The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-06-15

The Internal Revenue receipts for thepres-
ent year will be about three hundred and ten
millions of dollars; from customs about one
hundred and seventy millions. and from other
sources over twenty millions, making the ag-
gregate receipts for the fiscal year over FIVE
hundred millions.
WASHINGTON, June 1.-THE inquiries
made by Major General Meade are as yet in
complete, but SO far AS they go, they do not
result in confirming the report that the Cana
dian or British forces crossed the boundary
line, or that any of the Fenians have been
killed by them, or that any prisoners we're
captured by them on the American side Of
the frontier.
NEW PENSION BILL.
The House Committee on Invalid Pensions
are preparing bill, which will soon be re-
ported, giving to the widow of the soldier or
sailor, in addition to her present pension,
two dollars a month for each Of her children.
This pension will require an appropriation Of
six millions.
JEFF. DAVIS.
There is no doubt that the Government at
any time would transfer JEFF. Davis to the
jurisdiction of the District Court of Virginia,
If writ of habeas corpus should be issued to
bring him before that tribunal.
- In reply to an inquiry Of District Attor-
ney Dart, at Potsdam, n. T., as to whether
one Of the subordinate officers and men of
the Fenian prisoners should be indicted, the
Attorney General telegraphed to indict the
leaders only, and to prosecute them for breach
of the United States neutrality laws. with
such dignity as would be consistent with the
dignity of the United States.
RIVER AND HARBoR BILL PASSED.
The great River and Harbor Improvement
Bill was passed by the Senate this afternoon
with slight amendments. The IN ost impor-
tant Of these is that of striking out the clause
giving the Secretary of War power to re-ex-
anime and re-survey the works for which the
appropriations are made, and change or mod
ify the present plan if he deems it advisable.
The Western appropriations were given at the
time the bill passed the House, six weeks
ago, and need not be repeated, as no change
has been made in any Of them. The new
sections for q survey of the Minnesota and
Upper Mississippi Rivers, and for examining
and reporting upon the subject of construct
River, between st. Paul and st. Louis, upon
such plans of construction as will offer the
least impeachment to the navigation of the
river, were agreed to without opposition.
THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT IN NORTH
CAROLINA.
The Raleigh Standard, exGov. Holden 8
paper, after speaking partio ularly of that Sec
ton excluding rebels from Office, uses the
following language in reference to the Con-
sttutionsl Amendment Just passed by the
Senate: 1.-The question, therefore, is whether
certain persons shall be excluded from Office,
and the Union restored, or whether on &C
count of these persons. and because We may
not want to exclude them from Office, we are
| to remain indefinitely out Of the Union. The
| people cannot hesitate one moment as to their
choice in this matter The chat is to be
separated from the wheat, and if anv of the
| wheat should be about to be blown off with
the chaff, Congress will interpose and save
| every sound grain. X is our deliberate opin.
ion that the above terms are the very best
the Southern States can obtain. Ii these
terms should be rejected, however, more
stringent terms will be required
! AUGUSTA, Ca, June 12-J. E.. Bryant
editor of the Loyal Georgian, the freedmen
organ. was arrested by the civil authorize:
this afternoon, for attempting to defraud ne
groes out of money borrowed Of them when
he (Bryant) was On officer ofthe Government
He was released, colored man becoming hi!
surety.
The Central Railroad, DESTROYED By
Sherman's army, has been reconstructed, ant
trains from Macon to Savannah and Augusta
passed through to-day.
In accordance with instructions from the
War Department, stringent quarantine regula
tons have been established for the ports o
Savannah. Brunswick and Darien.
Edgar M. Lazarus and j. I. W. Walter
| hov nd
they could not take the test oath.
/ TExAs COTTON CRor.
The Intelligencer has received letter from
a correspondent in Texas, giving same facts
as to the prospects ofthe cotton crop on the
coast OF that State. He states that the heav,
rain and incessant wet have almost DESTROYED
the prospects of cotton i'll that section. i
the rains are general throughout the coast re-
gions, there will be but very small crop
he knew of no planters who had finished
cropping out his cotton plants, and heavy
crops can never be cleared out
/ THE COTTON TAX.
i The proposed tax of FIVE cents pound or
cotton would tend also to dispirit the cottor
planters. They seemed bearing as much a,
they could, but rains for whole month wa,
ruinous. The spirit Of the freedmen was evi
IDENTITY depressed, as failure in cotton woule
render their situation very CRITICAL deprivin,
them of many necessaries. The people, h,
} says, are generally loyal, but much discour
aged.
DEsTITrrI0N IN ALABAMA.
Gov. Patton, Of Alabama, has written ,
letter wherein he states that Gen. Swayne
Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau 70
Q that State. is now furnishing twenty. fiv
thousand rations a week to the starving pop
ulation Of that section, and that the maiorit
OF them are whites. The Governor says Their
e are ten thousand objects Of charity in Ala
b oama. The great mass Of these people de
!, pend upon the Freedmen's Bureau for thel
subsistence,