The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-08-02

The increased pay OF members Of Con.
gress will amount TO $500 each.
Gen. Santa Anna is . suitor in the So,
preme Court at New York.
-Maximilian's army il being steadily rs>
organized.
The attack upon Jalaps still goes for
ward.
General Warren has arrived at Guate>
mala.
Disturbances have mainly subsided in
New Orleans.
The Provisional Government Of Texas
is to be continued until farther orders.
The Chicagoans are preparing to give
Senator Trumbull . grand reception.
The negroes in Mobile, Galveston, and
New Orleans are getting in favor Of emigra-
tion to Liberia.
Hon. j. R. Doolittle, Of "My Policy"
fame, was at Chicago on Tuesday, en- route
for his home in Wisconsin.
The capital stock of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton 4 Dayton Railroad Company has
been increased $500, 600.
Senator Hendricks and Ex-senator
Graham N. Fitch are among the Indiana del>
egates to the Philadelphis Convention.
Mr.. Shellabarger has been re-nominsted
for Congress by the Republicans Of the Sew
enth District of Ohio.
The Colored Soldiers National League
propose to hold National Convention at
Nashville on the first of January next.
A monster reform meeting was held in
London on Monday. Three hundred thous>
and persons we're present.
Peace in Europe is considered fact es>
tablished. Prussia has carried her points in
settling terms of peace.
The recent naval victory of the Austri.
ans over the Italians is said to have been
magnihed. {.
The new Derby government is already
imperiled. It cannot exist under the com
tinued reform pressure.
Major General Wood reports that there
was one hundred and ten cases Of cholera at
Savannah on the 25th, Of which about half
proved fatal.
Gov. Brown. of Georgia, parades his
loyalty in the New York World is heartily
supporter of the Philadelphia Convention,
but doesn't think it policy TO attend. Joseph
has been illuminated in the spirit of his
mind.
1t is shown By chemical analysis that the
milk used BY the boarders at the Pyle House,
Indianapolis, contained tartar emetic in the
proportion of FIVE and a>hsf grains to the
pint, and also trace of arsenic. Every ef-
fort is making to discover the scoundrel who
perpetrated the act.
A gentleman was stopped in Indianapolis
Saturday night, as be was returning home,
by three robbers, who forced him to give up
some seventeen hundred dollars and q valu,
able gold watch.
The Auburn (Cal) Starr and Stripes
has request from Captain Tom,'' Of the
Placer tribe Of Indians, to make the paper
tell every man and every woman that his be>
loved wife, Mandad, is cheap dead" ''She
was little sick two week, heap sick one
week, and made dead after dinner On Mon.
day."
Professor Hoppus has resigned the chair
of Mental Philosophy and Logic in Unis
versity College, London, after occupying it
for thirty>six years, and the Spectator
nominates Prof James Martineau az his suc>
cessor.
DIR. Joseph Tonybee, of London, recent
ly fell a victim to his zeal tor science He
wished to test the effects of inhaling combs
nation of prussic acid and chloroform, and
the result was that be fell dead in few mo.
ments.
Hon Henry Stanberry, the present At
torney General of the United States, 10 about
20 years old, and is resident of Campbell
County, KY, just opposite Cincinnati, on the
south bank of the Ohio river. He was born
at GAINESVILLE, Ohio, graduated at the Ohio
University, was admitted to the bar in 1924,
after seven years study of his profession,
and has practiced his profession At diferen,
places in Ohio recently having an Office al
Cincinnati, though residing in Kentucky
He was Attorney General Of Ohio from ls4s
to ls4s. He was formerly Wing and after
wards Republican, and voted for Lincoir
and johnson in 1864 Latterly he has beer
very conservative in his opinions, and has had
the credit of preparing the legal part part o'
the Presidents first veto upon the Freedmen.
Bureau Bill.
A convention Of officers and directors o.
the fire insurance companies of Illinois, In
diana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa
Ohio and Kentucky, is called to meet at Free
port on the 18th day Of August, to inter
change opinions and take such action as ma.
be deemed for the best interests Of Westerl
underwriters.
-Messrs A. II. jackson and Elliot W Ric
have been appointed Commissioners by tn
President, under articles 40 and SO of tn
late Choc.aw and Chickasaw treaty, to exam
inc and report upon claims of loyal Indians Q
those tribes for losses of property on accouu
oftheir loyalty, and also upon claims Of licer
sed tradesmen among them for losses of pro
perty by reason of the rebellion. The Com
missioners proceed shortly to the India
country to make their investigation.
Washington specials TO the wester
press show bad state Of affairs in som
parts of Georgia. Thus the Assistant Con
missioner Of the Freedmen's Bureau in Geol
gia has made application for authority
place Stewart County under martial law, o
account of the indisposition of the civil at
thorities to do justice to the freedmen. tn
General says that the citizens there have fail
ed to appreciate or recognize the eonciGator
character OF the Bureau, and although the
have been repeatedly called on by the ASST
tant Commissioner to enforce the laws an
secure justice to all citizens, for which pu
pose he has rendered military assistance il d,
sired by them, they have not only failed TO
their duty, but have even Joined With riotel
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