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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-11-21
STATE ITEMS.

Reports from the different river towns, IN
dictate that but little packing will be done in
the State this season. =
The Capitol is undergoing repairs, and be
ign fixed for the next legislature.
Y 4 company has been formed to connect
Anamoea with the Mississippi and Missouri
Railroad at Muscatine.
Parties are at work making preparations
for bailding bridge across the Mississippi ct
Dubuque. = e
A young man named Davis Vas arrested 1t
0skalooee some days since for passing coun-
terfeit Treasury notes of the denomination Of
6fties and 6yes. i
Hon. A BAck, Senator elect from Warren
county district, died on the 28th ult. A spe-
cial election viii be held on December 9Th to
gil the Vacancy.
A yopnx nm named Croft, II Is reported
received = 1hdsome cowhiding on Friday
last - FhihG93d, from married lsdv named
Vsodoen, We Of soldier now in the armv.
Thj 4n ellow having insulted her, she
thr6G1 him soundly in tho presence Of =
lazae hher Of persons.
Coavlf W. Rice, fourteen years Of AZ.
wns r. Ily wounded last weak BY an accident.
Il - His home wAs ins Marshalltown. We
gieaa nom the Marshal Hfsel. '
= N. 4. Rtgby Of Cedar Gosnty sold - kses
IL 1tr day, the average weight Of which
~ 1ols one Of them weighed coo pounds.
~ ~ tAe Nptoa ld1WjtoW.
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PETROLEUM IN MIssouRI.-Mr. Samuel p.
Dufield, well known mineralogist Of De-
&roit, has visited Missouri in the employ Of
an Eastern Company, and has published re-
port embracing the results of his examina-
ton in the oil regions of Ray, Lafayette,
Carroll and Jackson counties. Heis satisfied
that oil exists in the State. he says:
60 In Missouri we have every reason to hope
that there is large amount of oil. II b
buried quite deep, and viii require deeper
boring than in Pennsylvania, bat that will
probably be compensated for by the increased
Yield
IN connection with this, the LesveuwortA
Buuers;n says:
" From the high source Of the report, and
the actual discovery of oil at the wells now
being sunk Ia Ray, Carroll and Lafayette
counties, we have no doubt but The nsxf 6ew
months will develop the fact that . great On
region lies within the counties named, tAat
viii equal, If not excel, the famed regions a
PsnnsylvaaiA and Vizyinia."
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As we understand the matter, the clerk o
the house of representatives is bound by th,
act of Congress in regard to the matter, ant
he has no discretion whatever in the premises
The following is the law of Congress on thi
subject:
Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House o
Representatives of the United States Of Ame
rica in Congress assembled, That before tn,
first meeting of the next Congress, and O
every subsequent congress, the clerk of the
next preceding house Of representatives shall
make roll of the representatives elect, and
place thereon the names of all persons, and
such persons only, whose credentials show
that they were regularly elected in accord
ance with the laws of their states respectively
or the laws of the United States.
Approved, March Sd, 1868.
We would ask every intelligent person
after reading the laws Of Congress, what righ
the clerk has to refuse to place on the roll O.
the members the name of any person who pre-
sent himself, with credentials showing that
he has been regularly elected member o
congress according to the laws of his state ant
the laws of the United States Reconciliation
Undoubtedly the clerk Of the Honse il
bound by the act of Congress quoted, bu
certainly no intelligent person can claim thai
a provisional governor is appointed in pur
suance of an act of Congress, nor that hi:
proclamation for state election, is in acc or
dance with the law of the State.
Provisional Governors are appointed b,
the President, as executive agents to aid hin
in the administration of the affairs of State,
whose constitutions and laws were suspended
by act of rebellion. And there exists no law
Of Congress providing for his appointment
nor law of the States lately in rebellion, 70,
the election of members of Congress, under
the proclamation Of Provisional Governors.
Therefore no Provisional Governor can truth.
fully certify that member of Congress has
been elected from his State in accordance
with the laws thereof, or in pursuance of the
laws of the United States.
If the facts are certified, the certificate will
show on its face, that members were not elec-
ted in accordance either with the laws of the
State or OF the United States, and it is the
duty of the House of Representatives to refuse
to place the names of any member on the roll
whose certificate does not set forth those
facts.
Why is it,that copperhead leaders are all sc
anxious that the clerk should decide SO i'm
portant question of the right of traitors, te
seats in Congress, and admit them to vote in
their own case, rather than to leave it to tbs
unbiased judgement Of loyal House O
Representatives? Simply we take it because
copperhead leaders have stronger sympathie.
with traitors and their cause, than they have
with loyal men and the cause of the country
which they supported through the war.
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NEw YoRK, Nov. 20.

