The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-01-05
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49, ~ WssAisgson, Sunday, Jas. I,
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n1n1l IS ~ 18th: II
ssrS esntinel hawls ior rsinioroemsete /,
d ~ scllowing stfHiss ssGEant b. dtvid-
"a u n svo great armies into three, oher-
inspH Meads's and Thenas', With cor
sosI 6df6g arrangement We shall hsve tol
49, him. Sherman On the Atlantic
CO. II far less formidable than Sherman |
mtkS interior. By The exchange Of At
lanIkzfor Savannah, he has thrown auay
adt>,ssnce and An advantage that cost
hmtahousands Of men. His new posi-
tioSjS Entails upon a. no further inc0nven-
I'D than the necessity Of making new
dlsi ksition of onr own forces. That u
an md that il no,biog. The great and
th1aDxious duty that IS now upon us 10
to3uitably strengthen our armies. We
eursat Congress, and We warn the people,
NJ to neglect or delay that most impera-
tiya obligation through any self-quieting |
o6nceits of the mint Of our commanders.
Ne must not make our admiration ard
.6on6deuce in our commanders either :
xeason or an excuse for withholding the
sneans demanded By the work assigned to
3hem. II an array eminent military gel-
3us could alone have suficed. It distin.
Ruiehed talent could have supplied the
,place Of men, then Sherman could never
have reached the ceast while Gems. Beau
regard. Bragg, and A. w. Smith, Rich
ard Taylor and Hardee opposed. and even
! such as these and all Of these we're CON-
paratively powerless because comparative
" alone. They lad not the means TO
work with. The pressure OF the war
threatens, as some suppose, to fall on
Gen. Lee. We know not how it may
prove. The enemy may, perhaps, join
their packs to pull him down; if they at
tempt it we must and will stand BY him
To cram him with compliments when he
asks for more would be to give him .
stone in answer to cry for bread. We
must not expect impossiblities Of him, if
We do, the gift Of God to our cause, for
which We cannot be sufficiently thankful,
will prove a snare and may work our ru-
10. Let the work Of strengthening, our
armies be now our great concern rs 1t is
our great business as there is nothing
else to excite our soiicitude. The mill
tary operations, over which the enemy
are at present joyous, amovnt to nothing
Sherman may cackle over a few thousand
bales Of that cotton,- of which we have
millions, and he may exult over the city
for which he has paid another. All this
is as nothing, but the reinforcement of our
armies We may not neglect.
We learn from mp the county that
Col Mosbg received the wound of which
mention has already been made. while al
supper in he house OF Mr. Lake, on the
elsf. He was shot through the window
The Yankee who shot him did not know
him. He robbed his person even to pull
ling off his boots, snpposing him to b.
dead, rrmsrkins as he left him that hs
would do no more harm. The gallau
Colonel has probably reached bis family
ere this, and if his wound is not wore,
than is supposed he will soon be in ths
sdilc again.
By tho Western train Saturday nigh,
=, news comes from Lynchburg, Va, of thu
ed, giving some particulars of the sal
works. They were attacked at 1 o'clocl
on Tuesday. BY the whole force of Brain
bridges command numbered 5000 men
The fight lasted all the evening, mostl,
with artillery, our forces being command
ed by Col. r. T. Preston. and numbering
tits said, not over $50. when night set il
they still held their own. but under cove
Of darkness the Yankees succeeded i
reaching Fort Breckenridge, one Of tn
main defences, placed in an overp0werin
number aud sptured il. Col. Preston
deemiDg it imprscticable to bold tho work
any longer, ordered its evacuation. Ell
and 500 Of his men are known To hav
escaped in safety; it was believed that som
others weuId succeed in making their q
6spe The works we're fred the mex
morning. It is believed, that no seriou
damage hes been done, aud that they vi
be in operation sgain 10 . month. Th
Yankees did not remsin long, and are re-
ported to have left for Tennessee. A
Abingdon, We understand, they destroye
two entire blocks of buildings, includin,
the court house and Jail. the Office Of th
Virginian, and private reside noes, beside
the railroad building.
- Thus talke.h theB Bloomfield Guar
concerning the completion Of the railroa
to Pelis:
The Des MONIES Valley Railroad is com
pleted from Keokuk to Pella, distanc
.of lO6 miles, from which point il VII
soon penetrate to cur gay and prosperou
little iaisnd capitol.
This il truly . wonderful improvemen
since our advent into Iowa in l85l.-th
year d the 6ood. Then Fl. Dss Nome
MS nee Bit Of . village aud Pell
scarcely il existence, and the farmer
alorg ths iins Of that Railroad never ex
pected 70 see or hear Of any means Of q. =