The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-07-16

caught the spirit, the tone and the expression,
and henceforth they call our laborers "white
niggers."
DEATH OF RUrus CHoArE.-A private dis
patch from Halifax to Boston announces the
death Of Rufus Choate, which occurred at the
former place on Tuesday afternoon.
The Explosio ON al Port Gibson.
We mentioned, a short time ago, an at
tempt made by some malicious person to
blow up the Court House and SHERIFF. office,
ut Port Gibson, Miss. The Port Gibson
Repeille of the End inst. gives these particu-
lars:
The vault led out of the Sheriff's Office un-
der the stone stairway. This vault was about
eight feet deep and three and half wide !;
and in it, built around with solid masonry,
were two iron safes, nothing of them visible
but the doors; the first one was comparative
lv useless; the second one was good, and
generally contained what money was in the
hands of the officers. This was the place,
evidently, where the powder and the match
were applied-and what is stranger still, the
inside of this safe-the good one-shows
signs, and the manner of the explosion indu-
ces the belief in every mind, that the powder
was'placed in the inside Of it. The back of
the safe is shattered to pieces, the masonry
and heavy stone stairway leading up behind
it, and what separates the vault from the
hall OF the building are entirely shattered into
fragments, piling them in confusion over the
hall floor. The force of the explosion was
certainly, from the appearance at this point,
although it seems, from the destruction Of
the walls beyond and nearer the vault door,
that powder must have been applied in that
part also. The vault door, q strong iron one,
was thrown some distance, the rivets snap
ped, and the door itself almost bent double.
This door was locked and bolted at the mo-
ment Of the explosion the bolts showing the
fact as they now appear, and the safe must
also have been locked, for we hear that it
contained from $4,000 to $4,000.
We understand that some few pieces of
stone Jug were found near the safe, showing
strong marks of powder, and it is supposed
by many that this jug contained the terrible
demon that, all unconscious of its power, has
caused this Wholesale destruction.
The room of the Probate Clerk and the
Sheriff,s office, as we'll as the two jury rooms
up stairs, are in state Of the most interest
ing confusion. They are untenable. Mr..
Coburn and Mr.. Miller, artists, who occupied
for the summer the two jury rooms, were in
bed in the southwest, room at the time Of the
explosion, and although the east wall Of the
room was torn into atoms, they, We are hap
ply to say, were uninjured. Some persons
who arrived early, kindly assisted them down
by means Of ladder.
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There are symptoms of the beginning of a
great religious movement in Jerusalem. We
clip the following from the London Record,
of June IT. 1t is part of letter dated at
Jerusalem:
"The REVEALS in America have made
wonderful impression on our people here
Brother Valentiner and occasionally make
communications out of papers we receive,
and it appears not to have been in vain. We
had several applications for the arrangement
of similar prayer meetings, but for long
time we hesitated; as, however, they were
urged upon us perseveringly, we at last
agreed, and We had the first meeting in the
Mission library on the lst of March. 1t sur
passed oil expectations; the room was so
crowded, that rs it would not contain at last
adjoining room to accommodate visitors. 1t
was a most solemn hour, and the prayers of.
fered, though free from all excitement, bore
very earnest character. Six prayers were
offered up BY as many individuals, and though
not arranged beforehand, but left entirely to
the direction Of the Spirit, three were offered
up by Jewish brethren and three by Gentiles.
There was only one in English, and all the
others in German. We all felt that it was
good for US to have been there, &C."
The Election Frauds In M inn es ota.-
Governor q orman's Confession.
The reign of the sham Democracy has made
MINI esota perhaps the most luckless CON-
monw ealth in the American Union, after Vir-
ginia. Her people, swindled beyond prece-
dent in the loan Of their credit to moonshine
railroads and broken down currency mills,
have now the satisfaction Of learning that
they were completely Invested of all political
rights at their first State election, and that
their first Governor, and probably their first
Legislature, their first Senator'S and Repre-
sentatives in Congress. were foisted upon
them by villainy hardly paralleled in the
history of free government.
| 1t will be remembered that after the cleo
ton of 1857, the Republican press Of the
Stale cnhrbeu upon the Fsuerhl omcer6 ana
the leading members Of the opposite party a
series of high handed frauds in the voting of
the Indian tribes, and the forging of returns
from Pemhina and several other wilderness
| precincts.
These statements were supported by such
evidence as made them generally believed,
but hitherto there has been no testimony
from the conclave where the frauds were
Matched, sufficient to bring tho evidence to
the point of demonstration.
German duplicates Senator Rice, Governor
Sibley, Secretary Chase and himsslf in the
! forgeres of returns by which the State was
secured to the Democracy --forgeres which
should subject every man who countenanced
or participated i'd them to hard labor in the
| penitentiary.
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One.HOrAe MagtSfratc.