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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-11-03

The Albany Evening journal says:
The following letter from Gen. Dix, de-
clining to be a candidate in the coming
election-to which reference has been al
ready made-loses none of its interest
from having been written a month ago
We can add nothing to Its calm rebuke
Of the demagogues, who, In the name OF
Democracy, would divert attention from
Country to Party. and encourage traitors
by attacks upon the Government and full
limitations against the "subjugation of
our Southern brethren" Read it, patrl-
otto Democrats ! and ponder well its
words -
FORTRESS MONROE, Oct. 22, 1862.
: My name, | see, is again
used in connection with q political office,
without my knowledge or consent. l
shall remain at my post, doing all can
to sustain the Government in putting
down the rebellion and at moment
when the existence of the nation is hang
ing by thread, / cannot leave my duties
here to be drawn into any party strife
Neither will / ever assent to any adj
ment of the contest with the insurgent
States which shall acknowledge their
success.
The rebellion began in fraud, dishonor
and violence, and must end in submission
to the constitution and the laws. The
secession leaders have put the contest OF
grounds which would make success on
their part indelible disgrace to US.
In my sphere Of duty my intention il
to carry on the war without either VIC
lence to the Constitution, or to the prin
ciples Of justice and humanity, and t
contend TO the last to avert q triumph
/ over all that is stable in government d
/ honorable in political companionship.
My whole course through life has pro
we'd my devotion to democracy and con
servative principles. No assurance sho',
be needed that this faith is unchanged. =
But at moment like this, unless all par
ties will rally round the Government il
putting down this rebellion, leaving ques
tions among ourselves to be settled whel
the national honor Ia vindicared and on
= existence as nation secured, there cal
be nothing for MS in the future but dis
, aster and disgrace JoHs A. DIX.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-11-03
Harper's Ferry, Oct. 81.

Yesterday our pickets, 4 miles west,
saw the rebel pickets from Charlestown.
None were seen below Fiillsboro. Below
that place and via Chariestown the rebels
were supposed to be in great numbers
Bragg, who was in Berryviilo night before
last. IS no doubt occupying both sides Of
Blue Mountain, from Winchester to AL
die
Two thousand rebel infantry are at
Warrcnton
Our whole army is - ta pirts and
condition
The weather ia splendid.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-11-03
From Mexico.
New York. Nov.

New iork, Nov. LIST.
According to recent information from
Mexico, received via Havana, about one
half of the French troops, amounting to
nearly 1900 men,. had arrived and are
ordered to Orixaba. 1t is thought the
Notifications at Orizaba have been select
ed as base of operations, and that the
expedition was to startin December.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-11-03
Special to w GRID.
Baltimore, @.


1t is currently reported here that Elk
Governor Hix will be appointed military
Governor of Maryland, and will locate his
Office at Baltimore.
Five Philadelphia oyster boats with
their crews we're seized to-day for viola
ting the oyster law, and were taken to
Annapolis. The affair has created much
excitement.
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Especial to Tribune. |
w ashington. Oct. 81

asH1HBtUH, OCT. oI'
A dispatch from one of our special
correspondents dated Harper's Ferry,
Oct. 81, says Longstreet's corps is re-
ported in Smokers Gap, and in the val
lev lust east of it our troops are picking
up stragglors near Wheatland, Waiford,
and Wilksboro.
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Albany. Oct. 81.

At a democratic meeting here this eve
ming John Van Bprcn said the letter read
by him at Coyington Institute was pre-
scented BY Gen. Scott "a an autograph.
and was made public by authority of
friends Of the General
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-11-03
New ork, Oct. /.

New ] ork, Oct. |.
THE steamers Mantanzas and Creole
have arrived from New Orleans. The
capture Of Sabine Pass is confirmed
Capt. Croker with small BODY ad vaneed
into the coaatry aud defeated Two bands
bgs- The results Of his operations
srre the capture of one fort, two camps
thirty buildings and ten rebel vessels.
which were burned.
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THos. w. l4AGErT.
VallRn d liz haW-s Position .

