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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-07-17

The Rochester Express is responsible for
the following rather tough story:
In connection with the recent awful catas-
trophe at sea, in the burning of the ship
William Nelson of Newfoundland Banks on
the first Of July, circumstance occurred in
this city which is worthy of mention The
ship sailed from Antwerp on the 4th of June,
and it SO happened that q gentleman of this
city was expecting his wife's father and moth
er to start about the same time. Last Satur-
day, the day or the disaster, his wife had re-
markable dream about FIVE o'clock in the
morning. in which she distinctly saw her
mother lying very pale and white with all the
appearance of death When she awoke she
was very much troubled, and told her husband
she knew her mother was dead. A few days
after, another person. sister we believe,
called at the house and began crying, saying
that she had very bad dream on the first Of
July, in which she saw her mother dead, and
she was assured that it was really so. Of
course. mutual explanations took place, and
the extraordinary fact of identity of the
dreams and their coincidence as to the time
was shown. Since the report Of the burning
of the ship on the same day with the dreams,
the coincidence became more remarkable. Vi
course il is not known that the father and
mother of these parties were on the ship,
though they were expected TO start about the
same time. Even if not on the vessel. it is
possible that the mother may have died as
seen. though in some less terrible manner.
The families suffer from the apprehension Of
the disaster. almost as much as if il was yeri-
fed, as we very much fear il viii be. The
case Is one involving much speculation for
the curious in such matters.
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DIR. Chaplin ON Negro suffrage

Rev. DIR. Chaplin spoke as follows in his 4th
Of July oration at Albany:
II has been ours TO reassert our fathers
declaration that governments derive their Just
powers from the consent of the governed.
We have the prenises-shal we accept the
conclusions that government shall have no
power except by consent Of the governed
that there shall be no taxation without repre-
sentation? In the assertion of this principle
our fathers threw the tea into Boston harbor.
How far shall We 20 in asserting it Shall
there be no taxation of property, and yet a
taxation of labor, and bones, and sinews, and
thought and speech, and the dearest human
rights? Shall there be a taxation of any class
of men, while the men themselves are unrep-
resented? Shall they give their blood in the
hot battle, and their sweat in the field. and
We. feel that they have no vital function IN
the organism Of the nation p Shall We allow
them the bullet but not the ballot? Fellow
citizens. the principle that gives its distlnc-
tive character To the Declaration i the prin-
ciple of universal suffrage. II asserts the
radical principle Of democracy. The condi-
! tion Of universal suffrage should be universal
| education. Applause. The criterion of a
| mans vote should be that he knows why he
votes. and this will be enforced exactly IN
| proportion as be knows what il Is that votes.
| Ii is not corn that votes. nor cotton, nor
| greenbacks. nor white skin. black
skin. II Is the intelligent will that votes, or
should vote. Let the qualification be set forth
! and known as a condition. and it will become
universal. Yoa can lift men into intelligence,
the safeguard of democracy. but you cannot
educate them to be red. black or white.
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De.otees Of the Constitution.

