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K O X u X:
THE OPPOSITION PLATFORM.


The following paragraph which we clip
from the remarks of the traitor Senate,
Powell, of Kentucky, contains the Val
landigham Platform in brief. The Ma.
honyites in Iowa, without exception, en-
dorse II in their secret hearts, and many OF
item by open decorations
He did not believe this Union could
ever be restored by force of arms, there
fore he had opposed the war, and should
continue to oppose it. He was in favor of
the convention proposed by his colleague,
Davis. He should also vote Cor an armis-
tice while that convention should continue
to be in session. He eontended that Pres.
ident Lincoln violated the Constitution in
charging the regular army, in suspend
ing the writ of habeas corpus, in arrest
ing citizens, in interfering with the free
dom of the press, and in his recent pro-
clamation.
They are opposed to the war, they are
IN favor of Peace Convention to sur
render to armed traitors, and they de-
nonnce every measure of the Government
to put down the rebellion, as unconstitu-
tlonal.
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suffering living. They feel, if you
do not, and cannot, that the coming
generation must not be sent to death BY
thousands as this has been. and is being
sent. Il would require more, and more
wonderful miracles, TO restore the Union
as it was than have been performed from
the time of Moses Down to this hour.
Let US have speedily those miracles. or
no more of this worse than idle talk about
what cannot by possibility take place. In
lieu of miserable gasconadr, the earnest
men simply ask that We shall lave a
Union of perpetual. peace and prosperity,
and not of intcrminable wrangling and
irrcpressible conflict. This ID nothing
more than respect for the dead, and re-
gard for the coming millions of this coup-
try demand. 1t is truth, very bitter to
thousands upon thousands Of our people,
that the old Union can never be restored.
Ii pfaSc vi IL, let US HASe chioh "a
concord and thorough harmony, SO that
the unavoidable fact of irrepressible con-
fict shall no more burst forth in the ter
rible conflagra,on of hlood-wasting war
and all the untold evils consequent there
on. BY such union, and such only, can
we secure indemnity for the past and Sc
curity for the future.
Mr.. Sunset Cox, and others of his
rlbe, have developed their plan ofopera-
ions. The main design is to induce
DIR. Lincoln to forego issuing his prom
sed proclamation on the LIST proximo,
Hence they seek to poster him with fac
ious opposition 10 Congress, and with
urried endeavors in the line of an ar
nistlce, about which we have the most
'rodlgious rumors regularly every other
lay. / have no doubt these semi -secesh-
RS have their rumors going regularly be-
ween Washington and Richmond. and
hat they will all be rs busy as
'ees between now and the close of
he holidays. Fortunately the Presi-
lent understands them, and their game,
nd when it comes to playing
yill take all the tricks and make march.
lie will issue his proclamation, and order
Forward !" simultaneously. The fact
# the business is, Mr.. Seward will hard
y be able to accomplish BY diplomacy
what eait be better accomplished by the
Presidents Proclamation and the armies |
of the Union. The stirring news which |
We will shortly hear from Grant, Banks, /
and Burnside, will probably do much
more toward conquering peace on the
basis of universal freedom than either
Cox or Seward is thinking about
The honest, straightforward plan of the
President is better, and has more chance
# success, than the tortuous windings by
which they would patch up hollow poll
icians peace, to be broken whenever
dominant set of leaders are defeated in a
Presidential election.
Hon. VIM. b. Allison, M G. elect from
he Sd District, is stopping at the Kirk
wood House. w. F. Davis, Esq, late
Secretary to the Iowa Senate, is at Will
ards. HAWkEYE.
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sThe French Emperor is already
in league, or about to make q league,
with the rebel jeff Davis, to carry on war
against our government, to secure the in
dependence of the South and the con-
quest OF Mexico. And under this state
OF facts the Chamber Of Gonmerce ard
the people of New York are holding meet.
ings To send contributions TO France te
relieve the wants Of the suffering opera.
tors, who will be soon enrolled to fight
against us.
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mr. Wlckifffe Again-.ss The Union
as 10 was .'--The Opposition Ex-
hibiting their Strategy, etc.
WASHINGTON

