The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-08-15

told CLOSED n ioO4 IN new 1ork leSa
night.
The Empress of Mexico has arrived in
France.
-Ex Gov. Letcher is keeping..a boarding
house at Lexington, Va.
In Louisville, KY, Hon. James Guthrie,
returned an income Of $6s, 1892, and Prentice,
of the Journal, $sl 400.
Satisfactory treaties have been made
with the Indians, in the upper portion Of
Montana.
The Treasury Department last week
shipped to Chicago, $4,000 in National
fractional currency.
Our Canadian neighbors are becoming
very uneasy and are telegraphing to England
for breechsloading muskets.
Madame Jerome Bonapart fell down
stairs, in Baltimore, on Sunday last, breaking
her wrist.
Some of the most efficient and essential
clerks in the Treasury Department are re-
signing on account Of the doubts about the
increase of their salaries.
A letter from Washington says that the
Attorney General has already engaged com
petent photographers to attend the Davis
trial in October, to take notes for the Gov
ernment.
Mr.. A. T. Stewart has contracted for the
the window glass for his new house in New
York at $50, 900. Mr.. Stewart should have
in mind the old adage-"Those who live in
glass houses" &c.
Prominent citizens of New Orleans
are going to have meeting At Cooper Insti-
tute, New York, on Wednesday evening next,
ITO bring before the public the facts of the
late riot
Gov Throckmorton and the rest of the re-
Gently elected State officers of Texas were
inaugurated Friday. This terminates the last
OF the Provisional State Governments in the
South.
Maj. Gen. B. F. Butler will visit the
Northwest this week, on business in connec-
ton with the Soldiers and Sailors National
Asylum. He is expected at Milwaukee.
-Lawlessness prevails in the "reconstruc-
ted'' States. An ex confederate officer was
assassnated in Vicksburg Friday night, the
bullet which killed him narrowly missing his
wife.
The Louisville church imbrosLo is be-
coming spicy. The late pastor of the Walnut
street Presbyterian church has sued . party
for false imprisonment, laying his damages at
Slo0f0.
The disbursements by the Treasury De-
partment for the week ending on Saturday
we're: War Department 1854, 4,749; Navy
Department S775, 5,Sl4; Interior Department,
$Ssl,s94. Total, $l,7ll,957.
The receipts of Internal Revenue on
Saturday, at the Treasury Department, we're
Sl,33l, ,571 81. For the week, S7.159, ,7l3 2s.
Average daily receipts. 81, l99, 2s5 SIS.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has decided that sales made by auctioneers
for judicial or executive officers, or for ex-
ecutors or administrators are not liable TO tax
IN the same manner as sales made for other
purposes.
Senator Howe wa. capitally received At
Madison, Wisconsin, Saturday night, where
he was welcomed by Governor FairchiId. The
Senator responded in an admirable speech.
1T is rumored that General Howard,
Chief of the Freedmen's Bureau, will either
be removed or -esign, and that General Til>
son will reign in his stead. The report of
Generals Steadmau and Fullerton is supposed
10 be the cause.
was manifested at the Board of Trade in st.
Louis on Saturday, by an exrebel, at the
suggestion Of another Of like persuasion,
tearing blue ribbon from boquet which
was bound together by red, white and blue
ribbons. The scoundrels who did it should
have been iynched on the spot.
David D. Rose, delegate to the Phil
adelphia Convention, from Indiana, has been
appointed Postmaster at Indianapolis. He
states that the President told him that a sue
cessful Administration must surround itself
with friends, and he should act hereafter lnn
accordance with that idea.
of civilized nations, Great Britain is the
most densely populated, and the Uuited
States the least Great Britain has 266 in>
habitants to the square miles Italy, 1873;
Prussian Germany, 1885, France, i7a, Aus-
tria, 1877; Russias 81 Turkey, 20; and the
United States 10.
A rumor comes from Philadelphia that
Hon. Geo. Ashmun, who presided over the
Chicago convention which nomleated Presi-
dent Lincoln, will be chosen as the presiding
officer of the ''my policy" Reconstruction,
Conservative, Bread and Butter, Rebel
Democratic, Philadelphia Convention What
fall from graoel
Alexander r. Stewards tof New York
income is larger than the annual salaries
combined of the President Of the United
States. the Governors of all the States, SEN
ators and Congressman, State officers and
members Of the Legislatures Of the different
States. Out of such an income, Mr.. Stewart
could pay the entire expenses of several
State Governments as easily as many mef
nov sappor, thesr Own fanihsa.
Several persons have arrived at Washing
ton, stating tha, they have been obliged t.
leave New Orleans in consequence OF being II
sympathy with the Radicals. They exhibit
the following notice, which tRey statels heini
served on those who are known as active
sympathizerswith the Convention.
"You are hereby ordered to leave Nev
Orleans within seventy.two hours. You
presence can no longer be tolerated in thi
community.
by ORpYR or THE CoaMITrKE."
ASpBEs JoHssps orderei tha. Gen. Shsrl