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Year: 1863

To-day is the second day of our Coun-
ty Fair, which is held at West Point
We hope that our citizens will not allow
this exhibition to pass by without attend
ing it. Tomorrow will be the most in.
teresting day of the exhibition, as the
trotting matches and ladies equestrian
performance will come off on that day.
There will be carriages and wagons at
Fort Madison on the arrival of the morn
ing train, to convey passengers to and
from the Fair Grounds


The Illinois State Fair will be held
at Decatur this fall, commencing on Mon
day, the 2Sth inst The Mississippi and
Wabash Railroad will carry passengers to
and from Decatur at half the usual fare.
All stock and articles for exhibition will
be taken over the road free of charge
Tickets good until the Sd of October.
Year: 1863

EDITOR GATE CRY:


A citizen and taxpayer who, with
many other law-abiding citizens who feel
an interest in.an honest and competent
adjudication of their legal and equitable
rights, would respectfully inquire why it
is, and by whose authority or management
is it that the Jurors empanelled or called
upon to set as Jurors for..,,he past two
years have been and are, at the present
term of our Court the same set of men,
with scarce an exception, majority of
whom have been notorious as hangers on
around the court house, offeriug their ser
vices, direct or indirect, as professional
jurors, and who have no other qualif ca
ton than their prejudices for or against
The litigants, or some political influence
IN favor of the officers to whom they may
be indebted for their job. Is there no
check or remedy for this nuisance or i'm
position with his worthy Judge2 If so,
will he not apply the remedy, and thus
prevent it, JUSTICE.
Year: 1863

MARKET.-Fte appearance of our
market each morning indicates faithful
devotion, on the part Of our people, to
culinary comforts. Like all Americans,
they like good living, and are going to
have it, and they can generally get any
thing they want at our market.
Year: 1863

beoS the fort, co drive the rebs trcops
oat OF their ntrcnchments AZ halfpast three, tho al
mira having LETT the tug. returned 10 his dagshp and
brought her in front of the fort for the purpose Of land
sns PARTON of his men, but in the channel the
vessel world not steer He then passed beyond the fort
Go the other side Of the river and took on board the
Thirteenth kentucky regiment with which he intended
Z" assault the fort coming down but the channel WAS st
found too for large ship and the wheel ropes
go Jamncd and parted lie ran the vessel into the bank
beside the fort and opened e again. AT the same time the
airing all the gunboals quick and heavy, and II
about this tiuio that the white flag hoisted
the "a ac when tho firing ceased and the fort
Ia.-..
Year: 1863

i.


We publish elsewhere correspondence between
Governor Brown and the Secretary Of War in
which the latter has yielded the point that militia
officers, in actual commission not subject conscrp-
ton under tine late art Of Congress- The Exemption act
strained In order TO give IL the Interpretation but we
suppose the government tired Of It's with Gov
Brown and resolved 10 do almost anything rather than
give cause In pursuit Of rghtu object for COLI.
sion with the state.
Year: 1863

nate neghbors and commence indsorninate plunder
destroying whatever proved TO be 20 them useless or Nm
movable Five unsuccessful attempts were mads 20 ire
the Worsham house Southern hotel, tho propfelos o
which were accused of being and boarding .secesh"


such 10 truthful picture OF my irst night under the
boasted @gis OF the Star Spangled Banner.


subugaed city, The careless observer mghtregN i a.
such few hours familiar intercourse with the pecpe
will alter that impression You learn that tba
city Is garris0ned In various localities That an over
bearing sodiery at whose head boodthIrsy tyrans
stand ready at the signal carry death and desoation
to the house OF the Southerner You earu that go
vernment patronage and government business az tnas


lends activity and seeming cheerfuncss TO the city, snd
you may learn that but yesterday an assessment d i've
hundred thousand dollars made Southern State"
rights mon for the support Of the tyranny which opreses
them You may learn, too that every able bodied man
the enrolled State militia and drilled with tho UNDER
standing that they 70 keep the Southern army from
the city and the State. You will learn that these men


