The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-05-02


State Charley Bradford holds forth in the
Office, which fact is a sufficient guarantee
that affairs IN that quarter will be we'll man.
aged. Success 10 the Tepfer House. m2 Ii
REcEry 81 this day at Clsgetts, splendid |
stock Of hoy'a Straw and Fancy Fur Hats
BIS Bt1lFR and August Belmont, George
Wilkes and William &. Fargo, Garrison and
Jerome, wealthy men and prominent Ameri
can politicians of both parties. own q tract
of land IN Lower California about equal in
area to the State of Iowa. They desire to
colouise and improve it, to work the mines,
develop the resources occupy the hsrbors,
and make il a source Of profit to themselves
and its resources. whatever they may prove,
commercially tributary to the city OF New
York they applied to the New York Leg
isature COR a charter, that they might carry
on their business in the city of New \ ork
The professional lobbyists st Albany thought
they had struck rich guleh, and they let
Mr.. Mikes, who was managing the matter,
know that they we're willing TO put his bill
through for = consideration. Mr.. Wilkes
knowing that they could defeat him, gave
them bonus after bonus to the amount OF
hundred thousand dollars stock in the COM
pany: but that only whettei their appetite
for more, and the bill made no progress till
near the close Of the session, when Mr..
Wilkes, in despair and disgust, applied to
the New Jersey Legislature for charter.
Finding there was no chance 10 bleed him
further, the Albany lobbyists. then eusi-
neered the bill through the New York Legis>
lature, simultaneously with it's passage
through the Legislature OF New Jersey.
In late humber ofthe Spirit ofthe Times,
Wilkes publishes most scaihing expose Of
the transaction, aud hose who know what
trsuchaui pen he wed., will be curious to
see h0w an indignant man excoriates the
vllainies OF the professional angler Tor
bril- es and the corrupt Legislators who are
always IN this market, with their votes and
iafuente Ut the service otshe highest bidder.
Tow. CtAGErr, the halter, sohcits call
from ali IA want Of Hats and Caps.
| N
az Printers Ink.
There was once upon time man who
kept store and sold goods wholesale and
retail
And become melancholy, because custo>
mers were shy ard times hard.
And lie sand Lo. | AN ruined. and the
sensation Is disagree
Aud ny ruin is more painful 10 bear be.
cause II : slow ia progress, even as water
doth gradually become hotter in The pot
} wherein the lobster boileth until the crus>
taceous creature shrieketh out his soul in All,
Eulsh.
Lo ), is better to be ruined quickly than
to endure this slow torture.
viii give my money away to the poor man
r even the poorest, which is be who printeth
newspapers and | Will shut up my shop and
wrap IN. sell IN sack cloth and desolation. and
pass my days in the periious or broke n banks
I cursing the hardness OF the times aud rend
ing my garments.
3 And toe bowling Of Rome shall be as dnl.
Get soutds OF dulcrmers, and they who blow
the hute- aud instruments OF music compar
ed TO di,, ! will make the ears Of the wicked
even j. the ears OF the bank directors.
And even o. be said, so he did; for he vas
not like 1iher men son who are foolish
Q and KNOB Il not, and they will do so and So
4 peftoEUaan IN ~ WINCH Is contrary.
For tie sons of men are tickle, and be that
Is born - = woman doth spite his face By di.
miuishiix the l-ngth Of the nose thereof
And, lol the printer-even he who publish
= newspar ers-was made glad by the bounty
e of him tho sold wholesale snd retail and
n he did sound his praises and PRINT them
/, moreover and did blow bis trumpet Of fame
respecting that mans dealings from the ris
: ing of the sun even TO the going down Of tht
7, same.
/. A I'd he-even the printer Of pepers-dit
magnify and enlarge upon The stock of good
which the trader had in his store, and die
publish the variety, aud the excellence ant
7, the newncss, and the beauty. aud the cheap
lie ness thereof, TIL the people-yes sll o
them, f. ind near, we're amazed
And hey said 10! this man hath gathered
'e from the east and west costly merchandis,
G. and wares Of wondrous value-even Ii,
l. workmanship OF cunning sriiheers-sad ",
n knew it not.
- 60 to, hen We will lay out our silve
and role IL those things which the priutc
b printsd =. and tina, which he doth publish
>. shall be tgr.. For this mans merchandise
is better ilsrn the bank notes of those VIII
" promise 0 psy. and therein lie, even bank
s. Of depos'. rhich heKuile US OF our money
aud sUhmdl- Us Ike SIN
to Bar III. trader MAS stIll sad, and he said
The moiey that these people bring me 10
x he good- N my store viii give to III
&c printer sed thus will ruin myself; vii
er othat which no man hath yet done in IN
IN time, OF before | will make the printe
:, man, whom all men seorn for his poverty
rich, aud he shall be clad in fine linen an
NJ rejoice
n And tae sons Of men shall meet him i
the market place. and the sheriff shall shi
- him, AMI the scofers shall be rebuked al
shall take of their hats TO him that wi
M poor
en- And - shall fash the dollars in the ey,
ed Of the foolish, and shall eat bank nots al
/, sandwiches.
"' Yea, even shall he high, his pipe with co
re- ton money. and cast his spit,le on the bear
to Of, trmen.
OIL For shall ruin myself, and he who adve
=. tises me shall enjoy my substance.
nut, 10 ! the trading msn-even he vi
raj sold merchandise became rich, and ev,
nd as the unclesn beast lieih in the mire,
HE stirred he not by reason of mucn gree
backs.
90 And the people Aocked to his store fro
~ the north. and from the south, and from 4
md EAST. and from The west
it, Ard the printer rjeiced, ard his "pha
did sbou d.
VIC lai ta- trader could no, b me poor. d
hi- m-isncholy ceased and The mi "a
nf haprnr-s ~~r- upon his face
h; And his c'sldr.n dm b. rome mighty
ths land by resson of the dollars chi
man, Of the people Who read bis ADVERT,
o. Fnen's had poured into the traders mon
80 T. ..s.