The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-05-05

msst foftunste circumstance forth
: wounded in our hospitals. Even wit
this favorable feature in the weather, s.
many aggregated in one building. wit
severe and literally discharging wounds
the air becomes more or less influenced b,
these causes and it requires the utmos
care and the closest vigilance to proven
the air from being contaminated and Of
fensivs. s6
| To manage one Of these hospitals, TIL
individual to whom is intrusted the polio,
details and general supervision should b.
familiar with its wants and requirements
and have system and order as one Of hi,
faculties. If he have not he will certain
y fail. Promptitude, faithfulness, con.
stancy and 6rmness are requisite beside
abilities as surgeon. He must have lu
manity, for this lies At the bottom and ia
the prompter to all the other necessary
attributes. These qualities in an eminent
5
degree are possessed BY Surgeon Mills,
who, for some time past has and still d.
reefs and controls the 4th Street Hopital
in this city. He is, beside all this, 4
gentleman He is an old army Surgeon,
and one Of those who has not permitted
himself 70 become misled or oxydized in
his profession and in medical science, but
has kept pace with improvement. have
met with few men for whom / have .
higher regard than entertain for him or
with whom / would more cheerfully CO.
operate in any enterprise or aid in its
management
On yesterday We, had most disgusting
exhibition. A number Of secession OH
GERS and prisoners, who came here sick,
were permitted BY Gen. Halleok, OF by
his order to DR.. Mills, to 90 abroad in the
city and visit wherever they desired, re-
quiring them to report at certain short
periods to the Surgeon-in- Chief of the
Hospital. On yesterday their term ex-
PRED and they were ordered to report to,
Dr.. Mills preparatory to being sent to.
Chicago or elsewhere. A number Of se-
cesh ladies, among whom were several
with bright faces, and more or less &C
complished, came into the ofioe of the
Hospital to take their leave Of these rebel
heroes. Such demonstrations Of sympa-
thy and such over-weening solicitude and
attentions / have seldom seen exhibited
The rebels must have felt consoletl and
encouraged by it, for. although our patri-
otto ladies of the North are not wanting
in demonstrations Of sympathy toward
loyal soldiers, yet this exhibition far out
did anything ever witnessed. Some Of
them shed tears when the tinselled traitors
we're departing.
What an outrage upon the principles Of
honor, patriotic virtue, humanity and phi
lanthropy! These men were little less
than the leaders Of blood.thirsty bandit.
who have raised their hands against the
Government which reared, educated, fos-
tered and continued its liberal benefits to
them until, through it's benign influences,
they had acquired position and influence
in community. Without the shadow Of q
cause they turned traitor to the libersf and
kind hand which had led them up and
sustained them, and with treason in their
hearts and unkindness in their minds,
they vent forth upon their piratical pur.4
poses and drsnched the land in blood
The echoing moan from the adjoining
ward told the tale Of agosy which had
been recorded IN blood. and visit through
the wards and shuddsring look into the
dead room would b eloquent in upbraid.
ings for the direfnl and bloody work Of
their hands. Away in the distance, in
the far distant hamlet or hut, could b
heard the vail Of friends and relatives Of
those who had been foally slain, ysa cru
ely murdered. By IN organised army Of
traitors Or pirates, whose blood-thirsty
proPensitiea had dyed the soil with the
best blood that ever flowed and brough
grief and sorrow and mourning over the
land.
And yet, with NIL these terrible eviden.
COS Of crime, these delicate, refund, nc
complained lsvdies fondled over them aud
showed them such familiar attentions as
would be justified only on the part Of sis
tiers to brothers or daughters to fathers.
] was 50 much astonished that | inquired
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