"AshiNGToN, Dec. b, 1862.
think it was about six months ago
that this correspondent gave Mr.. Wick
life, of Kentucky, an airing. And now
that amiable old gentleman has got on
his sound leg and his crutch again at his
Old desk, and Kisses around daily that
every member of Congress not in favor
OF the restoration of the Union as it was
ought to be expelled Mr.. w. is an aged
man. lie was Postmaster General SO
long ago that most folks have forgotten
all about it. Still younger men than he
can take him at his word, but with a
fair condition precedent. We will take
the Union as it was, or, falling in that
we will have the Union as it ought to be.
mat is nothing more than fair, just, hon
orable, right.
Now, can we have the Union as it was
oy any possibility? / may be pardoned.
hope, for obtruding family matter up-
on the public, thereby to introduce nv
argument. Let the following paragraph,
then, be made most false
DiED.-killed instantly, bya Minnie
ball through the head, at tie terrible bat.
tie OF luka, September 10, 1869, JosErH
HENRY lNGERsoLL, of the 18th Ohio Bat
terry, aud the only brother of l.. d. In.
gersoll, of Iowa City.
Mr.. Wicklife, make that short SON
tence false, and give back to life the
brave young man who fell with his face
to the foes OF the Union and of Freedom
and you have not commenced the work
IN hand. Give back, Mr.. Wickliffe. the
unnumbered dead, sacrificed to your
slave owners war. Give them back, in
health and strength. to their families and
their country, before talking SO sulkily
about expelling better men than YOU are
Tor opposing restoration of the Uuior
as 1t was = Do you know, Kentuckian
that death III it's most dreadful forms ha,
cast pail over almost every household
from the forests Of Maine to the Ri
Grandc, and from the reefs Of Flor;a, !,
the Gulf of Georgia, unless-Goa saw,
the mark 1T be in neither hot nor col,
cases like your own, that of Horatio Sew
mour. and others of like sentiments
TIE /" lnioa IS il ~as, would be out
cold, and dark, and dreary affair, with \,
indemnity for the past and no secur;t,
for the future. The fatherless all ovs
the land, the sonless and the brotherle,s
feel, with depth of feeling which you
Mr.. W., and other cold. cherries. an,
psssionless misanthrops, can hardly un
derstand, much less appreciate, that YOU
peevish conduct ID moekery OF the dead
and casting Of Iesring iibes upon th,
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Fer the Gate City
LIST OF IOWA SOLDIERS I'm HOS.
PITAL AT HELENA.

Ma. EDITOR The following is list
Of the sick and wounded in the regimen
tai Hospital of the Iowa troops at Helena,
each case coming under my own obserya-
ton between Nov. 25th and Dee ed:
G K CLANCY 81 cav, lung fever.
w Ankrom Sd cav, intermittent fever.
I H Van Slyke 81 car. do do
A H Hill Sd cav, diarrhea.
j S Hall 4th cav, Aux.
c Sssson do wounded
Jacob Horton 4th cav, pneumonia.
Thomas Saunders do bronchitis.
Corpl Kline do rheumatism.
Cd 1t S w Groesbeck 4th cav wounded
lst 1t A B Fitch 4th cav. conclusion.
s F Whiting do dysentery.
J Barnes 4th cav, intermittent fever.
Sam'l Wileford 4th cav, pneumonia.
Serg't c o Stephens 4th nifty, inter few.
j + kendblakc 9TH unity, remittent fever
" Moore do intermittent fever.
d Underwood do do
s Wright 4th inf. inter't few. d. diarrhea.
J Tracy do chronic diarrhea.
W A Wright do sequel of measles.
D Thayer do debility.
K Shileso do intermittent fever.
w A Ewing do pneumonia
J J Laughlin do typhoid fever.
} W Purdy Sd bat, pneumonia
\ Granger 9th nifty, typhoid fever
A Barber do pneumonia
Segt ID Grlthn do darrhea
l. Logan do do and bronchitis
j Z Blunt do measles
J A Dresbelbis do hemorrhage of lungs.
A Montgomery eth nifty, typhoid fever.
} drss Gath inttry, measles complicate
bronchitis
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8g 0elegraph.
AFTERNOON DISPATCHES.
Southern Items.

