The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-05-10

! make q Il mo. book OF lG4 pages. 1T Will
be offered for sale, to members, during the
present month, at 81 IS copy.
The number of volumes now in the library
/ is 5ol2; number Of volumes purchased since
May lst, 1865, is 1885; number of volumes
donated since May lst. 1865, is l6l.
! The value of the books. and other property
of the Association, is estimated at $4,000.
Insurance upon the entire property, $4,000.
| Number Of Stockholders. 290
Increase OF stockholders during year, "a
! Number of shares of stock owned By
stockholders. 347
| Number of Life Members, IA
! Number of one year subscribers, Is
| Number Of six months subscribers,
| Number of three months subscribers, SO
4 Number Of subscribers, members Of
! stockholders families, II
! Total number Of subscribers, lo2
1 The number of subscribers is twenty eight
less than at the date of the last report This
is explained by the fact that many who were
formerly subscribers have now become stock
holders.
The income from dses upon stock
the past fiscal year. was 44S oo
The income from subscribers. was go ~
The income from fines Imposed
for detention of books, was 81 os
The income from lectures, was lsS 80
Total. $o13 IS
The amount paid upon stock during the
year is ,12o. The receipts from all sources
during the year was S3.4ls II. Tie expen-
ditures during same period was S3.i02 81.
Cash in the treasury May lst, 1866, SD -.
am indebted to the Treasurer for the
foregoing statement Of cash. For additional
details | refer YOU to his report.
HI So.
rooms was SS74 09. Total cost of the fittings
and furniture for old and new rooms consoh-
dated is Sl,319 o. The amour. paid for
books since the las, report is 81, go ii.
The Library room is open daily texcept
Sundays, afternoon aud evening, from two
to SIX, and seven TO nine clock. his is an
important change, and since the removal the
circulation of books is an average OF one
thousand month. Miss Ellen j. Martin
having served as librarian during the year. is
entitled to your thanks for the faithful man
ner in which She has performed her duty.
The following newspapers aud periodicals
are now received at the room:
NEWSPAPERS.
Gate City, daily; Constitution, do; St. Jo-
seph Herald, do; Chicago Republican, do !;
Cincinnati Commercial do: St. Louis Re
publican, do; New York Times, do; ; Phla-
pha Press, do; Pittsburgh Gazette do Troy
Times, do; Louisville Journal, weekly; New
Orleans Times, do; Chicago Journal Of Com
merce, do: New York Musical Review, do !;
The Iron Age. do; The Methodist. do The
Presbyterian, do: The Independent, do; ; Fort
nal, do; Army and Navy Journal, do; The
Prairie Farmer, do; The Cultiyator. do
Colman's Rural Wrold do: Noore's Rural
| New Yorker. do; The Round Table, do
Scientific Americana do I; Harpers Week y,
do; Frank Leslie. do; Wilkes Spirit of the
! Times, do; American Churchman, do !; Ma
tional Intelgencer, weekly; Richmond
Enquirer. semi-weekly; Boston journal, do
Providence Journal do; Comic Monthly,
monthly Nick Max, do Phunny Phellow,
do !. Yankee Notions, do : San Francisco
Bulletin, steamer edition.
Total number Of newspapers forty. OF
these, thirteen are paid for by the Association
aud twenty seven are donated.
MAGAZINES.
London Quarterly Review. North British
do, Edinburgh do, Westminster do, North
American do. Atlantic Monthly, Annals Of
Iowa, Hunt Merchants Magazine. Histor-
| ical do, Blackwood do, Harper do. Hall 5
Journal of Health, Godeys Lady's Book,
American Journal of Science and Arts.
/ American Literary Gazette and Publishers
Circular
Total number of magazines Is. These are
subscribed and paid for by the Association II
/ Total cost of magazines and papers, paid for
/ by the Association, $3.50.
Our thanks are due. and are hereby given,
/ to the following named gentlemen, for dona-
nations of valuable public documents, etc.:
! Hon. James +. Wilson, NJ. c.. Hon. James
Harlan, NJ. c.; Hon. John A. Graham, Assis-
tant Register Of Treasury, Washington, D. G.;
/ Hon. S. J. kirkwood. NJ. c.: n. McCrea,
| c.; Hon. Samuel t. Miller, Associate JUS
tice I. $. Supreme Court; Hon. K. p.
| Lowe, Chief Justice of Iowa Supreme
Court Adj't Gen. n. b. Baker, Cln-
ton, Iowa: Dr. J. NJ. Shatfer Secre.
tary of Iowa State Agricultural Society; Prof.
/ Bache, of the Z. S. Coast Survey; Hon. Geo.
w. McCrary; Hon. Hiram Barney; p. A..
| Hawes, Esq, of Chicago; Gen. W. w. Belk-
nap; Gen. II. I. Reid; Edward Kilbourne,
Esq. J. B. Howell. Esq; d. +. Miller, Esq. !;
Hugh Robertson, Esq, DR.. NJ. X. Taylor.
10 the ladies of keokuk, and especially to
Mrs. X. +. Bower. Mrs. Howard Tucker and
Mrs. W. n. Sturges, We owe our best thanks
for the festival, held at the new Library
Room on its first opening, from which was
realized to the Association profit Of Sl42 10
plain for the DAILY Gate City, to T. w.
Clagett, Esq, for the daily "Constituton. =
to Rev. Z. Fl. Waring for the weekly "Meth-
odist, TO A. j. Ralston, Esq, for the San
Francisco Bulletin, to S. w. Tucker, ESQ.,,
for the Iron Age, and to thepropretors of the
Chicago Journal of Commerce, St. Joseph
Herald, Chicago Republican, Pittsburgh Ga
gette, Bentonsport Signal, The Presbyterian,
The Independent. Fort Madison Paindealer,
The American Churchman, and the Round
Table for their respective papers. TOD. II.
Westcott, Esq, for many books Of value, be-
SIDES 20 volumes Of bound magazines. 10
Messrs. Il. II. Ayres and J. w. Scroggs, for
q a NE OF the New York Tribune from 1865
70 =. Keddington, Esq, for bound file Of
the heokuk Post. To the Smithsonian Insti.
fute through Prof. Henry for their reports.
10 Messrs. Bailey and Hair, Of Chicago. fora
copy of the Iowa Gazetteer. To L;ent Nan.
iel McWorkman, of Keosauqua, for the litho.
graph copy of the Secession Ordinances of
South Carolina, which was hung on the wallis
of the Capitol, at Columbia, s. c., and was
taken from thence on the occupation Of that
city, by the U. S. troops. To c. +. Davis,
Esq, fora bound file of the Daily Gate City''
from its commencement to the present time
To h: T. Bower, Esq, for the splendid
framed engraving Of "Magna Charta, !" also
FOR 6ne specimen Of the Star Fish. and fs,r