~ NEW YORK, Nov. 70. :
The T11ss<'s Washington special says:
Yesterday the Catholics Of Washington laid
the foundation of q church, intended 70 be
the finest religious edifce in the city.
John Deeny, champion billiardist, and
Nelson Foster, played q match game, some
eight hundred poiutse ein Wasaington on Sat-
urday night. Deeny won by four hundred
points. E 80 s 80
The Timer special says It Is intimated that
President johnson will issue q proclamation
prior to the message, defining more definitely
the policy 70 be pursued relative to thereon
struction Of the Southern States
The Herulds special says TWO mysterious
personages, said TO be from Richmond, were
incarcerated in Old Capitol Pri4on on Satur-
day. Officers and attaches Of the prison are
forbidden to hold verbal communication with
them.
Officers Of the Detective Bureau deny the
statement that the bureau is 10 be consoli-
dated.
The Times special says the estimates for
maintaining the army for the ensuing year.
on the present peace footing, ID thirty three
million Of dollars. There is enongh war ma
terial enlhand TO eqdip million If men, or to
maintain the present force for year on war
footing.
Orders are going out from the Navy De-
partnent 70 reduce the working force in all
yards, and in many cases wages also will be
reduced.
The 7imes' special states that Secretary
McCulloch will urge in his forthcoming Re
port the reduction of the currency by posi-.
tive and cautious means, and will continue
the policy Of contracting whenever practica.
Bile, as the floating condition of the national
debt becomes due.
Government repositories have been mott
fed to redeem upon presentation twenty five
millions Of five per cents, due December ST
and forwerd to the Treasury Department fol
payment and cancellation. On account Of ths
approaching maturity, interest on the note.
have been sold by the banks as part of re
serve capital. Though urged to replace these
notes by new legal tenders, the Secretary de-
clines, and they will be paid as fast as pre-
sented. Over four millions one year FIVE pei
cent notes, long since due, are still out
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NEW .1ORk, NoS. 70.
News has been received in this CITY from
authentic sources, which is really OF much
importance. The Emperor Maximillian has
determined and ordered that all his forces be
withdrawn from the outposts and concentrated
at Vera Cruz, the city of Mexico, and San
Luis Potosi. He viii make these three places
the headquarters of the respective districts,
and await the arrival of his expected rein
forcements.
He has abandoned his proposed visit to
fucatan, his Affairs 1t home demanding his
entire and undivided attention.
The Emperor is preparing to return to the
continent Of Europe. butwhether to plead for
assistance or as q fore-runner Of the exodus
is not yet known.
As soon as the French troops are With
drawn to the three places above named, the
Mexican people will rise en- Dsasse and take
vigorous measures to prevent any future ad-
vance.
The spirits of the Liberals have been much
comforted by adviees from the United States
that material aid will soon reach them.
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New YoRK. Nov. %

Unfinished counteffeit % cent fractional
notes, TO the amount of about $50, ,O00, To-.
gether with quantity of paper, tools. &C.,
for counterfeiting, has recently been found in
! house IN Philadelphia by the Treasury De.
partment Detectives Lowell and Alto, of .this
city. About $4,000 had been finished and
put in circulation.
Tho detectives succeeded in capturing ii
Brooklyn, on last Tuesday night, and CON-
mitting to jail, the person said 70 be at the
head Of the gigantic swindling enterprise,
named Charles s. Roberts, an alleged noted
counterfeit engraver. =
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NEw YoaK, Nov. 20,

