The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-07-18


not receive our usual amount of telegraph
dispatches.
-Garibaldi is sixty.
The Ohio Republicans count on from
10000 to 10000 this fall
The Legislature of Tennessee still lacks
seven votes of quorum.
A new city hall and . market house are
in planning at St. Joseph.
The bill for the regulation Of the election
Of United States Senators will probably be
called up to day in the House.
The thermometer marked se degrees in
the shade in New York City yesterday morn
ing at 8 o'clock.
1t is stated that an effort viii probably be
made to admit the Representatives from
Tennessee in the House before the adjourn.
ment.
The gentleman who went bail for Head
Centre Stephens, in Boston, has given HIM /
up, and he is now in Jail. 5.
1t is said that the Rev. Mr.. Griunell. who
was beaten BY Rousseau, is writing a sermon
on the fsvorite Southern text, "Cursed b
Gaming
Specials to the New York papers say
that Mt. Harlan will not resign for some days
to come. Mr.. Browning is named a. his sue.
cessor in case of the formers resignation.
The following Postmasters we're yester-
day appointed by the President: John II.
Gould, of Lockport, N. T., John Ryan, Of
Medina, Alfred E. Brooks, of lion, N. Y.
and Ira Godfrey, of Tama.
The engineers convention at Louisville
adopted q series Of resolutions looking to the
safety of the travelling public against explo-
sions Of steam boilers.
The notes Of the Kirhsville branch Of
the Bank Of St. Louis will not be redeemed
after the 18th, as the concerns of that branch
are wound up. Let all holders of such notes
take notice.
The Board Of Managers of the National
Military Asylum have deferred the location
of any site for buildings, and will await pro-
posals from localities desirous of securing an
institution in their midst.
The boring for coal at ST. Joseph, says
the Union, is progressing admirably. The |.
drill has been sunk 440 feet, and at the pres
ent time is passing through a strata of lime
stone.
At Oquaka, ILL.,, Mrs. Samuel Fl. McGaw
was riding on horseback to Aneighbor house
when her horse, becoming unmanageable,
reared up and fell upon her, crushing her so
hadlv that teba AZ cJ IN a cbnrf fip,o
The 10th inst, was the warmest day
known in New York City for ten years. There
were twenty-five cases of sun stroke, thirteen
of them proving fatal. In Brooklyn only six
cases we're reported
The Copperhead State Committee of
Ohio have been in session at Columbus for
the past two days, and have decided to go
into the Bread-and-B Butter organization, and
abandon their old party organization.
A johnson has notified the Douglas
Monument Association that he cannot be
present at the laying of the foundation stone
Of the Douglas Monument until after the
Philadelphia Bread,and.Butter Convention.
The Omaha Republican Of the 10th says
the American cypress Company has put on
messengers from this city through to Fort
Kearney-by stage from Columbus to the
Fort. The American keeps up with the pro-
gress of the great West, and will find the re-
ward of its enterprise. A 4
1T is feared that the large emigrant ship
Monarch, which sailed from Liverpool on the
10th Of March last, has gone to the bottom
with all on board. She had 674 passengers
and crew of 54 men. The vessel was
valued at $l25, 600, and fully insured.
The report of the investigation into the
Merchants National Bank swindle was
submitted to the House yesterday The
evidence which accompanied it fills over 600
pages and shows . remarkable conspiracy to
defraud the Government for the benefit of
individuals. See Telegrrphic columns.
The following is Gen. Speeds letter of
resignation:
SIR:-I hereby resign to you the Office of
Attorney General of the United States. Be
good enough, sir, 10 accept my thanks for the
Kindness, consideration and confidence ysu
have ever shown me.
l have the honor to be, most respectfully,
(Signed,) JAS. SPEED.
There is considerable speculation as TO
Who will be Vice President of the Senate pro
ten. Senators Pomeroy, Wade and Sher-
man are named. II is decided, however, that
the East should have it, as the President and
Speaker of the House are both from the
West 1t will be settled in secret caucus.
1T is stated that the President, immedi-
ately on receiving Attorney General Speed 8
resignation, telegrAphed to Hon. Henry
stanberry, Of Ohio, offering him, the po-
sition. Mr.. StAnberry did not accept, but
started immediately for Wsshington TO confer
with IA J.Y on the subject.
Hon. Freeman Clarke, Conptrolles Of
the Currency, yesterday rendered - rssig-
nation, 10 take effect on the 9Th Inst It il
said that his relatioos With the SecEetAg o
the Treasury have for some time been un
pleasant and that he was not pleased with
the manner 10 which the National Bank In
vestigating Committee of the House has beer
conducted.
A serious accident occurred on the l0tl
10 Mr.. Ainwright,- . laborer on the Uniyersi
ty building at Lawrence, kansas. he va
engaged in stuccoing the building and tn
ladder slipped, throwing him TO the ground
FROM heighth Of forty feet. The fall brok
his wrist, arm, hip, jaw, and cut his CHI
badly, and it is feared did internal damage.
The Virginia papers record the death 0
General John H. Cooke, at the age Of eighty
ak years. The deceased was one of th
most distinguished citizen Of Virginia. H
was ia Brigadier General in the war Of 1919
and was for q considerable time in comman
of q force at Camp Carter, about eight mile
below Richmond In after yean be VI
distinguished as an apostle Of tempsranc
and an opponent of the use of tobacco. a
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