Linn County Patriot (Newspaper) - March 10, 1864, Marion, Iowa L I B E T W U TJ 3ST I O KT IsT O W 3XT 3D IF O E V EJ II I IT S B R IB LINN MARCH SI 50 ANNUM PATRIOT nv 1 DOAS CORNER OF MAIN AND MERIDIAN f In R AT E SOFA D V fi R T J S I N 10 linen IMn rt 0 One One Column One Column One IS One lliU l Ong Ult Column it Ono Column 12 LINX If the following ful liy ChurUS full of proj to secure a passage for the Hut hero we were too bbing ten na DOS already to If the rest of our com hayu not j I w havu should bo to sec them grace our county what Mini will I wilt In nil Minis tlic ns V 1illillc J and 8mO Linn WAW CLAIM A T LA his attention c nsa of on nc wounds are to EYE MADE A Drug E KT T print and send the number containing them to that other son far in Hie army who does not read the they may he rend by the good in the joy of and us a soldiers hallow the music of the In all deference to tin Tito oil ilio What thow lone watcher on the tower Oie lay co lies the for hour Tell ufl and thy If the bright morning upon the o ne Km In reverence to the Bun Hut yet Ilio horizons nm all regis a as If tm light would y AND Tor Gniver Rawing Manl hot at All the received sonu aa ITU to buy only the ALL AKn IX KINDS on i Min to A I ftm I fir Turkeys RUI io J me a TIME TO TAKK mfr C Marlon s Hf Violi 9411 lO 10 I Vailey la in M Epworth 1 5il MO y 12 Kinley 11 liy 11 i STJ 61 O fun I 333 The Dubiique Ami h that 0 watcher on tha t It must be near the thou not 3je the snowy mo tlie wo d hem 03 the slopes f A nilat envelopes them trace Their outline but the on roll up In and ambor And all tlic dim the morning We lonel on the tower But look anil tell ut hour by hour All many of us die Before the day give them a reply I 11 1 but 1 hear ft Vivid as day and clear and An If u lark young prophet of tho noon Pouring In sunlight his seraphic What doth 0 on the lower F Is he a prophet the hour Inspire his Is his chant Filled will the of Hit future UMC i Hi Ills heart U full his liy of tin eia of a peaceful A day not Hut Bunny for clear and We thank watcher on tho lonely Iur all thou of un hour When Error shall and Truth Anil rutu aud vanquish Wrong of and and Of days when anil hate shall cease wir nll an ma ltd Weil done on Ihe lonely I Is the hi caking r thu happy We lung to see it tell lu yet broad daj light breaks upon the plain It breaks t comes tiid misty a A rosy Die sky Thu It cairn and Tlie plain In but day Is of u Once at De wo were not Ion ling the of the though there were many we did not as we did not Taking lodgings at Knst we found good entertainment felt quite nt On Mon lay morning we at sec about thu called ns but as of both Conventions have been Inid before our wo need not stop to repeat it to that there was an earnestness manifested on tie part of a large of the delegates to State Conven in behalf of old ui that we lutl no public nnd thai Tor we were on the popular to the Editorial Convention we will only th it we were disappointed in tho of nnd amount of business Wo had hoped to see more in that there would have been more time allowed for tho transaction of business and for forming would be an association form ed for mutual aid and But as the wss short w could not expect to do every that there will bo and more timo thoro will bo a nil regulations and li IV VOU WANT TO TUB NEWS 12 HOCUS AHEAD OF CHICAGO TaVo It more Inter la reliable any other In State of ITS MARKET Will bun the our will bu revia Vi by 0nniborolul cr we receive by telegraph Now 1 nml market reports During the of wo shall have tt at tho Wo have tlth all the Iowa In tho anil ore able to den our as to tho at our brave arc flay anil our renders Hie news from to honts ahead of we aru for Liberty Now and and OF Invariably In Tenri 0011 1 4 1 im li To go in t that was tho ques tion selves a S ways them a pnr of a t on the none of thoni appeared last might linve if hoy not charge by the word but you know editors nrj anil scarce of anil it was out of the if been as good on as 6ir Yo of tho have made trip In flue stylo on but put away again After consulting our purse and necessity of the we decided to a free ticket on Foot Walkers line nnd we did this the rts wo felt a spunky at mid would juat as lief To cut the nut or at 11 we of our and satchel in start d On our the thought of having way x all the to wit the editor of the Linn County nnd miry to disturb our of II needless to say that we enjoyed our The Hue above us up with in numerable lamps tlic with its sil ver in just sufficiently sharp to make an the road lying through a country beautifully with timber and with hill and valley together with thu pleasing associations of the two the prospect of nn of general Weekly la every and SemiWeekly every Tuesday Packet Vost Tickets sold for patten goto or from Ham or Londo Faro from to to int HB TO OliT li U at thi All kinds of and Other Reading Matter toy The Conventions wo spent an evening in the ill of listening to a spirited discussion on tho joint resolutions in in Congress to go for of throughout tho United iVi dd n it hear any of tho opposition they having benu mado on ii previous The several speakers seemed to vie other in their hatred of slavery and their earnestness for Us Our ons ran back a few years to tho timo when our with few other made tho objects of proscription nd mob for in mild r tho saino which wo there from a dozen members of tho nd which were re with