The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1857-04-29

Oxiuku AVu Vi LOcAriuRce meb anu INVITES
including Gsnl's Wheat, Honsby go 70 New
York on Illinois, rest at Aspinwall. Lock
ridges retreat is confirmed. The Costa Ri
cans have taken possession Of Junta Aranas
and steamer Rescue, with great amount Of
ammunition, and six pieces Of artillery
Lockridge's men were taken at Aspinwall BY
British vessels.
The J. L. Stephens brings no further in
tsllieence. Walkers private dispatches at
Aspinwall state his position a, Rivas impreg-
nable-plenty of provisions and likely to
hold out for months. Transit open to the Pa
eihc. Same dispatches confirm the report Of
q battle. Another attack expected on the
10th. Gen. Walkers brother died on the
Empire City yesterday.
Files OF the Santa Fe Gazette for March
are received. A portion of the remains Of
the Indian agent, Dodge, have been found
and inferred at Fort Defiance.
Capt. Gibbs was severely wounded in re-
cent engagement with the Indians.
Gov. Merriweasher had gone to visit the
Navsjoo and Puelba Indians.
Indian depredations had been extensive
and frequent. Numbers were overtaken and
killed by the troops.
Major Fry had arrived at Albuquerque
with $4,000 for the Indian department.
TOLEDO, April 27.-The boiler in the same
planning mill of Raymond 4 Hathaway, in
this city, exploded this morning, seriously
inlurlng Eve persons. One has already died
and two others not expected to recover
Building almost entirely demolished.
LOUISVILLE, April 27.-Charles Nasbury
Collector Of the Cincinnati and Louisville
Mail Boat Company, absconded being $40 .OOC
in arrears Of collections.
kASzAs, April 22.--Secretary Stanton pub.
fishes An address to the people Of Kansas a,
Lecompton and Union. He says the admin.
istrAtion recommends the authority Of the
Territorial laws, and especially recognizes
the act providing for constitutional CON
vention. He presumes the Convention will
submit the vital question Of the dom este
institutions of the State for subsequent vote
OF the people. lie thinks that then Congress
will admit tho State Immediately. He rec
ommsnds q general amnesty for past enor-
mites and prosecutions. lie expects Gov.
walker about the middle Of May
DuSKrRK, April 25.--This harbor is now
open Tor navigation. The propellers Jersey
City and oswego, have arrived at the dock
The Olen and Elmyra have left and the New
York will leave this evening.
NEw foRk, April 25.-Mayor Wood this
morning procured another injunction in the
name OF the people, ngainst the new board Of
poiice commissioners. 1t is also said that
writ OF quo warranto was granted BY Judge
Roosevelt this P. NJ, upon the application OF
the Attorney General of the State, for the
purpose OF enqniring by wha. right the new
police commissioners held Office.
The Postmaster General made thorough
contract with Mr.. G. K. Garrison for semi
monthly mails between Orleans and vera
Cruz. Contracts for about $1,000 mail
routes, principly in New England and New
iork, were let out o-day BY the Postmaster
General. These contracts are somexh.,
more extensive than the previous ones.
Recollections OF a Uterine.
By 5. e. Goodrich, the real Peter Farley. in
Two volumes Published By Miller, Orion &
Miiiigan, New York; aud for sale by Ogden,
brownell Co., Keokuk.
The recollections of any man, extending
back period of sixty years, cannot fail To
possess great interest for the present gene
ration. How much more interesting then.
must be the recollections of such man IA
"oodrich, gifted as he has been with sncb
admirable faculties OF observation. and s,ch
ample opportunities for their exercise.
Ne~sEngiand boy, he draws upon his own
experience and memory for graphic and truth.
iui ana home-felt sketches OF New ENGLAND
Az ana manners, in olden times The DAYS
iog schooi houses with their ample Ere
places and high seats, their school masters
VINO taught "reading, 'riting aud 'r,hme-
uc'S IN winter, and their school mams Who
'teached' A. B. G. in summer. are n;c,,,oa
from the HE, and illustrated with many plea..
ing anecdotes. The domestic life Of ,hos.
bygone days, is freshly recalled in N. n;e.
sared memories Of these pages. The fax GROW.
ing, the tax pullings and the Gar breal,,a
win the constant hamming Of the ..bly
wheel and the buzxing Of the sslittle wheel ,,
with the ponderous loom, through whose in.
strumensalisy all the ordinary clothing Of
the family in those days was manufactured
nave been entirely displaced, and the domes.
hc HE OF New England itself has been revo.
iu'onized by the irresistible edicts OF .sk;nc
cotton And with these implsments and
habits Of domestic industry, have passed
a~ay the many merry nakings and gather.
'ogs whics, In those days, called tho mania
sose'her, ana OF which the srecollection., y;va
fuii and lively accounts. The supar m.t;n
'ne mouse raisings, the cuttings and the mar.
y festivals which no longer have their place
IN New England life, have pleasant record
~ 'als book by one who enjoyed them IN ii.
youth and whose memory dwel!s fondlv NV,
'nem IN his old age
~. Af. Goodrich emerged from the conn.
ry i'ie OF New England, and in early mar
hooa became an ca:tc- g. ..ss,.,s, ns
soon after an author, whose works reoa.raa
.As name and fame Of Peter Farley house
io "ofa amongst young aud old. mai mi,
u our own country bu, Throughout, F,ro,.
90 even OF the time Of DAME! Webster. Is,
20 England, Peter Farley was one ., n. 80
Dss' known names on the other side Of ,bs
A''an'ic according 70 Mr.. Webster,s ,e.,;.