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Year: 1864

WEsr Bully HlLL.-This company, al
though ut work but u short time, have struck
ledge of fine looking rock containing gold
and silver. From present indications, the
claims Of this company promise to vie with
the best in the Pirtsburs district
Year: 1864

Allow me TO introduce 10 you my friend J. W. DOL
bear, who sits your city for the purpose Of teach
ing Penmanship and Photography His reputation
as successful teacher is well and so widely estab
lighed that viii say nothing on that score only
desire TO present him gentleman from whose So
ciety have derived much pleasure and profit, and as
one whom you have the intelligence TO appreciate
anything you may do 70 further bis designs will be
gratefully acknowledged by your friend,


JOHN q. EDGAR
Year: 1864

AT Columbus, o., lately, railroad
train, which had been detached from the
engine on down grade near the depot,
caught up with the locomotive after it
was detached, and forced it into the
round-house, and through two brick
walls, killing two men, both of whom
jumped from the train. One of them
was run over by the whole train, cutting
him in pieces. The engineer remained
on the locomotive, went through the
brick walls, and was not hurt.
Year: 1864

HAVE you seen the new and elegant styles
Of summer hats and caps for sale at Far
rand's! Ne has Just received a full supply,
and you can't do as we'll AS to call and see
them. Store No last second street.
Year: 1864

TO DRESS well, and at the same time be
economical is consideration If Importance
These things can be accomplished by pro-
curing your clothing, young men and old, at
Sam Perry's. opposite the Post Office.
Year: 1864

1t was currently reported last night that
a copy OF tha New York Hsrajd of the '3th
lad been received in the city, which gave
the quotation OF gold at 80 to al3. The
new Secretary of the Treasury commences
his labors with an adverse tide setting
strong against him.
Year: 1864




Tax DJ Care Of Their Itor.--A levy OF one
per cent. on all property, real and personal,
(the same amount as the State tax Of last
year. has been laid by the County Court OF
HenIico, the object Of which Is to raise q
fund To feed the poor of hat county, with
out giving any more bonds. This morning
full OF bench Justices will be convened to
perfect tha details OF an arrangement as to
the best mode of distribution, and at the
same time an agent will be appointed to
purchase supplies. In the event Of any per.
son who has a surplus on hand refusing to
sell, said agent will be empowered, accord
Ing to an act passed by the last Legislature,
to Impress what he wants at prices not ex-
ceeding Government valuation, and can
have them carried to any point iD the coun-
ty designated without Interruption from
any source. The supply store for the whole
county will, we learn, be located at the
urtIiouse, and be under the Immediate
supervision of the magistrates OF tho
county.
Year: 1864

The Artl Committee held meeting last evening an
decided that the work Of collecting subscriptions for h
three splendid Albums in their Department should en-.
In their opinion the matter at present partook OF te
character Of railing. Over $3.50 have already beo
collected. This amount will be returned to the su-
scrbcrs Tho Committee viii decide in day or tp
what institutions shall receive the Albums at the cloe
Of the Fair
Year: 1864

We have positive information that the
attempted abolition grand mass meeting,
at Eastmanyille, on Saturday last, was a
disgraceful failure Not one Of the speak
crs, save one or two Of the lesser lights,
could be induced TO participate in such a
ridiculous and poIpoble hmbug. They
are too old aud experienced in political
kuayery aud modern abolition fanaticism
to be drawn into trap Of that sort. A
very long period Of time will undoubtedly
,ranspire ere another grand abolition gath
ering is announced TO take place at East
manvllc.
Year: 1864

WERE THEY ALL TRAIToRsl-Il is a
favorite habit of the republican speakers
and press to denounce all democrats as
copperheads and traitors. Would they
have us to believe that the thousands of
people assembled here to-day, all shout
ing with one accord for Mcclellan and
Union, are traitors to their country, and
that the sorry looking crowd that attend
ed their attempted demonstration the
other day is all the loyal men in Cass
county. The thing is too palpably alb
surd.-- CdSsoPaiis Democrat.
Year: 1864

From tne IatTlOt OAiOh.


