The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-08-22

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The street sweepers of New York talk Of
starting newspaper.
Dublin is putting up statue to Edmund
Burke.
"A man died in Stockbrtdge, Massachu-
cetts, last week, who had been for thirty FIVE
days without food or nourishment, except a
few spoonsfull of Bourbon whisky.
"A dispatch to the Chicago Times says
that Hon. George Pugh has received an init
nation that the trial Of jeff Davis will soon
take place in a civil court, and he has COM
menced preparations for the defense, which
promises to eclipse, in criminal proceedings,
any defense ever known in this or the old
country. Mr.. Pugh will join Mr.. O'Connor,
of New York, in Washington in few days
The New York Erening Post says that so
much of this dispatch as refers to an early
trial is erroneous. 1t is also probable that
the trial will take place in Richmond.
The Baltimore American, in an editorial
on the havoc of war, gives the following fig
ures: " In the desperate encounter at Chick
amaugauga, Rosecrans lost l6,85l men, and
at Murfreesboro 1905 at Pittsburg landing
Grant lost 13, $685., at Vicksburg 9, 1875, and at
Mission Ridge 1000: at Gaines Mills, Peach
Orchard, Savage Station, Glendale, White
Oak Swamp and Malvern Hill, Mcclellan
lost 20, 600, and at Antietam IL ,426; Hooker
lost in his campaign in tha Wilderness, 20
600; Burnside at Fredericksburg, $4,000,
and Grants united losses, from the time Of
crossing the Rapidan, in his final campaign,
to the surrender of Lee, are computed at
10000.
-Advices from Texas state that at a Ger
man and negro Republican celebration at
San Antonio, the United States flag was torn
down.
The town of Stevenson. in Tennessee,
has been almost destroyed by fire.
The commission to visit the Indian tribes
left Washington for the plains Wednesday.
William Cullen Bryant, the poet, has
been spending part Of the summer at his
native place at Cummington, Mass He has
bought the old ancestral homestead, and is
fixing il up in fine shape for q country resi-
dence. The old honse has not been torn
down, but repaired aud enlarged, and the
grounds, from which there is fine view, have
been much improved Among other gener-
GUS deeds, Mr.. Bryant has given $500 toward
a school house, which is being erected by the
town on one corner of the farm, and which
will be school house, the like of which is
not seen in many country towns.
Eighty thousand Labor Tracts, No. /.
containing the report of the committee to the
Massachusetts Legislature, have been printed
IN Now York, and distributed in all sections
of the country.
The National Tobacco Convention il to
meet at Louisville on the second Wednesday
Of September, during the week of the State
Agricultural Fair.
"A terrific explosion of powder maya
zine occurred 1t Richmond few days since
1t was on board vessel lying in the river.
Fragments of shells were thrown in every
direction. Two persons are reported killed.
In many portions of the country. a very
malignant and obstinate type of dysentery
prevails. In many cases it nearly resembles
the choleea. The patient seems at once
struck with the palor of death-his skin blue
and cold, and his pulse almost gone.
A crowd of drunken roughs got on a
street car at Louisville on Tuesday. and COM
menced abusing the ladies ahaard. The con
ductor succeeded IN ejecting them, when they
began to hur! stones ut the car, and one
child was killed by being struck upon the
head. But one of the ruffians was arrested.
In the vicinity of Fort Riley, Kansas. a
few days ago party of Indians captured a
train of military stores and killed thirty.eig
or forty members of its escort, all belonging
to the Ilth Kansas cavalry.
The great iron bridge over the Ohio river
at Steubenville, will be ready for trains to
pass over it on the LIST OF September.
The Richmond Enquirer is to be revived
under the old proprietorship.
The National Teachers Convention has
reassembled in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
The safe of Stephen Patton, in Portland.
Maine. was blown open and robbed of
$25, 900.
Twelve Virginians were pardoned one
day this week. Warrants for 800 pardons
have been prepared at the Attorney General $
office, and are awaiting the signature of the
President.
The Government of Canada will remove
to Ottawa, the new capital of the Province,
during next month
"A delicate young lady died recently at
Quebec from the shock of seeing a man kill a
duck.
a 'in SoHiPaut Is W De IOFmeu IN DOS
ton to supply pure milk at FIVE cents quart
or sixteen cents per gallon.
Lord Palmerston was returned to Parlia-
ment at the hate election by the votes of less
than three hundred of his countrymen.
"A Troy capitalist is erecting row of
nineteen tenement houses in that city, and
more houses for working men are now going
up.
The Nashville Dispatch is reliably in
formed that General John c. Breckenridge
will be in Canada in the latter part of this
month
1t is the fashion at Saratoga for ladies to
paint their lower eyelids dark color, so as
to look sickly and interesting.
The plan to manufacture sugar from beets
in Illinois, which at first failed, it is said, be-
cause the works were small, is to be tried
again, the company having increased their
capital.
1t is stated that the prominent merchants
Of Alabama have made up their minds to set
tie down to the new state of things. What
their Northern creditors want them to do is to
"settle up"
"A crane was shotnear Watsontown, Penn.
sylvania, lately, which is said to have meas
ured four feet and eleven inches across the
wings. A big bird that
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