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


William, for your letter and for the Con
gressional Directory May God bless you,
your family and your own sunny South
which | will hope and pray shall be re-
united to the cold North. When you see
them make my warm regards TO you all
my Southern friends and especially to Clay
and his father, Ioonbs, Mallory and their
families.
The dissolution of the Union will prob
ably be the cause of my own ruin as well
as that of my country and may cause me
and mine to 90 South.
Your friend,
Sincerely and fervently,
GEO W. JONES.
His Excellency Jefferson Dayis, Of Mis-
sissippi, President, DC. nj Montgomery,
Alabama.
LEGATION, IT, S. A., BodoTA,
United Statrs of ". g., Aug. /, 1861.
Ny DEAR FElKND - Yours of the 10Th
of March did not re4ch me until the 8th
of last month. and would have been re-
piled to Immediately, and your request re-
iatre to ihe Bocadtilas complied with if
!, or Gording, who has been ON the look
out for them, could hare purchased any.
The continuance of the revolution has
kept those articles from being brought to
the city.
expect my successor, Allen A. Bur.
ton, of Kentucky, every day, and will
leave the next day after his arrival being
, exceedingly anxious to return home 10
M famiiy-my sons having left them to
| come down South to fight for the main
tenance of the Constitution, the laws and
the rights of the people Of the South, as /
intend TO do If required to light at all, and
1t be possible for me TO leave my family
and my private affairs now almost in !.
ruined State in consequence Of the crisis.
| dfcat God, what a calamity civil war will
be to my country! None of you there who
have not been eye-witnesses to such an
evil can tell. have seen nothing else
for the last year, and dread the horrible
consequences 10 my hitherto prosperous,
peaceful and happy country.
II your friend Douglas had died one
dag before the meeting OF the Charleston
Convention, or ii such southerncrs as
yourself, Stephens, johnson, RI al, had
not stood BY him in that Convention, all
now would have been peace, prosperity
unity and happiness. wondered often
that such men as you, Dodge { A. G.. J, &c,
could not see into Douglass unprincipled
aud ambitious schemes, and drop him
before you did, as l did.
/ ,tnGf 2,,al, xrur r,na, ~ or. ~.
States is being waqed here as that which
fear may be in existence IN the dis Uni
ted States, and made BY the Central Gov
| crnnent here, under the rule of Mariana
uaplnn- A great battle, and / think, a
final one, was fought in this city on the
18th ultlmo, in which the forces Of the
.Sorth, under General Mosquera. made a
glorious triumph. witnessed the whole
from the balcony Of the Legation, and
saw the soldiers under their brave lead
ers, Mosquera, Lopez, ex-Prest. Santa
Gutierrez, &C., charge upon the troops
OF the General Government. who were
well entrenched behind the strong and
high stone walls in the vicinity of St. Do
mingo and the Cemetery, and drive them
therefrom with their twenty odd good
cannon, while the Federals had none
The battle lasted some six hours-some
900 being killed and 700 wounded on
both sides. Espina Rartolomi Galyo,
Attorney General aud Acting President,
with some thirty or forty others, leaving
the battle-ground, then at San yictorine,
at 10 =. m, two hours before the battle
was over, rushed into Mr.. Grifith's
Legation Tor protection. Nune came in
to my Legation, though had invited all
my countrymen TO do SO, if they believed
themselves in danger, thonghfI l assured
them they need apprehend none l re-
moved my Legation into Gen. Herran's
fine large house on the 15th-three days
before the battle-at the instance Of HIM
self and family, and of Gen. Mosquera
also, for the protection of Mrs Mosquera,
her daughter, Mrs. Gen. Herran, who had
been repeatedly. threatened with death if
Gen. M. should attempt to enter the city,
and her children, three of whom we're
born in the United States.
Your friend Internuncio Ledochowski
and the Jesuit have been expelled from
the country, and Aguilar (Intendente)
Placido Morales and Remainder
all shot for gross outrages, and all desery-
ed. Ex-Prests. Orpina and Calyo, with
many others, are now in the same prisons
where they kept some four or FIVE hun
dred for eleven months.
Yours truly,
GEo. w. JONES.
P. s.-Grifith, Gooding, Gen. Herran,
Chambers and others send regards to you.
Write me to Dubuque, Iowa, and tell
me the news.
To. Hon. J. E. Morse; New Orleans.