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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-08-04

The New Testament is The most incen.
diary document in the world. | wonder
1T has not been suppressed by some people.
1t is full Of fire, capable of exploding ev.
cry magazine of sophistry and breaking
down every rotten iniaHity Every sen
tence of it is an institution. The Decla.
ration OF Independence some people
think John Hancock and Thomas Jeffer.
son, and Charles Carroll made rather a
mistake when they wrote |.
God Almighty and Paul made no mis-.
take when they said al ondr all men,
This is the Declaration of independence;
"honor all men, degrade and desecrate
none. Every institution stands there in
single text, Love thy neighbor as thy
self = There springs up oil yonr reform
schools, all your hospitals, all your asy-
lums for the poor and at licted, blessed
with that single sentence Everything
that has nerved heroism is there the key
note of the Pilgrims trumpet song of the
December sea; the force Of Luther's
warning voice that rocked the church !;
the Inspiration that kindled in the heart
of Howard at the side of the prisoner; the
whisper of Florence Nightingale as she
walked through the wards pf Scutari, ev-
everything is continued in that sentence,
and thousand years. perhaps ten thou
sand will not serve to dew Flop the life of
the seed corn Of Gods word and Christ's
truth.-lE. II. Chaplin.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-08-04

F "The general bent o f his General
ochoheld' orders has bee to impress
upon the minds OF his soldiers the fact
that they have nothing VII atever to do
win the slavery question - / Republican,
OF yesterday
1T General Schofeld has been SO bent
upon this thing, his etfd rts have not
amounted to much with bis Provost Mar
shai General, Colonel Broad ahead, Of this
city. There are, We learn, numbers of
negroes now IN confinement in this city,
captured and held by Col. Broadhead for
the benefit of their owne rs, some of
whom are VIGOROUSLY disloy Al. We bear
OF some cases where free papers having
actually been issued by Col. rarrar, rne
persons 30 M de free have been. arrested
and delivered over to their former own.
ere. ine contraband recruiting business
10 this city has been brought almost to
dead stand-stIl in conseon ence Of the
freedom with which rebels have been ner.
mltted to seek and seize the i, neproes.-
Under Order rs. we suppoA 70 Col. Broad.
head will have to stop this nigger.catch-
ing business. and con6pe himself to his
Legitimate duties list. Lou is Dem.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-08-04


Editors Missouri Democrat
This once fiourishing and rapidly i'm,
proving town is still, Notwithstanding the
war, place of attraction and enterprise
The town is full of business. at least you
would Judge so if you were here TO see,
every day, from one to dozen OK or boz
nv horse teams driven into town by no.
body but women. You may think the
farmers are too busy to come themselves,
and therefore have to send their wives
and daughters. You guess correctly
"lts all quiet on the border more
than two thousand bushwhackers can now
be found in all Jackson county. All the
.quiet" farmers are with them. All day
Yesterday Major Ransom skirmished with
seven hundred of these quiet citizens, nm
der Quantril and others. They all show
ed their fondness for the shade as the Mai.
could not get them in position to receive
his compliments on open ground.
Occasionally Union woman drives a
team to town with some marketing, which
she exchanges for articles her family needs.
But usually she does not have the trouble
of taking her purchases all the way home.
The bushwhacker generally has use for
all such goods, if he does not happen to
miss the opportunity for little haul
These peaceable men Of the "bush" will
not allow her husband to stay at home,
and he is not able to take take his family
to town to live where he has nothing to
do. But it's no matter, he's '.darncd
radical anyhow"
These lovers of the shade console them
selves that they have some friends who
are clothed in Federal uniform. Colonel
McFerren is a "bully Teller" with them.
They drink toasts to him for the patriotic
way he has of arresting radicals.
Not very far from this town a Union
man, or two or three of them, are killed
every few nights. But what of that, they
are opposed to slavery, and want the I'm
ion restored, and made free country for
their children. But according to the no.
tons of these "quiet" people in the
''brush," and the Missouri Republican, u
man Of Missouri has no right to think or
say the thing which has caused all our
trouble, and which still causes it, should
"wiped out"
While this kind of "peace" prevails on
the border, you may expect to hear from
me occasionally. 7. III.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-08-04

