The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-08-11


being no majority but it will be opened in
September, 1859, under new auspices and
with superior corps Of Professors.
THE BUCHANAN FoRcR in lLLINols-The
Buchanan power is evidently growing in ILL.,
nois. The following papers now support the
Administration, and oppose the re election
OF Douglas The Chicago Herald, the Peo-
ria Union, the Fulton City Advertiser, the
Alton Telegraph, the Oquawka Spectator,
the ogle County Banner, the Illinois State
Democrat, (Springfeld), the Bureau County
Democrat, the Putnam County Democrat,
the Jonesboro' Gazette, the Cairo Times and
Delta, the Clinton County Democrat, the
Belleville Star Of Egypt, the Joliet Signal,
the Kankakee Democrat, the Ottawa Free
Trader, and a large number Of others, SUI
porting both Douglas and Buchanan. Ar
rangements have been made to start paper
of the adamantine sort at Quincy.
ARE NKcRoRs BxrrER Cir,zxNs THAN IRISH
sEsf-The New York Tablet (Catholic) is
indignant because Mr.. Carter, one of the
owners Of the Washington Union, in his ca
pacity Of assistant clerk Of the House, die
missed two Irishmen who tended the furnace,
and placed two negroes in their places, CIV
ing the negroes higher wages, too, than the
lrishmen. The Tablet asks II negroes are
better citizens than lrishmen under Demo-
cratic administration.
The TnouGHT - One Of the editors Of the
Glcnwood mills Coz Union has lately died.
1t Was neutral paper while under his con-
troll. His successors have changed the name
to The Thought, and run up tho Buchanan
dag. A bad thought, that
DIsuNIoN. We made some extracts last
week from d,sunion speech delivered re-
GENTLY by MIR. Newton, Of Virginia. We APP
pend the closing paragraph Of an editorial
of the Louisville Journal on that speech, and
call attention to the fact that the editor OF
that influential paper expresses an opinion
often insisted upon by us, and amply sus-
tanned by facts, TO the effect that the Demo-
cratic party is controlled by o faction disloy-
81 to the Union:
The peculiar significance OF this speech Of
Mr.. Newton is that man of his character
and position should venture to make il be-
fore a promiscuoGs audience OF Virginians
He never would have done 80 but from well
founded belief that large majority Of his
audience symrathized in his disunion views.
This induces the fear that sdisnnionism lie by
no means confined to the extreme Southern
States, but that the Democracy Of Virginia
is also deeply tainted with the foul infection.
That such is the fact gives the subject an as
pect Of most painful interest. IL the Demo-
cratic leaders of Virginia are covertly work
ing for disunion, with the sanction Of their
| constituents, then it is time for the people Of
Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri to awake
from their slumbcr Of fancied security
Their own interest in the preservation OF the
Union is so manifest and paramount, whilst
their affection for the Union is so unanimous,
that they cannot realize and will not believe
the wide spread reasonable disloyalty Of
the more Southern Democracy, 10 the alb
senoe Of oil provocation or national motive.
But to act advisedly in reference to national
politics, the people Of those three States need
only to be awakened 20 proper sense OF the
peril which attends the fact that the present
Democratic party ia under the control Of dis
unionists.
gTln Dubuque they have just completed
new Jail at al expense Of forty-fve thous-
and dollars.
How much does Judge Boyles propose to
expend in the construction Of Jail in Keo-
kuk, and when shall we have it erected?
RusT IN oArs.-We see statements in the
papers that horses have died during the pres.
ent season in consequence Of eating oats af-
fccsed by the rust.
CT The transatlantic mail averages
about l6, 600 letters per day. This fact gives
some idea of the business which would be
done by an ocean telegraph.
| cTChies Justice Dner, Of the Superior
Court OF New York, Is lying at the point Of
| death.
| CO The health Of Bishop Potter Of Penn
| syiyania, who is now in England, Is reported
~ slightly improved.
Tho PreAldeni's letter ON Hin En-.
gitsh.
The New Albauy Tribune publishes the
following letter from Mr.. Buchanan to Bill
English, received by the latter q few DAYS
prior to tho Congressional Convention in his
District, and doabtless used by him to facili-
tate his nomination.
WASHINGTON, July Is, ,5S.