The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-10-28
News yfa New York.

New YosK, Oct, 81.
The Posts special says the counsel for Wirz
are assured of the conviction and sentence to
death of their client, but at noon the Presi-
dent had not decided the case.
John II. Reagan leaves for his home in
Texas soon, but is promised an interview with
the President before his departure.
Gen. Palmer was in consultation with the
Secretary of War to-day, concerning the re-
moval oftroops from Kentucky. aAa9
The Commissioners of health, together with
the Mayors Of Cleveland, Jersey City, Brook
lyn and other health officers met to-day, to
adopt precautionary measures against the in
PRODUCTION of cholera.
A resolution was adopted to ask of the gen.
eral government site for hospital, for the
detention of patients and passengers from ves-
sells infected with cholera. The report of .
case of cholera in Brooklyn was deniedby DR..
Sayers. -@s A-sas~ *@& y
1t is said the Secretary of the Navy has di-
rected that all the available steam vessels of
war shall Immediately be got ready for sea
II is supposed that it is the intention Iof the
government to prepare for any event, in any
quarter Of the world. s
The naval court martial, With Vice Admi-
raj Farragut rs President, to convene On the
LIST of November, viii have before it 1t. Col
Marsten, the Oldest officer, one excepted, in
tho Marine corps, On the charge Of using for
private purposes, bounty money deposited in
his hands by new recruits.
The court will also try Commander Collins,
under the 18th sect,on of the 3D. article of
war, which requires afl officers to do their ut
most to overtake and capture or destroy any
vessel which it is his duty to encounter. He
is charged with neglecting this, with the rebel
ram Stonewall, ;, she having been in the harbor
of Ferral, while he was in the proxinity as
commander of the Niagara, and the Sacra-
mento. another ship of war, being in port st
the same time aid him.
1t y positively known here that the trial
Of JEFF Davis has been decided upon, and tie
arrangements have been nearly completed
The trial will be for the crime of treason,
and will take place, either in this city or in
Richmond, and before the United States Su-
preme Court.
The counsel for the government have been
selected by the Attorney General and the
friends of Davis have selected and retained
counsel for him. Now, that the Wirz trial is
completed, it is supposed that Of DAVIS will
Immediately follow
Col. A. T. Hamln, United States Army,
who has made several inspections Of the An
Jacksonville prison, makes a very intere sting
report On the prison, and says that the lives
lost at that one spot by starvation, out num-
bered the killed and wounded In the British
army, in all the great battles of the Peuinsu-
lar war and New Orleans. The report could
not be read in evidence at the Wirz trial on
account of its being closed when the Colonel
arrived in this city.
Mr.. Duncan, State Agent for Georgia. s on
his return home from New York. and has
succeeded in negotiating loan Of 500. 900,
for one year at per cent, on the faith of the
Provisional State Government of Georgia
Ex-Gov Neil s. Brown, Of Tennessee, was
pardoned to-day by the President.