THE THREE HUNDRED DOLLAR CLAUSE.
The Washington National Intelligen-
Ger. In the course OF some remarks on the
consumption act, makes the following just
observations on the mutation clause !:
1--WE cannot perceive tn force of the
objections popularity urged against this
feature OF the act, and have been forced to
believe that in the minds of many they
spring rather from factious opposition TO
the law than from its candid consideration,
Ii the act had simply given the right to
send a substitute in place of serving one
sols, 20 ahanld have hoard mona of The.
complaints and yet this threefhundred
dollar provision is not SO Il vorable to the
rlch as that would be, for tho rich could
always procure substitutes, and the latter
regulation would lead to huckstering Of
substitutes that would 500 10 place them
beyond the reach of any, SAVE the priyi.
legged few. By the existir q regulations
the poor man is not wor4ted, ard the
privilege of committing f pr actual SER
vice is placed within the re Ach of larger
number. A law which dot Is no compare
tive harm to any, but whi4 h lightens the
burden that would otherwise fall on
more numerous class of citizens, is euti-
tied to more generous, not to say lust,
appreciation"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-08-04

nrioN OF THE AMERICAN ANTI.
GA khf oociETf.-The Tx ecutive Com.
1919 :. tue American Anti-siavery So
~. Gave nase puoilshed card, repudlating
oA""y ensifeiy as an agent of that
60 aHa MS action. The Society
~ .no government wholly right in
.A.s 's'usg,e ana Its succ ess the best
Aop. W III races and inte rests on this
oon'su.n'' anu regard any overture to the
I :. States, except that Of imme-
uiase ana unconditional submission, to
be equally uncalled for and miscbiavons
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-08-04
I'D. F. BROWNELL,
bookseller. and SxattO1se,..
Cor. main and rourths,s..

Ne" BOOKS.
The Excise Tar Laws by Commissiner Etse;
The flying Dutcbman-Saxe;
Asrisn Grey-by krs. lis. Holmes;
Like aud Unlike;
Les Misersbles
orpheas c. kerr's Papers, Cd Series.
Freemason's Monitor.
Cocks voyAses.
Al Odds-by the Author Of Quits;
Burrx Field and Garden;
Vegetables OF America;
The Campsigp of 1882 aud 80,
Physiological Memoirs-by Hammond,
Mrs. Lesiie's Cook Book;
Girls Own Book;
boys Own book;
yeruers Pride,
Dickens Complete Works:
Home and Abroad, Second Series;
Story ofthe Guard
New AnnuslCycloped ia 1861;
The PostsJournsi, by Bayard Taylor;
Parson Brow niow's Book;
oksrsnHa River
Edw in BIZ otherluft, by W intnrop;
Shadow u the House.
This day receivedat
BkoWNELL's BOOK Store,
jy4-d Cor. Main and 4th streets.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-08-04

- A French Canadian IL Waterv;re
wishing to express his conte mpt for a man
him /. a loh nc had = dlfficnlt " BY calling
,h;nL - ppe'hsad, and not being able TO
a.a CO.., y, n.he SAID; on did old
;s,;,,s -. a correspondents Of the Lou
,hs vain. - "a ys .nis expresses about
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-08-04

ApRoPos'-Ihe Kichmoh d Dispatch,
% Tue 'th, IN review of the recent
losses ana crosses OF the "q onfederacy, .
makes use Oh The subJoined quotation
-" Whst though the field bh lost ,
All IA not lost The unconansrAble will
And study Of revenge immortal hate
A ai, eoutase never 20 submit OF yield;
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DERFuMERY AND TOILET Ar.

soi.sI and varied sssorsment Of the anasa T.aa.1
soaps ,Aais Nrssh, % ND r,e-M
nAy3l.l IN No. OSy !
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-08-04

ms Is Inc language which Milton put
iii'o tne mouth OF Satan and Satan new
er recovered from his defeat
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-08-04

DICE.
IL
10 bsxsrrime Ran COON Rice;
!usi received, and tor sale 10 " for cssh .ts7 and
Levec, by 's' SAA' ava ana
srp2n-d CONNECT !. sx.y~,,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-08-04

Every kind Of Tin and Yrsn Work,
IN our limo, done promptly On receipt q
DayS-d
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-08-04