Vallandigham, the acknowledged lead
er of the Opposition to President Lin
coins Administration, said in August last:
Mr. Lincoln says the war is the right
way to restore the Union. / think there
is another, better, the only way to do it.
He has the power to try his. | have not.
War is upon us and, from the beginning,
believing as | did, and yet powerless for
good, | laid down the rule for myself, and
have faithfully adhered to it, and will to
the end, neither to vote for or against
any purely war measure of the admins
tration. Wherever have voted upon
any question my course LAS t,se.n fynHasElsar
ed by other considerations than those hav-
ing reference to my opinion on the war.
Accordingly, I have net voted for any
army bill or navy bill, or army or navy
appropriation bill, since the meeting OF
Congress, on the 4th of July, 1861.
No wonder that the traitors in Dixie
rejoice in the triumphs of a Party with
such leader and no wonder that such
a Party objects TO the vote of the Patriot
Soldiers
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-11-03
GEN. sIGEL ON PARTY SPIRIT AMI
THE CRISIS.

General Sigel has written letter to
some distinguished citizens of New York,
in which, after enforcing the necessity Of
electing Gen. Wadsworth for Governor,
he says:
1t is an enormous crime to expose our
devoted soldiers to the fury of a united,
determined and vigorous enemy, on ac-
count >sf any hesitancy to use the right
means at the right time, or-by placing
men in high aud responsible positions,
who, on account of their former associa-
lions and pledges, can never be trusted as
sincere friends of this Republic, nor ex-
pected to strike fatal blow to treason
and rebellion.
The Republic is in danger and cannot
be saved by those who sympathize with
the rebellion, who contemplate disgrace
full compromise, or who aim at the estab
lishment ola Slave Empire.
i Peace cannot exist while two antaeon
istlc principles govern in this land. There
fore every Republican and patriot shoult
stand to the coors which honor and pro
tect him, and should vote for those can
didatcs only who are tried, like Wads
worth who are the most earnestly de
4 voted to the vigorous prosecution OF the
war, and are in favor of such means a
will permanently introduce liberty int,
the South.
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OBJECTS OF THE EXPEDITION.

FIJI Particulars Of tie Engagement
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DOCK TRADE FOR WINTER ls62

DUUk III 4 IIE FDN " = I TT INN-.
1 am receiving daily invoices nt Books from p8b-
fishers NJ school Stock IS complete. students
sre Invited to call and examine. Medeal Students
will and all Text Books in Including some of the
late 81 medical literature. extent TO ait "lnser Of
Books't an Invitation to my stock aud trust thai sny
books may be handled freely and without reserve
A Circulating Library.
Atthe request of number OF Library friends shall
establish a Circulating Library. The hat present
embraces -Four Hundred volumes of Literature, Bio
graphy History. shall add 10 the stock all the
late publications they appear
j. ". OGDEN
~ Main Sweet.
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Still his pieces were served most faithful
ly, his gallant artilerists standing to their
work till only three were left to man his
right piece The battery of Lieut.. Git
tings, Of the Sd regular artillery, was
also badly cut up. Each of his sections
lost one killed and seven wounded.
The brigade Of Gen. Terry was at once
thrown forward, and in few moments
from the opening of the battle were active
ly engaged in assisting Gen. Brannan' s
troops. The 3D. New Hampshire and
Scrolls engineers we're held in reserve.
and though through the day these troops
were under severe fire, they escaped al
most without injury. The Attn Penn
and 4th New Hampshire, which supported
Henry's guns in the advance, were terri
bly, shattered. The former lost l40, and
the latter about SO in killed and wounded
These figures embrace their entire casu-
alltias but the greater portion Of them i
due to the furious fire which fell as sud
denly among them as the conflict com
menced.
i After the rebels had assumed second
position, our ammunition had become
partially exhausted. and our fire was IN I
measure moderated, but as the enemy in
variably redoubled their exertlons as w
slackencd ours, another advance wa
made The rebels resisted stubbornly
but were again forced back, and took u
third position at the iron bridge acros
the Pocotaligo, half a mile this side tn
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who are fighting the traitors to vote
against their Northern sympathtzers.
All the Locofoco members OF the Leg
islature voted for the law providing fol
taking the vote of the soldiers But now
that the soldiers have voted against Ma
hony & Co, all the sympathizing politi.
clans swear that the law is pafpably un.
constitutional. Had the Mahony mem.
bers of the Legislature so little regard fol
their oaths as to vote for a law palpably
unconstitutional
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-04-29