1t is instructive to recall, in connection
with the current denunciations of the amend
ment as subversive of the Constitution, the
position and attitude of the uuequivoeal reb-
els of this State early in the struggle. That
position was, of course, a supereminently
constitutional one. These reckless anarch-
lists were vehement, clamorous, irrepressible
in their devotion to the Constitution. Their
watch-word and battle-cry was, '.the Consti-
tuition is in-danger.' With it they rallied in
fatuated men to mass meetings. With their
tin pan clatter they succeeded in confusing
the public mind, until really loyal men were
willing to accept, as the highest expression
of loyalty that then to them seemed safe and
feasible, the preposterous doctrine of ''neu-
trality.n Subsequent events showed the hol-
lowness and rank hypocrisy of this rebel pro-
fession. Ii was mortal enmitY to the Consti-
tuition that prompted all that pretentious and
ranting display of devotion to it. A few
clear-eyed men saw this plainly enough from
the outset.
But majority Of the bewildered masses
did not. Thousands of earnest hearted loyal
lists were filled with sincere and lively alarm
at the despotic efforts making by the General
Government to ''eoerce sovereign States. y
All such now rest with equal satisfaction and
approval in the conviction that sovereign
States in revolt are to be coereed back TO
their duty with all possible despatch and Wig
or, and at whatever cost of coerciye effort
And they see. too. that that bagaboo of de-
signing traitors which bewildered them was a
piece Of INSCRIPTIONS and abominable charla-
ianry. Now the set of men who undertook
10 wrench Kentucky from her anchorage and
carry her over to tie bedlam and chaos of Sc
cession in 1861. and all in the name of an
outraged Constitution, are busy in 1860, vo-
ciferating against the anti constitutional, rev
olGtionary, destructive measures included in
he Constitutional amendment. Highway
men preaching against capital punishment on
the ground OF the sacredness of human hte:
tigers advocating an exclusive vegetable diet,
would make as selfeonsisfent a spectacle.
Let every Union man observe that the self
same rebels who for four years worked, and
prayed and cursed. aud agonized to secure
the destruction of the country, are now to a
man afflicted with grlevons apprehension lest
the conservative and law abiding citizens of
the Commonwealth ''subvert' the constitu-
.ion Of the Republic by adopting the pending
amendment
Precisely the same hypocritical blhb that
*aylaid supplemented people in u with the
absurd alarin Of coercion, is reiterated
now with change of form only, BY the same
inpeniyent, gnfegenerate enemies Of the Re
pabie and OF the Commonwealth. People
ssho are again entrapped By such mounte
hanks Will be simple headed. .-Louisrate
f,yeSs
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-07-17

New York, July Is.

NEW 1oRk, July 10.
The steamer Fulton brings Savannah and
Charleston dates to the 11th inst.
The Savannah Herald contains an address
by ex-Governor Brown, to the people Of
Georgia. in which he urges them not only TO
support the Government Of the United States,
but the administration Of the present chief
magistrate. He appeals to them to take the
amnesty oath, and observe it in good faith.
He argues that slavery is now dead forever
as to his slaves, he will at once emaneipate
them and treat them as free, giving them a
part of the crop, or wages for theirlabors. To
those who cannot support the constitution of
the government he. suggests emigration from
the country.
The Herald saws the eth q. s. infantry are
TO garrison Charleston.
The 4th of July was celebrated, in Augusta,
Georgia, by eolored procession with ban
ners, on which was inscribed, "Death of Dis
union and Slavery aud Freedom and
Equality.
In the afternoon the troops paraded and in
the evening fireworks were displayed.
The railroads are being completed in the
interior and Communication again re.estab
hshed
Large numbers of negroes are dying in and
about Macon, destitute Of medical attendance
and the necessaries of hfe.
Capt. Clarke, of the I'd Michigan was shot
TO death by disorderly soldiers OF the 4th reg
nlars. near Macon, on the lst inst.
The Charleston Courier complains of riots
and breaches of the peace. saying the people
cannot walk the streets at night without fear
of being robbed or being killed. This condi-
ton of affairs appeared TO have arisen from
the distinction of color maintained there. Ne
groes attack white citizens and white citizens
attack negroes. The white and eolored sol
diers also attack each other.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-07-17

ADVANTAGES OF YEARs.-You are getting
into years. Yes, but the years are getting in
to you the ripe, rich years, the lusty, lusci-
Gus years. One by one the crudities of youth
are falling off from you, the vanity, the ego
tism. the isolation, the bewiderment, the M
certainties. Nearer and nearer you are ap-
preaching yourself. You are consolidating
your forces. You are being master of the
situation. Every wrong road into which you
have wandered has brought you, by the know
ledge of that mistake, SO much closer to the
truth. You no longer draw your bow at a
venture, but shoot- straight at mark. Your
possibilities concentrate, and your path is
cleared. Tn the ruins of shattered plans
you find your vantage ground Your broken
hopes, your thwarted purposes, your defeated
aspirations, become a staff of strength with
which you mount to sublime heights. With
sef-possession and selfcommand return the
possession and command of all things. The
titIe-deed of creation, forfeited, is reclaimed.
Earth aud sky put out their largess of love.
All the past crowds down to lay its treasures
at your feet sb8&
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Appointments.

