The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-03-10
CURRENT NEWS.

within whose interior lies this trip from th'
head waters of the Ohio to the head waters 0
the Missouri.
A special Washington dispatch to tht
New York Tribune says: "As an index d
the disloyalty SO highly stimulated and en-
couraged here Of late, the portrait of Presi
dent Lincoln was hissed at the tableaux ex
hibition at Odd Fellows Hall, given in aid o
the poor of the city. Another portrait, tha
of Gen. Mcclellan, was cheered." "
According to the report Just presented
the Wisconsin State Soldiers Home has en-
tertained the past year l6, 436 men, resident:
Of twenty States, and has served 72.48f
meals. All the present inmates are disable
soldiers, twenty three Of whom are attending
commercial colleges, or otherwise preparing
themselves for useful employment.
The Nashville Times accepts il as token
of restored order that for the first time in five
years, an election was held on Saturday last,
in Tennessee, entirely under the control OF
the civil authorities The occasion was unu.
sually free from disturbance, though there was
the usual excitement which accompanies the
canvassing Tor votes where q number OF can
didates are in the field.
The Fort Garry Nor JTestey is alarmed
at the threatened disturbance OF relations be-
tween the Indians and the English settle
ments. Hitherto under a solemn treaty of
peace with the Sioux the English trading par.
ties have been uumolested. but now it is
strongly urged that military organization
can alone protect the British posts. The
alarm Is based on grounds apparently real.
/ I he past year, including The winter Just
closed, will be held memorable in insurance
annals, for losses of every kind in land and
marine risks. Good underwriting authorities
estimate the grand total of assessment upon
the insurance companies at from fifty to sew.
enty millions of dollars. Ii is a gale of dis
aSter that will test all the strong companies
and bring down the weak ones.
An Imperial commander in Sonora has
seized train belonging to American citizens;
has prohibited further transportation in that
State by Americans: and has demanded Of a
I. ). commander in New Mexico the return
of property captured BY the Liberals and sold
to Americans.
The New York Sunday Herald enters
into an elaborate computation of the statistics
OF the ball season. which has given six hun
dred events of the kind in the metropolis.
with total attendance of 400. 600 people, IN.
volvlng an aggregate expense Of nearly seven
millions Of dollars.
"A vine grower named Miller. of Putin.
bay, Lake Ere, from a vineyard of FIVE acres
sold, as his crop for last year, 81. 800 pounds
Of grapes, and made COCO gallons Of wine
The price of grapes averaged seven and one
halt cents per pound. and the wine is worth
lnewj ninety cents per gallon. This gives
; 49, 80 for single grape crop on Eve acres
OF Island soll or - .5s7.a0 per acre.
1t Is declared quite certain that the New
ork Legislature Will, during the present ses-
sion. pass some form Of bill for an under
ground railroad in Broadway The eacerness
OF competing applicants for franchises nearly
identical, Is the chief source OF peril to the
hopes OF all. but the legislators, it is said.
are ready TO endorse any feasible subterranean
project.
There Is a proposition before the I.eris-
lature OF Louisiana to keep open the mouths
OF the Mississippi by company under State
charter, permitted by Congress. TO compen-
safe the labor and expense by tonnage dn,y.
II Is vigorously opposed by the Commercial
and shipping interest in New Orleans as i'm.
posing II carried out, fresh burdens on river
interests.
"A committee of Bostonians have been Wis.
itlng Albany, New ! ork and PHILADELPHIA.
with view Of ascertaiulng the comparative
the general domestic peeunary situation.
hey found that while the cost of living in
Boston now is l26 per cent greater than it
was IN 1850, the increase III Philadelphia has
been lo0 per cent, and in New and Aliany
still more.
BY the recently published returns Massa-
chusetts stands second only to New York in
the amount of internal revenue paid into the
l mtcd STATES Treasury. The aggregate Of
the other five New England States does not
approach in amount that Of Massachusetts,
The valuation also is nearly equal TO all others
combined. The city Of Boston alone has
more than double the valuation of the entire
State of Maine.
An interesting novelty in medical legisa-
tion is hanging fire in the Pennsylvania House
OF Representatives. providing a State Board
OF Examiners, before whom all applicants for
permission to practice the healing art shall
appear for examination and license, and that
all parties pra tising without such authority
shall not be able to collect any bill for ser
vices rendered, andpersons employing them
to have no recourse for mai lpractce.
In Montreal, recently, young man going
along Craig street. was seized by large
woman, who attempted TO kiss him Indoipg
So she snatched his watch. but he kept hold
Of her; she shrieked, when a man, who was
undoubtedly an accomplice, came up and
knocked down the 'oung man, and both ran
away, but were subsequently arrested.
1t must have struck every observer. the
underwriters particularly, how much greater
the danger of and damage by fire is sure to
become on falling market. Stocks of all
kinds are at decline, and fires are nnmer-
Gus in all pats of the country. So much does
the eagerness OF men desirous of selling out
to their insurers imperl the interests of
neighbors not quite so anxious in the same
direction, that, in several places in the West,
Vigilance Committees have been organized
by the citizens One of these was formed in
Saginaw last week, with view to prevent
and detect incendarism.
1t is said that a cholera station will be
established at Sandy Hook, at an early day,
for the prevention of the introduction OF the
disease inte New York, as we'll as for the
isolation of patients who are suffering from it
DR.. John Evans, formerly of this city. now
ex Governor and Senator elect of Colorado,
has memorializen Government lie an elaborate
pamphlet, arguing the eommunieabiiiiy theo
ry of cholera, aud asking that a general health
blockade and aaareHtIHe may be established
by the Government. Ii is reported that the
War Department has rescinded the order for
selling the Government barracks at Concord,
n H., that perhaps they may be needed in
case the cholera should break out in this
country.
Muster Out OF the First Iowa.
The Des MONIES correspondent of the Chi
cago journal furnishes the following item:
The First Iowa cavalry, after Eve years
service. have received orders for mnster ont