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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-07-26
poetry
The Blue Coat.


TIN. folowipR ballad ia from the pen Of Bishop Bur
oes. Of Maine and was contributed by him 10 the boo
published and sold at the late Sanitary Fair in Bait
nor. un5er the sanction Of the state Fair Association
Of the women Of Maryland
THE BLUE COAT OF THE SOLDIER.
You Ask 4 me, tile oue Why bowed,
Though never passed the man before Z
Because my heart was fun and proud
When saw the old blue cost he wore
The blue great coat the sky-bue cost,
The old blue coat he soldier wore.
knew not I, what weapon he chose,
what chief he followed, what badge he worel
Enough that in the front Of foes
His oountry's blue great coat he wore
The blue great coat, sc.
Perhaps he was born in forest hut
Perhaps he had danced palace floor
Tol want or wealth my eyes were shut,
ouly.maked the coat he wore
The blue great coat &c.
Il mattered not much il he drew his line
From shea or Ham in the days Of yors
For surely he was a brother Of mine,
who fvf my sake the war coat wore.
The blue great coat &C.
lie might have no skill to read or write,
or he might bo rich in learned lore
But knew he could make his marx in hght
And uobler gown DO scholar wore
Than the blue great coat, sc.
IL may be he could plunder nd pmwl,
And perhaps in his mood he scoded and sWore
But would not guess spot SO foul
on the honortd coat he brayely wore
Ths blue great coat, &c.
He had worn it long. and borne ii far
And perhaps on the red virginIan shore
From midnight chill tI the morning star
That worn great cost the sentry wore
The blue great coat, &C.
Syhen Hardy Batee refined his ste ed
Through me streets Of proud, proud Baltimore,
Perhaps behind him At his need,
Marched he who yonder blue coat wore.
The blue great coat, &c
Perhaps it va seen in Burnsdes ranks.
when Rappahsnnock ran dark with gore
Perhaps on the mountain side with Banks
In the burning san no he wore
The blue great coat, &C.
Perhaps 10 the swamps bed for his form
From the seven days battling and marching sore,
or With Ksaluy and Pope mid the steely storm,
A. the night closed in that coat he wore
The blue great cost, sc.
or when right over as JAckson daihrd,
Tha, collar " cape some bullet tore
or when far ahead AutistAm aashed
he Gang to the ground the coat that he voTe
The blue gres, coat, sc.
Or stood At Gettysburg, where the graves
Ia gdeep TO HoEard's cannon io.ri
or sAg with Grant the unclaimed waves
where oonquerng hosts the blue coat Uofs
The blue great coat, ke.
That gsrb Of honor tells enough,
Though iu tory gus.s more
The heart 10 cover. Is made ot such stun,
That coat is mail which that soldier wore
The bue great coat, sc.
lie may hang it up when the peace shall come,
And the moths may hnd it behind he door
hut his children viii point when thes h"-' ''1'-
u. ,ha proud oid coat their father we're
The blue great coat, sc.
And so, my child, will you and l.
For Who's, fair home their blood they pour
30 % bos the head, as one goes BY
ho sears the that soldier wort
The blue great coat, the sD blue coat,
Tae old blue coat the solder wore.
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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-07-26

B.oSuS ur-By special orders nom na,'.h.,a we mm
Department, tie drai, rende,soass ~ n .aa nan
ms becu broken up. and the oincer sua Tm W.
here are ordered 10 report TO the camp ~.
Haven, u. 50 Grapevine Point oeooIs ~ ~
,enersl rendezvous for oil recruits sa''s'e. ~ s"'
S.stes Of Vermont Rhode Island oonne'''oa''
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-07-26

RspKl LKrrr.-one Of the rebels Who re-
gently visited the vicinity oil Washington, svi-
IDENTIFY had desire to open correspondence
with " Old Abe,' and not waiting for the reg
alar mail, wrote the following note on the ny
leaf of book aud tackled it on tree near FRANK
Blaitt residence
MAR WASHINGTON, July IL, 1854.
"Now, Uncle Abe, you had better be quiet
the balal CO OF your administration. we only
eame near your town this time just TO show you
wha, We could do--bu. II YOU go on IN your inad
career we will come again soon, and 'heo you
had better stand from under.
Yours respectfully,
unng WORST RkBsL You kvss saw,
:. Fii,y.eigh,h Virginia Infantry
| l,hasn, as yet been announced whether on'
,le Ar" has determined 10 take this rebels ad
vice, 80 charminsy piOaered, and "ee quiet
,r whether he /. still going g on In his mao %
roer " intending to " stand from under ~n''
lbts correspondent comes again
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-08

