The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-05-04

The principal tones being an undemonstra-
tive red and green. They are, however, ems |
ivened by the seals of the di1ferent States in /
all their classic and artistic outlines, and /
several American eagles on the scream, With
their backs to the field and their feet TO the |
foe, the latter bristling into endless au6us /
and thunderbolts.
The entrances are drsped with green cur |
tains, not over prononces, drawn back with |
cord and tassels. The whole of this is in
stxikins contrast with the elaborate and infi>
nits designs Of Japaness decorators q he
next remove. These are gorgeous and be.
wildering in their hues and minuteness. and
s1siha oas - the very Jfseus Of art They
offer an excellent type 81 the Oriental mind,
which ever fritters itself away in thousand
inutilities. Red triangles and green lozen-
gers, blue circles and golden balls, scarlet
scroll.work and purple abaresques. all whirl
round about the eye in conglomeratsd jan
gle like the Pleiades run mad.
Turn now to the interior of our compart>
ments, and their three removes are - bad
as FIRE . condition. Oyer the Intel of the
entrance 10 the first is the State seal of Indi-
ana, representing bull, bison, or ginger.
bread horse could not make out precisely
WITHDRAWING away from Pswnee, or
some other forked radish in red skin, with
the rising sun in the background Watching
the result. Within 10 an inverted billiard Ia
BILE with its legs stretched out in m attitude
Of duplication, like dying bear . score Of
thick volumes for the use Of the blind piled
up in heap and looking like heavy and dys
peptc reading q long row of photographs
tilted up against the wall, and one of them
badly broken; vast frame ten feet high,
gilt and barbaric, inclosing printer card
from New York, with condensed view of
Printing House Square in the centre, and the
bird of freedom over ell, as usual.
About are scattered few tables, and Just
outside in the aisle is o stack of six or eight
boxes labeled g Standard Weights and Meas
ures of the Treasury Department" and tum>
bled together confusedly. Over thus much
does the rising sun of Indiana predominant
in addition to the bull and the savage. In
the next room, on the other aide of the mar
row passage, is a still more complex and va
fled collection, only, il possible, little more
riotous Over the first door is the seal of
Ohio, the rising sun rampant and gildingla
most prosaic canal boat-the Polly Ann, very
probably, on its famous cruise-and over the
second is the emblem of Minnesota with an.
other rising sun, another red man apparently
running to escape a coup de solisl, and another
quadruped avoiding him.
With all these solar spectres was not sur
rrised, on further examination, to perceive
large placard in the centre of the room con
tanning the advertisement of the New York
Heliotype Company, and volumnious exam.
pies of their works. A description Of the
Heterogeneous insides of this room would
surpass the best land pilots art. 1t would
pass for veritable sedgment of the United
States cut out at random after new deluge,
. layer taken from the economic drift, if
there be any such geological stratum.
Counters here and there, and tables in an
gular demonstration and every possible stti>
tude of sntipathy packages OF Mr., Rogers
groups in brown paper suffering from hes
morrhage of sawdust, and looking like Lana
| rus jus, emerging from the grave; a minuet
of pianos in the centre, with their limbs =
| say it with modesty-delicately concealed
| in whitish drs-pery; box of lead pipes;
ditto of artificial legs; big cooking stove,
| looking like steam engine captured young
and tanned, but suggestive in its present state
| of mince pies in future, when the great X
shall have got its mad up; photographs Of
| the moon as she appeared when contemplst
| ing Boston; statue of Columbus point
| ing ia the same direction before he be-
| gan his great water works, like the equestrian
image which Chactas saw on the beach of that
| desolate and lonely island a turmoil of bass
/ musical instruments thrown down pell NELL
| in a corner, most dssolute orchestra on a
| strike, ur band Of serenaders after they had
been entertained" by the victim all these
and . thousand more, amid papers and dirt,
| shavings and chips, hammers and nails, and
| other disjectd meHbrd scattered diffusely
about, as II somebody had 'gone and done
1T.
| In the next division of this compartment,
| for being the largest il lis separated in the
middle, is another array similarly :" dis
poged. Here are three " last arguments
of Kings, and may add of republics also.
| in the shape of two cannons and q mortar
of terrific portent that ends frowning. Near
| it, like the sheep looking into the mouth OF
the big gun in Landseer's famous painting oil
" Peace, stands a large tin stove boiler,
such as the bldnchissenses of Yankeedom,
" the Wards and Pesseleys,' are prone to
use for the weekly washing when they turn
the whole household upside down, wand
| with the centre mix the pole
On a table, consorting with dozen empty
1 jars, are two cases Of skeleton leaves, mere
anatomies and labored nothings, then row
| of photographs, then q wall of huge aspect
! terrific" with divers specimens of house
paper, and beneath and on every hand q
multitude of other bits of shrewd ingenuity
and American thrift wasting their sweetness,
as yet, in multiplicity Of arrangements. In
the middle, and great deal larger and
rounder than the shield of my fathers, OF
cen that of Achilles. stood an orrery with q
vast gilt bali in the centre, representing the
/ U(prising) Sum-
II AsI looked, Sol was just being put in pn-
sition and told to stand round by bona fd,
Yankee Josh IN solemn swaliow-tail and
wide awake, with an air of absorption and
sagacity like that of Mr. OIdbuck when be
was studying the principles of Julius Caesar
Differentiation. 1t struck me that be re,
garded himself as the original proprietor oil
that luniinary, or had at least a vested inter
est in il. Perhaps be had discovered o new
wash for removing the spots from its face
that no respectable solar system should be
without.
Athis left were no end of camp stools of a
new pattern, on their beam ends, and beyond
several marble mantle pieces, a Herring !
safe and brace of globes, one of then COW
cred with the celestial menagerie in ever
form of AIRY dislocation and contortion,
blind Orion spreading himself, and Amaeus
doubled up with the cramp, or with a kind
Of collie pinched and vexed" With thess
was bran new clock, symbol oft isstru-
mental arts from Connecticut; case OIL
Tiffany 4 Co., though the firm we're not We,
in it billiard table muffed ina winding
, sheet, aud a variety of other articles quite
as suggestive as these of the wide extent o.
trans tlantic civilization.
If the Astounded world doesn't stand
a aghast and open its mouth for the reception
of q multitude of new and improving ideas
, for one shall be disappointed.
There is still another compartment which
contains only a beggarly account of empty Ia
bles and a dozen or so of stuffed animals
l
thought they might possibly be the collectio:
of the late A. Ward, Esq, sent here for fna
dissolution. OF this division there need b.
, said but little, for the same reason that III.
/ historian Of Iceland made bis chapter Oh
j Owls so short there being mona DC thns.