FoRTREss MoNRoE, Nov. 1.-The second
mate and seven of the sailors from the
ship Allegheny which was recently burned
at the mouth of tue Rapahannock, arrived
at Fortress Monroe to day from yorktown
under arrest. The crew of the Allegheny
numbered twenty men. These eight men
were picked up by the o. s. gunboat Non
ticello and taken to Yorktown We have
learned nothing definite in regard to
the destruction of this ship by fire, but the
Investigation which will probably be made
and the examination of these men now IN
der arrest, will, no doubt, throw the crime
upon the right parties.
The Richmond Examiner of the Both,
says: Day before yesterday yankee gun
boat came up York River, as far as West
Point. They made no stay but gave no.
tice they Intended to send up large yes
sci to blockade the river and put stop to
trade in that direction, which is principal
ly oysters. They also say that the people
on the Rappahannock River have not yet
tasted the horrors of war, and they intend
to pay them visit shortly.
The Examiner has an articleo on the treat
ment of the exchanged prisoners at Aiken's
Landing, in which it says, tive have been
waited upon by several of the surgeons
who came up from Aiken's Landing on
Tuesday in charge of the wounded pRroI-
ed prisoners, and from their statements of
neglect and the treatment received at that
point, it would seem that the suffering Of
the Confederate prisoners only commence
when they are relesaed from Yankee thral-
dom. Their custody and care is trans.
terred to those from whom they have u
right to expect human and better treat
meut. We hope to hear of no more of such
treatment"
From the Richmond Examiner of the
30th we learn that Michael H4wley, a cit
zen of Richmond, was convicted by court
martial of the charge of attempting to
smugRle liquor through this city to Rich
mond, and is sentenced to wear a barrel
Ihirt with tue words "Liquor Smuggler"
marked in large letters upon it, and to be
marched through the town to the Southern
Depot and there stand exposed in his novel
garment from 10 to 3 o'clock to day. He
ID then to be sent to hard labor at Fort Cas-
we'll for six months, with ball and chain
attached to bis left leg.
The aboVeis the sentence of court mar
tial convened at Mechanics Hall, Peters.
burg, Va.
The wagon train of supplies brought out
from Kentucky, by Gen. Kirby Smith, was
forty miles long, aud brings one million of
yards OF Kentucky jeans, with large
amount of boots aud shoes, two hundred
wagon loads of bacon, 5000 barrels of
pork, 10000 mules and horses, 5000 beeves
aud large lot of hogs.
The Express of North Carolina says:
There are many considerations which
makes it necessary that the government
should take prompt and energetic meas-
ures to hold against the enemy, the east
eru portion of North Carolina. The peo-
Pile of this section are already alarmed at
the prospect of being overruu by the enemy.
1t is said to be the intention of the gov
eminent to hold this country, aud prepa.
rations are being made TO remove their
store property to safer quarters.
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WHEELING, VA, Nov. l, 1862.
At a regular meeting of the Hope Fire
Co. last night l.. ]. Bayha, Jr., Isaac Sea.
man, Geo. E. Rho des and John Nolan we're
appointed a committee to draft resolutions
in regard to the death of Samuel P. Hall.
The following preamble and resolutions
were submitted aud adopted:
Whereas, 1t has pleased Almighty God
in his Advise Providence to remove from
our midst our highly respected and eff
cient member and worthy secretefy, Saml
P. Hall.
RESOLVED, That We deeply mourn his loss
to society in general and to this company,
aud his relations in particular, and that
we offer to his afflicted mother, sister and
brothers our sympathy aud coincidence IN
this their bereavement of an afTectiOnate
and dutitul son, q beloved brother, and a
useful member of society.
ReSolued, Tint the thanks of this COM
pAny be rendered to the foremen of the diff
ferent organizations of the city for the
sympathy manifested toward us and espe
cialiy to the Scventy-Six Company for the
use of their splendid hose carriage for the
occasion of the funeral.
ResoLUeG, That copies of the above pre-
amble and resolutions be handed to tue
mother of the deceased and furnished to
the city papers for publication.
l.. J. BAYHA. Jr.
Isaac SEAMAN.
GEO. E. RHODES.
JOHN NOLAN.
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~ EFFEcrs OF THE SToRM.-Ou Sun
day evening, during the terrific wind and
rain storm which passed over the city, an
attachee of this office was coming down
Quincy street, when a sudden gust of wind
lifted his hat from his splendid head and
took it away with a whirl upon the
wings of the storm. The night being dark
he could not pursue his tile, so he went
back to his boarding house and got another
hat, with which, strange to say, he was pro-
vided The wind was still high, and when
he reached tue spot where the gust had rob.
bed him, the second hat was taken away,
and his umbrella turned inside out by
another violent swOop. Notwithstanding
the wind and the rain which dashed into the
face OF the hatless, he pushed along boldly
against the storm in tue direction of the
retreating tile, and after considerable
search traced it to the mouth of an obscure
sewer, where, much to his astonishmeut,
he discovered the hat which he had first lost.
and also another aud much better one be-
longing to somebody else. The owner of
the stray hat can have the same by calling
at this office, though we doubt very much
whether he will be able to recognize it.
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BUSINESS NOTICES.

