The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-06-27
A MILITARY com msssrox.

Fitx Henry Warren, President, Capts. N
J. O'Brien and j. G. Mitchell Of the 7th
Iowa caralry,snd Lieut.. G. B Norris, Re-
corder, 10 now in session at this place.
We understand that the Commission
was constituted to investigate the com
plants Of Clagett, Floyd and other Con.
perhead gentry. who have undertaken to
break up and clean out 'tbat nest of Lin.
coin Aboltionists-the Keokuk Hospital :"
In these times Of peril and disaster and
rebel Invasion Of the North, one might
suppose that the Government could find
nobier employment for her mil tary off :
ciels than to send them at the behest of
= SGT Of lying Copperhesds to report the
number OF panes of glass broken and the
'ence boards wrenched of by patriotic
soldiers IN the exuberance of their LOYALTY
and rejoicing over the reported fall of Ri IA
mond. But the wise man says ''ihers is
a time for all things" and in the course OF
human events the time has come to graf
ify the Coppertead gentry with N inves.
tigation OF the petty annoysncss to which
they have been subj from the fact that
loyal soldiers have been allowed to come
between the wind and their nobility. ("
and thus compel them to dry up their ma.
lignant assaults upon the Government.
Should Geo. w. Jones succeed 10 re-
covering City thousand dollars OF Secre.
tary Seward, and these Ksokuk gentle
men also succeed in their object, it must
be conceded that loyalty does not s.poy"
50 well As the other thing, even in the
North.
The gentlemen Of the Commission are
gallant officers ordered on disagreeable
mission, but, We doubt not, they will per-
form their duty promptly, patrioticalIy
and honestly, even while fully aware that
they are doing il at the behsst of the fer.
ces, maignsrs Of the Government that
can be found in the North. But the Gov.
ernment will only satisfy the comp!aiuants
.in this matter, when it shall pay them
twenty tunes as much as they have lost
At the hands Of the soldiers, break up the
hospitals bere, and eventually yield up
the Presidential chair aud the civil as well
as military positions in the North as well
The S,u,h to jeff Davis and his friends Of
the ValIsndigham persuasion.
ConINo TO IT.-The New York Ex-
press, Of the day the late invasion Of
Pennsylvania became known, said:
There is not Peace party iu the
North this morning, an inch long, in con-
sequence OF sh. Invasion OF Northern soil
by rebel troops"
And the World said:
" Ii is yery clear that the only peace
that is possible between The North and
he South, is one that will be conquered d
@ The progress of the war has de-
velcped the ability of our soldiers to sur
mount almost any physical obstacle, and
to live 10 places hitherto regarded as un.
inhabitnb}e. Now wo learn that not orly
is the Great Dismal Swamp hab.,able,
but even salubrious, according to tho
war correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press, who says
"The name Of the Great D;smai Swamp
starls u feeling of ilI-deGned dread and
horror in the breasts of those who have
become acquainted with soft and slimy
lahryn only through the medium OF
romance Ii is impossible to conceive o:
any one but black. herculean, enlhusias.
TIC Dred who could exist amid the noxious
miasmas Of the Great Dismsl Swsmp.--
They believe q maa who attempts to live
ben cath the shade of these upas-lik trees
is sure ss destiny Of certsin death. Yet
this Great Dismal Swamp 10 actually '
healthy. is occupied BY our soidir,s, and
is pronounced salubrious by our surgeons.
The l77th Pennsylvania regiment went
there with almost two hundred on the sick
list, and now they have scarcely two
doxen"