The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-04-07

Infantry has been here week, having
previously laid week on the boats II
Savannah, ten miles below. 1t Is moi
proper perhaps to state the strength Of ou'
forces here, but rest assured that we have
enough. il properly handled, to march
anywhere in secessia. For miles around
regiment after regiment is encamped and
the woods rssound with martial and brass
muaic. - --. Z
For several days We have had very
pleasant weather, though, ! must confess,
my dreams of the ".Suaay South" have
oil proved false--never suffered more with
the cold than at Donelson. Such cold
chilling blasts, they seemed to pierce the
very heart. We left there on the 9th in
violent snow storm, and even since we
have been here in the latitude Of Memphis,
cur stove 6res have felt quite comfortable.
Soil very thin on q clay and gravel bed
Give borl Nv cawn." "planter" they
al delight in being called phntersl told
me can be raised per acre.
At Corinth the enemy are gathering
in great numbers. The Memphis and
Charleston, and Mobile and Ohio Tor Co
lumbus, Ky.,) Rail Railroads cross each
other. A citizen Of that region has told
me that the cars hsd been running for
several weeks transporting troops and
munitions Of war. One hundred and FIFTY
thousand were reported there last week.
They will no doubt make = desperate
stand there, as it disputes our passage into
the densely populated slave States. =
"You'er git.en down purity close to the
big plantations an old farmer near here
told me. "and when you begin to 'croach
on property they'll begin to squirn." Il
they ever really do intend 70 fight it viii
certainly be here. We can have no assist
ance from our gunboats. They dom
like the smud-turtles", as they call then,
therefore they have avoided them Ia thei,
preparations for their last great throw.
We are getting down towards their "City
Of Refuge" cottondom, where Ill the aris-
tocracy and "niggers" from the Border
States have gone. What motley meas
there must be there. They ars reported
As leaving Memphis. They don't like the
idea Of being Footed out. Let them gather
together among their chattels-dearsr to
them than husband, or wife, or son, o,
daughter, or houses, or lands. Strange
infatua.ion Happy may they conside,
themselves if these dear chottels do no,
become serpents in their paths a our army
penetrates cottondom. But they would
have it SO. We tremble when we con
template it. Our army may yet be CON
PEELED to quell slave insurreetions -. t.
ward off the dreadful blow they are bring
ing upon their own heads. Between dowr
trodden slaves and impressed Union ner
| their ease is desperate still the heart o
this modern Pharaoh continues obdurate
Providence no doubt has thus ordained i
| in order that the destruction Of the sssun
Of all villainies" may be more perfect
CHS ways are not as mans ways" says Ii
book Of books. God has waited for th
church to do something in this matter. 4
has crouched like 4 whipped spaniel befor
the cation Deity. With some Eoble ex
ceptioDs the church has everywhere give
way to it and adapted itself to it. Edu-
cation forbidden, families are separated
the marriage right . rope Of sand. N
female slave has any protection Of he
virtue. The young slave generation /
Missouri, noticed, are nearly III copper
colored. Fathers selling the sons Of thei
children and neighbors. Horrible, ca
! this thing last Is it strange, then. tn,
the conflict has GOMEZ
| read the speech Of Carl schurz. in u
Gate, with much interest and passed
round. Il has called forth comtneadasie
from men here ! hardly expected to hel
praise it. After we enter cottondom IN
behold the whipping posts, the chains N
the bloody necklaces and wristlets !
tachsd TO the large plantations, I expss
70 witness wholesome change in some
our "apoiogixers". Some such relics
soutAerx civaiixotiox sent North woul
undoubtedly be as great esriositiss /
John Browns pixies we're here But thi
generation il educating With great rapid
". IDEAS are conquering a. fast a a