The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-04-22


New York for many years-was an able
speaker, and came near being the Democrat
ic nominee for the Presidency in 1852. Wher
the rebellion broke out, Mr.. Dickinson q,
once took bold position in support of Pres
ident Lincoln and the GovernMent-was
elected Attorney General of the State of New
York, and subsequently was appointed United
States Attorney for the Southern District ol
New York, an office he held at the time of his
death. BY the death of Mr. Dickinson, .he
State of New York loses one of its ablest
men. and the Government one of its most in
huential supporters. Chicago Journal
The Dubuque Times of the 18th says:
Great excitement was occasioned at Slade' S
Hotel, Monticello yesterday, saturday
morning, by an attempt at suicide, by q
widow lady connected with the hotel-Mrs.
Post by name. Very few particulars were
obtained, for even at Monticello very little
is definitely known, beyond the fact that Mrs.
Post had taken strychnine in order to des-
troy herself. A physician was called as soon
as the fact was discovered, and the proper
antidotes applied so promptly and with such
effect that at shutdown last evening it was
deemed probable she would recover. She
refuses to divulge her motive for taking the
poison, and all sorts of probable and i'm
probable rumors were circulated. The most
plausible seemed that she was engaged to
marry the son of the proprietor Of the hotel,
10 which there was bitter opposition in GER
tain quarters. Other hints are thrown out
attributing more questionable motive: bat
let them die unrepeated, while we throw q
mantle of charity over the errors, If errors
there be, Of enc who evidently already has
more Of earth's sorrow than she can bear.
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BEAuriFuL.-At Sabbath school anniver-
sary in London, two little girls presented
themselves to receive the prize, one of whom
had recited one verse more than the other
both having learned several thousand verses
OF Scripture. The gentlemen who presided
inquired:
q And could you not have learned one
verse more and thus have kept up with Mar
tina p
. Yes. SIR the blushing child replied
"but loved Martha and Kept back on pur
pose
+" And was there any one Of all the veres
you have learned?' again inquired the presi
dent. = that taught you this lesson p
There was SIR she answered, blushing
still more deeply: " In honor preferring one
another"
- Judge Clayton, Of the Sixth Judicial
District Of Mississippi has delivered an opin
ion in which he sustains the validity Of con-
tracts made on the basis of Confederate
money. As "belligerent rights" he con-
tends. had been awarded the late Confeder
ate Government. it could issue script, or
other representative Of money, to carry on
the war which had been levied, and that
even these were illegal issues, contracts only
which would be thereby invalidated, would
be those which grew out of the illegal issuing
Of such script, or other representative of
money. The case, viii go up to the high
court of the State, and may thence be taken
to the Supreme Court of the United States.
"THAr' THE QUESTION The question is
not whether we will uphold Andy johnson or
Thad Stevens. The question is not whether
we are in favor of negro suffrage or opposed
to it. But it is whether we will permit those
who have murdered our sons and brothers, to
get control of the Government, and tax us to
pay the rebel debt and pension rebel soldiers
Whether we will give up the fruits of our
victories and permit the rebels to become the
victors aud we the vanquished. 'That's the
question which every intelligent person
must decide for himself. Loyal Citizen.
DISTRESSING AccIDEST.--A little girl, the
eldest child of DR.. I. j. Douglass, of this
city. aged about two years, night before last
by some means got hold Of a bottle of corro-
sive sublimate, and before it was known,
drank, it is supposed, about an ounce OF the
deadly poison. The usual remedies were
promptly applied, DR.. Mitchell consulting
with DIR. Douglass, but the child is very low
to-day, and faint hopes entertained Of its re-
coyery.- Qta.mwa Co,atsr.
- The Pennsylvania Legislature has dis-
franchised in That State all persons who fed
to escape the draft. or deserted from the mil
tary or naval service.
"MAzErPA, new opera by Pedrotti, has
had success in Venice. The composer was
summoned no fewer than sixteen times on the
stage with accamations. At the second rep
resentation the reception Of the new opera
was equally enthusiastic.
The disposition is increasing, on the part
of Congress, to assume the entire war debt Of
the loyal States; that the South may thereby
be compelled to share equally With the North,
entailed upon the country.
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The New York Tribune entered its twenty
sixth year on Tuesday, greatly enlarged and
improved. Mr.. Greeley says he shall contin.
i. ue 10 write for its columns as long as be can
write for anything.
GEE. LEE name does no, .pnear in the list Of
III eS-reoei generals who have petitioned the
President for pardon.
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i'HE Coieago Ereninq journal CIV. .ha
President vetoed the Civil Rights R;li II a.
rect opposition to the urgent advice Of M
Seward.
Tar bridge Of the Iowa division of the
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad across
the Des Moines riveris completed, and force
of nine hundred laborers are at work extend
ing the road westward from there toward tbs
Missouri river.
AT las. advices from the Straits OF Macki
nae. April lst, the ice was still about three
feet thick and covered by deep ssow, and The
prospects were that through naviRation from