The Democrats of New Hampshire are
grumbling at the result of their State cleo
ton, which they allege was effected by
fraud, corruption, regiments OF Abolition
soldiers sent from the front for the especial
purpose, denying to qualified Democrats
the right to vote and permitting illegal
voting on the Abolition side. We do not
doubt the truth Of this. The election was
unouestionably carried by union of the
purse and sword combined with fraud and
every other dishonest and dishonorable
means necessary. But it is too late to cry
after the milk has been split. The Demo-
crats of the Granite State should make no
fuss about it now that it is over. They
knew as well before the election as they
know now that their opponents would stop
at nothing, however vile, to carry their
point. They were so conscious of this, that
at their State convention they adopted a
resolution unanimously to guard the polls
and have a fair election at the sacrifice of
their lives, If necessary. Why didn't they
make their words good? We have heard of
no life being lost in any effort to prevent
fraud, or secure their own rights, of which
they say they were, in many cases, unjustly
deprived; on the contrary, they seem to
have submitted quietly to great wrongs.
Such being the case, they should, it seems
to us, mOdestly hold their tongues until
Inspired with courage enough to use their
hands. Grandiloquent resolves, without
brave hearts and strong arms to back them,
are mere harmless thunder; and heneeforth.
we think, it will be better for Democrats
everywhere to use fewer words and more
action when rights are assailed or fraud or
violence attempted. | ..T..tg.
Year: 1864

1t has been charged of late in the Cincin-
natl Gazette and other Abolition papers that
GEORGE d. PRENTICE had sold out his in
terest and the use of his name in the Louis
vile Journal, without retaining any edito-
rial control. This is emphatically denied
in the Journal of the 14th inst. The senior
editor (Mr. PRENTIoE) says: '


If the correspondents of Abolition pa
pers can find nobody but us to lie about and
must needs lie about somebody, wesuppose
we shall have to stand it. But we have not
sold our interest In the Journal nor have we
bargained away the use of our name. We
are now, as we have been for many years,
the chief proprietor Of the paper, with q
/, full right to exercise over it the power that
belongs to us as chief proprietor and Senior
Editor. m .s


l Hereis a fine opportunity for the Journal
Of this city and other Abolition papers that
have published the false statement respect
ing Mr.. PRENTICE, to correct it. But the
correction Of a falsehood they do not usu-
ally regard as in their line. a
Year: 1864

Our numerous econnoissances-the new
euphemism for defeats--have disclosed the
alertness and vigor of the rebels In every
part of the ,Confederacy. There is great
danger that the military tide will set in a
different direction this year from what 1t
did last, and the administration Is so appre-
hensive that 1t dares not face the conse-
quences, To shirk the responsibility of
It has invested General Grant with the SUI
preme command, to make him scapegoat
for the sins of the administration.
Year: 1864

kV we uuueIctduu Soiuc ltttlbE wax
excited in Eddyville by the publication Of
foolish jest in the local columns of the


GATE CRY. As resident of Eddyville
has been unjustly charged with furnish
ing the item, We feel constrained in mere
justice to state that the report was furn-
ished to the local OF this paper by Mr..
Buckingham, route agent between here
and Eddyvills. Its publication is attrib-
utable to the thoughtlessness of the local of
the GATE CRY, but as it was corrected
next day the matter should have dropped,
and it would under ordinary circumstan-
ces But there seems to be great many
people concerned in this affair, who never
committed an indiscretion or mistake
themselves, and make no allowance for
those who do. If zeal against
wrong can possibly overstep the boun DIS
of virtue, it may be that the bitterness
INDUCED in this instance is not less rep
rehensible than the thoughtless insertion
of the "item" in the GATE CRY.
Year: 1864

