The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-10-17
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

1t is calculated the rebels lose one
hundred slaves per day, who are valued
at 100000. AT the same rate Of loss,
the secesh, in one year, would be out Of
pocket s36, ,50o,O 900 in value Of human
chattels alone.
Over five hundred white laborers
have gone from Newark, New Jersey, to
the Department of the South, where t hey
receive thirty dollars month and regular
army rations.
-Maximilian could organize formi.
dable army, it is said, with the place
hunters eager for appointments in the
new empire. Thousands of applications
have been made from all parts Of the
world /; and it would require the combined
fleets of France and England to convey
to Mexico all the parties who offer their
services.
Dayton, the home Of Vallandi CHAM,
gives majority Of e67 against his re-
turn, Union gain Of TOO within the year.
Franklin county, the homeof Sammedary
and Sunset Cox, shows a Union gain OF
nearly 1900 Where they know these
fellows best they give them their jus. de-
serts.
1t is said that the late election in
Ohio has driven VAL from the borders Of
Canada TO the borders of distraction. and
that Dick Merrick, with his 30, 600, is to
join him there.
RAILROAD ACCIDENTAL locomotive
on the M. s. d N. |. Il. r. exploded her
boiler on Thursday, while the train was
in motion. The fireman was instantly
killed and the engineer was 80 badly
sealded that he will probably die. The
explosion took place in the FIRE box, thus
b'owing the steam and FIRE nto The Cab
/. is said the fireman was blown entirely
clear Of tie locomotive several feet into
the air. No other persons on the train
were injured. The acciden, occurred be-
tween Laporte and Chicago. So says the
Adrian Expositor.
An ancient horn. said TO be the Gift
Of King Alfred. is still blown every night
at Ripon, England. at the hour of nine.
The maintenance of the city charter de-
pends upon keeping up this antique Gus.
tom.
The idea Of making gaslieht from
water by decompcsing is not abandoned.
MF. G. A. Rayworth proposes to DO it BY
electricity. and to set his decom posing
machinery at work by water revolving
coils at the extremi,ies of dry magnets.
A number Of Russian sailors were
granted leave of absence in New York.
which they enjoyed fully Several Of
them having fallen into the hands of the
Philis,incs Of Water street, wers piled
with liquor. aud willie in this state clad
in other suits, and then sold to substitute
agents, who either palmed them off on
enrolling officers in that city, or shipped
them off to other places, where they were
accepted. The Admiral, il is said, will
demand the restoration Of The men iaken
from his feet
Tho father of Spencer Kellogg Brown,
the young man who was hung ut Rich
mond on the 10Th of September, went
into the Fulton street meeting. New York,
last week, and requested prayers that the
death oil his son who was murdered" in
Richmond might be sanctifed Il, him and
his surviving family. The request pro-
ducef a thrill and sensation through the
audience.
A movement is on foot in Massachu-
sets TO procure an elegant sword Tor pre-.
sentation to Gen. Banks, as special
recognition Of his service in taking Port
Hudson. With the sword there is to be
novel volume of quarto size, which will
contain autographs of the subscribers
The book will be embelished with a view
Of Port Hudson. copy of the State arms,
several fine photographs of the General,
&c. The engrayings. by Bufofd, are to
be printed on vellum.
Queen Victoria's health is represent.
ed to be in decline--hut as she belongs
b tolerably long-lived race, we believe
that thirty years hence it will be said of
her that she "still lives" She would
not be so old as her grandfather was when
he died, should she live to see the 6rst
day of the twentieth century. To report
the failure Of the health of great person
ages, is not uncommon trick in Euro
pean journals, which are much more given
tn npWs-colnIro " than are fEnSn nf mer-