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

The town elections in Come cticut,
on Monday, resulted in favor Of the Union

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lists.
There is an excitement in Southwest
Missouri and Southern Kansas over re-
ports of the advance of rebel forces.
Our ironclads and the Morris Island
batteries are reported to have again opened
fre upon the rebel defenses in Charleston
harbor.
We learn that it is the intention Of
the Russian naval officers, now in New
York, to take trip to the West, making
tour of observation. They will be vel
come.
Stuart, the rebel cavalry leader in
Virginia, is said to be preparing formi-
dable cavalry dash upon onr lines. The
report OF rebel movement into Western
Virginia is contradicted.
The Berlin Faculty Of Medicine has
condemned Bavarian (lager) beer as the
cause of innumerable cases Of apopIexy.
The island of Monte Christie, which
owes its celebrity to Alexander Dumas
popular novel. has just been chosen by
the Italian Government as a penal settle
ment.
Secretary Chase has just received
queer deposit from the War Department,
being s2,o0o,o0o of Confederate money
captured on Red River. The great ques-
tion is, "What will he do with it %
The Providence Journal SAYS tha.
the Friends who were drafted 10 Rhode
Island and sent to Fort Colu nbus have
been paroled and permitted 10 return
home. By the terms of the parole they
are to answer the call of the Government
whenever made.
a young married couple had an un
pleasant honeymoon experience in the
Lnelish town Of Darlington, the other
day. The bridegroom was only seventeen
years old and the bride fourteen. The
brides mother, hearing Of their marrisge.
new into rage, went 70 the house where
the wedding festivities were going ON,
and gave the boy and biz wife q sound
thrashing. Coutented with this act Of
vengeance, she retired.
A college has just been started al
Coustantinople under American patron
age. Ii is called the Robert College, and
is largely endowed By a gentleman OF
that name in New York. Its announce
ment IN the papers declares that il will
be "unsectarisn and unproselytng.'
The Russian sailors are making glad
the hearts of the New York yes less Of
peachee and apples, By profasc expend-
lture of the queer looking bis OF Russian
silver coin.
cholera prevails extensively among
the English regiments in India. Cholera
has also appeared in malignant form 10
Shanghai, where the deaths are said to
number FIVE hundred daily.
The horse Blackstone has been sold
in England for Ga, 500 {s22, ,5o0l
"A son Of the late Admiral Foote fol-
lows in his fathers patriotic footsteps.
and has become midshipmau.
The "vak lace is the newest thing
for trimmings. 1t Is made from OK wool
in Thibet and Tartary.
Owing to the increasing price Of
provisions and fuel, the hotels in Cincin-
natl have increased board to 50 .er day.
The dignitaries of the Church Of
England, having decided that bishop
ColeDso must be tried for bis heresies in
the diocese to which he belongs, a formal
notice has just been served upon him to
appear for trial at the Cathedral Church.
In Cape Town, on the 18th of November
next. The prosecuted Doctor will barely
have time to reach the place of trial on
the day designated, but the long voyage
back to South Africa will give him leisure
enough to prepare his defense.
Among the oddities of the day is the
establishment of ghost club-not, as
might be supposed, club for the assem-
blage of genial spirits, but an institution
for the organize research into the possi-
billy of traveller returning from those
bournes to which we all look forward with
interest. The club ia in downright earn
est, ss may be gathered from the fact that
the committee advertise for 'haunted
house," one whose reputation is well
authenticated.
A correspondent of the Sandusky
Register, who has spent six days among
the vineyards of Cincinnati, says that
more than half the crop has been de-