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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-06-21

~"Any letter for me to-day ~ It
WAS the same sad voice, which had haunt
ed the clerk for many days. and he hast
sned to reply quite cheerily. Eyes Madam,
your letter has come at last" 20 give il
70 me quick" ard smile lighted her
worn features but suddenly the light I'll
died out Of her faee, = she stood fbe I
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-06-21
Impure Breath.

Among all the evil consequences that
follow fast the decay of the teeth, an i'm
pure breath must be the most unpleasant
and notifying to its possessor, as it is the
most inexcusable and offensive in society.
How often its possessor experiences dis
tant GOODNESS shown even from the best of
friends, or perhaps the one most fondly
cherished, from this source. You are ig-
uorant of the cause yourself, the subject
is 30 delicate-your most intimate friend
will not mention it. Why not remove
this one great barrier to your heath beau.
ty and happiness, at once, by using that
justly popular Dentri6ce, Fragrant SOZO-.
DON'T, the most convenient, pleasant and
efiicacious gem for the toilet the world
has ever produced.
Sold by Druggists everywhere at rs
cents per bottle.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-06-21

@ The total number Of rebel prison
ers captured in the late battles, as report.
ed TO the Commissary General Of Prison.
en-, to june. 4, is about 5000. $50 Of
whom aEe officers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-06-21
The Assault on Petersbur1-Sherm
Advancing-Rehels Rstreatinr.
WAR DEPARTMENT, D
Washington. June 10


Washington, June l9.{
To General Dix:
This evening q dispatch from City
Point, dated nine o'clock this morning.
reached the department. 1t reports that
our forces advanced yesterday to within q
mile in front Of Petersburg, where they
found the enemy occupying . new line OF
entertainments, which after successive as.
saults We failed to carry, but held our
ground, and have entrenched our ad-
vanced position.
From the forces of the enemy within
the enemy's new line, it is inferred that
Beauregard has been reinforced from Lees
army.
No report has been received by the de-
partment concerning the casualties of our
army in IFS operations since crossing the
James river, except the death of Major
Morton mentioned yesterday.
Gen Sherman reports to day the enemy
gave way last night in the midst Of DARK
ness and storm, and at daylight we en-
tered his line from right to left. The
whole army is nov in pursuit as far as
the Chaitahootchie.
Gen. Sherman adds: III start at once
for Marietta"
No military intelligence from any other
quarter has been received to-day.
(Signed,) E. M. STANTON,
Sec'y of War.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-06-21

T Rev. Levi Janvier, of the o. s..
Presbyterian Mission in Northern India,
has been cruelty murdered by one of the
Sikh fanatics Of that country, As an act of
blind revenge. As he was leaving his
tent in the evening, man lying in wait
felied him with a club, striking him three
times on the head and fracturing his skull.
He lived till morning, but was insenaible.
His remains were taken to Lodian for
burial. The communion had been OBJ
served about one hour before, at Mr..
Janvier's own suggestion, = some Chris-
tian friends were about to leave them.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-06-21

E Write your namc with kindness,
love and mercy on the hearts of the peo-
pie you come in contact with, year by
year, and you will llnever be forgotten.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-06-21

CHEROKEE REMEDY. the great Indian Nuretic
cures all dseases Of the urinary organs such neon
Of the Urine OF the Bladder Inaar-
Gravel Gonorrhea ieet and il especially ns
in those csssa Of fluor Ahus hits- females
ali the old nsnsaous medicines have faiiei
NA Ii is prepared in highly concentrated FORM the
dose only being from 10 teaspoonsfu three times
per day.
snd cleansing the blood causing IL flow in ali
original purity and yigo thus removing the ystem
ali pernicious causes which have induced disease.
CHEROKEE INJECTION is intended ally or as
sisant TO the Cherokee Remedy and should be in
conjunction with that medicine in all of elect
noTrhea Fuor Alhus Whites effects are healing
soothing and demuicent removing all scading heat anu
pain instead of the burning and almost uuenurahie pain
that Is experienced with nearly all the cheap quack In
jections
~ By the If the CHEROKEE REMEDY and
CHkRDkEE ISJBCTloN-the medicines a the same
tiineal improper discharges removed and the weak
ened organs are speedily restored to full vgor and
strength.
a. Price, Cherokee Remedy 81 per bottle or three
bottles for s..
~ Price, Cherokee Injection s. per bottle or three
bottles fer s..
Sent by Express any address receipt price
IT, Fer full particulars get pamphlets any
drugstore in the country, write and will mail
free To any address, full treatise.
All such orders must be sent TO c. A. COOK Chicago
our General Agent for the West
Sold in Chicago by FULLER, FINCH 4 FULLER,
Wholesale Druggists aud by all Druggists everywhere
u. A. COOM Chicago, General Agent for the States
Of Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana.
DE-. W, X. MERwIN CO,
SnE PRoPEIEroRs,
No. 80 Liberty street, New York.
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DIED /.

