The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-10-10


GTThe genuine Locofoco party in Thu
country is tho natural child OF the Jaeo6ia
party OF France. So IL needn't undertake q
put On airs. ssWon's 70, hey" ssida negro
boy 10 the mule he vas trying 10 drive; 'sfssl
grand, do you? S'pose you have forget that
your father WAS jaoksss. - Lon. Journal.
GA person, who has been writing sssr-
rlous letters from Camp Floyd, says that he
didn't intend in one Of his communications
10 abuse Gen. johnson, ssbut merely TO have
. fling at his staff" We wish the General
~oald give his staff fling 1t him.-[Louis-
vile Journal.
0EfChs divorce docket OF tho Supreme
Court, now in session in Providence, 4. l.,
contains sighty-three petitions Tor release
from matrimony. The Court appears deter
mined to keep up With the business, and in a
single hour removed the yoke from the neoks
Of twelve discontinued couples.
GTA AT Carrolton, KY, on Saturday evs-
ming, two mon named Browning and Martin,
who had long been on bad terms, met each
other in tho street, when Browning, draw
ing knife, stabbed Martin in six places,
killing him instantly. The murderer was at
once arrested.
UThe Bombay Standard, Of August 5th,
says an Investigation Was about to take place
before tn o. S. Consul, L. II. Hatfield, ESQ.,,
of charge brought against Capt. Low, Of
the American bark Helen Mar, BY certain OF
his Drew, of the murder Of his wife by stran-
gulasion, ct sea, some three years ago.
Henry McGill, who has been acting as
Private Secretary to the President since the
resignation OF Buchanan Henry, has been
appointed Secretary Of Washington Terrific
~. He will leave in the steamer OF the 5th
inst, for his post, with full instructions for
our authorities there.
GA statement of gold shipments from
Pike's Peak, aggregate as follows: Re-
600. The rate at Denver is only I'll per
ounce, which is considerably under the real
value.
RTIt is strange that among all the mon
uments and statues which have been reared
ia this country, not one exists to the memory
OF John Hancock. His remains sleep unno-
ticed beneath the soil which be, with others,
freed from the tyranps grasp.
There lie in the county infrmary at
called the "last of the Mohicans," because
she 10 the last of q family of twenty four,
equally celebrated for their longevity and
laziness, nearly all of whom have lived and
died in the various poor houses OF Ohio.
GTMr. Hart, the sculptor, has finished
the statute of Henry Clay, ordered by the
.sLadiss' Clay Statute Association Of Vir-
ginia, and il is TO be inaugurated on the 18th
Of April next, the 82d anniversary of Mr..
Clay's birthday.
TThe cholera carried OF 1900 persons
In Hamburg last summer-9OO in July. Il
ragged seriously in the Duchies Of Macklen-
burg-one town OF $500 inhabitants being
almost dspopulated.
fTThere are at present in the world about
l2l 900 Mormons, $4,000 of whom live in
Utah; and 4,6l7 Of these have about 1850
wives.
The gold mining claim Of Philip Ar
mold, in Yuba county, California, 10 the
richest one in existence. The ppening Of
the claim cost $ll6, 900, bat il yields $780,
000a year, and sometimes 81 900 day.
TTwenty houses we're destroyed by .
dreadful hurricane which swept over Rich
mond county, s. O., on the 10th ul.. The
crops and trees suffered severely.
TMr. Shannon, of Harrisbugh, Psnn.,
has been appointed private Secretary to
President Buchanan.
gTOliver Farnsworth, a native Of Wood
stock, VT, formerly editor Of the Rhode
Island Republic, and who established the
FIRST printing Office in Cincinnati, died at
Newport, r. l., on the 23d ult.
Judge w. II. Underwood, Of Atlanta,
Ga, while on visit to Marietta, o., on the
9th ult., fell dead. He Was among the ablest
lawyers OF Georgia, and noted for his Wit.
GTThe New Haven Register relates that
an actor At one Of the theatres was called
out four times in one evening not long ago
twice by the sheriff, once by 9 tailor, and
once by an irresistible desire to imbibe.
0TMr. and Mrs. Barney Williams, who
have been "bobbing around" Europe for .
year or SO past, and who arrived home on
the Persia, have, it is said, Melted about
700 during their tour.
Early May Cherries,