The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-06-02

Those good hthers, Marquette and Joliet
NO centuries ego erecting their tent on the
Ii ores OF the Des Moinss, first ofwhite men I
hat put foot upon Iowa soil (sse Bsncrof')
could not, any more than other mortais, lore
cast the future. Could not tell what people
would build empire here; what institutions
should be the growth, and mark the devel
opment of the American civilization thai was
To be. Even their dsuntless hope and faith
must have failed them, could they have tore
seen that in the nation that the centuries
should bring, would be found no resting
Mace. in the popular heart and belief, for the
doemas of Loyola; that the cross which they
FIRST offered to the now long, long dead
Red men that welcomed them upon the
banks of the 'Moingona,' would
have two hundred years later
triumph which they would have
deplored as heretical. Father Marquette
sleeps lust as soundly and quietly by that
Michigan stream, that bears his name, as ne
would in the shade of the Lateran; and it 10
we'll that be could no more anticipate the
Protestant churches that should dot Hawkeye
soil than he could have an idea OF the Des
MONIES Valley Railroad.
Up that great central State thoroughfsre we
90, thus reflective, while we note the vaned
forms Of cultured beauty into which labor
has wrought the primate nature when nose
adventurous Fathers saw and admired. Spleen
did farms, we'll appearing farm houses, home
quarters of glorious people. that DO heroic
service for freedom and their country in war,
and fill the highest standard of good citizen
ship in peace. To Ottumwa, with an etyno-
logical Specification that it won't do to IN
| auire into, and people that it willdo to know
Here we tarry.
The District Court is in session, his Honor,
Judge Tannehill presiding. He 10 born
Judge, if ever Judge were born, and with
the theroughness Of legal learning and ex
perience that completes his fitness for shs
place. But the best of Judges have faults
and it may be that his is his modesty anC
dieni6ed consideration for the bar, tina
did, during our presence in his court, leas
him to forbear with the obstreperousness
counsel in q case where forbesrance was M
virtue. Congress isn't pattern for court
and the wrangling of attorneys, of ever 81
much professional distinction, should be sum
marily suppressed in the chamber of justice
There was murder case before the court
and q horse stealing case, and several 9th
ers, creating public attention. Their
was General J. B. Weaver, the Distrc
Prosecutor fill. ing his place With con
summate ability; as good lawyer as he va
a soldier, and is sound Republican, and ths
is the very speculative OF praise There wa
Col. Dan. Anderson, of Abba, one Of th
very best men, in all respects, IN Iowa Hl
record, as a gallant soldier and able Officer
is part Of Iowa fame: and the only dlscoN
cradle points of resemblance between himse
and Andrew Johnson's reconstructed Soutt
ern brethren. is that he will persist in ssyin
.swhar' and 'thar'' There was his ex
Honor, Judge Trimble, whose fine legal Ia
ents, and genial, social traits, are as admirs
BILE as his politics are shabby. and who is s
good friend of ours that we haven't itin on
heart 10 lecture him.
Out of court into the Courier Office, and tn
presence of its talented editor, our gailar
friend Gen. Hedrick. Glad to learn Of th
good condition Of himself and the establish
ment. Then we look more particularly abo'
the town itself; see that many new building
are going up, that everything is promising
that the people are sanguine of early gettir
that Missouri and Cedar Rapids Railroad
and that such is the progress here In Q
things. that Henry Clay Dean can't mut
longer regard Ot,umws as bis political refui
and deligest, but, like the ministerial Nash
must remove to some confederate cross road
s. NJ. c.