The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-01-05

THURSDAY, Jan. 81


The Albany Trsds Assembly think
butter unreasonably high, and will not
buy aud use It q present prices.
A smoker, comueueing Ct fifteen
yearA Of age, aud ending It sevsDty.fse,
averaging four cigars day, would smoke
over five miles Of cigars.
- The beggars in Richmond do not
ask Tor pennies. Their petition 10 pat
thus: "Will you give me Eve dollars to
buy Loaf Of bread 7" y
An exchange says: san eclipse, not
stated in the almanac, 10 ! total eclipse Of
the SoushsrnG onfederacy during the sum-
mer, visible here, and in France and
England.
The contract for keeping the Senate
chamber at Washington warm for the
wintsr was 450 tons Of GOAL at 113.5O !
ton.
- At Denver City, Colorado, coal il
$50 ton in gold butter 81 60 q pound !;
apples $50 barrel. Bad place for poor
folks.
William ]. Loomis, Baptist minis
ter 1t Columbia, New York, will tell Tor
twenty-five cents in currency how to cal
culate the distances of the heavenly bod
les without using trigonometry and log
arithms
A Wisconsin girl had one Of her
eyes gouged out by q COW the other day.
and then walked ten miles to see I ply
stefan. There's pluck Tor you.
-E6orts are making to get two mack
erel rations . week for our soldiers. The
diers would like the change, and it would
save the Government lots Of money.
Two prominent merchants Of Louis
vile, KY, have been fined $500 and costs
each, amounting to S70O, for making
fraudulent income returns. Served them
right.
ArLANrA.-The rebels have re.occupi.
ed Atlanta and reelected Mayor Calhoun.
They report that about three-fourths Of
the place was destroyed and the other
fourth is not worth much. The rebel %.
counts say that people with negroes have
for weeks been coming in from long dis
sancss and taking away the debris, par
ticularly scraps Of iron and other metal.
Indeed the junk business seems to be
the most Hourishing in the Confederacy
just now.
PRoMoT1oN -Brigadier General o. B.
Wilcox, commanding the 1st Division,
9th Corps, has been brevelted Maj. Gen
eral, to date FROM August l, 1854, Civ
ing him rank above many Of the recent
" brevetted Brigsdiers. At the com
meueemeut Of th9 war, General Wilcox
commanded the lst regiment, from Mich
igau, which crossed the Alleghanies TO
protect Washington; was made Military
Governor of AIexandria when our troops
crossed into Virginia; was wounded at
the FIST battle Of Bull Run, taken pris-
oner and held thirteen months,s during
part of this time as hostages on bis re-
turn was promoied to be Brigadier GEN.
I. a,al Of volunteers. dating back to Bull
Run; succt eded General Stevens in COM
mand Of his brigade, took part in the en-.
eagsment at nth Mountain, and when
Reno fell, assumed his command; at An
tietam did distinguished eeryice 40 COM
ihauder Of the Sd Division, 9th Corps
succe, dsd to the command Of the CORPS
which he led at fredericksburg; ven
with Burnside to Kentucky and aod took
part in the Eas, Tennessee campaign ant
siege of Knoxville, and has done gallant
and merltorious service during the pres
ent campaign in Virginia as commands
of the lst Division OF the 9th Corps. 1
is record to which any soldier nigh
point With pride and satisfaction.-[ Arm.
and Navy Journal.