The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-05-24
BY TELEGRAPH.
MIDNIGHT REPORT.
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

The loss at the Academy of Music contia-
grafton, with adjoining buildings, will not
much exceed Sl,OOO,OOO. The Academy,
with ground, cost $4,000, upon which there
is insurance Of S120,OO0. 1t is estimated
$500, 900 is sufficient to rebuild the opera
House. Manager Maretzka and Dermind
have contracted to have the Academy rebuilt
BY the frs, Of November. 1t is now ascer-
tanned that two firemen named David Waters
and Peter Walch were burned to death.
Their remains were recovered this morning.
Barrels in the restaurant in the rear of the
Academy being set on fire caused the FIRE.
There is no doubt it was the work of an in
cendiary.
The deaths here last week were $50, an in
crease of q over the previous week; u 7deaths
by accident.
The Coroners inquest over Preston King $
body in Brooklyn rendered verdict that he
came to his death by jumping from ferry
boat November 80, 1865, under temporary
insanity.
The board Of health has discovered four
stables in Brooklyn containing 1929 mich
cows, fed on swill.
The morning papers have the following
special dispatches from Washington:
The House committee on claims have deci-
ded to postpone the consideration of the SEN
tors till the Goth of June. This committee
have had 730 cases submitted to them this
season, and have reported adversely on $50
of chem. The claims amounted in the aggre-
gate to over 20 million dollars, and the claims
allowed have fallen below $150,OOO.
The refusal Of the Senate to confirm Gen.
Frank Blair as collector of internal revenue at
St. Louis was reconsidered by that body in
executive session on Friday, and the whole
subject re.opened.
]. B. Smith and Major Cheeny were re-
ported to have been appointed collectors and
assessors for the 1st congressional district Of
Wisconsin, vice Emerson and Bronson re-.
moved. Col. Starr is also spoken of as al
most certain to receive the Postmastership of
Milwaukee.
Geo. Shea, Of New York, Who has been a
week in Washington attending to the prelim-
inaries for JEFF. Davis trial, has gone to
Fortress Monroe to consult his client.
The instructions to Mr.. Campbell, our Min
lister to Mexico, will not be completed till the
return Of Mr.. Sewurd, who. it is said, is op-
posed to giving any decided aid to the Lib
erals. For this reason it is also said Gen.
Logan declined the mission.
Newspaper reports from the investigation
commissions of Gems. Steadman and Fuller
ton at Port Royal, South Carolina, and Sa-
wanna, Georgia, presents . far more favora-
bic condition of affairs as existing among the
freedmen in Port Royal, Edisto and Hilton
Head Islands. Under the administration OF
General Scott, the commissioner of South
Carolina matters are progressing very salts
factorily. The same old story of Northern
Ipeculations and malfeasance, however, is told
in relation to the condition Of sea Island set
tiers in Georgia. The report is to the effect
that the Freedmen's Burean is an obstacle in
the way Of kindly feeling between the whites
and blacks.
The Tri6unes news from Havana to the
| 9Th inst, says several cases Of guano have
been discovered on the Island. The petro-
leum digger are progressing fairly. General
Duelle has been requested by General Lezun-
dy to delay his departure until the latter ar
rives. Orders have been issued by the Gu
bernatorial cabal forbiddiding the giving Of
lectures in private houses. The Government
monopoly ON tobacco has been abolished.
Adyices from st. Domingo TO the 18th,
state that President Baez was passing sen.
tence Of death on prisoners ofwara and conspir-
ators captured by his men. The Haytians Had
been defeated BY the troops Of Baez. An
other revolution had been plotted in Hayti,
and President Jaffrads had no confidence in
his troops.
The reported rinderpest In Panama proves
to be q disease resulting from the use Of young
graas BY the cattle, which h not contagious.
| The President yesterday granted pardon 70
3. J. Palmer, Of Murfreesboro, Tenn, for.
merly Brig. General in the rebel army. +.
On the strongest Recommendations the
President has granted pardons 70 the follow
ing persous held for criminal o6enses Cha.
s. Mould, Illinois, nov under trial for steal-