The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-11-07
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

John Leech, ths-celebrated English
caricaturist, has been studying life and
character in the gambling saloons Of
Hamburg.
l. We never yet knew an avowed rebel
whose mouth was not full of references TO
and praises of the Constitution of the
country.
Oakley Hall says Governor Seymour
Saved the city" Of New Yqsk. from the
mob. Mrs. Cunningham would say !:
''That's baby talk
Valuable lead mines have been dis.
covered at Newport, N. H., and immediate
steps are to be taken TO work them.
The citizens Of Bangor, Maine, are
to erect 3 monument Of Concord granite,
twenty-seven feet high, in memory Of the
soldiers from that city who have fallen in
defen Sc of their country.
-"Cow Bay" that notorious sink of
iniquity in New York, has - last given
way before the march Of impro1nsst
Good buildings will probably soon cover
the spot.
The following Generals will leave
the service on the 6rst of December to
take their seats in Congress K. c.
Schenck. John A. Garfield, Ebenezer Du-
pont, Green Clay Smith, Benz. F. L. Lo-
gan. Francis p. Blair, and Col. Wm. r.
Morrison.
General Rosecrans. having been in
vited to visit Springfield. Ohio, wrote
from Yellow Springs, on the 28th: 1.-THE
increasing virulsnce of the symptoms Of
temporary indisposition render it impera-
tive that should remain quiet for some
days"
1t is stated that 10 the late cam paign
in Virgins, the loss Of the Union csval-
RI, in killed, wounded and broken-dovn
horses, reached the enormous figure of
thits-fve hundred This will give the
Cavalry Bureau at Washington all the
work it can do, to supply the deficiency
The Government detectives in Balli-
more seizs d blockade ca led the
Toquette, On Tuesday night Her cargo,
valued at $4,000. consisted OF powder,
whisky, lumber and dry goods, intended
for the rebels. This is the largest seizure
Of the kind yet made in that port by the
detectives.
A judge in Indiana is reported to
have thus addressed a prisoner before
him, prior to passing sentence: prison
er at the bar, Providence has given you
good degree of health and strength, in
stead Of rhich you 60 abou, the country
stealing ducks
-"Heroine" is perhaps as peculiar
word as any in our language the Grst
two letters of it are male, the three first
female, the four FIRST brave man, and
the whole brave woman.
A Washington correspondent Of the
New York Independent describes pitia-
BILE spectacle. He says: "Thcre was 8
sight to be seen in broad day light, few
day ago, in front of the Presidential man
sion, which gave those who witnessed it
a shocking idea of the onward strides
which the vice Of intemperance has made
in good society during the last few
years. A woman clad in the richest and
most fashionable garments, with diamonds
flashing from her slender fingers in the
slant Western sunshine, sat upon the
stone balustrade, unable to proceed on
her homeward walk without betraying
herself. At last she rose and started on,
swaying to and fro, and yet soon rested
again, utterly unable to proceed. The
carriage of a foreign minister passed by
the poor woman was noticed--and it
turned, stopped, took in the lady, and car
riei her to her luxurious home. For the
lady is wealthy and occupies high social
position, but she was drunk in the streets
of Washington
SERIOUS AccIDENT.-We learn from
the Iowa City Republican that on last
Saturday forenoon, as Mr.. Nc cColister
was driving some fifty head Of cattle
across the new free bridge at Iowa City.
the bent nearest to the city suddenly gave
way, precipitating the cattle some twenty
or thirty feet into the river, killing some
and breaking the backs of others 50 As to
require them to be killed. The number
Of cattle lost by the giving way of the
bridge was, in all, seventeen. All of the
cattle were rescued from the river, the
water at the place where the bridge gave
wav hoinu nuita shallou-pot rnoro tba ,,