The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-12-10

in the Southwest will soon hide it's dimin-
ished head, and the people will resume
their old status, under the flag OF the
Union, in spite of JEFF. Davis q Co.
~ Newspaper correspondents seem
generally agreed that the ultimate desti
nation of Banks expedition must be Texas.
and they seem generally to agree that
the expedition has some other important
purpose to accomplish before going to
Texas. As to what that purpose is, there
is a wide difference of opinion, and .
great many shrewd guesses, but nobody
knows.
A Soldiers oplnaon 81 Emancipa-
item.
A soldier of the l22d Illinois Colonel
Rinaker's), now in Kentucky, writes to
the Carlinville Free Democrat concerning
the Presidents emancipation proclama-
ton, as follows:
"The wisdom Of this measure seems
not to be 80 we'll understood North as
here. Not only do the citizens feel the
force Of the impending blow and tremble
at the result, but the soldiers to 4 man
understand that the South has taken all
the laborers that can be spared from their
farms and put them in the army that il
we take away large number Of laboring
men, their armies must of necessity SUI.
fer for want Of provisions. This will
force them To send part Of their army
home to their farms To procure the needed
supply, or abandon the struggle. If they
send part of the men from the army, it
will reduce the number of those to con-
tend with US in the field, and We can de.
feat small army easier than a large one
Every man in the army can see this, and
to him it is . matter in which he has
personal interest, for in proportion as their
armies are diminished each soldiers
chance is increased to escape wounds and
death on the battle field 1t is conse-
quently the manifest interest of the Gov
ernment TO sweep the country as far as
possible of every slave capable of produc-
inc more than he can consume"
The McNeal Execution An Missouri.
"A st. Louis correspondent of the Co.
lumbus Crisis writes as follows:
"The man for whom General Mcneil
shot ten some time ago aud which was
noticed in the Crisis, has returned home
alive and we'll, and his wife. before the
execution OF those men, went TO him
General McNeil and plead with him to
wait and see if he had been killed before
he executed those men, and the brute
spurned her. can write no more.
ST.. LOUIS
The story of the correspondent of the
Crisis is q lie out of whole cloth. Ii has
already furnished theme for extravagant
and abusive comment from the Enquirer,
and will doubtless 60 tie rounds OF the
Democratic press Of the whole North
There will be no measure 10 the horror
these papers will exhibit at the atrocities
of General McNeal. The we'll authenti-
Gated barbarisms Of the rebel authorities,
however, excite no revulsion in the feel
ings of these patriot editors. They have
never said word at the savage cruelties
prac,ised upon the innocent Union men
Of East Tennessee. The horrible shoot
ing of the drowning ssamen in the waters
of White river, at the storming Of Fort
st. Charles, BY order Of the Confederate
commander, is passed BY without one
1.-THE of the condemnation they now visit
upon the unavoidable seventies of Union
officers. There il but one conclusion 10
view Of this state Of things. and that is,
that the hearts of the majority OF the
Democratic editors Of the North are n
together with the South. They arc 1
pack Of villainous traitors, exaggeratinp
the r1gors Of Federal rule, and manufac.
turing the grossest lies against the Gov
eminent and its officers, for the purpose
OF DIVIDING the people Of the North ia
their attachment TO the Union.
Louis Democrat
Ar AMERICAN PEEaxss.--Elizabe,h
Dowager Baroness Stafford, whose death
II Just announced, was one OF thre,
American ladies, daughters of Mr.. Rich
ard Cation, of Maryland, all of whom ac
CURED titles BY marriage. One married
that eminent scholar and statesman. The
Marquis Wellesley, another the Duke O
Leeds, and the lady whose death We rec
ord to-day married, May rs, 1886, Sil
Gerge William birmingham. who, /.
1895, had been declared entitled to tn,
ancient bsrony Of Stafford, which hat
been under Attainder since viscount STAT
ford was behsaded in 1878. Her lady
ship wss left widow in 1851, and A.e
had no isns. 6hs, like her sisters, WA
Roman Catholic. Globe.