dress parsdeo review they arc not permitted have
thsr arms. Tho majority OF thom are Southern men,
having friends and relations ID tho Conlcdsrate army,
and was not considered prudent 70 plAco them upon
footing but the federal intention s TO place them a.
thessand enrolled for the defence of the State
for political influence North and Sot and to heap every
possible humiliation and contumely upon them 1t Is the
Same throughout tho State cf Missouri an enlarged
scale The wholeS is garrs0ned and tho most aboct
tyranny prcvai To be caught with arms TO be shot
TO DO found absont from dwelling is 70 be cast into
The whole State is completely eectualy overrun but
not subugated garrison II thirty thousand hrenes Is
insufficient 70 suppress the innate Of freedom ana
liberty which every nissoraAn feels ASA IS VITA tns
noble State 50 II will b. with each and every one that
overrun by the vandas. lndiscrimnate imprisonment,
no respect for private rights, no mercy for woman Or
child whose husband or father Is accused Of being rebel
and traitor" No charity for the aged. 90 pity cor the
innocent young. Shch Is The picture, presented Tor
tho contemplation or those who foolish enough " OK
pect or hopofof mercy from mcrclloss fos &
Year: 1863

It has right to summon to Its defense those
who owe 1t allegiance and look to It for pro.
toction. .r.


Such Is tho broad and solid basis Of the act
providing for the Enrolment and Organiza.
ton OF the National Militia, with view to
calling into service such levies rs may from
time to time be requircd.-THtuns.
Year: 1863

A HEADLEss HoRsENAN WAVES HIS SWORD. Officers relate that on the Fredericksburr battlefield they saw an officer on horseback, waving his sword. A she'll came and took his head off smooth, but the headless officer still rode along for some distance, the hand waving his sword. This was Q most remarkable incident. which should be interwoven into the history of the war, and proves the strength of the ruling passion in death.
Year: 1863

4 local minister in England, who was dis
tingushed for disinterested labor and ready
wit, devoted several years CT the last part of
his life to gratuitous labor in new cause, in
populous town about three miles from his
residence, to which place he walked every
Lords day morning, preaching three times
and then walked home. On one Lords day
morning, as he walked along, meditating on
his sermons for the day, he met the parish
priest.


Well, said his reverence, " suppose
you ere on your way to your preaching
again"


Yes, sir" was the modest reply of the
humble minister


alt is high time the Government took up
this subject, and put stop to this kind OF
travelling preaching"


"Thty will have rather hard work, sir,
replied the impcrtuberable minister.


81 am not very sure of that" rejoned the
priest; cat any rate, will see whether l
cannot stop you myself"


81 Judge" said the worthy man, "you
will find it more difficult than you suppose.
Indeed there is bnt one way to stop my
preaching, but there are three ways to stop
yours"


"What fellow, do you mean by that ?'
asked his reverence, in a towering passion.


why, sir" replied the little preacher,
with most provoking coolncss, "there is bu'
one way of stopping my preaching, that is
by cutting my tongue out. But there are
three ways to stop yours; for take your book
from you and you can't preach; take you.
gown from you and you dare not preach
and take your pay from you and you 'oon Z
preach"
Year: 1863

A WORD TO CoprERHEADs The ReV.
DR.. Brainerd, Pastor of the "Old Pine
Street Church." III Philadelphia. i'll the
course of his sermon preached there on
Thanksgiving Day, made the following
complimentary allusion to Copperhead-
ism:


"a man too selfish to love even his
native land, too stupid to estimate the
value of civil government, too cowardly
to protect his own city against an enemy,
too mean to sympathise with the brave
men who red stand and bleed for prin-
ciple and for their country's flag, such
man stands alone, too vile to be classed
with the brave rebels of the South; and
unworthy to hold fellowship with true
..eu OF The Moth"
Year: 1863

