The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-11-16
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

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The union between the Old and New
School Presby terian Churches in the
Southern States has been successfully
consummated. The united church will
bear the name of the Presbyterian Church
in the Confederate States.
Madame Anna Bishop is singing in
the interior of this State. Cubas is
dancing in Cincinnati. Murdoch, the
tragedian, is giving free readings in the
camps of the Army of the Cumberland,
for the entertainment of the soldiers.
REcRUITING.-The New York papers
say that the result of the election has
given an impetus to the recruiting busi-
ness In that city, and there has been al
most twice the number of men enlisted
since, than there was for three weeks be-
fore that time.
"A couple Of New York law yers had
knock down in court on Tuesday
When they resumed their standing, the
Judge ordered both into the custody Of the
Sheriff. Subsequently be imposed fine
Of ten dollars on each, and as they had
no money with them, loaned tn em the
amount.
"A singular religious movement is 90
ing on in Scotland Clergymen of the
Church are writing to the Scotsman, ad
vocating the abandonment Of Presbyteri-
anism BY the Scottish Estabishme emit, and
the 'fusion of the Established an d Epis-
copal churches 10 Scotland.
"A resolution was passed in the Board
of Supervisors of Brooklyn, Thur tday af-
ternoon, appropriating half mil lion of
dollars, SO that bounties sufficient to in
duce men to enlist will be offered. The
city bounty was fixed at $500, and this,
together the other other bounties, will
amount to $500.
As the horse car was passing the
cemetery gate, at West Troy, few eve
nings since, "ghost" came cut of the
cemetery and got upon the platform of
the car. The conductor took to bis heels
without stopping to collect his fare of
the terrible goblin. This, we believe,
is the first instance on record of a ghost
patronizing horse railroad.
"A meeting of the livery stable keep
ers in New York city was held Th nrsday
night, with closed doors. TIE business
related to an increase OF the preseh BIT rates
Of fare. The Express says: "It is hoped
however, that the public will not submit
to any such increase. carriage hire in
New York being altogether too high al
ready There is pot city in the world
where such extravagans prices are paid
for carriages as in New York"
The New York artists have nearly
all returned from their summer tours,
and resumed the pencil and palette in
their various studios. Bierstadt still lin
gers in the shadows Of the Rocky Noun
tains, but before Christmas arrive es, he.
too. will have come home McEntee is
1T his home in the katskills, studying the
late autumnal scenery, while II. K.
Brown and Church still dwell in their
country seat up the Hudson. The ar
tists have not been idle during the sum-
>ner months.
Mr.. Thackery, in his portraiture of
the Reverend Dr. Crump, says that "he
roars out the responses in chapel, as ii it
were an honor to Heaven that the Presi-
dent of st. Boniface should take a part
in the service" When "the Book of
Snobs' is annotated, Mr. Thackeray will
be able to enrict this chapter by a gem
from writer in the London Times, who,
referring to the religious devotion of Lord
Lyndhurst, has the inconceivable folly to
say, "Great as he was, be bowed before
the greatness of the Supreme Being
-Courtenay II. James, a son of G P.
r. James, the English novelist, enlisted
on Saturday last, at Cleveland, as a "vet-
eran volunteer" in the Cd Ohio Cavalry.
He is thirty-four years Of age, and has a
wife living in Detroit His experience
has been stormy one. Entered the
English navy at l5-walked Her Majes-
tvs deck six years-then spent three
years in the English army-then FIVE
years as civil engineer-aceompa panied
Walker TO Central America, and has been
Lieutenant in the LIST New Y York Mount
ed Rifles from the beginning of the present
war until honorably mustered out on the
25lh of October.
DIR. Paul Gregory. refugee from
Richmond, has arrived at S.. Louis. He
was Union man during the whole of his
residence in the South, where he was born
and educated, and has been arrested no
less than sixty-fve times for disloyalty to
the rebel government. His property to
the amount of 1857, 900 in Texas, Mis-
sissippi and Arkansas, has been confsca-
ted. DIR. Gregory was formerly Superin-
tendent of the United States Hospital at
Napoleon, Arkansas, under appointment