The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-11-07

NsrsAwssssrn Patents nsesn sIy 10
office.
Filter and cooler-G. B. Davis, Chica
go, Ills.
:, Platform scals-E. s. Fargo. Dixon
Grain drills. c. scho6eld. Freepor.
Ills.
Slide for extension tables. +. Birch
ard, Milwaukee, Wis.
Paddle-wheel-Leonard Ames. Wan
beck, Wis.,, and Melville Miles, Pepin
Wis, assignors to Leonard Ames.
Portable fence-Jacob Killian, Mar
shall, Iowa.
Grain drill-O. NJ. Pond, Indepen
dence, Iowa.
Sugar evaporator-David Beasely,
Boone county, Ind, assignor through
mesne assignments to T. C. Bartle, indie
pendence, Iowa.
Cultivator-R. H. Springfield. Con.
siantine, Mich.
The INFLUENCE OF TEMPER ON
HEALTH.-Excessive labor, exposure IA
wet and cold, deprivation of sufficient
quantities of necessary and wholesome
food, habitual bad lodging, sloth and in.
temperance, are all dead encmies to hu.
man life; but they are none Of them SO
bad as violent and ungoverned passions.
Mop orJ SEAMAN have c,,c;~oJ IN xL..~
and at last reached an extreme old age
but iii may be safely doubled whether a
single instance can be found Of man OF
violent and irascible temper khabitually
subject to storms Of uDgovernable passion,
who has arrived at a very advanced peri
cd of life. 1t is. therefore, a matter Of
the highest importance to every one desi-
rous to preserve ga sound mind in a
sound body" SO that the brittle vessel of
life may glide down the stream Of time
smoothly and securely, instead of being
continually tossed about amidst rocks aud
shoals which endanger its existence, to
have special care, amidst all the vicissi-
tudes and trials of life, TO maintain in quiet
possession of his own spirit.
A Battle Song.
The effect Of stirring song or tune is
often electrical. The western armies
have one of this character called 1.-THE
Battle Cry of Freedom" which is de-
scribed in one of our exchanges as of most
potent effect:
In either Grants or Rosecrans' army
it only needs to be started, to be caught
up from camp to camp, till it spreads for
miles over the whole army. BY order of
a general commanding one division of the
army of the Cumberland, the colonel OF
each regiment is directed to start the
Battle Cry" whenever the army goes
into action, and the effect of thousands of
voices united upon this chorus:
The Union forever, hurrah boys hurrsh.
Down with The traitor, up with the star
While we rally rould the flag boys rally once again
Scouting the Battle Cry of .edom
is described as awakening a frenzied en-
thuslasm perfectly Undesirable.
1t Is evident, from its effect, that this
IS one of the few songs not written "to
ORDER but written because the author
could not help it. The great number of
circumstances under which this
song has been sung in the army, added to
its popularity. When Gen. BIair's brig
ade, that led the assault upon Vicksburg
last fall, after being hurled again and
again upon the snemy's Notifications,
'nly to see each time CHASTITY proportion
If their numbers go down in death, we're
1t last ordered to retire. the brave fellows |
closed up their shattered battalions and |
'ame out of the smoke of that terrible |
carnage, singing
les. ven rally round the Tag, boy. Wen rsny once
again,
'honsit the Battle Cry OF Freedom!
We are not surprised that the remem-
france of that scene drew tears from the
'fficer who described it tous. And n hen,
fter months Of hardship, assault and bat
le, these same troops ran up the etars
nc stripes over the same rebel strong
lold, Gen MCPHERSON and staff, on the
upoia of the court house fittingly started
- N'NN~ Son 81 oud VIC Cdti fuldVtne WITH
What will it was sung by Grants ntire
Irmy.
AMUSING ANEcDoTz.-Daniel Webster
ad an anecdote of old Father Serl. the
Minister of his boyhood, which is TOO
God TO be lost. 1t was customary then
. wear bu ,kskin breeches in cold weather.
Inc Sunday morning in autumn, Father
erl brought his breaches down from the
arret, but the wasps had taken posses
on during the summer, and we're hav.
g nice time 10 them. BY dint Of great
Hort he got the intruders out, and dressed
n meeting, but while reading the scrip
Ire to the congregation, he felt dagger
ON one of the enraged small wasted
llows, and began jumping around the
alpit, Shaping his thighs The more
slapped and danced. the more they
uns. The people thought him crazy,
1t he explained the matter by saying
Brethren, the word of the Lord is in nv
outh. but the Devil is 10 my breeches r'
ebster always told it with great glee To