The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-07-31
BY TELEGRAPH.


NEW 1oRK, July ~.
The thermometer marked 90 in the shade
here at o clock this morning
The Herdlds Texas correspondent saws the
larger number of our troops intended to be
stationed along the Rio Grande have arrived
at their destination and formed line of posts,
extending from the mouth Of that stream to
some distance above Brownsville. The cav
AIRY column undf Gems Merit, and Custer.
which, left Shreveport and Alexandra, in
the beginning of the month, were expected to
reach the Texas frontier early in August
Brownsville, which, during the rebellion,
was the great centrepot for cotton from the
interior of Texas, aud where an immense bus
mess was transacted, is now deserted by its
rebel merchants, who accumulated monster
fortunes in few months, and its business ac-
tivity, except such as the presence of an army
gives 1t, has for the present departed. The
battery of six guns, which the rebels, on
evacuating Brownsville sold to the Mexican
lmperialists, for S1I, 900, was returned to the
United States commander at that place, on the
10th inst, by order of Maximilian.
1t is said that in the interior of Texas. the
paroled soldiers are committing the creates,
outrages in every direction, and keeping the
peaceably disposed inhabitants constantly in
a condition of terror.
1t is estimated there remained in the State
at the time it was occupied by the federal
troops about II 500 bales of cotton.
1t is said the rebel Kirby Smith and his
party, which we suppose includes Gen. Ma
gruder and three or four ex- governors of Lou
siana and Texas, who fed with him, have been
made prisoners and paroled by the governor
OF Saltllo, and that q considerable army train
which they had with them was captured.
Twelve hundred French troops, direct from
France, were landed at Tampico in the be-
ginning of the month, and there was rumor,
which did not gain much credence, that soon
after there arrived $4,000 more.
A Vicksburg correspondent Of the Tribune
complains that Gov. SharkeF has not only re-
lieved the criminal and probate courts Of
Mississippi, and set up justices of the peace
everywhere, consisting of rebels, but has
even declared valid some of the laws enacted
by the rebel legislature.
A planter, few days ago, shot negro
dead for denying that he was told to plant
cotton instead OF corn in q certain fiield.-
The planter was arrested by the military, and
then demanded by the civil authorities, under
the writ of habeas corpus.
Instructions from Washington were called
before responding to the writ.
The people i'll the interior look for the res
toration of slavery.
nc AAef ufn w dsHiHBtou special mas Tue
following:
Another heavy instalment of applications
for pardon was received at the Attorney Gen
erals Office to-day. Among the number was
that of the rebel Brigadier- General w. Fl. F.
Lee.
About eighty acquisitions are daily made
in the State Department from the Attorney
Generals office. The remainder have to
wait.
1t is reported here that Dill, the editor and
publisher Of the Memphis Grenada jackson
Meridian Atlanta Augusta Southern Confed-
eracy Appeal, has obtained pardon
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has
decided that interest paid to depositors by
savingS banks, is considered dividend with
in the meaning of section 120 of the law, and
thetax of FIVE per cent should be withheld
therefrom and paid to the Government. He
has also decided that an undertaking on
claim, by third party, under the New York
statutes, is a joint agreement, and is subject
to stamp duty of Eve cents.
The Tribuae's New Orleans CORRESPONDENT
Of the I'D inst. says Major-G General Sheri-
dan left for Texas last Thursday. 1t is sta
ted that the General viii visit Galveston, SAM
tiago and Brownsvillo before his return to
this city. The trip will, in all probability,
occupy two or three weeks.
The quastermasters' and connissary de-
partments are forwarding lsses euAaAities of
supplies for the use Of tie tzosps Ii Texas.
Capt Hill has just rstsrned trom = inspec-
ton tour Of the conmisssry departnent, and
reports the armies - wen supplied with COM
miseAxy stores. H
It is reported that Governor Madison
Wells, of this State, has taken, or il about to
take, his departure for Washinston, whore he
is going 70 try and connteract the influence
which il being brought to bear on the Gov
ernment to erect bis tpmovsl and the aJ,7
peintment of = proyi1 1ional governor. n s.
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