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KEOKUK IOWA: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY Fl, 1869


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snla In Ano, Hemorrhoids Piles prols psus An,
esrstona Of the kectaui, and diseases or simflaY
the patiebt. =
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teAn bearing cDunty seals certifying 10
In the euro OF those diaeasea
WILL also refer yoa to ease Of pften finn a.
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I
| and my family that would go alone to Frank
ford for the flour, which greatly surprised
them and caused much remonstranee. But
did go alone, and thee sees, friend, how much
have since strayed beyond the mill"
In due time Lydia Darrah returned home
with her -four, secretly trembling at sll she had
done and the fear of discovery The night fol-
lowing she laid awake and heard the heavy,
solemn tramp, tramp, tramp, of the British
troops as they marched past her window, and
on out of the city, TO surprise, defeat, and cap
ture the army fer whose success she had not
only often prayed, but had so lately periled
more than lite.
When, a few days after, these same troops
returned, Lydia Darrah dared not ssk the ques-
| ton she was the most anxious to have an
swered, lest her emotions might betray her.
Soon after, the adjatant-general called upon
her and said
Madam, will you do me the favor to enter
my room, that / may ask you few important
| questions?"
| Lydia Darrah, believing her secret discov-
cred; either by chance or betrayal, turned
deadly pale, and almOst tainted with terror
but fortunately the officer took no notice of
her emotions; and soon recovering herself,
she determined to boldly brave out the worst.
She therefore went to his apartment with q
| firm step, nor showed any signs of trembling
when she saw him lock the door,
"Now, madam he said, with sterH and
stately dignity, as he handed her q seat and
took another facing her, I beg you will an-
swer me truly, as if your life was at stake
| Who was the last person up of your own fam
lily, on the last night was closeted in this room
with brother officer ~
Myself" was the firm and quiet reply of
| Lydia Darrah.
! Are you certain, madam 2"
"Qlite-for thee requested me TO send all
the family to bed by eight o'clock, and l did
so, myself going last"
You would be willing to swear TO this,
madam"
We Friends never swear" returned the
other, with dignity, but thee has my word
for the fact"
! "Well," returned the officer, with an air of
chagrin, 81 do not understand it. You,
know, was asleep, for l myself knocked three
times at your door before 1 could arouse you
We that night laid plan to attack and cap
ture General Washington and his army; but
By some means unknown to me he got news
of cur design, and has frustrated our purpose.
When we arrived before his camp, we found
all his cannon mounted, and his whole COM
mand prepared to give US battle; and disap-
pointed and chagrined, we have all marched
back like parcel of fools That is all, mad,
am concluded the officer, rising, unlocking
the door, and bowing out the mistress of the
dwelling -
Lydia Darrah retired, with feelings of relief
better imagined than described.
Who shall say how much the subsequent
dwellers in this land of freedom have owed
and still owe 10 the cunning and heroism o
this noble woman
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RoYnI Families.

