The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-09-11

Flour is thirty-two dollars per barrel
in Savannah, and vormy at that.

II savannah, ana WOImy at that.
-Dempster, the SCOTCH vocalist, has
returned 10 this country. after IN ab-
sence Of four years in Europe.
The ship Mary Edsen. chartered BY
A. T. Stewart, the New York dry goods
man, to carry provisions to the suffering
poor Of ireland, has just returned with I
load Of l39 emigrants. +
Gen. Cass ID 20 feeble that he cannot
live much longer. He is in his eighty
first year.
The Mobile. Register says: 1.-THE
negro is no longer an object Of small talk
in the South. The people Of the South
have q place for him, and that is in the
army. There should be no distinction Of
color. when man is2willing to fight for
his home and master.
The Eighth Cavalry having received
about 200 more recruits than its compile
ment, permission has been granted to raise
another cavalry regiment in the State,
(the 9th.
The leading bank of6cersin New York
have resolved to. accept Mr.. Chase's pro-
posal (submitted through the Sub-Treas-
urer, Cisco for loan Of 1886. 600. 900.
The banks are to be paid in October Or
November, in Eve per cent. Treasury
notes, having one year to run, and being
legal tender on their fsce. The Secretssy
wants $50, 100000 in all, but the balance
is expected to be made up in other cities.
Cyrus later, formerly Probate Judge
for Lykins (now Miami county, Kansas,
was hung on the ooh ult., for the murder
of a man near the city of Omaha, in June
last. The murdered man, who had cob
siderable money in his possession, had
been hired by later to bring him from
Pixies Peak to Omaha. later, after kill
ing him and taking his money, threw his
body in the river. he.deed was not dis
covered till few days since. ana created
great surprise, as later had sustained a
fair character. He was ouce in good cir.
cumstances, but becoming involved lost
everything.
The rebel papers insist upon the truth
of the report of the destruction of the Uni
ted States frigatc Vanderbilt, by the ph-
rate Georgia. The Tallahassa Floridian.
of the 22d ult., says: "The Vanderbilt
chased the Georgia for some hours, and.
upon nearing, hailed her, with demand
to surrender, which was answered BY q
brosdside from the Georgia. which disa.
bled and finally sunk the Union steamer
Her crew. consisting of about 800 men,
were all drowned except 3d."
The Union meeting at Springfield,
Illinois, on the Sd inst, was q grand Of.
fair, apparently meeting the most san.
guine expectations. AT the lowest cal.
cula:ion, fifty thousand persons were pres
eut. Speeches we're made by Gov Yates,
Senators Lane of Indiana, Trumbull and
Doolittle, Gen. Oglesby and McClernand
and others. Among the letters read, be.
side that OF the President, we're a plain
spoken missive from Major Gen. Butler
and patriotic communication from Hon
Edward Everett.
BY a communication in the Chicago
Tribune, we.lsarn that on the Sd inst, the
body Of a young man named Jacob Berry
was found near Del Rey, Iroquois count ",
badly mutilstsd. He belonged to Co. F
Capt. Morseman, of the 2ed Iowa Infan.
try, enlisted at Iowa City. He had q
furlough extending from the 9th of Au.
gust to the 9Th of September, and sol.
dier's pass from Cairo to Lasalle. The
account does not state in what manner il
is supposed he came to his death. His
body was buried at Onarga, and his eff.
fects are ia the bands Of Win slow Woods
J. p, at that place.