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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-05-09
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Baltimore, May 8.
The following, dated Yorktown, May
7th, at 10 o'clock, is taken from the cor
respondence Of the American of this city:
As close my letter the latest intelli.
gence received from the battle field is that
Gen. Mcclellan has come up with the
enemy, about eight miles beyond Will
liamsburg, and after pretty severe Skin
mish with his rear has again put him to
flight across the Chickahominy. A large
additional number Of prisSeers have been
taken, including many deserters, who re-
port they have had nothing to eat but a
few hard buiscuit for nearly AZ hours,
and when brought in fell down in state
ofexhaustion. Heavy cannonading could
be heard by the boats coming down the
river at an carly hour this morning.
Nothing as to results is as yet ascertained
There is no doubt but that the whole
army of Lee, johnson and Magruder are
in state of utter Reorganization, and
under the rapid pursuit of Mcclellan are
aceing with precipitation without the in
tention OF making stand anywhere, and
unless they reach Richmond in boats by
way Of James river, they will certainly
be intercepted and captured by the forces
landing and landed at West Point
Not less than fifty steamers are engaged
transporting the balance of the army to
West Point. A large number Of prison
ers are arriving there, and others are con-
a. A. ha,cr, hror,~ht 80,
On Monday the enemT took about 80
of our men prisoners and captured one of
the Pennsylvania batteries, having first
killed all the horses. They having but q
small support Of infantry, were over
whelmed by superior force and COM
PEELED to abandon their guns, but before
the close Of the day this battery, with one
Of the enemy's, was recaptured by Gen.
Mcclellan, and the prisoners they had
taken were found in Williamsburg the
next day, engaged in attending on the
wounded of the enemy, whom they had
left behind. The retreat of the enemy
was accompanied by too much confusion
and haste to be troubled with prisoners.
LATEST have just learned that the
enemy have destroyed all the bridges
across the Chickahominy, and that Gen.
Mcclellan is resting his army on this
side. 1t will bs remembered that the
Chickahominy runs parallel with the
James river, into which it enters. 1t is
the general impression that Gen. McClel-
Ian has now got the enemy just where he
wants them.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-05-09

GEo. w. JONES, Minister, etc, il
appears did not fail to call on the editor
of the Democrat, while in this city, and
receive little of his sympathy. The
Democrat says, that "Jones spoke of his
Fort Lafayette experience freely, and
places the proper estimates upon the un-
authorized and tyrannical acts of the
great Mogul of the Department of State. =
Secretary Seward arrested Jones, for
completely with treason. He wrote let
ter to Hon. JEFF. Davis President of the
Southern Confederacy, in which he ex.
pressed his sympathy with the rebellion,
and promised to give the South all the
aid in his power. This letter fell into the
possession of Secretary Seward, and as il
was strong evidence of Jones traitorism,
he had him arrested and sent to Fort
Lafayette. Had it not been for that ar
rest, We firmly believe Jones would have
at this day held some position among ths
rebels, had be not sooner met his deserts
-Darenport Gazette.
He is trying to serve the rebels now
and if he succeeds in his mission to unite
the Democratic party under the Vallan.
digham. Mahony programme he will serve
the cause Of JEFF. Davis much more etiec
tually than he could have done in any 20
sition in the Southern Confederacy.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-05-09
THE TAX Hss.v..
Washington. May I,

The Senate will without unnecessary de-
lay proceed to consider the tax bills which
have been presented. and it Is thought
the report Of the Committee on Finances
will Be adopted without material change
The tax of 20 cents per gallon on whiskey
and 20 cents per pound on tobacco it is
estimated will yield forty million dollars.
Should the views Of the minority Of the
comnittee prevent il is supposed the
revenue from this source would BE- con.
sidsrably increased.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-05-09
THE POSITION OF DOUGLAS.