on saturday, June 18th, 1864, IRVINE R. son Of A.
and Kate Lovris; aged two years and ten davs
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-06-21
Close Of tho Pittsburg Fair.

Flttsburg, June I9.
The Sanitary Fair closed last night
with complete success. The nett profits
will exceed $500, 900.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-06-21

R-A widow. occupying large house
IN fashionable part of London, sent for
. wealthy solicitor to make her will, By
which she disposed Of between fifty and
sixty thousand pounds. He proposed
soon after, was accepted, aud found him.
self the happy husband Of pennyless
adventures.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-06-21
MIDNIGHT DISPATCHES

Our line is broken tonight between
Burlington and Fort Madison. K.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-06-21

, r
DON'T, the most convenient, pleasant and
efiicacious gem for the toilet the world
has ever produced.
Sold by Druggists everywhere at rs
cents per bottle.
ASTRONOMICAL MIscoNCEpr1oNs.-
Lord kinnaird's recent gathering of plow-
men, Sheriff Barclay said: "He had heard
a story lately connected with an eclipse.
There was young man lived in village,
where it was known that an eclipse was to
be visible at certain time, and afterward
he was asked if he had seen the eclipse.
He replied, mo, unfortunately, l have
not just about the time it was to take
place, my master sent me message some
two miles into the country and although
| ran all the way as hard as | could, it
was all over before l could get back.
[ Great laughter. There was another
story told of some persons who had visit
ed an observatory on the Calton Hill, in
Edinburgh, where it was stated that the
moon was to be seen in full orb. While
one young man was looking through the
telescope, his friends very waggishly
turned the tube aside, SO that it struck
across to the opposite side of the Forth.
The man continued to look with great be-
wilderment at seeing houses, and people
walking about and he seemed quite de-
lighted at thus receiving occular demon
stratlon that the moon was inhabited.
At last the telescope rested on a sign
board, and he cried out, in immense sur
prise, 'Oh, dear me! sAlloa, ales sold
here = How on earth did they get them
up 2" Roars of laughter.]
nA- Grace Greenwood. in her late leo
ture in Chicago, drew the following pic
iure in the future:
Back on these troublous times will our
children look in reverence and awe. The
sons of our brave soldiers will date their
patents of nobility on grander battle fields
than Agincourt or Bannockburn. Such
patents OF nobility as no royal herald's
office has symbols sufficiently glorious
for. Many coat of arms in those days
will have one sleeve hanging empty.
We may picture to ourselves group
OF noble young lads, some ten years hence,
thus proudly accounting for their orphan
age-au orphanage which the country
should see to it shall not be desolate.
Says ore, "My father fell in beating
back the Invaders at Gettysburg" Says
another, "Nly fatter fell on Lookout
Mountain, fighting above the clouds" -
Says third, MY father suffered martyr
dom in Libby Prison. Says another, "My
father went down in the Cumberland; ;"
yet another, my father was rocked into
the long sleep below the wave, in the iron
cradle Of the Monitor" And there will
be hapless lads who will listen in mourn
full envy, saying, in their secret hearts,
"Alas. We have no part nor lot in such
gloryings-our fathers were rebels ~ And
here and there youth, more unfortunate,
who will steal away from his comrades
and murmur, in bitterness of soul, "Ah,
God help me My father was Copper
head -
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-06-21

