The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-08-19

When Japanese mandarin displeasel
thIyeon he is4nost gtsEipNl permitted
70 take ! long, sharp dagger, which is made
for the purposes Of self.immolation,) retro "a
his own residence, and thus and there disem>
bowel himself. When q russian officer
offends his Imperial master he il well
knouted and then sent to Siberia. 80
4 --In this country. when military man
comes to grief. as Harri Karn and Siberia
are both out Of the question, he is sent to the
arid plains of the far West to look after the
Digger Indians, the polygsnons 'Aormopa,
and the cruel Blackfeet and Camanches.
This direction poor Mcdowell took after his
army fed like hook Of dsmoralized sheep
from he plains OF Manassas, and the boastfnl
| Pope followed him after the Confederstes
took every particle of conceit out of his vain
and insoleat carcass. = gsa
| For reasons which are no doubt satis-
factory to the President the people of Virgin
! ia have been relieved of General A. Fl.
Terry, and he, too, follows Mcdowell and
| Pope to the regions q perpetual Indians,
! buffaloes, prairie dogs and rattlesnakes
| Torn suddenly and rudey from the mansios
| which was so long honored as the residence
of President Dssis, he Ia bania bed 10 . eeun-
| try where there are no "disloyal Vlrginians,"
| no "loyal Hunnicutts." no Freedmen's Blu.
| reaus, no SAte hwsto nudity, no municipal
elections TO set aside, no editors to bnlly, no
Mayors and Alderman to snub, no oppressed
| negroes to befrieud, and, alas no ''Recon>
struction Committees" into whose sympathet-
ic ears he can pour the tale of our stubborn
and, incarab}e disloyadty.y7 ~ z~-~fT
General Terry has been ordered to re-
port to Lieutenant General Sherman, who il
to assign, il is said, this distinguished negro
phohst and adversary fthe Presidents poli>
cy of reconstruction 10 duty at some point re-
mote, as Mrs. Malaprop elegantly remarked,
from the nou.squirts of CIVILIZATION Wheth-
er he is to protect the line of telegraph wire
across the plains. or the emigrants over the
great overland roIte, or TO hunt Digger In.
dams, has not transpred. No man, We imag-
inc, ever succeeded in making himself more
universally and intensely unpopular than did
this officer during his fourteen months So
journ in our midst. He came among us her
Ealded with flourish of trumpets from the
Radical Journals, and he well merited their
commentator. b..
He was, we believe, at the commencement
I'of the war an attorney with subdued prac-
tice in some little Connecticut town. His
opinions, views and prejudices were doubtless
as narrow and contracted as the place in
which he lived, and they stuck to him when
sudden promotion and high command placed
him among u.s. A person OF his political O.
.pnions and prejudces should never have been
placed in command in any of the slave States
and he should have long since been removed
by the President. His ignorance of our PEG
pie, and unconceaed want of confidence
and dislike of them, made him
I'VE fea-, invariably the dape Of few de
moralized and INSCRIPTIONS Southern Radi
Gals who delighted in defamns their associa-
ciates and neighbors- fF -
We believe that one Of bis last official acts
was to forward TO Washington those famous
''fortY-five reports from the Agents of the
Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia, which, from
the specimen extracts that We have seen from
them, must have been full of gross ISLANDERS
and malignant interpretations.
q We trust that in his reports to Washington
about the bufaloes and the Digger Indians
that he will be able to give better account
Of their loyalty than he did Of that of the
people of Virginia. Richmond Times.