The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-07-16

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fsssa1 anvil Il cko;;os ssssasssssbls soSaass
Ths cAsapsss los Of dix and liasn fans ever
Offered ii this market choice lot Of lawns,
AuSak lesllaa; sls5sst aaso1k1snt q psass
and fancy buttons, linen aprons, &c. some
OF tbe cheapest dress goods eyer sold cvss
M CONNER. Choice lot Of prints and
blsached muslin. For bargains 50 to a. \.
Rost ,;ck,s. II \
~ l4ks City Lsad~ i published ap g
Lake Pepin, il Minnesota. A stray copy Of
is.asas iHs my 70 sas ol6es. Finds 'ts way
becausA Il hAs been sent and has been sent
he1so ths sditos - bs1s s3cursionins re-
Gently I'D bsea IN parts hearabouts. He
haa made sope notes, which he rightly thinks
- vopld like to So. We scissors some Of
them. Here is remark about friend OF
Crok Abs Hutchinson, Of Phil. Sheridan
notoffet3, VI around with the nboys' in the
evening. making himself generally mot bad
eeslahsil he = .the N. ". o.. Packet Com
bAnv 6UpGfi y 81. Louis, aad looks
=. e ~ anioYsd good living. He reports
white col lara in thsa region > success But
Ne rcldctantly bid adieu 70 St. Louis.
And thsrs u remark about aDothesfriend
Of on.s, which remark although compliment
AIRY doesr't fuliy do justice in the premises.
II is the steamer Muscatine Of the Northern
Line tbssis talked about. And that We know
to be one Of the neatest, clesnest, good going
and best conditioned crafts that has run since
the Ark We know, too, that its Master
Captain jerks, and its Clerk, our friend Mr.
william Van Dyke, are princes among gen
tlemen and steamboatmen. And then there
Iis thus mach Of other matters:
EKoxuK,
at the foot OF the lower rapids, the CONNER
cial no;pt 3os gputhsrn lows, was reached OF
F1dH ii mtiaight It's O city Of shout
4.0Ot 81 tl,a southeast corner Of the State,
the Des MONIES river, which empties here
(fsrmiux The boundary thirty or forty milei
i,gfw cen Iows and Missouri. This town en-
| loved mushroom growth at an early day, .
enc time the largest city abote 81 LOUIS
suiferfrrof course q revere reaction, IRON
which il is gradually recovering.
THE DIES MONIES VALLEY.
/ Saturday morning on the cars and up thu
beautiful aud picturesque Des Moines valley
(which we remember hearing much OF year
aso az an attractive field for settlement beior'
| Minnesota was particularly known. Whei
1 within about sixty miles Of Des Moines, thu
! road passes through most magnlhcen
stretch Of thickly settled rolling country TO
many miles, q view we might perhaps hav'
| gone into ecstacies over had We not betor
razed on nearly similar scenes through In
central and southern counties OF our owl
State. The finest orchards, The lmmens
4 fields OF waving grain now being bountiinil
Kafvesaed, and the many thriving towns an
yi1iases we're we'll adapted to ease the ey
and swell the heart
aThs would is very lovely Oh my God,
/ thank Thee that live.
We stooped over the Sabbath near Monro
In Jasper county, thirty miles east OF lie
MONIES city, in the midst OF splendid re
zion, spending that and the succeeding do
NTH friends and associates OF our school days
whom We had not seen since then, ana wh
had removed to Iowa since We came to MN
neso,a: and we lived over again ~ iresh'
awakened recollections the halcyon day
when life was young and cares we're lev.
kiondry evening We left our friends after
very short visit, going UP to the State Capl
ltol, Des Moines City, which We found to b
a neat aud well built city Of $4,000 'nhabl
ltants. with very modest appearing Stat
House, journeying thence to Davenport, tn
handsomest city in the State, where re az
rived late Tuesday evening, seeing By tn
lway more beautiful country than IN The a. NJ
: distance anywhere in the west.
T. IOWA