~" OEAf AsUss ~
Gen. Grant will have military escort from
the Fifth Avenue Hotel down Broadway On
Tuesday at one clock he will ride in an open
barouche. and may be accompanied BY other
distinguished officers. The Seventh Regi-
ment will act as a guard Of honor. The Gen
raj leaves the city Tuesday afternoon. His
reception this evening promises to be q most
brilliant affair.
Gen Resecrans arrived in this city yester.
day BY the Henry Chaney, from a three
months tour through the gold and silver mines
Of the Pacific coast.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-11-21

lS regarding the present fossillized conser-
yatism of the Democracy, and its horror Of
radicaism, the New York Post is reminded
that the Democracy was formerly a progress.
sive party, and professedly so. That it waged
war upon the imbecility of conservatism and
quotes as illustrating this from the Demo.
cratic Reriew of 1899. That organ said then
in considering the situation:
This is, we repeat, no time to halt The
Democratic principle is most emphatically a
principle of movement, of progress, of re-
Communicating, uncompromislng. Let no
one suppose because we have now at length
secured the immensely important reform OF
the disconnection of the Federal Government
from the banking system, and the restoration
of the currency of the constitution now OF
at an early day to be consummated, and be-
cause the continuance of the present Demo
cratic regime in the administration of the
national affairs is placed beyond the reach of
danger-the formidable party of opposition
being at last fairly broken down and crushed
that, therefore, nothing more remains to
be done, nothing more to be attacked, nothing
more to be striven for.
we uust uOt ichE tIc scusStess lIUputa-
ton of radicalism and destructiveness We
must not object to the appellation of radical,
when there is so much evil to be attacked at
its roots; to that Of destructive when there
is so much that we are loudly called upon tc
destroy in the name of Democracy, Christi.
anity and humanity!
"Thus, to be fearlessly true to itself, to its
own vital principle, to the impulse which it
has received during the agitations of the
struggles wo have been passing through. te
its high and holy mission of social elevation
and improvement of the broad mass of our
race--that it is which we conceive to be now,
ut its present period of complete ascendancy
and triumph-the duty of the Democratic
party
Which professions Of radical faith we com
mend to those Democratic journals to whom
radicalism is now the consummation of po
htical unrighteousness. That party, radica
upon questions of mere internal administra
tive policy twenty-five years ago, should no
now in its professed adherents oppose th'
radicalism which favors Democratic liberty
and the rights of man.
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RESOLUTIONS were adopted by the Legis-
lature of Tennessee a few days since, with only
four dissenting votes, against the pardon of
JEFF DAVIS and other leading rebels.
The loyal Tennesseeans seem to appreciate
and hold fast to the doctrine Of making trea-
son pdious by punishiug traitors
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RlcHNoyD. Va. Nov. 1e

RICHMOND, VA, Nov. 10.
Gen. Tnrner has detailed three officers to
investigate the depredations committed on
the famers in the vicinity of Richmond, with
instructions to charge the amount Of damage
to the guilty parties, and when the robberies
can be traced to any particular regiment Of
troops, the amount Of damage done 10 be de-
Quoted pro rata from the paw sof officers and
men composing such regiment. Many farm
efs near this city have been entirely stripped
Of provisions, and it is high time stop was
put to such unnecessary robberies.
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SAy FRAxcIscn. Nov 1a

During the last eight months eleven vessels
loaded with copper and silver ore have sailed
from this port.
The steamer John l.. Stephens arrived to-
day, from Mazatlan, with S1OO. .O0d in treas
ure and considerable quantity of dopper and
silver ore.
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RosroS. Nov

,,g.fs B0sTON, Nov. 20.
Cover nor Andrews receveid the Tanisian
Embassy at the State House this morning IN
q brief speech he said: It gives him ereat
pleasure 70 welcome them to the capital.
He hoped their visit to this country has pro-
we'd agreeable, and that it would help to pre-
serve : good understanding between the tive
countries.
HhrnasluweFs Interpreted to the En6-
bassadors, who IN response, said that every
where in America, they had met always with
most agreeable receptions, the remembrance
pf which they should always cherish, and
hoped it would result in closer alliance be-
tween the two governments.
The Tnsisians viii visit Wallham's watch
factory and other places Of interest including
loale e our public schools. They leave for
Eerope IN the steamer CubA o. "Wednesday.
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PfTHoLE, Pa, n