Editor Gate Lay-DEAR SIR: We
noticed an editorial, in one of your late
dailies, from the Council Bluffs Bugle, in
relation TO Gen. Me Cellan being the next
Democratic candidate Tor President, in
reference to which we would, by your per-
mission, make few remarks; for surely
no loyal man can read that article and not
feel sensation of disgust, or rather in
dignation, for the writer virtually declares
that every battle in which the Federals
aud, as a matter of course, every rebel
that was killed died in just cause; for
he says that Mcclellan is not the proper
man for that Office, from the fact that he
has teen engaged in an unconstitutional
and unjust war. Now, we would inquire
how long mus. the soldiers hold still and
be insulted in this manner. 1t is not
enough that they should undergo the toll
and fatigue incident to a soldiers life, and
live on half or quarter rations land fire.
quently none at all, expose their lives
on the field of battle, be confined in some
filthy prison, or lie PROSTATE with some
loathsome disease, and at last return home
only to be told.that they had been prosecu
ting an unjust war and shedding innocent
blood? Does the editor of that sheet sup
pose that there will not be day Of reck
oning this side ofpurgatory If he does
he is certainly deceived, for we claim to
know something of the feelings and SEN
timents of the men now in the field, and
we think that the programme is some
thing like this First, to put down the
rebellion abroad, snd return home and
do up the chores even to pulling down
the strongholds Of Satan; and, we doubt
not but the editor of that Copperhead
ST ieet will be found with wool in his teeth.
Does he not suppose that his, and other
ctiilidl SuCCtcy GiC a SVutSC VI diu auu
comfort to his Southern friends, and have
done more to prolong the war than half
OF the rebels in the Southern States p
They have ever rejoiced over the defeats
of the Federal srmy, but mourned over
the surrender of Vicksburg and the Union
victory at Gettysburg, and opposed every
step taken BY The Administration to put
down the rebellion.


The editor wants an anti-war or peace
Democrat for President, and We would
inform him that we have already been
cursed with one. "That's what's the
matter" now, and would to God that we
may never have another Of the same type.
They are about "played out"


Yes, as we have informed him, there is
day coming when all these things will
be cancelled. You Copperhsads may af-
feet to defend the Constitution and make
display on the Fourth of July, but what
will that amount to? We are told thst
when the saints went up to Jerusalem to
worship Satan also went.


You may organize under the title d


knights of The Golden Circle, bat thai
circle will be transformed into circle o
hemp and its yotaries elevated to the


highest degree, which will embrace th.


first limb in the way.


h A HIGH PRIVATE.


Fifth St. Hospital, Keokuk, Iowa.
Year: 1864

UNION SocIAL.-There was buta small
number in attendance at this entertain
ment last evening, owing to the extreme
cold, which prevented a great many from
attendng-nevertheless, the small mum
Der did not interfere with the enjoyment.
Year: 1864

The fact has recently been stated BY a
writer on modern novels and novelists,
that few authors OF fiction attempt to in
troduce into their works the character OF
mother. Dickens has very few in the
many volumes which lie has written
None Of Miss Bronte's heroines have a
mother; and even Sir Walter Scott and
Miss Edgeworth rarely introduce the
character. "The heroiBes of fiction have
no mothers"


There are. of course, exceptions, but
they are rare. The simple natural rela-
tons of life furnish small scope to the
inventive genius of writers who aim not
30 much to instruct as to star1e and
amaze. No one can have read novels
without having had the conviction forced
upon the mind that secrecy and misun-
derstandlns, not to say deception, under
lie nearly every work of fiction. By an
ouispoken word or candid avosal of the
truth, the ong-drawn tortufing array Of
circumstances would melt into air. and
the romance be turned into the reality Of





doubtless has much to do with tho expul-
sion Of mothers from the pages of novels.
The heroine must remain the victim of
attentions and sutTerings from which no
one has authority or power to set her
free.


But still stronger cause for the omis-
sion exists in the fact that heroine mus.
be suffered to act ou. without restraint
those natural impulses and wild passions
OF her heart which any mother. however
worldly, weuld grieve TO behold exempli.
fed in q daughter. Liberty Of speech
and liberty of action are inseparabie from
tue brilliant heroine of n sensation powell.
She could never be subjected ior = mo-
nlent to tie gentle cheek Of mother
presence and loving glance. Thus the
mother is dispensed with as an eiemeni
quite too dull and common place to be
compatible with popular taste.
Year: 1864

EE The pork season is about over in
this city. A few hundred hogs, however,
arrived last week for some Of our packers,
and It is thought the number slaughtered
will reach one hundred thousand.
Year: 1864

Thus making the DAILY GATE CITY ofinvalu-
able interest TO every reading man woman, who
is at all interested in the Of our Country in
this Recoect that loyal newspapers are ac-
eompiishing much in suppressing the rebellion,
and that person is generally judged by the tone
OF the paper which be reads.
Year: 1864

shall pass through another Presidential Campaign,
and shall enter upon the policy for the pacfcation
Of the Country, and the re-estabshment of the
authority of the Government over the Rebellious
States.


