The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-07-20

Gold closed ct 1904 in New York last
night.
1t is authoritatively stated thatthere are
number of negro soldiers in Garibaldi's COM
mand.
Lord Monck, Governor .cf Canada, is 10
be made British pssr.
Mr.. Harris, of Maryland, declines re.
nomination to Congress.
John Stuart Mills prononncss Mr.. Glad,
stone the greatest Parliamentary leader since
the time Of the Stuarts.
-Bsyard Taylor stigmatizes the Missouri
river as q malignant, treacherous tide of yel.
low mud.
1T is stated that the Confederate General
Early is preparing history Of his campaigns
The burnt District of Portland covers
827 acres.
"A fatal case of the cholera was reported
at New Haven.
-Ex-President Fillmore has returned from
his European tour, and is now at his home
in Buffalo.
Gen. Hamilton, Of Texas, calls the Phil
adelphia movement new i'rebel invasion Of
the North"
A daughter Of John Minor Bolts wns
recently married in Virginia to Col Hoxey,
of New Jersey, gallant union officer who
was severely wounded at Petersburg.
1t is rumored that the Cunard line of
steamers will be Withdrawn from Boston on
the termination of their present contracts
There were $40 deaths from Ill causes in
New York city last week, being - increa.e
over 100 per cent, in FIVE weeks.
The Boston advertiser Gays that it was
not Senator Fessenden's property that was |
destroyed in the Portland FIRE, but his broth
sr's
-Munjoy Hill was the place where the |
burnt out Portlanders encamped. Seventy
children have been born there since the fire. |
M. Bagley, ore of the oldest railroad
men in Ohio, and for many PEARS fagent on
the c. C. & c. Railroad, at Crestline, died on
Wednesday.
Benjamin Briggs, one Of the oldest set
tiers Of Seneca county, Ohio, died at Tifin. /
on the 9Th. in his slst year. He was native
OF Maryland.
The Presbyterian Church in Franklin
Avenue, Brooklyn, was slightly damaged by
lightning, and two persons killed, on Wednes-
day last.
The Times estimates the number of trav-
elers between New York and Boston by the
five lines ofsteamers now running, to be co.
600 every month.
Among the graduates at K Kenyon College
this year was John j. McCook, the youngest
Of nine brothers who served in the late war,
three of them, as we'll as their venerable
father, being killed.
Seven hundred and sixty nine bills have
been reported, and one hundred and sixty
six joint resolutions, during the present ses-
sion Of Congress- number greatly in excess
of that acted on by any previous session.
DIR. Bacon, of New Haven, says that in
the forty years Of his ministry as pastor of
the Centre Church, be has expended $685.
600 more than he has received, directly or
indirectly, from his parish.
The rope factory of Henry Lawrence l.
Sons, of Williamsburg, was struck by light
ming on the 18th inst Four Of the boilers
exploded, doing great damage, and killing
one man. Less 100000 See dispatches.
The Columbus (Tenn.,) Herald reports
that one of the best farms in that State was
sold few days ago for sixty thousand dollars
in gold which was at rate of one hundred
dollars acre. w. d. Hendley was the sell
ler, and Mr.. Metcalf the purchaser.
The Cincinnati people did not take kind
ly to Pixies proposition, and so Pike wouldn't
build them an Opera House. So the Cincin-
nstians, like miners sometimes, suffer from
Pixies pique.
"A highly sensational Washington CORE
spondent says that Charles O'Conner as
counsel for Jefferson Davis. holds in his
hands letter written by Mr.. johnson in
1860, proposing to join the rebellion, provided
he could have seat in the Confederate cabi-
net, and that this is why Davis is not tried.
The Trustees of Antioch College, Ohio,
at the recent Commencement exercises of
thatinstituhon, refused to allow Mrs. .Dodds,
of Aena, Ohio, to read her graduation
essay unless she would take off her q reform
dress which she had worn all through col
lege. and put on petticoats and things. Mrs.
Dodds wouldn't do it, and wouldn't accept
diploma from the Trustees
The Philadelphia Bulletin has this pre-
monition: "The new Cabinet is to be con-
structed somewhat thus: Wsr-Jeff. Davis;
Postofhce-J. H. Reagan; Attorney General
WIN. B. Reed; Interior-C. L. Vallandig-
ham"
The National Intelaigeneer reads Henry
]. Raymond out Of the Conservative party.
1t says:
"Having attached himself to the Union
cause, now so manifest, Of betraying it when
ever practicable, he has At last smilingly re-
sumed his position in the ranks Of the com
mon enemy and may complacently say to his
co conspirators that he has inflicted serious
harm upon the cause Of restored Union.n
Two young ladies we're drowned at Great |
Falls, N. Y.,on the evening Of the nth inst,
while bathing. The mother Of one of the
young ladies was also drowned in attempting
their rescue.
-fhe knife with which the assassin Payne
tried tSNkill Secretary Seward has been given
by the WAr Department to Sergeant Geo. F.
Robinson, the aoldier nurse, who saved Mr..
Stewards life at the risk Of his own.
A letter from the city of Mexico describes
Maximillian as a man nearly six feet in
height, light hair, slizhtly bald, blue eyes,
long face, large whiskers and moussache. HeI
isa pleasant speaker, With good gestures.
His wife,. Maria Cariota Amelia Augusta Vic
toria Aemertina Lespoldina, is % years Of
age, Of medium height, light hair, blue eyes
and square face, showing much vigor and de.
termination.
Senator Wilson has demanded the record
of the Inquiry on the murder of23 United
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