The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-07-12

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MEWa suuwARY.

Gold closed at 100 in New York last
night.
The survey of the Minnesota Valley rail-
road has been completed.
The loss Of the Portland Mutual Insur.
ancs Company by the recent FIRE is 500, 900.
1t is said that Gen. Rosseau will be ex
PEELED to day.
Congressional action was unimportant,
and we omittie synopsis oftheir proceedings.
-16,4aa acres we're entered by actual set
tiers in June at the Winnebago land office in
Minnesota
va-Many changes and improvements are be.
70 rlade in the Offices Of the Executive Man
ceet
Non Saturday last, the first train passed
iver the bridge just completed over the Ten
nessee River, at Decatur, Alabama.
The Nashville Rdsner, in double-lead.
ed editorial, advised its rebel friends no. to
celebrate the 4th Of July.
The contested seat in the Sixteenth
Pennsylvania District has been awarded by
the House Election Committee to William
Koontz.
alt has been resolved, at public meeting
held in Dublin, to erect in that city memo.
rial of the late Earl of Carlisle, Lord -Lies>
tenant OF Ireland.
"A locomotive, weighing thirty tons, and
with ten wheels, has been built in Boston.
1t is expected to draw thousand tons Of
coal in the Lehigh Valley. Pennsylvaaia.
A horse railway has just been completed
at Springfield, between the Capitol Square
and the tomb of Lincoln, and the cars have
commenced running.
A contract has been made for the con-
strnction OF railroad between Alexandria and
Fredericksburg to be completed in eighteen
months.
A scnlling match took place on the Hud.
son on the 10th inst, between Gilbert Ward
and John Mexican. Mexican was victorious
Distance, s miles. Time, Al minutes.
The great ram Dunderburg has had steam
on for number of days for the purpose Of
testing her massive machinery, every trial has
thus far proved entirely satisfactory
Foreign news says there is ramored
peivate negotiation on the tapis between
France and Austria, which is TO lead to an
alliance between the two governments.
1t is stated in our dispatches that the
Hon. Q. d. Campbell will n1t receive his in
structions or orders to depart from the State
permanently located.
The races at the fashion course on Tues
day for purse of $1,000 resulted in Mr.. Car
penters Lucy being declared winner. Time,
Pa, 2:so and 2:s2l.
Il was not Robert Barnwell khett, Ex-S Sen.
atorw was recently assassinated at Charles
.on. S. c., but younger brother named
Benz S. Rhe,t. cotton merchant who had
never mingled in political life.
The bill to extend the Capitol grounds,
which passed the Senate on Tuesday proposes
that the ground shall embrace forty-one
acres. The estimated cost of the additional
ground was, IN 1901, SZJU,VtU.
The nomination of the Hon. Henry
Stansberry, a. Associate Judge United States
Supreme Court. was settled to-day in the
Senate by the passage Of the House bill,
which reduced the number now on the bench
as fast as vacancie. occur by death or resg-
nation.
The adjournment Of Congress depends
greatly upon the progress made during the
present week on the tariff bill. A PROPOSE
ton is being discussed among members to
adjourn on the 23d of July, though Speaker
through before the 3oth.
Col Thomas A. Scott aud other leading
railroad engineers are asking the consent OF
sCongress to tunnel the Mississippi river al
SYsssouis, instead of bridging it; the tunne
10 be constructed Of wrought iron. not to ex-
coed in cost three millions Of dollars, and TO
be completed IN three years.
In the late fire, safes Of nearly all des-
crip,ions proved worthless in most cases,
when unprotected; and the few which did
not fail. were probably saved by circumstan
ces II is judged from this, that vaults only,
built under the ground, are entirely reliable
The special dispatches from Washington
saw that the Presidents forthcoming veto Of
the Freedmen's Bureau Bill was thoroughly
discussed in the Cabinet meeting Of Wednes-
day Secretary Harlan took a decided stand
=, C..o- oc H. Kill ord ,rar -, rflv \. al hv
Seward, ON the score Of expediency. Seward
is said to be indifferent to its merit but fears
the effect of so many vetoes.
lin the Chestnut Street Congregations
Church in Chelsea, Mass. last Sunday. one
hundred and nine members were added to the
church, about ninety By profession. Forty
seven Of the number we're baptized on the
occasion by the pastor, and eight infants we're
baptized at the commencement of the after
noon service.
The three hundred and fourteenth edition
of Uncle Toms Cabin - has just been is
sued in Boston. Tupper's I" Proverbial Phi
losophy' is also up in the hundreds, in the
way of editions, and in the race between
these two popular works, at latest accounts,
Upper was head.
Professor Agsssiz, in q letter, informs
those contemplating emigration to Brazil, that
while the resources of that country are
boundless, yet laws and usages of the land
place restrictions on the stranger. not condu-
Give to the comfort and prosperity of the im
migrant. f.l