NEW BOOKS,
Received tAls Asy -
0gden's City Book Store.
rUnIzsnap NJ cAHIzron.
The orpheus 9. ksrI Ysps1s. "a series;
Wanderings Of . Beauty-by James;
NY southepa frtewds-sy Eirss,
The Prisoner OF stats-MahoDys
The Great nsnmmation-Cummings
The United Stats Tax Law--as amended;
incidents 10 my Lief
Carrot Van Horn or tina
Beggsr on Horseback.
Published by Dick & Fitzgerald.
Verner's Bride--by Mrs. Henry Woods;
hrh AAlli6ur toh's Troubles,
East Lynne;
Tho Lady iasie--by Mis-. Braddoni
Darrell Markham -
Barrtngton--bs Charles Lerer.
Published by Ticknor l. Field.
Uncle Toms Cabin--nsw edition, L Vol.
Leisure Hours In Town;
The keereations of Country Parsoni
Medtations--by Zsohokke;
Country Sewing and Country Thinking;
The Patience OF Hope;
Two friends--by the author OF Patience OF Hope
On Liberty-by John Stuart Mills.
The Every Day Philosopher.
I1tAn--from the German OF Jean Paui Richter
From other Publishers.
The Employment oil Women.
Beauties Of Huskin.
he Florida kxiies--by Joshua n GiddlpxE
German Popular Tates--Grimm;
Talk with my Rupils-by Mr.. seddwiek;
On the Origin Of species--by Huxley;
Reserves of a hacheloYi
Antiquity II Manly Lyell,
The puntateueh@@by Eofensu;
!" yindieAted by Green;
Mrs. Browning's Essays on the Greek Christian
Poets,
Last Poems;
Arara Leighi
John q. Saxe1 Poemsi
Hoods - $e#t Wi
Grape Culture and Wine Growing big Phin:
Uowning's Fruits and Fruit Treesi
Madam lie Aarchsnd's Fortune Teller;
SCHOOL.
How Plants Grow;
Gray's Lessons on Botany;
Gray Manual Of Botany;
Tasquellc's French Course;
Langssroth on the Honey Bee;
Qunby 90" q" ~
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FARM FOR sALE-Of so acres, 60

- Aesss under good esl stvAtaou. good house, Arst
sss ksss all grated fruit, 5000 psach srchsrA
I'll nae cherry trees good sslectsn Of grape,
euvvauss esd sshsf shubbSry The land II With
N miles - rASmipgtpp. lava ,And miss Of Bona-
pers. Fes fastkef psrtiehisrs hi tuire o.
Z 1890 A Pfxvek q. CARR,
Sss-ess e e lkMl6s Gssah SsRas1ai6obso.
The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-04-29
GAR T.Tsv LILLE.