1t is fortunate for Royal Houses and es-
pecially for those of the despotic type that
their private sayings and doings are seldom re-
ported; for whenever We obtain glimpse of
the interior life of despotism it sickens US.
Truly has it been said by distinguished essay
list, that "the Masters of mankind, when
stripped of the artificial pomp which invests
them in public, resemble nothing so nearly as
the meanest of the multitude" There are
sound philosophical grounds foI this opinion.
The very highest and the very lowest of the
human race are equally beyond the influence
of that wholesome CONTROL to which the inter-
mediate classes are subjected, by their mutual
dependence, and the need they have of the
goodwill and esteem of their fellows. Those
who are at the very bottom of the social ladder
are beyond the sphere of this influence; those
who stand on the topmost round are above it.
Persons who have nothing to gain are pretty
much in the same position, relatively, to the
rest of the world as wretches who have nothing
to lose; and both are equally apt to disregard
the maxim of reckoning ones self last, which
is the basis of all politeness, as well as of all
benevolence. We find, accordingly, that ab-
solute monarchs, however respectable some of
them may have been as monarchs, have gener-
ally been positive brutes in their families
Frederick William, of Prussia, the father of
Frederick the Great, starved and beat his wife
and children; and was accustomed, after hAV-
ing eaten his dinner, to spit into each dish lest
they should partake of the remnants of the
meal Peter the Great compelled the Czarine,
Catherine, to associate with vile creatures,
most of them scullions and washerwomen,
whom he had ennobled and raised to the dig
nifty of ladies-in-waiting and amused himself
frequently with Gaming his entire household,
from the Empress down. In fact, whenever a
prince or princess tells tales out of school, as
sister of Frederick the Great-the Margra-
vine of Barioth-did some forty odd years ago,
or we get, by any means, a peep behind the
veil, judiciously interposed between the public
eye and the private history of absolute sover-
eigns, we invariably find that the objects OF
vulgar worship are as brutal, as violent, as ne
gIectful of all the usages and proprieties of de-
cent society in their palaces, as the most de-
based of their subjects in the wretched novels
to which misery has consigned them. Thus
do the extremes of vicious power and vicious
poverty meet on common level of abasement
Let us be thankful that our system of govern
ment exempts US from the curse of rulers to
whom vice is privileged, and that our social
system is but little infested with those dregs Of
humanity that seem inseparable from despot-
ism, and in fact its complement.
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An-SParkiiHz aHd Brigh..
Ltt the Greeian dream Of bis sacred stream,
Aud sing Of the brave adorning
That PhCebus yes from his IsCrsl leaVss,
At the golden gates Of NJ IniBg;
But the brock that bounds through ULion's grounds
CLEANS as bright the Belphic water,
And prize as fair 3 god may
Is a dip from our Alma Mater.
cRcRUs.
Then here's to thee, the brave and free,
Old Union smiling Ger us
An for ny a day, thy walls grow gray,
May they RUG with thy children's chorus.
Could our praises throng on the waves Of song.
Like an Orit Mt fsct srm- bringing,
We would bear to thee the argosy,
And crown thse with pearls of singing.
But thy Emile beams down b meath q crown,
Whose glory asks no other;
We gather it net from the green grot-
lis the love we bear our mother
cEoRUs.
Then here's TO thee, the brave and free,
Old Union smiling Ger US;
And for many day, as thy walls grow gray,
May they ring with thy ehlldren's chorus.
Let the joy that falls from thy dear old walls,
Unchanged brave Times on du ting,
Aud OnT oily tear fafi year
cn hands that clasp parting;
And when ether throngs shall slug thy songs,
And their spell once more hath bonud US,
Our faded hours shall revive their flowers,
And ths past shall live around u.s.
CHORUS.
Thcn here's to thee, the brave and Free
Old Union smiling Ger
And for many day, a. thy walls grow gray
May they ring with thy children's chorus.
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uring the six DAYS battle before Richmc
Conscience killing.

People seem to think that there is but ono
form of self-denial; and that is the " No FORM
Now we maintain that great self-denial is
often put forth, and intense mental pain in
CURED, in the Yes form; i. O., the gradual
acceptance of wrong doing. Conscience killing
is a slow, torturing process, and the successful
mufiing of the protesting voice of ones better
nature Is at the expense of days and nights of
misery. The son, whose every perverse step
away from loving home is on his mothers
heart-strings, cannot at first plant them firm
ly many q backward glance, many sigh and
tear, many a half retraced foottrack marks
his downward progress. Is there no self-denial
in these abortive attempts Can he forget at
once all her pure aspirations and fond hopes
for her boy2 Are there not kind words more
dreadful to remember than would be the Bit
terest curses Can he turn any way, in which
proofs of her allendaring love do not confront
him. and shame him, and sting him into acu-
test misery2 Again, can the husband and
/ father, who screens himself behind the love of
wife and children, to perpetrate acts, the con-
slant repetition of which wears away their hope
and life in the process-can he while saying
yes to the fends who beckon him on, be deaf
to the despairing sighs that follow him, and
blind to the wrecks of broken promises that lie
thickly strewn around him Does he suffer
| nothing in the attempt to extinguish all that
| is best and noblest in him2 Can the mother,
who, sitting the voice of nature perjures her
daughter, for ambition, at the altar, face calm
/ ly that daughters future2 Are there no mis-
givings, no terrible fears, no shrinking back at
the last retrieving moment, from a response
bility SO dreadful Can she kiss her away
from her own threshold, and forget the little
trusting eyes of her babyhood, and the clng-
ing clasp of her fingers, and the Heaven-sent
thrill of happiness when she first pillowed that
1 little head upon her bosom2 Can she eUer cut
the cord, strive as she may, by which the AL
mighty has solemnly bound her to that child
for this world and for eternity? Has it cost
her nothing in the process, this denial of her
better nature2 And so, through all the rela-
tions of society, wherever sacred trust is abu-
sed and confidence outraged, and obligations
rent recklessly asunder, there this self-incurred
species of suffering, in greater or less degree,
exists, accordingly as the moral sensl billtles
are blunted, or the contrary. The Almighty
has not ordained that this path shall be trod-
den thornless. Coiled in it is many deadly
serpent !; the balmiest air it knows, is surely
death-laden. Following its tortuous windings
to the close, its devotee comes TO no refuge,
J when his heart and soul grow faint, and he
casts q backward, yearning glance for the holy
"long ago." FANNY FERN.
THE Richmond Examiner publishes an order
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Letter from the Captain for w hOm GEN.
Pope Offered Five Cents Reward.
From n. Y Journal of COmmercel
NEW YoRK Julv OF 1862

