The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-06-03

and the other exhibiting the most remark
able example Of patient endurance, 10 his
seeming disregard Of the huge whip ap'
piled at almost every step.
This ID unsuccessful war, once more
thank the gods. in which celebrity, dis
patch has, if nothing else, its moral effect,
aud what may we not expect from the en-
ergy aud promptitude of this advance,
and if the Major Generalship SO generous
IL intrusted 10 the 1t Colonel should win
distinction and add to the glory OF our
arms, why, SO be it, only let there be
o honor to whom honor is due"
/ 7empoya mrtansar ct nos nsptamar IA
Ills, which means that the Sabbath has
passed away, and the orient beams of the
next Fridays sun are pouring in upon US
at Youngs Point. In the mean time.
Grant has been in and out of Jackson, and
at and not at Big Black Bridge several
times, and just now is upon the eve OF
taking up his quarters in Vicksburg.
ericsson has made the tour Of the State
of Mississippi, turning up at B1ton
Rouge. Hooker has whipped Lee; Lee
has whipped Hooker, and Hooker has
shipped Les again. s,oncman has burnt
the bridges on broken up the railroads in
the rear of the rebel army, and Reyes
pushes into the rebel capital. over which
the " Flag of tho Union" foats--then
floats moi.
Mutotts mutaadu which means, that
as we have pitched our camp six different
times here in this malarious river bottom,
we are going to move across the river and
take up our quarters in Vicksburg as soon
as these absEeessnI vail eoascai
During brief halt OF two or three days
upon the bank of the river which, not.
withstanding the Importance OF the occa-
sion and the evident Injection of all to
make good time. seemed unavoidable, my
attention was called to white niger"
which Capt, Clarke and myself immedi-
ately proceeded to examine. IT'S =
"youngster" of about three years Of age
with head woolly but white, white eye
brows and eye lashes, very fair skin and
ford complexion, light blue eyes set in
ward aud upward. with turn-up flat-sort-
of-a nose, large mouth and medium lips.
He seemed to have ordinary sense though
the expression is little blank and dull
With an ndefnable something in his
countenanee betraying the negro. Hav-
ing grati6ed our curiosity as 10 the BARN
we proceeded to inquire into his lineage.
We found his mother few rods distant,
closeted with q soldier whose interest or
fancy, or both, had led him to closer
connection than either the Instincts OF
outstincts of the two races seem to war.
rant. Sitting closely side by side they
whispered soft sweet % accents into each
others car most charmia2ly, until ths
Captain, who, by the way, is an Abol
; zionist OF the 6rst water, and fights witt
as much determination to destroy slavery
as to preserve the country from ruin, hac
about ae much as his stomach would bear
She is q young quadroon, niger out ant
out, and the reputed father of the sam
mixture of blood, slave in Kentucky
BY what queer freak of nature this bIeech
ed and indigoed bantling Was produce,
: n. ust, of course, be left to conjecture, bu
that The uchite, So feeble in both the pa
y rents, should SO painfully abound in the
y offspring seems remarkable, and illustrate
re the old adage that extremes sometime
IS meet. Whether dame nature. indignar
- at the illicit intercourse Of White an
NJ Black, was making an effort to reprodu,
81 his slaveholding lordship-the otfendin
e. Great Grand Sire under change of CT
ng cumstances - would, for the benefit
mankind, show up the logical aud pra
no teal consequences Of the peculiar instit
az ton, or whether his white Lordship ha
up according to the Platoneau doctrine
a'- "transmigraiion," been started upon t
or back track in the downward scale of
tn ing. to run his ignominious race throu
or darkies, dogs and donkeys ct ID omne
ne nus, in punishment for his sins, IN
sublimed and purified by very shs me
10 suffering, he should be allowed to easce
~ to the gods, it matters not, certain it
No here is "white Niger" Of whom
mother lie proud enough, and the resp
70 sibility Of his abnormal color is not v
'il- the Abolitionist but with the sIavehold
err Ia conversation which the Colo mel
j, with his mother he insisted upon TAX
'ar the child and raising him to be man
n'o But she said, "No, no massa, he is all
ZEN one Use got, and l cannot spare him.
diy ABut you could get another" Taxi
ith the queer urchin into her arms a
D. looking the Colonel full in the face
o'd said: lyon see massa, Use got one n
MD white child and I secocLs I ...l.