Climetary.-A most desperate and Hire
Quilted effort to SNOW was made this morning.
The disposition to do 80 was readily accepted
for the performance. In the mean time this
is the bieakest style Of weather we have been
favored with this season. We will except the
nights, which are really mild aud beautiful /;
and they serve to put in stronger and more
unpleasant contrast the unseemly days. The
"winter Of our discomfort is likely to prove
heightened dreariness long drawn out
Year: 1863

Drawer Thieves. We hear nearly every
day of the operations of Drawer Thieves, 10
different parts Of the city, They watch their
chance when the back OF merchant or gro
Gerry keeper is turned they adroitly manage
to rob their money drawers The other day
one of these small-Villains got ten dollars
from the drawer OF Duff & Anderson while
the proprietors we're momentarily absent from
the store room
Year: 1863

Arrrx11oK l-T The members Of the
Union Corps are requested to meet this
evening in the Hall above the Council
Room, on the corner Of Fifth and John
son. 1t 10 dssirAhle that there should be
> full attendases, as there is business Of
Importance TO come before the meeting
All those whose names are attached to
either roll are requested to be present.
Year: 1863

VERY STRANGE, IF TRUE.-As a man
was walking in his garden, he discovered
two clothes-horSes. lie took them into
his table, where he broke them. He
then put the yolk Of an egg upon their
necks, attached them to y cart h..


bonds Of friendi:..L.iiin y 'ne
-" set Of lightning to protect them
from the flies. lie then leaped upon the
cart, set upon the seat of government =,
took the whip of top in one hand and
the rei(g)ns of several kings in the other,
and drove of, passing through the gates
of Buffalo, over the ground coffee for
three miles; but in crossing the track Of
. snail he was run into by train Of
thought and dashed heels. overhead into
y stream Of eloquence. where the cart
was broken against the rock of cradle.
By industry and frugality he soon gained
the shore, where he made boat Of the
bark of prairie wolf, which he fitted
with mast from the north pole and two
auction sales. He then sailed down to its
mouth, and landed on a tongue of land.
where he was seized by serious sensa
tion and conveyed to o cell, where he was
secured by chain Of lightning fastened
by a thunderbolt. The jailer gave hin
his liberty for Christmas present, anC
read him the report Of cannon.
Year: 1863

We find III the Northern Statesman, publish
ed at Fairbault, Minnesota, a letter from the
Hon. II. NJ. Rice, addressed to some citizens
of that place. defining what his position is and
what that OF all Democrats ought to be on the
war question. We make the following ex-
tract.


The thonght of acting with any other than
the Democratic party never entered my head
The whole ohj OF the rebellion is to destroy
the principle of Democracy. The party
which stands by the Government is true Dem.
ocracy. Every soldier in the army is true
Democrat. Every man who lifts his head "a
bove party trammeis is a Democrat, and every
man who permits old issues to stand in the
way OF vigorous prosecution OF the war, can
not in my opinion, have any claims on the
party. If the city was on fire would you call
on any particuIar party to extnguish the
flames or would you stop to examine its
character for fear that you might violate
some Of its provisions by taking water from
your neighbors' wellI


Should disaster befall our country in the
struggle for life, trne Democrats cannot be
blamed. Those who have the power and do
not use II to the fullest extent, and those VINO
are wasting their time and distracting the
people by the Idle discussions, will occupy no
enviabe position hereafter, Union or no Union.


81 am for regaining and retaining every
foot of soil we possessed, without any
Whatever
Year: 1863

writ of habeas corpus. The only fnconve-
nience resulting to him from suspension of
the writ is the delay which may occur before
he is granted hearing, but that delay cannot
extend beyond single term of the court and
in practice will doubtless be much less than
term.


The principle operation of the suspension is
to remove the cases ofs enlisted and drafted
men, of spies, of deserters, and of other pris-
oners held for strictly military offences, from
the action of the courts; and to that extent
the law is necessary to prevent the depletion
OF the National armies. The only other effect
of the proclamation is to exclude the State
courts from the cognizance of eases of arrest
by military or executive power. Whatever
criticism may be offered on that ground is
met by the answer that the Supreme Court of
the United States bad already judicially de-
MED the right of the State Courts to investi-
gate such cases.


