The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-09-24
THE GATE CITY.
SATURDAY, SEPT. "a.
About Matters Down In Dixie.
vIcKsBURa, MISSISSIPPI,
Sept. 6, 1864. - 4

Sept. " lcVf. ~
EDITORS GATE Cry: / left New q
leans, after three weeks sojourn in th
Crescent City, the evening of the Sd inst
on the good steamer Saratoga, bound 70
White river, Ark. Captain Aldrich i
under orders to report al that point to es
tablish depot of commissary supplies
Some - thousand troops are en- rout
thither from below and elsewhere-f
what exact purpose deponent knowetl
not, and wouldn't tell if no did,. unless
perhaps, the guerrillas should "gobble'
him, then he might "divulge" in the wa,
of negotiating an exchange.
Nothing notable sranspired on our tri,
up this far, although We expected to b
fred into at several points along, but luck
lily escaped unframed. 1t is a very CHI
vALRous practice that, Of firing into I'M.
armed boats thronged, in many instances
with innocent women and children. Still
you never heard reptile of the genus
Copperhead object, did you?-no, nor you
never will any more, Would they seri-
ously object to such horrid massacres AZ
that perpetrated at Fort Pillow? But
don't they howl when traitor like Val.
lsndigham gets . 1.-THE of his Just desertsl
1t is "unconetitooshunal." But the das.
tardly Williams have no words of condem.
nation when cowardly murder is perpe-
trated, if it only be on the persons of On.
ion men. But this is depression.
At Natchez, where we stopped couple
OF hours, an amusing incident occurred
which had its sequel here. A c.lored
gentleman, accompanied by a sprightly-
looking mulstlo woman, came aboard at
Natchez the woman decently clad, and
quite sharp, intelligent look. The man
was past the middle age in life, and wore
o wooden leg, having lost-as he subse.
quently stated-one Of his pedal extremi-
ties at the battle of Palo Alto in 1850
He carried a huge pair of "saddlc- bags"
and large sa,cheI Of "yarbs," a. he
termed them, all denoting the profession
al NJ. D. which he professed to be.
This man of medicine also had recruit.
ing papers with authority to recruit col
ored soldiers, keeps grocery and ice cream
saloon in Memphis, and was in general
way happy and prosperous. but now sick
and extremely unhappy. 1t appears that
the DR.. had realized something handsome
for him, from the practice of medicine
aud "yarbs" among his own people and
this woman, who by the way Was not his
wife. but mere harger-on with an eve
to the main chances, had followed him
around and by the practice of those bland
ishmeuts peculiar to the weaker sex, had
succeeded in worming FL his money out
of him-some six hundred dollars as he
alleges TIE DR.. wanted to stay in Natchez
until such time rs he should recover. but
the woman having ali the money, wished
to cut adrft from him and go up the river,
and the DR.. in the vain hope of realizing
something from this evidently bad invest
ment had to come along to this point and
some way. En- route hither,the DR. succeed.
ed in possessing himself Of small black
satchel which he supposed contained the
coveted greenbacks, and no sooner had
the boat landed here, the plank hardly
ont, before the DR.. might be seen stump.
ing it ashore, closely followed by the w.
man whose whole attitude was belligereat.
evidently feeling cbagrined to think she
had been outraged. On reaching the
shore she executed flank movement on the
doctor and seized the satchel, the doctor
however planted his leg (the wooden one
firmly on terra firing and succe ssfully re-.
sisted the shock Of battle, and thinking
the enemy might get reinforcements, he
thought best to retire, which he did ia
good order, when the enemy, having re-
ceived reinforcement of two or three SOL
diers, again impetuously charged, him OF
the wooden leg. resisting stoutly and
while in the act Of clubbing his leg in
lieu of gun the enemy rushed in and
ssizsd his treasure. The enemy hurried
into hack and started up town, aud the
last seen of the doctor, he was on q dray
in hot pursuit Ever and anon his wood.
en- leg coming down upon the poor mule
back with a vim that bespoke muscular
power if not success in capturing the
fckle fair one.
We received the news last night from q
boat bound down, that the Democratic
pow WOW at Chicago, had nominated
Little Mac, the grave digger Of the Chick
ahominy for President, and Geo. H. Pen
dleton of Ohio, for Vice President. The
former 10 represent the war Democrats
SO called, and the latter the peace at any
price sneaks, which constitutes by far tht
much larger portion Of the party Fo
my part / am glad that Mcclellan is no
minated, aside from the great issues in
volved-the pending struggle will show
the world how the loyal people of thi,
land estimate the two men. 1t is the i,
lustrious trio, Mcclellan, Fitz John Ror
ter and Buell on the one side, backed BY
every rebel In the South ESQ far as mora
influence goes J and every traitor and trea
son-sympathiser at the North. and Abra
ham Lincoln, Grant and Sherman on TIL
other, hacked by the boys in blue an
every loyal man, woman and child at tn
North, and the secret prayers of thous
ands at the South, the audible utteranc
of whose prayers for our success woul
envolve them in misery, untold persecu
ton and death.
This is the character of the struggl