The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-09-14
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GENERAL W8W9 yxBy0S.
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pondent in America, I Marriott, an Ital.
ian, once a professor At Cambridge, Mass.
He is writing on. the Northern side Of
the question and Of course, varies essen
TALLY in his letters from the venai Makay
and the editorials of the paper.
Mr.. S. J. Sawyer, recently principal
of the High School in Pitts6eld, Massa-
chusetts, has. renounced Professionalism
and viii enterthe Romihh priesthood. -
He has previously .fsays the Pitnfeld
Esgle) been Unitsnsu, Congregational,
and Episeopalian, (Bosing the eclesi-
cal compass y y
The English do not like our Nays
plan of sinking blockade runners. It
shocks their notions of humanity Blow
ing sepoys from the muzzles Of cannon
does not.
"A Troupe of Bedopin Arabs have ar
rived in New York, and are the only rep
resentatves of that race al present in
America They are band Of gymnas.s,
who have set Paris and London wild with
enthusiasm, and are spoken of BY the
press of these two cities as the most won-
derful that has ever been seen.
Mr.. William Morris, Of Z ysrshire, Yer
mont, whose eightieth birthday was last
week, arose in the morning and started
for long walk. He actually walked a
circuit Of for,y-eight miles. arriving
home in the evening. His son fearing
he might give out, followed him . mile or
two behind. He once asked him to ride.
but the old gentleman refused. The next
morning be arose about fss o'clock, and
found the old gentleman In the barn IN
loading Nay.
Some raymasters arc suspected Of
being dishonest, AMI it has been pretty
clearly made out that the suspicion i
founded on fact. s. macy small Try poi
'ieians have been elec c'cd T. places Of
trust thar no one can wrnaer thar there
has been much plandE ErIng Dome. in which
soldiers. country, ana government have
! all suffered
The Adaman Islands mus. afford
great attractions 10 those disposed 10 set.
tie down TO a simple life. A writer or
that region says that both sexes lave nc
other clothing than a thick covering oi
soft mud, which is put on regularly every
evening to protect them against the bites
Of mosquitoes, ticGs, aud other tor
mentors.
The Austrian Government has pub.
lished the official catalogue Of its schoo
books, which are all printed at the lmpe
rial Printing Office at Vienna zone of the
wonders of the world in an admirabl.
style. It's interesting to note that they
are printed On paper made of "corn.
shucks,' or of the leaves which protect
the ear Of maize. This material give,
the page yellowish color. which medca
men hold 10 be less fatiguing to the eye
than our snowy pages.
! -Bayard Taylor left the Russian Cour
imue ediately after the arrival of Cassiu
NJ. Clay and is now spending few week
with his wife's relatives at Gotha, Ger
many. His novel ofAmerican social life
"The Strong minded Woman," is il
press, and he is working on new poem
"The Portrait of St. john" founded on
beautiful Italian legend. Mr.. Taylor vii
: visit the, lakes of Northern Italy, wher
the scene of the poem is laid.
Those who denounce the draft d
!, "odious" and tyrannical," should rea
: the instructions Of the Rebel Col. Ricl
ardson for the enforcement of Conscrir
ton in~Western Tennessee. = If ma
\ abseDts himself to avoid the craft. hi
house shall be burnt down; if he resists
, be "shall be shot down and left dying
if he takes refuge in his house, it shall
burnt and guarded sohe may not get out
So much for Rebel humanity.
6 The Swamp Angeh" y after whic
G ilmore's battery has been called, is a
2 animal much dreaded in the South an
Q of which many marvellous stories hay
! been to Id, all describing it as ferocior
and unconquerable, attacking With de-
peratlon, and destroying all whom it Cd
!. reach. No doubt this is Sufficient de
: cription of the fort which our gallant 70
unteers have erected in the unguarde
swamp to the left of Wagner.
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