The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-01-14

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News Items. S
.7Tha awards for tie capture Of the assas-
SINS havs - lsaeth besn determined In the
war Department. The penee Of those id
judged - b safitled to portions Of these
A~Ards VIII b made public in : few days.
Halt million Of dollars ID the new City.
cent frsctionAl earrency win be ready for
diadbution next week. Tia new issue bears
. likeness Of General Spinner, United States
Treasurer. wet
The Secretary Of the Treasury signed a
warrant Ia favor of Mrs Lincoln for the sum
OF $zs,0o0, less the amount drawn for his
salary in March last.
= There will be no Presidential levea. nro-
per this season. The ladies' of the Whit.
house, MRS. patterson and Mrs. Slower. viii
receive company on Tuesdays from 1880 to
iOP. n; on Fridays, from, ! to 3 o'clock ,.
y. At these receptions the President will
De present from time to time a. the pressure
OF executive business will permit.
The Treasury disbursed for the week en-.
ding last Saturday to the Navy and War De
Partments Sl3, 7O0. 600; namely, to the War
department, Sis, ,079, 900; to the Navy De-
P%SsySh's %o~i,uSU
The United States Consul at Liverpool
III communication to the State Department
says that the cattle plague 10 On the increase
in England and Scotland,
The Fenian Congress has elected a Cen.
us, Council to take the place Of the Senate,
and has acquitted the parties charged with
returning without leave from q mission IA
Ireland. President Roberts is engaging in
the purchase Of war materials.
A Stste Convention Of the Fenians of Iii
nois, met on the 10th, at Springfield. Forty
circles we're nepresented. President Roberts
Was sustained, OMahoney denounced. and 4
National Military Convention recommended
with view toa rally under General Sweeny's
banner. Thomas Hare resigned as State
Centre. and John Forrastal was choosen to
succeed him.
The Paris Correspondent of the London
4horrfng Post says: SIT is reported in di.
plomatic circles here that Q privs,s nnder
standing exists between the Governments Of
Great Britain and Washington, by which the
claims made by America for Losses at sea will
Be amtcably arranged. We hare always here
in Paris that the United States would insist
on Naturalization
-PosrscRrPr TO PeArE1-TAs black mi
mister was closing ra his prayer, when some
white eoys IN the corner had the i'll apners
TO laugh, 80 that the sable supplicant heard
them. he had said bat Q moment before.
and very earnestly, 'fhIess all dat Ia human y
when the laugh oocnrFsd; and commencing
again, Just before the Amen the poas old
negro said:
80 Lord, We are not in the habit of addin'
postscript to our prayer: but If the spression,
' Bless all dat is human won't take in desc
wicked white fellers, den We pray dat de
Lord viii bress some dat amt human. also.
besides. Amen.'
The Wisconsin State Reform School at
Maukesha. was barned on the 10th. loss.
$4,000. A FIRE in Bnghamton, N. Y. has
$4,000 worth Of property. Ry tLs
burning OF the barn Of the Tpay and GoAoes
N ~ Hose Raslraaa, seven cars and ,hir.
y one horses were consumed.
An order was issued on the 9th instant.
mastering out large number of regiments
doing duty in Texas, comprising about II, 900
men.
We have report, By way Of New Or.
eans, that all United States troops are to be
withdrawn from Georgia and Alabama.
In the Maryland Legislature, on the 10Th.
he message of Governor Swan was recaivsui.
de says that the pArnansnt deLt Of he State
Tas increased b war expenditures only $500 |
en, and that the State has claims against the |
GENERAL Government, amounting TO over S. |
Uo,Ooo. de favors the Presidents plan Of
reconstruction and opposes negro suffrage.
The reported resignation of the Italian
Atf..aA II 4
las been intrusted with the formation of q |
new Cabinet.
The Philadelphia Press says: "We un- /
lerstand that Rev William H. Furness, Of
his city, delivered ar stle sermon yesterday
n fever c, Eer,litting the street cars to run
IN the first day of the week.
The carpet weavers of Philadelphia are
m a strike, demanding the following wages
Jarpets, eight string, including winding, IL
o L cents per yard eight and a half string, /
without winding, Ia to I84 cents nine /
triBg, ls to 10 cents ten string. including
winding. q to y cents eleven. string, q to
"A cents; twelve string, % to 26 cents thit- /
cen string, q to 2s cents.
The Siamese Twins are in Philadelphia.
There were l,S60 marriages at Boston
asst year, 81 less than in 1864 and 4,53s
ieaths, against >, Ill in 1864
A mail line is just beginning operations
rom Natchitoehes, La, by way Of Sabine.
own, San Augustine, Nacogdoches, Alto,
Crockett, and Huntsville, to Navasoto, |
Texas, but as the mails cannot be opened |
llong the line for want of postmasters, |
he service is lost to the public.
The savings banks of Baltimore have
Sc. OOO, 900 on deposit million more than |
n 1864.
-"D,aniel D, CenBelr' is the pana hes.ow-
d upon one Of the Rig Trees Of Califbrnia, |
" Mr.. S. J. Ahern, of New York, who |
ecently vsited California The name has
'een inscribed upon marble tablet, and |
lung upon the tree.
"A Raleigh paper says that the freedmen
ire beginning to make contracts for this
'ear, with unexpected willingness, in many
,arts Of North Carolina.
Paris News-.InAaan Dslsgatsens.
New YoRK Ian 13 /