The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-08-28

General Dix has not yet signi6ed his 40,
ceptance of sae mission to the Hague.
Important instructions to those convert
ing 7-8o notes into 8 per cent. $40 bond
will be found in our telesraphic columns.
"A Washington special states that Gen.
Grant will not accompany the President in
his electioneerins tour to Chicago.
Hon. A. NJ. Clapp, Union Postmaster .,
Buffalo, has been superseded BY Joseph Cam
den, supporter of "my policy"
Two men we're arrested in Springfield
Illinois, yesterday, with $4,000 worth Of
counterfeit money in their possession.
"A grand soldiers encampment n to be
held on Rock Island, Illinois, Oh the 2sth and
9th inst.
The last statement in regard to the losses
by the Marine Bank robbery in New York,
places the total amount at $287, 900.
The Jackson (Miss.1 papers are com.
planning Of military drilling BY the negroes II
that place.
The Kearney Herald Of late date con.
m2SSaCf8U
in that vicinity
.-Arrangements are being made for great
Horse Fair at Galesburg from the 9Th TO the
18th of October.
-Ofa family of eight persons in Spring
field, o., who psrtook of watermelons on
Tuesday evening four were shortly aiterward
taken very sick. 6
Judge Edmunds and Judge Advocate
General Holt, are spoken of a. delegates at
large from Washington to the loyal Union
Convention.
There is no truth in the published state
ment that the Secretary of the Treasury il
preparing for another gold sale.
1t is rumored thst Judge Advocate Gen
eral Holt, who 10 Radical, has been remov-
ed from his position in the War Department.
"A FIRE in Wilmington, N. c.. Saturday
afternoon, destroyed colored Baptist church
and the brick warehouse Of West, Beardsley
4 Co., Richmond, Va, was destroyed BY FIRE
Tuesday night. Loss 50,000.
S. V. Clevenger, recently An editor Of
the Chattanooga American Union, has start
ed new paper at the town Of Harrison, in
Hamilton county, Tenn, entitled "Th< IN
conditional" T"
On the 9th of October next, the 6rs,
number of the Monthly Eclectic Magazine,
conducted by Revs. Hoge and Brown, will
make its appearance in Richmond, Virginia.
Last year s54, 900 we're set apart for the
commission sent to negotiate with the In
dian tribes ives. of the Arkansas river, and
wonderful TO relate, but Slo,0 900 were spent
An order has been issued from the Fs>
nian headquarters ia New Yort City, direct
ing suitable officers to be appointed to reor-
ganize the military organization of each
Circle.
Three hundred and thiry>two thousand
sacks Of new wheat and l67, 900 quarter sacks
of -four have been exported from San Fran
cisco since June g.
The Darlington (S C.) Soufhsrner learns
that the negroes in that section ere preparing
to emisra,e in large numbers to the public
lands in Florida
The Springfield Journal of the 23d aays
that dispatch has been received in that city |
stating that Governor John Moore. who has
been in the East for some mouths past for
the treatment of his eyes, is now lying sick |
at tie hospital in Boston, aud is not expected |
10 recover.
"A Cincinnati paper, in speaking Of the
Ill 81 - rk~hl
coincidence that the caterpillars, which have
heretofore destroyed the trees and sh rubbe
berry during the summer months. have not |
made their appearance this year, and the |
same phenomena occurred in l849, when the |
cholera was so fatal.
The Boston 7rarelier has communica- |
tion strongly urging the nomination Of Wen |
dell Phillips as the Union candidate for Con.
gress, in place of A. H. Rice, who declines a
re election.
A man named Edward S,agg WAS found
lying dead on Tuesday in . culvert near Ham
burg Station, on the Lake Shore Railroad, |
With large hole cut in the back of his head, /
and other evidences that be bad been mnr--
dered.
Alfred kilgore, of Delaware county. In |
diana, has been appointed United States At |
torney for the District of Indiana, in place of
Hon. John Hanna, removed. Mr.. Hanna |
has held the Office for six years, and loses the |
place because he is attached to the Union |
party.
u. s. Attorney General Stanberry has |
issued directions TO the District Attorney Of
the Eastern District Of Missouri to enter . |
nolle prosequ in the cases Of all Fenians ar |
rested in St Louis last spring charged with |
completely in the invasion Of Canada.
"A woman named Emily Schaller was ri.
ding toward Rochester, n. Y, Tuesday, in . |
buggy, with her father in-law and a little girl,
when the buggy coming in contact with . |
wagon, the horses attached to which we're
frightened, the woman was thrown out and |
crushed to death.
Gen. Sheridan issued an order the other |
day reyoking General Bsird's order declaring |
martial law and appointing Military Cover.
nor, but continues his own general order de. |
claring martial Law 70 exist for the preserva-
ton of the public peace. thus restoring things I
to the status existing before the riot.
Alter October lst no rations are to be |
issued by the Freedmen's Bureau except y
regularly organized hospitals. This order il
too sweeping 70 ever be approved, bat it will
compel the States to make some provisions
for their destitute people, and thus far will
result in good. Unfortunately, however, this
order is to take effect in the fall, at . time
when it win be almost impossible for thess
people to obtain work, and being thrown up
on the cold charities Of thsir former owners,
many Of them viii suffer and die from stary..
ton and want.
The citizens Of Chattanooga Monday
fled bill before Judge Cooper, praying for
an injunction apinsstAs eaibrcsmsnt Of The
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