The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-04-05

In Georgis, where Sherman's army made q
sweep of all the carriages, the ladies now 90
visiting in carts. They call them cartes de
risite, and console themselves with the
thought that they are in the heighth OF
fashion.
The Land Office has assigned to the State
Of California, under the act of l84l, $4,000
acres Of land in Humboldt county which is
one OF the finest agricultural sections in the
State.
The total number Of emigrants arrived at
the port of New York in March is 5000,
sachusetts, 1910; Pennsylvania, 1851; Ohio,
720; Wisconsin, 1872; Missouri, 273: Mich
gan, l47; Illinois, 1,l24.
A call is issued for a National Woman 9
Rights Convention in New York on the 10th
Of May next, to consider the question of suf-
frage, and other matters.
In Dayton, Ohio, the Union city ticket was
elected by 300 majority, except the Mayor,
who IS q Democrat. Dubuque, Iowa, goes
Democratic, as usual, though by reduced
majority, and the Unionists gain one Alder
man. Jackson, Mich, has redeemed herself,
electing the Republican candidate for Mayor
by fifteen majority, gain of 100.
A WASHINGTON dispatch to New York
paper says that .'the Republican leaders have
resolved privately to tie the hands Of the
President, if possible, by sitting until Decem-
Der, when Congress will reassemble under
the Constitution.
The latest representations concerning the
Atlantic cable on the authority of eminent
scientific persons say the submerged wire is at
the present time more perfect as to isolation
than the day it was laid.
A VESSEL arrived at New Orleans reports
having seen off Cape Corrientas screw
steamer of eight hundred tons flying the
CHILEAN flag.
The doubts so freely expressed Of the abil-
| ity of our monitor feet to cross the Atlantic
have been solved by the monitor Monadnock.
She has arrived at Valparaiso, having made
the passage round the ''horn.' in good style
her sea-going qualities being pronounced Of
the first order.
Elk Senator Yulee, Of Florida, late a
prisoner in Fort Pulaski, has been paEoled
and allowed so go home, but is required to
report once Q month to the Adjutant Gen.
eral
Portraits Of General Scott and General
Grant, by Constant Meyer, the painter Of
Consolation = and Recognition, . which
have both been exhibited in Boston, have
been placed on view in New York.
| The death is reported at OAK uandesl
ola woman named Anne Merilbac, widow
Peyres, at the age OF l05. She had been for
some years in the receipt of pension from
the Empress of the French.
The territory Of Texas is so large, and
the interest of the east and West sections so
dissimilar, that some Of the citizens are in
| favor of division of the State
The colored population of indianapolis are
having great revival Of religion. Eighty.
three converts were baptised on Sunday BY
| immersion.
| The annualelection of officers Of the Chi
cago Board of Trade for the ensuing wear
took place at the Chamber of Commerce, re.
sulting in the choice OF j. C. Dore for Pres
dent; P. L. Underwood, First Vice Presi.
dent, and E. w. Dinsmore Second Vice
President. The annual meeting was held in
the evening, when the several reports were
presented, read by the Secretary and accept
ed.
We find this in an exchange ~ once
met q man who made nerve and bone. all
healing salve he was an enterprisning kind
ola fellew SO he thought he would expert
ment with it. He first cut off his dogs tail
and applied some to the stump-a new tail
grew out Immediately. He then applied
some to the piece of tail which he cut of.
and new dog grew out. He did not know
which dog was which,
An interesting phenomenon occurred in
England on the 9Th ult.-a fall of water in a
semi solid state far denser than snow, vet not
hail or ice; in short, natural snow balls. A
correspondent of the London Times writes
that about two and half inches of these
balls gave one inch Of water; therefore their
density was about half that of hail, and five
times that Of ordinary snow. Their shape
was usually pyrnmidal, the base being uneven
somewhat like the flower of : canliflower.
The size varied from aboutan inch in diameter
down to tenth about twotenths was most
usual.
In Paris, when lady has her face newly
enameled, she is said to have renewed her
facade
a quadrille of so intricate series OF fig
ures had been introduced in Paris that it has
been christoned Trigonometry.
The fortieth birthday Of the Empress Eu.
gene occursin May next.