bursts of applause nd we rejoiced that we had in labored in We have watched ho antislavery feeling ever since it assumed a tangible and although an and democrat of the our hearts best sympathies wer enlisted ii the side oppressed and when tha lime came for us to cast it wa thrown in the scale of freedom nnd right against oppression and For an unmitigated persecution was against us by some o tho very men that are now so boisterous in their opposition to We heartily rejoice ovci their but inasmuch they wore not converted till after the loaves and the were on the Hido of we could wish thai they were a more modest in their claims humility is an essential char of a young and we wouk earnestly recommend it to some of these latter who have beon in offici ever since their Having finished all Ihil wai for us to V tit the a little wo would fain especially with a sister whom wo had not seen for nearly lUti and who just reached Moines we went to the stage the stage all combined to tl feel with the world in gen eral and in AVc tripped along like a boy of eighteen till five oclock in the when we stopped at a farm house of the pioneer and on in found that traveled eighteen about five miles out of the After resting two hours and taking some re in lilts shape of corn and we started in the direction of Skunk Uo not long in coming to Skunk but hurt our perplexity This Hal ranges from one to four miles in and a this limu was covered with inter with peninsulas and Ue never saw the labyrinths of but if are more intricate than we e strangers to avoid plenty leisure time and a iu reach ing he whit we a g in Ihe opposite tion of of him would be o find a man to lake us t Ihe Kail Road his we called on a man on ihe east sidn of ihe and him to us to With a srong accent ho inquired wu a oran Wu replied that we did not see what it could make iu tlu present dicker whether we were rebel general or a Federal a of ihu Gospel or a printers To which he Yor abolitionist I know ye and Ill have nothing to do wid We concluded that this man was a Greatly encouraged by our success in this ef fort Wj concluded to try but not till wo should have reached a point more from Skunk Kiver so wo proceeded with renewed en ergy till Wii arrived at a villago iin extreme f of Polk Here we succeed after several in securing tho servic es of it Stewart to take us to dis tant twelve Wo found him a so withal very reasonable his Ho is not ono of those who fulfil tlie by t in tho but willing to do work fjr him much luck in und It was now nearly an 1 oi wo ould not roach Stat in for the we 11 them on their A wo afoot and but four hours in the list fortyeight in con li tion for enjoying the embrace of which did during tho entire ride from Mur to Cedar and must therefore leave tho incidents that occurred in thu world for others to while we conclude our Jottings and Jo fugs by relating A Wu woro scarcely seated in the car until tired nature gave away and we were hurried away to We will not stop to relate all wo land of but ono scene made an impression on our As we wen hurried along with more than us ual railroad all of asudden we saw a coach and close observation wodis covered the driver of tho previous and beside him sat the Attorney of tlie Hit with the same square which he had on that AVe had watched them but a short time as if by cork flow out of tho bottle and a fiery with began to is sue from running down upon their onto thu following thu lines till it reached the horses and so spreading out till tho rig seemed u mass of re its shape and The serpents coil ed anl writhed and and shot out their forked tongues the horses in their maddened fury dashed on with incomprehensible speed the passengers sat with a stolid indifference whilo tin driver and his boin companion laughed and jested at first but soon their coarse laugh was turned to fiendish yells and ribald jests to demoniac groins still they hurried ever and taking a draft of tho liquid fire issued from tho whilo the sjr seemed to bo piercing them in every iart of their bodies with their flery fangs yet on they with increasing speed uu a at the foot of yawned a fiery we gazed with un controllable approached the reci lice and made the awful while from th abyss below arose such shrieks and groans and sounds discordant us to arouse us from our slumbers just in timo to hour the brakeman c 1 Cedar and behold it was a tho cars we met our Shinn with whom wo engaged a pas toon found ourself in Marion onco glad to at horn with wife and little on cheer us with their kindly thy a till train did not the next m we c included that wt verp for tho trip as wJ wore naw only miles So wu stopped at irst home wo for tlu purpose of get in some an t preparatory to mother nights AVo found the inmates f this house Culver family just tlic of people to make a man t tho lady of th by two pleasant an cheerfully to and mm wo invited to sit down to a itl with the pleasant ml ation of one of nu ires After supper we wen take a according U wuro up at oclock to sue our journey on inquiring our I was the best and most straightforward justice in Says No you dont Jake That wont go But I am will ing to lay thu case before the President and give liim my honest It took Hunker s week to get for she had to go down to to see Sally tho as if she wasnt going to see em again in a y We went round out side so as to see Potomac Mount Vor and as much of tho rebel