Gen. Washburne, who is in command
of the Memphis Military District, and
who by the way did good thing when
he interdicted the contraband trade so
extensively carried on with rebels, has
aroused the ire of the Courier man.
Now won't Washburne feel bad. We
shouldn't be surprised if he resigned,
or-carried out his plans. He has in
formed the people of Memphis, that il
they don't elect Union man for Mayor,
he will place the city under military
rule. That's enough to make Thayer
howl, and so he talks about Washburne
as "parlor General, who dislikes the
smell of gunpowder." The poor fool
don't seem to know that Washburne
has until quite recently been in active
service in the field for three years past.
But because he don't happen to love
Thayer's friends in rebeldom, the latter
attempts to bring him into contempt.
But, gracious goodness, how bad Wash
burne will feel when he sees Thayer's
article. Won't he take it back?
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-08
Origin of IlluStriOuS Men.

The "DemOcratic' newspapers COM
plain of Mr.. Lincoln and Andrew John
son for their democratic origin. Mr..
Lincoln was once il rail-splitter and Mr.
Johnson tailor. Now for the origin of
a few more of the eminent and infiuen-
tial among men:
Columbus was the son of weaver,
and weaver himself
Claude lorraine was bred q pastry
cook.
Cervantes was a common soldier.
Homer was the son of a small farmer.
Moliere, son Of tapestry maker.
DemOstheneS, son of cutler.
Terence was slave.
Oliver Cromwell was son of a
brewer.
Howard, an apprentice to grocer.
Franklin, jOurneyman printer; son
of a tallOw chandler and soap boiler.
DR.. Thomas, Bishop of Worcester, son
Of a linen draper.
Daniel DefOe was hosier, and the
son of a butcher
Whitetield, son of an inn-keeper at
Gloucester.
Sir Cloudesly Shovel, Rear Admiral of
England, was an apprentice to a shoe
maker, and afterwards n cabin boy.
Bishop Prideau worked in the kitchen
at Exeter College, Oxford.
Cardinal Woolsey, son of a butcher.
Ferguson was shepherd.
Dean Tucker was the son of a small
farmer in Cardiganshire, and performed
his journeys to Oxford on foot.
Edmund HALEY was the son of a
soap boiler at Shoreditch.
Joseph Hall, Bishop of Norwich, was
the son of farmer at Ashby de la
ZOuch
Virgil, son of porter.
Horace, son of a shOpkeeper.
Shakespeare, of wool-stapler.
Milton, of a money -scrivener.
Robert Burns was plOwman in Ayr
shire.
Confucius was carpenter. Moham-
med, called the prophet, was a driver Of
asses. Mehemet Ali was barber. Mad
anne Bernadotte was washerwOman OF
Paris. Napoleon a descendant Of an
obscure family of Corsica, was Major
when he married Josephine, the daugh-
ter of tobacconist Creole of Martinique.
President Boyer was mulatto barber.
General Espartero was a vestry clerk
King Christophe, of Hayti, was slave
of st. Kits. Bolivar was druggist.
Vasco de Cana was sailor. Columbus
was sailor. Astor, the richest man in
the New World, before he came to be
the proprietor of the Astor House, used
to sell apples through the streets of New
York. Catharine, the Empress of Rus
sia, camp grisette. Cincinnatus was
ploughing his vineyard when the dicta
torship of Rome was offered to him.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-08
An Editor Oh the Rampage.

