The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-08-30


Gold closed At 1881 in New York last
night.
-Maripon, Caiifornia, has been destroy
ed by ERE. Only half dossn houses were
left standing.
"A naval engagement has taken place be-
tween an Austrian and . Prussian corvette,
in which the latter came out second best
A number Of Fenian prisoners have been
released from custody in Ireland, on con-.
ditou of their immediate departure from the
country.
-Advices from Texas state that the rebels
in that reconstructed State are very violenk
Doubtless they we're counting on Phil. Sheri.
dams removal.
"A Continental Newspaper correspondent
has put aaoat the rumor that the Pope con-
templates the transfer of the States of the
Church to Napoleon, a. Vicar.
Professor Newton Of Yale College finds
that prodigious 6ight Of meteors, the most
imposing of it's kind, will make its appear
ance, probably for the last time in this centu.
ry, on the morning Of the 18Th or 18th Of
November next. Only thirteen of these great
showers are recorded between the years 9Os
and 1888.
-Ex- Gov. John A. Andrew writes that he
cannot attend the Philadelphia Southern
Unionists' Convention, Sept. 8, having
promised to address the Vermont State Agri-
cultural Sociaty nm the 7th
A high state of civilization must prevail
at St. Paul. We fnd this item iu an ex-
change: ''The remains of halt. witted boy
who ssrayed away from home and was frozen
to death one cold November day three yeas
ago, have just been discovered in the suburbs
of St Paul, Minnesota, and properly buried
after the coroners inquest Butt appeared
on the inquest that the remains we're discoy.
cred and identified year ago, since when
they have lain untouched because nobody
would take the trouble of BURIAL
Some person, with an eye to the political
situation, says that, amslgamation conven-
tons being the order of the day, it is propo-
sed that the surviving prisoners of Ander-
sonville, Salisbury, Belle Isle, and the Libby
invite their former rebel keepers, guards and
surgeons 10 meet and fraternixe with them,
this autumn, at Auburn, N. Y. 1t is believed
that this arm in arm movement would Be even
a finer exhibition Of Christian forgiveness
than that which recently took place in Phila-
delphis. Mr.. Seward may be invited to
speak, and with his usual optimistic philoso-
ply, prove that the horrors Of the Southern
prisons were among the compensations ofthe
war. and evidences of the fitness of the per-
petrators thereof to return without conditions
to the Union.
BY the completion Of the winona and
St. Peter Railroad TO Owasonna, 80 miles.
and the Minnesota Central from st. Paul to
the same place, 6S miles, Winona and Saint
Paul are brought into direct connection, and
passengers now go through in ten hours, which
will be reduced to eight on the better equip
ment of the roads. There was great rivalry
to see which road would reach Owatonna
first. The Winona aud ST. Peter had TWEEN.
tysiye miles Of track to lay, including side
tracks, and the Minnesota Central had SIX
teen miles; but the Winona folks brought in
the first train of passengers; although the ST.
Paul engineers ran in the first construction
locomotive, so the honors are about equally
divided. The Central is now pushing on to
the Iowa line, and the st. Peter road is head
ed toward the setting sun. Owatonna is al.
ready springng into prominence; the founda.
tons of grain elevator have been laid, hou'
ses are springing up 200 fast TO count, and a
Congressional District Convention is called
to meet there.