The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-12-18

Gold closed At $l.3si in New York yes
terdAy.
AT Corinth, Miss, last week, . notorious
horse thief attempted to steal . valuable
horse, and was shot by . soldier who WA on
duty.
The Gaz<tte de France is the oldest news
paper extant. II il now in its two hundred
and thirty. sixth year, and Was already mature
before the revolution Of 1888.
Work ON the levees of the lower Missis.
sippi has been prosecuted in such diliatory
manner that large portion of the lovlanda
will be again ove rHowed by the coming rise
of the river.
The newly elected Mayor Of Boston has,
it is said, determined to fully investigate the
police and detective departments, both OF
which are known to have been conducted in
the most disgraceful manner for some time
past.
The Superintendent Of the Tennessee
Penitentiary dismissed several of his subor-
dinates last week, and they, by way of retali>
atisn, have brought number serious charges
against him, specifying gross mismanagemens
and peculation.
The residence Of Prof Morse, the elec>
trician, at Poughkeeps,e, New York, was
broken into BY burglars late on Sunday night,
and the whole building ransacked from top
to bottom, Mr. Morse and family being abb
sent The locks on nearly every door in the
house were broken. and the rooms thorough
h overhauled. A box containing very Va.
uatls set OF telegraph instruments belonging
to Rret. Morse was also broken into, and the
eonss.ss nearly all destroyed. The robbers
Also visited the wine cellar and broke the
necks of many bottles Of valuable wine.
A correspondent in Raleigh, n. c.,
gives a gloomy account of matters in the
"Old North State The regulators are at
work cleaning out Yankees and negroes. A
gin house belonging to Northerner was
burned BY them. with all his cotton, nearly
impoverishing the owner. Another North>
erner was shot. and negroes are shot and
hung every day in the eastern part Of the
State. A general desire is expressed for
Northern emigration and Northern capital,
and complaints are loud and long At the con-
tinued exclusion Of the State from the Union.
The ST. Louis "loeals" have got up q
"haunted house sensation. One OF the at
fractions of the |. haunted premises has
been the acoustic representations Of . mur.
der-the scene being enacted every night,
greatly to the terror Of the unwilling hearers.
Barracks are going up At Grenada, Miss.
for a permanent, garrison for United States
troons. II is said that Jackson, Vicksburg,
and Na,chez are also to be made permanen,
posts. The Major General co onmanding says
it is simply to assist the civil authorities IA
enforcing the laws
Major General Wood has been addressed
in complimentary terms by the grand jury Of
Marion county. Miss, forh impartiality and
;,,t;ce in the execution Of his duties, to
which he replied that it is the desire OF the
army that the civil authorities should be
altogether intrus.ed with the execution oi
the laws.
"A distiller who was arrested ct Jersey
CITY las, week, on ! charge of being engaged
in whisky frauds upon the Government, vol
unteered TO turn States evidence and reveal
extensive frauds id New Jersey. His offer
was accepted, and his statemeat taken on
Tuesday, following which large number Of
liquor seizures we're expected.