The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-11-16

bonds were sold, and not on the am cunt Gale,
for by the bonds themselves.
We believe that this latter point was de
cided by Justice Mclean of the United State
Court some weeks ago aud the first point W,
suppose is principle familiar to the Bar.
freshmen aud slavery.
| The Southern Citizen (John Mitchel) il
reply TO certain structures OF Richard Haugh.
ton and The Nation, thus defines the posi-
ton of Irish Americans with regard to hu-
man slavery
| lst, Every Irishman in the Southern States,
without exception, who can afford to buy ne
groes, straightway buys them.
| I'd, Some Of the largest and most success
| full planters in the Southern States are born
lrishmen and the finest plantation that has
been purchased in America for many years,
with 500 negroes upon it, was last winter
sold in Louisiana: the purchaser was an Irish
man.
3D., Not only IL there a large number Of
Irish born citizens at the South, who own
slaves but most OF the Southern planters
and Shareholders, we are proud to say, are
Irish by descent.
4th, Our acquaintance with Irish born cit
,zens at the South is very extensive; and we
never met with one Of them who is not in ia
vor of revivipg the slave trade with Africa,
save one; and he is a very large STAKEHOLDER
already, and wants no more.
9Th, Irish citizens at the North, though
they have no personal interest in slavery, al
most universally give their votes TO let it
alone (Which is all that is asked of them(,
| because they have no business with it, no re-
| sponsibility for it; because it exists under the
Constitution; by which Same Constitution
their own rights and liberties exist; and be-
cause its enemies have proved themselves to
/ be their enemies.
! So much for those who 'flnunch shafts Of
| shame at US.
GB'Johp b. Haskin, it is finally ascer-
tanned, by the official canvass OF the votes,
has majority of Is over his Lecompton OPP.
ponent for Congress.
lT Geo. ID. Prentice of the Louisville
Journal is to deliver a Lecture in St. Louis,
on Thursday night. His subject is "Ameri-
can Statesmen"
The Great Fast Indian Rebellion.
he London News Of the 23d Of October,
SAYS:
The news brought by the Overland Mail is
full OF exciting and melancholy interest. The
great rebellion, not yet deprived of it's fren-
zied vitality, reasserts itself first ut one place
Their at another. But every where it is speed
lily met and crushed by our brave generals
and soldiers. They march from victory to
victory, and yet they find that the foe--fght.
/ ing in the very extremity of desperation
disappears in one place only to reappear in
another. Yet the numbers of the rebels
grows sensibly less. Successive defeats so
diminish and dishearten their ranks that.
were the Governor General TO proclaim an
amnesty to oil but Nena Sahb and q few 9TH
err murdefers and arch-traitors, it is proba.
bic that the number Of the armed opponents
of British rule would soon be reckoned by
units alone, and not by thousands. II is only
in Dude that the rebellion il powerful enough
to merit higher title than that of a spas
modic and hopeless characterization, or a mad
| attempt TO escape from inevitable retribu-
| ton. But while Lord Clyde--slow and eau.
tious, but grim as fate--is preparing his
measures for the final blow, bis countrymen
in India, az well as Mt home, may rest salts
fed that the end IL near, and that the end will
be the complete re.establishment Of our au-
thority in India and the entire extinction Of
the last embers Of this once mighty conha-
grafton.
| The most painful incident reported by this
mail is the punishment Of the mutineers in
the Punjaub-- an instance of swift and unre-
4 lenting vengeance. The facts were known
/ before, but OF the causes and details the pub
lie WAS ignorant. An order having been re-
ceived from headquarters for the disbanding
| OF the Mooltan regiments, and their trans
mission to their homes in dctachments of
twenty men at time, a feeling arose among
the men tina, they were only TO be divided in
this manner that they might be cut 10 pieces
on the way. The feeling rapidly strength.
ened, and had such an effect upon their excl
ted imaginations that, TO the number Of 1900.
they armed themselves with clubs, pieces of
wood, fragments Of their bedstcads, stones.
and any thing else they could lay hands upon,
and rushed upon the artillery barracks to
seize the guns. There were but GOO British
troops 10 oppose them, bu. the 600 were
armed, and al the first alarm were ordered
out, and fred into the frantic mob OF senoys.
Three hundred and ffsy Of them fell dead AZ
the first discharge. The rest fed, but were
holly pursued, and, out Of 1900, only $50 es-
capped alive. This is horrible. bat NAV hnye
been necessary; and, while all deplore the
fact, few will take ii upon themselves to con.
denim it.