As an instance of the ill feeling . . .

. . . of the Confederates against the rebel President, no longer ago than on Christmas morning an empty coffin was found on the steps of his front door. More recently according to the Richmond papers, his house was robbed, and two unsuccessful attempts were made to burn his dwelling. Vice President Stevens has had no intercourse with him for more than twelve months, and never visits his house. Foote, of the rebel congress, has denounced Davis in open debate. The Virginians are open in their denunciations of him for proposing to abandon that State and remove the Capitol to South Carolina.

{Brownlow.

– Published in The Union Sentinel, Osceola, Iowa, April 9, 1864