GRAMMAR LEssoN-To be rscited in the
Churches every Sabbath during the Win
ter.
exercise, by the Congregation
Cough is verb, active, iutrausitive. aud
in the present tense, indicative mood is
corrugated thus
r, cough We cough
Thou toughest We or you cough
He coughs They cough
Present Participle-(alD coughing!
I'd exercise, by the Preacher:
Cough is a houn, common, TOO common
il this congregation peuter gender, plural
number, and in all cases governed by
DR.. CHAPMAN's HoARuoUND BALsAN.
Price IS cents. Sold by
7. H. LOGAN & Co.,
and LOGAN, LIST & Co.
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LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES
From WASHINGTON.

WAsuINGToS. Nov. 3.-The President has
approved the sentence of a Court Martial
convened at st. Augustine. condemning
VIM. W. Lunt, Co. /. 9th Maine volunteers,
to be shot for deseFtion to the Cuemy's
for highway robbery.
Former orders have been modified so as
to require the submission to the Secretary
of War OF plans for hospital accommOda-
ton of sick only in cases to which in opin-
Of Quartermaster General :or of Surveyor
General require special action Of the'Sec-
rotary.
Il is said Tonight in military circles that
Col. Garesche, Asst Adj't General Of the
army upon duty in the War Department
will soon leave here for duty in the field
as chief of staff of Maj. Gen. Rosecrans.
The entire army has been paid up to the
3oth of June last, and a portion of it up to
the 3lst of August. The reason for the
non payment as to the remainder, is owing
to the Treasury Department being unable
to honor acquisitions of the Pay Depart
ment
Rear Admiral Dupont in communicating
to the Navy Department the circumstances
attending the capture of the steamers SEQ
tia, ADgtia and 0uAcbita, and the destruc-
ton OF the Mincho, says: The crew OF the
Scotia were in state of intoxicalion, SO
much so that they became almost unmau-
ageable, aud Acting Volunteer Lieut.. Con-
ray ordered them TO be transferred on board
the Restless and put In irons. The Anglia,
when captured, was almost ont Of coal, and
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An Important Order Revoked,

WAsHINGTOE, Nov. "a special order
from headquarters of the army of
the Potomac, just issued to the following
effect
Pusuant to authority from the War De-
partment all enlistments of volunteer ar.
tillery soldiers in the regular service under
general order No 1914, from the Wsr De-
Partment aud the Adjutant Generals Of
fee. Oct 9th, 1852, are hereby declared
void, and all such men viii be ut once re-
turned to the batteries and companies
from which they were taken, but all other
enlistments under general order No. las,
from the War Department, not in excess
of ten from any volunteer company, are
valid. After ten men shall have enlisted
from any company all further enlistments
from that company into the regular service
are void.
All soldiers enlisted in the regular SER
vice excepting from volunteer artillery now
detained by regimentaI or other comman-
ders, will be at once sent to the company
or battery to which they belong. Under
General Order No. 1874, should ten men
have been taken from auy volunteer COM
pany, and there be still more men claimed
from that company by regular officers
as having been enlisted into their batter
les or companies, the volunteer regimental
commander will certify the fact to the
claimant that ten volunteers have been ia
ken from the company, which will be a suf-
fcieut answer to the claimant. The imme-
diate delivery of volunteer soldiers re-
Gently enlisted to these new batteries or
companies is enjoined upon all command
ing officers Descriptive lists aud accounts
of pay and clothing should be sent with
soldiers thus transferred.
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ba The RrvER,-There were A feet 4
inches of water 10 the channel of the Ohio
yesterday. There was great activity
among the local packets. The steuben-
Vile, Pittsburgh, Parkersbugh, suufsh,
Captiua and Bellair packets all seem to be
doing very good business.
The fast steamer Express will leave this
morning at 10 o'clock for Parkersburgb.
She is in charge of the old officers who
have rendered themselves SO popular with
the public.
The steamer Ella Faber passed down
yesterday with pretty good trip for Gin
ciunati.
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8~DEsrRucrIoN OF BRIDGE OK Tue
BALTIMORE AND ONO RArLROAD.-The Off
GERS of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company received positive information
from Cumberland, by telegraph, on Thurs
day night, that tho rebels had, on the day
previous. completed the destruction of the
railroad bridge called Back Greek Bridge
The bridge was situated between Martins
burg and Cumberland, about ten miles west
of Martinsourg, and twenty-five miles
northwest from Hagerstown. The same
advices also state that the work was execu-
ted by 1000 rebel cavalry,Iwho, at the time
INSTRUMENTATION was sent, were at Hedge
vile. All the stone abutments of the
bridge were completely destroyed, and as
the trestle-work had been burned some
time ago. there is now no vestige of thu
bridge remaining. The bridge was sixty
feet deep and one hundred feet in length,
and was an important railroad bridge. The
company, however, are already making
preparations for the reconstruction of the
bridge, &C., as soon as practicable, and will
not be many days in accomplishing it, as
soon as that part of the road is again I'M
der their control.
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W-we understand that Capt. Hamil-
toms Silver Greys, who patrolled the streets
on Saturday night arrested several persons
and committed them to the Atheneum, for
pronouncing two letters in the Alphabet,
the mention of which is construed into
az attempt to ridicuIe the organiLa.
ton now acting as Provost Guard. Peo-
pie should not trife with the Guard in the
performance of their duty no matter how
much theirlOye of fun may invite or tempt
them.
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B4 BROKE HIS JAw.-ou Saturday
evening last two men named Craig and
AeGuire, got into dispute with a man
named Jacob BOwersOck, at Eckharts ia
era in the First Ward, when one of the
parties struck Bowersock with a stone or
brick upon the jaw breaking it in two pla-
ees, Craig aud Mcguire were arrested and
alderman Miller held them to bail in the
sum OF $500 each. They were committed
tolAd In default.
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The Army Moying-McClenan in
Possession of Smokers Gap.
HEADQUARTERS Army OF PoroMAC,
November 2, 10 P. N.
To His Ereslteney the President.

