Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-12-07

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with 10 years interest at ~ per cent.)
Old boaes, isclsding those for etssmsr
:. 0ravso. and $50 In new bonds
10 lssac orownson to cancel Others. S9.7Ii.eo
Judgements IN city, district and U. =.
orss.s ou!stasains since 1855 on .hs .
Ia.sr.st Tor ii years isvsrar. da,..).. ssi7Sss
Total. 81 .s1s. ~ v
Iowa II she OlAea rlme.
We we're presented, the other day, with
. "Asp efths State Of Iswa, BY l.. Matzin.
gsr-lS50." IL shows what Iowa was ssv.
sntssn years ego. Comparing it with the
map Of Iowa now. " see what . vest diff.
fsrsncs there 10 between the Iowa Of the
oldsn time end the Iowa Of .hs present day.
There vas then only thirty nine counties
organized in the State. Half Of tho State
was . wilderness. inhabited BY the Winnie
bago, Sac and Fox. and Pottawattaaic Iu>
dams. West Of Winneshisk and Fay cite
counties, and extending in . southwsstsrly
direction 10 the "nsutral ground Of the
Winnsbagss." West of Boon end Dallas 10
the late Sac and Fox" country. Wsst Of
Madison aud Clarke, - far a. the Missouri,
10 the Pottawattamie country, embracing
the now popular counties Of Union, Adair,
Adams, Csss, Montgomery, Mills and Pet
tawattsm's. A few people then inhabited
the southsr tier Of counties west OF Davis,
but there was not tswn west Of the then
hamlet Of Garden Grove Ia the county Of
Decatur.
Even sems Of the now conlidsrabls tswns
and cities Of the Mississippi river we're then
unknown. Lansing, the new Hourishing
river town Of Allamakss county, 10 not down
on the map. McGregor, a city already, and
soon to be great enc, was an "undisc over.
ed country to Mr.. l., Ma,zingsr Sabala,
Jackson county, 10 unknown 70 this old
map also-new place Of great trade and
prospects. We see here no signs Of Clin-
ten, now beautiful and sntsrprising city,
which supports FINE semi weekly journal,
the biggest saw mill in the country, . steam
ire engine, and ether metropolitan instit,l>
lions.
On the river, and even 10 some Of the or
ganizsd counties of the interisr, there are
no towns. There is no sign Of . village in
Black hawk, in which are nov the fierce ri>
val citi"s OF Cedar Falls and W atsrloo, each
= magnificent place 10 every body except tho
inha5uants Of the ether. There is no town
vest Of Vln,on in tina, part Of the State
Marshalltown. now the busiest place in cen
trail Iowa, except Dss Meines, is not on the
map. SO with all the other places Ia that
neck OF woods which one invariably thiaks
Of when having his mind on that part Of
tho State. Of course there 10 no Iowa
Falls. Eldora or Fort Dodge. Even Cedar
Rapids 10 not in existence in 1850, accord
ing TO Mr.. Matzlngsr.
IL shnet The lr-s oc 1crn
With the Iowa Of 1857, 10 but small pots
toes. There were less than zoe, 600 souls
ia the State. A this time there eanuss b
less than enc million.
But w Rave still On older map Of The
same kind. namely Nswhall's Map Of lswa,
published in lS4l. The then Territory Of
Iowa extended lrsa Missouri to the British
Possession, embracing much mere than The
territory sew iacludsd in The States Of
Iowa and Misnssesa. Nevertheless there
are but eighteen organized unties-Olay-
ten, Dubuqus, Jscksen, Clinton. Ssett,
Auscatins, Louisa, Dee Hoinss, Lee, Van
Buren,. Henry, letters On, w ashinetsu, jobs
eco, Csdes, Lynn, Jsnss and Delaware.
Parts Of Buchanan and Lafay cite are mark
cd out, but they we're 81 dewn without
population. The population Of the oresa.
Fed ceunties 10 43.llS, oil told. Van Be-
rem . the NEST populsus q any. Il has
6.lls inhabitants. Lee comes next with
6.096; then Dee Meinss With o,t4o; then
Henry with 1854; Dubuqus with 3.056
Jefferson with $3.50; Scott With 2,l63
Louisa With .9lb, and % on to Delaware.
which 10 1910 seotainsd Al souls.
In towns, Burlington md Dubuqus vsrs
ahead. They contained . population q
1900 each. In these days Bleeniastan
was The name Of The tswn which etSnds
whore 10 new the city Of Auscatine. BtOsm.
ingten then had population 81 $50 Iowa
City bed bS0. Fert Madisea 600, Davsn
port SIS. Rockingham then wanted the
county ssas 81 Sect county. Il had ~.
ulatisn Of $50 souls, nearly 100 mere than
Il new has. We suppose. Davenport has
quite shaded oil srSwsh eot Of Rsgkins ham.
In this old map. 1swavills, in the north.
western sssnsr Of Van Buren,, 10 the far.
thsrmest village toward the setting sun in
Iowa. Near whore the large and growing
city Of Ottumwa now 10, we're the Isdian
Villages Of Appansose, Wspslle and Kso-
kuk, fameus chisftains in those times OF the
rapidly dseaying aberigines. Nov the
Daily CSurisr says there will be at least
q, 900 hogs packed in Oitumwa this SEA
son. Thsrs are tive daily papers thsrs, and
. thousand other evidences Of civilization.
witch would make the pappossss ~ the
tndian villages Of twsnty-siv years ego
stare, we're they - come upsn ths scene 81
their early days.
What magnificent growth may ~ see
here. By comparing this map Of Isws in
le4l with the map sof Iowa in 1857
What wonders have that Quarter Of cen.
sury worked in material prosperity, and In
civilization round abeut 10. In that part
Of tho now State Of Iewa which we
xildsraess only . quarter Of century ego.
there are new not lsse tbsn one hundesj
newspapers and nine hundred thousand @
sp'sodsd msss women, children and babies
% ever blsssed the world. There 10 the
ene capital Of the state itself-Dsa Meinss
-.itn i's daily papers, railways, strsst
ra'iways, schools esllegss, and lie shssshss: |
mere are Marshslltewn aod Fort Dodge
sad Osdar Falls and Waterloo and Dscorsh
and Independence and Ouumwa and Osks.
loosa and Pella and Knoxville and West
Union, and hundred other fine towns
rom thousand to three thousards ;uhab-
itants, which we're utterly unknown only
twenty I've ysars ago. Here tee 10 Conn.
Gil Bluff. . city already, and fast growing
int metropolitan properties. which wss
net svsn an Indian village quarter Of
century ego. Here Ne end nearly dozen
colleges and institutions Of learning, whore
but few years age there were only buifa-
loss aud wild indiana. Surely svsry citi-
zen Of our now proud and noble common.
wealth has abundant caues for gratitude 70
0ivef Of al COED giits that he has permit
ted him to b member ofa community
which 10 - shsss pessea has- nals @
9Esas eeate cut Of psiusval vildefnsss.--
! 11ssatine 0easiss. 80