greater than he who captured city, he
rules his own spirit.
We are not at liberty of course to speak
In reference to the number of troops in the
Mountain Department. Snfice It to say it
is much greater than many people suppose.
Some four or five Brigadier Generals have
commands within 1T. The combinations
which will be made are dependent on Ope-
rations within Gen. Banks Department
and the general requirements of the service
along the line of the Potomac and Kappa
hammock. Gen. Fremont may at any time
be ordered to act 10 conjunction with the
movements that look towards Richmond,
or he may be left TO pursue operations
within his own Department. Forthe pres
ent he is doing a busy work, as we have
stated. with guerrillas and local rebels of
all kinds. Gen. Schenck, for instance, is
securing the country thoroughly as he adj
Vances up through Hardy and Pendleton
counties. We have understood that he has
complete lists of all the grades and classes
of local rebels that infesl that country, and
that when one is brought before him, he
knows just at once what to do with him
Gen. Milroy is active all the time. Nearly
every day he bags or kills lot of
these villains, aud his troops are fast
reducing the country To n condition of secu-
rity for life and property. There is line
of operations from the Kanawba VAL
ley thrOughthe Big.Saudy TO Cumberland
Ford. True. thai line is not heard much
from these times, but is a very important line
Notwithstanding. The portion of country
through which it extends has been badly
used up by the rebels. The people have
been demoralized, owing to the doubt
full tenure by which it has alternately been
held by our forces and by the rebels
Order and peace are being restored along
this line, while at the same time tue troops
threaten the Covipgton and Staunton rail-
road, and also the Virginia aud Tennessee
road.
Under the restrictions now upon news,
no mere outline of operations iu a great
department like that of the Mountains, Gao
beVery satisfactory. We make these notes
however, to-day, to let our readers see that
there is large military business going on
10 what has been considerable merely nom.
inal department. wegreAtly mistake mat.
ers if some very brilliant achievements dc
not yet occur within its limits.
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restored State Government, isjust what the
people throughout the whole common.
wealth ought to hear, and we think Mr:
Crane could not do the cause better ser.
vice, than by speaking at the various inn
portant accessible points for the next sew
eral mouths. His speech to our people on
last Friday, gave universal satisfactton,and
his fine social qualities and gentlemanly
bearing won so much upon the esteem OF
citizens, that all who were fortunate
enough to make his acquaintance, already
regard him as au old friend. We. love a
whole souled,S large hearted, astannch, nm
compromising Union man, such as he Is,
and we hope before many months that we
will again have the pleasureof welcoming
him .ag4ia 70 our county. .tsL -
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-04-29
Money matters In the East.

The supply of money continues ample,
with an increasing tendency; loans on call
at soc u cent, and prime short business
paper in demand. Government stocks,
certificates, treasury notes and all other
sure dividend paying securities sell freely
and prices ale firm, under the influence OF
an expanding national currency. Railroad
and bunk and manufacturing stocks are
steady and in demand. The Federal cur-
rency of demand notes is adding largely
to bank deposits, and the New York city
banks have resolved to increase the limit
of government y cent certificates, issued
in exchange for demand notes, and used
in settling balances at the clearing houses,
from $2O,OOO,OO to $4,000. 900. The
original 100000 600 have all been taken.
This rapid accumulation of deposites
shows remarkable increase of confidence
in the credit of the government. Those
who make the deposit know that if all the
claims were made at once the Treasury
could not respond. 1t ia pleasant to wit
ness such faith among capitalists, and it
may be set down as one of the most en-
cOuragipg signs Oftthe times. IssSi.s Hss-.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-04-29
from the Point Pleasant Registsr.l
Speeeh q Hon. sammel Crane

According to the announcement in 9 our
last issue, Hon. Samuel Crane addressed
the people of our county, on Friday last,
the 18th inst.-that being the first day Of
the Circuit Court. The speech was most
admirable-in fact, just the thing for the
occasion. OF the number composing his
audience-Which was quite large-We mo-.
ticed q number who had heretofore been
ardent, if not active sympathizers with
those in rebellion, and If they were not
blinded by prejudice or deaf to reason they
canpOt be otherwise than convinced Of their
the points OF AIR, Cranes argument, which
struck Us as being peculiarly forcible, but
the. want of time will not permit. Suffice
to say that this clear aud concise exposi-
ton Of the objects Of the reoEganized and
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Gen. JaoISson's L otter to MIR. Peterson


