The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-03-03
LETTER. FROM THE CAPITAL.
De. Mo,srss Feb. n. 1868.

Dies Mofsvss Feb. n. 1868.
Being through With business in the Dis
trict Court, which has adjourned tlll next
Monday, the State Convention Of the Demo.
cracy being over. there Is little new here
now in the way of excitement, and the ma
jon,y are homevard bound. Jour cotrespon
dent among the number. heartily tiref OF the
hotel "grubn Of the Capital city, which BY
the way, is bad enough to turn the stomach
Of the King Of The Cannibal Islands, WHO'S
no. reported very fastidious in his tastes
Only think ola wssh-rocm without hair
brush, another one with an old worn put one,
filthy. coarse combs, and towels On which
three hundred men had dried their hands and
faces, and The writer the first one to complaint
Cotf,e may be at high figures, but one IS
forcibly reminded of the complaint Of old
Thorn johnson, one OF the first Q. S. Mar
shals Of Iowa, who stopped at wayside inn
on the route to Iowa City, near the Iowa
River, and in speaking Of the coffee, which
was anything but remarkable for strength,
snd he could take a grain Of coffee put, il in
a crack in the ice, ard swim the Iowa River
and make better coffee at New Orleans.
Such miserable hotels are a disgrace to any
town Of Importance Ike Des Moides, and
no place on the route, after leaving Or on the
return to keokuk, will Jon find good cup of
coife, clean table clo,h, or anything cooked
which is ft to eat, except at Peter Balm
gals, at 0,,umwa, where We stop far dinner
going and returning, ard it is due tp him to
say be keeps number one house, but none
Of the others do, and there has bed gems
eral compliant against them from almost
every one. But il they will do better as they
certainly can, Ego their way and sin no
more,i keep good houses and good coffee,
let their past sins be forgotten, for there can
be no excuse for them in this plent ihl eoua-
| 1y vhsrs they are we'll pasronized md we'll
paid.
/ In speaking of the Democratic State Con-
vention and those present, no correspondent
or editor Of public newspaper, Mas given
any outline Of who among old and prominent
! party leaders were present; to SUPPLY the
onisssos, sithons writing a political letter, I
i've il 10 you and your readersas la,terDf
news Among The membersof fht Legis>
| lature we're Col Babbitt, Of Council Bluffs,
and Judge Wilson, OF Dubuque, and among
those who figured years ago we're Gem A. C.
Dodge, George Gillesry, Judge Knapp, Gee.
Paul, Vim. Pattee, ex-Judge j. wfllisms,
now nearly seventy years Of age, and old
Captain Irish, of Iowa City, who came down
with Gil. Fulsom, and has for many years
been perfectly blind, besides ex Judges
Trimhle, Townsend, Amos Harris and Har-
vey Dunlasy, The latte, always andidate for
Office, and this time secured nomination.
Last, but no, least, was General George Wal
lace Jones, ex-Unsed States Senator from
Dubuque. looking old and rather seedy, as he
no longer feeds upon the meat Of the Cte
sars, counting one in the Dubuque county
delegation. without the power to vote it un-
less it suited -HsM, candidate for delegate
to the National Convention, with no one in
favor Of Jones but himself, as surve, ing con-
tracts ran out years ago, and his warm friends
thens Who got piles Of Public Documents,
fat contracts and sweet letters, do not now
"piy the sorrows of poor old man. Of
whom Capt. Isaac W. Griffith, then Repre-
sentative. said 'he is the best daneer in the
State,n and 50 he danced himself into ske L.
8. Senate. MoyaoR.