They have an editor up north who is
so full of fight that the opposite party is
not enough for his trenchant blade.
He pitches into copperheads with a
will, but into brother republicans with
a willer His name is Felt, and he seems
determined to do his best to make him.
self felt. He edits the West Union Rec
ord, butmakes anything but a consistent
record for his professions. The Musca-
tine Journal and the Iowa City Repu6-
5icdn are just now the objects of his ven-
geance, and were his success equal to
his zeal, both these papers would soon
be as though they were not.
He said if G.. G.. Cole was nominated
for Supreme Judge, he and the voters of
his District would not support him. We
said, in that case, they would help to
elect the copperhead candidate. He
says: "That sounds to us very much
like lie." Now, Mr.. Record, will you
keep cool long enough to tell us what
the effect will be if you and your friends
refuse to support the regular nominee
of the Republican party? If it does not
help the copperheads, who does it help?
r He accuses the editors of the Journal
and of this paper of being governed by
somebody else. We can anunderstand such
an assertion only in this way: Not
knowing either of us, he judges us by
his own standard. Now, brother Felt,
Just keep cool. We are with you for a
fight with the enemy, but we have no
stomach to fight our friends.-Io,Ua City
Republican,.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-08
[For the Muscatine Journal.1
Iowa Association at Washington.
WASHINGTON CITY, June q

MR.. EDITOR The Iowa Association
here commenced lively summer cam
paign on Saturday evening last. The
weather was excessively hot, but there
was nevertheless a good turn out. There
was some earnest discussion upon GER
tain matters Of no general interest, but
the members universally expressed a
desire to do all in their powerin the way
of aiding our friends at home roll up a
majority of $4,000 for Lincoln and
Johnson.
The following permanent officers were
elected:
Pretident, Stephen ]. w. Tabor
Vice President A. NJ Scott.
Recording Secretary, ]. p. c. Poulton.
Corresponding Secretary, L. D. Ingersoll.
Treasurer, George Cowie.
It may not be generally known that
there is now an executive committee of
the Association, who, during the cam
paign now about to commence in earn
est, will attend to filling the orders for
speeches which may be sent from our
State at cheaper rates than they can be
had elsewhere, or, at least, at as cheap
rates. The committee will soon issue
circulars upon this subject. Meantime,
those who desire information in that
line, or upon any matter of which intel
ligence may be better had here than
elsewhere, can address the undersigned,
who will cheerfully refer the inquiries
to the committee and request a prompt
response.
The Association returns hearty thanks
to the publishers of those papers who
have sent it their journals. They are
all eagerly looked after and read by the
members. They should now be address,
ed to Box IA. beg to request that
change, as do also, if it be not asking
too much, that they will publish the
facts stated in this communication.
Very respectfully,
l.. ID. INGERSOLL,
Cor. Sec'y Iowa Association,
p. O. Box ia,
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-08
Movement ON Mobile.

There are indications of stirring news
from Mobile. Most of the rebel troops
collected for the defense of that city
have been sent to Johnston and Lee,
and the presence of Gen. Candy on
board the United States blockading
squadron off Mobile, is potent of a con-
templated land and naval attack on that
city. Admiral Farragut, the hero OF
New Orleans, commands the fleet at
Mobile, and we have iron-clads enough
in the Mississippi to organize formld-
able naval expedition in aid OF Farragut
should an attack be meditated.
Gen. Candy was recently in New Or
leans, and issued peremptory orders to
mount heavy guns on the WORKS at
Chalmette, and his visit to Farragut, we
trust, has mischief to the rebels IN 1t.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-08
IOWA NEWS.

Eddie Ball, asmall boy, was drowned
while bathing in the river at Iowa City,
on the 23d ult.
Col. A. J. Miller, of the 9Th infan-
try, is now on furlough at his home in
Iowa City. He Is wounded in the arm.
The barn of S. N. Lewis, in Cass
township, Jones county, was burned by
lightning on the 25th ult. Two horses
perished.
The men who are charged with the
killing in Jasper county, Of Simon Lee,
a deserter, have been bound over for
their appearance at court. There are
some circumstances connected with this
homicide, which seem to call loudly for
the punishment of the man who fired
the fatal shot. .al
DROwNED-A son of Mr. Jacob Hunt,
Of LeClaire, aged II years, was drowned
lately at that place while playing with
other boys. He expressed determine
ton to learn to swim, and jumped from
a raft into the river for that purpose, but
he Immediately sunk. Although his
body was recovered in few minutes,
life was extinct.
MARENGo AND BLAIRsTOwN STAGE
LINE.-J. Y. and John Porter, of Iowa
City, have established a new stage line
between Marengo, on the M. 4 M. r.
r. and Blairstown, on the Cedar Rapids
and NJ. r. r. Two Coaches leave each
place on the arrival of passenger trains,
and make sure connections with the
trains on the other road.
ORPHANS HOME.-The soldiers Or
phans' Home will be opened at Farm
ington early in August. There are
already fifteen applicants for admission.
Geo. w. Bemis Esq, of Indepen-
dence, was the lucky man who drew the
81, 900 Piano at the Dubuque Fair. We
are coming round soon, George, to hear
you play on that instrument. Weknow
something about his musical attain
ments, and are glad he was so lucky
Try again, George.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-08
Wrong Premises Produce Wrong Con-
illusions.


