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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1863-12-24
Further SUPPLIES Refused.

! The rebel authorities at Richmond refuse
to permit any further supplies to be sent
from the North to the Union prisoners there
The ostensible reasons for this act were
doubtless foreshadowed in the following ar.
ticle which appeared in the Richmond I'm.
qstrer of the Sth inst.
The permission granted the enemy to send
| their prisoners clothes and provisions having
been abused, to the detriment of cur cause,
should be withdrawn. 1t has subjected US to
| insult from dastardly enemy and to charges
of purloining the things sent, for our own use.
We hope that notice will be given that no
more will be received.
The Secretary of War has given orders that
no abatement of rations should be made be-
cause Of the supplies, hence tie reception does
not relieUc IN the least oar conal1iSs0vV. The
privilege we grant to the enemy's soldiers is
withheld from our own soldiers in the United
States. In one instance it has come to our
knowledge that boxes sent to the prisoners
have been appropriated by the guard because
sent by sympathizers in the enemy's lines.
This permission to supply the prisoners qesiets
the pejlic sentiment, ectich a"os fast compelling
an ccchGnge Of prisoners, and it reconciles
their people to the Imprisonment Of the Yam
KEGS i'll Richmond, because they know that
the articles sent by them are just so many
Injuries which are denied to our prisoners in
the United States We repeat let it be stop
ped forthwith.
The main reason for the recent decision of
the rebel authorities, is doubtless that indi-
Gated i'll the final paragraph of the above ex-
tract. BY refusing to permit supple to be
forwarded to our prisoners, thus exposing
them to the horrors of starvation and to the
suffering arising from deficient clothing, du-
ring an incement season, the rebel leaders
hope to force on an exchange of prisoners
on their own terms. Those terms are of the
most infamous character. As stated by the
Secretary of War in his report, they are
equivalent to putting a rebel army of 40, 900
men in the field for the rebels demand credit
for long lists of persons in civil life Temporal
rily arrested by Morgan's guerrillas and 9th
ers, under such circumstances that they could
not be retained in possession of the rebels.
By no rule or usage known to the laws of
warfare, can such persons be claimed as pris-
oners, And, in addition to all this, the reb-
els refuse to exchange colored soldiers and
the white officers of colored regiments. These
they propose to retain and make an example
of. Such, doubtless, is the purpose of the
rebel leaders; they hope by barbarous treat
ment of our prisoners, to excite a popular
ciamor for their exchange upon the terms
which they, in their insolence, may choose to
impose, regardless of national interests or
national honor.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1863-12-24
flr. CelfaX's Speech.

Mr.. CoLFAX, Immediately upon his election
as Speaker, and being conducted to the chair,
said:
GENTLEMEN OF THE House OF REPRESENTA-
T1vEs To-day will be marked in American
history as the opening of Congress destined
to face and settle the most important ques-
tons OF the century, and during whose exis-
tence the rebellion which has passed its cul-
mination, will beyond all question-century,
to our army and navy, and the administration
die a deserved death Not only will your
constituents watch with strict scrutiny YOUR
deliberations here, but the friends of ibe ,ty,
in the most distant lands, will be interested
spectators of your acts in this greater than
Roman forum. | invoke you to approach
these grave questions with the calm thought
fulness of statesmen, freeing your discussions
from that acerbity which mars instead of ad-
vancing legislation, and with mistaken reli-
ance on that divine power which gave victory
to those who formed this Union, and can give
even greater victory to those who are seek
ing to save it from destruction from the
hand of parracide and traitor. | invoke you
also to remember that sacred truth which all
history yerifies, that I" they who rule not in
righteousness shall perish from the earth. ="
Thanking you with grateful heart for this
distinguished mark Of your confidence and
regard, and appealing to you all for that sup
port and forbearancc by the aid of which
alone | can hope to succeed | am now ready
to take the oath of Office and enter upon the
duties you have assigned me.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1863-12-24
BGmbast of Gov. Leteher.