Gen. JRcIEson's L etter to MIR. Peterson
Wharton, of tho Parkersburg Gazette is,
humorous over Gen. JaCksons letter to Mr..
Peterson, of this city; and the accidental
and unlocked for way in which its pub
LEGATION and the comments upon it have
made Mr.. Peterson the innocent victim
of notoriety. Hesays:
Our friend, VIM. F. Peterson, Esq, of
Wheeling, has now come up alone US the
compeer Of Adam, and forming the next
exception to the general rule. He was
not born to greatness, for we learn with
regret that the people of the country
where he was born were all mudsills.-
He has not achieved grentnes, for he has
always been good citizen, pays his
debts, has an account in bank, minds his
own business, and never was candidate
for Office. lie is true and unfinching
Union man, and is therefore not entitled
to much consideration from the powers
that be- Like Ourself, he was q little too
old to volunteer as private, and accord
ing to neighbOr DAVIDSON, of Clarksburg,
Gov. Pierpoint never gives his commits
siOns to the right men, aud he has there
fore had no chance for greatness in the
war. Yet he has become great. Like
the lady whose maternal cares had in
creased while her husband had been three
yearsi in California, he has been writ
to-" His name is read in all the hills
and valleys of West Virginia, in all
places where the secesh most do cOngre-
gate. On the mountains, that Wise says
milk the clouds. where the guerilla camp
! fires burn, his name is heard; it is put in
the same pocket with the guerilla COM
mission Of Governor Letcher athorizing
the holder to murder, burn and destroy
wherever he listetll-and does not the
lettersay that Governor Letcher is the true
Governor of Virginia, aud Gov. Pierpoint
u bogus. The man who shoots sheriff
holds the letter close to his heart us the
just claim for relief from the rope. How
great and famous then has Mr. Peterson
become
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Special kilograms to our exchanges
from Warrington.

Special TsleBrems TO our exchanges
from Washington.
Brig Gen. George l.. Hartsuff, Assistant
AdjutautfG General United States Army, has
been assigned to special duty in the War
Department from the l4th inst. d
Mr.. Garrett, President Of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, appeared before tue
Military Committee of the House on Thurs
day, and made some statements in opLOsi-
tion to the project for new military rail-
way from Washington to New York. A
desperate effort is being made by the mo-
] nopOlists who have enjoyed the profits of
the only line of railroad between Washing
ton and New York, to suppress all rivalry
Congress will hardly disregard the public
demand for the breaking up this monopoly.
Sir. Wade, of Ohio, introduced 10 the
Senate bill important to United States
mHrshRls aud their associates. Its pro-
visions are, that all actions against mar.
shals and otherOfficersO of the United States,
founded upon arrests of persons suspected
of being engaged in, or aiding the rebel
lion or securers of their property, trials
shall be had in the United States circuit
courts, and not 10 State courts. All such
actions now pending may be transferred,
at the option of the defendant from the
State courts to the United States circuit
courts; all such causes now or hereafter
pending may be postponed from term 10
term, until the rebellion has been com-
pleteIy suppressed, and if, after the pas
sage of this act, any private citizen shall
cause nn officer or servant of the United
States to be arrested GU process tor a civil
suit, for acts done in the discharge of his
duty, such private citizen shall be adjudged
guilty of "a misdemeanor, and punished by
tine and imprisonment. Parties aggrieved
by acts of tue United States officers may
petition for their remedy to Congress.
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About New orleans.

The ta,eursrhir rawS fror Nov C.,oor.
:. -.
WI 't'0 'O''O"'"s StA'eule"t "'
refugee who has arrived IN New York, aud
published it in the Herald, u matter OF in-
terest.
" ';,s a." re-. " gFe". mN9y Snlou Iueu III
- sSS Tus .uey SFe "lEH't " say .ny-
.ut"E' as '"e paE'sn pTlsoH rs 80 conl'su-
.nj 49, oSeT
,;'.'a.s.S '"' '"s Vi 0A'"" SOU
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Egsteu 'n new y, dreams anu sent 70 tne par
.?n pF'Sou' nNI'ns neen NePt mere some
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StoSN ~ n.EnT' n"Nue.1Ie ~ anu uNngeu'
Ml'no"t ANY 'Ei"'' BECAUSE t"e Guy "utnOF-
lt'es tnoTsn' t"ey "au Ano"n 700 M9ch'
anu anu nlgnt run uoWn 10 tne o'Ochau!"g
M .,s 'or 'ne purPoSe OF elneE plIoting
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lug l1ooE ON man; CaEpenleF 1y lTaue'
Mno s nAs W"e anu 1--WE cnI' AFe'l! mas oeen
coHhneu SIX months IN tue parish prison
!Ot Saying IAE S L'nS"'u was was " TAR DETER
Sn n' 'uSn zen laws; Ano'neF was con- u.
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"ran' Whs a"e S EonsSuesa !. gen.
No iri.I M an bsso,o ~! ~.
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money =, nsS y m sue% nap .iII 70 nave LAY,
cSs!. shar; - o"s h,," "I 1a, IOs '"He
o,snjs soD,a $780, ~ NJ, ~. ne
three mon,bo ;mS,e;.onISeUt "1 , ".set
mSnv of ,booo in IriSon ora EDn,ish T.ish
and scotch who claim British 1rote.t ir'o.
bn. No A., w" Wn;. ,ha p.;,, Pto'G Ca
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bis piice who had no, ,Lo TgsS StS"e ~ ~
knovIe51a If he ,ln,;e. ,bs,, pr.. 80 $50
to nrocnse rsls,se On .T ;nyo rn~ "u SnGs
he has carried letters from these prisoners
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-04-29
An Interestlnr Letter.

