The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-10-16
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

grave on bier carried exclusively by
women, and one hundred other women
followed in procession.
The Japanese. before the opening Of
their ports, had not had a war for TWO
hundred years. But as soon as civilza-
ton makes an entrance among those bar
barlans, they have war enough on their
hands.
Vallandigham is defeated by about
$4,000 majority ON the home vote. The
Ohio soldiers vote will swell it to over
10000. This 10 glorious. Woodward,
the Pennsylvania Vallandigham, is de-
feaied by about 80, 900, and it may reach
$4,000.
1T has been decided BY the War De-
partment that the item Of fare in sleep
ing car is legitimate charge among the
actual necessary expenses Of an otheer,
travelling in the discharge Of his duty or
under orders, if the journey be prosecuted
by night.
The cause of the result Of the recent
elections can easily be arrived at. The
soldiers, many of whom are Democrats.
vote ea masse against those who oppose
the war, and their letters home, through
a thousand silent avenues, taught the
masses of their party their duty. The
leading men, who have made the Demo-
cratic party what 1t is, will not follow it
under the lead Of such tories as Yallan-
digham,
A big haul was made by burglars in
Cleveland last week. A Mr. Faulkner,
an Englishman, had between $4,000 and
81 200 in gold and silver buried u
stone crock in his cellar, and supposed
that only himself and his wife knew Of the
deposit, but he was mistaken. On
w ednesday night the cellar was entered
by the window and the whole sum un-
earthed and carried of.
The grape interest in Ohio is becom
ing more and mort extensive. In the vi
cidity Of Saniusky there are enc thous-
and acres employed ingrape culture. sew
en- hundred of which are in full bearing.
Another year the quantity in bearing will
probably reach two thousand acres. with =
larger setting out than ever before. The
vineyards of Cleveland ara also assuming
extensive proportions.
The new sovereign Of Egvpt has late
ly expressed his determination to put an
end 10 the "forced labor" system Of that
country, in many respects similar to the
slavery institutions Of Caba and the re-
lbeli0us southern States. This forced
labor has in no small degree contributed
to the decline of Egypt in wealth and
prosperity. The Vlceroy will carry out
bis reform in this particular in the fur
| ther prosecution OF the work Of digging
the Suez Canal,
A letter from Henry Ward Bcecher,
dated London, September 25th. says
He need not be expected home for some
time yet. He had made engagements t
speak in London on the Goth ult., and
subsequently at Liverpool, Manchester
and Birmingham. In all probability h,
will be ready to leave England in the lat
ter part Of this month.
Preparations are being made sue
cessfully for the grand Lindell Hotel ball
in St. Louis, to take place about the Is
proximo. Accommodations will be pro
vided for about 5000 persons. Promi
nent persons in other cities will be invi
+: ted. The Lindell Hotel is the larges
4 public house in this country, and, wit
one exception, in the world.
Another batch of Illinois copper
heads mot Democrats) were arrested o
Monday at Greensburg, Ind. They cor
fessed that they we're going to Ohio t
Evote for Vallandigham, and that the
were ordered to report to one Churchill
Of Cincinnati. This shows the regard th
. copperheads have for the Constitutio
4 and laws made in pursuance thereof.
Il Among the letters to JEFF. Davis, n
; Gently captured in Mississippi. was on
from Gen. Gadsden, of South Carolin'
written in Mexico in 1854, when Dav
/. was Secretary of War, developing tt
: scheme of a great slave federation in Il
) West Indies, where Southern planters
> enterprise would 6nd space and Undue
ments for new homes.
,fl I'm the case of Daniel Deerbrigh
:. Ist New Jersey volunteers, sentenced
be shot as a deserter, his extreme you
and sincere penitence were earnestly re
h resented to the President by the Chapla
1t of the regiment, the Rev. Mr.. Var
,r I'll faI