The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-09-04
NEWS SUMMARY.

Gold closed at l45s in New York ::las.
night.
The cotton crop of South Carolina for the
current year is estimated at 1000, 900 babes.
Hon. Samuel Shellabarger is making
very vigorous canvass Of his District.
The cholera reports at st. Louis show
marked decrease in the prevalence Of the
disease
West, from Sioux City, is reported to have
proved successful
The shipment of fve>twenty bonds to
Europe the present week is estimated at
$4,000, 900.
The work of completing the Government
buildings in Indianapolis is vigorously push
ing forward.
Affairs are beginning to look brighter at
Portland. Just after the FIRE 1900 rations
were issued daily Now only 500 are being
distributed.
"A few days since man named Henry
Keller, of Frankinton, was crushed by some
cars, and it is feared was fatally injured.
Arrangements have been made to hold a
grand Union Soldiers Barbecue at Xena,
Ohio, on the 10th and 20th of this month.
Henry kable, a convict in the Ohio Pen.
itentiary, sent thither, from Butler county,
made his escape the other day and has not
been recovered.
John NJ. Lord, the Copperhead cand-
date for Congress in the Indianapolis Dis
trict, refuses to make joint canvass with his
opponent, Gen. Coburn.
-Drs A. Z. Jennie, of Crestline, Ohio,
and G. W. Hunter, of Berksville, KY, have
been appointed Examining Surgeons of the
Pension Bureau.
The receipts from customs during the
past month at the FIVE principal Atlantic
ports were about seventeen millions of dol.
lars.
A State Convention Of Illinois soldiers
will be held at Bloomington on the 10th Of
September, to elect delegates to the soldiers
Convention at Pi,tsburg.
Notwithstanding the inclemency of the
weather, seven thousand of the loyal people
of Kane county met at Elgin yesterday. and
were addressed by Generals Logan and Full
ler
The Darlington Is. c. Southeraer learns
that the negroes in that section are prepar-
ing to emgrate in large numbers to the pub
lie lands in Florida.
The Republicans of the Twelfth Ohio
District have nominated General Wells S.
Jones for Congress. This completes the Re-
publican Congressional nominations in Ohio.
-Goyernor Oglesby telegraphs that other
and more pressing engagements will prevent
his attending the Douglas Monument cere-
monies in this city. He is in receipt Of nu-
merous and urgent appeals to address the
people in other States.
No action has yet been taken in the mat.
ter of paying the extra bounties recently au-
thorized by Congress. 1t is now asserted
that nothing is likely to be done in the premi-
ses until the meeting of Congress, when
specific appropriation for the purpose will
probably be made.
-Eggleston, alias Watson, who was to
have beeu executed at Newport, KY, yester-
day, for the murder Of Captain Menter, has
been respited by Governor Bramlette until
the meeting OF the Legislature, in December.
Accounts from the counties Of Lowndes,
Dallas, Greene, Marengo, Wilcox and Perry.
in Alabama, represent that the cotton crop is
ravaged by catarpillars. The factors at Mo-
bile have received orders from planters to
withdraw their cotton from sale in conse>
quence.
The New York Herdld's Richmond cor
respondent states positively that the body Of
Colonel Dahlgren, Of General Fitzpatrick $
staff, who was killed in raid on Richmond
in March, 1864, was never recovered, but that
the body given his friends was fictitious one
palmed off for some purposes unknown.