The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-07-21

~ to whom We shall com mend to public a
voF. We may sometimes do injustice therein,
but shAM seek 10 avoid II We're tAoss friends
Of ours and substantial citizens whose names
appear q Directors and corporaton of the
Company to take > personal interest in it. We
have no doubt ofthe success of the enterprise.
And a TO the measure As looking to the es-
tablishment Of a sugar refinery here, We have
already commended il. We think our city
needs one. But IS to making the GATE the
instrument of exalting this humbug thing
calling itself J. K. RIcKEr, ST., we respectful
y but very firmly decline.
This sapient J. K. shows off his immense
learning aud ill.humor Is well BY guessing
that we didn't puff his enterprise because We
1fcould not see the mighty dollar so clearly ~
In praising some patent nostrum a. genuine
African minstrels / 4" Pardon US, J. e.,
your sagacity and profundity as q tDr." may
nave led you to confound quack medicines
with burnt cork performers, but to us there is
some difference between them; albeit not
nearly so much as there is between gentle.
nan and this immense gassy inanity calling
itself j. X. RIcKEY, Sr.
A VIcrlx-Here is a wonderful record oil
wonderful career. Dixon of the Registe,
shall become reporter and chronicle for
Clagett, the story Of his grievances. Hear
him
According to his own testimony, gwen in
speech to the Kangaroo. Miscegenation Con.
| senton, Judge Clagett was shot at during the
war by Black Republicans, just four thousand
seven hundred and twenty times! His old
| head was pierced four hundred times BY min
ME balls. Three hundred perforstions were
| discovered in the tail of his coat. Twenty
seven cannon ball orifces were made in his
hat. Twice his neck tie was shot off bya hal
er which took its place. The entire Hospi-
al for soldiers at Keokuk was driven through
is lungs at one discharge, and the wings o
he edi6ce projected below his arms
printing office, of which he was the propri
etor was hurled down his throat by torpe
do, and itinerated for three months in ths
populous portions Of his viscera! The sol
! diers who unjustly called him copperhead
compelled him to eat lead for breakfast, leac
for dinner, lead for supper, and lead for al
intermediate refreshments, 1t went so fa
that mineral hunter from Dubuque prospec
ted him one morning, struck lead, and devel
,ped thousand cart loads of mineral wealth
| 1t is awful to reflect on the amount of suffer
ug, and gun shot wounds, and pistol injuries
aud terrible cannoRadings, and mineral diet
ngs, and cuttings and slashings, and fata
stabbings, inflicted on Judge Clsgett through
our years OF war by sick Abolition soldiers il
J, Federal Hospitals The contemplation O
vis subject makes us shudder. 1t is estima
I'd by careful surgeon who never make,
mistakes in his estimates, that the old gentle
man, from first to last, was slightly wounded
| Two hundred and twentv-one times, fatally
wounded, eighty four times; and killed
instantly, thirty seven times and half
Perhaps the history of the world is not able t.
show an instance in which any man has sur
| siyed SO many fatal calamities as .udg,
| Claeett. But instead of sinking under loat
Of incendiary missiles, and finding perpetua
resting place beneath the clods of the valley
he Judge still lives, breathing through four
zen hundred bullet holes in his chest. ant
wearing with the vehemence of man wht
never designs to be dead long enough to b.
udged for the deeds done in the body. II,
| will probably live a thousand years, and ther
&c converted into lead mine for the bellig
.rent uses OF posterty down to the end of tn,
! sorld.a