The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-02-08
GENERAL NEWS lrruss.


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~s-s'Nothing to Wear" is the most pop,
ular song in Dixie. A ,v
The 4th Iowa battery has received
orders to report at New Orleans. They
we're to leave Davenport yesterday morn.
ing. ssg4s AA>8 500 s1 t8f
MIR. f. f. Keach, the well-known
actor. and manager Of the Boston Mu-
seums died ON Sunday. a4Esz.z
"A free course of six lectures on DO
litical economy commenced Friday night,
At Cooper Institute, New York.
General Averill is visiting at his
home in Bath, New York. He had a
public reception.
The son of the Prince of Wales is to
be called Albert.
-Lamartine, the author, the widover
and the bankrupt. is going to Try matri-
mony again this time with rich Rus
sian princess.
A young lady at Newark, New Jer.
sey who lately had surgical operation
performed for straitening a bent finger,
soon after died Of lockjaw.
George Augustus Slla, the new Eng
lish correspondent on our shores. is de-
scribed as an oblong person OF gentle
manly ways, with . balbous noee, deli
cately tinted with the blushes Of good old
wine.
-Thackery has left bis two daughters
81 800 year each, besides which he
vas worth about $4,000, and owned 4
fine house at Kensing,on.
General Burnside, Ex-Governor
Wright, Of Indiana, and others, spoke q.
Cooper Institute, New York, Sunday
night, for the benefit of soldiers families.
We learn from the Taxewell IN
Republican that Mrs. Allen, wife OF Mr..
10 hn Allen. residing on Delavsn praire,
in Tazewell county, lost her life by falling
into we'll from which she was drawing
water, her husband being absent At the
time.
Ambrose Rath, aged rs years, sol.
dier in the Iowa Graybeard regiment
died recently at Lockport, Illinios. The
The Cedar Valley Times says he served
in the ranks until the day Of his death
he was in the campaigns Of the Florids
and Mexican wars.
The portraits 10 the Governor 8 room
at New York, have been levied on 70 sat.
isfy judgement Of S28, ,558 80, obtained
last year by a couple of city contractors.
The Comptroller refused to pay the claim,
and the pictures will be sold uuless the
matter is arranged.
Major General Sickles, in conoeetioa
witt some of che 6rst-class basiress men
at New York, Is at work organizing new
insurance company to insure The life and
limbs OF soldiers and eailors. II il good
thing. and General Slcsles is JUS. the
man 10 be at the head Of the movement.
The Ladies' Loyal League OF New
York have forwarded to Senator Sumne.
at Washington their petition for the enan
clpation OF persons of African descent
held 10 involuntary servitude. Tie pc
tition contains over one husdred thcusspc
signatures Of persons residents in differ
| ent States.
I The State Constitution adopted b,
the Arkansas Convention. recently 10 ses
sion at Little Rock, provides that neithe
slavery nor involuntary servitude sbsl
exist in the States. otherwise than 70
punishment Of crime whereof a party shaI
have been convicted by due process o
law. Among other measures it contem
plates system of free schools
AT Boston the other day. Burnsid
said he asked captured rebel after tn
repulse Of Longsreet before kuoxyilk
why the latter, knowing that reinforc,
MEETS were coming up. did not rene,
the assault "WelI,'' said he, "Genera
| will tell you. Our men jus, swear ths
they are never going into that slaughte
, pen again, and when they won't 20 th
bah won't roll"