moment looking at the strange writing, a.
ve look on the face Of . loved friend.
who vent forth in the morning buoyant
With life and happiness. and is borne back
at night. cold and dead; then with trem.
bling fingers eagerly tore itopen. I.was
very short, and ran thus:
Dear Mother-We are preparing for
another battle, and take few moments
in the midst of preparation to write
write you . little note, for feel that
may never see you again. But be CON-
forted Mother, for if fall it will be in de-
fence Of my country. l had hoped to see
you again; but l fear that it cannot be,
yet l feel your presence near me even
while | write. Good by, darling Mothen
DO not grieve for me when am gone.
Your loving son,
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That was all. excepting few lines from
his Captain. telling how they fought the
battle bravely, and when the day was done,
they found him lying cold and dead on the
oattie held, gentle smile wreathing his
nnely cut lips; and how his comrades took
him up tenderly, and laid him to rest uu-
der the blue skies of Tennessee. So ended
his bright dream of life.-[Exchange.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1864-07-29
The Weather, the Crops and the
Prices.

The great drouth has been broken In the
west and in Virginia by copious rains. Re
ports from Wisconsin and Minnesota repre-
sent the frequent showers of late as doing
the crops power of good. Massachusetts,
and New York got rain Monday. Here We
are dry, as yet. As regards the crop pros
poets and the high prices Of the times, the
Cincinnati Gazett remarks:
1t is doubtful whether merchants, IN these
times of excitement, when prices Of oommo-
dities are advancing almost daily, and when
speculative movements absorb the attention
OF commercial people-it is doubtful, We say,
whether, under these Giro instances, much
attention is given TO the important lntorma-
ton We have been giving from day to day,
for past week, relative 10 the condition and
prospects of the crops. It's gratifying, how
ever, to know that these reports show very
conclusvely that whatever may he the price
of gold, and however wild prices may run for
time, the country is in no danger OF fam
inc.
Three crops-viz hay, oats and wheat
are made and these in the aggregate yield
we'll The average Of wheat may be, in the
yield per acre somewhat below an average
but, notwithstanding the withdrawal of q
! large number OF laborers from the agricultu-
raj districts, there was greater number o.
acres under cultivation than last year. We
arrive at the conclusion, therefore, that in the
West we are certain of good crops of wheat
oats and hay; and taking the three together
the yield is larger than last year"
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1864-07-29
Gen. Butler Hitting After the RebesI,

Our Ben Butler does not retire TO Fortress
Monroe, according to late order of the
war department, but sticks Ike a tick TO The
army at Bermuda Hundred, aad is as busy
and as often heard from as any active COM
mander. Recent letters describe the skill
with which he pumps the truth out of the
rebel prisoners and desarters, and this occu-
patton he has lately diversified with sort of
missionary ki,e-Hying, his o:yn invention.
thus described in all admiriag letter to the
Tribune -
Benjamin Franklin sent klte skyward.
and brought down lightning Benjamin
Franklin Butler sends kites skysard and
drops down among the rebels fl itt,ring hun
dreds of c0pies o: the presidents anrest,
proclamation. The ingenuity OF the device
is great in either Case, but the la,,er-day
Benjamin has more praisewo.thy purpose
20 serve. He achieves a patriotic cad as
successfully as the orig final Beniami did "a
philosophical one. The fist fruits were
reaped to-day, viz: a number Of desprters
who, on examination, declared that they
were induced to come over by 90 lot O.
ham bills that kim down from O. big Kite
that scaoted over whar We war"
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1864-07-29
The New Popular Loan.

WASHINGTON, July -, 1854. Secret
Fessenden, under the authority Of al ar ,
Congress passed In June last, 10 i>,u- e.
amount not exceeding S2OO,0O0O00 Teas,
nole>, &c, has to-day given notice list So
scrlptions VII be received by tie IT,
Of The United States, the several A>>,.---
Treasurers and designated deposit ores 60
finanarciai agents. and by Na,ior4l h4-s-
designated and quAlifed a. depositories a.
tinarcia' agent, Tor Treasury Notes, ,.4y. ..
l.. 4 - airs from August -. 1864. ., s-..
iatereS; al he rate Of S-l0 per Cen. T.
annum. 0Iih senli-snnaal coupons Alta g.
PAYABLE IN lawful mon.y. These noles r.
fa convertible. al the option # the no.
a majority, int 8 Pc cent. gold bt4...
honds, reaeemable after AID par ab. II
Wears, from Aug IL. 1867 Il votes "
d. ISSUED in denominations Of S5a, SIC
$500, $1,000, and 5000, and in blank
payable 10 order, as NAV be directed hy e.
subscribers. All subscriptions nus; ~
$50 or some multiple of $50. irieres. e. e
allowed to Aug -, on ali deposits ---
prior 10 that date and paid or the D.
ment upon receipt Of these origin. ..-.
Gates.
Accompanying this notice is an 2.1a2 IS
Secretary F=ssrnden TO the poop, e
United States urging them 10 at --
means Necessary to support the go,e.1=s-
In this protracted strife.
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News from Richmond.

