The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-05-08
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HAllFAx, May I.
The steamer Asia, from Liverpool 70
New York, twenty four days out, arrived her,
yesterday for coal. She has two hundred an,
fourteen passengers. Allwell.
Jsnes.
Brigadier General George Wallace Jones
who once figured somewhat extensively q
Washington ~ . Representative in the Unitet
States Senate from Iowa, bearing the repnta-
tion of possessing less brains, and playing th.
fool generally on larger scale than any othel
individual in that branch d Congress, ha,
appeared in public again in letter. Ths
pretended occasion for ii was the publicatiof
of an article in the Washington Chronicle O
recent date, charging that = the time Of the
execution Of Mrs. Sdrratt and associates fol
completely in the assassination OF President
Lincoln, Jones anim4dverted very severed,
on President johnson, charging the latter
with the murder" Of Mrs. Surratt, &c.
Jones denies that he ever did anything of the
sort, because, he says, he had always admired
Johnson as the truest type Of Jeffersonian
Democrat-one every way equal to the mo
BILE patriot. ex-President Pierce!'' After
vindicsting his reputation in this respect Jones
proceeds to say:
" Forney and his co workers in defamation,
berate me for having had 1.-TWO sons in the
| rebel army" when he and all are well aware
that l was at Bogota, South America-fve
thousand miles from home-when the civil
war here and there, too, began, and when, be-
cause Of the great distance, and the non-in-
tercourse of mails between the two countries,
| neither knew OF the war here, or what nv
sons had done or we're doing, that could not
# had desired or tried, have prevented either
from following the dictates Of his own mind,
both having been educated st the Western
Military Institute at Nashville, Tenn, and
being devoted to tho people Of the South,
amongst whom the most of their blood rela-
tons resided My sons were both Of mature
| age-were well educated-formed their own
opinions, and acted accordingly without
fear or the hope of pecunaary or other re-
ward, as privates, rendered their services to
the side in which they put their faith, and
breasted the storm Of battle for that side,
what the heroic Colonel dare not do for his,
whilst there was an opportunity for putting
money into his expansive purse whether BY
fair or foul means.
The distance between Bogota and the Uni
ted States. and the . non intercourse ofmaiis
between the two countries" were not SO great
as to prevent Jones from writing couple of
letters brim full of treason, one to JEFF. Da-
Wis, dated in May, 1861, and one TO J. T..
Morse, dated in August, 1861. In the letter
to Davis he addressed the rebel chief as "My
Noble and Very Dear Friend,r and assured
him that if civil war should come, :. you NAV.
| think, count me and mine and hosts Of
other friends standing shoulder to shoulder in
the ranks with you and onr other Southern
friends and relations whose rights, like my
own, have been disregarded by the Abolition
ists.' As climax 10 his letter he said !:
The dissolution of the Union will probably
be the cause Of my own ruin as well as that
OF my country. and may cause me and mine 10
go South. Nearly three months afterward
he wrote to Morse II expect nv successor,
Allen A. Benton, of Kentucky, every day,
and will leave the next day after his arrival,
being exceedingly anxious 10 return to my
family-my sons have left them to go down
to fight for the maintenance Of the Consti-
tuition, the laws. aud the righss Of the people
cf the South. IS intend to do ii required 10
fight at all. So it will be seen that while the
hoary- headed old traitor was ct Boeota, living
upon the generous bounty of the United
States Government, he was not only in secret
correspondence with the rebel President, and
preparing to join the rebel forces, but that he
himself announced in his letter to Morse that
his sons had gone ID. fight for tie rights Of the
people Of the South 1t is not surprising that
man who could be SO easily traitor. should
be inevitably liar, but when the proof was
so near at hand to convict him Of lying, ont
of his own mouth, what personal end could
he hopetoaccompIsh? ?-Des Noines Register.
FATAL ATTACK By DEER on HusrEa.-
Allow me to record an sceiden, which. as far
as can learn. is unparalleled. was beat.
ing in the Cochin jungles. ut Christmas, the
beaiers being Mulsers, men whose lives are
spent in those vast forests. An axis or spot
ted deer buck attempted to break back
Il rough the beaters, but did not at frst sue
ceed, being frightened by the internal din of
om-toms and rattles He then deliberately
charged one of the beaters, who had a spear
in his hand, and ran his brow antler through
the side of the neck and into the BRAIN at
once killing the man. Men who have been
shooting in India half their lives say they
never heard of such a case. A wounded
deer will charge, but this animal had not
Leen fred at.-SNooTH- BORE Madras, Feb.
1885, in London Field.
CHANGE OF TuxE.-The Lansing Journal, q
Copperhead paper in Alamakee county, sup
ported the so-called Soldiers ticket last
fall. Having made all the capital it could
out of that dodge, it faces about. and in a re-
cent number turns on the soldiers in this
style:
'rTis lamentable fact that not one thou.
sandth part of all our vast armies North, en-
listed purely from patriotic motives. Some
went for money, some for large bounties,
some to get Offices, some to get applause at
home, and all with vague ambition to be-
come renowned. And too, alas that we
should say it. thousands upon thousands to
steal. These are facts, and no amount of fine
writing and frothy indignation can change
them. We do not know that the Southern
soldiers we're any freer Of snch incentives,
but they probably were, as theirs partook Of
q war Of self defence
On the occasion of terrible shipwreck,
when all the efforts of the captain and crew
seemed unavailing to avert the coming fate,
we recollect an old lady going up to the skip
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