Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-11-02

EDIToRs DEMOCRAT AND News -
Deov Sir :-Observing from the Thursdsy .
Gs.ette. that the edi, or Of this institution con
siders the publication Of . reply TO its q tsrep-
resentatioos Of and its charges sgainst the Ger.
man psper, "Lemokrat." as . very great favor
bestowed upon me, and presuning. that II. st
least. might Delay . further consideration W.
Ill . time ~hen it will End no more attention
l beg you leave 10 inform the public through
your paper that my reply. potlished in the
Gazette. has been nutilsted IN its most impor
tsnt points. | did not acknowledge tie
charges of the Gazette against me in any way.
as people might presume by reading scrong
words" for the nALuscrip. said /" nar,.ing
words" Neither do believe that ,rusl in the
people can be "uneonstitu,ional." had writ,
ten ''uneon di tionol" r. SLIBoLr,
Editor Der Demokrat
Dress PARADE OF rHR ELEvENrH.-
Regiment has been uniformed and armed. We
visited Camp Mcclellan to witness . dress
parade. and must gay that We were most
sgrsesbly disappointed. Like many others we
had become somewhat disgusted with dres,
parsdes where the dress was not in the que-
ton. and the only arms were OF the natural
pattern. and consequently have not been o
constant attendant.
The parade yesterday was excellent. though.
there is . chance for improvement 10 soue
departments Of manual exercise. Col. Hare 10
in command, He lie . man of q noble, colder
" bearing and is evidently much admired by
the Regiment. He surely has the honor Of
having the finest appearing Regiment that was
ever raised in Iowa. 10 ore or two respects
It is the Iows Fret. 1t is the fret Reeimsnt
ever uniformed in love- and the first ever pro-
vided with arms-the frat armed and equip
ped Regiment that Iowa has ever had. II
will soon GO into the field, and will go feelit
that they have been sent out in fighting con
dition. We expect much Of the Eleventh
We advise our readers who wish to zee
fine sight not to mise being present at the
dress parade Of this Regmeat before it leave,
the camp.
DRUAMED OuT.-It is one Of the
most disagrsesble sights we ever cav. Ii is
enough to make the heart Of a man recol in
ilegust at the human family to think that
there is q uan who could stand such an ordeal
The su' ject was young man from Mt V r.
non-we will not give bic his name, but for
williul dsssrt,cn ana perversity after he had
been brought tsck to camp, Gen. Baker or
dered him to be drummed out Tie crime
vas . grave one, aud one worthy Of an ex.
smple-at least, generally 60. Discipline
must be maintained .. ali events. The culErit
vas brought ont of the Guard House ard
arurnmed out in the usual .tyle. He etood
the operation with ell the coolness Of q vete
ran There lie not q particle Of cowardice in
biz heart, we will venture to state, no matter
what othe. iahrmity may beeet him. He had
q brother in the came company-a noble look
ing fellow, who passed .bsy ond the lines vita
him who was thus dishonored. The brother
vas deeply affect. d, and though q m.. a., :,
spoAe" y good soldier, he wept like q
child. The fi1lctioo was truly . heavy oue,
far brave brother tc 10 compelled to bear.
We waIt TO see no mere drumming ont To
see q man shot would be altogether preferable
to %.