Gov. Letcher's Message to the rebel Legis-
lature of Virginia concludes as follows -
Look at the picture on all sides, and it pre-
scnts hopeful and encouraging features. If
we are only true to ourselves, to the cause
and the country, we cannot be overthrown.
Is there a man who doubts the result of the
struggle? If there be such a one, he is a
traitor at heart, who deserves to be anathe-
matized and cast out from among us. No
State has been more loyal, more faithful,
more devoted; none has contributed more
literally in means and men; none has barred
her breast more boldly or defantly to the
storm, and none has sent her reapers to the
harvest of Death with more of the spirit of
self-sacrificing devotion than the Common
wealth of Virginia. She enlisted for the war
after full consideration, and with Just ap-
probation of all the consequences which
were to follow the separation, and she will
be true to the end. She will never sue for
peace, because she did not bring on this war
She will never propose for compromise, for
she struggles only for her rights, for liberty
and independence. She will, as becomes the
mother of States, stand up boldly and hurl
her scorn and defiance in the face of her foes
until they come to our terms.
"She will never consent to treaty Of peace
which dismembers her own territory, nor will
she consent to a treaty which does not recog-
nze fully the Southern Confederacy. She
knows what is due to her own dignity and
character and she knows what is due to the
Confederacy, and her duty will be performed
with scrupulous fidelity. Kneeling around
the altar Of their country, her sons will swear
allegiance to her, and fidelity to the Confede-
rate Government, and their prayers will as
cend to Heaven for blessings on Virginia and
the Southern Confederacy."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1863-12-24

PUsILLANINoUs PEACE.-"W ar never leaves,
where it found a nation. 1t is never to be
entered into without mature deliberation; not
a deliberation heightened out into a perplex-
ing indecision, but deliberation leading to a
sure and fixed Judgment. When so taken up,
it is not to be abandoned without reason as
valid, as fully and extensively considered.
Peace may be made as unadvisedly as war.
Nothing is so rash as fear, and the counsels
of pusillarimity very rarely put off, whilst
they are always sure to aggravate, the evils
from which they would fly. Burke.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1863-12-24

TIE COURT OF CLAIMs.-This body, now in
session at Washington, consists Of three
Judges, and was created by act of Congress
of February Oath, 1855, to hear and deter
mine all claims founded upon any law of
Congress, or upon any regulation Of an exc
cutive department. or upon any contract, ex-
press or implied, with the government of the
United States, which might be presented by
petition, and all claims referred to the Court
by either Houses of Congress. Under later
act, Judges Wilmot, of Penn, and Peek of
ILL.,, were appointed Chief Justices. The
Court is now constituted as follows: Chief
Justice Joseph Casey, PennsyI ania; Judge
Charles G. Loring, of Mass; Judge James
Hughes, of Ind; Judge David Wilmot, of
Penn; Judge Ebenezer Peck, Of III.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1863-12-24

A BAD BEGINNING.-Mr. JAS. S. Brown,
Member of Congress from the first district,
was nominated and elected as supporter of
vigorous military measures for suppressing
the rebellion. Upon any other platform he
could not have been elected We are sorry
to observe that, Notwithstanding these facts,
his first vote in Congress was cast to elect, as
Speaker, malignant copperhead, the bosom
friend of VALLANDIGHAM, the villiier of New
England and the Puritans-" Sunset" Cox,
of Ohio.
This is a bad beginning for a War Demo
crat. AS Mr.. Brown, whose name occurs
early in the alphabetical list of members,
found himself il Il powerless minority in this
first effort, we trust his experience of the re-
suit will lead him to do better hereafter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1863-12-24

HoRATIo's DIsCoMFITURE.-We have omitted
to speak of late humiliation that has be-
fallen the Copperhead Governor of New York.
1t will be remembered that the Coppery Ho-
RATIOS justification for his opposition to the
draft last Summer was an alleged system of
were imposed on certain Democratic Congress
sional districts in the city of New York 1t
will be remembered, too, that the President,
anxious to remove every possible pretext of
opposition, to the draft, answered Governor
Seymour that only a fraction of the quota
would be drawn at that time and that new
enrolment would be had to verify the cor
rectness of the old one, and invited the Gov
ernor to appoint an agent to assist at the re-
enrolment and prevent any possible unfairness
This was being done and if it had been carried
out would undoubtedly have brought confu-
sion upon Seymour and his Copperhead crew,
by demonstrating the entire correctness OF
the original enrolment. So now he makes a
grace or necessity-confesses that he was In
error-and notifies the Government that he
withdraws all objections to the first enroll
ment, being convinced, on examination OF
the lists and the returns of the draft already
made, which show very few non-residents,
that that enrolment is Gas near correct as it
is possible to make one" Was there ever q
more humiliating ending to more dirty and
shameful piece of political chicanery!
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1863-12-24