MEssRs. EDIToRa: Greatly to my surprise,
my attention was directed to an article in the
evening papers of Saturday, advertising me
as deserter from my company, which is
wholly untrue. My resignation, uncondition-
al and immediate, was written, offered to, and
accepted by the Colonel commanding, day
or two previous to my leaving. Said resigna-
ton was necessitsted by an injury received
while in the performance of my duty, render
ing me totally unable to discharge the duties
devolving upon me; therefore, BY the advice
of many of my fellow officers, including both
the surgeons of the regiment, 1 resigned. For
no other cause could / have been induced to
leave the army am fully satisfied that the
commanding Generals have been most grossly
misinformed; otherwise such an order would
never have originated from Gen. Pope.
SAMUEL L. HARRISON,
&c West Thirty seventh street, N. Y
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The foregoing figures will afford the means
of comparison between the public debt and
taxation, on a peace establishment, of the
United Kingdom, with population of 29,-
$40, ,252, and the public debt and the new war
taxes of the United States, on gross popula-
tion of 81, 74s, ,2sl, or a loyal population of
%, ls7,72l. Counting the pound sterling as
the equivalent of So, the debt of Great Bri-
tain is four Thousand millions of dollars, or
eight fold greater than the present debt of the
United States. The annual taxation, includ-
ing customs in Great Britain, is the equivalent
of three hundred and fifty millions of dollars !;
while the customs and war taxes of the United
States are on a basis of less than two hundred
millions of dollars. The excise, inceme and
stamp taxes of Great Britain amount to E42,-
ole, ,l33, equal to S2lO,OOO,OO0 while our
taxes of the same nature-the income tax
being limited to four years-are on the basis
of $ll0;0oO,00o per annum.-N Y. Times.
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sc West Thirty seventh street, N.

pecIal to the New York Herald.
NASHVILLE, July 27.-The 10th Ohio regi-
ment, guarding the Memphis and Charleston
railroad between Decatur and CORTLAND, were
attacked yesterday by large force of guer-
riIlas under Stearns and Ward. Fifteen or
twenty of the regiment are said to have been
killed The road was considerably damaged,
but not so as to cut off communication. A
large force is reported near Tuscumbia.
Col. Forrest is reported to be at Carthage,
with the object, it is supposed, Of making q
descent on Louisville.
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A YOUNG lady who shows an admirers let
ters to his rival is not to be trusted. No girl
who is incapable of dishonesty would ever be
guilty of such q shameful trick. On the other
hand, no girl of spirit can ever be won by a
sulky or stupid fellow who will nope and poat
in the presence of gentlemanly and agreea-
bic rival, instead of behaving in . sensible and
pleasing manner.
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Editor and Proprietor

Tuileries and Versailles, TO comparative pow
erty and ehsenrity. A few hundred of the
defeated body-guard of the king followed in
the train of the royal carriages, the pall-bear-
ers of the Bourbon hearse. When they reached
the shore, they were taken into two American
ships, and conveyed to England Death rap
idly diminished their numbers and the sur
vivors, with their descendants, are now widely
aiSnarsad
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EMANCIPATION IN MISSOURI One Of the
most distinguished lawyers in Missouri has
written a private letter to Prof. Leiber, of
New York, giving cheering account of the
progress of the emancipation cause in Mis-
souri,. He says.
1t is a fact which think no one acquainted
with men and things will deny-and have
heard it of late repeatedly noticed--that tho
ablest, the most energetic and the most rising
men of the State, as a class, are either already
openly out for emancipation, or in sympathy
with it. In St. Louis, of course, it is far in
advance of its statas elsewhere; but public
opinion throughout the State is fast yielding
to the logic of facts, and many who two years
ago would have been furious at the thought,
now see and admit that it is our only saliva
ton. i can make no predictions as to time or
mode; but it is little to say that we are twenty
years nearer that blessed result than in 1860.
The Total Loss at the Richmond battles.
The following statement, which comes from
an official source, may be relied upon as per-
fectly correct enumeration of the Union losses
during the six days' battle before Richmond .
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The Richmond Examiner publishes an order
of the rebel Johnston prohibiting all the sol-
diers, officers as well as privates, from asking
the names of towns and places through which
the troops march, under penalty OF imprison.
ment
The Memphis union appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-08-03
ATTENTION FARMERS AND
PICKET GUARDS!

