The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1857-10-14


mean and contemplate, and oan never be a
nation Of men, of high-souled, chivarc free
men,"
ToisgrsPhIc News.
LIVERPOOL, Sept. 30.--flsur quieter and
slightly easier, though not quotably. Wheat
buoyant at the full prices received by the
Nicaragua.
Corn dull at former rates. To-day mark
cts are firm, with little doing.
Provisions very dull, but rates unchanged
Shoulders of beef wore pressing on the mar
ket without success.
Money Market-Consols closed at Q p. IN.
OF Wednesday, at 9ai (G90s for money!
Money is inactive at 5(G5A per cent.
NEw York, Oct. lO.-Rumors were current
this p. IN. that the bills Of the suspended
Bowery bank we're refused BY the other
banks, bnt there is no truth ia the report.
There are rumors affecting one or two
other banks here, but they deserve no atten-
ton.
There is a growing conviction in the midst
OF all classes Of men, that the banks must
considerably extend their accommodations
to the commercial public, or that they and a
large proportion Of their present patrons
must 20 to the wall.
AuGusrA, Ca, Oct. l0.-Reliable telegraph
nows from Charleston, announces the sus-
pension of the bank Of South Carolina, a
State institution, Of which G. NJ. Ferman is
President.
HARTFORD, Oct. l0.--A race came OF this
p. m. on the Hartford trotting park, mile
heats, best 3 in 5 between Flora Temple and
Lancet, for purse OF 81, 200. Lancet won
the LIST, Sd and 3th-time, 2,343 2,25 and
2,3s; Flora took the % in 2,29. The track
is q half mile only, and the time made BY
Lancet is said to be The best time ever made.
Flora was in harness, AMI Lancet under the
saddle. =
RIcuNosp, Va, Oct. l0.-The Governor
has issued a proclamation prohibiting the
notes of the bank Of Kanawha from being
received in payment for money due the State,
that bank having refused TO redeem its notes
and removed some Of it's assets beyond the
limits of the State.
New YoRk, Oct. l0.-To- day has been the
bluest one yet in our market.
The Illinois Central X. X. Co. has made an
assignment.
The run on the Bowery Savings bank con-
tinued throughout the day. 1t is believed to
be amply able to meet all its liabilities.
The run on the Brooklyn Savings bank had
somewhat subsidized at noon. Up to that
hour xs0, 900 had been drawn out.
Genin, the we'll known halter, and Fenton
b Lee, have suspended.
Railroad stocks went down still further,
Illinois Central r. r. bonds falling OF Is,
and the shares cents.
The Park bank went through the run yes
terday nobly, and closed out to-day strong
er in specie than before.
There was a large business in State stocks.
mostly at lower prices. Bank stock sold at
a. slight decline.
There were rnmors in the afternoon Affect
ing the credit OF some Of the heaviest houses
in the city.
: Ii. A. Colt, whose failure is announced to-
day, is the agent o: Drake 4 Co., Havana.
The Bowery bank goes into liquidation.
The Grocers bank, Of this city, has sus-
pended and closed its doors to-day. Bill
holders are safe enough.
BANK IrExs.-The n. Y. Tribune of the
9th says:
The Charter Oak, Mercantile and Exchange
banks Of Hartford have not been enjoiued.-
Their bills are freely taken ut the stores.
Pine Plains bank is thrown out to-day,
and at a late hour We hear the Central bank
Of Brooklyn is discredited. On the other
hand, the Thompson bank and Worthington
bank are in credit again. The uncurrens mo-
ney brokers operate with much caution, and
buy no large amounts of any one bank
State and Eastern sell at about per cent;
Southern and Western at 10(1l5 per cent
Land warrants are entirely unstable, and
We understand 100 acre warrants have been
slaughtered a. low as Csc. per acre.
A FAxILY POISONED AT KgwAxxs.-The
family Of Mr.. Sackrider Of this place, while
Mt breakfast on the 5th inst. was suddenly
taken i'll. Intense pain, vomiting, purging,
and other symptoms Of poison were piainly
indicated. Medical aid being called, ponon
we assigned as,ths cause. Irappoars to have
been administered in the coffee. Those only
were affected who use coffee. The mill in
which il Vas ground Was in An open porch,
and hence accessible from without. On cx-
animation the mill was round 70 contain cor.
rosive sublimate, which with arsenic had
within a few days been purchased 1t drug
stores in this village, and it 10 supposed that
these poisons were purchased BY William
Whiteford and Thos. Young, whose exami-
nation on the charge Of poisoning il now pro-
crossing before Justice Sykes.
Hope Is entertained that the family will re-
cover, though Mrs. S., being aged and fee
Bile, is still in o very critical condition.
Some OF the family were to appsar q Wiz.
nesses against Mr.. Whiteford on : charge Of
larceny in the county court held this week at
Cambridge. This is thought to be To prov
ocation.
+. The examination Is deferred till tho 9th
inst, for the purp osc Of making chemical
test OF the poisonous matter found in the
coffee, for which purpose it 10 taken 10 the
chemical laboratory Of the college It Gales
burg. Chicago Press
GA vsry sensible woman 10 Mrs. N. p.
Lsgars, lsditross of the Southern Mirror.
published IN New Orleans. She thus siyes
her opinion Of strong minded women; hear
how sansibly she talks on the subject:
"Womaa 10 By appointasnt suprems in
the social and domestic circle III i much
more important that she have the finer fscul-
ties Of her nature 10 high state Of oultive-
ton than the stronger or more mssoulins
qualities Of mind. She had better be : iii
ianthropist than . philosopher. One Flor
encs Nightengals 10 worth more to woman.
kind than oil the Lncretin Motifs and Fanny
L. Tovnsends that ever cursed the world:
while in our domestic circle, one good. iutsl.