The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-02-15

sold for quarter, now bring from four
to seven dollars.
When they get hard up for tele-
graphic wires in Australia they use crino-
line springs, when woman il found who
is agreeable.
Eight hundred dollars was realized
lately from sparring match at Albany
for the benefit Of the family of deceased
sparrer. Charity cropping out in a new
place.
Twelve thousand Poles have been
killed in battle or executed by the Rus
slams since the present rebellion broke
out, and 5000 banished.
The venerable Josiah Quincy, of
Boston, entered upon his ninety-third
year last Thursday.
Geo. Sala is described Is an oblong
person of gentlemanly ways, with q bull
bous nose, delicately tinted with the
bushes of good old wine
Mrs. w. B. Dinsmore, of New York.
a Boston lady by birth, was the most ad-
mired of the new faces 1T recent pres
entation at the French Tuilleries.
In 1857, the whole amount of wool
shipped from California was fifty-6ve bales
of common coarse wool, worth six, eight
or ten cents. In 1868, the clip win be
over fifty thousand bales. at an average Of
fuanfv.6vo carfc par v,oun1
A Richmond paper records, for the
sake of posterity, as it says. the current
prices in that city for making and repair.
ing boots For making boots, sees foot.
ing, $l40 /; cavalry boots, $3.50; CATERS,
S1l0, and 80 on. It would seem that
the present generation in Richmond
would feel much more interested in these
prices than their posterity.
- The rebels are being whipped into
state Of mind wherein they are able to
see their condition in some of its phases
The Richmond Enquirer, in discussing
the food question. says: If the people
are fed, the army must suffer; and if the
army is fed, the people will starve; and
if the people starve, what's the use oil
the army ~
"A London confectioner has made
cake which weighs 5000 pounds,
stands seven feet high, and is thirteen
feet in circumference. There have been
used in its manufacture $50 pounds OF
-four. 5000 eggs; 5 cwt. of currants,
cwt. oranges and lemon peel, 800 pounds
of butter, 400 pounds Of sugar, beside
other ingredients.
- 1t is calculated that in Paris-and
il is about as bad in New York-the
average cost of New Years day is 10 per
cent. on the gross income of a gentleman
who has neither cousins, no nephews, nc
family of his own, and no intention Of
having any family. No estimate can be
made of what it costs people who rejoice
in matrimonial ties.
- Charles Gsy!er, the well.knowu
dramatist, who has written several very
successful plays. has lately given to the
New York public an exciting and inter.
esting drama, entitled "Connie Soogah, /"
which is being played nightly at Niblo's
Garden, to large and delig GIFTED audiences.
The principal parts are sustained By Mr..
and Mrs. Barney Williams, with their
usual spirit.
ROME VS.. RIcHMoND.-TheC Charleston
Mercury gravely contrasts the steady ex-
erclse of wisdom displayed by the Roman
Senate. after the battle of Gamma, with
the reckiessness of alarm and the desper
alton of demagogueism shown in the
Confederate Congress after the recen,
disasters to the rebel cause. No one will
deny that the point is well taken.
The New York Herald says it was
acquainted with the Democratic party fol-
forty years, and knows it to be dead
There is an organisation of con,rac
brokers that oscilates between Tamman,
Hall and Mozart Hall, and buys and sell,
votes. that calls itself the Democratic
party; but there is no Democratic party. y
- Thomas Buchanan Reade. the arts
and poet, has left the Army of the Com
berland, and has returned to PhiIadelphi,
to practice his artistic profession. Hi
late poem, !" The Wagner of the ALE
ghenies," has had remarkable sal,
throughout the West.
- Governor Letcher said recently i,
an address at Canville, Virginia, tina
Stonewal" Jackson was in favor of con
Quoting the war under the black flag. an
SO expressed himself several DAYS afte
the secession of Virginia, proposing t
set the example by first carrying that ia
In the face OF the enemy. jackson was
model &c Christian"
-Adah 1saacs Menken is the inyen,
ress of new emotion. Size has cause
Mazeppa" to be translated into Frenc
and Spanish, and announces 10 Californi
that she is ready to accept engagement,
to sustain the character in either tongue
"A Newfoundland paper, in speak
ing of the House Of Assembly of that il
land, eulogises it in the following mr.
equlvocal language "Take them for a
10 ALL from their Speaker downward, "
90 hot suppose that greater set of low
lived and lawless scoundrels, as publ
men. can be found under the canopy ,
heaven"