Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1864-07-21
make still more powerful demonstra-
ton than they have. The patriotism
of the West needs no such stimulous.
Correspondence OF the Charles City Intellisencsr
Letter from winfield

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Correspondents Of the Charles City Intelligencsr.
Letter from winfield"
j vIcKsBuRa, Miss, July s, 1884. !.
DEAR HnDRErH AFTER a terrible
laundering of cannon, ringing of bells
and a general waste Of guDpowder,
the Fourth has passed, and as, af-
ter q storm, there is momertary
calm. as though people were COM
pletely exhausted, their appetite for
noise and tumult, their love of bun
combe speeches and mineral water,
fully satiated, and like a man who
has partaken of a tip-top" dinner,
the whole nation desires a nap.
Fourth of July ! that day when lit
tie boys can make all the noise they
wish, with tin pans, rattlcs, miniature
batteries, shot guns and whistles (;
the day hailed with delight by young
ladies' for that evening they can go
to dance in a " love of white dress !"
can go through cotillions, quadrilles,
polkas and waltzes, or the highland
fling; all over the room to the tune
Of Roy's Wife," BY the way. did
you ever see a girl, that could dance,
who didn't like to waltz? l admit
that cannot dance l never tried |;
I don't admire it. Two places new
err visit-camp-meetings and dances.
Perhaps some of your lady readers
may think / am boorish sort of a
person, not to like dancing and enjoy.
ment. Well, don't like enjoyment !?
al rather guess" But still am not
much on waltzing. g....
like Fourth of July. 1t calls be-
fore the mind the days when those old
patriots raised the right hand to Heav.
en- and swore to defend the Declare.
ton with their "Lives, their fortunes
and their sacred honor" On the
Fourth, what American heart will not
beat faster, and his soul thrill with re-
newed patriotism, as the air Of " Yam
kee Doodle is sounded on every in
strument known? Good old Cyan
kee Doodle" played years and years
ago in the camps of the colonists. 1t
greeted the ears of the British at Bun
ker Hill it rung in their ears at Sa-
ratoga and sounded over the beleagu-
cred walls of Yorktown. 1t told of
victory, when Perry "met the enc
my OH Lake Erie !; it arose triumph
antly from the vessel Of the gallant
Decatur when he brought down the
British flag to the decks of the "Ma-
cedonian."
In our own days, I heard that good
old Yankee Doodle at Shiloh, amid
the thunder of cannon, tho discharge
of musketry, the shrieks of the woun-
ded and the dying What soldier,
who was there. will ever forget how
sweetly it sounded as it came across
the waters of the Tennessee and told
the glad tidings of "Buell, aud rein.
forcements ~? / heard it when Hatch.
lie was fought and won at Champion
Hills and, one year ago, when Vicks-
burg was ours and the great Father
of Waters freed from its letters, and
rolled rejoicing to the blue waters of
the Gulf! Glorious Yankee Doodle
dear to every Americanheart soon to
be heard all orer what was once, and
shall be again. the United States 1t
matters but little that there is no mu-
sic about thy strains, no harmony.
Although where you was created,
Miss Lefty Locket lost her pocket"
yet You will always remain, /" First in
War, first in Peace and, FIRST in the
hearts Of" Americans.
There was not much of a celebra-
tion in this city, as most of the troops
with Gen. Slocum have gone after the
Johnny Rebs" There was nation.
al salute, and the laying of the corner
stone of a monument to Lieutenant
General Grant. The monument is to
be erected upon the spot where Grant
and Pcmberton had the interview
which resulted in the capitulation of
the rebels. Gf# so
An expedition will soon undertake
to regain possession of Jackson. when
the railroad will be re-opened. One
of the colorcd soldiers was shot here
last week cause, love.
"Oh love has been a villain.
Since the days of Troy and Helen"
The soldier saw another man going
with his sweetheart. and she was
fondly smiling upon her dusky wooer.
This fired with fury his jealous heart,
and he quickly brought his trusty En-
field and sent his rivals soul to the =
Land of Bliss" For this he was
court martialed and shot. He took
his fate stoically as an Indian. He
seated himself firmly upon his coffin
and received volley from twelve mus
kets without finching. His body was
given his friends for burial.
The "Von' Phul" came in this morn
ing and brought in late papers and
the intelligence that no gucrillas were
prowling around the river.
WINFIELD