The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-11-25
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under circumstances Of great mystery, and in
carcerated in the Old Capitol prison, is Maj.
Gee, arrested in Florida. He was In charge
of SALISBURY prison, while the mortality was
the greatest among the Union prisoners.
Post Master General Dennison has compile
ted his report, and it is now ready for distri-
button. The report exhibits the Department
as being in very favorable condition. 1t
will not require any additional appropriations
for the next fiscal year.
Reports from nearly all the States where
the Freedmens Bureau has been established,
state there is considerable suffering among
the negroes. General Howard is strongly
opposed to abolishing the bureau at present.
The report of schools in the bureau in Ken
lucky and Tennessee, show one hundred
schools in active operation for colored chill
dren, and destitute refugees. These schools
are supported by different benevolent associa-
tions through the North; but they are placed
under the auspices of General Fiske, Assis-
tant Commissioner The total number OF
scholars in attendance in the month of Sep
tember, was twelve thousand four hundred
and eghty-three, and the total number Of
teachers employed in active service, was one
hundred and eighty. Reports to the Freed
mems Bureau from Appomatox county, Vir-
ginia, announce very noticeable kindness of
feeling toward the freedmen, from the old re
sidents there.
The Tribunes Washington dispatch says
the pirate Stonewall arrived late last evening,
and anchored off Alexandria but will come
up to the city.
The War Department has decided no claim
for veteran bounty will be entertained unless
the claimant has heretofore been recognized,
and borne on his company rolls as such rete-
rams. Colored soldiers applying for bounty,
should state wether they were mustered as
free, on or before April 18th, 1861.
Hon. Schuyler Colfax will deliver his lee
ture, ''Across the Continent" in New York
and New England, during holiday week.
I Ex-Governor Cummings, Buchanan's terri
torial executive of Utah, was at the treasury
yesterday, for the purpose Of drawing the bal
ance of the salary due him. He has taken
all the oaths, been pardoned, and to- day ex-
poets to draw his greenbacks, and leave for
Georgia.
The forthcoming treasury report will show
Smore encouraging condition of our national
finances than hitherto anticipated.
The Worlds Washington dispatch says .
contract was concluded yesterday, by Gen.
Logabar, Minister of the Columbian Govern
ment, by which Colonels A. Gilbert and Pres
ton C. r. West, two officers Of the United
States coast survey, enter the service Of the
Columbian Government, for the purpose ofma
king survey of Magdslina River, . stream
emptying into the Columbian Sea, four hun
dred miles East of AspinwalL The object Of
The Columbian Government, il to deepen the
channel 1T the mouth Of the river, and also TO
overcome two falls, some distance up, by
which eight hundredand forty miles of navi-
CATION will be saved.
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document was received at the Indian Burean
TO the government Of killing Indians and
squaws on the Western plains. The
average cost of killing an Indian has been
about half q million dollars, while for squaw
the cost is nearly two millions. =.
The War Department has disposed OF all
the seagoing transports, and is now unable To
furnish the transportation 70 refugees and
others, it has heretofore furnished.
The Heralds Washington correspondent
says: Mrs Bishop, daughter Of exrebei Secre-
tary of the navy, is in the city, iDterceeding
for her fathers release on parole.
Two white men, named John n. Brown
and Christopher c. Pesse, having been com
mitted by military commission, of the muir
der of negress named Nellie West, in Tall
fsse county, Alabama, were sentenced 70 be
hung, the President has approved the sentence
and ordered the execution to take place on
the first Thursday in January next
Many well informed persons have an opin
ion that Mr.. and Mrs. Eof, plaintiffs against
General Baker, will not appear against him
when he is brought to trial. They have al
tered their tone considerably lately, since
General Baker threatens to produce in court
the accumulated history Of their several years
in Washington. III s~