November 2, 10 P. N.
To His EEeeHeney the President.
l have just received dispatch from Cen
Mcclellan dated at Suckers Gap. P. NJ,
stating that he has full possession of tue
Sap. When Gen Hancock arrived there it
was held by the enemy's cavalry who were
at once driven out. A column of from 5000
to 5000 rebel infantry advanced to retake it
but were dispersed by the FIRE of our rifled
guns. The position is a strong one for
either side. 1t is said Jackion aud A. P.
Hill are in the valley opposite.
Gen. Pleusontou had driven the enemy's
cavalry seven miles beyond Union at 3
O'Clock, P. NJ, exploding one of their cais-
sons and capturing ten of their wounded
left behind.
[SignedJ R. B. MARCY,
Chief of STAFF.
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New YoRK, Nov. s.-The steamer Marion
arrived this morning with New Orleans
dates of the oath, Key West of the 9th
and Havana of the goth ult. Vera Cruz
dates of the 18th uIt state that most of the
French troops had arrived and gone to
Orizaba.
The U. S. Gunboat Santiago was att Ha-
vana on the 29th and coaling.
The ship NOuPereiI, from Key West. with
Capt. Bissell, Provost Marshal of Key
West, was nlso at Havana.
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Loss of q Prnnsllsr.

OswEGO, Nov. s.-The propeller Bay
State, hence for Lake Eric foun4ered cd
here last night in terrific gale. All on
board were lost, there being six passengers
and sixteen of the crew. The beach for
miles was stewn With portions of the car
go and the wreck. The steamer was load
ed with merchandise. The vessel was
valued at $4,000. Her cargo probably
$50, 10000 or $4,000.
Two schoouers ashore near here.
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BosroN, Nov. s.-Mails by the Arabian
were dispatched by early train and will be
due in Philadelphia tonight.
The pirate Alabama was last seen at 10
o'clock on tue evening of the 29th ult. in
lat. 80 long. go steering northwest under u
full head of steam.
The bark Lamplighter who was among
the vessels captured and burned by the pi.
rate 1890" was party owned in Charleston
aud Savannah by j. W. & ". A. Caldwell
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A Terrific Gale

oswEeo, N. Y, Nov. IA terrific gale
passed over here.
The schOoners ontonagon with wheat
and the Farmer, with ballast were blown
ashore, total loss. The crews were saved.
The schooner Flora Watson, loaded with
Harbor.
The schooner Gazette is ashore.
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RRDAMAoE by THE sToRM.-we notice
that the violent storm on Sunday evening
caused considerable damage in various
parts of the city. A portion of Phillips
Foundry in tho First Ward, was carried
away, and several houses IN the vicinity
were somewhat damaged. The storm was
one of extensive violence, and the rain was
one of the hardest which we have eyer wit
messed.
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was sent by Capt Gideon. senior officer,
of Charleston to Port Royal 10 be supplied.
This is the same vessel which attempted to
enter Charleston in September, but being
headed on succeeded in making her escape
through the darkness.