The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-06-21

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The Davssport Dsneeas, a Friday,
|auys the third Low. inllassy ~ paid %
and discharged to-day, their term Of en-
l1lstnsnt having expired.
Col. Grisr ssArtsd for ~ East this |
morning, on farlough Of thirty days.
The 10th Iowa infantry Is expected
here soon.
TIE SMIzzs FAsM.-Ths Davenport
Dsmocrat says notwithstanding III rumors
that have been in circulation Ito the con- |
trasy-that the Smiser farm Was heaviIy |
encountered by mortgage, vas in chan
Gerry, and that the county Of st. Louis
could not give bona fids title thereto
the two fortunates ont Of City thousand
found no detriment in securing an Also.
lutte claim on said property. Messrs.
Martin and Carpenter returned from St.
Louis last evening, with their credentials
in their pockets, looking none the worse
| for their fortunate Procession.
/ In Winneshiek county there has been
recently large sales of wild land Il the
rate Of sl5 per acre.
The Muscatine Journal notices the
: erection of several fine buildings in that
place lately. That is an improvement,
and 50 is the late expansion Of the Jour-
nal Itself to seven column sheet, which
last impre~.~.vas we should have noticed
before. But the Journal 10 able TO stand
on its own merits. Always good thing,
the moro it "sprsads itself" the better it
) becomes. May its ahadow never grow
0 less.
The Dubuque Times says that the
Mississippi aud Missouri Railroad Com
q pany have about eight hundred men en-
o gagged on the line between Grinnell and
D Newton, and there is every prospect that
Q the road will be extended to Des loines
e by the FIRST of the coming year. sa
. We find the Following names from
+ our State among the inventors of patents
issued for the week ending June 7th:
Jacob Dodder, Washington, Iowa-A
}, washing machine.
i Alfred Trim, Iconium, Iowa-Wind
, wheels.
+ james Weed, Muscatine. Thaich-
ing roof.
e The Dubuque Times says that COL
y onel Dan Anderson, LIST Iowa cavalry, has
resigned. Dan was one Of the old-time
n members Of the Iowa Senate.
( We learn from the Clinton Herald
!, that work on the bridge over the Missis-
e sippi at that place is being urged for.
!, ward with great rapidity. A large crib.
four hundred feet in length, and intended
), for the foundation of the central pier, is
: being sunk. @
-Kossuth county, with population
of three hundred and sixteen. has con-
tributed three hundred and twenty dol.
: lars in cash to the Sanitary Fair at Du-
: buque. More than dollar each for every
= man, woman, and child in the county
So says the Times.
!. The Dubuque Times, of Friday. says
y that dry goods house in that city cold
9 eleven Thousand dollars worth of prints to
a a Chicago firm upon Wednesday. The
it Dubuque firm we're retailing the goods
d at Is cents per yard, and the Chicago
. 6rm took them at Wholesale, and paid 81 !
: cents per yard.
II An Idaho expedition left Dubuque
;. the latter part of last week. 1t was or.
: ganized By Major Maynadier. of the 18th
% regulars, under the act of Congress, pass
1T ed March Sd, 1864, which appropriated
: SIC, 900 for the exploration Of new route
: to Idaho by way of the Niobnrah river
i and the determination OF its practicablity
( for the uses of emigration.
L The expedition will 60 from Dubuque
. to Sioux City, and thence to the mouth
= of the Niobrarah river, following the
,e stream to its head, when it will move
Il across the country to the three forks Of
'f the Missouri, BY the Powder and Big
& Horn rivers, to the mining settlement.
! on the head-waters Of the Missouri and
i. yellow Stone rivers.
's The expedition will be composed OIL
: fifteen men.