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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-09-28
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Now it certainly is within the truth to as
sumo that onefourth of the free inhabitants OF
these States, including the Free Blacks, were
loyal IN part to their country from the begin
ming to the end of our late struggle; while the
slaves were So with scarcely an individual
exception. This would make the steadfastlv
four Cnionists to three OF the co mol 62z
rebels
Now we object to the scheme of reconstruc-
ton which the Copperheads and the uncon-
verted rebels are crowding upon the public as
President Johnson's s, that il puts this large
majority of Unionisls completely in the power
OF the rebels, whose actual minority il con.
verts into virtual majority by nullifying the
black tnionlsts politically, and thus reducing
the white ones to impotence. Nearly or quite
every Southern State has a majority Of thor
ough nionists; yet almost if not quite every
one, If 1t were back in the Union on the basis
proposed, would support Gen. Robert i. Lee
Tor next President IN preference to any other
man living.
Why not trust the South - we are asked
We answer We do trust her: but ron do
not. You deprive her sincere. hearty. nm.
conditional Unionists Of any voice in puhlic
affairs, and insist that the Disunion minority
alone shall speak and vote in her name. This
Is not falr, not Just: and we cannot assent TO
1t. 1t puts us out of court on technically.
when we know that our case is good on the
merits, and entities us to verdict.
Only let all the Southern people vote. and
we are for reconstruction at the earliest mo-
ment. FIX it so that each one may vote who
can read, or read and write, or pays a tax.
and we are content.
We ask only equality--that the Southern
unionists shall be placed on an even footing
with the late Rebels-not under their feet
Were ever till now, the victors in a great
contest asked to submit to Acknowledgement.
and resign all power to their defeated foes
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-09-28

MILKING CowS.-All farmers know ,bare
is considerable difference in COWS w;,b res,,on,
to the ease and CELEBRITY with which thew can
be MIXED. From some the milk is extracted
easily, while from others it is obtained. ne i
were, grudgingly and with much labor The
lrst requisite IN the operation of milking. Is
10 place yourself on q friendly footing with
the anmal from which the milk is N hn
obtained. \ hasty, passionate. or gross nor.
son VIII Always make poor mixer. II re-
CURES patence and kindness to break n cou,
IN and good usage thereafter to mako ha,.
render her milk freely. If the animal i Wild
and skittlsh, the common practice i 10 I'D.
munster heavy dose Of milking. stool. Will
performing several circuits around the mill.
ing-yard. This treatment NAV, after n wb;Ie
oring the COW TO a standstiIl. but II win he
one OF tear and tremblng-the worst noss;hla
sought. VI 'ne huld
The opposite of this course is tho tr,o ono
Approach the animal kindly, and with 10Th
ing words allay her fears Place yonr M,
upon her lightly, moving it un and dow, ,'',s.l
her peck and shoulders. Rub vour VI,
hghuy.about the ears and neck Sbo ,r;,i
perhai shiver little at first, eve von 80 ~
cious Tor time, and then taking a lone hsoail
yield herself to your management w;tSon ,e"'n'
lur,her apprehension of evil. An animal =
an excited state of fear and bodily agitat;on
cannot render her store of milk readily. banna
tne necessity OF a good understanding betwes
the mixer and the MIXED. n
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-09-28

HOY. G. DEWITT SMITH, acting Gorerno,
OF Idaho, died suddenly of heart disease. ON
Saturday, the 18th of August. This leaves
Idaho without either Governor or Secretsry
for the time being.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-09-28

IHE Herald correspondent. wr;,;na e.o,
Diy lorIugas, says DR.. Mudd is eneaoa aj0; u
p1ls9n as hospital nurse. Arnold i cIsrt :; -
.ne rrsTost Marshars Office, and Snana,a =.
an O'Laughlin are working at their trade
carpentering in the engineer department..
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-09-28

ca raaaI rs great emiemtion going .,u from
says Tho be ,als country. A Monte al paper
thousands" The emip,pson e. S py tens OF
Also on the increase Tho faot thu. , Europe IS
sat country, really the Land Of ~ sa e Is me
cognized = pe'hg generally re-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-09-28

METHODIST HYMN BOOKS-All
WI sizes and qualities, for sale by
feb3 n W.WBSTCOTf.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-09-08
Lee Comfy Fair.

