The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-04-30
IFrom the Cleveland Herald,

1t perhaps is not generally known that
number OF the wives Of the indicted are
sharing prison life with their husbands, re-
fusing to accept private hospitality, but con.
stantly cheering the inner walls of that
frowEing judicial fortress with their smiles
and their words Of cheer. The Leader, Of
this morning, in speaking Of Mr.. Bushnell's
present prison in the Government buildings,
says:
The Jail room Of Bushnell Was guarded
by baiiffs yesterday and last night, though
the Marshall had had the test Of every pos
sble assurance that Mr.. Bushnell had no de-
sire to escape. Mrs. Bushnell is permitted
to share her husbands Imprisonment, which
she does with a true woman's devotion to
one who is perseouted for no other crime but
obeying the Golden Rule Of doing unto
others as ye would that they should do unto
you. Mrs. Peck, Mrs. Filth, Mrs. Plumb and
other noble women OF Oberlin, also cheer
by their presence the prison life OF their hus-
bands, fathers and brothers, an whom the
officials OF the Federal Government are thus
wreaking the vengeance Of the "sum Of ell
villaines.''
Ths Railroad Bridge as clinton.
This work is steadily advancing, a. it must
necessarily, so long as force of from fifty
to sixty men are constantly employed in the
various departments of labor required for
it's constructions. This labor has thus far
been principally devoted to the preparation
OF materials, boats and machinery, and has
made but little show. Now all the boats,
three or four in number, the machinery, and
the caissons are in readiness, and with the
subsiding Of the waters, which have retarded
operations so much, the structure will begin
to assume such form and proportions as will
attract attention, and it's progress from day
to day may be noted by the most casual OBJ.
server. Since our last record, the piling for
the abutment on Little Rock has been finished,
thus completing one-half of all the pile work
to be done. The masonry Of pier No. was
commenced yesterday, and, weather permit
ting, will be finished by Wednesday next
(Clinton Herald.
Steamer sunk by tho Ice In Lake Pc
pin.
| About . O'Clock yesterday morning, SAYS
the St. Paul Minnesotian, Of the 23d inst, Il
the Milwaukee, w. L. Ewing, and Eolian, 10
the order named, we're working through the
ice near Lake City, the two FIRST got out
when the ice closed up on the Eolian, and
crushed her hull so badly that in few min.
utos she sunk in thirty feet water.
Four deck passengers, whose names We
could not learn, we're drowned before they
could escape. The other passengers and
crew escaped on the Zoe.
The boat and her whole freight, which was
very large, is probably total loss, and j,
not, so iar as We are sbie 20 learn, insured
Many Of our merchants had freight upon her
to our knowledge.
| THAT SSAKs.-The Dubuque Express and
Herald Of Thursday says:
4 Some Of our sharp down-river men have
discovered that that 'ssnake in horses eve, p
and which John Roy 10 travelling with, ID nc
snake, but a. Yankee trick. The eye it seem.
is OF glass, 10 hollow and filed with spirits
in which 10 placed snske--its movements
being very naturally caused by the motion.
OF the horse.
i WThs Washington Union undertakes 70
taunt the opposition party with having more
than once changed its name. The organ haa
changed its own name dozen times, and i
now about to change II again. II it were "a
take new name Is often ~ / I disgraces the
old one, il would use up 365 year.-[Lou
Jour.
CO Jerome Bonnparte, the survivor OF I'll
the brothers and sisters OF Napoleon 1, ustil
lives" at tho ago Of 76. He was the young.
est Of the family.