Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1863-09-24
eral Orders. No. %. which reads

eral Orders, No. 90, which reads:
"The militia of Kansas and Missou-
ri, and in the service of the United
States will be used only for the de-
Tense of their respective States. They
will not be permitted to pass from
one State into the other, without ex-
press orders from the District Com
mander. No armed bodies of men,
not belonging to the United States
troops, or to those portions OF the
State militia of Kansas and Missouri,
which have been placed under the or
ders of the Department Commander,
by the Governors of the respective
States, will be permitted, under any
pretext whatever, to pass from one
State to the other"
This changed the programme.
but the people met, and General
Lane made a speech they then passed
some resolutions and appointed COM
mittce to visit Washington and lay
the matter before Father Abraham.
have just returned from visit to
Weston, Missouri. Weston is in
Platte county, about seven miles up
the "a Big Muddy" 1t was formerly the
best business place on the river this side
of st. Louis, but a sand-bar formed in
front of the levee, and its people were
secesh, and it is now qnite dead and
spirit of Incidence and dilapidation
seems to pervade. Mr.. Gladstone, an
Englishman, who came up the river
during the former Kansas troubles,
gives the following pen-and-ink por.
trait of one of its inhabitants
al was attracted by the clustering
talk of one of my fellow-travellers--
lone of the most respectable mer-
chants in Weston" as l was informed,
but one who, as was evident, did not
deny himself in the rnm.punch, gin
sling, whiskcy-straights, brandy-cock.
tails and other compounds used at the
bar.
This respectable merchant was sur,
rounded as he stood in the cabin OF
the boat, by circle which l joined
Out of a side-pocket protruded the
head of a pistol in his hand he brand
ished another, loaded, as he told us
and ready for action. With threaten.
ing aspect and attitude, he poured
forth, amid many oaths, the following
language, addressed to us all
Il am bound to bring some one
down before Pm done tell you, b,
God, am-Pll teach these inferno
nigger-stealing Freesoilers lessor
right peartly, that's fact. If there's
a dog gained Abolitionist aboard,
should like to see him, that | should
Pm man to put chunk o. lead into
his woody head, right off; yes, sir
that's what I'll do
Then looking round at each Of us,
l reckon can raise the top of the
head of ere o one of You with this
hyere tool. Speak the word, and, 10y
God, Pm your man. That's so.
should like 10 see the first Freesoilel
that opens his mouth that | should
I'd send him to he'll pretty quick, afort
he know'd what he was about that
what I'd do. I'm mighty ce,urious
customer, | am"
The bullet holes in the buildings
and the almost invariable absence o
glass in the window-sash, shows how
obstinately these gentlemen resisted
the Federal authority on the breaking
out Of the rebellion. They are now
for the constitution as it is, and the
Union as is was"
see by the marriage notices in the
Intelligencer that an old friend OF
mine has concluded that "es ist NIGHT
gut fur Mann das err ALIEN ist in fact,
it seems to be epidemic just now.
What pity your correspondent did
not remain in Charles Cityl
We have had no frost here yet,
and the country reminds me of July
and August in Iowa everything is
fresh and green. saw, yesterday,
for the FIRST time, the Sycamore tree,
native of the South believe; it
would make o beautiful ornamental
tree.
Gen. Ewing has revoked martial
law in Leavenworth, and all the peo-
pie seem to be rejoicing, and occa-
sionally blowing each others brains
out, but this is one of Kansas things,
and suppose I will become accus-
toned to it in time. AITcH.