y AS Howell is lately SO fond of quoting
Douglas, We beg the reader to consider
what Douglas said in Congress when the
compromise measures were pending, aud
then answer to their country and to their
own consciences and say whether the
Republicans are not responsible as we'll
as the secessionists for the psesent terri
BILE condition of our country. Il Clage,t's
Constitution.
Douglas was in favor of compromise
before the war broke out, and he had a
perfect right to advocate his views in
Congress or in the country as party man
But after the war broke out Douglas was
man of too much sense, and too much
patriotism to advocate peace compromises,
to charge the war upon Republicans or
to apologize for traitors by insisting that
their rights were assailed by the Repub-
Ecan party. On the contrary he
espoused the cause Of his country like a
whole souled patriot and won the admir-
ing plaueits of all loyal men throughout
the land. He said:
A war of determination and oppression
is now being waged against the Govern.
ment. Walker boasts that on the LIST Of
May the confederate flag will wave from
the dome Of the National Capitol, and on
the 4th Of July their army will occupy
Independence Hall. Already their ri.
ratical flag is unfurled against our com
merce, and the navigation Of the Missis-
suppl - obstructed, and we are required
to pay tribute to its mouth. The cues
ton is, shall We allow this to proceed. or
meet the oppression? lie said there lras
no camse for this rcLeVsoa; that no eyi-
dence had been presented that their in
sttntions We're insecure; that the fugitive
slave laws were never executed with more
nrmness than recently at Chicago. Are
we to inaugurate the Mexican system in
the United States? Had the candidates
OF the disunionists been elected, and the
Republicans of the North rebelled. |
would have used my best efforts to crush
them.
1t is crime against constitutional free
dom 70 attempt to pluck the United States
out OF the map of Christendom. He sp-
pealed to men of all parties not to allow
their passions to get the better of their
judgment, and not to attempt to man.
uiacture partizan capital out of miseries
and struggles of their country. To Dem
ocrats ne would say, don't allow party
considerations to make you traitors. The
most stupendous and unanimous prepa-
rations Tor war is the shortest way to peace !.
The greatest unanimity the less blood
will be shed.
Every friend Of liberty must feel that
this cause 10 his own. The seeded
States have proceeded to obstruct our
most lnalienable rights Of navigation of
the Mississippi. The people of the
Mississippi Valley can never consent to
be excluded from free access to the Gulf
OF Mexico. will never cease to urge
my countrymen to take up arms in dc.
tense of these rights. II isa war of self
defense. | believe it duty we owe 10
ourselves, our children and our God to
protect and sustain our Government and
tag from every assailant.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-05-09
THE PRESIDENT VISITS FIT. MON
ROE.
If Fl M fnrup- NAV
Fl. Monroe, May
President Iincoln arrival boro

President Lincoln arrived here this
morning and spent the day with General
Wool. This P. N. he visited Newport
News to see Gen. Mansfield and to have
clear view of the Merrimac, which has
been lying off Craney Island all the p. m
for the purpose no doubt Of preventing
our gunboats from running up the James
river. She made no attempt to come out.
The Geo. Peabody arrived here from
Hatteras to-day and started Immediately
for New York. No news has transpired
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-05-09

Chicago, May D.
A special dispatch from Cairo to the
Times says: A force of 1900 rebels is
reported to be concentrated near New
Madrid. They are thought to be prepar-
ing for demonstration on the half de-
serted town. Our forces at Island No. 10
and Tiptonvilie are amply sufficient to
drive the guerrilas away.
A citizen of jackson, Miss, who form
erly resided 10 Penn, reached here to-day
from the South. He fed his..Southern
home to escape the CONSUMPTION act, which
he represents as being rapidly enforced
in the South. No one is spared, and mer-
chants, bankers, mechanics and planters
are all alike being forced into the ranks.
In Mississippi there are two camps of in
struction, one at Grenada and the other
at Jackson. The conscripts are sent to
these camps, where they remain until
they are deemed fit for service. My in
formant passed through Grand junction
on Saturday last, and came by the Mobile
and Chic Railroad as far O Newton,
where he proceeded on foot to Hickman
He says there were few troops at Grand
junction and none at Jackson, Tenn
Most Of the troops at the former place
had been marced to Pocahontas, on the
Memphis and Charleston Railroad. nearly
midway between Corinth and Grand June.
ton. The headquarters OF Beanregard
are located st Pocahontas, and not far from
1900 troops are concentrated around
him. This information confirms the re-
port Of the evacuation Of Corinth. Ny
informant also confirms the reported ar
rival of Federal gunboats OF Vicksburg.
Lovell's army was at latest accounts at
Ponchatoula, on the New Orleans and
Jackson Railroad, about Fifty miles North
Of New Orleans.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-05-09
Fire In Sandusky, O.