I EFT my stabe, and probably the city, on Sunday
II morning juno 20, a SORREL MARE, seven
gt years old about fourteen hands high ponybuilt,
round rump, heavy neck in very good order, eft
hind foot white, with collar marks three inches long
on both shoulders black saddle with blue bride,
broken bit with long branches and steel curb chain,
webb rens. / hired her out vt O'Clock A. NJ, TO
young man about twenty two years old, five feet nine
inches tall sparly built smooth face, yellowish COM
pexIon, black hair and wearing grey cassimere pants
and black coat. Any one who viii return the Mare
give sueh information that find her, will be lber
ally rewarded. -
PAUL SCHUSTER,
Arabian Stable, Union street, between Second and
Third streets. Witt
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GEN. Pope stirs up the Rebe, Bue.


The orders of General Pope which we pub
lished yesterday, surpass in barbarity anv-
thing ever yet proclaimed by the Federals in a
Virginia latitude. They sweep away from
every citizen who refuses to convert himself
into slave every yestige of his possessions on
the face of the earth. They despoil him Of
property, home and liberty, leaving him no
possibility of redress except by proving his
loyalty to the despotic power which inficts
upon him the most intolerable wrongs 1t is
a striking illustration of the degrading influ-
ence of Puritan association, that this man
Pope, a kentuckian, with good Virginia blood
in his veins, should become so degraded by his
afhliation with Yankees, as to surpass them all
In his atrocious schemes of plunder and op-
preston. The Confederate government and
people must meet this inhuman tool of tyran-
ny in the same spirit which he has evoked 1t
will not do to fight monsters with gloves. on.
Men of Pope's calibre construe forbearance
into fear. 1t is high time they should be disa-
abused of that delusion by the most summary
vengeance for every deed of inhumanity and
crime.
If pompous and portentous proclamations
could make a soldier, Julius Caesar would be
baby in the hands of General Pope. Tho
man is simply compound of vulgar Sc con-
ceit, impudence and brutality, and will bo ex-
ploded in due time like all other military
humbugs that have preceded him. The ty-
ranny he threatens to practice upon peaceful
citizens, will infame instead of intimidate.
The cruelty he proposes to visit upon our
guerrillas will be visited upon his men and
upon himself, if his horses legs do not run as
fast as his garrulous tongue. Whenever one
of these Federal generals, who inaugurates the
kind of warfare threatened by Pope in his pro-
clamation, falls into our hands, he ought to be
| hung to the first tree. "a short shrift and q
long rope" for all such enemies of humanity
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TiIHl STOCK and FIxTUREs Of q retail Drug store,
a Onone Of the best locations In tie city Apply 81
this oAce. ,sefg.a rs
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MEMPHIS, SUNDAY, AUGUST 3, 1866

ford for some -four, if the man Howe would
give me pass out of town l went over to
him, and he gave it. Then told William
and my family that 1 would go alone to Frank
ford for the flour, which greatly surprised
them and caused much remonstrance. But l
did go alone, and thee sees, friend, how much !
have since strayed beyond the mill"
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SONG TO OLD UNION.
81 ?. h. LUrLoE.

AIR-SparkIinz and Briah..
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-11-29

experiences Of this people, but viii not dwell
The border State readers Of the Journal appre-
ciste It an full well. But Of one fact ] am more
d ,eply assured, day after dsy-that the old
reflective, aud more moderate classes OF south.
ern rights people IN the South are now most
heartily sick Of the rebellion themselves. They
hsxe lost confidence in their cause. The Con
fedsrate msney IS worthless in their estimstion
Foreign Intervention they despair af A division
Ia the North AMI West on the war question they
Go not now expect. These vast northern armies
marching in upon them, so well clothed and
eQuipVed-men OF vigorous frame, and de-
termned purpose, astound them. They feel their
own belplessness, aud the power and might Of
tlis crest American nation We have only to
march 10 aud upon their armed bands, and scat
ter them, and this rebellion is dried up. Sooner
or later this viii be she result-soon, i think,
and gooB, the SHAREHOLDERS Of the South should
hone
tbs announced to day that by Friday next
the cars viii run up to the tunnel on each side,
leaving gap of about eight miles Of staging
between Nashville and Louisville, and in another
week hence the road is expected to be repaired
in the tunnel AMI throughout. Il viii be guarded
90 preserve il fom the iHfatuation and insanity
of those fer whom it was originally built 1hlS
great avenue Of travel aud commerce again
opened, the Eashvilians may again consider
themselves connected with civilization snd a
rsspectabls addition to KENPUC KY,