The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-12-19

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local agent Of the National Era, Mrs.
Bailey's paper, at Washington, has been
put in Jail, in Maryland on the charge of cir.
culating incendiary documents, meaning the
paper.
"A despatch received at Washington, on
the 18th, from Gen. Twiggs, says: 81 met
at lndianoa, Capt. Handy of the Revenue
service, just arrived from Brownsville. Cor.
tinas, and the San Antonio Volunteers, have
had fight. Four of the volunteers were
killed; Cortinas had two hundred men from
Mexico, and is 10 stockade nine miles above
Brownsville. Cavachae ia at Matam oros.
with three hundred men, and processes to be
OF the Liberal party
An interesting son of Gov. Lstcher. of
Va, aged ten years, died Of lockjaw, at his
fathers residence, on the 5th.
As Park Benjamin was proceeding to a
ball whore be was to lecture, at West Troy,
N. T., on the 18th, he slipped and broke one
Of bis ankles. The accident is severe and
painful one.
The Official majority for Ramsay (Rep.
Governor)i in Minnesota, is 1888.
Two volumes OF the speeches, orations
and arguments Of Rufus Choate will soon
appear, from the prest of Little, Brown 4
Co., Boston. A memoir will be added, by
Prof. Brown of Dartmouth College.
Sal a
Virginia show that about twenty millions
bushels of the bivalves were taken from the
Virginia waters this year.
The Ls,cish Messenger, of Dec. 2, pub
fishes gloomy news. in regard to the cond-
ton of the Israeites 10 Morocco. Hundreds
of families have fed from Tangiers to avoid
Spaniards, Moors and Kabylcs. Twenty
seven hundred of these fugitives had arrived
at Gibraltar. The jews. in London have re-
sponded TO the call for aid, and assistance i,
also hoped for from the prosperous Isarel
ties Of America.
The Baltimore pasr;o. speaks Of sh,
people concerned in getting up the So ca,lss
"Union" meetings at the North as "North
srn Doughfaces, who play the pharises ant
the fool to .tha- Santh,n Tho pni,sef is III
leading paper 10 Baltimore.
Tho Clinton railway bridge is nearl,
completed. The cars were expected to pas
over ii about this time.
A young man by the name of William
Taylor committed suicide few days ago b,
hanging himself, in Bloomfield township
Clinton county, at the farm OF Bray Wiley
The St. Charles, Floyd county, Inteii
gsacer Of the lst inst, says several panther
have been seen in that vicinity lately. On
Was killed near Floyd, recently, by Beujami,
Cook, which measured eight feet in length
The skin of the animal, stuffed, il now OF
exhibition in Floyd village.
Tho Grand Jury Of Henry county, hav
found true bills against Hunts and Tinman
who were concerned in kidnapping the vel
low girl at London last summer.
Mr.. Kaufman, Sheriff elect of Clayto,
oSalsy, Lao gos san.e qaati, winch wa
hasched out about year ago by one OF hi
turkies. II lives quiet barn-y yard life, not
witbftanding the oft repeated assertion thu
this fowl can never be domesticated.
PRovEs TOO MUca.-~Gov. Magofin appeal
TO the practice Of the patriarchs TO prov
that slaveryisr right. Butthe Governor dom
seem to reflect that ii Was not ssniggers, - blu
white people, that thepatriarchs held as bond
usn,-or, rather, they held both, indiscrimi
Dately, though white slaves were the NOR
numerous among them. Is the Governor a
advocate Of reducing the "poor white trash
70 slavery, a. some Of his political associate
ares
rT3I 500 gallons Of syrup is the estima
ted product. this year, Of the Sorghum crol
i'm Pike county, Ill. Half enough 20 furnish
the citizens of the county with "sweetening. ?