The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-09-18


em o11G1l ~ NEWS rxz1Ess sre.
There are now nearly 5000 work
men employsd in .the. Philadslphia navy
yssd. 9s lass 5ssa ,sasEf., S
bryant Taylor, lats acting United
States Minister at 81, Petersburg. his ar-
rived at New York. @s.
statement that Gen. HeiAsls-
man is to command An expedition to Texas
il said to Be without foundation.
4 Rhode leland has ffsy-six off csrs ia
the regular army, and about four hundred
ia the volunteers.
The San Francisco Republican says
that the news u the Union Victories At
visksburg and Gettysburg s'ssriossly i'm
pedss the progress Of the Temperance re-
form" in that city.
Boat loads Of splendid oystsrs are
brought to the wharves in Annapolis
daily, aad are!selling at twenty five cents
per bushel.
-Four vessels are shout leaving Eng
land, laden with sections Of the Indian
submarine cable. The cable is coiled in
large iron wster-tight tanks-three on
board ssch ship-which will be kept full
Of water throughout the voyage to Bom-
bay.
The farmers in the Connecticut val
ley are cutting their tobacco. The crop
is good one on an average. The best
tobacco for wrappers. north Of virginia,
is raised in Hartford county, where the
crop the present year is probably worth
half million dollars. Already the farm
ers are offered twenty cents per pound
for their crop.
The citizens Of Pittsburg have tele-
graphed the Mayor Of Leavenworth an
offer 70 furnish homes and education to
6fsy of the children made orphans in the
recent Lawrence massacre. If the order
is accepted committee will be- sent for
the children. and the expense Of transfer
will be borne BY the Pittsburgians.
The French iron-plated frigate La
Normandie's trip to the tropics is said to
be complete failure. A French officer
says that " iron-cased ships are cofins in
the tropics La Normandie has been
compelled to change her crew twice.
"A woman named Agnes Agan. under
sentence Of death for the murder of her
husband, at Buffalo, had her sentence
commuted to imprisonment for life, las.
week, by Governor Seymour While
anticipating speedy execution she had
been quiet and subdued but. on learn
ing Of the oommutation, all the ferocity
of her nature seemed to be aroused. She
BURT into . torrent Of blasphemy, de-
clared that ehe would not go foot from
the city, but would have new trial, and
threatened the life Of one Of the witnesses
against her.
There is An apple tree in the garden
Of Mr.. Danforth, at Geneva in this State,
which is now bearing fine crop Of fruit
and is At the same time full of blossoms
which have just opened 1t is strang,
freak of nature.
An important arrest was made bI
the detective police, in Brooklyn, las
last week, namely, the supposed light
fingered gentleman who stole $3.50, ,O0(
in greenbacks frsm Uncle Sans till il
the Brooklyn Navy Yard, in April last
His name is "BilI Smith," He is Al
Englishman BY birth, and, il is said, I
pickpocket by profession.
William Cornell Jewett is in Londol
again, and has published another ipam
Iphles, urging European intervention t,
stop the civil war in the United States
He pretends to have secured the favor o
the Continental governments to hi
scheme, and to want only the favorabl
consideration Of England to make it cue
cessful. Poor fool. ssas
"A correspondent Of the Springfield
Mass. Republican suggests : new wa
Of bringing about peace: "Let 4 commit
tee consisting of Villaindigham, Sey
| mour, Wood and George Lunt. visit TIL
Confederacy in the name Of the party
and in pathetic tunes, initiating the beae
on which Balaam rode, plead cam no
I thine ass, on which thoa hast riddle
ever since was thine r
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