The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-11-20
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

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The seige of Charleston has now last.
ed for one hundred and twenty y-eigh,
days.
MIR. John G. Sawyer, formerly Sec.
retary Of State Of Maine, died at Augusta
few days since.
Ex-senator Iverson of Georgia has
been made Brigadier General in the
rebel army.
-Partridges are selling 10 the Boston
market at fifty cents a pair, apd wild
ducks at seventy FIVE cents pair
The New Hampshire Gazette claim.
ing to be the Oldest newspaper in Al nerica,
completed its one hundred and seventh
year on the Ist of October.
On the 18th inst, -four was selling
at ninety to one hundred dollars a barrel
and corn meal at from fourteen to fifteen
dollars bustel in Richmond.
Nearly eighteen hundred 10 en- are
employed at the Portsmouth IN. H Ma
Wy Yard. Among the vessels building is
an ironclad steamer named the Agamen.
ticus, which is l 1854 tons, 242 feet long,
So feet wide and Is feet deep.
Col. Thos. G. Wells, a well known
Louisiana planter, died few weeks since
on . journey in Texas. He was espe-
cially celebrated as turfman, aud bred
Starke and Pricress, the winners of the
Goodwood cup and Cesarswitch stakes in
England.
The old Commercial Bulletin former
ly published in New Orleans, which was
suppressed by Gen. Butler. in 1862, is
TO be sold BY the United States Mrashal
in that city. At the outbreak Of the war
it was conducted by Col. Isaac G. Sey-
mour of Georgia. a near relative of the
Connecticut Seymours. He obtained a
commission ir the 9th Louisiana regi-
ment, and was Killed in one OF the seven
days battles before Richmond.
The Sandusky Register says: AT
no time since the commencement of the
grape culture in this vicinity has tie
grape fever reached to so high pitch as
at present. Lands at all suitable for
grapes have appreciated in value aston
ishingly within two or three months
This Is true both on the islands and on
main land. Besides, preparations are
being made for the most extensive setting
out OF vineyards next sprIng. w hear
OF several cases where thirty I'd forty
acres are to be put out by single party.
The steamer Mary Wilson was burn
ed near Mobile on the llth inst. The
fire was discovered in a cotton bale
Twenty. i've lives were lost anon Q them
sixteen slaves.
Gen. Robert Anderson has been re-
lieved from the command of Fort Adams,
at Newport, Rhode Island, to which be
had been but recently assigned, bis in
creasiug i'll health not allowing him to
continue longer in the service.
The Cecil (Md) Democrat, sa Us that
several farmers in Queen Anne's county,
Maryland, having lost their slaves, have
sent to Germany for ship-load Of emf
grants The farmers refuse to employ
free negroes but even If they we re will
ing to do SO, the number in their neigh
borhood is too small to make good their
loss In slaves.
The soldiers of the e2d Ohip have
re-enlisted in body. The veterans num-
Der IU0 men, aud 200 recruits received
IN Western Virgiuia-refugees fr om the
South-have also enlisted for thrae more
years or the war, making total of COO
men in one segment. The major portion
of the 18th have signi6ed their intention
TO do likewise.
oh, wondrous agel when vant OF
native charms no longer fills fair women
with alarms when painted roses adorn
the sallow face, and iron ribbin9 gives
her every grace; when piles of gold her
sire's ill-gotten gains, are full of atone
ment for the want of brains; when solid
graces WELD blunted dart, while musk
and moonlight win the lovers heart.
The widow of Ex-President Tyler
has run the blockade and was at Bermuda
on Saturday last. She is female OF
very rebellious inclinations.
The waters on the coast, from Cape
Cod to Grand Menan, are crowded with
herring. They have been taken in such
quantities that the fish packers at Port.
land have been obliged to work nights.
A letter from Chattanooga, Goth ul-
timo. says that James L. Murdoch, the
tragedian, is there trying to get the body
of bis son who fell SO nobly on the bloody
field Of Chickamauga. He spends his
leisure moments in reading in the camps
and hospitals for the entertainment of the
soldiers.
The ladies of the Hoosier State have
resolved to get up great fair at the cap
ital, for the benefit Of the sick and wound
ed soldiers and soldiers families. The
The time is not yet definitely arranged,
but it will be fixed in few days. and will
probably occupy whole week about the
fir st of the month.
"A very destructive FIRE visited Camp
Douglas, Chicago. on the afternoon ol