The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-04-19
RIVER NEWS.

ARRIVED. q. johnson, St, Louis.
Tom Jasper
Phil Sheridan
Hawkeye State
Lady Pike, St. Paul.
Davenport
DspARrED-Mollie McPike, St. Louis.
Andy johnson
Lady Pike
Davenport
Phil Sheridan, St. Paul.
Hawkeye State
The Tom Jasper, Burnett master, Roberts
clerk, will leave for St. Louis this afternoon
at o'clock.
The ]. b. Johnson, of the St. Louis 4
Keokuk Line, F. s. Lee in command, George
o. Walton at the desk, will be the regular
packet for St. Louis tomorrow morning at
o'clock.
The Northern Line steamer Minnesota, T.
B. Hill master. ia expected fiom below. on
her way to St. Paul.
The river has declined four inches during
the past twenty four hours.
The St. Louis Democrat Of the 18th says:
"The river rising rapidly. Total swell five
feet at six last evening. Sundry lots OF lum-
Der and other articles are partially under
water. Upper Mississippi and Illinois rising.
The Missouri is reported on the decline all
the way from Lexington to Omaha. Weather
now the finest imaginable, in bright contrast
with the late protracted moist and stormy
spell. Business on the wharf remarkably
brisk yesterday. Cargoes moving freely,
boats having all they appear able to handle.
Opposition 10 the ruling order of the times.
The whole Of the N. w. u, or the White
Collar line, or considerable portion Of it,
seems bent on taking the bull! by the horns,
BY going into the ST. Louis and ST. Panl
through trade. The Phil Sheridan has a.
ready come and gone, leaving last evening
With the Hawkeye, regular packet Of the
Northern Line, aud another. the KY City,
came in yesterday, to be followed shortly By
the Itasca. We have no doubt the object Of
the Northwestern Union Packet Company i,
10 force the Northern Line into . certain Gov
eted arrangement, and then retire to their
old route; but, If We do not mistake the tenn
per Of the Northern Line gentlemen, they
will not yield, but Eight so valiantly d to roat
the innovator. But there is another compel
itor for the st. Louis and St. Paul trade.
There is Red Line consisting Of the tow>
boats Lady Pike, Tiber, Clipper, Antelope,
and Imperial, and numerous barges, designed
to ply regularly between ST. Paul and 81
Louis, one of which, with Eve heavily loaded
barges, is now near this port, and another
left St. Paul on Monday. To clinch she mat
ter, several other boats run independent Of
the lines, and propose to carry freights cheap.
er than any ofthe lines will. When 10 these
are added the lines between the rapids and
the two rival lines between St. Louis and
Keokuk, it is evident that the upper Missi.
ssippi is likely to become one Of the liveliest
business portions of the country
WHrs De Tocaueyille would study the new
France, the France Of the French Revolu-
ton and following it, he put himself to the
study of the Old Regime. He found that tho
new France couldn't be divorced frpm the
old France. The roots of the presen. are
bedded in the past. So when we note how
uncharitable and illiberal the past has been,
We thank God and take courage for the evi>
dences of growing charity and liberality that
these times furnish. 'Twere pity after all
these eighteen hundred years, if some men
had not learned to write in dust the failings
of their fellows. Jesus knew how 10 do that
these many centuries. And Burns wrote
noble commentary on the text
Then gently scan your brother man,
Still gentler sister woman,
Tho they may gang kennin wrong,
To step aside IL human.
One point must still be greatly DARK,
The moving nhy they do III
And jast as lamely can ye mark
How far, perhaps, they rue it,
Robert Bonner is the owner OF the New
York Ledger and Of fast horses. Any friend.
ship with him would horrify the "unco
guild" yet the volume Of Beechers' late story
" Norwood, is before US. II has preface.
and the close Of that preface is this:
+" When the last sheet Of the manuscript of
Norwood was ready for the press aent Is.
following letter witht: =
nth The Ia, l,na - 49, on have here
reluctantly, as one Who tresds - osg, !.
path. But as went on took moro kindly to
my work, and no. that il il ended, shall
quite miss my weekly task.
Ny dear old father, after his day Of labor
had closed, used 70 fancy that in some wsy
1t work; and one occas;on. sfie, . s.hh..h