INV okks JulN ID.
Assistant Secretary Seward and wife will
leave for Cape May in the course Of week,
to spend few weeks. at the close of which
Mr.. Seward expects to be able to resume his
official duties.
The following appointments, made by the
President, within the past few days, are of
ficially announced:
John f. Harley, to be Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury, wee Field, resigned: ID. VI.
Flemning, to be Assessor of Internal Reve-
nue. for the Fourth District of Ohio; James
Webster. for the Second District of Georgia !;
James l.. Telfridge, for the Eleventh District
of Pennsylvania; Julius Enmens, for the
Third District of Louisiana l.. j. Barnes,
for the First District of Arkansas Wm. II.
Cresswell Collector Of Customs at Geneseo,
n. T.. Thos. Wilkins, Erie, Pa; Jas. Brady,
Jr., at Fall River, \. y; Truman Harmon,
at Belfast, Me-; Peter W. Markin, at Newark,
n. j.; Robert Il. Smith, to be Tax Commits
sioner of the District of the State of Texas
VIM. Miller, TO be receiver of public monies,
for the distribution of lands subject to sale at
Montgomery, Alabama; John Edwards, to be
agent for the Indians of the Upper Arkansas
Agency; John a. Clarke, of Illinois. to be
Surveyor General of the United States for the
Territory of New Mexico; VIM. B. Franklin,
to be register of the land Office at Chillicothe,
Ohio.
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Died of Too Much Niger.

tor dozen years or more past Democratic
editors and orators have spread themselves
on the niger question. They had nigger on
the brain They had no political feast except
at the expense Of the nigger They had
"Nisgey hot aud nigger cold.
And niggcr in the pot H.lne days old
Niger broiled stewed, fried boiled and
roasted But the diet didn't set well on
their stornachs; It turned against them.
They grew thin. cadayerous, irritable fell
into decline, bat their appetite grew all the
stronger from that it fed on, and still sought
the inevitable dish which has at length cor
rupted the current of the blood and poisoned
the vital springs Of being. and finally the pain
fll announcement; is made at Davenport that
the party is dead.
The dead party leaves a precocious offspring
whose frs, untimely uiterance is ''nigger,
and whose faculties of speech seem CON
densed in that single word, which has proved
SO fatal to lis lamented ,parient, and it is
too probable that the inherited appetite will
be INDUCED to such excess ms to work the
speedy dissolution of the youngling, whose
parent was snGtehed away ore be had time to
name the child, begotten in the last stages of
his own decline.
If the infant progeny could only be kept
from the fatal nourishment till it has acquired
sense enough to reflect on the career of its
progentor and avoid the errors which proved
So fatal, there might be some possible hope
but the indications now are that ere the leaves
shall fall in the autumn this niger rnourished
bautling Will sink into the grave along with its
aged progenitor
The Democratic party is dead at last. We
commenced warning it ten or a dozen year.
ago of the final, inevitable result of its un-
savory and fatal diet We called attention
over and over again to the fact that at each
returning autumn, when il closed out its great
annual feast of Niger, its bulky proportions
exhibited q sensible decline, and so on from
year to year, the more it yelled and howled
abolition. "amalgamatibn, 'miscegena-
ton, and the more it gloated on the niger
the feebler il became, till finally. at the close
OF the war, the old and rickety creature took
to the bed and has just ''petered out.
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WAsHINCrof. duly /

o1t ~
Reports received here show thht there are
occasional seizures and confiscations of goods
smugsled in the United States from the British
provinces. The efficient measures adopted
by the Commissioner of CUSTOMS Judge Sar-
gent, have prevented to considerable extent
such violations of the law.
II has been aseertained on inqhiry that the
legal amount Of $500. 600, 900 T|of National
Bank circulations is nearly reached and there
fore the creation of but comparatively few ad-
ditional institutions under that y tsten1 will be
authorized. The entire nnmbeH will probab-
ly reach ! 500.
Information received from citizens Of the
SO athern States gives assurance that the work
of restoration is progressing much more
smoothly than was anticipated land that the
anfriendly utteranee ofsome of the editors are
not indicative of the pacific spirit of the
people.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-07-17
A Gard from Weichnlan.

