The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-04-14

nation to the effect that several companies OF
Fenians had left Chicago, ostensibly, for Og
densgurg. The next meeting Of the execp
tive council at Ottawa will take place mex
Wednesday, when the day for the assembling
of Parliament will be fixed. The delay go
far is understood to have been in consequence
of awaiting the action of the lower provinces
in matters of confederation.
The deputy heads oil the several depart
ments at Ottawa met to organize a civil ser
vice battalion, agreeable to recent orders In
the council Strict watch on FeniAa move
ments are kept on all the main lines of com
municaton in the Provinces. Sheedy, the
Fenian secretary, has been sent to Cornwall
as witness against other prisoners. 1t rs
said all Fenian documents have been de-
lstroyed.
The strike continues on the City Railroads.
The drivers Of almost every road in the City
are now in it, and those who have not struck
threaten to do so at an early moment. The in
conveniences to the public is immense. No
compromise has yet been affected with the
linen ly the Directors, and as the latter are
determined to hold out, il is hard to tell how
the matter will end. Throughout the men
acted in quiet and peaceable manner, and
no attempt Of disturbance has been made
A large number Of people living up town
were compelled to walk last evening, and
this morning.
Jueran Lameranda, Cashier Of Pothers'
Branch Bank Of France. was arrested In this
City on Monday last, on the charge of having
robbed that institution Of about $4,000
He is now confined in Jail, and application
will be made before United States Commits
sioner Bits on Saturday next, for his return
under the extradition treaty.
The Grand Jury in the case of tn Artic
Insurance Company against the Albany ca
nal tow boa. line, which yas on trial TO re-
cover the value of cargo Ncorn destroyed
by collision on the Hudson <sver between
two boats, brought in a verdichfor plaintiff
yesterday for : 1000. fall amouAi claimed
The plaintiffs are assignees of Whke, Banks
l. Co.. Of Buffalo.
Yesterday two men named Clarke and
Dennis were arrested On snspecion Of having
been connected with the rotery on the nigh
of the 23d at the house Of John Z. Moore, ia
| Madison avenue. when Sl60.000 III bonds
and securities were stolen. The officers sue
ceeded in securing Sl9.450 in bonds identi-
| fed as belonging to Mr.. Moore. and having
were committed One Of the robbers OF tht
Greenwich street bonded warehouse, nameb
Joseph Fitz John, has been arrested and
81. 700 found and recovered.
| Adv;ces from Mexico states that the lmperi
alists were defeated in Coruhila March lst
losing onehundred and fourty killed. Other
| fights of desultory character are reported in
| the interior.
| Maximillian' organ states that about one
hun Ired Americans invaded Sonora ostensI
| bly, in persuit Of Indians. but nothing positive
| is known of their intentions. The French
occupied chihuahua. having returned from
an expedition with over hundred sick they
brought as prisoners Generals Casavantcn
and Manuel Ruiz, Juarez' ex-minister. AMI
other French command has returned %
chihuahua with ten prisoners, after having
shot three of the enemys leaders, including
one named Mendez.
Gen. Castogmy was ordered TO leave Chi
huahua bu, the order was countermanded.
The Liberal General Regules was surprised
and defeated in the State of Moratta-
! The death of Hon. Daniel s. Dickinson is
announced TO day.
The Tribune's Raleigh CORRESPONDENT says
tue Gee trial viii probably be discontinued al
once under the Presidents Proclamation.
| The Heralds Washington special says the
President is reported 10 have declared ID
Judge Peabody, counsel for T. c. A. Dexter,
late treasury agent at Mobile. who was conf
yicted of malfeasance in Office, that his Proc
| lamation was simply deiineation Of his pol t
| icy. and did not terminate martial law in the
late insurrectionary States.
! The Herald SAYS Union Square received
dispatches from b. Doran kelIian, reporting
| the complete success of his expedition. The
same paper asserts that negotiations are in
progress for the Union of the the two sec
tions of the Brotherhood for the purpose ot
| immediate coup de main on all the British
North American Provinces
| The Vorids Washington special says the
Reconstruction Committee are said 10 have
nearly completed the plan for the Reconstruct
ton of the Southern States. 1t is in the shape
Of Constitutional amendment in regard 10
Representatives, and is believed to be salts.
factory to both wings of tha party, and they
expect TO get two.thirds vote on il in both
Houses. 1t is estimated that the President
has commenced to remove Pennsylvania of
fce holders. Ex-Governor johnson, it is
said, has been appointed collector of Internal
Revenue at Pittsburg.
Gold opener S1.27; closed at 1.26lm
1.26s
The strike of the Car drivers continues.
They held mass meeting in Union Square
to-day. Most Of the roads are running s. me
cars, and new drivers are being occasionally
procured. There has been no real distur.
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tected by the Police.
! The Metropolitan Board Of Health met this
p. IN. DIR. Stone, of the Sanitary Commits
sion, who was requested, at the next meeting
of the Board. to report what evidence there
lis of an impending pestilence. and what
measures should, 10 consequence thereof, be
taken, and what acts done by the Board for
the preservation of the public health-which
in their opinion the public safety and health
demanded-made an important report. The
Commission alluded to the cases of cholera
on the steamship Atlantic, and say that TO-
day information has been received from,
Washington that the brig Eucla and the
schooner Hampton have arrived ut Bermuda,
and have been placed at Quarantine under
suspicion that the cholera was on board. Both
vessels report also says no doubt the cholera
will soon be here, and at present there is but
one hulk in the harbor fit for quarantine yes
sci, and this cannot accomodate over three
hundred persons. There is no cause to sup
pose that cholera this year will differ from its
former visitations. Whatever may be the
case in other portions of the country we can,
but expect that in the thickly populated citiet
of New York and Brooklyn it will visit its
previous haunts, and that in the filthy dis
tricts it will be developed and disseminated
The report recommends that the Governor
make an address to the public, setting forth
the fact that the visitation The cholera is I'M
minent, and giving TO the Board of Health
power to incur expenditures for the care oil
sick, both in this city and at Quarantine, as
we'll as to close or remove buildings danger
Gus to the public health. In conclusion the
report asks the government to give the Board
Increased powers until the 10Th Of July, and
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