The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-02-06

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6.
CENTRAL NEWS IT11ls.
Austria has $500 miles Of telegraph
wires.
The Pacific coast gold mines turned
out S52, 500, 900 worth Of ore last year.
The barque Halifax, from Halifax to
Boston, brought live moose, purchased
in that city for the King of Italy.
Three and half millions pounds Of
sugar have lately been bought BY the San
Francisco re6nels ct 81 to 9 cents.
During the last year. 463 1896 acres
of land were entered in Minnesota under
the homestead law.
= The sum Of nearly four millions of
dollars were expended in New York
State upon education in the public
schools last year.
Letter postage for any distance in
the Confederate States is ten cents for
each half ounce.
A large number of Sioux Indians
have persisted Of cold this winter on the
prairies.
- The Maine soldiers in the field have
allotted to their families the past year the
sum Of s42S,857 IS.
-Ex- Governor Pratt, Of Maryland,
who was arrested some time since for al
legged reasonable purposes, has been re.
leased by order of the President.
Tea and coffee culture in California
is making good progress, and promises to
become an extensive business.
A Confederate Quartermaster is q
defaulter for Eve millions. As that was
in their scrip, he has made no great haul
after ALL
One of the verdicts against New
York city for riot damages is for the sum
of $4,000.
- The construction of iron-clads in
Richmond has been abandoned, and the
iron sent to Charleston and Savannah to
complete several vessels being built there.
Archbishop Hughes, during his term
of episcopacy, ordained one hundred and
two priests, and consecrated no less than
six bishops.
The Connecticut Republican Safe
Convention will be held on the 10th Of
February, Governor Buckingham, it is
thought, will be renominated.
a party of drunken Frenchmen
went into questionable house in San
Francisco, and tore up an American flag
and stamped upon it. The enraged fe-
males OF the house fell upon the copper
head frog-eaters and beat them savagely,
driving them bareheaded from the prem
Uses.
- The Union members of the New
Jersey Legislature have appointed COM
tee to draft memorial to Abraham Lin
coin, approving the policy of the Admin
istratien. and recommending his renomi-
nation to the Presidency.
A London opticiau has invented a
Esprit" hand, which appears on sheet
CT canvass. writes words, &C. 1t cannot
re taken bold of, nor can the writing be
rubbed out by material agency.
= A wood train on the Illinois Gen.
trail Railroad was thrown off the track, a
few days since, by an OK, near Odin.
smashing up the engine and track at a
terrible rate. The conductor was instant
ly killed. Name not given.
i. +. K. Jones, Alderman of the
9Th Ward, Pittsburg. must be nice man
de is lying in Jail awaiting sentence on
four convictions-assault and battery
Keeping disorderly house, adultery, and
perjury. He also attempted to commit
suicide by opening vein in his arm, but
did not succeed in his purpose.
"A letter from Secretary Seward, en-
pressing regret that President Lincoln
was unable to attend the funeral of Arch.
bishop Hughes, says the President glad
y sought and continually received Bishop
hughes counsel and advice on many
points, and intimates that the deceased
prelate did the country considerable ser.
vice when he went abroad on sort of
private mission.
The Texan leaders of the rebellion
are mostly northern men with son,hern
interests. Willard Richardson. of the
Galveston News, is a Massach usetta man
Gushing, of the Houston Telegraph. 4
vermonter, and General E. B. Nichols.
the financial agent of the rebel convention
native of New York.
ss In 1861 Judge Perkins, of Dallas
county, issued 60 marriage licenses in
iooz' 30; IN 1863. 81. So says the
Adel Journal. '