The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-03-31

Tns sSllcvisS, named persons have bssn
appointed Committees Of Vigilance for their
respective Wards, in sccordance with rsso-
luton passed at the Union Republican meet
ing, ON the evening Of the leth inst;
Fsra Word-Gsa. D. B. Hills, q. Rap-
lee, J. W. Rodefer, DR.. ]. Hams, A. hAsnsy'
W. T. Adair, John Mccoy, Geo. 4. smith,
B. b. Gilmore, and J. b. Barker.
Second Fo,d--Cspt. Thomas Berry Sonn
Fof, c. z. wallsworth, W. q. Foreman :.
G. Wilson, WIN. wappich. Frank Asppsi'
and John W. Douglas-
Third Wavd-W. B. Collins, Dr. A. "sas'
man. ]. T. Griffey, 81. W. Rothert, Capt
Geo. Hagpey, Geo. Montague, Lieut.
Chas. W. Taylor, A. Highsn, Ed. :. BROW
nell and Capt. James Lynch.
llFcurtA Wa-d-R. P. Creel, Chas Schuii&'
Harry Fulton, C. P. Birge, John @. Water
man, Ed. c. Booth, VIM. Blom, Capt ). ..
sample. Peter Sauer and VIM. Wooliey.
| THx RAprps COMMISSION. teiegrsphic
despatch was received yesterday BY Col.
| Perry from Gen. Wilson, snnounsine meet
ine of the Commission OF the Rapids Inn
provemens at Keokuk, on the 18th OF April.
| The Com mission, a. we learn from the seie.
gram, consists of Generals Warren, Wilson,
and Roberts, and Colonsls McComb and
| Crsine.
We shall then have to wait but fortnight
or so, ill we learn officially what 10 the pro-
eramme Of Improvement, and what progress
is likely to be made this season.
The following sad story is from the Bur
lipgtou: Harkeye, of yesterday:
"A very sad case occurred on the wharf,
Yesterday, that would have drawn sympathy
| from Q penitentiary convict. A woman came
M the river, from keokuk, on the steamer
| Muscatine. She had three children, boy
sbou, four years old, little girl about seven,
and an elder about fifteen. They we're very
fine looking children, and the mother has at
one time been very handsome. The mother
vas drunk, saa the girls were sitting on .
salt barrel crying. The elder girl told her
| mother that she was disgrace, and that she
was ashamed OF her. and taking her iitte
CRYING sister by the hand, was trying to in
duce her little brother 10 leave she mother
who was abusing them 90 much; but the
mother held on to the boy. The proud girl
had too much feeling to remain With drunk
en- and abandoned mother. The mother was
arrested and taken away. and temporary pro
vision made for the AcLilifep, We hope that
good care will be taken OF them, 40 that they
will no, drift into the terrible current OF
crime"
L. 1F
voters of Keokuk to morrow make renova-
ton of the Recorders Court, for in Heavens
name it certainly needs cleaning out,"
from the throne to the humbless polio man
A SET Of erestures-not men-who make q
practice Of standing on the street corners,
leaning against lamp posts, ticking senseaess
twaddle, squirting tobacco juice 10 sssry
direction, and whose particular forte, above
their other contemplate habits, is to stare
ladies out Of countenance as they pass. and
make indecent remarks in tones loud enough,
and intended, too. to be heard by them, are
getting to be very much of a nuisance in this
locality. They wear the semblance Of men,
il is true, but they are but puppies in dis
guise, nothing more. For the benefit of the
scamps se publish the following, which We
find going the ropnds Of our exchanges:
WHO WAS IT.
He was standing on the corner,
In the place where losters meet,
And he watched the dresy dsmsels
As they vaded DER the street,
FROM bis mouth came inuendoes,
And his eyes were opened wide,
| As ON tiptoe they came dancing
| Der the muddy, sloppy tide,
| When u lady and her daughter,
| Stepping carefully along,
! Closely yelled from street ins poctiop,
| Heard his Shiny, 'venomed tongue,
Then the little wells were lifted.
And With shame bis head be hung,
For his mother and his sister
| Thus had struck the speaker dumb.
THERE was large and enthusiastic meet
| ing at the Court House last evening which
| was addressed in an eloquent, pointed and
telling manner, by Capt. Hugh W. Sample,
Hon. Geo. b. McCrary, and Generals Bruce
and Hills. The speeches were receivediwrh
frequent applause, after which the meeting
adjourned with three rousing cheers for the
candidates presented by the Republican
Union Party, to be voted for Tomorrow, and
who will be elected by good round majorities.
WHEN the war was raging in this country,
and the rattle and roar Of battle was heard
from the Potomac to the Rio Grande, the
soldier Of the nation was regarded with rev
erence, and every exertion was made by the
truly loyal to show those men how
greatly their devotion 10 country was APP
precisted. Aud on the march, in the bivouac,
on picket, and amid the roar and din Of the
conflict, the consolation of duty we'll per
formed, and Affecting that their self sacrificing
devotion was appreciated. and would ever
be remembered 81 home, filled thsm With ar,
dour 70 do and dare and accomplish acts tia,
have made the American soldier famous
throughout the world. Tomorrow, people
of keokuk, two Of these wAr-vorn patriots
will stand before you for your suffrages Both
Of them, Capt. Wilson and private Hesse,
shared in tie trials, vicssitudes, and victories
OF Iovas historical Third Cavalry. That regi
ment did much 10 increase the fame ofthe Iowa
soldiery, anu these men point TO the record OF
that regiment as the record OF their services
during those uncertain sndsterrible years of
bloodshed. The candidates opposing these
are well known here as "pesce men who
denounced the war as u failure, and drill
ed in the ranks of the Vallandigham pa
triots of those days. Voters Of Keokuk, the
war, thank God, is over, but you cannot blot
out the record. The patriots and the peace
sneaks must ever remain in memory and IN
history, as two separate and distinct classes.
These two are represented on the tickets be-
fore you and we do not believe-we cannot
believe-that the soldiers will be defeated
and triumph hsrslded for the sneaks."
That would certainly be the unkindest cut
of ALL" A three years service in the loyal
army OF this country should be the best rec
ommendstion that a man could offer when de.
siring the votes Of his fellow citizens, aud we
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