The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-09-07
Nrws SUMMARY.


week amounted to $40, ,2s5, sSl.
The United States bonds, held BY Trsas>
urer Spinner, in trust for National Banks
amount in the total to $s0s, ,507, 200.
Officers just in from the plains state that
the reported capture of Mrs. Col. Carrin gton
by the Indians, is untrue.
Gov. Meagher, of Montana, has ordered
an election for the Territorial Legislature to
be held on the Sd inst.
Daniel A. Lincoln was nominated on
Saturday for Congress by the Union conven-
ton of the Reading (Pa.) District
John Minor Bolts has written Gen. Cow.
an, Chairman of the Union Executive Com
mittee, of Ohio that if possible he will visit
Ohio during the present campaign.
Col. Charles Phelps, the present Repre-,
sentative of the Third District of Maryland
in Congress, was on Saturday renominated by
the Conservatives.
The President has concluded to visit St.
Louis, and speak his little piece in tina,
city.
Gen. Dix, orator at the coming ceremo-
MES at Chicago, has arrived in that city.
George Il. Briggs, the defaulting teller
of the Nassau IN. " bank, was arraigned
yesterday, on charge of grand larceny.
The New York Herald nominates Gen.
Dix for Governor, and the Citizen nominatea
Mayor Hoffman for the same position.
II. P. Bromwell, and Gen. Black, rival
candidates for Congress- in the Seventh Hi.
nois District, are to have q joint canvass.
A man in indianapolis was attacked by a
dog, and bitten and mutlated in horrible
manner.
The two medical schools of Louisville
have been merged into one-the old Univer-
sity School; the faculty of the Kentucky
School of Medicine having accepted positions
in it.
Governor Cox, of Ohio, has appointed
James R. Cochran, of Logan, Hardin coun>
ty, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas,
vice Van Trump resigned.
There have been thirty eight fires in Ca
iro during the past year, involving loss of
$4,000. During the six preceding years the
loss was SCI 900.
u. S. Senator Wright, Of New Jersey,
islying dangerously ill at Norwalk, Conn.
Hislong illness and advanced age makes his
recovery almost hopeless.
The Internal Revenue receipts for Au.
gust amounted to SSs.643, ,s4o, being the
largest return for any one month since the
law went into operation.
Gillespie, the independent detective,
whose arrest for passing counterfeit money
has already been noticed, was bound over
for trial on Saturday in the sum Of 81 600.
Major Gee. who achieved quite repu-
tation during the war by numbering Union
prisoners in his prison pen, at Salisbury, n.
c., is 20 be presented with . purse of five
thousand dollars by some # the admirers OF
his chivalric daring. -
A Leavenworth despatch says that abou,
fifty indians commenced an attack on Deer
Creek Station, about ninety miles west Of
Fort Laramie. The fort Ias destroyed, the
telegraph line cut, and the operators forcedt to
fee to the mountains. The same party at
tackled train of Mormon emigrants, and
captured some ninety or more cattle.
The case of l.. N. Montgomery agains,
Ill hnfn
Judge Bernard The former claims to have
been the agent Of Santa Anaa in his latest
Mexican scheme, and now asks S25, 900 for
his services. During the reading Of the sfh-
darits, Judge Bernard produced an anony'
nous letter offering him q brbe in case he
decided in favor of Santa Anna.
George Fl. Briggs, paying teller for the
Nassau Bank in New York, was arrested
Friday on charge of embezzling ssl 900 o.
the funds OF the bank. Mr.. Briggs has been
in the habit Of frequenting, and loosinl
heavily, at the various gambling houses
throughout the city, and on the morning ar
rested made full confession Of his guilt.
Ht Dhgsou A<tnPHc says suot va itooJ
afternoon Miss Taylor of Lebanon, wa
shot and instantly killed in front of he
mothers residence by young man named
Leslie, who had for some time been paying
his addresses to the young lady, but whose
proposals had been rejected for those o
another man, through the influence of Mrs
Taylor Leslie was at once arrested ane
placed in jail. He viii have an examination
to-day.
The Harrisburg penn Telegraph o
Thursday, says that fourteen different tru,
bills have been found against the variou
persons connected with the Culver, Penn
Co., swindle. The people of the oil region
are said TO have been vicsimized to th
amour. of Sc, 600 900. The trial will proba
bly, be postponed until the next term Of tn
court, OWING to the amount Of other Grim
inal business on hand. Judge Pearson ha
decided that the parties indicted should CIV
bail for their appearance in the following
sums, Via: Charles Y. Culver, $45,000
Lucien A. Culver, $4,000; John Walker
$4,000. A. Carlisle, who was also indicted
but not arrested, was ordered to give bail i
the sum of s24,o 900.
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