The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-12-16

-Renan' "Life Of Jesus" has just been
translated into Russian.
"A son of Robert Burns, aged z, died in
Cheltenham, England, last month.
"A peanut oil factory has just been started
at Augusta, Ga fSA
The Round Table thinks that 'sart iu
America is now at the lowest point it has ever
reached"
Mrs. Gaskell died suddenly, while sitting
by her own freside and reading to her chill
dren.
Robert Browning's new book is a poem
of fifteen. thousand lines.
The Pope intends to convoke all his
Bishops at Rome in 1856, for the purpose of
declaring general jubilee. -~.
The freedmen in Wilkes county, Ca, i,
having been most shamefnlly inaltreated a
detachment of troops has been sent thithsr to
restore order.
Mr.. Nat. Tyler, the publisher of the
Richmond Enquirer solicits from the Vir-
ginia Legislature the Office of public printer.
The total assessed valuation of New Or
leans is S9s,7es.SS5 sdecresse of four and a
half millions since last year.
-Advices from England give the number
of cases Of the cattle plague Tor the week end.
ing Nov. 18th, at 1850. Thetotal number of
cases had been 27,432, of which s,ees had
resulted fatally.
Hon. John Wentworth's bill prohibiting
the importation Of foreign cattle, in view OF
the cattle plague in Europe, passed the SEN
ate and becomes the first enactment of the
10th Congress.
A destructive FIRE at GAINESVILLE, Wiscon-
sin. destroyed nearly the entire block between
Main and North Second streets. of which
brief particulars given by telegraph. A
FIRE at Pontiac, Michigan, yesterday morning
destroyed several stores; loss $4,000.
Gov. Morton sailed for New York yester-
day, tor Europe. There was quite crowd of
friends present to see him off, and farewells
we're spoken with more confidence than could
have been expected few days since that the
Governor will return to US agaiI IL renewed
healtii and vIgor -
The Fire King is supreme in the land just
now. Cold weather, roaring fires and inse
cure chimneys. arc Just the combination Of
circumstances he delights in. The mornings
news inclndes disastrous fires at GAINESVILLE,
Wis; Pontiac, Mich; Cairo, Ills.; Ottawa,
c. W.; South Denvers, Mass. &c.
The railroad project ofour late English
visitors Tor aeY 9irsct route between New
York and the West. through Northern Penn.
syvania. has already furnished subject for
litigation, an appeal being made 10 the
Superior Court Of Pennsylvania, by rival in
terests. to declare the lease of the Cstawissa
and other roads, intended links in the
through lne,) } rrsll sni ye.d. .te case was
commenced at Philadelphia yesterday.
AT certain English watering place the
ladies were in the habit Of pronenading with
their little pet poodle dogs in their arms-a
local law forbidding the animals to run abont
on their own feet. The fashion becoming II
diculous, young gentleman appeared on the
terrace one day with living lobster in his
arms. A scarlet ribbon round its neck sup
pcFsed & l;t.le t.nklins L.lr IAs parody was
| impudenti but effective; the ladies beat a
rapid retreat; and poodles are no longer in
vogue at that Summer resort.
| John L. Clark, formerly Professor Of
! Mathematics Ia the Michigan Stste Univsrsity
| has Just been chosen to the chair of Mathe,
matics in Antioch College,; and S. B. Lang
/ ley. teacher Of Chemistry at Harvard Univer,
siiy, to the chair of Chemistry in the same
institution These gentlemen have qualified
! themselves for their respective positions by
| long and close application and study, both in
( this country and Europe. With these two
there are now nine members of the new fac
ulty at Antioch
| The Illinois State Teachers Association
will hold their twelfth annual meeting At Jo-
| let on the 26th, 27th, and 2Sth, of the pre-
sent mouth. Members of the Association who
pay full fare over any of the following roads
| in going to Joliet will be returned over the
same roads for one e-fifth the regular fare, viz:
Chicago, Alton Il ST. Louis: Chicago and
! Rock Island; Chicago, darlington & Quincy;
and the Chicago 4 Northwestern, including
the old Galena and Dixon Airline.
The Kentucky Legislature has been week
| in session. and the amount of work done is
truly emarkable-considering the dead cause
for which all this diligence is expended. The
Legislature adheres to the refusal Of ~iiS pre-
decessor to ratify the Constitutional amend
ment; repeals a., laws that work . hardship
/ TO rebels: declares the national debt on toe
same footing as the National Government
shall regard Kentucky's claims for slave pro-
perty. ETC., etc. Truly the Saints Rest for
Nashby,s congregation Is in Kentucky.
The Montgomery Adrertiser Of the 9Th
says: Bird II. Young, Of Tallapoosa county,
died last month at his residence at that county.
He lived to be nearly seventy years of age.
He was man of generous good heart and
many weaknesses in moral point of view.
He was most respectfully connected, and at
one time possessed Of great wealth, which be
recklessly wasted. He was the original Of
the portrait familiar to many thousand readers
/ Ia the United States under the name Of S-
mon Suggs, whose adventures" written. by
| the talented Hooper, made cherished Book
in the library Of every lover of genuine Ame-
rican humor.
The cent and two cent pieces are as
plentiful as blanks in lottery; but where the
copper and nickel three cent pieces are stpwed
! away is mystery that probably no one but Q
coin broker or / Jewish mser eans solve,
Since the LIST of June this year seven millions
| four hundred thousand Of these much desired
coins have been issued from the United States
Mint in Philadelphia, and yet they are as sell
dom seen as a double eagle. Those who are
boarding them will profit by bringing them out
! for their metal value 10 less than half . cent,
and Congress- by and by may take notion to
repudiate them.
! Edwin Forrest has taken steps to be re-
married 70 his former wife. She sometime
since procured decree Of divorce, and q
large allowance out of her husband 9. estate,
but he has recently taken an appeal to the Su-
preme Court of, the United States, to have
the decree annulled.. The effect Of the rever-
sal of the judgment Of the Court below would
Of course be to re-unite the parties in the holy
bonds. Of wedlock. ~
The coolest thing we have seen fora long
time is the following passage from the Mobile