The Examiner Of the 18th inst is very sar-
castle regarding the Maryland raid, saying
that L" it has returned safe; the enemy has
theirs. Three ties, however. of the railroad
between Baltimore and Washington have
been burnt near Btltsyille, and Of the roll
ing stock, eight cars but the engineer of
the road has made trip over the whole road
between the two cities with locomotive.
and 10 his great surprise and pleasure, found
it quite uninjured. 1t will be asked, with
some interest, what our forces were doing
during the three or four days when the en-
Washington was in their hands, and when
it might have been utterly destroyed. Were
they all too busy foraging for whisky? We
admit the temptation was strong; but could
not party have been at least detailed from
the Old Bourbon brigade 10 destroy the en-
emy's lines of communication
The escape of Gems. Franklin and Tyler
is attributed TO sound sleep produced by
good old Monongahela whisky, as is also the
neglect to burn and destroy, and. in pariicu.
lar, the failure OF the capture of Washing
ton The sarcasm winds up with a lec:ur-
on the misguided humanity Of the rebel SOL
diers, who. the Examiner says. d. not know
now to reiaiiate-are Only great Ola lne De
fensive-and who lack guiding genus; 20
that the Confedeiacy Is destitute q il, but
! because that the military genius i Away
beneath the Upas tree.
! The Examiner says that the rebels lost be
tween FIVE and >ix hundred Killed and wound
ed at Monocracy, (which is about half IN
TRUTH and also that Gen. Evarts was Sc
yerely wounded.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1864-07-29
Copperheads VS.. the 100000.

The copperhsad newspapers are bowling
over the Presidents last call for troops, ans:
claim that We have already put over two MI
lions of men into iht field. To arrive at
this result they aid up all the calls that ..4ye
been made, carefully keeping out of sight the
facts that very many of the three wear, men
were already once counted In tie three
months men, and that Of the present force a
large number, l20 coo at least. are reenlisted
veterans who have been already counted
once,-and some Of them twice, by these
copperhead reckoners. 1t is probable that
actual count. we're it possible, would reduce
the number Of men who have entered the
army to not much over a million.
Now the howl-rs say that 10 furnish half 2
million more men will exhaust the North.
But here too, they carefully keep out of sight
the facts, that to make up this half million
there will 60 very large number who have
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1864-07-29
Gen. Smith Whips Forest Five Times.

