The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-06-28

June 26, 1867.
To-day has beeqe gala day to the pleasure
seekers from Quifey, Lagrange, Canton and
Keokuk on this truly magnificent steamer,
These towns. which are noted far and wide
for their handsome women and brave men,
we're fully represented, and seldom have we
seen more fairy like spectacle than the cabs
in of this steamer presented when all we're
Joined in the may dance.
We were fortunate to get standing room
when the boat left Keokuk on her upward
trip, and we met the familiar faces Of Mr..
Lee, the gentlemany Clerk of the Quincy
House, OF Malone. Col Wilson, Miller,
Richardson, and of Pitney, of Quincy; Col.
Browning, Of Lagrange, Colonel Carney,
Hon. Mr.. Davis, Mr.. Risk, and Col
Smoot, and host Of others from Canton;
Mr.. Tepfer, proprietor of the Tepfer House,
Gen. Z. NJ. Joel, Hon. ". P Billings, ofSt.
Louis, took passage from Keokuki also,
W. II. Buckle, of Webb 4 Co., Cincinnati.
We had not the pleasure of knowing Capt.
Asbury or his assistants, but their kindness,
attention and courtesy through the trip soon
convinced US that they were the right
men ii the right place.
! And Of the ladies', how shall | attempt TO
describe them2 Zeuxis ii is said, attempted 10
join in one portrait all that was most beauti
| full and perfect in form and feature of some Of
the fairest of the Grecian maidens. He, poor
fellow, failed, though his Imagination could
conjure up the image, but no finite power
could fasien it upon canvass. How then can
we attempt to describe these, in comparison
to whom the beautiful Hebe sinks into moth.
ingness.
Thus they were
q Differing in stature aud degree
And cline and time and country and complexion. /"
Besuufuhand GRACEFUL and
" Like flowers of different hue,
In some exotic garden sometimes found"
The ancient graces seemed to have meta
morphosed themselves into the crowd, Terp.
sichore, among the muses., presided, and
winged Eros was there busy darling his fsted
arrows.
| : II vas the cooling hour just when the rounded
/ Red sinks down behind the azure hill"
when the steamer passed Nauvoo, the former
site of the Mormon Temple. Parties of la
dies and gentlemen were gathered on the
guards cotillon parties were formed on the
hurricane deck.
The cabins ablaze,
And music is shrieking away,
Terpsichore governs the hour,
And Fashion was never 30 CAV,
An round tapering waist,
How closely and fondly it clings,
So they waltz and they waltz, and they
waltz"
Prominent among the beauties of the
evening were the Misses NJ, from Quincy,
lone as dusk as Ind" the other blonde
with complexion "white and red, with great
blue eyes all tastefully dressed, and
surrounded by swarm of admirers; and
methinks that this morning, as the boat was
separating them from one OF the latter, we
heard the disconsolate one repeating these
lines: ada;
ada;
sole occupier Of my heart,
When last l saw thy young blue eyes they smiled
And then parted-not as now we part,
But with hope"
Another, more classical, murmured, (6gura'
lively of course Nom ON mis- mortar, null
taque pars mel, ritati Libitinamr'
Miss P, Of Quincy, dressed in black
suite, with exquisite taste, caused many tc
exclaim Of her loneliness, and we remembe,
her particularly among others, as the boa
was returning, watching the sun rise-a slo
rious sight
"She met the morning face to face
Her own was freshest, though a blush
Had died it with the headlong bloodss
Aud young Aurora kissed her lips with dew,
Taking her for sister"
Poor Col. B. was as genial as ever, anC
il took no maguitying glass to tell that h,
was interested somewhere; but, Colonel
, "An dinna change your luve sac fast
For ilk face bonnie,
Lest wsefu want track wilfu' waste,
And a your youthful years lang past
, fe get the crookit stick at last.
0chone, puir Williep"
Miss c., whose
"Clesr dancing eyes more black than sloes,
Cheeks like the mountain pink that grows"
was greatly admired. Miss s., of Buffalo,
very pretty blonde, came in for large shar
of attention. But dear Mr.. Editor, our tim
does not permit the mention Of the lovelin el
. and gayety Of one-half Of the excursionist
r The beauty Of Canton was ven represente,
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