country as pos sible in so short a Tlie valley of thy Po tomac nil our It is 1 magn with every natural facility for agriculture and trades connec ed with We sailed all up that river anything until u reached Thcr were beautiful funning still well and occasionally a planters with its group the part louses are dilapidated and looked How rapidly will n change come over this when men take villages spring up like the banks of this to have been a half i million of people here instead of a handful of Hunker hid heard awful stories about Ilin of tho and what ntt If we were to trust what the rebels say of and the evident signs of decay ex throughout the unhappy and desolate the conclusion is that tho monster rebellion is in thu dying agonies of i ts own lint their habit of lying isso natural and that wo cannot trust their They may In affirm themselves to i better off than they if we want to know exactly what their real condition wo must work out the fro n social and military which are with which we are Will We can do Ibis with great V In tiu lut us notice some of tho of utter cay the reb els we notice that their solo present is the conscript for and the impressment for currency is so utter a failure that provi sions cannot be bought with and the whole reliance for tho is an impressment of one No doubt a the real die in the last ditch submit to but a majority of tlie people will not and as a parties of soldiers have been employed in Tim f rip lu a man I was considerably surprised when I saw in the Pub nary you had many inquiries after my Indeed I nev er was so much surprised hut and that when the of made justice of tit that 1 still to tie gen rid satisfaction of my fellow if they dont I wasnt par flattered that they should think f Ind been as if an honest man had nothing to do in the world but to be or to write for You hold that a man who comes into the world with a good const which by thu is the richest in heritance parents can leave to their and lives temperately and has no business to be If ho indulges in drink and late hours nnd fast ho is very likely to have and all the ills that flesh is heir To hear inquiries about my health looked n little as if them waS suspicion that I hud boun doing something that I ought not I to say to your numerous that I have not beon robbing heii and I havent been And to prevent any anxiety in their minds in the in case I dont I may as well say that 1 manage a farm in nnd my except when I hold a justices court or something of that A man who is feeding getting up his win ter stock of drawing muck and sea topdressing making compost relaying anil attending a little to the war and cant bu expected to write for tho But last yo I had a special hin and the it was jest Bunker was sitting bythe Iro ono reading tho when she slopped took oil those spectacles that Josiah gave and laid down the and nays 1 want to go to you have been knitting and drying and brewing for thu for over two and I should like to know where nil thi things wo i awful waste of those lie steep prices fur board in dollars u day at an 1 hard to in at and was deal worried list the mon ey should give out before wo had finished our Now you see these high prices aro only or rich ones who dont and greon ones who dont know soon found out that thebest in the for people to livo In Huston they ask you if you know any thing n New how much money have you got n is your In hey take you on trust until find you As we did not calculate to stay long enough to be us Your respectability does not depend upon keeping boarding at a or taking furnished rooms and having meals served la suit your To people who have back bone und can attend o their own n a iv is not much dearer than in New 1 kept my eye opened while in tho and was astonished to see the enormous waste Of and every thing else tins Ono would think that when hay u they to take care of j Louisiana troops in the rebel There is but it is down almost nnd j nut an intellig nt man among who now has to tidie its chances with the Com that either of those States will ever bo anl oats fare prety much the same 1juin d to a Southern Co Those men judge that musty grain and bo plenty j will gjt home just us fast as they can with any 1 saw a large herd I prospect of Most of the Tennessee when they were but j troops Inve boon South to prevent de had got 10 lie rather lean looking their produce in North Carolina An army cannot be supported by provisions got in way but for a short In Virginia tho whole except that on the und in is but little more can be gut for any Geor gia and Alabama are the great reliance at pres nnd already the Northern armies arc on their case of mfn much We have the testimony of in the rebel a person well known in and of them the most thilt Virginia can nil Can the other i1 States V AVe shall soon examine that Let us look at another great amount of desertions which take place in all ar in nothing like the degree now going on among the The fact is this The doc trine nf Shire rights has been so completely imbed led in the minds of tho Southern that when a man finds his State is lost to tho ho no longer wants to fight for the in There were a hundred thousand is i and Had th been the I should have thought of ihe lean kino of It was next fact we have before ns is the speech of Unwell Cobb at and tho lust appeal suggested by an i that tho purses of the j of Jefferson Two more melancholy doc