CAIRO. Illinois. July 23. The steamer HI
man brings one DAYS later news from Men
phis. A cavalry officer who accompanied
Smiths expedition gives the following par
ticulars
"Our forces consisted Of division each
of cavalry and infantry, with a brigade OF
coiored troops. Smith Was outGan- uIred
by Forest, although he whipped MS forces
FIVE times. The battle on tn 6,h VAS Sc
we're, the enemy being terribly punished by
our cavalry and negro troops. who bore the
, brunt OF the engagement. ln- same night
the rebels assaulted our temporary WORKS
and were repul>ed.
/ On the 10Th inst. another battle occurred.
Forest making three charges on our line. bu,
was driven back each time with great s.augh-
| ter. On the night of the 10Th The las; DAYS
raiians were distributed, and next molnins
the expedition started to return. followed by
/ Butford's cavalry, who retreated. however.
with severe loss, alter going four miles.
/ From the night Of the 18TH to the night
OF the 18th, when supplies were met al Sa-
! lem. the troops were obliged to live off the
country. On the 20ih the expedition reach
ed LaGrange, with loss, all told, of less
/ than 500 men. Not gun or wagon was
lost. Gen. Grierson saws the rebel loss can
not he less than 5000.
! Dispatches captured by Gen. Hatch admit
loss of 300. Among he rebel Killed at
/ Columbus were Faulkner. Now BRAY, Nelson.
Forest, Harrison and Green. Col. wilkins,
9th Minnesota, and Lieut.. Mcmahon. 9th
Illinois, were the only Federal officers known
to be killed. The wounded are being brought
into Memphis.
/ The expedition returned safely. on accoun,
of the exhaustion of supplies. We brought
in 2000 rebel prisoners. The rebel dad
were buried by our troops on several oeea-
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policy and measures of expediency. 7
war is war of great principles. Il M -.s
The supremacy and life of thdgorernm.-.
sell. IL the rebellion triumphs free %. -
ment, North and South, fails. If -
other hand, the government is sucn-,s.. s
as DO not doubt-its destiny j. fxas
basis permanent and enduring, and irs Is s
of honor and glory just begun. In 80,
contest like this for the existence &c =
government the path of duty is ps,r;,.; -
aud principle Minor consideratior. - -
questions of administrative policy s.
give way TO the higher duty of tirs. .r...-.
ing the govern ment nd then tfer. = p,
time enough TO wrangle over men and -.
nres pertaining 10 It's administratior
This Is not the hour for strife alJ Dir.
among ourselves. Such difference a - -
ion only encourage the enemy, pro,o-,
war, and waste the country. Unily q
and concentration of power should n.
watch-Nord and rallying-cry. T., sr-
plished, the time will rapidly aInras.- n.
their armies in the field, the grea1 r..-..-
the rebellion, Will be broken and cr,l>+ a
our gallant officers and brave soda, Il
ere long they will return to tier au1u,.s ~.
fireSides 20 resume again The ag1ra,.
peace, with the proud eonsciaa>--,, g..
they have aided in the noble WORK ID. -.
tablishing upon q surer and more ;rra......
basis the great temple of America Fr--s W
am, gentlemen, with senlimru,s O.. : ,.
regard,
Yours truly, ANDREW JtRN>.A
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ernments met to consider this question, the
most momentous ever submitted to human
craftsmanship, in temper of becoming mod
GRAFTON and equity, followed, as their deliber-
atlons would have been, by the prayers and
6enedictions Of every patriot and Christian
in the habi'abIp globe, who is there 50 bold
as to pronounc= that the frightful waste OF
individual happiness and public property
which is daily saddsning the universal heart,
might not have been terminated; or if desc
! laton and carnage of war must still be en-
dured through weary years of blood and suf'
fering, that there might not have been intus-
ed into its conduct something then of the
spirit which softens and partially redeems its
| brutaties.
Instead of safe conduct, which We solicit
ed, and which your FIRST letter gave US every
reason to suppose would be extended, for the
purpose of initiating negotiation in which
neither government would compromise its
rights or its dignity, document has been
presented which provokes as much indigna-
ton as surprise. 1t bears no feature Of re-
semblance to that which was originally offer
ed, and is unlike any paper which ever te-
fore emanated from the constitutional execu-
tive of free people, addressed To whom
it may concern" 1t precludes negotiation,
and prescribes in advance the terms and con-
ditions of peace. 1t returns to the original
policy of mo bargaining" d" No negotia-
tions,"" No truces with rebels except - bury
their dead, until every man shall have laid
down his arms, submitted to the government,
and sued for mercy"
What may be the explanation Of this sud-
den and entire change in the views of the
President-of thia rude withdrawal Of q
courteous overture for negotiation, at mo-
ment it was likely to be accepted-of their
emphatic recall of words of peace just utter
ed and fresh blasts Of war to the bitter end
we leave for the speculation Of those who
have the means or inclination to penetrate
: the mysteries of his cabinet or fathom the
> caprices OF his imperial will.
1t is enough for US to say We have no uss
whatever for the paper which has been plac
ed in our hands. We could not transmit t.
the President of the Confederate States with
D out offering him an indignity, dishonorinl
ourselves and receiving tue we'll meritet
scorn of our countrymen.
Whilst an ardent desire for peace prevsde
the Confederate States, we rejoice to belev'
there are few, if any, among them who woult
purchase it at the expense of liberty, homo
e and selfrespeot.
n If it can be secured only by their submis
sion to terms CT conquest, a generation un
e born will witness its restitution. If there b.
i any military autocrat in the North who is en-
+ titled to proffer conditions Of this manifesto
/. there is none in the South authorized to en-
terrain them. Those who control our ar
:, mics are servants of the people, not thei
masters, and they have no more inclination
d than they have right to subvert social insti
tutions Of sovereign states and to barter ava
their priceless heritage of selfgovernment.