The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-09-01


A Republican Basket Meeting will be holden
On Saturday, September LIST, 1860.
at Grove on land belonging to John @.
Turner, in Jackson township, about one mile
north OF the Buena Vista Ferry, and twenty
rods from the Keokuk, IT. Des MONIES and
Minnesota Railroad, at which oil good Re-
pubicans and the rest Of mankind, With their
wives, children and sweet. hearts, and bas-
kess and stores, are invited to attend.
The Keokuk Wide Awake Club will be pres
emit on the OCCASION, and good time gener-
ally may be expected.
Dan1 r, Miller, Esq. G. Z. Moss.
G.. w. McCrary.
and others will address the Meeting.
The regular passenger train on the X. II.
ID. M. & NJ. r. X will wait, on that morning,
until o. O'Clock, An, and will take up pas
sengers on the return at Pm.
Speaking will commence on the ground at
precisely bali. past 10 O'Clock.
KsokuK FEMALE SxxisARY.--By references
70 our advertising columns 1t will be Esen
that the Autumn Term of this Institution,
under the charge of MIR. and Mrs. Williams,
will commence on Monday.
Those who have been sending their dangh-
ters to this Institution are TOO well aware Of
ito excellent management, and the admira-
Bile character of the instruction and training,
to need any suggestion from us. Bot to
such a. have not thus made acquaintance
with the superior character OF the Seminary
in our city we would jus. say, from our own
experience and observation, that We are sat.
isG cd that few seminaries in any section OF
the country are preferable TO that IN our
rnidss, for the education of orr daughters.
go DIR. Hussey, Of Montrose, pocket
edition on DIR. Eads, has been appointed Su-
re.,nterdent of Common Schools for thi.
county. in place OF John A. Num-, resigned
DouoLAs's pKIScrPLK. only fruits Of
Douglass great principle thus Tar, are sh'
terrible and bloody strife in Kansas, which
has distracted the people Of that Territor,
from the beginning, and still keeps them on
OF the Union, Under an irrepealable slav'
Code. because they inslss on free Constssu
ton. And second, the extension and estab
iishment OF slavery over New Mexico re
zion FIVE times as extensive as the State O
New York. And because it has resulted thu
gloriously for human freedom, and progress
the Douglasites insist upon making Dongls
Squatter Sovereignty universal.
A CoLLEog RKBKLLgos.--A correspondent
OF the Petersburg lVa.) Express, writinl
from Chapel Hill, N. u, says:
The other day there were three huDdre
and thirty FIVE students in the University o
North Carolina. But of the ninety cd
Sophs., the Faculty has lately dismissed SIX
Nv odd. One Of them tried bis hand at plaug
ing q new student, and came near ben
xhreshed. The Faculty added another pun
;shsuent 10 show their disapprobation OF ,h
barbarous practice. Whereupon the Sophs
TO assert their right to vex strangers, resols
ed to absent themselves from their duties un
til their their colleague was restored. A
first all OF the class OF the University excer
eleven, engaged in the rebellion, but whe
the sentence Of the Faculty fell, Is caught b.
tween sixty and seventy only. Of cour'
tnair colleague must now show bis pluck b
esche wing prayers and Rotations till his con
pAnions return.
HORTICULTURAL NOTICE.