The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-08-26

no from iuteruoi revenue yes
terday we're ST, ,l67.2s3.
"A. b. Stephens intends to deliver lectur.
es during the coming winter in some of the
principle Northern cities.
Hon. A. NJ. Clapp, Postmaster q. Buffa.
10, N. T., has been superseded BY Joseph
Candee, Administration.
The 7-30 treasury notes, dated August
18th, 1854, are now convertible into six per
cent. $40 bonds.
"A Waterbury hrm make 1900 tons of
copper, annually, into pins, hook and eyes
and such trifes.
Ten Of the Boston churches are closed
this month, and out of one congregation so
per cent of the families are absent from the
city.
"A large quantity of shot, she'll and other
material, sent to Copenhagen during our war
for the rebel ram Ssonewall. have recently
been surrendered to our feet.
The horse Fair at Cleveland il a great
success To-day there will be race between
the celebrated horses, Dexter" "Bu,ler,'
and "Patchen," for purse Of $4,000.
The Journal Of Commerce says the Col.
lector of the port Of New York has notified
about eighty of the Inspector that their
services could be spared.
Mustard applied externally as . compress
or in bath, has been found in the Dublin
hospitals an excellent remedy for delirium
tremens and even long standing insanity.
The President in bis reception address to
the Dowager Queen Emma, Of the Sauiwich
Islands, inadvertly neglected TO inform her
that he had once been an Alderman.
The Labor Congress Committee, at Bal
hmore, could not agree upon . newspaper
organ. A resolution was adopted urging tha.
local Trades Unions be maintained.
The Horse Fair at Cleveland. Ohm
opened yesterday. s'Silas Rich," owned in
Chicago, won the two-mile race. Time 5:ls.
6:l2 and 5:16.
work Is to be commenced at once upon
the St. Paul and Lake Superior railroad, At
the lake end, and the people of St. Paul are
moving to have work commenced at their end
also.
The contractor who built the Pbiladel.
phia Wigwam has paid fne Of SIS for erect,
ing wooden building in the FIRE district, and
will have to pay $50 more if isn't torn down
this month.
A hotel keeper near Boston. charged ten
cents on Saturday for glass of water, with
which to revive a lady who had tainted in q
carriage lfthere is anywhere meaner man
his name had ought to be made public.
1t is said that the Secretary Of the T,eaa. N
ury will soon disburss nearly seventy mill
hons in currency in the payment of INTEREST,"
on the 1905 and in liquidation of the tempo
rary loan.
a Mount Washington IN. H. dispatch
states that the thermometer at the summ;,
yesterday morning indicated 2s degrees above |
zero. The telegraphic wires had been bro
ken down with ine.
"A rousing Union meeting was held at
Monmouth, Warren county, YESTERDAY. At
which over $4,000 people we're present. Gen.
eral Logan spoke over two hours, followed
by General B. NJ. Prentiss and A. C. Hard,
ing.
General Tillson, now al his home in
Saco, Me-, has been directed not to return
to bis command in Georgia, but to come to
Washington. 1t is considered certain that
ne will be appointed Superintendent of the
Freedman's Burean in place of General
Howard.
1t has been discovered that stories ofI
Indian depreda,ions are sometimes manufac-
tured by residents in frontier settlements.
who desire the presence Of troops for profit
instead protection. This has turned out
TO be the case with regard to the reported
nassaeres 10 Paradise VALLEY, Neyad., in the
early part of July. n
The Secretary of the Treasury states that
the national debt is two hundred and Gay
million dollars less than it was estimated that !
it would be at thattlme, and that its reduction
has averaged ten millions month for the last
year.
New York has suffered another stupen-
dous bank robbery. A trunk, containing q
half million of securities, has been stolen
from bank vault in that city. The name Of
the bank is not given, and as to the sufferers,
the very meager Associated Press dispatch
gives US only the information that q Boston
house shares the loss.
The voluntary contributions made to the
public revenue of England by penitent tar
payers, under the head Of "conscience money
maintains regular average of about E7 600
ayear. IN the financial year ending March
1856, they amounted to elisa
The Presidency Of Antioch College, Ohio,
has been accepted by Rev. George W. Hos
mer D. D., for thirty years pastor Of the
Unitarian Society in Buffato. His son Rev.
James X. Hosmer, minister of the church in
Deerfeld, Mass, is TO be associated with him
in the faculty al one of the professors
Point Lookout, situated at the mouth Of
the Potomac river, formerly camp for rebel
prisoners, has been sold by the Government
TO company of New York capitalists; and
will be converted into resort for the travel.
ling public. A summer hotel is to be built /
there. The Government expended over FIVE |
hundred thousand dollars there during the
war.
The Cincinnati Gazette announces that
owing to the general stagnation of business,
the subscription to aid in the erection Of the
new Opera House ID Cincinnati has not met |
with the encouragement the manager expect |
ed. Mr. Handy, indorsed BY some Of our
most responsible citizens has therefore con-
cluded to dispose Of the remaining tickets on |
the plan Of the Chicago Art Association.
-E. Hensler, Deputy Collector Of Cus. |
toms on Grand Island. below Buffalo, hss |
been so efficient in the arrest Of emueKlers |
that he is now subjected 70 constant persssa>
ton, for which as yet no arrests have heen
made: His house was fred in Nay, and last |
Sunday morning, lsth, his barn was burned |