The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-05-25

| Regular Lines--CAangs I'm the river
TraAo.
The river trade seems gradually falling in
70 the hands Of oonsolidstsd lines, and reg
ular boats seem to bs orowding transient ones
out OF the business. AT this point, No arc
enjoying the advantages of four regular lines,
above and below lst, the cid Keokuk and
St. Louis Packet Co. which has daily line
composed Of the largest and finest boats run
ming above St. Louis-too large, in fact, TO
run above tho rapids; I'd, the Keokuk and
Rock Island Packet Co., which has just ak
tended ito trips to Dubuque, and now forms
daily line between Keokuk and Dubuque !
Sd, the Express line, which runs between ST..
Louis and Dubnque, and makes regular land
ings at all way points; 4th, the Northern line,
running from st. Louis to St. Paul. This
line is composed Of good class of boats,
and will soon make daily trips between the
two Saints Of the North and the South. On
the occurrence Of low water, the line viii be
divided at this point, three boats making
trips daily between St. Louis and this place,
and the balance Of the boats making daily
trips between the head Of tho rapids and st.
Paul. We shall, by this arrangement, have
two substantially Keokuk and st. Louis lines,
making daily trips, and perhaps some COM
petition may occur. in consequence, though it
| Is the chief aim Of the Northern line boats
below the rapids to do the business for the
country above.
Handcart Mormon hound for HI ono.
Yesterday a Mormon from Utah passed
through our city. He was an Englishman
who bad seen the elephant, and concluded to
| leave the haunts OF the animal. The Nor
mons would not allow him to take his wife
and daughter, and so he left with two little
children, one eighteen months to two years
old, the other perhaps year older. He had
been sixty days on the road and seemed in
pretty good spirits for man who had en-
dured so tedious . journey. His handosrt
was covered with An oiloloth. and contained
his children, gun and eatablss, with an AZ
swung beneath. Another oiloloth, We sup
pose for camping purposee, laid across the
shafts. The children looked clean and hap
py, and the man trudged along at rapid
gait.
No GoLD.-The st. Joseph Gazette chron-
icles the return Of emigrants from Pixies
Peak with contradictory reports, and gives
extracts from the Cherry Greek Pioneer and
the Mountain Ns0s, containing cheering &C.
counts from the mines. The fact that the
emigrants bring no gold, and that nome worth
mentioning has ever been received, is noted
a. significant item not easily reconciled
with the glowing accounts Of the rich pro-
ductiveness Of the mines.
GTRev. Mr.. Thompson, Missionary in
Syria, sailed from New York for his field Of
labor, last week. His visit to the United
States and the publication Of his new work,
The Land and the Book, will have the effect
of interesting the people throughout the
country in his labors and his life.
~The recent Southern Convention, in
which thirteen States were represented,
openly approved and endorsed hlibusterism,
piracy, and treason to their country, even to
tho svowal of their determination to resist
the execution Of the laws Of the land and to
for disunion in preference to submission.
The delegates were generally sound Locofo-
COS.
Acou1rrAL or 4 CArHoL1c pR1Esr.-Rev.
Daniel Do~ney, charged with the murder Of
Mullins, in Virginia, Was acquitted by the
jury at tho new trial awarded him. The YER
dict was hailed with rssounding applause
} by the large crowd present on the occasion.
ELECTION OF SUCCESSOR TO BIsnoP DoANE.-
The seventy sixth annual Convention Of the
, Diocese Of New jersey meets ct Burlington,
in that State, to-day, and will doubtless pro.
seed to the election Of Bishop to I'll the
place made vacant by the death Of Bishop
Doane.
UNITED PRESBYTERIAN GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
A third General Assembly Of the Presby-
| terrain Churches 10 now in session at Xenia,
Ohio, simultaneously with those at Whining.
; ton and Indianapolis.
thirty negroes from North Carolina
who had lately been emanoipated, passed
through Columbus, O., . day or two since
on their way to the northern part OF Frank
: lin county, whore they intend to settle.
0TRight Rev. Michael PORTER, D. D..
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