Isaac Stowell was elected on the Unior
ticket Justice of the Peace, at the election
on, the 9Th inst. The opposition used every
effort to defeat him, and were sadly disap-
pointed at the result. !! asEa. .t-a 98'
Messrs. Peffers & Raymond have nearly
completed their hew store -szs.-.ss-e-
A. A. Barber, of the firm of Barber &
Smith, has sold his dwelling to Fl. A. Wheel
er, recently from Maine, and has purchased
the place occupied and owned by. John Nc
Clintock, who goes to Windham. ssk
B. S. Wheeler has purchased the place for
merlyr occupied by R. Thompson, of orrin
Percivaf, of Parkman.
Dr.. Manly has sold the lace formerly oc-
cupied by j. Wise to David Chamberlain and
Marcus Morris, as parsonage for the Baptist
Church.
A. B. Case, who enlisted in the navy some
months since, has been discharged by reason
of hurt, received in agale. He belonged to
the Santiago de Cuba, which has taken so
many valuable prizes during the past few
months.
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Last week, from an account received, we
made some allusion to Democratic meeting,
lately held in Paris. Our Paris correspondent,
whose account of the meeting was omitted
last week, requests us to insert his version OF
themeeting, as then received, with which re-
quest we cheerfully comply. 1t is in the
words following: ~
PoLITIcAL.-On Saturday evening last,
(the 18th inst.,) the Democrats held meet
ing at this place. 1t was addressed by Mr..
Bester, of Mantua, and Mr.. Charles F. Will
cutt, of Hiram, both young men of good per-
sonal appearance, and endowed with superior
natural and acquired abilities. 1t is to be re-
gretted that their sympathies are not enlisted
in the right direction. Mr.. Bester commenc-
ed by reading. the Declaration of American
independence, and indicated that the griev-
ances therein complained of by the Colonies,
were applicable to the people of The Confed-
crate States at the present time. -
Mr.. Wilcutt followed, by dwelling upon IL
legal arrests, suspension of the habeas corpus,
emancipation proclamation, &c. Abraham
Lincoln received very severe castigation, on
constitutional grounds, of course. ira .
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{ (Gorrepondence.) ses4 SO e. a37'e
isdThe proprietorship of the I" brick store .
has passed into new hands, A. Humiston,
Esq, having disposed of the same to Nilsson,
D., d. Humiston. ;" Dave /" is good fellow,
and deserves to succeed. ts fQi ls.[ - /
We learn that DR.. Squire, late of Mantua
intends to erect dive. ling house, the presens
season, on the lot North of the store. Also
that Miss Booth, long honorably connecte.
with the school here, proposes to erect !
dwelling house on the lot North of the D'rs
81 0rrin and Horace Brown, after having re
sided here for a number of years, have dis
posed of their property, and intend to max
Iowa their future home. They leave soon.
Rev. II. w. Everest is to supply the pulpi
of the Disciple Church for the coming year.
% The weather is fine, the roads are, excel
lent, and 'tDame Nature % seems to be abou
to don those robes of green which always be-
come her fair form so we'll
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Fellow soldiers of the cumberland, loyal, brave aud
Who have left your Northern resides Southern trait
Let's send home for 'sCopperhead,' regular bla-
tant cuss,
And the beauties of soldiers life make hin share
Wen put him in "pup tent,'' with the cold ground
With no rubber blanket underneath, g govern
ment' overhead; sf..-r.,,s.- = &, ~ I.
Let him shiver there TIL morning, sleepless and in
AMI each succeeding night should he the same thing
do again.
at treaktast time no dainty dish bis appetite would
For from such little Iuxuries most soldiers are
'sow 6ely'' should he breakfast on rusty, oor
Accompanied by coffee weak and miserable hard
tack"
Then preparation quickly make, ge: everything in
March him of picket, and may secesh 'pick at''
MAY every bush rebel seem, strange sounds salute
And all he and all but serve to wake his
fears. .,.-....-. ..r
Let him {" sIosh - round shoeless IN the mud, into
And always late to d ner be, also at bugIe call;
Nhile shise ring round the re may he burr his
boots aud clothes,
May The smoke blow always in mis- eyes and curl
stinging up his nose.
May he six months without money be, and trusting
And shqaid he get his nteen filled, may it somehow
all leak out.
May be never have postage stamp, and for his ach
ing jaw
OF lebacco not quite half enough for even half
chawl
F'rced marches may he have to make. in rain and
Tho d<iri,,, ,.;n b;s .Io,h;r. sa.t .h .h;ll vi,d
freeze his blood;
nd the beauties of march he might the better
Rheumatic twinges all day have, and the chronic d.
arrh9a.
From Nashville down to Huntsville, Tho coming
summer days,
Let him ..hoof III the dusty pike beneath the SUMS
His feet with blisters covered, his limbs all weak and
lame, t
I tame.s ~ F&T
Infested NAV his clothing be with all the little fry
That the soil of Alabama abundanty supply;
Have all his dirty shirts to WISH in water scant and
As>hftless'' and ly weeks 10 go-no clean rags for
his back. . .,
Let him feel besides exposure, the battle's ercest
Let g mnpies > whistle round his head-shrieking
she'll burst near,
Let n Keenly fee the agones wntcn alone the gull-
And Il ally in a hospital, min us a leg or So
| Somewhat emaciated and most dreadfully low
Wei lay what's eft of ''Copperhead'; upon dirty
bunk,
To regain his wasted energies weak tea and rough
'.junk." .s.,-.-
To the call of Uncle Abraham we cheerfully all hew
Severed the ties which bound hearts, bade cher
ished ones adieu
And we will not brook the insults which heaped
upon cur heads
By The Northern towards, the Shiny Cop
| .perheads.''
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chapter, 25th verse. For he must reign, till
he hath put all enemies under his feet.
Satan lad rebelled and influenced peopl
ito rebel against God, but Christ would reig
till he had put all enemies under his feet,u
and then he would return to his father. Fo.
illustration, he used facts and incidents of th
present rebellion of the Southern States.
SALE OF PRoPERTY.-N. c. Sears has sol :
his farm containing ninety-five. acres, for for,
ty-seven and half dollars per acre, to NJ.
Hudson The farm is located one mil
south of the centre. Mr.. Hudson gets pos
session of pleasant home. f.
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Miss ANNE G. TUTH1LL, Sec

GONE TO New YoRK.-D. B. REED, Esq,
of the firm of l.. B. Reed & Co., merchants,
Rootstown, Ohio, LETT for New York on Mon
day, to make their Spring purchases. Mr..
Reed being an experienced and close purchas-
er, and buying for cash, will be enabled to
present to the customers of the firm, when
their new goods shall have arrived, varied,
well selected, and well bought stock, which
can ard will be offered on most advantageous
terms to buyers. Therefore, look out for the
larriyalof the new SpIing and Summer Goods
at the New Store, Cheap Corner, Rootstown.
There is no sham about this. D. B. Reed g.
Co. can and will make it for the interest of
customers to buy goods at their store. Try
them, and see if these things are not So
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F R E E D o M.