Sandusky, May s.
About o'clock a. m. fire broke out in
Miller's Book Bindcry in Register block.
The buildings destroyed were occupied by
US. Express Office. Sandusky Register, T.
Hosmer, wholesale liquor merchant, Bear
& Son, produce commission dealers. To-
tai loss thirty FIVE thousand; insured four
teen thousand.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-05-09
FUNERAL OF Gov. HARVEY.
Washington. Nav g.

The funeral Of Gov. Harvey yesterday
was largely attended. The ceremonies
were very impressive-bells tolled, and
business houses were closed. White
horses with black plumes, escorted BY
military, followed him to his last resting
place.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-05-09
The Merrimnc out.

Fort Monroe, May I.
The Merrimac came out to-day, but did
nothing. a rumor brought by mail by
boat from Yorktown stated that the enemy
have crossed the Chickahominy and
destroyed the bridges in their rear, Gen.
Mcclellan is still pursuing.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-05-09
Cincinnati, Nav 7.

Capt. Haslett. I'd Ohio, arrived here
on sick furlough. Neither himself, Capt.
Mckinney nor Lieut.. Dial were taken
prisoners at Pulaski, as reported from
Louisville yesterday. Capt. Haslett Ne
grets the report Of his having taken pa
role.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-05-09
! DIED.

On Thursday, MAY 9Th, 1857, JENNIE Runss Youngest
daughter Of John End MAva C. Burns aged Ave years,
five month"; and six days
Friends of the family will please attend the funeral
ut their residence corner Of Sixth and High Streets
to-day at three o'clock r. NJ
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-05-09

The following letter was written by a
prisoner in the Hospital in this place. who
was wounded and captured At the battle
Of Shiloh, and is published by his consent.
The letter is directedto Wiley Lancaster,
Canton, Trigg Co., KY:
MILITARY PosT HospITAL,
kEoKUK, Iowa, May Z, 1862.
DEAR FATHER AND MoTHEs: Through
the goodness Of God ! am permitted again
to drop you few lines to inform you OF
my whereabouts, and also how am pet
ting along. You, no doubt, ere this. have
come to the sad conclusion that / am
amongst the slain, but this will inform
you that am still on the land and amongst
the living.
was wounded and taken prisoner on
the second days battle at Pittsburg Land
ing, Tennessee, the It'll Of April, Zone
month to-day. | was taken on board the
Empress and landed At this post, on the
Mississippi, 24O miles above St. Louis,
the 10Th Of April, since which have had
comfortable quarters, and have received
every care'that is possible from plenty Of
kind friends.
Father, / have voluntarily taken the
oath OF allegiance 10 my country, and
expect to return, as the Prodigal Son. ~
soon as my wounds will admit of il, but it
Will be month or six weeks before / will
be able to come. Blu. don't be uneasy,
rs am well cared for. / do not know
what course will be pursued in regard to
sending us home, but / suppose that Uncle
Sam will fix that up for the best.
should like very much to see you all,
but as space 30 separates Us that we can't
see each other, please write as soon q
you get this. From
Your Son,
JOHN LANcAsrxR.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-05-09
HlARRrpn

In ST, Louis, May Isl, b, Rev. r. n Wood, Mr. F.A
Tonix, Of Tafton, Wisconsin 10 Mas ARIETrA HoL.
FORD, OF Keoknk. Iowa
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-05-09