Weichman, the principal witness for the
conspiracy case, publishes a card in the .Srfn-
dav Dispatch, IN which he states that the
statement Of Brophy, impeaching his charac-
ter aud testimony, is tissue of falsehoods
from beginning 10 end that the said state
ment was twice submitted to Judge Holt and
once TO President johnson and all the mem.
bers Of the Court. before the execution. with.
d .lt any effect; that il was only AT Brophy'
osrr reqnest that he was even not called tc
the staed to testify to " Wcichman's good char
acter. The card also details some conversa
;ions of Mrs. Surratt which did not appear
before the Court. showing her knowledge o.
the conspiracy. He says Brophy is an alier
unnaturalized. and has never taken the oath
of allegiance to the Government he attempt:
to assail in the person Of its chief witness.
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The Free Labor System.

-stN uHht
The HeraTs Washington special says sew
eral reports have been received BIT the Freed
mems Bureau from Alabama atid Louisiana.
In Louisiana the planters are entering into
labor contracts with negroes in good faith,
and bat little persecution Is complained Of By
the negroes. At Selma. however, an Assis-
tant Commissioner found it NECESSARY, in CON
sequence of absurd stories having been pre-
mulgated. to call meeting OF planters. which
was largely attended and a system adopted
for the regulation Of the future relations be
tween the negroes and the planters. In Lou-
siana the system is working we'll
4 Texas letter to the Herald states that a
treaty has been entered into by Col. Mathews
Of the United States Army and Gen. Waite
Of the Cherokees, by which all tribes former
Il allied with the rebels will return to their
homes and keep at peace with the Cuited
States
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Hari-kari of the Democracy
Resurrected as the POssum
Party.


The Democracy of Iowa has sunk SO low
in public estimation, in consequence of then
opposition to the war and their hostility to
the Government, that it could no longer bear
ND under the infamy which rested upon 1t,
and. japanese fashion, has committed 'sHari-
kari upon itself, casting aside at once its
copperhead and butternut badges, ignoring its
war failure platform, repudiating alike its
name, its principles, and it's history. The
Copperhead State Central Committee, with
LAUREL SUMMERS. as bitter a secesh sympathi-
zer as can be found in the State, at their
head, consigns the party TO the . tomb of the
capulets. and calls nanieless State Con
vention TO nominate State candidates Alas
for the old party Its Copperhead leaders
killed ii. and are now seeking 10 bury it out
OF seht, and to consign it, and their rnisdeeds,
to oblivion.
But, after all, it may be that having been
thoroughly pummeIed by The Union party,
prudence suggests to the leaders the policy OF
initiating an animal which they resemble in
some respects. and playing ''possam, by
pretending to be dead till the danger is over.
1t all eyents,a as it is entirely impracticable
to run a party without q name, we suggest
that the call for " State Convention be 50
amended rs to read, The Possum State
Convention, and if no military man will CON
sent 70 accept the nomination, le; US hint-we
know he is too modest to permit any Of his
personal friends to do it-that Dan MILLER
would be just the man to hebd the ticket-the
right man in the right place
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cANAnA ANn AMERICA

tGIIitoi9 aS ioAioAss
CANADA AND AMERICA.
The country has entered upon new life
Il has been born again. We have grown
rapidly heretofore, but we viii grow more
rapidly hereafter. We will expand upon eY-
cry side. We have vast mineral wealth which
will ie developed We have a vast extent
Of fertile land which will be cultivated, and
yet we shall acquire more. Let MS be pa
tient our country is large enough for the
next ten years, and, IN the course of that
time, we shall make acquisitions sihat will
last Here is Canada coming 10 Us. Only
six months AGO the current of public feeling
there was bitter and hostile TO us. They were
saving great many ugly things about us. and
great many ugly things were being done to
rs there They were harborfng a great many
precious rascais. plotting assassnations and
raids, and cultvatIng schemes against this
country. But now. since this rebellion has
been put down, the current of public feeling
has undergone wunderfu change, and de-
sire for annexation is rising up all over Cana
la. In few montlis--in two or three years.
At most--Canada will be knocking at the
door of the Union and asking for admission
have no doubt whatever in regard to it,
The current has set in strongly within the last
| six weeks, and Is mounting higher and higher
every day.
A distinguished Canadian was in Indanap-
oils the other day, and talking on this sub
;ect, said ''the tide would become irresistible,
| and why should we resist it?'' Said he :
| England cares nothing for us; We are of no
benefit to the crown; she can not tax US for
| the benefit OF her people, only for defense in
imesof war. Great Britain will oder no OBJ
lection Why should Canada remain as she
! is? Her interest is net with England but
with the United States. She found that out
few months ago, when we established the
passport system, after the St Adams raid,
| and when we gave notice of our intention to
terminate the Reciprocity Treaty. Then the
people of Canada discovered tha. their inter
ests were identified with this country, and not
with Great Britain. We may expect, with
reasonable certainty, that Canada will ask for
admission to this Union before many months
| at least, before many years. There. too, i
| Mexico. We are destined TO absorb Mexico.
/ confess | do not look forward TO il with any
great pleasure myself. five had the country
without the population it would he well
enough, but don like the feast to which We
are invited, and 20 which we will sit down
yet. Mexico has been spoken of as the sick
man. Some years ago the Emperor of Rus
sia spoke of Turkey as the sick man. Mexi-
co is the sick man now. Louis Napoleon
has been prescribing for it. He has ad-
ministered an imperial dose, however, which
will NOT lie upon its stomach and it threatens
to reject il with such force as to send the
Austrian pill clear across the Atlantic.
| Laughter.
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Mem ADVERTISEMENTS