The Keokuk Constitution, of the 2Sth
ult., has sensation head relative to
the number of men that have been sent
to the war and their present where
abouts. The evident intent of the article
is to convince it's readers that we are an
exhaustive people, and that sending
men to the war is, to use very express
sive term, "played out" There is de-
sire on the part of the Micawber party
just now to make the number of men
employed ON our side as enormous as
possible and then reduce it as much as
possible by the casualties Of battle and
hospital.
The Constitution would, of course, be
compelled to follow in the footsteps
of the Thayers and Storeys, and 80 in
the article referred to it fOots up the
enormous number of two million eight
thousand eight hundred and forty-six
men who have been recruited since the
war commenced"
Now, how does Mr.. Clagett arrive at
this conclusion? Simply by starting
out with false premises, as we shall
show. He estimates the number of men
raised under the draft for 3OO, 900 ordered
July, 1868, at 100000. Now, it is notO-
rious fact, stated by the War Depart
ment in recent documents, that out Of
oil the drafts only about $1,000 men
have been realized, and that Depart
ment urges this as a reason for repeating
the communication clause of the Enroll
ment Act. So in this one item, we find
Mr.. Clagett has exceeded the truth
$4,000. That it is unjust to convey the
impression that our armies have been
decimated by death and disease alone, We
demonstrate by another item in Mr..
Clagett's account, to-wit: the 400, 900
men who We're called into service for
nine months, in August '6l and June
'63. Comparatively few of these men
ever saw active field service, and conse-
quently We're above their mini
mum strength when mustered out.
But why is Mr.. Clagett sovery anxious
to make his readers believe that we
cannot continue to send men to war for
much longer period. Because our war
power will be exhausted? Is this the
course Mr.. c.. took relative to the MeXi-
can war? Did he not hold that-pardon
us, we had forgotten that Mr.. c., being
a Whig, was opposed to that war. We
take back what we were about to say.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-08

GOING SoUTH.-The names of Gems.
Davidson and Hatch in the Southern
campaigns during 1923 as leaders of
cavalry and commanders noted for their
bravery and success had become famil-
lar to all, and by their deeds of bravery
and heroism they endeared themse YES
to the hearts of their soldiers and IL cir
countrymen. Only few weeks ago we
noticed the departure of Gen. Davidson,
who was ordered to report at Little
Rock to Gen. Candy, and whose place
in the Cavalry Bureau was filed by Gen.
Hatch. Now comes the order for Gen.
Hatch to report to Gen. Washburn, at
Memphis. Gen. Hatch, though absent
on sixty days sick leave, has respond
ed to the call with alacrity, and will
start this morning for the South, to be
assigned to activeduty.- Louis Dem
ocrdt, 18th.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-08

H9 Serious apprehensions are felt
that much sickness will prevail among
the troops in Sherman's army during
this season. Anunprecedentedquantity
of rain has fallen in Georgia the past
few weeks, making the movements of
the army slower than they otherwise
would have been, and the soldiers are
necessarily exposed to all these storms,
frequently without even the slight shell
ter of tent. The warm days are sue
ceeded by cold nights in southern lati-
tudes and render more covering necessa
Soldiers on the march and daily engaged
with the enemy often lose their blankets
and overcoats, and are consequently
without sufficient protection from the
cold night air. Every precaution possi-
BILE is being made to guard against this
danger, and to provide for the sick.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-08
RAILROAD ACCIDENT FROM Ho