THE NEW CHAPLAIN OF THE HoUsE-Rev.
w. H. CLAIMING, just elected Chaplain of the
House of Representatives, is Unitarian He
is well known in the literary world as a ripe
scholar, and gentleman of vigorous and
original genius. He has always been a radical
anti-slavery man.
The Democratic members generally voted
for Bishop HOPKINS, of Vermont, whose title
to their especial favor was won by his pamphlet
defending slavery as a divinely appointed in
stitution, sanctioned by the Bible.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1863-12-24

SINCE the appearance Of the Presidents
proclamation offering terms of pardon to
rebels, the question is raised in official quar-
tiers as to whether the rebel prisoners in our
hands, under the rank of Colonel, may not
avail themselves of the amnesty offered
Some persons think three-foul tbs of the rebel
prisoners now in our hands would gladly ac-
cept the terms of amnesty, if it includes
Importance.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1863-12-24

sW The Messrs. RENwIcK, the eminent en-
gineers of New York, performed the novel
operation of repairing the Great Eastern un.
der water, while afoat, so skillfully that when
the big ship was locked in England it was
found that the repair did not need touching,
nor could it be bettered
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1863-12-24

A Few WORDS TO a FATHER.-Take your
son for companion whenever you convent
emily can; it will relieve the already overb ur-
dened anxious mother of so much care. It
will crafty the boy; it will please the moth
er; it certainly ought to be pleasure to you.
What mothers eye would not brighten when
her child is kindly cared for? And when his
eye kindles, his heart beats, and his tongue
prattles faster and faster with the idea of
" going with father" does she not share her
little boys happiness, and is not her love
deepened by her husbands consideration, so
just, and yet too often SO extraordinary? 1t
will keep him and you out of places, society
and temptations into which separately you
might enter. 1t will establish confidence
sympathy, esteem and love between you. 1t
will give you abundant and very favorable OPP
portunities to impart instruction, to infuse and
cultivate noble principles, and to develop and
strengthen true manhood. 1t will enable
him to " see the world" and to enjoy certain
liberty which may prevent that future icen-
tfousness which so often results from sudden
freedom from long restraint
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1863-12-24

"a Prince NAPOLEON and the Princess
CLoTILDE lately met with an accident by their
carriage coming in collision with the Ameri-
can railway omnibus, on Mr.. TRAINS princi-
pie, running through wide and uncrowded
thoroughfare near Paris.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1863-12-24

FOREIGNERS AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
The English language must appear fearfully
and wonderfully made to a foreigner. One
of them looking at a picture of num-
Der of vessels said: See, what a flock of
ships" He was told that a flock of ships
was called a feet, but that feet of sheep
was called flock. And it was added, for his
guidance in mastering the intricacies of our
language, that ga flock of girls is called a
bevy, that a bevy of wolves is called pack,
and pack of thieves is called gang, and a
gang of angels is called host, and host of
porpoises is called shoal, and shoal of buff
faloes is called herd, and herd of children
is called a troop, and troop of cartridges is
called covey, and coyey OF beauties is
called galaxy, and galaxy of rufians is
called horde, and horde of rubbish is call
ed heap, and a heap of oxen is called a
drove, and a drove of blackgaurds is called a
mob, and mob of whales is called school,
and alschool Of worshippers is called congre-
CATION, and a congregation of engineers is
called corps and corps of robbers is called
a band, and band of locusts is called a
swarm, and a swarm of people is called a
crowd, and a crowd of gentle-folks is called
the elite, and the elite of the citys thieves and
rascals are called the roughg, and the miscel-
laneous crowd Of city folks is called the COM
munity or the public, according as they are
spoken of by the religious community or Sc
cular public.
"Now, again, the Hudson River is fast
when the ice is immoveable, and then the ice
disappeared very fast, for it was loose A
clock is called fast when it is quicker than
time; but man is told to stand fast when he
is desired to remain stationary People fast
when they have nothing to eat, and eat fast,
consequently, when opportunity offers"
MosT FULLY ACCOUNTED FoT.-The reason.
no doubt, why people don't like to sit down
thirteen to dinner is because, under those cir
cumstances, they must necessarily be cat
sixesc and SeEens with each other y
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1863-12-24