Coon JaKE.-The Gazette was per
fecily wrought up yesterday because Gen.
Jones had the presumption to get of here,
while the boat was coaling, and call upon
a few Of his old friends and acquaintance.
But the worst of it was he had the audaci-
ty to be travelling with his '.son," who
was captured in the rebel army at Fort
Henry, but whom, the Gazette states,
chad been released on parole" Now that
"son", we must tell our short sighted
neighbor, was none other than Judge
Love, the U. S. District Judge for the
Iowa District. Young Jones had not been
released from custody that We or any body
else knew Of 1t must have required a
remarkable stretch of the imagination to
transform the venerable Judge into the
person Of fellow abou. young Jones' age
and size.-Darsapors Neps.
That joke seems to hit our venerable
Judge"-"Show me what company sou
keep. and ! can tell what kind of man you
are" s'Birds of feather Hock together"
and such like .sold saws still have sig
nifcance in popular estimation.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-05-09

SThe rebel element in Missouri is
silenced, but not subdued. A writer re-
marks that the conviction is fast forming
IN the mind of every rejecting loyal citi-
zen that there are no longer the elements
OF loyal civil government in Missouri, and
that the inevitable result Of disloyal one
Will be. sooner or later, to drive every loyal
family out of the State. In Northeast
Missouri it is pretty much all the provost
guards can do to keep the uneasy people
strictly to their oaths.-TEx.
Ciagett's Constitution is taken ia North.
east Missouri to some extent, and, as q
natural consequence. the rebels feel en-.
Outraged to persevere in their deviltry
because Clagett assures them that the Re.
publicnns are responsible for the war, and
are exercising dreadful tyranny and seek
ing to subyert the Constitution OF III,
country through the military power.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-05-09

nSnppose the vallandigham Maho-
ny Democracy had succeeded In CONTROL.
ing the North last summer, what would
have been the result ? jeff Davis and
las cohorts of traitors would have dictated
the terms Of submission and acceptance
OF the Confederate Constitution to the
people Of the North, from the Capitol at
Washington City. There would have
been no help FIJI it, as every one can see
who remembers the position Of affairs
year ago; but If such q calamity would
have fallen on the country then, under
their policy, il it perfectly safe to trust
them md adopt shsir policy nowg
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-05-09
- The Mahony papers are making =

- The Mahony papers are making =
great oatcry against the Administration
and the executive officers OF the Govern
n,ent on account of the arrest of persons
charged with aiding and abetting treason.
They declare that the course of the Ad-
ministration is unconstitutional and tyran-
nical, and that all officers of the Govern
ment who have been engaged in it should
be punished with the utmost severity.
Suppose the Vallandighammers revive
their old doctrine Of saNo coercion in
sist as they did that i. is unconstitutional
and tyrannical, and commence prosecu-
tons for murder &c. against all the Of
hcers and soldiers engaged in the defence
of the Stars and Stripes down South
There would be just as much justice and
propriety In that course as there is in the
one they now advocate in regard to civil
officers
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-05-09

Down IN BosToN. --Clagett admits that
he gave runaway slave five dollars to
help him of on the Underground track,
but says that it was done in Boston.
Well, arc not the Constitution of the
United States and the Fugitive Slave Law
binding in Boston, or does Clagett think
that he WAS entitled to disregard the law
in Bostonin order to make himself popu-
lar with The Abolitionists? 1t was on the
same principle that he used to denounce
The Fugitive Slave Law and glorify the
Maine Liquor Law in Denmark.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1862-01-24

WHAT Ais JENNIsoN AND MoNTeoM-
ERY 2''-Col Jennison, Kansas First Cav
airy, is small man, delicate constitution /;
physician; originally from Livingston
county, N. Y. When the Border Ruffiar
horde went into Kansas to elect the first
Territorial Legislature, they passed Jenni-
sons house. His wife and only child, at
tracted by the caValcade, went to the door,
and, while standing there, were both shot
dead by the rufians. "That 3 what ails
Jennison, the Jayhawker"
Montgomery is a Kentuckian--a mild,
gentlemanly, highly educated mana cler-
gyman, and a graduate of Oberlin. When
the BordSr Ruffans, in one of their raids,
reached Montgomery's home, they took him
prisoner, tied him to tree, and brought
out his wife--an educated, accomplished
lady1anc violated her person in the pres
enee of her husband "and that s what ais
Montgomery" -
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1862-01-24
REGULATIONS FOR 1862.

