Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1869-09-16

] giving IllS IcdutiS tnc NOI I'll " SHCi
money, for awhile dips into other sci
cnccs, thus treating them TO much "not
laid down in the bills" He touches
upon topography and geology with the
hand OF master, and talks OF bluffs
and bottoms, rocks and strata, as
though they were subjects familiar as
household words. Nevertheless, there
does not seem to be that felicity Of ex
preston, that happy adaptation OF
words to communicate his thoughts
and that peculiar justification of gram
matical rules which characterizes his
purely historical, writings, and we are
thereby left to conclude that he suffered
himself to draw rather largely upon
the report Of the State Geologist.
But, our limits will not permit us to
follow the whole course OF this mo-
mentous work, SO we will pass over
several pag $, in which are almost any
number OF errors OF fact, bad spelling
and worse grammar, but which, from
what we know OF the author, are to be
attributed to mistakes OF the aforesaid
printer.
We now come to the history OF Ia
ma City, where our author, Judging
from this work, seems perfectly at
| home, and, as before intimated, under
the peculiar care and influence Of Ia
mas presiding genius, from which
comes his ability to take such flights
OF fancy, and to look with such an in
tui'ive insight into the Affairs OF men,
and thus portray, in language as clear
as the mud he treatls upon, the glories
and beauties Of his Du!cinea, the Sec
ond city Of the West. lie is more
than ordinarily felicitous in describing
thescenery around this modern Athens.
In proof OF this we quote one para
graph. lie says:
"One remarkable fact to be observed
here, IS the large scope OF country th,.
seems to the eye, one almost level, un-
broken tract, then turning the eye in
an opposite direction and one Of the
most pleasing pictures presents itself"
1t IS to be regretted that our author
did not give us his standpoint, and
the direction we should first look
We can account for this important
omission only on the grounds Of too
much OF the aforesaid inspiration, rem
dering his mental condition similar to
that OF a certain seedy individual, who,
in similar quandary, could not decide
whether his lead was approaching the
ground, or, rice rcrse
But the scene changes, and the gen
ius of mathematics resumes her SWAY.
and We are told, (page lI) that To
ledo township contains a population of
1907, an! on page l5, that Tama City
contains a population OF 1,iII. The
former containing 30S families, the latter,
lis, from which we ascertain that there
! are in Toledo, on an average, persons
to each family, while in Tama City
there are l.. We venture to say that
this is unprecedented outside Of Utah.
and is another proof of the interference
OF the guardian spirit of Tama in the
domestic affairs OF her citizens.
Again, we are informed OH page 10
that the town Tama was laid off and
named "Kississ,ppi," by Mr.. Kirby, the
surveyor, after the celebrated battle of
Iuka. But, in writing under the head
OF Schools (page 2l,) our author
takes the bollest flights, whether from
the fact that the "master was abroad y
or that our author had never been
made acquainted with one Of that ge-
nus, or whether the shade of Murray
Uinliey not Tom.) got at logserheads
with the aforesaid presiding genius Of
Tama, thereby impeding the "ground
and lofty tumbling' Of our authors Pc
yasus, or-but it is useless to speculate
upon the cause; we shall probably new
CT learn till the dawning of that far off
distant day when all the secrets of ere
alton will be untulded to our view
Whatcrer may hare been the cause, we
shall never cease to regret that we are
lett so totally in the dark regarding
the results OF the energy OF that re-
nowned School Board OF lama just
at the momentous moment when tho
Imagination is on tiptoc with eager in
terest in the announcement, the pen OF
our author, regardless of all rules OF
grammar, flies off in a tangent, and all
is dark and silent as the grave, save
the echo OF the illustrious names to
whom the rising generation Of Tama
is SO deeply indebted. Notwith-
standing this singular coatre temps, this
unique and mastery piece Of compost
tion would do credit to Mrs. Parting
toms son Isaac or Crazy Jane.
Again, OH page q we learn that
"the only organization at present hav-
ing structure of its own, is the Meth
odist, which was built in 1865, and
since that time has had steady and
rapid growth" We confess this, to
our mind, is little mixed. If our