HIGHLY CoMPLMENTARY.-Ag entleman-it
might have been the writer of this paragraph
felt very uncomfortable a week or SO ago
when, on going to sit for his photograph, he
was asked by the artist, who was by no means
"happy" in the pronunciation of some OF his
words, whether he wished to have his" fool
face y taken.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1863-12-24

A SNUG BERTH.-D. W. MIDDLETON, ESQ.,,
formerly Assistant, has been appointed Clerk
of the q. S. Supreme Court at Washington.
The office is said to be worth SIC, geo year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1863-12-24

- A despatch from East Tennessee
states that Longstreet's army is terribly de-
moralized. That seems to be superfuous in
telligence. A man must be in that condition
ment like ours.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1863-12-24

MosT FULLY ACCOUNTED FoT.-The reason,
no doubt, why people don't like to sit down
thirteen to dinner is because, under those cir
cumstances, they must necessarily be cat
sixes and sevens with each other"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-09-09

cootvo bushel Extra Linen Sacks, ITO aryiye1
VIZ De sold low for Cash, al 81 and So Leves by
eept3o-d COkEABLE 4 SMYTH.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-09-09

were two Of the Representatives Of Des
Moines county in the General Assembly
of the State. Clark is now onezaf -
Democratic nominess for election to the
House of Representatives, and Robinson
i theifS candidate for County Judge
When The bill 70 raise and appropriate
money 10 raise. arm and equip voluns
teen d suppress The rebellion aud to do
fend The State, was before the He's of
Representatives in May, 1861, both these
gentlemen recorded their names agsinst
Che passage Of ths bill PCT, t0sday,
without their. sentinsnts having undsr'
gone aAy charge, Gen. Futile his no
more ardent supporter ID The Stats than
they are, and % the Other 1aad. hi
name is asaocisted, With theirs on the
ticket, aud his influence is being used to
secure their election to the of6ces, for
which they are candidates.
So it is all over the State. All sorts
of unclean birds expect to be protected
aud benefited BY the use of his loyal
name.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-09-09


WooLKx FAcrosY.-Fort Madison will
soon be able to boast of having within it,
limits the largest roolen factory in The
State. We paid visii to it few days
since. and CLEANED the following particu.
lars concerning it: The factory is a
wooden structure, 64x40, exclusive oil
the machine department, and four stories
in height. The factory will be supplied
with water by dam to be built in the
creek running in Penitentiary hollow, a
we'll and capacious cistern. When COM
pleted il will run four sets of cards, and
nine hundred spindles, and will turn out
about 600 yards Of cloth per day. 1t
will give employment to about so hands.
The building is now enclosed and near
ly ready for machinery. and will be COM
pleted early in November. Messrs. Saw
yer Brothers deserve great credit at the
hands of the people of Fort Madison, and
Lee county generally, for the enterprise
manifested BY them in this erection Of
suoh an extensive Factory, ons which will
prove of inculcable benefit to this COM
munity, and will reflect honor on the
State at large. Messrs. S. calculate ad-
ding Knitting Machine to tho estab-
lishment.-lP laindealer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-09-09
"Meeting Of Cen.plr..ors.o