PfTHoLE, Pa, Nov %.
The hearing in the case ofthe allie ged frauds
against the Internal Revenue Department in
the returns of oil will take place before a
Commissioner at Meadeville on Wednesday
next. Several prominent parties have been
notified TO appear and answer.
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Nrw YoRx. Nov %

The Commercials Washington suecial SAYS
Charles Eames has been engaged BY the se-
cretary OF the Treasury to manage the Cotton
cases. brought before the Supreme Court by
appeal Chief Justice Chase has arrived
Mr.. John |. Norhies, one of the oldest law
book publishers In the country, died in Brook
lyn last evening.
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= The town Of French ST. Ferrswas deskrUy4
ed By 6re ON the 6th. One hundred and
twenty houses wers burned. Losu I, ,000, 600
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New YoRK, Nov. 20.
Gold opened and closed at 147.
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AN Iowa REBEL PARDoyED- D-Jefferson
county has, it seems, grown as one of its pro.
ductions, one Peter Devexmon, who has been
in the rebel service. Peter grew repentani
when the Southern Confederacy went under.
and sued for pardon. There are thousands
of the men of Iowa who have in honorable
discharges patents of nobility and the muni-
ments of title of their patriotism. Mr. De
vexmon has the honor of having few if any
rivals in the possession, as an Iowan, of the
style of paper that President johnson has is.
sued to him, and we thank God for it. 1t il
a Pardon. Not many of our readers, we
suppose, have seen the form of these docu-
ments. The President imposes some very
wholesome conditions upon Peter.
ANDREW JOHNSON, President of the United
States Of America, TO all TO mhom these
presents shall come, greeting:
WHEREAS, Peter Devexmon, of Jefferson
county, Iowa, by taking part in the late Re.
beilion against the Government of the United
States, has made himself liable to heavy
pains and penalties;
AND, WHEREAS, The circumstances of his
SasC inonc hith pAopCh opyCSe va A<AcSuMvc
clemency:
Now. THEREFORE,, Be it known, that l.
Andrew Johnson, President of the United
States of America, in consideration of the pre-
misses, divers other good and sufficient reasons
thereunto moving, do hereby grant to the said
Peter Devexmon full pardon and amnesty
for all offences by him committed, arising
from participation, direct or implied, in the
said rebellion, conditioned as follows, viz -
This pardon to begin and take effect from the
day on which the said Peter Devexmon shall
take the oath prescribed in the Proclamation
of the President, dated May 2ath, 1865, and
to be void aud of no effect If the said Peter
Devexmon shall hereafter, at any time, ac
quire any property whatever in slaves, oil
make use of slave labor; and that he pay all
costs which may have accrued in any pro
ceedings hitherto instituted against his per
son or property, and upon the further condi
ton that the said Devexmon shall notify the
Secretary of State, in writing, that he has
received aud accepted the foregoing pardon
In testimony whereof, l have hereunte
signed my name and caused the Seal of tht
United States to be affixed.
| Done at the City Of Washington this 25tl
day of July, 1865, and of the independence O
the United States the ninetieth.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
| By the President.
| w, HUNTER, Act Sec'y. of State.
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In this city, Nov 10TH at ths residence Of Mr wake
neid. by 1ev Ar. Warfng, NJ A. G. STUART, Of Hapni
bal. to Miss srE wEsT, Of this city.
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BY TELECRA Aph.
INTERESTING FOREIGN NEWS.
Surrender OF the Shenandoah.
OFFICERS AND CREW PARoIED.s I
FLORIDA ABOLISHING SLAVERY.
Nest OF Ceunterfefters Broken Ep.
IMPORTANT FROM MEXICO.
IMPERIAL cAusE BBesnISa DEsPRnAfs,
Tunisian Em mbassy I'm Bosten.
NEWS FROM THE WESTERN I.NIOA
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INTERESTING GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
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VOL. 12.

