The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-10-23
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

appropriate epitaph for the valandigham
Peace party:
II "ven links Of vat pc.
II And vat used 70 vas,
ri lt.nks I've throwed myself away
without sufaeient cos"
Il -Robberies are becoming SO frequent
in Richmond that cotemporary thinks
} the ghost Of Floyd is about.
I The total appraised. valuation Of all
the property in the State of Wisconsin.
Just published, is s453,O7l, ,773. .42-on
which there is levied State tax q
saSq, 100.
i The great seal of the new common
wealth of West Virginia has representa-
tives which symbolic agriculture and
mining. The motto is, Moatant ssmper
Isi5eri; mouutaineers always free.
4 The trunks of two trees have been
sent from the battlefield at Gettysburg
for the Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania
Historical Societies. They will attest
the ferc .ness of the conflict there, one Of
them having $50 bullet holes in the space
Of twenty one feet, and the other having
10 in the same space. SD reminders
they will be of tie heroic dead.
| The 81, Louis Union says that the
rebels, during their occupation of Boone
vile, No., stole unfortunately from
Union men and secessionists, carr ying
away property TO the amount OF SaoO, 1000
i from the town and the adjacent county
1.-The county Treasurer had $50. 900 in his
office, but managed to carry it away be
fore the thieves reached the place
They failed also to break open the safe OF
Mr.. Stephen, a broker, which contained
about SIS 0o0 lie, however lost about
$500 in horses.
j.. 1t must BE-, says the Cincinnati
, Commercial, a singing and unexpected
rebuke to the gentleman who watches and
, waits over the border, to be repudated
by the people of his own city and county
DAYTON sets the seal of condemnation or
tie exile, and stamps it with majority
OF 967 and Montgomery county affirmi
the decision of the city By minority o.
, 400. Lastye Montgomery county gave
a Democratic majority Of 473. The
> Union gain is nearly, if not quite, 700.
-Worchester, in Massachusetts, II
either very prolific or very literar.
: town. There are four thousand MINI
hundred and eleven school children regis
t tered. A little effort would bring thu
q number to an even Eve thousand.
!. Robert Babcock, of Wardsboro, Yer
mont, recently died at the advanced ag
OF one hundred years and six months
He was one of the 40 picked men who
. under the command of Lieut.. Col. Bar
ton, captured tie British General 81
William Prescott, on the night Of July IL
ll777. and thus obtained an officer c
suitable rank to exchange for Generi
n Lee. who had been captured By th
b British.
= An address will shortly be presente
r to the President by the people of VII
le ginia. 1t will indorse him thorough
T. for what he has done, and patrloticall
/ upbraid him for not doing more. 1t wi
=, advise that means be adopted to graz
'p ually or Immediately purge East Virgin
re Of slavery and will condemn maudlin Pr
y yost Marshals and lukewarm Unionls
Of severely.
= The roast beef and ale of Englar
evidently tend to physical preservasio
The Dean Of Winchester, o8 years oil
.precently went from his rectory to Londo
NC baptzed his great grandchiid and rstur
y ed home to dinner, having taken a NOR
ing ride Of $50 miles.
Il The Unconditional Union Conve
BY ton of the State Of Delaware, which n
on Wednesday last, declared emanc'patl
- in the State necessity, and heartily
CO proved of the employment aud eniis'me
of negro troops.
While Mabie's Meuagerle was exh
- iting at Louisville last week, Wm.
" Cook, the owner Of the Albina side sho
:. and an agent of the menagerie, was re
: bed Of $4,000. The matter was ke
- :. quiet, as suspicion was strong agal'
Young man named Frank Pierce. in
employ Of Coop, As the guilty party.
Wednesday Pierce was arrested. We lie
:: at Seymour, Ind. and the greater
Of the money recovered.
In the city Of Richmond, it is
for mated that before the rebellion broke I
esI- the amount expended was annually tws