The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1861-10-04
Letter from Iowa.
DUBUQUE, Iowa, Sept. 81, 1861.

DUBUQUE, IOWA, Sept Il, 1851.
Ia the Editor Of the Calcdonian
see by The Caledonian Of the 18th, that
yol, too, are troubled by contradictory ac
cunt, of the death of Dan Rice's rhinoceros
AID jeff Davis. Here, We have been in Il
sad quandary. From "up river" have come
confused stories that Dams one-horned ami
M. is dead-that he ant dead-that he has
been seen by passengers on a steamboat
.oating down the Mississippi, plowing up
ne mud with his horn; that he has been
4ught alive, and put in nice new cage;
:ha! he had broken nice young mans leg;
.ha.-well, wont 20 any further. Now al
most everybody believed almost all of these
tories, though they acere gotten up by Brick"
Pomeroy of the La Crosse Democrat, who,
j. sadly given to getting up sells and tooling
honest people. Bricks experience is, that
that YOU eastern folks have sent so many bo-
gus war dispatches by telegraph to US gullible
we.;erners, that he thought it was no more
than fair to pay you of in your own COIN
But that rhinoceros Is dead.
From the South at the same time come
contradictory rumors that Jeff was dead
TIA, he wasn't. Then as paper had the
question settled that he was actually defunct,
The modes of his death were canvassed. One
boI =, bo< b. hos b,t ha bod
,ongestive chills, a third that there was some
diarrhra in the case; but all agreed that he
should have been hung. Joy for Dams sup
posed luck in catching his rhnoceros, and
JOY az Jetf's decease, kept US good natured,
but ultimately the sad truth was forced upon
our unwilling mirds; the rhinoceros is drown
=. and jeff liveth-and hveth. Well, "he
,ha, was born to be hanged, will never be
drowned." jeff isn't drowned; ergo, etc.
Bv the way, an exchange on the table be-
fore me, in speaking of Jeff's demise, says
We may all be looking for exciting news
from HI before many days. Davis, the old
traitor, with his modern secession views, will
make that hot place too hot for even his an
cent prototype, the Devil"
Orders have been received here to-day from
Adiutant General Baker of this state, that
township supervisors must Immediately re-
port to him the names Of able bodied men
between the ages of Is and 4j, in order that
drafting may commence.
Dissatisfaction is felt here that western troops
have been ordered to Washington from 8.
Loais when they are needed at st Louis
Why don't the eastern states, having more
dense population, furnish enough men for
Mcclellan, and not call on US? We have
enough to do to supply Fremont's demands
Fremont is almost idoized in the northwest
aad many times have heard the expression
let Lincoln remove Fremont, and he will
have 70 draft ant confscate for men and mo-
.ey." That is the sentiment of thousands ir
tie northwest.
have just returned from an agricultural
lar on the Cedar river, 100 miles west Of
here. In cattle and hogs, the Iowa people
are hard to be surpassed There saw some
il blooded stock as good as any ever saw
IN Vermont, though not as good horses ant
saeep. There is soon to be held in this cit.
ar exhibition of the Dubuque Horticulture
Society, at which will be displayed such fruit
as you eastern pesple do not imagine we cal
grow. will endeavor to drop you linz
then. that is if am in these parts then.
may be drafted before that, if not ] may g
al any rate. In either case will not forge
HE GAZE ionian in my peregrinations.
\ FIGHTING CLERGYMAN Rev B.
Ward. pastor of Congregational church IL
tie village of Genessee, Illinois, conceives
I. be his duty to forsake the pulpit for tn
teld. He has received authority to raise
company of infantry, but purposes to enlis
clergymen only. An appeal to his clsrica
Brethren, published over his own signature
calls upon "the fighting stock of the churc
militant to prove to the world their willing
Aess to "seal with their blood what they nav
liked in their pulpits," and closes with thl
extraordinary passage:
Much as we have said and done to prov
GUY loyalty, We have not yet resisted unit
blood striving against sin. Shall We now
:;e call of Christ, come oat from our velvt
cushioned barracks, whence we have 50 O
,en hurled bold, indignant words at the giar
-1-lalty Of the age, and meetit face to tac
With the shot of rihed artillery with tn
cleaning bayonet, or with clashing sabres /
d hand to hand encounter ?"