Correspondence .ttAs*o y f'T- 80
Newton A. Curtiss from this town, men,
Der of Cotter's Battery, writes home that the
soldiers hate the Copperheads. The best wish
they have for them is, that they could have
them all in the army and in the front rank
in every fight. He says he knows by expe-
rience that soldiers, life is a hard one, but
he had rather never seen home, or friends
again, than have the Southern Confederaey
acknowledged. Nothing short of uncondi-
tional submission will satisfy him. He says
he knows we are right, and that Gods with
us and that the right VIII ultimately prevail |;
and begin to be Of his opinion, from cir
cumstanee he relates, which took place lately
near where he is quartered, in enc of the
Ohio Regiments. They have had a smart
and good Sergeant who has been with the
Regiment since the commencement of the
war, excepting short time when he (she)
was recaiting for the Regiment at home
Well, the finale is, a few days since, the said
Sergeant did actually. recruit, by giving birth
to young soldier. Who says women are not
fit for soldiers.
T. o. N. Shepard, of the I04th, now in Hos
pital in Cincinnati, writes of our excellent
Governor, thataa few days since he called on
the boys in the Hospital, come to him, and
sat by him, and talked with him long time,
expressing much sympathy for him; took his
name and telling him he would send his
mother a. pass to visit him. What better
medicine could be given ayoung man, not yet
l9, than to send him his mother We begin
to think here, that Gov. Tod is the right
man in the right place, and go in for his re-
nomination and election. -
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A Big. FIsH.-0n Monday night last, Mr..
Thomas Parsons speared Black Bass in
q Mother Wards Pond which weighed 81
lbs.-was 2 feet long, and measured around
the head in circumference % inches, and in
diameter y inches. This is the largest fish
ever taken in these parts. When it head
was off, and its capacious mouth opened, a
bystander suggested that it would make
good, Rail Road Tunnel hint that may be
turned to practical account, as it would save
the expense of digging tunnel
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DONATION PARrY.-The friends of Rev.
Mr. Grant, of the M. E. Church, OF Windham, met
at his residence en- afternoon and evening of April
10TH 1863 Their contrbutions Amoanted 10 forty
dollars and 6fy-fve cents in cash, and twentg-slx
dollars and seventy-seven cents in produce-making
in all sixty eight dollars and thirty-two ceRs. None
of which was toapply quarterases but was intend
cd as free gift to the pastor, slight token of
their appreciation of his services The affair passed
of pleasantly, and to the satisfaction of all present.
Mr. Grant has won COLDER opinions among the peo-
nle of Windbam, and the wish is universal that be
NAV, continue with us another year. e
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Correspondence
Real estate is changing hands considerably
of late. O. W. Wileman has sold his farm
of forty-fve acres, situated two. miles south
east of the centre to a Mr.. Clinton, of Moga-
dore, at $45 per acre, and has purchased of
James Wright, Esq, farm of sixty acres, at
$40 per acre, situate about one mile and a
half west of the CENTRE In the removal of
Mr.. Wright, we lose an old and esteemed
citizen.
A. W. Seymour has bought of Burt Case
a farm of seventy acres, at $28 per acre.
!, aCapt.oJ.-A. Wells was greeted with crowd
ed house on Monday evening, the goth, be-
fore which he lectured on the present and fu-
ture prospects of the,war. His words savored
of that true patriotism which has character
lied the Captain ever since the war broke out
In the course of his remarks, a heavy blow
was dealt at the Copperheads, which gave
them a good chance to reflect. May refec-
ton bring them to more honorable conclu-
sions.
DIR. A. Bassett has left for Minnesota, there
to recruit An extensive practice for several
years has greatly reduced his physical ability,
but it is hoped changed of climate may re-
vive him.
Mary Chapman, wife Of Mr.. Lewis B.
Chapman, died on Friday morning last, of
Consumption, after lingering illness of four
months. There are times when whole
community is called to mourn the loss of one
whose life has shone with christian graces,
and good deeds. This is one, and though her
loss is felt deeply, yet we are happy to feel
that her cares are over, and that she is reap
ing the reward of the righteous. zA