If the late Courts had respected that decis-
ion, the necessity for this proclamation might
not have arisen, but they have gone on dis
charging soldiers on all conceivable pretexts.
in utter contempt of the highest legal tribu
nal in the country. until the spirit of dIscon-
tent among enlisted and drafted men became
rife, and desertionS so frequent, that the Ster-
nest penalty OF martial law was necessarily in
voked TO arrest them. But for the disposition
which the local courts throughout the States
had shown to defeat the execution of the En-
ro!lm Mt act, the more direct notification Of
it by descrtion could never have been en-
conragcd and stimulated TO its present extent.
1t vas quite time to deny the privilege OF is
suing writs Of haheas corpus 10 disloyal judg.
es, who have possessed that privilege only to
abuse it.
Year: 1863

The Woodward copperheads intend making
peace with the South and offer to assume the
rebel debt-about three Thousand million, if
the shareholders will consent to come oaeK
and govern us Northern mudsllls as hereto
fore. Would il not be good financial policy
if we must pay ito buy it in now when it is
selling in Richmond for six cents Oh the dol
lar Who bids .--.-
Year: 1863

Mrs. Smikes says the reason why children
of this generation are so bad is owing to the
wearing of balmoral boots instead of old fash
toned slippers. Mothers find it too much
trouble to take off their boots to whip children
so they go unpunished; but when she was a
child, the way the slipper used to do its duty
was caution to a whole family.
Year: 1863

certain preacher at Appleton, Wisconsin,
in a sermon, made the following comparison,
in dssecting the miser 1.-The soul of miser
is so shriveled that it would have more room
to play in grain of mustard seed than bull.
frog would in Lake Michigan
Year: 1863

President Juarez, of Mexico, has addressed
note to the GOVERNMENTS of friendly Powers.
IN which he recites the progress of the French
army, and the fraud by which they became in
possession of the Government He affirm,
that only fraction of the country is subject
ed to the French authority, and that the rest
OF it is animated by the national life, and is
determined not only TO maintain it. hnt to re-
store it in the points where it has been inter
rupted by the triumph of might over right
He recalls the historical fact that in the war
Of independence the capital remained subject
20 Spanish authority down to the latest mo-
ment, without that affecting the existence Of
the Republic.


The treason committed in Mexico he regards
as a base crime, but not peculiar to the
Mexican people, as proved by history, and es-
pecially by that of France; and neither here
nor there does the existence OF traitors Justify
the invasion of State and the annihilation of
its sovereignty. The Intervention of the
French involves not only grievous outrage
to Mexico, but is threat to all nations. while,
in reality. it only subjects to humiliation the
few towns kept down by the French army and
is out pure phan esy Tor the immense ma
jofity of the Republic. The note concludes
thus: 'The undersigned is persuaded that
these facts and considerations will cause your
Government to approve the protest which the
Mexican Government hereby make against
any regulation, treaty, or convention, in which
the so-called regency or the imaginary Empe-
ror of Mexico may have part and the Gov
ernment of the undersigned also hopes that
yonr Government will not recognize the said
Mexico. since it is not so truly either in law
or in fact
Year: 1863

The NEGRO INRoME-It would appear
from the following paragraph, which we
Ind IN the Cincinnati Catholic Telegraph OF
December 2, that the .preiudices which
some of our Catholic fellow-citizens so often
display against the negro, is not derived
from Rome-the headquarters of Catholicity
to the teachings of which they are suppos-
ed to render such implicit obedience:


y young American Democrat went re-
Gently to Rome to study for the Priesthood
IN the Propaganda. He began his first let
ter from the Eternal City as follows: ''The
first thing which forcibly attracted my at
tention here, was the discovery that the
Pretect of the class in which am placed is
a ntgger. What a dreadful thing A
young American not only compelled to asso-
ciate with negro, but to acknowledge him
at the head of his class. What is to become
of the church ?''


