The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-02-25
sherman and Colsax.

At the whg convention held in Phila-
delphia In l84S, two young gentlemen
appeared as delegates from two democrat
ic districts in adjoining States; aud in
1859 they again appeared as delegates to
whig national convention. A delegate
rose and said that young friend of his
was present from district so strongly
democratic that he could never expect or
hope to get an Office of any kind at home,
and he would, therefore, nominate as Sec
rotary Of the convention, John Sherman,
of Ohio. Another delegate said tha. he
also had young friend present as a dele
gate from another strong democratic dis
trict, where he could never hope for a
home Office. and he, therefore, nominated
Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana, as assistant
secretary. Two years passed away, the
incipient steps of the conspiracy against
the Union were taken by the slave lords,
and in these two old democratic districts
of Ohio and Indiana, John Sherman and
Schuyler Colfax were elected to Congress,
and on the first Monday of December,
1885, they took their seats in the House
of Representatives.
Four years ago Mr. Sherman was put in
nomination for the Speakership of the
House by the Republicans, but withdrew,
and Mr.. Pennington was elected. In
March, 1861, he was elected to the Uni
ted States Senate in place of Mr.. Chase,
who resigned to take the place Of Secreta-
~ of the Treasury. MIR, Colfax continued
10 the House and is now its Speaker.
These two fortunate and successful gen.
tlemen were born in the same year /; one
in March, the other in May. They have
both achieved an enviable reputation and
nm honoled name one starting in life as
sn engineer on the Ohio canal, and the
other as printer.
The ITALIAN PLor AGAINST NApo-
LEoN.-The London Daily News says
that the interest in the Italian plot ceased
in England on the publication of Mazzi-
mis- short and simple statement, and
adds
alt will be remembered that it was
part of the story that the plot was
planned at Lugano, in Switzerland. where
the four men in custody were said to
have met Mazzini. But it now results
from inquiries made in Switzerland, that
the four men did not arrive at Lugauo,
till the month of November last, and that
Mazzini had left Lugano at the beginning
of the previous month. Certainly this
plot has been entrusted to very clumsy
hands"
sS>On the second Tuesday in March
the legal voters of New York will meet in
their several election districts, to vote for
or against the proposed Constitutional
Amendment authorizing the Legislature
to pass such law or laws as may be nee.
essary to secure the right of Suffrage to
such citizens of that State as may be alb
sent in the military service of the country
at any election held thereafter.
The Union State Central Committee
Minnesota have issued a call for State
Convention to meet in St. Paul March
Ind, to nominate a delegates to the Union
National Convention.
The Springfield Mass. armory turned
out twenty-five thousand seven hundred
nuskets last month-tAo Nrgest number
ever made IN single month. There are
two hundred thousand on hand.
Among the articles composing the
cargo of the prize steamer Minna. sold At
Boston few days since, were thirteen
cases containing seventeen thousand four
hundred and three Bibles, Testaments
and psalm-books.