The Fourteenth Annua Fair of the Lee
County Agricultural Society win come off at
West Point on the 2oth instant, and continue
three days.
Now that the war is over, it is to be hoped
that the people of the county will take a more
general and lively interest in our Annual
Agricultural Exhibitions, and improve on the
pas. both in the quality and quantity ex-
hibited. Everybody ought 10 turn out and
attend the Fair ills season, if for no other
purpose than to meet their friends and ac-
ouaiutances. and have grand reunion of the
citizens aud soldiers OF Old Lee. Many OF
cur citizens have heeI absent in the South
for four. years, and they especially should
make it point to attend the Fair to see each
other and the acquaintance from whom they
have been separated so long and those who
have staid at home should be present on the
occasion, and especially the ladies, TO meet
the gallant soldiers who have returned from
the war with hearty greeting.
Let all, therefore, unite in the determine
ton to make their arrangements to attend
the County Fair, and to make the Exhibition
as creaitable as possible to the farmers and
mechanics of the county, and to have good
time generally.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-09-08
Swindiing at Burlington Com
MeMee<l. gN

OsKALoosA, Sept. 6. 1865.
Editors Gate City: / am informed that
swindling on the part of certain hotelkeepers
of Burlington who offended during .ke last
State FAN. has already commenced. A gen
tleman of my acquaintance recently addressed
a note to the proprietors of the leading hotel
there, asking accommodations for himself and
wife during the State Fair. In reply they in
formed him that they would reserve room
for him, but troud charge him for IL from the
24thl As his business will render it impos-
sible for him TO reach Burlington before 10
manifest. This he pressed upol. tneir atsen-
ton, but they would enter into no other ar
rangement. AS they will charge FIVE or six
dollars per day for himself and wife, he will
be swindled out of some twelve or fifteen dol
lars for board and use of room, from Sunday
morning till Tuesday noon, and meantime
not be within one hundred miles of the hotel
Thus seems to have commenced the gougng
and bleeding so justly complained of last
year by the. public, and that too by the very
parties who then inaugurated It. Already it
is having lss effect here. Many who had
made calculations to attend the Fair have
abandoned all thoughts Of 1t, as they are re-
solved to not be so outrageously victimized
IF the people of Burlington will stand quietly
by and see the hotel proprietors bleed the
folks from the country, why, let the foll.s lfum
the country stay away from the Fair altogether,
until it be held at place where there is less
disposition on the part of rapacious landlords
to squeeze the last cent out of visitors.
When the outrageous fraqds'of the hotel in
question came to be known during the last
State Fair, the Burlington people appeared
indignant, aud as there seems to be a promise
that the same thing will be repeated, let us
sec what they will do before making mp our
minds to attend the Fair this year. Unless
there are indications of remedy in some
shape, there viii be very slim delegation
from MAHASIA.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-09-08

Gen. Cox, the Union candidate for Cover
nor of Ohio, made speech at Warren, tn,
other day, stoutly defending his theory o
oolonizing the African race, or setting then
off by themselves in this country, so as t,
allow them the rights of citizenship without
mixing with the white race.
Mr.. Hutchins, late Member of Congress
spoke in favor of giving the ballot to all loya
citizens, without reference TO colon,
Gov. Tod d;sasreed with Nj. Hutchins
aud opposed strongly the plan of Gen. Cox
Gen. Garfield also disagreed with Genera
Cox, and declared that a disagreement on til,
subject Of suffrage would cause no division i
the Union ranks a5aFs
1t did not seem to eeeur to any of thos,
gentlemen, nor to the people who heard them
that their disagreement upon the subjec
made it necessary for any of them to vote ttil
Copperhead ticket, and commence consortinY
with rebels. Illinois Journal.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-09-08

