The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-11-06

couple OF miles south and lust abou
then the smoke from Totem 8 signal gun
} appeared IN the north east. He had L:
, pieces OF cannon to our "a. / understand
, that he was expected to have been there
SO as to have moved down south of tn,
town and cut off the enemy's retreat
while we made the principal attack The
delay that he met with-caused by the
storm, doubtless, as it caused ours-pre.
vented his getting there in time, and the
enemy escaped us, but not without race,
Ter immediately on It's being discovered
that they were flying portion of the
right of our command followed in hot
haste, as far us the woods.
/ The next We heard of them was, tina I
they we're concentrated at Cross Hollows.
We consequently came on in pursuit, and
now hear that, although reinforced in the
meantime with 5000 men, they have left
there aud gone still further south We
shall probably follow on tomorrow.
This is rough, rock, billy country
such as nm Iowa man rarely sees, and
nscer IN Iowa. There are deep and mar
70" ravines, that good army, ably CON-
manded, ought to render impossible
against quadruple numbers. Such is the
character of the one just north of Pea
Ridge. and wonder that Price did not
occupy the head Of it, this way, (south,
and meet our forces there, instead of let
ting them ge' one of the ravines, and up
on the ridge. The trees for a long dis
lance about here bear evidence of a terri
bic conflict.
Gen. Blunt and myself slept part of
night before last at the Elk Horn Tavern
the Headquarters of Gen. Scho6eld, (as
1t was OF our friend, Gen. Curtis, the
night before his battle all of us expect
ing to march early the next morning on
the enemy, but again the bird had flown.
When and where we shall overtake him,
remains to be seen. V. A.
The Determinat i ON of the North.
The Toronto Globe, in reply to the tor
elgn journals which profess to see in the
high prices OF gold and the advancing OF
hard times, signs that the North must
ut appears there to be almost believed |
that the Fedcralists are anxious for some
hole to "creep out Of" some plea to ter
inmate the war. While we live nearer
to them, and by constant intercourse un-
derstand them better, who are able to see
under the thick froth of continuous sbrae'
IN which they indulge, firm and solid
strata OF determination, perseverance and
pluck, come exactly to tie opposite con-
,luslon. Whatever the North may event
aalfy do, 1t has not yet the remotest idea
Of yielding. 1t will still fight on with
all the tenacity, with all the doggedness
Of purpose which distinguishes Great
Britain herself when engaged in con-
test. Here and there, perhaps, in places
! few and far between, desire to put an
end to the war by acknowledging South
srn independence may, by close scrutiny,
be picked out. But that this element
las not rlsen TO one of Importance is
proved by the recent elections the party
which hoped TO embarrass the Government
having most sgnally failed. 1.-THE Man
chester men wait for cotton until these
men can put an end to the war, they NAV
Is well make up their minds to lose their
trade forever. We do not see in the ,
rise OF gold, in the consequent mutations.
and the collapse likely to follow, any rea.
son to believe in the termination of the
war. The French, during their great
revolutions, were subject to all this phe-
nomens to far greater extent than the
Americans are likely to be. A dinner ,
in New York does not ye, cost thous- ,
and franc, as it once did ia Paris. Yetit
vas after this bankruptcy that the French {
made those stupendous exertions which !
we're near ending in the conquest of Eu- i
'ope. Their losses embttered them ,
'galnst their enemies, united them the /.
closer, and made them the stronger. We
10 not venture to prophesy that we shall /
fitness a similar effect in the Northern :
states, but we think it quite as likely to :
ollow as the result often prophesied, that !
commercial distress will make them give :
p the war"