2 RAILROAD ACCIDENT FROM HOT
WEATHER. : DR.. Jacques, one of the
State Railroad Commissioners, has been
examining the scene and circumstances
of the late accident near Berlin, Conn.,.
and makes this statement :The cause
of the accident was undoubtedly the ex-
pansion of the rails by the heat. This
raised the ties and the iron from the bed
of the track. The heavy engine and
forward cars passing overit were weighty
enough to hold the track in it's place.
But the rear car was so light that it could
not force the track down, and the rails
consequently swerved to one side and
let the car off,"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-08

THE DEMOCRATIC CONvENTION-The
Democrats have made sad blunder,
and yielded the first line of intrench-
ments to the enemy. The adjournment
of the Convention is a serious mistake.
1t is idle to conceal it, for now the only
hope is in getting wisdom into the
heads of the managers. who appear, as
in old times, to be pulled by wires. AL
ready faction lifts it's head. Another
Democratic committee is in the field,
and it is hard to say which is the real
authority, if there is any authority
Unless the Democracy look out there
will be a scrub race among various SUBJ
divisions who will grow up during the
summer, and, as in the donkey race, the
question will be who shall come in last,
for no one will think of winning by be-
ing ahead.-N. Y Journ0lof Commerce.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-08

Persons returned from the Idaho gold
mines bring discouraging reports. No
further discoveries of the precious metal
have been made, and the greater PORTION
of the people in the region are unable to
make q livelihood.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-08
Submission of Fools.

Some weeks ago John Morgan made
another appearance in Kentucky, fol-
lowed by about three hundred guerrilla
Democrats. The Cincinnati ENQUIRER
and Chicago Times were, of course, the
organs Of these Kentucky visitors, and
took occasion to not only denounce the
Union authorities, but to give informa-
ton concerning the movements of our
forces in pursuit of Morgan, which Gen.
Burbridge deemed injurious to the pub
lie service. He thereupon very wisely
suppressed the circulation of the Enqui-
rer within the military lines of his de-
partment. Of course this is sufficient to
extract howl from every cur in the
guerilla pack, from John Morgan to E.
H. Thayer. In his Peace-upon-any-
terms paper this week, the last named,
hereaways known as the Grandview
martyr, devotes column or more to the
cause of Morgan, by way of sympathy,
of course. AS he wades into the subject
he grows warmly eloquent, and strikes
the following note: ''If the people of
Kentucky submit to these foolish
orders, they are fools. We use
the word "subnlit in its strongest signi-
ficatiOn." That's the way to talk it.
Speak right out loud, and don't be afraid.
People are fools il they submit. So they
are. Mr.. Thayer won't submit, not he.
He isn't a fool. For further particulars
inquire of the soldiers, who persuaded
him to take an oath to be a decent man.
He took the oath, but then it is pecu-
liarity of rebels that they live in con-
slant disregard oft. Thayer is too brave
to submit to outrage-of course he is.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-08
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
One Year Ago.

We CHANGED, yesterday, to pick up the
DAILY JOURNAL of July lst, 1868. The
following telegraphic headings will re-
fresh the memories of our readers and
give an idea of the progress that has
been made in the war for the Union
during the year:
Preparations for the Defense OF Cincinnati
Rebels threaten an advance into Kentucky
situation at Harrisburg-Firing between Fed
:Ts L"TS sf sss En-
Philadelphia still continues. Baltimore Con-
sidersd Safe: The Rebel Advance on Harris
Fight at McConnelsburg. Rapid Movement of
the Army of the Potomac. Affairs at Nicks-
OF the Cumberland. Rebel account OF the tight
at Hoover and Liberty Gaps. Extracts from the
Chattanooga Rebel
There is no reason for discouragement
when we compare the condition of
affairs year ago, as above indicated,
with the present situation. Then the
chief cities of the Ner,h were threaten
ed by the insurgents-now Grants vic
torious army is laundering at the gates
ofthe rebel capital, while Sherman with
powerful army is in the very heart of
the Southern Confederacy. Then the
rebels held possession of the Mississippi
at two points considered impregnable;
now we have free navigation of that
noble stream from its source to its
mouth, as, in fact, of nearly all the
navigable waters in the country. Look
ing at these facts, and considering the
mighty resources yet at our command
and the exhausted condition of the reb-
els, who can doubt that the struggle
will end before the close of another
year in the triumph of our arms and the
complete restoration of the Union?
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-08

D6r The New York World calls Gen.
Mcclellan finished soldier. Yes. he
is. He finished himself.