The letter we print to-day from Pitts
burg Landing, is graphic aQd interesting.
1t will well repay reading. 1t is writ
ten by gentleman who was an eye
witness of what he describes Ills de-
scriptions are vivid. often pathetic; and
there is deep current of humanity run
ming all through the letter
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-04-29

God guard our dag, and keep each star
Zach stripe e. bright - now they wave.
stilI make Il lead our FAnkSih war,
StIll nOat above each patriots grave,
Death to the traitor that would dare
TOtFaIl It through the dngt OF shame
All hOn0gt hearts its lot will share
And follow II to Death or Paine.
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The wheeling Government and the
People Ofths KRnRNVha Valley.

kFEoHA the EOtul tIttksAuL hekl5tef.l
The Government Of Virginia as vindi-
Gated and restored by the loyal people of
the State, is rapidly gaining strength in
the hearts and minds of the people,
When eastern traitors attempted to dis
rupt the Union and transfer our state
Government to n bastard confederacy, the
western patriots wrested it from their
hands and restored it to the people in tile
Union as it always was-thereby pre-
serving to us our right and liberties
under the laws of the land
Under it, we have Courts and officers
elected by the people to render justice
and execute the laws
And it is a harbinger Of better days to
see such men as John Laidley c. Sum
mers of Kanawha, and Jas. w. Hoge of
Putnam, not only taking part, but as coun-
sci and attorneys taking the oath to up
hold and defend tile recognised Govern
ment. 1000
Tie Circuit Court sat in Wayne on the
20th of March; in Cabell on the 9th of
March, in Putnam on the 9Th of April,
and we are informed that upwards of a
hundred indictments were found ut the
first, nearly us many at the second, and
more than half us many at the third
The grand juries are thus showing to the
out-laws-the fallacy of the Secessionists
that ''there is no law in the country''
and rebels who "ob houses, steal horses.
and kidnap quiet citizens because they
love the Union, will learn by experience,
that the Government Of Virginia, restor-
ed as it was in the Union is no .humbug.
From the Second Virginia. Regiment
at Monterey.
HEADQUARTERS 2D Va. INPAXTRY,
MONTEREY, Va, April 20,
Editors Lntelligeneer:
Permit me through the medium of YOUR
paper to acknowledge the receipt of two
large boxes of hospital donations from tie
Ladies' Aid Society" of Wheeling, Va:
also more recently u bounteous supply OF
canned fruit, jelltes, &C., furnished 6y the
ladies of Bellatrc, Ohio. Our thanks are
warmly protfered to the kind benefactors
ot7tiese donations, and are most gratefully
acknowledged by those whom disease and
accident have stricken down. They fully
appreciate the motives of beneIolence
which have prompted these i'm lortant con.
sideratiOns for their comfort.
Respectfully, R. W. HAzLETT,
a Surgeon I'd Va. Infantry.
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100 OARRIAGRs.

Et.sI35< r. HAYES q co. beg leave tic
I6 saY 70 their old customers aud the public
~ ", senefal that they have now on hand aud In
rocbs 81 RRnishing 100 Carriages combating Of Bs
ana ~ hoGEawayS, PhaetonS, Prince AIberts, top
soP hnggtes, all OF which arc Of the latest
mSet improved patterns and OF the best sua-
SI ahl workmanship. Ali will be warranted to