The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-01-19
KEOKUK:
GENERAL NEWS Ix11GS.

oEN1RA1 NEWS ExDaS.
A OsE LEGGED SKArm.-Among the
numerous fancy skfsen at Bceton, no one
has attracted more attentioa than young
man who. having lost one leg, has learned
to skate With the other alone. With sons
assistance from . crutch, he propels him.
self vigorously.
-During the past year there have been
no fewer than twelve thousand nev works
and twenty thousand pieces of new mu-
sic published in Paris, and six Thousand
works in the provinces.
Hon. E. II. Ewing, one of the most
distinguished citizens Of our State, last
Saturday took the oath prescribed BY Mr..
Lipcoln's proclamalion-the amnesty.-
Nashville Press.
The Executive Board of the Illinois
State Agricultural Society have decided
to hold the next State Fair at Decatur.
commencing on Monday, September 18th,
and lasting throughout the week.
The Frankfort Commonwealth says ::
Kentucky has high opinion of Burn
side. His administration of this Depart
ment was in every respect most admirable.
He did much good for the Union cause,
and was. in all respects, most acceptable
to the loyal men,"
Wood is worth from Sl2 to Sis per
cord in Omaha. The owners are too con.
scientious 10 charge higher price
The people Of St. Louis design cele-
brating the 18th of February next. 1t
will be the hundredth anniversary of the
founding of the city.
In Montreal, couple of ardent sym
pathisers with each of the contending
parties of the American war have wagered
$500 that Grant would never take
Atlanta Sc, 500 that Charleston would
not fall; $4,000 that Richmond would
never be taken; $4,000 that the South
would never be conquered.
Mammoth sleigh rides are all the
rage in Berkshire county, Massachusetts,.
Parties of two hundred and fifty or more
are an every day occurrence.
There have been great many astute
speculations respecting the hole through
which John Morgan escaped FROM the
Ohio Penitentiary. Prentice says that
the message of Governor Tod puts an end
to the vexed question. His Excellency
announces that Morgan escaped through
misunderstanding, This is official, and
SO of course correct.
According to the report of the war
den of the Massachusetts State Prison,
the average number of inmates during the
past year has been seventy FIVE less than
in 1869. The number now in prison
flour hundred and eight is the smallest
for many years.
Some Of the opposition papers have
a good deal TO say of the "rottenness of
the Treasury Department." because a
couple of villains in it have recently been
caught and exposed. The evidence is,
rather, that rogues who get into the
Treasury Department are detected, and
no attempt made to conceal the fact from
the public.
There is prospect that justice will
at length be done to the gallant soldiers
of New York State in the matter of their
votes. The telegraph announces that bills
have been introduced into the Legislature
providing for such an alteration Of the
constitution as shall permit their voting
while in the field Such measure ought
TO pass nem c0n.
There is some stir in New York
about the practices of the Police Justices
who have gotten into the habit of taking
about a million of dollars annually from
the city and the prisoners who fall into
their hands. Afidayits are ready that
will convict the justices of yillainously
sharp practice, and ventilation is in pros
pect.
1t is estimated that the'rebels who
depended upon King Cotton for assist
ance in establishing slave empire have,
during the war lost. in the quantity Of
cotton destroyed and that not raised, the
value Of five hundred millions of dollars.
The 36TH lLLINoIs.-We learn that
the gallant old 36th Illinois regiment has
almost unanimously re-enllsted to serve
while the war lasts. The Seth has seen
about as much hard servic as any in the
field.
FROZEN TO DEATH.-Tbree men were.
frozen TO death in Toronto on Thursdaf
night last. The Globe says since mid
night OF Thursday they have been visited
by the most frightfully cold term ever
experienced in Toroato.
H* Andrew Mullsrkey, an old so,tler
OF Black Hawk county. was recently
drowned in mill race in Cedar Falls
lntoxlcatlon was the cause of the catastro.
phe.-l Sioux City Register.
The Register would say that i, was
owing to his Copperheadisms, be was
consistent Democrat. - [Des Moines
Statesman
Aye, consistent to the last-"the ru-
ing passion strong in DEATH.