CHERRIES SALE.-State of Iowa Lee
~ county, Shy virtue Of special execution 10 me
directed issued by the Clerk OF the District Court Of said
county in favor of J. C. Metker. and against the
keokuK and Des Mones Valley Plankroad Company and
in of Archhoid Young Co., Hopkins Allen Co.
and En,mers n Corchrane Co their judgments on
their bils have levied upon and will sell TO the
highest bidder the front door of the Clerks Office Of
the District Court Of Lee county, Iowa. at keokuk in
said county the Eth day Of Angrst A. D. 1865, be-
tween the hours of o'clock \. NJ and O'Clock p NJ.
commencing at o'clock P. " of said day, the following
property to-wt Thirteen rs miles of the ruad of the
Keukuk and Des Moines Valley Piankroad Company,
mmencng the west terminus of the city of kec-
knk and extending along said road IN the direction Of
the town Charleston to the distance OF thirteen Isl
miles all in Lee coueey Iowa, together with the prvi-
lege right aud appurtensne for said thirteen rs miles
for the pa yment of said judgments.
To sold by order Of court TO satisfy said writ OF
acufion ISRAEL ANDERSON,
Hrot.r,s Vee 81 90 Sheriff of Lee Co.. lows
Kaskuk, July IT, 1865 ImonI
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S.-= CtlBo, Jniy l6.
Major Put nam. of Gen. Candy staff. ar
rived with tiasrs surrendered by Dick Taylor,
en- route for Washington.
Stringent orders have been issued by com
manders Of cavalry marching through Texas
to prevent the soldiers from struggling and
plnndering. None are allowed 10 enter pri-
waite houses. and all negroes leaving the field
to follow the army are driven back. The
Central Texas Railway is a work of great i'm
portance to our troops. and Is beng pushed
rapidly forward to completion.
No rain has fallen in portions OF Eastern
Mississippi since May, and crops will be yer,
short, particularly corn and stPck cotton.
The stock of cotton in New Orleans on ths
9th was $4,000 bales. Buyers were holding
off for lower rates. 400 babes cotton, 30t
hhds and 200 boxes sugar arrived here during
the past twenty-four hours.
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A GREAT Man Is AFFLIcTrox.-Ihe litera-
ry pubic-in fact, the entire reading world
will be panied to learn that Sir Edward Bull
wer Lytton, the illustrious novelist, poet and
statesman, has become utterly deaf, and been
forced to abandon the society even of his
most intimate friends. He has gone to Paris.
to live unseen under the professional care OF
the worlds most eminent aurist, residing
there. There is something inexpressiblv sad
in such an announcement. 1t adds another
impressive chapter to the "calamities of au-
thors." He who for thirty years has charmed
the world by his beautiful creations, is sh III
out, in his old age, from all the joys of social
intercourse, denied the loving converse OF
friends, and compelled to spend his days in
solitudel The brilliant, dashing, handsome
author of "Pelham the pet of society, the
beauideal of the romantic and imaginative ol
both sexes, become decrepid sexagenarIan,
deaf as a snubbing-post, withdrawing himself
from the converse OF men and seeking refuge
from the prying eyes of the curious and the
pitying in Continental infrmary!-Al Albda,
Ercning Journal.