The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1855-11-03
Telegra phic News.
Inter from California.


Later from California.
New YORK. Oct 30.-The George Law, from
Aspinwall, with the California mail Of the
5th. arrived at Der dock at 7. NJ. She
brings $50 passengers. and Sl6l 900 IN spe-
cie. She connected at the lsthmus with the
Jno. /. Stephens. which brought down near
Nv 81 900 .0O0. The j. l.. Stephens passed
the Golden cate on the llth, the Cortez on
the l4th. both bound up. News unlmpor-
tant. All the X. n. ticket elected. John
son has oyer 5000 majority for Governor
Whole number of votes 10000. Tho Legis-
loture is composed of y X. Ms, 80 Demo-
Gratis, and Wings. The n. \. majority IN
the Senate is 4 in the Assembly IL. The
prohibitory law is defeated by 5000 maJorl-
ty against it. Elk Governor Foote and Ex-
Congressman Marshall and Peyton are spo-
ken of among the X. Ms, to succeed ewinn
Gen'l Dunbar, Secretary of State. had left
for the States, to claim his seat IN the House
OF Representatives IN the next Congress.
A partv of raw recruits left IN the lncle
Sam to Join Walkers expedition. Another
party was to 20 from Nevada.
Judge Norton has decided that the sale Of
the slip property, made BY the city IN De-
cember, 1882, was Invalid.
4 large fire had occurred in jamestown,
loss. $50 900. The Masonic Hall was con-
sumed.
Adyices from Oregon announced the safe
tv Of Gov. Stevens. lie with his party were
at Fort Benton. at last accounts.
The English steamer Bolivar arrived at Pa
mama with dates from Valparaiso to the 18th,
and Callao to the 18th.
Ex-Presldent Berza was passenger, on
his way to the t. ).
News unimportant
Dates from Australia are 10 July 18th.
Halifax -four sold at Melbourne on the 9TH,
al 20 pounds per ton.
New YORK, Oct. 3l.-A procession Of
Young Americans. who had been holding u
political mass meeting in the Bowerv last
evening. while on their way home was at
tackled by party Of Irishmen and broken up.
The ASSISTANTS were arrested; pistols, knives,
stones, clubs, &c., seriously injuring many
in the procession. The American banners
were sez cd and destroyed.
A letter from Capulco, Oct. l4th, 70 the
Times, states that the steamer Sierra Nevada
of san Juan. with the passengers who left
n. Y. Sept. 5, put into that port Oct /. The
The cholera had been raging on board TO q
fearful extent II deaths on the passage and
"a while in that port; the authorities refused
70 allow the dead to he brought ashore. The
writer states that the mortality may have
been exaggerated. The Cortez winch put IN
week after had no sickness.
The Sidney. Australia, papers contain an
account Of piracy and murder, said TO have
boon committed on board the whaling ship
John, Of New Bedford, in which the Captain
and two mates and several seamen were muir
dered by some native sailors, and the slnp
taken possession OF.
WAsnlxcroN. Oct. 80 The President has
decided that the resolution Of Congress, on
Fob, 1858, providing for Breyet rank of
Lieut. General under which Gen. Scott re-
ceiyed that appointment! gives him an addl-
tional paw and allowances, and that 1t IS re-
troactiye in It's operation from May 18th,
lo47, which decision has been communicated
to Gen. Scott.
New ORLEANS, Oct. 30.-Cotton easier but
not quotably lower. Sales $4,000 bales
Flour quoted So 4iG9S so. Corn Zoe.
PmlLADELpHfA. Oct. 3l.-The steamer Ma
rena belonging TO the West Jersey forty;
burned this A. NJ. at the wharf at Camden;
value S25 900, insured for $4,000.
Ex- GovER>oa RExDER, or KANsAs.-This
gentleman arrived in this city Yesterday, and
is at Barnum's lie is on his way cast, We
presume, to claim seat in Congress.
We are informed BY gentleman of high
responsibility from Kansas, that the vote for
Reoder viii much exceed that for Whitfield,
/ even counting the spurious vote for the latter
gentlemen, given By patriotic Mlssourans IA
They assert that, Or the squaHers Of Kansas,
Reeder has an undoubted majority. The
gentlemen giving US this information, are
Southern born and bred and favor the slave
holding feature in the constitution Of the
prospective State. But, they say, the con-
duet Of the Atchison and Stringfellow agita-
tors has killed slavery in Kansas. We knew
it would. We have already chronlcled the
suicide of the institution.
Bnt, notwithstanding all this. we think that
Whitfield will get the seat in Congress. In
our opinion, the legislature at Shawnee MIS-
sion was a legal body, and the day fixed for
the election by it was the day when Reeder