The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1857-07-30

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| wAsHtsaroS, July 28.-Navigation on the
Chesapeake and Ohio canal he's been re-
sumed. An immense number Of boats arc
expected At Georgetown and Alexandra,
freigh,ed with coal and brsadstuis.
BosroS, July @. On Saturday night the
Lyons WOODEN mills, Monsoon, Mass, were to-
tally destroyed BY ere. Loss 1000; most
ly insured.
CLKsKLAsp, July 2s.--A portion Of the
Cuyahoga Steam Furnace was destroyed by
fire this morning. Insured Tor $1,000 in
Home Company, and 81 900 in lHtna-wili
cover loss.
DunuouK, July GA fire broke out at
Hastings, Minnesota, in the store OF Macau-
ley & Ticknor, Sunday morning, destroying
the stores Of J. L. Belden, Mncauley & Tick
nor and b. S. Ilawes, together with several
smalles buildings. Loss estimated 1T $l5,-
600. Supposed to have been the work OF an
incendiary.
NSw YORK, July 27.--Advicso. from the
Isthmus, per Illinois, unimportAlk.
The frigats Roanoke would sail from A
pinwall for New York, July 5th.
In the Supreme Court Of California, the
case of Mercei Mining Co. against J. 9. Ere.
mont, preventing his interfering with the
operations Of the Company. The court has
also reversed the decision touching the San
Francisco bonds.
The Know -Nothings are about taking
= measures for reorganization Of their party in
r California.
Adyices from Oregon are to the Goth Of
lie June.
/. Fears are entertained Of still further In
y dian difficulties.
The question of making Oregon q slave
,s State still continued to be Isalously urged,
h and prospectus issued for q pro-slavery
d, territory.
!. Markets of San Francisco are glu.ted with
:, all kinds Of produce. No demand and prices
!. rapidly depreciating.
Money accommodating, aud rates tending
downward
Gallego -four nominal at $l3. Pork had
declined fully 75c per barrel, for both mess
and prime, sales having been made at $3.50
80 for mess, and S35 for clear.
Isrnuus NEws.-The steamer Panama had
arrived at Panama, bringing Central Amer
lean advices to the 4th.
w. G. McCracken, American Consul al
r Tanman, died on board the Panama at Pun
m Ia Arenas.
ID The CHILEAN Minister Plenipotentiary hat
!, arrived at San Jose, with proposals for tn
= contemplated Spanish American confedera
O. ion.
er Four hundred Of General Walkers me-
10 remained at San Jose and Punta Arenas
4. The steamer Tennessee had been chartere
by the Costa kican Government to procse
W. to San Juan Del Norte to take these troop
b. home.
III Ths Decatur sloop. of-wAr was at Punt
NJ Arenas.
!. She ship Independence was struck b
Irwkt ~s~ u. - -
DE mainmast.
on Further advices from Central Americ
state the determination of the Costa Rican
- to hold their position on the rivers.
. They had given offence to Nicaragus, an
'es Costa RIGA had sent to England for tire
to gunboats, for the purpose Of strengthenn
les her position on the river and lakes.
- THE RETURN FOR "FLuNKgYIsx.D-Whil
an the managers Of the late Bunker Hill cele
IT. brAtion for tho martyr Warren werc fawnin
re upon Senator Mason Of Georgia, a disun
On ionist, with 80 much assiduity that the
"a could not find time to pay proper respect
w Senator Foster Of Connecticut, and Wilso
re of Massachusetts, and Mr.. Speaker Banks
the Administration at Washington were en-
MI gagsdin the great and holy work Of displsc
=. ing Joseph Warren Newcomb-the only lin
:! cal grand-child, and legitimate family rep
resentative Of the revolutionary Warren
he liying--from petty clerkship in one Of til
mr. departments, which was his sole means o
:. support. The reason for this prescription
IL, that he was supposed not to believe Il
sl the nationality and divinity OF slavery, a
nd expounded BY the Democratic party and Nj
ad Mason. proposition was made to him
Al, that il he would draw up paper, denyin
any affinity with either the Republican Q
American parties, and take it before mag
sh istrate and swear to it, he should be retain
IL ed. This came from the Secretary OF tn
on Interior, through mutual friend. "Tel
:. the Secretary" he said, "that will see hin
:. in the bottom Of the bottomlsss pit before
nd will 50 degrade myselfr Because he vii
in not be slave, the government will not EN-
hs ploy him. Boston Traveller.
THE BlBLK.-Dr. Hall, in his journal I
-. Health for May, speaking Of the important
=" OF inhabiting houses in their structure an
iat situation favorable to health, refers rs FOL
le- lows to the Bible -" There is moro sount
il practical hygiene, on this subject OF health
houses, in the fourteenth chapter Of Levitt
Gus, from verse thirty-four, than in all III
OF skulls Of all the health comm ssioners an
AIS common councils of all the cities OF Christer
ted dom. Pity il is that We do not read our B
r;,I BILE more, that great book which contain
- the leading principles Of what Ia indisput.
'ne bly, good, and useful and true, in all that :,
ally pertains to human happiness; and pi
it is that the Sunday newspaper, and Il
oy. trashy weekly, and the snticing story boo
ia for childhood and hoary age, ON subiec
ing pertaining to the world and party preachn
az and infdel peripatctic lecturers, with the
new tangled cruditics for human amelior
We ton, and their theories for elevating Il
ere masses, pity it is, we say, that all the
an things 50 attract attention. The Bible, 4
. best book of all, the wisest in all it's the
ries, and in all its practices safe, has bccor
ian a sealed book to the many, and any 9th
, in volume on the centre or side table is open
sooner than it,
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and Az EDITOR IN DisrREss FOR AN ITxx.-T
led Fal! River Star makes the following afiecti
us. appeal to all classes Of people for an ito
=, for its local column:
WV Everything in the local line has dried i
The Police Court room is cosed--the hors
are remarkably steady and don't run VII
oth left in the street-and we're il not for /
Y. Affair last evening in Pocasset Building.
inp should be obliged to Gil our columns 70 -ds
pretty much with news from abroad. w
'As nobody tickle horse and make him ru,
3D. viii nobody trid GU the tail " Pats coa
IS. start him fighting, and bring him befo
his the Police Courty Will nobody clone