The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-10-14
GRNERAL NEWS rrE Ms.


| The Army and Navy Joufnsl, refe
ring to the unfavorabls physical couditio
OF the people, revealed by the recent drsf
calls attention to the fact that shout thil
ty-fve per cent. OF those VII b pressn
themselves for medical examination in th
British Army are rejected on ! account Q
physical disability.
Judging BY the returns published
the decision in Rhode Island on Monda,
against the political enfranchise o
aliens who have served in the army, an,
who may become nsturalized citi gems, VA
carried by three 6fths Of the whole mum
Der Of votes cast.
Col. Barnett, chief of artillery {,
Gen. Rosecrans, reports that our loss o.
artillery at Chattanooga only included ff
teen pieces. The rebels claimed sixty
and the first reports from the e. cid stated
the number OF guns lost to Be Fifty.
Warrants are ordered to be issued by
the Chittenden county court, Vermont,
for the execution Of Sandy Ks vanaugh
and William Barnett, convicted OF murder
one year ago and sentenced to be hung
on the l7th day of December ne x..
1t is reported a. Washington that
General Heintxelmau will be placed in
command of the Department Of Texas,
aud that General Barnard will succeed
him in comand Of the Depart nent of
Washington.
The Atlanta GA. J Intelligsncer as
serts that Bragg would have followed
up his recent victory the next day but
that his troops were unable to move
until supplies came up.
The Washington Chronicle, state.
that the old means for the reduction OF
Charleston and it, dsfenses-
alluding to the naval forces-have been
abandoned, and that Gen. Gilmore for the
present has resorted to the spade. g
by the last steamers news it appears
that forty improved twelve Founders Arm.
strong guns bad been shipped from Eng.
land for Canada, and tha. . considerable
number Of troops had sailed from Cork
for the same destination.
The annual meeting Of the Vermont
Medical Society will Be holden .. Mont
pe'isr on the l4sh and 18th day. of Osso-
ber.
-fhe piano makers Of New York
lately struck for an increase oftwenty-6ve
per cent. to their wages, but compromised
the difficulty by accepting from their
employers an addition of ::sfteen per cent.
The ooopera hs same city hav struck
work. They are at present paid $3.50.
In Ohio, the test vote of 1 ast year
for Secretary Of State gave the following
result \; For the Republican Union candi-
date. 1875; for the Democratic can
didsts l84,33a-Democra.ic majority
5577.
The Portland Advertiser il informed
that an arrangement hiss at last been ef-
fected " which the Kennebec q Port
land Railroad Company leases th Som
erset 4 KSanebec road for a term OF
twenty years.
1T Is stated that nephew of Presi-
dent LincNp was one of the rejected csn.
didates for admission to the Navs Aead.
Auy.
A commercial newspaper reporter in
New York has made during the past
twelve months, $3.50, 900 in stock specu-
lstions. When he first begA. h was
WORKING for sep aweek.
be eigH Thousand Federal sol.
diers wounded y recent battles ID
Northern Georgia, only two thousand re.
AiASsariouA Aharts.s ~ \ !.
They estimate at WashfngtonAo
that the internal revenue or tax system
will yield enough to pay the interest on
the public debt,
AT the late elections in Colorado
Territory the Union tickets were printed
on greenbacks in compliment TO Secre-
tary Cbase's institution Of that name.
Oliver Wendell Holmes made hia
first appearance as . politician in the
Massachusetts, State Convention which
re-nominated Gov. Andrew.
The other day at a copperhead meet.
ing in Philadelphia, an old Democrat who
was present was invited to . seat on the
platform, and subsequently to make q
speech, which he did to the horror and
confusion of.the viperous assemblage. H.
said, referring to the epeakers he had