The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-08-12
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e-The ehsk0f hunt OF ODE MncbEter
sportmen's club came on on Thursday last.
The damage by the late storm in Clayton
county is estimated at forty Thousand doi>
lars.
Fac captnred 70 CoIumhiA, 8. c., Feb
AT, 1865, BIZ Lieut. George b. RsFle, Of the
18th Iowa Vols.
Thu citizens Of Wappello county are
about orsanizssg an AeSculssralaad nsechsn.
ical society for the purpose Of advancing the
general interest suggested by the name.
Indian Commissionerships have o de-
moralizing effect. D. N. Cooley has given
$50 70 fnpdtto purchase gold headed
cane for Senator DooLfTrLE.
The work Of grading on the Iowa and
Minnesota railroad from lndianola, Warren
coanty, to Anes station, on the @. ! n. B.
R. is to be commenced this week. See Oar
export Gassae. s8asR
The steamboat fare between Dubuque
and Davenport has been reduced TO one doh
lar, and the consequence is that the steamers
are thronged with passengers-everybody is
travelling. Il 49,
The wapello Republican saws, I'VE un-
sdestsnd that small pox haa made IL appear
ance 1t Columbus City, and that tie god
people of that place are considerably alarmed
in consequence.
The Muscatine Jo,rnnl says that Hon.
William B. Allison, the able and radical
representative in Congress from the Sd dis
trict, reached home the other day, and was
heartily welcomed BY his friends and neieh-
bors, to whom he made first-rste speech.
The Davenport Gazette says that the
Democrat of that place, which has remained
mute for several months, not veuturing
political article in its columns, has at last
launched GU, in its old track OF sympaihizing
with the rebels of the late war. The dog
has returned TO its vomt
Register says that Henry Clay Dean,
orr distinguished friend, passed through New
ton the other day, afoot, with black carpet
ssck ia bis hand There was distinct re
semblance between him and those black car
peted fellows. just from Secessia, Who fred
hotels in New York, and came within an see
of making tina, city heap of monumental
ashes
--"Garden sass" bntter, and other veeeta-
bles are expensive up at Des MONIES, as well
as in other parts Of this Great Repab &C.
Butter Is dear at IS cents around, aud half
of it is dear at two cents ton Very many
are in the market. and all are sold
It excrueiasiag prices. We don't mean TO
say that grocers make practice OF selling
vegetables q 100 to 300 per cent. oyer cost
but we know that they are very distinctly
charged with doing that thing. If they are
ssandered. they are badly abused Sc, of
men ; If they are guilty, they are not abused
half enough. II costs a man fortune to
buy bread and butter in these periious John.
son times.
Dixon gays there are no Democratic pa
pers published in the State ''There are q
few half>starved rebel sheets, scattered here
and there over the surface of tho State, and
standing out in the midst of q whirlwind of
public sentiment AS monuments
Of the scorn OF men and the wrath or heaven
Time was when Democratic papers fourished
in Iowa; but the day OF their
triumph and glory has passed away. The
great truth has received universal recognition
that loyal people, jealous of their country's
honor and perpetnHy, and anxious To escape
from the horrers Of Mexican anarchy. will not
support disIosnl and disorgsniaing journals.
The Journals OF that class which are feebly
FROM a~y to day and from week to
week, are an exact index to the amount and
kind of disloyalty in Iowa.
The State Historical soeety. has re-
ceived and placed in lis rooms at Iowa City,
the following additional battle aagss
From Breve: Maj. Gen. ". W. Belknap,
Of Keokuk, the battle flag Of the 45th Ala
bama, captured in the battle OF July I'D,
1864 near Atlanta, Ga.s The bearer Of this
flag WAS killed BY private Lewis Crowder. Of
''Cr Company, 18th Iowa yol~.. and the flag
by private Edward Siberis, of &c
Company. lth Iowa Vols
Large Blue Bunting Flag, With Palmetto
Tree and Crescent thereon. being the flag
which waved over the Capitol Of South Car
olsoa, nj Colnmbia, during the sessions Of
tt~E - 4 4.
he subsequent sessions Of the Legislators,
Feb II, 1855. by Lieut. now brevet
Major,l VIM. II. Goodrich, of the 18th Iowa
Vols, Picket officer on the staff Of Brig.
Gen. Belknap. This Gag Il about forty feet
long, by about twenty wide, and is in all |
the first flag raised in the South |
A SrproED CssE or CCHH.uI SrsALIsG.--l
The Waterloo (Iowa) Conrier gives an &C. |
count of child lost in Black Hawk county.
The chim is girl near four yeazs old. An
older brother Of the girl and the lost child |
we're sen, to the potatoe field to carry some /
water TO the father This done, they started /
the little girl tagging behind. |
Nithin an hour frop the time the children /
Ell the father, thorough search in sAe scixhs /
'orhood Of The pathway gs>kes-s b1.ibe lost
me was made. Int no tsacs. Of her ccsld be |
ound Soon after the neighbors in large
numbers turned out aud made long and |
mseccessfal search thronghthe remaisder Or
haf day asdthef following night. on Snu.
lay'2ee people on horseback secured that
'ortion Of The country all day, but to no
vail. Up TO Thursday Twelve days. there
vefs no.tidings of the little fil, although
nceasing search has been made oy large
numbers of people. A belief seems to pre-
all thai she has been abducted by aome
assing persons. The lost girl is the child
4 Mr.. b. F. Wheeler. who has offered 4
eward of $500 for information that will lead
0 her recovery. I
STATS EqgALIzArIoE.--The Des Moinss
Register ays: "TAs State Board of Equalil
alton met It the Capitol yesterday. Tie
ollowing named members were present.;
Axrs WaaoHr, Secretary Of State, VIM. d.