Those who have visited Rome at any time
during the past five years, have often met
from the colleges, white and black,
walking the streets arm and arm together
Year: 1863

The Memphis Journal says that the print
ers OF that city commenced at II clock on
Monday the l4th to organize military COM
pany, and before two in the afternoon, they
had swelled their list of enlisted men to
something over hundred This is what We
call quick work, and don { think it was ever
beat in any section of the country The
company was mustered in by Gen. Veatch,
and we expect to see the printers in this, as
they are in everything else. the foremost in
the ranks So mote it be-
Year: 1863

RECRUITING IN ARKANSAS A Little
Rock ARK. letter says: Recruiting here
goes briskly on. One cannot but be aston
ished at the great number who have mana
ged to escape the rigid conscription of the
rebels There are, even already, from eight
to ten thousand Arkansians in the Federal
service, and still they come There are
eight regular Arkansas regiments, either
formed OF In process of formation, besides
the several thousand who have ioiped other
regiments from other States. To-day two
entire companies came In for the Sd cavalry,
and some three hundred for ID infantry,
Col Fishbach.
Year: 1863

In a letter of Washington to his friend


Lund, IN June l716, occurs the following


passage, In which he most graphically de-


scrlhes the peculiarities of Northern and


Southern men as soldiers. and gives pref
erenee for the qualities OF the Northern
men, the justice of which the present cam


paign is likely to verify


We have lately had general review,
and have much pleasure In informing you


1hat-we made better appearance, and went
through our exercises more like soldiers than
l had expected. The Southern States are
rash and blamable in the Judgment they
form OF their brethren Of the four New En-
gland States l do assure, with all my par
tIallty Tor my own countrymen, and prejudi-
ces against them, | can but consider them as
the Hover OF the American army. They are
strong, vigorous and healthy people, Injured
to labor and toll, which our people seldom
are; and though our hot and eager spirit
may suit better In sudden and desperate
enterprise, yet, in the way in which wars are
now carried on, you must look for perna-
nent advantages on " from that patient and
perseverlng temper which is the result of
labor. The New Englanders are cool. con-
slderate and sensible while we are all fire
and fury, Like their climate, they main
tam an equal temperature, whereas We can
not SHINE but we burn. They have an uni
formity and stability of character, TO which
the people OF no other States have any pre-
hence they must and will always
preserve their influence in this great empire.
Were 1t not for the drawbacks and disad
rantages which the influence of their popu-
ar opinions on the subject of government
nave on their army. they soon might, and
probably will. give law to it. y
Year: 1863

A new pass through the Andes has been
discovered to the southwark of the city of
Mendoza, in the same latitude with Buenos
Ayres 1t is practicable for a wheeled We
hicle, and viii facilitate the traffic between
the Atlantic and Pacific
Year: 1863

IT is asserted that in Mayence, where the
annual consumption of wine is three hundred
and sixty bottles per adult, ''gout delirium
tremens and liver complaints are quite un-
known. We are not told what kind of
wine it is that is drunk In Mayence
Year: 1863

A Model Subscriber. Esquire Barnett,
of Liberty, called in our Office, this morning,
and paid in advance for the Weekly ENnRE
The renewal of a visit be has made for the
same purpose annually for the past thrsy-
seven years There's model Of faithful
ness and promPtness which We commend for
universal adoption, We have to ackRowl-
edge in this connection The material enlarge
men, Of our Subscription List within the last
month, indicating determination OF the peo-
pie 10 sustain one Of the Democratic Inaisu.
tons Of the North West
Year: 1863

Farewell |! = Give the Star Dramatic
Troupe Bumper tonight, the occasion Of
their Farewell Benefit Let them have a
Testimonial which will make them think kind.
ly of Dayton! Crowd the Hall