II is strange-isn't it?-4hat Copperheeds
are now SO loving toward the soldiers after
doing all in their power to disfranchise these
soldiers and murder them by protracting the
war. Are the Copperheads such idiots - tc
believe their manifestation of bogus affection
will result in deceiving a single soldier from
the State s--2tate RegiHe. I
1t didn't any up this way. We have talked
with more than q hundred returned soldiers
within the past three weeks, and with ons
single exception, they have spoken in terms
of loathing of the whole CopperAead tribe
some Of them say that they do not exactly
like the ides Of giving universal suffrage te
the blacks, but all Of them say If It shall be
come necessary to do 60 to prevent the Cop;
from regaining power, they will welcome the
nigger with outstretched arms Gregg,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-09-08

The following from the Augusta (Ga.
Chronicle is directed at the Ohio Confederate
| Democratic platform. 1t points to part,
whose treacherous doctrines brought on ths
war, and who are not still satisfied with al
the blood that has been shed, but who nov
come forth from their places of security ant
seek to prolong the anarchy and renew tn.
conflict:
| STILL HARPINC or MY DAUGHTER o.
two of the Copperhead Democratic papers q
Ohio, are abusing the War Democrats a,
| apostates from the Jeffersonian faith. The,
propose to reconstruct the Democratic part,
on the basis of the Virginia and Kentuckyy
| resolutions.
We think this suggestion about as reaction
ary as would be proposition to go back to
Strabh's Geography. or to resume the fig Leaf
garments of the Garden of Eden. II seems
impossible, however, to cure some men of ex.
pioded notions. II would appear that there
was hardly any room for doubt as to the
popular judgments on the merits on this c1.-,.
demaed formula of political faith. me hal.
lot and the bayonet have be.ia decided aea;ns,
1T. The masses ne.,n American peonle have
no r-..i Ior its distractions. and are still
| iiAolt q 'tAsr w lis ppiiLotiOuS-
The late war. with its as yet unrealized
horrors, and its unmeasured and unmeasur.
able calamities, is the fruit of this philoso.
ply. Without its sanction, the Southern
paople would never have attempted seces.
sion.
Better would it have been for the nation il
those resolutions had perished as an untimely
birth.
The revival now forbodes mischief 10 the
country, and if not sternly rebuked will
speedily mar the general harmony that begins
to prevail. Ii ought now to be considered q
fundamental article in the creed Of all parties
that all schemes for the disruption Of the
national unity are reasonable, and that any
theory of our Government that denies to the
Federal authority the constitutional right to
protect itself by military force against such
machination, is false, and deserves to be
spnrned by every honest patriot I'm the land.
The firm establishment, of this principle. and
its universal recognition, will be some com
pensation for the woes and miseri4s that have
befallen this stricken country. Il will at
least save rs from such practical assertion
Of State sovereignty As we have Witnessed in
connection with the bloody struggle just end
ed. But should ternporizing policy be
adopted,
II viii but serve to skim and flm
The uleeroEs place. while corruption
Works within, and mines unseen.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-09-08

BIsHop SIMPSON is in Dn Moines, on his
way to the Northern Iowa Conference. The
Bishop should give that youthful exhorter Of
his denomination, THos. II. BEvros, jr., q
little sound advice against the folly Of Office
seeking under difficulties
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-09-08

Or the forty three Sovereigns in Europe,
great and small, only nine are members Of
the Catholic Church, and some of them are
not very devoted aud obedient to Mother
Church &s is*-s
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-09-08

The Georgia papers speak Of party
springng up in that State favoring general
reputation of all private Indebtedness. Sew
eral candidates for the Convention favor re-
pudiation.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-09-08
8Y TELEGRAPH.
No Report Tonight.

