The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-08-07

The burglars have begun again their work
At Columbus, Ohio.
The Nebraska wheat crop is the heaviest
known in the history Of the territory.
The President yesterday appointed Mr..
Bassett Langdon, Assessor of the First Ohio
District.
1t is rumorsd tkat efforts are making to
secure the removal of Collector Smythe, of
New York.
Five messages for Europe by the cable
were received yesterday in New York, for
which 1884 in gold we're paid. Il
The report that two men were killed 4
Chattanooga by the Metropolitan Police was
unfounded
The Union men Of Colorado have nomi.
mated George NJ. Chilcott, for delegate to
Congress.
I'm Philadelphia up to noon yesterday
there had been six new cases Of cholera re-
ported, of which four proved fatal.
Letters from W. T. Coggeshall, q. s.
Minister to Quito, announce his safe arrival
at Panama.
up to the lst of August 9, 600 dogs had
been drowned in New York, at the pond on
East Twensy-ffth street.
The Fenians of ST. Louis are reorgani>
aing. 1t is believed that politics has some
influence in the matter.
The Salt Lake Tidette, of the 18th ult. !,
calls for the establishment of q Department of
the Plains.
1t is positively stated on high authority
that Secretary Stanton will not write letter
indorsng the Philadelphia Convention.
Memphis specials state that the pros
pect of the cotton crop about Corinth, Miss,
are very discouraging.
The grain crops of Colombo have been
harvested. The wheat crop is good, and
other crops are fair,
General R. 3. Mitchell was inaugurated
as Governor of New Mexico on the 10th ult !,
with imposing ceremonies.
The base ball match between Louisville
and Nashville, for the championship of Ten
nessee and Kentucky, was played on Tuesday
last, and easily wo by Louisville.
The fire at st. Louis, on Thursday after.
noon, burned twenty-five frame tenement
houses, and turned about two hundred people
out of doors. The loss amounted to $780,.
600.
"A despatch from Galveston states that
there have been ten cases of cholera among
the recruits recently arrived there from Hart
Island.
Judge Brinkerhof has been proposed .,
. successor to Mr.. Hubbell, present Repre-
sentative in Congress from the Seventh
(Ohio) District.
The Columbus (Georgia( Inquirer says q
negro in that vicinity was recently skinned
alive, dying in half an hour thereafter, fol
perpetrating rape upon white woman.
The American Dental Association, which
has been in convention at Boston for the las,
two or three days, adjourned yesterday. The
next annual meeting will be held in Cincin
matt.
"A Washington special says that Attorney
lenersl Stanbery has given an opinion tha
lhe nominations rejected by the Senate car
be legally made by the President during ths
recess.
The winds are kindly disposed in Texas
During tornado on the 29th ut., little
Kirl was lifted into the air, carried twenty
AZ s,,,t,
The number of passengers carried ovel
he Indianapolis street railways during ths
month of july was seventy-fve thousand
md the cash receipts we're nine thousand
ollars.
Two young men, James A. Porter ant
ames Mannsy, belonging to families in higt
ocial position at Nashville, we're drowned il
he Cumberland river on Wednesday.
--Milburn, who recently robbed Paymaste
merson of over $1,000, at Nashville, ha
cen arrested near Memphis, Indiana, an,
lost of the money recovered.
Three French ships, the Bayard, th
ontenoy, aud the Napoleon have been die
ltched from Cherbourg to Mexico, to brin
pme the French troops in that country.
The rebels continue their war upon tn
MON authorities in Tennessee. DR.. Dsvi'
pmmissioner of Registration for Nashville
. been sued for 81 900, by b. Clay Brooks
< refusing the latter q certificate.
"A melancholy accident occurred at
cnic in the neighborhood of Monticello, II
II Saturday. young man named John
ilson was freezing ice-cream, and while .
ragged, four basreiei pistol in his ve
cket fell out, and, striking the ground, or
the loads was discharged, the ball enterin
postril and lodging in his brain. Deaf
sued instantly.
An important discovery Of coal has bee
de- on the line Of the Evansville l. Chicaf
ilroad, near Shelburne, in Sullivan count
L., also at Hezelton, in Gibson county, ~
the bed of White river near the san
zee.
=Col Ripley, formelv Of the l4th Ne
mpshire Regiment, and since the Nsr y
ed in the lumber business, in Emanu
uty, Georgia, was recently brutally mu
ed BY rufiians who attacked his house
ht.
Santa Anna has been arrested and p
er $40, 900 bonds at the instance Of n
ntgomery. Sho cLsssea him with havil
a maliciously in procuring his recent I
Mr.. Montgomery lays his damages
200.
-Brevet Brigadier General W. b. Ball
aged in the hopeless task Of organizing
Ir son party at GAINESVILLE. Thusheis is ps
for his appointment TO the collsctorsh
y, vice A. A. Guthrie, removed.
During the past fournsnshs slshty,shr
buildings have been put up in Columb,
;pr the same time there have hsen but /