The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-10-14
NEw YoRK. Oct. l3.


The steamer Arizona, which started for
Aspinwall with California passengers, on the
llth, still remains at anchor inside the Hook,
weather bound.
w. q Parkhurst, well known photo
grapher, was accidentally drowned at Wash
ington on Wednesday night
Stephens has called meeting of Fenians
at Jones Wood, on Sunday, the 26th inst,
when, he says: 81 shall freely tell you who
are and who are not the friends of Ireland.
| shall also bring public opinion to bear on
such parties as still retain any property of the
Brotherhood or Sisterhood. In order that
may fulhl this duty effectively, the officers of
orders are hereby requested to furnish me, at
their earliest convenience, with these parties
names and the nature of the property with
held BY them.
A Times Charleston special of yesterday
SAYS: The Charleston Neps of this morning
concludes al article upon the recen. election
in the Northern States in the following words;
nDisagreeable as the prospects may be, we
are forced to conclude that, without any pow
er in the United States to control the tide OF
events, we are drifting slowly back into the
Union on the basis of the Constitutional
Amendments, and that we will only cease to
occupy our present anomalous position when
we are represented in Congress by men who
can take the test oath. and when our State
offices are filled BY men who have never vio-
lated an express oath OF allegiance to the
United States.
A Times Washington special says the de-
cison of the Cabinet in the case of JEFF. Da-
Wis will be made public in a day or two.
Thus far we have heard Of the loss of 10
vessels aud II disabled in the storm which
has prevailed since the LIST.
to the dead man recently found in Newton
was held last evening by Coroner Lewis, at
the National Hotel in Astoa FROM the tes-
timony adduced the general opinion is well
supported that the man was murdered, and
that the proprietor of the deed is the same
who exhibited the pistol of the deceased at
the Sunnyside Hotel on the day the body was
discovered The body has not been identi-
fed.
A fire broke out about half past nine last
night in the Hobby Horse manufaxtory of A
Christian & Son, so Morgan street. The
building with the stock and quantity of val
uable machinery was totally destroyed. Loss
about Sl20.00o Amount of insurance not
ascertained.
The Board Of officers Of the 7th regiment,
who had under consideration the proposed
trip to Paris in 1867, have submitted their
They estimate the maximum expenses at
$500, ,ooor rand submit to the members as to
whether they are willing to accept the invita-
tion and assume the pecuniary obligations
rendered necessary by the estimate.
The British bark Ambroseine from Cordiff
Wales, for Vera Cruz, foundered off the
coast of Florida, on the second inst. The
Captain, I'd Mate, and three Of the hands
were saved, after passing thirty-six hours on
raft. The following are the names of the
rescued persons: Vim. Owen, Master John
Neal, second Mate Edward Harod, Peter
McDougal, Seamen; Jas. Welch, Stewart.
The remainder Of the ships company, ten in
number. are supposed to be lost. Their
names were Edwin Baldwin, Mate; Henry
Wade Carpenter; Henry knight James
Sacketts, chas. Haven, Edward Waller, Thos
Hillerd, John Hovey, John Clark and John
Waller. seamen, all of whom sailed in the
vessel from Cordiff except John Clark, who
shipped in Vera Cruz. John Neal, second
Mate, who was saved, also joined the vessel
at Vera Cruz.