The news and the political discussions of the
coming year promise TO be more interesting and
exciting than ever before and the demand for
sound
Year: 1864

GIVE HIM A TRADE.-If education is
the great buckler and shield Of liberty,
well developed industry is equally the
buckler and shieli Of individual indepen-
dence. AS an unfailing resource through
life give your son, equal with an educa-
ton, good honest trade. Better any
trade than none, though there is ample
room for the adoption of any inclination
in this respect. Learned professions and
speculative employments may fail man /;
but an honest handcrait trade seldom or
never--f its possessor chooses to exer-
else it. Let him feel, too, that honest
labor crafts are honorable and noble
The men of trades--the real creator Of
whatever is most essential to the necessi-
ties and welfare of mankind, above all
others, in whatever repute they have been
held by their most fastidious fellows, must
work at the ore of human progress, or all
is lost. But few brown handed trade
workers think Of this, or appreciate the
real power and position they com pass
Give your son trade, no matter what
fortune he may have, or seem likely ito
inherit. Give him trade, for he can al.
Ways battle With temporal wants with this
and can always be Independent.
Year: 1864

for It during the coming year. We need not at
tempt 70 enlighten readers in regard to the
influence exerted by the Newspaper Press of the
country upon public opinion. We hail with un-
mingled satisfaction the improved tone of public
sentiment in own vicinity during the past
season, and the verdict Of the people Of cur own
County at the late election in favor OF the War and
the policy of the Government and we are proud
Of the part which the CAT. CRY bore in the
contest.


The coming year viii be distinguished by great
and important events,-political and military
for we shall have to record the
Year: 1864

GIVING JoY TO A Blessed be
the hand that prepares . pleasure for a
child, for there is no saying when and
where it may again bloom forth. Does
almost every one remember some kind
hearted man, who showed him kind daess
in the dulcet days Of his childhood? The
writer of this recollects himself at this
moment, barefooted lad, standing at the
wooden fence Of poor little garden in
his native place, while with longing eyes
he gazed on the flowers which we're bloom
ing there quietly in the brightness of =
Sunday morning. The possessor comes
forth from his little cottage; be was .
wood-cutter BY trade, aud spent the whole
week working in the woods.


He had come into the garden to
gather some flowers to stick in his coat
when he went to church. He saw the
boy. and breaking off the most beautiful
Of his carnations-it was streaked with
red and white-he gave il to him. Nei-
ther the giver nor the receiver spoke .
word. and with bounding steps the boy
ran home.


And now here, at . vast distance from
that home, after SO many events Of 90 many
years, the feeling of gratitude which agi-
tated the breast Of that boy expresses it.
self on paper. The carnation has long
since withered, but it now blooms afresh.
II Douglas Jerrold.
Year: 1864

moment looking at the strange writing, a.
ve look on the face Of . loved friend.
who vent forth in the morning buoyant
With life and happiness. and is borne back
at night. cold and dead; then with trem.
bling fingers eagerly tore itopen. I.was
very short, and ran thus:


Dear Mother-We are preparing for
another battle, and take few moments
in the midst of preparation to write
write you . little note, for feel that
may never see you again. But be CON-
forted Mother, for if fall it will be in de-
fence Of my country. l had hoped to see
you again; but l fear that it cannot be,
yet l feel your presence near me even
while | write. Good by, darling Mothen
DO not grieve for me when am gone.


Your loving son,
Year: 1864

Our readers have read the pathetic story
of the dead Union soldier found on the Bat,
tie field of Gettysburg with photograph of
three beautiful children firmly clenched in
his stifened hand, which has been widely
published in order to discover his identity.
This has been accomplished. We learn from
the Philadelphia correspondence of the Bull
etn that


The deceased was one Hummerton of
Portvile Catteraugus county, New York,
where his widow and children now reside.
Photographic copies of the picture upon which
the dying eyes of the warrior-father closed
have been made, and learn that large num-
bers have been sold in this city. The profits
of their sale are to be given to the widow and
her little ones / have rarely seen a more
charming group of children. Apparently
they are three, five and seven years old--the
Youngest being girl. One cannct look upon
their innocent, beautiful faces. and recall the
last moments Of their loving fathers life-a
life that went out in gentle thoughts of them,
without dropping tear to the memory of
the departed hero, and without feeling deep
sorrow for the mother and her orphaned ones.
God protect them
Year: 1864

