The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-12-17


England.
NEwBURYPoRr.-Hon. Geo. w. Jack
man, jr., was nominated for Mayor of
Newburyport, by citizens caucus, on
Saturday evening. Hon. Albert Currier
declines the nomination rendered to him
last week.
The machinists' strike in New York
continues. The employers have proposed
compromise, but the sorkmen refuse
to accept any reduction from their orig
inal demands.
The New York Tribune says: "The
Justices of the Supreme Court are msk.
ing an effort to have their salaries raised
from $4,000 to 81 500 per annum.'
A Russian Count at New York is
under arrest for stealing a diamond ring
worth $1,000.
In Richmond good whisky sells at
$4,000 barrel, rebel money. An inferior
article can be had for $1,000. A glass
Of brandy commands FIVE dollars
bingham Young thinks he can rule
Saints easier than sinners with flannel
shirts and pick-axes, and so he won't have
the mines in Utah worked.
-Adjt. Dwight Newbury Of the Mas
sacbusetts 18th regiment, died at Wash
lngton on the Sd inst, from the effect of
wounds received in the late advance Of
the Potomac Army. and bis body is now
on its way home.
NAvAL.-Acting Master Walter H.
Garfield has been detached from the
steamer Home and been ordered to the
command OF United States steamer "Com-
modore McDonough" Of the South At
lantlc squadron.
-Merino sheep from Vermont have
just been shipped for Australia. They
were sent for by sheep-farmers in "the
bush as the best tha. could be found
anywhere compliment to the farmers
OF the Green mountains.
The estimated expenditures Of the
city government of Philadelphia for 1868
amount to s4,S09, 1853 The total valu-
alton Of property. real and personal. in
that city, according TO the recent return,
is sl55, ,45l, ,902.
In the battle of last Wednesday, it
is said that Ger John c. Breckenridge
came very near being captured. His son
and chief of staff are now prisoners.
The coal fields Of the United States
aggregate more than goo 600 square
miles, or an area ten times as large as
that of Great Britain, France, Spain and
Belgium united.
Brig Gen. W S Smith is announced
by Gen. Grant as Chief of Cavalry for
the Military Division OF the MississiE pi !;
reports to be made at Nashville.
PERsoSAL-An English lady who died
recently left legacy of 10000 to Mr..
Disraeli, of whom she was great admi-
rer, although she was an entire stranger
to him.
The grandsons::of Thomas Jefferson
are all rebels; the granddaug ghters, save
one in New York, are Unionists, as well
as their husbands, and two of them have
sons in our armies.
--S.. Paul has voted bonus Of $780,
600 to the Lake Superior and Mississippi
Railroad, upon the completion Of a rail-
road from st. Paul to Lake Superior, by
the most direct route, within five years
the work TO be commenced next July,
and twenty miles to be built in two
years.
With the $500 offered by the New
York Board Of Supervisors, the bounties
for recruits in that city amount to S106
for all who have seen service, and 5000
for new volunteers. Brig. Gen. Hays,
the new assistant Provost Marshal Gen
eral, is now at Albany, consulting with
the Governor in relation to the matter OF
raising the bounties.
"A young servant girl Of South Boston
became cnamored of youth Of nineteen,
son of the family in which she lived
The boy was sent away by his parents,
and the girl given an order of dismissal
from the house. She went up stairs to
her room, and, taking q large dose q
arsenic, died the same day, in spite of all
efforts TO save her.
--Telegraphic facilities are rapidly in
creasing along the Pacific slope. A line
is now constructing from San Francisco
to Portland. Oregon. Workmen are now
at work extending the wires from Sacra-
mento along the line of the Pacific Rail
road, across the Sierra Nevada, making
it, when completed, the third line belong
ing to this company crossing those noun
tains. Men are also at work in Carson
Valley extending the line westward from
this side to meet il. I
The United States. Christian Com.
mission has its stations now at Chattanoo-
| ga, Stevenson, Cowan, Bridgeport and
Nashville. There are 5,879 patients in
the hospitals, and twenty-five delegates
laboring for their relief in every possible
| way. At Stevenson free writing table
has been established, furnished with sta
tionery It is great convenience t
/ tho ruan