ally, went with
| his hated Minister TO love and heroism III q
week, and every British moralist that held
| him up to execration when be seemed likely
to be beaten, cried loudly now that he was
noble Sovereign and the national ally oil
England.
| GARABALpf.
There looked into the face, and sat at The
feet of Garibaldi, the first character of our
generation. n patriot and countrypan of all
oppressed people, into whose kindly and for
giving nature fell the speed and met.le of the
wild South American horses, on which, like
fiery centaur, he rode down the tyrants oil
the West. The freedom of Italy is his work.
| Kings inherit it he inspirIed it: Cesar and
| Cincinnatius meet IN him. His face is both
| womaniy and iatherly, the lighthouse to a
good conscience burning the better as it
grows the grayer, .crumbliug in the tower,
but undeenying in the flame. His dn,iful
boys. who 20 to battle at his side and in re.
turning peace i'll his half barren island. are
born OF an American wife TO whose memory,
| though lnng dead. he has been faithful She
| was an Amazon woman. and on the Argen>
tine plans rode with lance aud lasso: when
freedom cane to her native country, she &C.
compared Garhsldi 10 his own land then
the peace meal prey of tyrants. Together
they entered Tome in mutual love and tri
| umph, and overturned the tables Of the
money changers. and the seats of them who
sold dove>-in the beautiful city Of Brutus
and Rienz. Driven thence by combined
Kings sad Princes. they hid in the mountains
like the heroic MaccabeAhs, till flying along
the coast of the Adriatic, an Austrian vessel
shot down the wife at the husbands side
That Adriatic coast is free toAday, and Gari1
baldi, with Annals boys to be her monuments,
eternal 10 purpose as the Eternal City to
which he turns for the GROWING struggle Of
his life, shall pass its gates again and. stand
ing in the Pantheon, among his kindred gods,
found the new dynasty of American Romans
| who beeet deeds, not princes.
BEAt7Irri ExrRAcT.-Some fifteen Yeas
ago, Rev. John N. Maffit, then in his prime,
deliyerei q le..iura which closed NTH the fol.