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


The pretty girls in the National
printing office gave the President hear
ty welcome and boquet when he visited
the establishment few days ago.
The wheat crop:harvested this season
was larger than that of last year. The
The damage to the corn crop BY frost was
considerable, though less than at FIRST sup
posed.
-Advices received at the Office of the
Provost Marshal General at Washington.
indicate that volunteering is already going
on more actively than had been antici-
pated in various parts of the country.
Governor Letcher told the conven-
ton of conscription officers, which met in
Richmond the other day, that he had good
reason to believe the war "would last as
long as the American Revolution did,
-Diptheria is fearfully prevalent in
some parts Of Maine In Moscow and
other places, whole families have been
swept off BY it. In Oregon, also, it is
said TO be very destructive.
1t is stated that immense quantities
OF wool have changed hands in Zanesyille.
Ohio. during the past few weeks. One
firm alone have bought about fifty thous-
and pounds, paying an average Of seven
ty cents per pound.
The English Register Generals re-
cent report shows that nearly one in eley-
Ell deaths in London occur 10 workhouses.
and that every sixth person dies either
pauper or criminal London now covers
l20 square miles. The population, which
increases 900 week, is nov three
millions.
The lady managers Of the grand San
itary Fair at Chicago gave a dinner to a
number of Governors, Senator's, and other
distinguished gentlemen of the North
west, on Thursday. Among the repre-
sentatives of Iowa present, were Col.
Stone, Governor elect, and Hon. James
Harlan
"A district has been discovered in
Russia of similar formation 10 that of the
oil-producing region of Pennsylvania, aud
other parts of America. Col. Gowan, the
Yankee officer who has been raising the
Russian feet at Sebastopol, has obtained
a grant Of $4,000 acres upon which to
carry en- his explorations.
West Virginia follows the example
Of Pennsylvania and Ohio, she having
elected the Union candidates for Congr
by large majofiiies. Blair, Brosn and
Whaley are the Coneressmen elect. and
they are Unconditional Union men.
The strikes among the workingmen
IN New York continue. The coopers, ci-
gar-masers, carpenters. tin, copper, and
sheet iron workers, and journeymen tai
lors, have all been holding meetings with
the same object in view-an increase OF
wages.
Hon. James G. Hoyt, Of Buaslo, and
Judge OF the New York Supreme Court
OF the 9th Judicial District, died on
Thursday last, in the 5Sth year Of his
age. He had served on the Bench for
three terms, and was regarded rs one of
the ablest lawyers and soundest Judges
OF the State.
A terrific explosion occurred at tho
Pennsylvania Zinc mines, in Laucon tp..
Lehigh county, on the Goth ult. Four
boilers belonging to an engine used for
working the mines, were blown to atoms,
together with the buildings in the vicin-
| ity. Fortunately the workmen were ab-
sent at dinner, and only one man-a team.
ster named David Binder-was killed /;
and one, named Edward Delhi, was seri-
ously wounded.
Gov. Buckingham, OF Connecticut,
has called an extra session of the Legis.
lature, 10 meet at Hartford on the Sd Of
November. The object is TO have some
plan adopted by which the quota Of the
State, under the Presidents last call for
troops may be promptly filed
The weekly report of the Govern
ment hospitals in Philadelphia for the
week ending Oct. 3lst, shows total OF
1861 beds ready for the use of patients,
and 5,357 patients remaining in hospitals,
5ll of whom we're admitted during the
week while 449 had been returned to
duty, and ten had died.
The negfo insurrection in johnson
county, Ca, respecting which we pub
lished an item few days ago, was even
more serious, if we may believe the local
papers, than at FIRST announced. A reg
ular army had been formed, officered from
Major General down. The commander
and many Others have been arrested, and
the scheme, perhaps, frustrated. The
people are much alarmed
-"Cheap undertakes in London
agree to bury children for three shilings,
price of coffin included. The result is,
that many cases are constantly occurring
where the children are not buried at all,
or are Improperly inferred The London
newspapers are making al outcry in re.
gard to this matter, and the subject of
infanticide, now becoming apallingly CON-
mon in all parts Of England.
SThere arc some who are altogether
baffieed by circumstances. Baffled by
circumstances, say you? How baffied
In what sense baffled? Hindered from
becoming rich, perhaps, or learned, OF
famous, but not hindered from becoming
men. The object Of mans life, in what
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