ILLINOIS CorToN ABRoAD.-A sample o,
Illinois cotton, grown in Christian county
IN 1861, was sent to Manchester, and was
inspected by most competent judge, who
laid the subject at once before the Cotton
Supply Association of Manchester, England.
a letter has been received in Chicago from
one of the most prominent members of the
House of Commons, as follows:
"Your sample of cotton is a most well
come indication of the power of the Federal
States to furnish cotton by free labor
Taking Sd as standard value of good New
Orleans cotton, estimate your sample as
being worth twenty-five per cent. more or
1Od pound; but from what 1 see of the
staple, and its strength when unmixed with
defective and blighted portions, think that
with judicious cultivation it might acquire
a value of five per cent. in excess of New
Orleans cotton, but not equal to Sea Island.
A supply of 10000 or 10000 bags per week
of il would be great boon to this country.
The letter you enclosed to me l have sent,
with the chief part Of the sample, to the
Cotton Supply Association"
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1862-01-24
Athens of modern Date.

An extract of late letter from Athens
says; "Athens is wonderfully changed and
become beautiful city around the palace
in the new quarter. There are beautiful
gardens and rows of trees. The Queens
garden, extending towards the Illyssus, is
fenced with cypress, plantain, also, cactus,
locust, sycamore, &c. There are also palm,
and avenues of laurel and oleander AT
the Pireus are extensive gardens made by
the French in 3D. Exchange.
The Albany Journal says Byron's words
about "Greece, but living Greece no more,
are "played out" Athens is truly a beau
tiful city It's inhabitants are among the
most polished, the most enterprising, the
most intelligent in the world. Its popala-
ton is little over thirty thousand, yet it
supports no less than three daily papers be-
sides several weeklies and Punch 1t
has University of six hundred scholars
and twenty odd professors, where lectures in
purer Greek than that of the New Testament
are delivered, Museum of Fire Arts, an
Academy after the 0iodef OF that of Paris,
and very tolerable opera. The "first fam
lies read Zenophon without dictionary,
and the streets are christened and labelled
alter the ancient gods and heroes. The
Greeks are unrivalled for their commercial
energy. They have nearly three thousand
vessels afoat, and would monopolize the
commerce of the Mediterranean if the Great
Powers would only take "hands off," Their
enterprise and go-ahead-atiyeness" is be-
coming proverb in the east. Nowhere
else is the spirit of material progress more
manifest than among this clever, but rather
unserupulous people.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1862-01-24

GEN. ANDERSON AND THE FLAG OF FoRT
SUMTER.-The time is rapidly approaching
when an expedition specially fitted, will, in
cooperation probably with land forces at
Port Royal, advance upon, and in the words
of President LincoIn's first proclamation
last April "re-take possession of the
Government forts and. property in the har-
bor and city of Charleston. Gen. Anderson
has carefully preserved the Union flag
which was lowered from Fort Sumter last
spring, and be cherishes the hope that he
may be enabled to accompany the expedi-
ton and again wave the beloved ensign
over the place now disgraced by the flaunt-
ing of the rebel standard.
Sc says the Boston Journal.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1862-01-24

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Charges will be made for inserting the
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Yearly advertisers to pay quarterly.
Announcing candidates of every descrip-
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The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1862-01-24

AN OUTRAGE ExPIAINED.-Thef firing of
the British corvette Cadmus, at the AmerI-
can bark Gazelles when the latter vessel
was going into Barbados, is explained by
Captain Rhodes, who says that he was en-
tering the port with only private signal
flying. The corvette fred a blank shot,
which warning being unheeded by the
bark, a round shot was fred striking the
water about half a mile in advance of her
bows. This shot, also, was unnoticed, when
a third shot was fred, at which the bark
ran up the American ensign, and proceeded
into port without further molestation.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1862-01-24

R3 Farini, who created such an excite
ment at Niagara Falls two years ago by his
feats on the tight rope, is now captain in
the Fifteenth Regiment New York Engi-
neers, under his real name, VIM. L. Hunt.
He is the inventor of the water skates
The Captain is putting his men through a
course of gymnastics, and he claims that in
two months he will have the finest company
in the army