The ideas of an age; the determinative
force of the social, religious, intellectual
and political principles developed and unde-
veloped, that give to generation its charac-
ter, are embodied in that generations repre-
sentative men. A people are well on the
way to liberty when they enshrine in their
hearts and estimate ct their true value the
champions Of human rights. Italian unity
will not be maintained, said croakers; there
is not virtue nor intelligence among the Ital-
ians to MAINTAIN it, and yet the virtue ard in.
telligence that leads them to admire the Amer.
ican Republic, and cherish the names of our
WASHINGTON and LINCOLN, added to their
determined adherence to their restored ma
tionalisy, augurs well for the cause of in
dependence in the land of DANrE. The east
ern correspondent of the National Intelligent
Ger writing from Florence, says
/ have alluded several times before in this
correspondence to the sympathies which the
restoration of liberty in their own country and
government seems to have raised up in the
Italian mind toward America aud her institu.
tions. Everywhere, indeed, in Europe where
freedom and enlightenment are suffered to
burst their bonds and break forth, the eye of
the populations turn like loadstone to the
West, to seek encouragement from precept
and example. mentioned formerly one or
two Misunderstanding, indeed, but touching
of the homage paid by the popular feeling
in this land of remote ages to individual vir-
tue and patriotism as displayed in the New
World. | cannot forbear from Just alluding
to another similar token which caught my eye
the other day, as, in short excursion from
Florence, was driving through the crumbling
walls and time-worn battlements of her old
hereditary foe and feudal rival, Pistoja I'm
mediately without the gates and in the midst
of crowded suburb stands q cafe, evidently
great favorite with and much frequented by
the laboring classes Of the populations and by
what name and designation, think you. had
the proprietor of this house of public enter
tainment endeavored to attract, and apparent
ly succeeded in attracting, his public guests
There it stood, in full evidence, above the
doorway of this ancient Pistojan, staring in
the face the medieval ruins around and typi-
flying the invading power of modern civiliza-
ton from distance of four thousand miles
There it stood, written in legible characters
above the entrance-he that ran might read it
-CArE LINCOLN
This remote Italian vender of demi-f1sses
thought he could use no better talisman 10
draw the custom of the rude c0nfddiai and
sons of labor ofthe Valley of the Arno than
the unpronounceable name of the American
patriot; of him who really died for his eoun-
try, and who is doubtless associated in Italian
sentiment with him whom they themselves
denominated Pdter Patrie, Cosmo the Great.
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4 CHOICE stock of nice and seasonable
IA Goods in sfor-, which additions are rexu-
larry made from the besf seeet-d and 'best koughs
stock Of Kew York and Phlsdelphia Old friends and
casto0es I'D continue TO call; and the pub
lie invited TO examine the stock being the
Goods purchassd under the noet favorable copdi
fion OF tbs market this season, and viii BE- sod ryy
sAaH profit The ssportment OF
DRESS GOODS
II choice, froe low priced durable plain style to
the richer and expensive and by frequent fresh
arrivals will continue to attractions L.
dies and heads Of families Who Wish to economfse in
Cioaks and wappinsr will npd good stock Of heavy
and light Black Cloths eolcr Sarkngs and Water
Proof Cloths Of the best genuine makes
The stock Of Hoop Skirts from the large uhetory
Of Dovns Bsssett Brmipe eham Conn. il complete in
and unsurpassed in both quality material
and elegance ofshspe BY any other Hoop skrts the
country and At
Low PRICES.
superior qusity OF Notions and little things" al
ways on hand oct1l
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INTERESTING FOREIGN NEWS.
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Tunisian Em bassy I'm BostsH.
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OF the Shenandoah.
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Returning our sincere thanks to the public and
numerous friends for The liberal patronage bestowed
upon assure them that pains, expense
win be spared TO give perfect satisfaction Al who
favor With their patronage and TO make estab-
lishment the Pride of The Gate Cyfs.
Respectfully,
oe.lo H. n BosTwIcK Co.