The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-11-12
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

CT drago from new ofK, on w ednesday
to serve as teachers to the negroes.
"A number of paymasters, With a
large amount of greenbacks, arrived At
Nashville on Thursday. They will CON-
mence paying off the army in a few days.
The man who imagined himself wise
because he detected some typographical
errors 10 newspaper, has been trying to
get a perpendicular view OF the rainbow
An unusually in,elligible strategical
wrifer, discussing of the "situation"
at Chattanooga, says it is the policy Of
our Generals to keep Bragg where he is,
Civ e HIM the cup Of Tan,alus, and roll
bac K upon him the stone Of Sisyphus." -
Horrible fate
The Toronto Globe says"every Cana
dian should rejoice at the prospect afford
ed of growing feeling Of good will be-
tween Great Britain and the United
States. 1fa war ensued, Canadians would
stapd true to their mother country, but it
wopld be terrible calamity to Canada,
hhteyer lis result
ITO prove that George Christy, the
founder Of Christy's Minstrels, was not
sade when he willed his property t, his
wife. his skull has been removed from the
grave and carried into court, and bis back
bone has been photographed.
"A New York letter of last FRIDAY
says:
There has been general raising OF
salaries to-day, in almost every depart
ment of the city government, including
those of the workmen employed in the
Croton Water Department. The increase
Is equal TO twenty-five to thirty per cent
"A New York firm ordered their fe.
male employees TO leave their hoops al
home, as the touching of the skirts in
lured the work at which they we're en-
gagged. The girls preferred 10 leave the
rather thar their hoops. Il
is hard to move the ladies from what they
think IS their own sphere.
The newest mining rush in Califor.
MIA is toward Reese river, long way into
the interior, but is said TO be the richest
and the best poor mans mining country
yet discovered, as its wealth lies up to the
surface and is easily extracted.
The pit in the opera house al Vienna
has no seats. The audience in that part
Of it are compelled to stand during the
whole performance.
Carleton. New York, has 10 press n
new American norsl, by Eres Sargent
1t Is entitled peculiar" and is founded
on incidents brought to light 10 New Or.
leans during the occupation of tia, civ
by the United States forces under Gen.
eral Butler. Peculiar" is a coatraband,
who has been named s'peculiar lnstitu-
ton
English writers are working up the
American war in all SORTS OF shapes,
among the rest into novels, into one VI
y Nhich Henry Ward Btecher igures as
Rev. Mr HAfd-preacher. aud Hiss Dick
lnson, the orator, as Caroline CIevesball
Fame has seized General Mcclellan: he
has been done In wax, and added to Mad
ame Tussauds famous collection 10 Lon
don.
We have now in the United States
at least two hrndred aud thirty -tisc gen.
eral hospitals for the use Of the soldiers
continuing about eighty thousand pa
tientS.
buildings are being erected, under
supervision oil Captain Lee, to make De-
troil cavalry depot.
A Deputy Provost Marshal and
clerk at Pontiac. Michigan, have been
arrested for receiving brib-s to secure the
acceptance of substitutes offered by draft
ed men.
Carleton has in press, aod will pub
lsh in few days. new poem BY Mr.. L.
G.. Steadman, entitled "Alce of Mon
mouth" The scene is laid in our own
country. partly in Monmouth county.
New Jersey. and partly in thc camps and
battle fields of Virginia.
The prisoner alleged to be the Mana
Sahib, turns out to be gooro, or high
priest Of the Mahrattas and he now
awaits the finsl orders of the British Gov
ernment for his disposal There is good
deal of excitement on the subject, some
blaming the Government for allowing
themselves to be ssold," some laughing
at its ridiculous position some maintain
that the prisoner deserves hanging fol
acting as decoy to divert attention from
the great criminal.
James Calendar, convicted Of The
murder # Mrs George Jones an he,
two children. in Otis, Massachusetts,. waf
hung last Friday. at the Berkshire coun-
ty, Mass, jail. The circumstance attend
ing the murder were of the most afro
cious description. Previous to the exc
cution Calendar made some remarks, say
ing tha. his father got him into the scrape,
and that he murdered the mother and
the children. His father was present,
and also the husband of Mrs. Jones.
"A letter from Charleston, published
in the London Index, the English organ
of the rebels. gives an account of the
siege Of the former city from August l4lh
to September l4th. It says tiat grea,
friUht was orcasinnod hv thu chalI ,hro o.,