The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-06-17
THE GATE CITY.
SATURDAY, JUNE II.
GLEiNiNGss

for the Missouri river is crowded with |
troops destined for the Plains.
In some of the cities of Georgia, |
from the lack of more convenient cur |
repcy, the newsboys are selling their pa
pers at three eggs apiece.
The banisters of the grand staircase
of Baron Rothschild's new mansion, in
Piccsdilly. are made of gold and pls.
tinum.
Pierre Soule, formerly United States
Senator from Louisiana, is going to open
q law Office in the city of Mexico.
The evidence already taken in the
assassination trial is said to DOVER over
four thousand pages of cap paper.
In New Brunswick there were TWEEN
ty rainy days in May, and hundreds of
thousands of dollars worth of lumber were
swept away by the rise in the rivers.
The New York Ledger remarks that
''one of the greatest blessings brought by
the close of the rebellion is. that We shall
no longer hear the song, when this
Cruel War is Over"
Payne, who tried to kill the Stewards,
declares his desire to be hung at e,and
says that he is ready to make clean
breast of it, but that Mrs. Surrat. is in
nocent, and that Arnold had no knowl-
edge of the murder.
There are 5000 schools in Russia.
Ten years ago there was not one.
AT an evening party given by a lady,
her husband was standing in very for
lorn condition, leaning against the chin
ney piece. when gentleman coming up
to him said: " Since neither vi us is &C.
quainted here, | think we had better 90
home"
The Union Hotel, at Saratoga, will
be opened to the public on the 18Th inst
From present appearances, this place will
be more crowded than last year, nearly
every room having been engaged. The
Opera House will be opened by the Lc-
lands on the LIST of July.
On the 18th OF June Pope Pho Nino
will enter upon the twentieth year of his
Ponti6cate. He will be only the ninth of
line of two hundred and City nine Popes
who have held the position so long.
The present indications are that Lake
Superior travel will be something unpre-
cedented this year. People seem TO be
Just realizing the beauties of this delight
fAl region.
"A white deer was lately taken alive
near the town of Franklin, Delaware
county, New York. The deer is as white
as snow, all except his ears and spot on
the top of his head, and slight tiuge of
gray on each side of the shoulder.
The King of Portugal is among the
artists who have been accepted at the
French Exhibition at Paris. His picture,
however, was admitted, not because the
jury had pronoutced it worthy of being
exhibited. but for the extraordinary reason
that he has cross of the Legion of
Honor
The receipts Of internal revenue for
eleven months of the present fiscal year
are about two hundred million dollars,
and those for the entire year will be about
two hundred and twenty millions. This
does not include what is called bank tax.
There ware 5, 469, 1888 cwts. of sugar
consumed in the United Kingdom or
Great Britain during 1864. They didn'd
have to pay thirty cents per pound for its
~ A recetion of the Supreme, t.onla
Court of Califn the cons titution.c, elmo
atty of the leger act Of Congress, ryeud
settles question which has been vehe.
mently disputed in that State. The Court
held in the test case of Lick against
Faulkner, that the act was an exercise of
sovereign authority within the scope of
the powers granted by the Constitution;
and that If Congress has the power to
make coined gold and silver legal tender
In the payn ens of debts, it has an equal
right to declare that Treasury notes, is.
sued on the e.edit of the United States.
shall also be received as legal tender.
Gen. Scott is reported to have said
as to JEFF. Davis. Il hope he will be hung
BY the neck, sir; hope he will hang by
the neck
:. oic SesliDS tn6 annex
alton fever again.
The negroes in Washington are said
to be terribly maltreated BY the rebel
sympathizers there
The shackles were removed from
Jefferson Davis last week. His suit of
rebel gray has been exchanged for one of
black, and he is now permitted more
freedom.
The National Democrat, a copper.
head paper. published at Little Rock, Ar
kan sas. has yielded up the ghost.
General Weitzel's Texas expedition
which sailed from Hampton Roads last
week is composed entirely of colored
troops except four batteries of artillery of
the regular army.
or An imperiinent fellow wishes to
know If you ever sat down to tea where
skim. milk was on the table, without being
tal,<