The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-12-02

always cheerfully paid the toll demanded
While the State road ran along by tn.
side OF it for some two or three years, ane
4 when two-thirds OF the travellers drove or
the plank road till they got near the gates
and then passed around without paying
toll never failed in n single instance te
pass through the gates and pay the toll
Thought the nee of the road was worth
the. toll charged, and that the proprietor,
of the road should -be-paid therefor, aud
that it was moi honorable or just to pass
round the gate without paying, i was
then SO simple as to suppose that the rates
Of toll were established by authority OF
and in conformity with the law, and SO as
deal out even-handed justice to all travel
ers alike. / have recently sscertained
upon the best authority. that the rates OF
toll established and collected for about ten
years past have been as follows, viz -
Those travelling on the road from a point
one-half mile below the junction of the
Nontrose road with the plank road, (about
a mile west of the bridget J, are charged
tor two.horse wagon, to keokuk and
back, ten cents; and for one horse wagon
or buggy FIVE cents--and that all travel
ers from Montrose and vicinity, entering
upon the road one half mile farther west,
hare been and still are charged for two
horse wagon twenty cents, and for one
horse wagon or buggy fifteen cents. If
this Is not manifest extur,ion on the one
class of travellers, or rank impart iulity to-
wards the other class, then have some
thing of the first principles of justice YET
to learn. Ii The directors of the plank
road can salts actorily explain the matter,
and show BY some sort of reasoning that
tley are conducting this business fairly,
shall be gratifcd, and the public about
Montrose possibly may submit in patience
otherwise We shall speak out again on
the subject. |
Nov. Goth. s. B.
A Bro SECRET HisroRY.-It has
TRANSFERRED that the rebel General Albert
Sydney Johnston, killed at Shiloh, com
certed nice plan to possess the seces-
slcnists OF California at the beginning Of
the rebellion. He was in command at
San Francisco. At a given time the Sc
cessionists we're to take the forts with his
connivance. and seize 10000 stand of
arms shipped there by Flo. d for the very
purpose. San Francisco ut their mercy,
must have succumb, d. and the rebels
would thus have port in which to fit out
priva,eers, aud would likewise have OBJ
tanned control of the vast treasure of the
State, The fact was either suspected or
known at Washington. Brigadier Gen
ersl 4. u Sumner was appointed to the
command in California, and was privately
put on board of ship at sea, arriving at
San Francisco without previous intimation
Of his coming. He walked, incognito, TO
the office of Johnston, informed himlthst
he was his successor, showed him his
papers, and demanded immediate posses
sion. The astonished rebel had no alter
native but to comply. In half an hour
all the guns of the fort were run out on
the land side, aud heavily shotted. The
same evening the $4,000 stand of arms
were secured. This brilliant, but quiet,
coup d'etat saved the Ell Dorado State.
I Buffalo Commercial Advertiser.
~ A rumor has coached here all the
way from Hartford, Conn, to the effect
that at tho death-bed of the late Colonel
Samuel Colt, among those family friends
who bade him farewell was John G. Colt,
whose connection with the murder of
Adams in this city many years ago fur
nished material for one OF the causes cell
sbres of America. There are not want
ing many believers in the theory that
John c. Colt committed suicide In our
city prison. but that he escaped and left
behind him the body Of another man to
be mourned over and buried in place Of
his. He has since been supposed to have
taken up his abode in Texas, and his re.
ported temperance in Hartford on the
sad occasion referred to has made some
excitement thee. The story goes SO far
IS 70 state that Judge Colt, another
brother, was SO suddenly brought into
contact with tho resurrected suicide that
he lost his senses in aconvulsion and fell
to the ground, injuring himself severely,
All this may be merest rumor, but, ~ one
OF those who have always doubted Colt.
suicide, the story serves to feed nv ere
dulity in the opposite direction IN. Y
Cor. Boston Post
- When you see lady and gentle.
man alone in cab, each looking out Of +,
| different window. he conyincad that tho,