The Copperhead, pro-slavery, Camp
Jackson Missouri Republican, whose in
famous and shameless record Of treason
is fresh in the memory of every one; the
devoted organ Of Claib. Jackson, Thomas
Reynolds, Sterling Price & Co., in the
days of their black conspiracy, now un-
dertakes to characterize the peoples
Emancipation Convention as Injecting
of Conspirators p
There have indeed been s'meetings Of
conspiraiors in Missouri" as the .people
have found out to their sorrow, and as
the blood and bones of her slain, on
scores Of battle6elds, too well attest. The
Republican was parficeps crin,iais in
these meetings 1t was their most pow
erful alder and abettor. 1t was the
champion of these conspirators and the
laborious and most mischieyous advocate
Of their cause. 1t advised secession and
presented date beyond which. in ito
judgement, Missouri should not remain
in the Union. 1t upheld the Minute
Men and their camp at Lindelfs Grove.
1t stigmatizsd and execrated General Ly-
on, and s'the Dutch" because they loiled
the conspirators. Consistent Kepubli-
can, that nov With holy horror raises it's
pious hands and calls tho Emancipation
Convention Injecting Of conspirators r.
Conspiracy seeks to hide in darkness.
secrecy, false pretenses. specious DISCUSSES
all Of which characterized Missouri's trai.
tors in the incipiency of the rebellion
The insidious biologist for them, their
defender and pleader, now at last detects
Injecting Of conspirators in popula,
mass convention Of the very men wbc
saved st. Louis and Missouri from the
blacklist Of conspiracies. 1t was only be.
fore their bristling bayonels that the Re
publican sullenly retired from the egg oil
conspiracy which it had been so long and
SO fondly warming.
The Minute Mems and Camp Jackson 4
meetings of conspirators sought to des-
troy free Government by force of arms,
for the sake of slavery. The present
meeting of the people seeks, by forcs Of
argument and ballots, to preserve the
Government by destroying slavery, fol-
tie sake of liberty. The Convention can
very well afford to have the Missouri Re.
publican style iii meeting of Conspira-
tors"
"Tbe Dutch - was our contem porary q
ejacnlatioIs Of horror in the days oil
Camp Jackson, and it is still grievossly
troubled about "the Dutch" BY this
term 1t sought to extingush the uncondi-
tional Unionists of Missouri, but failed.
1t will be equally successful in its i'll ma
tured TRADE against the Radical Emanci-
pationists.- Mo. Dem.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-09-09

A writer in the New York Times
just from Richmond, who gives his name
charges that Jeff. Davis was induced te
order the invasion Of the North hv Lee
and Morgan, by the representations Of
Vallandigham and the Northern Copper.
head press, who persuaded him that the
North was ripe for revolution and anxious
to proclaim for JEFF. Davis. No doub,
Vallandighsm and his followers should
like to see the North revolutionized, and
conquered BY JEFF. Davis; but not until
they can convert the millions Of stannch
patriots into miserable traitors can they
expect to accomplish shis i.ysssisilisy.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-09-09
MIR. HarIan's Appoin TIM ents.

Hon. JAMES HARLAN will address the people u
follows:
Cor,don. Wayne Co. Tuesday, Sept 9Th.
Leon, Decatur Co, Wednesday, Sept 9th.
oceola, Clark Co. Thursday, Sept. 10th.
Winterset, Madison Co, Friday, Sept. nth.
Des Moines, Polk &C, Saturday, Sept. 1eta.
1ndanoa, Warren Co, Monday, Sept. lab.
Knoxville. Marion Co, Tuesday, sept. 18th.
Charlton, Lucas Co, Wednesday, Sept. 18th,
Alba, Monroe Co, Thur.das, Sept. 18th.
oitu.nwa, wapelio Co. Friday. Sept. 18th.
Rddyyiiie. Wapellc Co, Tuesday, Sept. ed
Ossaloosa, Mshasks Co, Wednesday, Sept o3d.
sigourney. keokuk Co, Thursday, Sept. eth.
Fairfield, Jefferson, Friday, Sept. 25,h.
Washington, Washiegton Co, Monday, Sept. esth.
wappelio, Louisa Co, Tuesday, Sept. 10Th,
Buriin gton, Des Mones Co, Wednesday, Sept. Goth
The several County Committees reque sted 10 b
dligent In giving public notice Of the time and place
of meeting in their respective counties and in max
Ing all necessary arrangements for the meetings.
hesmeetings la all the appointments. will commence
at O'Clock, r. NJ.
THoS. r. WITHROw,
Chm gepnb. State Central Committee.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-09-09

81 sssg s'Ftis
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-09-09

Charity may sometimes gush foftl
from the hardest heart like SILVER waite,
from the rock.