The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-02-26
THE GATE CITY
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


Maine has ten thousand men in the
navy.
Illinois has furnished 145,073 men
to the Union armies.
There are six Congregational church
es in Chicago.
There were ninety-six deaths in
Boston last week.
Connecticut has 1925 troops to be
supplied before the first of March.
Twenty three persons over seventy
years of age died in Providence, r. l.,
last month.
Sixteen hundred bales of cotton left
Memphis for Louisville and Cincinnati on
tina I'd instant.
The Colt Armory, at Hartford, recent
ly destroyed by fire, is to be rebuilt i'm
mediately.
Gen. Burnside reviewed the troops
in camp at Readville, Massachusetts, on
Wednesday last.
The St. Louis Democrat urges the
holding of the next National Convention
in that city.
Five hundred families from the east
are expected to settle at St. Joseph, Mis-
sour, in the spring.
"A second National Bank is about to
be established in Newark, New jersey,
with a capital of $4,000.
The Navy Department has thirty
eight steamers building. which will all
have nearly the speed of the Eutaw
Tho Attorney General of Pennsyl-
vsnia reports the bankers and private
brokers of that State owe $4,000 for
taxes.
One thousand and ffty-nne men
were mustered into the United States
service in Philadelphia last week
Nearly one million bushels of coal
are aioat below Pittsburg, consigned to
Cincinnati, Louisville and other points.
Three additional colored regiments
are to be raised in the lower Maryland
counties.
The international Bank at Portland,
Maine, has organized as National Bank.
A matrimonial intelligence Office
has been opened at ST. Ca,harine, Canada.
Two steamers loaded with refugees
from the South left Nashville on Tuesday
last.
There were four hundred and forty
three cases of smallpox in Nashville on
the 3lst ultimo. Smallpox also pre-
walls at Nstchez, Mississippi.
The Kentucky House has passed
resolution unanimously asking Congress
to place General Robert Anderson on the
retired list, on full pay.
The Lewiston (Maine) cotton mills
employ about thirty-fve hundred hands
and run more than one hundred and for
ty-six thousand spindles.
A daily prayer-meeting has been
started at Salem, Massachusetts,. New
Bedford, in the same State, thinks of
going into the manufacture of wine.
The Lawrence Mass. Sentinel saws
that never since that city was settled was
there such demand for operatives in
their manufacturing establishments.
The sum of one hundred thousand
dollars is to be appropriated by the Mass
achusetts Legislature for the relief of the
suffering loyalists of East Tennessee.
Arrangements are making for the OBJ
servauce of the one hundredth anniyersa
~ of the settlement of Lancaster, New
Hampshire, on the 18th of July next.
The capital stock $500, Ooo) of the
Third National Bank in Springfield,
Massachusetts, is all subscribed, and
the institution will be organized and put
In operation at once.
Rev. ]. Henry Thayer, pastor of the
Crombie street church, Salem, has accept
cd the Associate Professorship of Sacred
Theological Literature in Andover.
RES at Patterson, have struck for higher
wages. Most of the manufacturers have
complied with the demand.
The Ohio Opposition State Conven-
ton is to be held at Columbus on the Sd
OF March, TO nominate a State ticket and
elect four delegates at large to the Chica-
60 Convention
The superintendent of Roman
Catholic Sunday school in Boston has
been arrested for Jogging scholar while
IN school. The boy was seriously injured,
having been struck several times with a
rattan.