The storm Of to-day was quite general,
causing the lines to work 80 hard that we can
not get report K.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-09-08
"Some one has blundercd ?
Theirs not to reason why
Theirs not to make reply
Theirs but to 20 and die"

and their going is of late too frequently into
the mouth of He'll, Into the Valley of Death. y
The reflections of travellers could well DO
constant editions of "Meditations among the
Tombs."
In the investigation of the late disaster on
the Long Island railroad, some of the inca
pacities and culpable derelictons Of manaa aers
and employees are developed. The acs:nE
Superintendent Of tho road, Mr. wHrrE. tes-
sifies that ''all trains are generally behind
time, and sometimes they are an hour behind
time A delay that on those eastern rosds,
where fresh trains. run almost hourly, is bid
for collision and disastar. Mr.. Woon, er,gi-
neer on the Brooklyn Central, testified that
he was Sin the habit of racing trains with the
Long lslandmen-the race takes place once
or twice day. The brakesman. he is "the
only brakesman on the train and was frequently
unable to stop it for want Of assistance"
Mere we have the seere, Of accidents. Delay,
racing, insufhciency of employees on the
road. Men and women and children are
mangled and killed, and there is an investiga-
ton, and somebody is censnred mayhap, and
the whole affair drops and the public wait for
another whnlese,s murder, Nor have they
long to wait. Every successive day, almost,
brings us such intelligence from some part Of
the country. 1t is indeed becoming serious
question. whether death is to be so persistent
ly and increasingly concomitant of Ameti-
can travel.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-09-08

/, II ia said that Preston King, of the New
York Custom House, hrs thousand Offices
IN his q, md that tAsre sss twenty thousand
onm3R0nDtn 4ssast ~ ~ fa 81
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-09-08

The Government expenditures, which had
before averaged $4,000, 600 day, diminished
during the month Of August to S4s6, 600 q
day.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-09-08

IL the late Des Moines Conference of the
n. f. Church, held at Osceola, there we're
about sixty delegates, and about twenty five
OF the number had served in the CAPACITY
either OF Chaplains, Company officers, or pr
vate soldiers in the United State service. OF
the full number Of delegates in the Conyen-
uon, there was not one in favor of the Cop
perhead nominees for State officers.
The cotton mills at Great Falls, New
Hampshire, are starting up, six ont of the
seven being running now, employing 1000
hands.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-09-08
Q. ssptsnssr lssA, !. . Oel.ek 4. i
oVIcr OF rHr 7. VISA W. R.w. Co., !

QvIcx r wMw Rwco..I
TorTDo o, Aug 1Tfh. 1895. I
NOlICE Is hereby given that the annual
meeting Of the stockholders Of the Teedo Wabash
and Western Railway Company for the purpose OF elect
Ing een DIRECTORS and the az GENERAL p
will be held of the Company in the city
of Toledo Eedne esday the 4th day Of October ne 1t
at 10 O'Clock ~ J. N. DRUMMoSD.
aug2s-Aw secretary
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-09-08

o. 3. GnomAE HospnAIl
K1cHSK, Iows, eep4. 4 1ees.
direction Of the Medical Director Of the
-. spesfmsAt Of Northwest there will b. sold at
uDssc secnon q Tie Estss nouse Hospital connsnc-
q ssptsnbsr l5tA, q . 0elsek - -,
nnd continuing from day to day until disposed Il all
FURNITURE. 1ixtures, Bed stsads, DeAdings
yy-s, Minoow Curtains Dishes, Cooking etovss end
nsaiS, Cooking Ranges and Rarniturs, 4sbls HWns-
~ vnsery, Books, large stock Of the stendnrd
~ A:d.cnes anA Hospital supplies, Racktag Dot
c'sh1p pcal Instruments, Mnsksto Kssting, He1Dftal
No such .. ehirt Daver &c. bsss1s 3saa1 "a
~. .urnuurs Laundry fixtures, Clocks al every
r..ss aneesed With the Medical Dspart1snt q tho
onssa ~ is:a s..ss. e. G.nsr.l Hospital At sAis Poss
.h..k .nis esie the attention Of hotel kespsrs,
cnaraoie Institutions and others who are dssirns o{
providns tnenstre. with extra bedding for cases Of
Iran ~ . nv.ea 70 the valnabls character Of the
iron neaseads and Bedding Private fauslies viii do
Furniture is In good condition VI '"e A@'''
VI. K TAYLOR
seps Surgeon U. q. Vols. In Charge
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-09-08

