GALENA DAILY GAZETTE
OLD SERIES---VOL. XVI, NO. 171
NEW SERIES---VOL. I, NO. 52
Thursday morning, April 14, 1864
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A PISTOL AND ITS OWNER BOTH CHARGED WITH TREASON
"Benj. F. Taylor, writing from Chattanooga, tells the following:

Women--and invariably any 'better than they should be' --have always been employed to pursuade information out of unsuspecting, buy not unsuspected persons, and they bring a degree of fact and shrewdness into play that hirsute humanity can never hope to equal. Many a wasp has been caught with they honey of hypocrisy. Take an illustration: A subordinate Federal officer in a certain city within this Department, had long been suspected of disloyalty, but no proof to warrant his arrest could be obtained, and so as a dernier resort a woman was set at him.--She smiled her way into his confidence, and became his 'next best friend,' but finding that ears were of no use, for he could not be induced to say one word of matters pertaining to his office, she changed her base of attack, and turned a couple of curious, and, as I am told, beautiful eyes upon him. Not unfrequently he would ride out of town into the country, be absent three or four hours and return. For all the hours of the twenty-four but these she could account. Within them, then, lay the mischief if mischief there was, and she began to watch if he made any preparation for these excursions. None. He loaded his old fashioned pistol, drew on ___ gloves, lighted a cigar, bade her a loving good-by--'only that and nothing more,'--Was he deep and she dull? Time would allow. At last, she observed that he put an unusual charge in the pistol, one day, and all at once she grew curious in pistols. Would he show her some day how to charge a pistol, and how to be a dead shot? And just at that minute she was athirst, and would he bring her a lemonade?--She was left toying with the pistol, and he went. The instant the door closed behind him, she drew the charge, for she knew quite as much about pistols as he, and substituted another. She was not a minute too soon, for back he came, took the pistol, and rode away. No sooner had he gone than she set about an examination of the charge and it proved to be plans and details of Federal forces and movements snugly rolled to-gether. The mischief was in the pistol, then, though none but a woman would have thought of it, and so it was that he carried information to his rebel friends with rural proclivities. The woman's purpose was gained, and when the officer returned, his 'next best friend' had vanished like an Arab or a vision, and he had hardly time to turn about before he was under arrest. Admiring the adroitness of the achievement, we cannot help regretting that a woman performed it. The memory of a man's mother is sacred, and he feels that whoever wears her form, unworthily, and debases woman's graceful gifts, profanes it."
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LIST OF WAGES

"Offered to the journeymen Cordwainers of Galena by the Boot and Shoe Manufacturers, to be paid as long as high prices remain, in articles they have to consume:

Patent Leather Boots, double and single sole... $2.75, fitting $2.25
Calf Boots, sewed Bottoms, double and single soles... $2.50, fitting $1.00
Calf Footers, sewed bottoms, double and single sole... $2.50, fitting .50
Calf Sewed Shoes, sewed bottoms, double and single sole... $1.90, fitting .35
Calf Congress Gaiters, sewed bottoms, d. and s. sole... $1.90
Patent Leather Shoes, sewed bottoms, d. and s. sole... $2.00, fitting .40

MEN'S PEGGED WORK

Fine Calf Bottoms ... $1.35, fitting .75
Fine Calf Footers... $1.35, fitting .40
Fine Calf Shoes, black shank... $1.00, fitting .25
Kip Boots, bottoming... $1.10, fitting .55
Stoga Boots, bottoming.. $1.00, fitting .40
Stoga shoes, bottoming... $ .70, fitting .20
Buffalo Shoes, bottoming... $1.00, fitting .25

BOY'S WORK

Fine Calf, bottoms... $1.15, fitting .60
Kip, bottoms... $ .75, fitting .50
Stoga, bottoms...$ .65, fitting .35
Fine Calf Shoes, bottom... $ .75, fitting .25
Kip Shoes, bottom... $ .65, fitting .15

WOMEN'S SEWED AND PEGGED WORK

Congress Gaiters or Balmorals, double and single sole, square awl $1.25,
round awl..$1.15
Turns, with heels... $1.00
Turns, without heels, men's or women's... $ .70
Pegged bottoms, with heels... $ .70

EXTRAS

Tap Soles... $ .35
Hunting Boots, with tongs.. $ .50
Fitting Boots, with side scams... $ .15
Circle Seams, women's... $ .25
Treeing and Crimping Boots...$ .06
Treeing shoes... $ .03

G. RICHARDSON, J. NAGLE, M. HUBER, Christian MARTIN,A. HARTWIG, J. THORWART, T. P. HILGERT, John GILLSON, John A. NACK, Richard EVANS, H. STROHMEYER, T. ARCHIBALD & CO."

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LOCAL MATTERS..

LETTER FROM HENRY NELSON

"The following is an extract from a private letter received from Mr. Henry NELSON, formerly connected with this office, but now on his way to Idaho. We take the liberty of publishing it:

In the Wilderness, Nebraska Territory, April 1, 1863

FRIEND BROWN:--We are now making good headway towards the 'Land of Gold.' Believe me, he who undergoes the labor and hardship of a journey to Idaho, deserves to make a fortune soon after reaching the promised land. Hard as the journey is, however, we are enjoying it as well as we can, although our way has been strewn with all kinds of bad luck. We now walk from 20 to 25 miles per day without murmuring.

You would be pleased to witness the proficiency to which we have attained in the art of cooking.

We hear no news from the States. Don't know whether peace has been declared or whether the Rebels are still getting whipped by Gen. Grant. Our train is a little world of our own, and our wagon our home. We never think of anything beyond it except our personal friends in Galena. Our train consists of the following men with their teams, and drivers, viz: Isaac EVANS, Thomas PROUSE, J. S. COLLINS, Jno. DUGGAN of Vinegar Hill, and a team from Iowa. Joseph WISE is behind at Elk Horn, sick with the measles. Hiram HUNT, of Hanover, is lying over at Omaha. SAMPSON and party, of Galena, are stopping 25 miles east of Council Bluff. I saw William MEYERS at Omaha.

You can bet we are about as sunburnt and bronzed as the Indians themselves. The Pawnee Indians are quite plenty, but not very troublesome. We find it safe however to keep a guard over our own teams.

SMITH and BENNET are well. John COLLINS and Ben SMITH are sitting before me busily engaged at mending their tattered garments. When we return to Galena, we shall probably open a tailor's shop."

Yours Truly, Henry NELSON