The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-11-09

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No census was taken west of the 9th prin-
opal meridian. Salina Co. has q popula-
ton of about l,0o0.
The Whereabouts OF the Traitor
Gcnrgey.
The correspondent in Saxony Of the N. Y.
Times, writes that the conduct Of Georgsy
Ia as much puzzle to the people OF lIunga-
nv "a to all the world. Why he surrendered
at Villages 10 one can tell. His chances OF
success were better than in many a battle be
had already won. 1t 10 proved that be knew
of the rejected desertion OF 10000 of the
enemy to his standard. And yet the vulgar
suppositon that he was bought over by the
Russians or the Austrians, seems improbable.
There 10 90 evidence OF his having been
bribed. 'He lie living in comparative obscu
rity, as Professor OF Chemistry at Klsgen-
furth. lie possesses neither wealth nor dis
tincsion. His conduct, If il was prompted
by any selfish motive, entirely failed of its
object, and remains as unexplained and un-
rewarded as it was unexpected.
ET William Hewitt, the well-kuown Eng
lish author, pronoupces bis belief in and de-
votion to spiritualism. Hs has just written
letter in reply TO articles in "Once Week
and "Blaokwood'' on this uhject, and the
English journalists have taken up the discus
sion extensively.
rT Orestes A. Brownson, the able editor
of the Catholic Review, has brought the 9th.
err Catholic organs down on his head for de-
elsring that the Pope's temporal sovereignty
il, like that Of any other monarch, defeasi.
BILE, liable TO be abused, and taken away.
Henry ward Beecher on the reiIti-
ctans.
Henry Ward Beecher has been shockingIy
abused-thongh not much hurt-by politi
clans of the order OF the publishers OF the
New York Express, and other Northern prints
with Southern principles, If principles they
have. We are not surprised that they dis-
like the politics preached by the Brooklyn
divine. His portraits are too life like to be
mistaken, Here is an extract from one of
his recent discourses which will do Demo-
cratic and Fusoniss leaders much good, 9th.
or before or after election. Let them read
| and Elm no more:
| In parties, in political mana EN- emit, in tie
usages of public fairs, we are perpetually
coming into such connection with evil that
We are obliged TO stand protestant, to re.
nounoe it, or else to bow down to it, and be
I Eha,x "a 81 a. A
/ few there ere few men that are Christian
statesmen enough always to rebuke that
which 10 evil, and TO refase to have com.
merse with it. In that miserable ,brood Of
noxious vermin called politicians, that for
the last twenty five or thirty years have
swarBed about the morass Of our pstrefving
| public affairs like worms about a fostering
carcass, there have grown up unnumbered
men utterly delinquent OF moral duty, care
less of anything but personal success; god :
| less and in the worst sense atheistie; disbe-
lieving God in the conduct of human affairs
In this life believing Him afar of and som
nolent, but not near by and regnant. We
hnd among them the most striking examples
OF that spirit which Christ inveighs against
IN our text-men that are ashamed Of any
thing but dishonesty-msn that are utterly
given up, it would seem, to wick ednsss.
have said, and | say again, that il things
were to continue for the next twenty Ave
years as they have gone on for the last twe en-
~ five, | would rather follow u child 10 the
grave than to 90 with BIN to Washington or
Albany. | would rather bury him, than to
J see him dead without dying--ihan to see him
reeking, stenchful, moral corpse, disgust
ing 10 God and angels. | cannot conceive
OF anything more 10 be exposed, and against
which the young are more TO be warned, than
that utterly irrehgous, goddess wick edness
which has been the crying sin of our times
which has turned our municipal governme NIT
into dens OF thieves; which has made our
Legislatures hotbeds of iniqui;y; which ha,
: sunk our general government such depst
Of degradation that il il unworthy Of the re-
spect OF decent men and which has rendered
law, and institution, and magistrate, anc
judge even, oftentimes. objects of unboundse
contempt. What shall bs tho part Of thes,
!, men that have broaght such wasting trouble
. on communities, If not the curse Of Christ
because they have been ashamed Of his or Ia
: his virtues, in the presence OF svil2
Il Prophecy cfGeneraI Jackson.
MIR. =. w. Chandler, in a speech made a
West Roxbury, Mass, refers to a private let
!. ter OF Gen. Jackson's. as follow..
j. l have recently seen a remark able auto
- graph private letter, written by Genera
Jack son to a friend in Gaorga iasf sfta.tha