The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-12-22

Gold closed At ST. s4i IN New York yea
terday.
The bonded debt Of the city and lcounsy
Of San Francisco is 81, ,e0o, 900.
A Nashville dispatch says that hundreds
Of horses and mules are being shipped South
through that city every week.
On Saturday, young lady beloning to
respectable family in Nashville, donned male
attire, and attempted to leave on steamer
in search of adventure Her flight was soon
| discovered, and she was arrested and return
ek to her friends.
Two six-pound field pieces, presented by
Gen. T. J. Chambers, in 1886, to the Repub~
| lie of Texas, have been returned by order Of
Gen. Hentzleman to Gen. Chambers wid-
ow, and the lady has given them to the city
of Galveston.
Six thousand two hundred and fifty six
cannon are under control of the Navy De.
partment.
The Governme ent is paying $206, 900 an
nually for the Congregational Globe.
The jury who convicted Mollie Trussell,
at Chicago, have united in petitioning for her
pardon. The Judge and Prosecuting Attor-
ney refused to sign the petition.
On Saturday morning prize 6ght took
place in public hall in New York between
Luke Murphy and Patsey Evans, for one
hundred dollars side. Twenty four rounds
were fought, when the fight was broken up,
by reason of the fsncied approach of the pos
lice.
The New York Herald's account of Gu
rious discoveries in Minnesota, 'Atraces of
American prehistoric civilization ETC., are
pronounced hoax by the citizens of ST. An
thony, where the discoveries were said to
have been pade.
A gentleni an who PASSED Arkansas Post
some two weeks since, states that the remains
Of Federal officers buried on the banks Of
the river were being washed away by the ca.
some Of them but little decayed, were seen
protruding into the river.
The pilots of New York pilot boat
have issued challenge, offering to race with
any pilot boa. Of tle.r tonnage in the world,
or any vessel in the New York Yacht Club, of
equal tonnage, Tor $4,000. The race to be
between New York and Cowes, England.
The Military Committee of Congress has
agreed to report favorably upon the PROPOSE
ton to donate the buildings and the lumber
at Camp Chase To the State of Ohio, to be
used for the BEN ent of the Asylum for Idi
OTIS.
The Senate Committee on Foreign Rela-
tons has before 1t the nomination of General
Cazeuau as Charge d Affaires to the Domini'
can Republic, the confirmation Of which is
urged BY General Baize, ex- Presiden, of that
Republic.
The Gettysburg Cemetery Monument is
to be completed by July /, 1866. The statue
of Gen. Reynolds is to be erected in the Gem
etery, and not on the spot where he fell. 1t
10 intimated that the Freedmen's Lincoln
Monument Association will apply for pernis-
sion to place brpn.e statue ofthe late Pres
ident in the cemetery.
1t is understood that the Boston and
Worcester Railrosd Company have agreed to
furnish locomotive and special train of SIX
cars for the Adams Express Company and
the Merchants Union Express Company, to
be run between Boston and New York, as
means of settling all differences between the
rival express companies. both companies
have accepted the proposition. The train
will be run exclusively for the companies.