There is question in the ethics of steam
travel which should be settled. Is murder q
necessary adjunctthereof? The arguments, for
the most part, made BY the lines and roads of
travel, are terribly practical and overwhelm-
ingly in the affirmative American goahead-
ativeness runs express trains into the very
jaws of Death. 1t is pleasant reflection to
the passenger upon the crowded car, starting
before time or behind time, that there is an
encroachment being made on the time of an
other train, and that at any turn in the road
frightful disaster may leap out and Death
hold carnival in the midst Of broken cars and
fractured limbs, and lascerated bodies. and
groans, and flames, and mortal agony. There
is delay, the time has passed for starting,
there is mistake somewhere most cruel it
may prove, but what is it to the passengers
if
1'Some one has blundercd
49,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-02-03

coral extends even to the surface OF the wa
ter, as ii the loftier columns were towers be-
longing to these stately temples that are now
in ruins.
There were countless varieties of diminu-
tive trees, shrubs and plants in every crevice
of the corals where water had deposited the
EARTH They were all Of faint hue, owing
to the pale light they received, although of
eyery shade, and entirely different from plants
that | am familiar with that vegetate upon
dry land. One in particular attracted my at
tention; it resembled sea fan of immense
size, of variegated colors and the most brill
liant hue. The fish which inhabit these "Sil-
yer Banks" found as different in kind as the
scenery was varied. They were of all forms,
colors and sizes-from the symmetrical goby
to the globe-like sunfish; from those OF the
dullest hue to the changeable dolphin; from
the spots of the leopard to the hues Of the
sunbeam; from the harmless minnow to the
voracious shark oa q Is asd .aa3tsG Il
Some had heads like squirrels, others like
cats and logs, one of small size resembled
the bulLterrier. Some darted through the
water like meteors, while others could scarce
ly be seen to move To enumerate and ex-
plain all the various kinds of fish beheld
while diving on these banks would, were
enough OF naturalist SO to do, require more
than my limits would allow, for am convinc-
ed that most of the kinds of fish which in
habit the tropical seas can be found there
The sunfsh, saw6sh, starfsh, white shark,
blue or shovel-nose shark, were often seen.
There were also fish which resembled plants,
and remained as fixed in their position as
shrub; the only power they possessed was to
open and shut when in danger. Some of them
resembled the rose when in full bloom, and
were of all hues.k There were the ribbon fish,
/ from four to five inches to three feet in length;
their eyes are very large, and protrude like
those Of frog. sslfrea ss
Another fish was spotted like the leopard,
from three to ten feet in length. They build
their house like beavers, ia which they spawn,
and the male or female watches the egg until
green turtle, some five feet long, which
should think would weigh from 400 to 500
pounds. ~ -4 s,5g iiFt
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-02-03
The Ocean Bottom. /.

Mr.. Green, the famous diver, tells singular
stories of his adventures, when making search
in the deep waters of the ocean. He gives
sorae new sketches of what he saw at the "Sil-
yer Banls,p near Hayti; Ig
The banks of coral on which my divings
were made, are about forty miles In length,
and from ten to twenty in breadth. On this
bank OF coralis presented to the diver one OF
the most beautiful and sublime scenes the eye
ever beheld. The water varies from ten 70
one hundred feet in depth, and so clear lnat
the diver can see from two to three hundred
feet when submerged, with but little obstruc-
tiens to the sight. NA MHkfe NM8
The bottom of the ocean in many places, Is
"a smooth as marble floor; in others it is
studded with coral columns, from ten to one
hundred feet in height, and from one to eighty
feet in diameter. The tops Of those more lot-
ty support myriad Of pyramidal pendants,
each forming myriad more, giving reality to
the imaginary abode of some water nymph.-
In other places the pendants form arch after
arch: and as the diver stands on the bottom
of the ocean, and gazes through in the deep,
winding avenue, he hnds that they fill him
with as sacred an awe as II he were in some
old cathedral, which had long been buried be.
meath old oceans wave. Here and there the