were never given o the If not woro not lean if tlie cattle wo f attended to Jake Frinks business I went right round to tho White and found i exactly in the style of criminals to bo hung at they arc in the of men who man at the says Is Liuj feel that their fate depends on the last desperate coin ut homo V Says ho Tho President dont j nnd but a miracle can save receive calls Well says You jest from becoming tell him that Squire Bunker of that happy land which they have insulted and wants to sec him on a 1 gut anl the most tho in by that I expect he had scan my Georgia tells Ihu army that they have name in tho though I didnt nothing on earth to depend on but him from Ho received me with I There is no chance of foreign no hope of a smile in one of his as if I h id Northern no resources but their been an old Says I Lincoln and on thu the invincible valor of the 1 hunt got any ax to grind for but one all Forlorn I The speech of my neighbors a light and I Of is still more He talks of promised him when I left homo tint I would of victory and but says see you about says the nothing of tho results to which those victories that hardly comes unite my I conquest of moro than half tho have to refer you to tho Light House the exhaustion of the the loss of tho Well says I dont caro what and this lust desperate appeal of des you do with t want to say that Jake Frink Such is tho sad picture presented is rather a poor dont manage his these Southern who laughed when ness I dont hat he would manage yours any His light dont shine on tho and I dont think ho would make it shine in a Light Squire Bunker you arc a but you dont understand tho way they do If a man cant do for he he in just fit to Un Sams I will give you Squire thu Light House in with assured tho President that 1 WHS still acting as Justice of tho Peace and should have to decline tho Yours to TIMOTHY Fcb there to be kindness and cordiality g tj we an as believe For their said in our God bless you tha prayer was sincere an 1 we it svill As wo and wo ould not strik i nut with tbo same avidity that our thu bs we pretty good h that we before and thy depot till about sev en wo repaired to tho Marshall ami took for which wo were fully prepared by our nights A nd here is whew the joke comes The slago did not reach iu lime t connect with th and hud it not for Ihe kindness of tho i we did not would havo beon left next it van up that th i shirts are used for wadding for that thu and cordials to thi well soldiers in of tlu sick and of tho Commission never soo the of a I like to see Io an I while I am down there should like t fays start for Washington You see wo went live year and com liom i so well satisfied with that wo have been out of thu place for than n day or two at a been une o the contented women in all of my from that day to I was rather glad I saw that she had her mind on a It very soon gut wind that wo bound to mid almost all the neighbors brought in axes to grind a if 1 havo nothing to do 1 was there but to turn for said ho him ap keeper of the lighthouse lie said ho would take back all tho uncivil he had ever would forget the and would Among Jake Frink and would lo much obliged if 1 would got suite or To all whan it may concern Know that according to tho census of the of taken by authority of said in thu year following named rated towns and cities aro entitled to become cities of tho second in accordance with the provisions of sections 1078 and Laws of of 1800 Burli county Cedar llack I lawk county Council Bluffs county county Sinit county Iowa Johnson county Lyons Clinton county Henry county Lee county county county Clayton county county Given under our at DCS this 22d day of JAUUS Secretary of Auditor of Fort Sumpter was fired But we shall not dep upon them for what they can Lot us look into the military Tho crisis of the war was over when Vicks burgh Why Not because of tho con quest not beams of commerce but because we cut thu South nto two so that neither could tha In other wo for war purposes the entire western All the or the have west of the are of no sort of They might almost as well bo in n the Pacific and had millions of mire than all the rest of tho and Lou liad the To out off this western of the Confederacy was a death It might take some time to but it was not tho less fatal iu a military point of it enabled us o concentrate all tho western armies in thu grand movement going Reduced down practically to North and South with half of and of what can tho rebels What they mean to try Davis They to recruit their armies up by con and then to defeat us in buttle I The theory is Hut let us allow all the possibilities of the what will it amount to Two conscriptions have already taken place in the South and have absorbed every man between IS and which can be and many The present conscription is to lake all up to if wo suppose that the last up to in thu present can bo till there is not an ablebodied white man it will amount to only men and wo know it is impos sible to get tho to tho recruiting of the rebel army up to the last when there shall bo no men tho available rebel army cannot bo raised above men and that is no more than they had last What can they do with it If Richmond and Virginia are to bo not less than are required for that Not loss than aro required for Will Mobile and North aro beyond thu Mississippi and at the utmost will bo left in the of Johnson Mud to