DIR. hoBAcK's STOMACH BITTERs-Wc profess
to have more than superficial knowledge of the
healing art, and while fully prepared to ad-
nit that humbug is bnt another word for imposi
ton, and, therefore. do not allow any advertise
ment or notice to appear in our paper that has the
least tendency to corrupt the human mind, we are
always glad to recommend what we belieye to be a
real boon to society, and having made an expert
mental use of DR.. Hoback's Stomach Bitters, we
bear our testimony to their real, genuine and very
beneficial use. DIR. Rs bitters far surpass any
preparation of the kind we have ever used and we
urge all who need mild, safe, and most agreeable
tonic, to try this medicine at once If you try it
once You viii be sure to try it again 1t is Just
the thing for the stomach in hot weather.-rEatou
(0hiol Democrat of May 80, '6l


See advertisement. SOS
Year: 1864

CoLD.-Wc are crcdibly informed by an
early riser that zee was to be seen on the
sidewalks this morning, that had been
formed during the night. That is cool op-
Grafton for the second day of May.
Year: 1864

Public MEErINo.-There will be public
meeting at LeClairc Hall this evening, at
which there will be speaking by our best
orators. The object is to raise volunteers
to fill the call for one hundred days men.
Recruiting officers will be present to enlist
such men Is are willing to enter the field.
Let the house be crowded. Speaking to
commence at o'clock.
Year: 1864

BARLEY.-We are informed that the cold
snap of last night nipped the barley badly,
and fears are entertained that the crops will
be seriously damaged thereby. The farm
ers have been making great calculations
upon their barley crop, and are not q little
frightened at the unfavorablc aspect Of the
weather.
Year: 1864

MAKE GooD BEGINNrNG.-This being
the first business day Of the month and the
week, make good start by calling son
Krause, opposite the National Bank, and
ordering suit Of his splendid clothing
He can suit you every time, and sell so low
that you will be astonished. His stock is
complete.
Year: 1864

Workers to crack. When the Grand
Gulf left New York, February 23d. the
Conqueror laid at Marston a Powers
coal yard loading coal Her log shows
her sailing for Matanzas, her partial
unlading; thence to Nassau. y. p.
We should ike to know what has be-
came of that coal after reackiag Ma
tanzas and Nassau, we hazard an opin-
ion (H01,gh it is asserted that a sailor
has no right to think), that the loval
and patriotic Individual who shipped
anthracite coal to a neutral port, fre-
quented by the Confederates and
their allies, knew the destination of
the ship before she left the wharf in
New York. Her sale and changes of
name is so plainly traitorous, that if the
overlooks such a transac-
ton, there will be no Justice IN the
future in crying out against England.


Much has been said and written in
regard to the negligence and short
sightedness of our Secretary of the Ma
Wy. Such aspersions are either from
Ignorance or from wilful maliciousness,
for it is notorious fact that many a
vessel which has been able to steam
faster than the average of blockade
runners and English built boats, when
in the merchant service, has, when
bought by Department and transferred
to the Navy, at once fallen off in speed
from one to three knots. This certain
ly cannot be the fault of the Secretary
or his associates, nor of the builders Of
the boat; for if those under him had
been as faithful to the public interest
in handling their vessels as he has
been in procuring them, blockade run
ners would long since have been scar
Ger. Such, however, we are happy to
state, has not been the fate of the
Grand Gulf


This vessel was built in 1868, by
Messrs. c. Il r. Poillon, is about one
thousand and two hundred tons, carries
a battery Of eight-inch guns, two thirty
Founders and one hundred FOUNDER
ParrOtt was a fast vessel before she en-
tered the Navy, and is a fast vessel now.
Her prizes, the Banshee, the Mary Anna,
and the Young Republic, attest the
truth Of this statement And the value
of those prizes would pay for the Grand
Gulf half dozen times over. We can
not award too much praise to our senior
engineer, Mr.. George W Shank, of your
city, whose loyalty to his country, whose
untiring zeal in the service, and whose
unceasing care of an engine at times
strainedtO her utmost, merit the thanks
Cor appreciation of the Department.