The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-11-17

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The Hralds Washington dispatch Gays the
Secretary Of the Navy has determined 70 end
abroad considerable number n odr surplus
naval force to cruise about and visit the prsn-
cipal commercial ports frequently, if Con-
gress will make an appropriation.
Winder, Duncan and George, are the oaly
prisoners Of note IN the Old Capitol r
The Worlfs Washington dispatch says
not probable any will be made until after the
The Nases Washington special dispatch
says the findings of the commission to whom
was referred the adjustment of rewards offered
for the capture of the assassins and conspita-
tors, will not be made public until approved
by the Secretary of War. F ~
The WorIds Washington dispatch says re.
ports just received at the treasury department
from agents stationed along the Canada shore
show that smuggling is still carried on very
largely. Large numbers Of arrests and seiz.
ures are made constantly. Inducements to
smuggle are SO great that if one-half gets
through, parties are doubly remunerated. An
agent who arrived here to-day says smugglers
have been unusually active during the past
two or three months.
Fuller, who used the name of Senator Har-
Ian, to obtain a large amount of money be-
longing to the National Republican Commit
tee, and who has been in the Old Capitol for
several months, has been released without any
trial.
The Times special says Hon. Freeman
Clark, Comptroller of Currency, is engaged
upon his report. He will recommend the re-
moval of the national bureau to New York
city.
Mr.. McCulloch, who made the same re-
commendation, when Comptroller last year,
will probably renew the recommendation in
his forthcoming report as Secretary Of the
Treasury.
Yesterday the government refunded the
first money from the proceeds of the sale OF
coniscated property, in pursuance Of section
!, act Of Mslch 8, 1885. The case in which
money was refunded, il one in which claim
ants and former owners Of con6scated proper
ty show thai they were loyal citizens and sup
porters Of the Union, Notwithstanding the
fact of the abandonment Of their property at
the breaking out of the rebellion. The prop
erty is located in Alexandra, Va. A large
number Of like cases are pending.
The Hertads special says yesterday the
time for receiving bids for contracts for mail
service of Virginia, West Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina and Florida, expired.
and the formal warding of the respective con-
tracts to parties whose rates have been accep-
ted. Under way contracts about to be consum-
ated for service in the above states, will 20 into
effect on the lst of January, 1866, and expire
in June, 1867. Bids made for the service
have been largely in excess of rates formerly
in vogue for the same routes.
The Secretary Of the Treasury issued .
circular notifying ali collectors of internal
revenue that he regarded it but just precau-
ton that wherever applications were made for
storage Of petroleum, or its products. within
the limits of any town or city, the Collector OF
Internal Revenue should forward to the De-
partment statement that warehouses will
not in case of fire, endanger other property
or the lives of people living and doing busi-
ness in its vicinity.
Nathaniel H. Mclean, formerly Assistant
Ajutant General to Gen. Burnside, who was
ordered TO the Pacific coast two years ago, as
q delegate to prevent his testifying against
Burt, then about to be court mar.ialed in
Cincinnati, and preparing to bring the case
before Congress, promises to throw much
additional light upon that interesting trans.
action.
The Times Washington special says the
statement that the Secretary of the Treasury
intended to discharge all female clerks in his
department, is erroneous.
The leading hotels in this city raised their
prices to five dollars day, for the special
benefit of Congressman.
Gov. Parsons left for home yesterday even.
ing, with two hundred pardons for citizens oi
Alabama.
Admiral Porter viii soon publish reply to
Gen. Banks structures on the conduct Of the
navy in the Red River campaign.
Col Henry Paige, late Chief Qnartermaster
on Gen. Sheridans S staff, has been ordered to
Arkansas for duty.
The Times special says Antoine Rosa was
convicted at the Octobe term of the United
States Circuit Court, eastern district of New
York, of counterfeiting fractional currency
and sentenced to ten years imprisonment,
was to-day pardoned by the President.
The Tri6une's special says the President
was more than usually annoyed and impor-
tuned BY Reconstructionists yesterday. He
remarked that he had tried to overwhelm the
South with pardons and kindness, but from
recent events he began to think them incapa.
BILE of approaching magnanimity.
Several attempts have been made to force
a belligerent construction upon the action of
the Navy Department in ordering off certain
United States ships of war. The facts are,
that sundry naval vessels have been ordered
out upon foreign and domestic stations, the
same as In years before the war, instead of
allowing them to rot in our navy yards.