The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-09-03


-Hon.J. W. Cattell, Auditor Of State,
is suffering from serious illness. His dis
ease is erysipelas.
JONES CoUsTY.-A grain elevator, hav-
ing storage capacity Of 10000 bushels,
has been erected at Monticello.
Lon Thursday Of last week David J.
Wood was killed instantly by being caught
in the machinery Of ssv-mill, three
miles from Oskaloosa. So says the Her.
aid. The unfortunate man left wife
and three children. # -
The rebels at Lawrence, took Gen.
eral Lanes sword, which was presented
to him BY bis regiment after their return
from the Mexican war. During the pur-
suit the General killed the rebel who had
it, and recovered it.
1t appears that Illinois is credited
with an excess of 10000 men over her
quota Of volunteers ,and that consequent
| " there will Be no draft in that State un-
der the present call.
| The water of the Ohio of late has
turned to . deep green, covered With
scum of the same color, which extends as
far up the riverss Cincinnati, and il per
fecty unaccountable to the oldest boat
men. Great fears are entertained that it
will produce sickness.
| The Americans have large number
Of men engaged in putting up new works
Of defense, and repairing the old ones, At
Fort Niagara. It - their intention to
mount the fort with goo o-pounders, colum-
biads. The new works will make Is
very formidable affair.
John D. Lumbert, prominent mer-
chant of Dubuque, was accidentally
drowned oa the night Of the Goth ult, BY
falling Of foos-bridgeinto Catfish Creek.
His body was found the Dext day in va
ter about ten feet deep, bis head sticking
in the mud in the position in which he
must have fallen.
We learn from the Chicago Tribune
that the circulation of the disloyal Chi
cagp Times has been prohibited at Camp
Douglas, BY Col. DeLand, commander Of
that post. The Tribune says the meas
urs was . necessary one to prevent the
possibility of an outbreak among the reb-
ell prisoners, for whose benefit the circu-
lation was intended.
i IL 10 stated, on what is considered
reliable authority, that the rebels in Rich
mond feed our soldiers who are prisoners
in their hands on soup made from the
bones of old dead horses. The leanncss
of the bogus Confederacy is such that
they can probably do no better.
An extensive rope factory, Il Wa
vsrly, Mo, owned BY 7. IL. Hoffman,
was destroyed By FIRE about O'Clock on
the morning of The Goth. There was
, stock of hemp and rope on hand valued
at So 900. eThe factory was worth s25,
+ 600. The FIRE is supposed to have beer
the work of an incsndiary. No insur.
ance
i If you take dollar in gold to Rich
mond, they will give you in return six
teen of the paper dollars Of the Confede
rate Government, and twelve Of them fo
Q one of Uncle Sans greenbacks. tn.
: Southern Treasury is poorer than that o
I Hayti, for there the paper dollar il wortl
eight cents in hard currency, which j
two cents better than that of the rebels
4 Several Federal soldiers, belongin,
to Kentucky regiments. are to be shot .
! Munfordville, Kentucky, next Friday
4 September 4th. Their crimes are desel
J! ton. They have besn tried and sen
! fenced to death BY a regularly organize
7 |court-martial, and the sentence in eac
= case has been approved BY the Gsnera
commanding the Department, Major Gea
Aral Burnside.
A correspondent Of the St. Paul ri
oneer writes that he has information frol
: !, Red Lake to tho effect that eleven Chip
= kpewas, under the lead Of Mayzhuc-e
. yaush, had fought and killed ten Siou
: Indians. without using a gun, havin
nothing but knives and tom-hawks. n
= fight took place at Pembina Mountain Q
: the l4th of August.
!. "A heavy frost visited Buchanan an
neighboring counties on the night of Il
24.h ut, doing serious injury to Il
3 corn. That section Of the State has hs
: frost in every month Of the present yes
= The Independence Guardian says that |
: the night of the cath the mercury, f
z to 800 Fahrenheit. The week before, +
:. several days, it ranged as high IS go.
FL m I..c>et y,oat;no evar hold