The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-08-11
NEWS SUMMARY.

Gen. Webster is in Washington engaging
colored laborers for iron and rail factory in
Alabama
-Rossini is said to divide his time between
the composition of music and the cultivation
ofsquashes-
A census Of ST. Louis, just completed.
gives the population at 2o4.s27. Chicago
claims population OF $4,000
Ten Delafeld has been relieved from
duty as Inspector Of the Military Academy q,
West Point. and Gen. E. Schriver assigned
in his place
Further returns from the Kentucky elec :.
tiou indicate the success of the Latter Day>
Democratic Conservative ticket by at least
forty thousand majority.
General Fremont is reported as willing
to accept the United States Senatorship from
Missouri. in place Of Hon B. Gratz Brown.
whose term expires in 1867.
Collector Thomas. Of Philadelphia, Pa,
refuses to be removed BY the President, and
intends 10 test the matter legally.
Works have been started in Detroit for
the manufacture of Illuminating gas from
pine wood. bone and refuse matter
The President has not issued his procla-
nation recognizing the new state government,
Of Texas.
English papers say that Ristori is to re-
ceive 100000 for one years engagement in
the United States.
The people of Raleigh. n c.. are to
erect monument over the daughter of Rob
ert <. Lee, who was buried in that State.
The races q, Saratoga, il is said, are to
be prohibited hereafter as injurious 70 the
place.
A barn in Monmouth. Me-, belonging
10 Oliver HinckIey, was burned Tuesday af-
ternoon, with eight TOYS of hay Insured
The son Of Marshal Ney, now the Duke Of
Elchingen. is to be married to Mile. Hevne,
a neice of N. Fould, and the richest heiress
in France
A Montreal paper says that about 45o
American vessels are fishing in the neighbor-
sir have paid for licenses.
The continued rains have resulted in
damage 10 matured crops in the vicinity of
Lafayette, Ind Wheat, oats and hay have
suffered largely.
The Associated Press have made arrange
nents for two hundred words or less from
valentia each day. a. cost of $4,000 for
the frs, year.
An Ola gentleman, a years old, who
few weeks ago was worth $40, 900, now OBJ
taus lis dailv raaons in TN pail from the
relief committee ia Portland.
A Roman CothoIic church for the e1-
elusive use Of colored people, Is to be eree-
ted in St Louis. \ convent is TO be at
tached under the charge Of colored nuns
The strike q the shoemakers of New
ark. \. j., against the proposed reduction Of
their employers Of fifteen per cent. has ter
minated IN a success for the workmen The
propretors say they will pay the old price.
Mrs. George Brown. Of Baltimore. has
given ten thousand dollars 10 the nion
Theological Seminary of Virginia. with the
special oblec, Of erecting library building,
to be called the Brown Hall
The Eco del Corercio. speaking of the
small ,ox a; Ponce. T. r.. says ,hati, spread
in q frighsfai manner, and in one ward oil the
town there was scarcely house without sew
era cases.
Illinois contains over 500 900 foreigners.
These. With their children born in this coun-
try. constitute nearly million of the popu-
lation. In the public schools oil Chicago
more than forty nationsiities are represented.
People from almost every civilized country
on the globe are found there
The following Is the resolution which
proved such bone Of contention in the
Dental Convention al Boston on Monday:
sResolred. That this Association is happy
to see and hear MAJOR General Butter. and it
also wishes he had command at New Orleans
one week ago
On their bridal visit to Paris their Royal
Highnesses. the Prince and Princess Chris-
tisn. on an excursion TO Versailles, we're re-
duced to the eEessity of travelling in q com
mon cart, through the negligence, on the
part of some one in providing a suitable We
hicle.
Not enlv was q brother of Prince de
Metternich. the Austrian ambassador in Pa
ris, seriously wounded at Sadowa- but Count
Leonde Sander, brother of the Princess de
Metternich. was killed
This Is the way that candidates for State
Offices in Richmond, Va, advertise them,
selves. his a beautiful example of recon
s.ruction Judge Crump it is said gave
ss, 900 to the Confederacy. Mr.. Gilmer gave
four years Of his life and risked the whole
Who gave most Let the soldiers answer at
the polls.
DR.. J. c. Calhoun Blackburn, the rebel
surgeon who attempted to introduce small
pox into the North in infected clothing dur
ing the war, has written letter in which he
declares himselfa rebel in every accepta>
ton Of the term, laments his compulsory
exit, and closes BY saying, ''if President
johnson be sustained, I expect to live, die
and be buried in the United States.
The city of Memphis, Tenn. Is rapidly
recovering from the effects of the war. II is
stated that over SIX hundred and sixty five
thousand dollars are at present invested in
putting up first class buildings, and that there
are over four hundred minor houses in the
course OF construction. Business of all
kinds Is said also to be improving.
1t is estimated that the amount of money
realized from the sale of goods seized on the
northern frontier by customs officials for vio-
lA'iou Of the revenue laws during the fiscal
year ending June so, 1866, will exceed the
necessary expenses of maintaining the sys-
TEN established by the Treasury Department
by about Sl50,oo0.
Some twenty years ago, Mr.. Charles
Baeder, an enterprising manufacturer Of
Philadelphia city, Was compelled by uaercan-
tile misfortune to compromise with his credi-