GALENA DAILY GAZETTE
OLD SERIES---VOL. XVI, NO. 1
NEW SERIES---VOL. I, NO. 31
Monday morning, March 21, 1864


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THE RIGHT WAY

"The following from the Syracuse Journal is to a certain degree, applicable in this city, and we recommend it to the particular attention of those whom it hits: 'Can anybody explain satisfactorily why a lady meeting a gentleman on the sidewalk should insist upon turning him off into the gutter? It has grown to be a custom when people thus encounter, not being acquainted, for a lady to run a gentleman down at once, unless he gets out of the way. She deviates not an inch from an air line, but ignores all knowledge of the existence or presence of a body approaching in the opposite direction. There is something positively disgusting in this practice. Sometimes you meet three or four ladies--girls perhaps, no out of their teens,--forming a platoon across the whole breadth of the walk. They pay no more attention to you, than if you were a shadow that might be passed over without any sense of contact. You scud down to the curbstone, and await the transit of the avalanche of crinoline. Why should not one of these females, recognizing your bodily presence and right to the use of the pavement, drop behind the others, and permit you to avoid the humiliating display of your insignificance on the edge of the curb stone or down in the gutter? These examples of what we consider downright vulgarity, are of constant occurrence. It often happens that mere chits, not out of pantaletts, bear square down upon the octogenarian and compel him to the oblique movement to avoid a collision."


PEN AND SCISSORS

--"A gentleman in Wilmington, N.C., has invented a process for spinning cotton without carding."

--"The workmen in Parrott's gun factory at West Point (1,200 in number) struck on Saturday for higher wages. They demand 18 shillings a day."

--"The small pox is spreading itself with fearful rapidity over the country. In Cincinnati it is worse than ever before known; in Cleveland, Ohio, it is said there are upwards of 1,200 cases; and in Columbus and other places, it is very bad. It seems to have started from the military camps and hospitals."

--"A little boy disputing with his sister on some subject, exclaimed, 'It's true, for ma said so; and if ma says it's so, it's so, it's so, if it aint so."


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LOCAL MATTERS

CALL FOR AN ILLINOIS UNION STATE CONVENTION.

"Delegates to the Baltimore National Convention to be Chosen--Presential Electors, State Officers, and Congressmen at Large to be Nominated--Convention for the Nomination of a Judge of the Supreme Cout in Northern Illinois."

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BY TELEGRAPH
MORNING REPORT

--EXPECTED MOVEMENT OF LEE TOWARDS THE CAPITOL
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--PREPARATIONS TO RECEIVE HIM
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--GRANT ON HIS WAY TO THE POTOMAC ARMY
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Washington, March 19

--"Gen. Custer, who was thrown from a carriage last Tuesday and severely injured, is considerably better."

Nashville, March 17

--"Gen. Grant formally assumed command of the armies of the United States to-day. The following is the order on the subject:
Headquarters Armies of the United States, Nashville, Tenn., March 17, 1864
GENERAL ORDERS NO. 1--In pursuance of the following order of the President:

EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington D.C., March 10th, 1864.--Under the authority of the act of Congress to revive the grade of Lieutenant General in the U.S. Army, approved Feb. 29, 1864, Lieut. General U.S. Grant is appointed to the command of the armies of the United States.

(signed) Abraham Lincoln

I assume command of the armies of the United States. My headquarters will be in the field, and until further orders will be with the Army of the Potomac. There will be an office headquarters in Washington D.C., to which all official command communications will be sent, except those from the army, where headquarters are at the date of their address."
(signed) U.S. Grant
Lieut. Gen. U.S.A.


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"Two of our soldiers were captured yesterday near Munson's Hill, showing that the rebel scouts are within our lines, and active preparations for the defense of the Forts around Washington indicate that the military authorities are apprehending a foray at the least, if not for a movement of the main body of Lee's army toward the National Capitol."