The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-05-09

In all portions of the State the wages TO
male freedmen averages about Sl2 per month
including good quarters and medical attend
| ance.
b The health officers report show three new
cases, and three deaths, from cholera, since
last report.
Sixty-five convalescent patients have beer
transferred from the hospital ship to the ship
Saratoga, leaving only forty seven in the hos
pital.
/ The total number of deaths by cholera il
fifty.
/ The Legislature of Connecticut will meet
this week, probably on Wednesday evening,
! to select United States Senator for six years
! from the 4th of March next. The Hon. VIM.
/ A. Buckingham, Governor for the last seven
/ years. Gen. 0. s. Terry, formerly representa-
/ tive in Congress, and the Hon. Lafayette S.
Foster, the present incumbent, are the rival
| candidates.
! The rumor which prevailed yesterday to
/ the effect that an unknown man from Albany
| had died of cholera at Bellevue Hospital,
proves on investigation to have been without
| foundation the person in question having
| died from hernia. =
/ The health authorities are of the opinion
| that there is no epidemic as yet'in the city.
| Judge Clarke, Of the Supreme Court, has
granted the application made by the corpora
ton counsel, to open judgment for thirty
i seven thousand dollars gwen in the case OF
| the Government law against the city, for
work alleged to have been perfected iii the
Battery enlargement.
The Commercial $ special says that District
Attorney Chandler has prepared a bill Of
| indictment against JEFF. Davis. at Norfolk
| 1t is understood that Chief Justice Chase will
/ not preside at the trial.
The Washington Republican says the report
/ OF the Cabinet discussion on Reconstruction
/ was from the highest source, and that Secre-
/ tary Stantons opposition to the plan was as
unequivocal as that of any other member.
I The Rosts special says the Senate Finance
/ Committee in discussing new Loan Bill OBJ.
jections were made to the clause exemption
from State and incomes.
NEW YoRk, May s.
All the parties implicated in the Adams Ex-
press robbery. in January last. have been ar
rested, and all of the half million dollars ex-
cept about $40, 600 recovered. The originator
of the robbery John Grady, a brakeman on a
New Haven train, WAS recently arrested at
Bridgeport, Connecticut. Martin Albin the
engineer ofthe robbery was arrestedin Brook
lyn last Saturday Gilbert McGarne alias
Gilly McGory, well known sneak thief, WAS
arrested in the city last Friday night. James
Wells. brother-in- law of Martin Allen, was
also arrested in this city The same night
they were all taken to Bridgeport. The proof
against them is conclusive Il IS said the po
lice of this city knew who the robbers were
Immediately after the facts of the robbery
were known, but made very little or no effort
to arrest them The arrests were effected
through the agency of Pinkertons National
Police.
AEw YoRK, May s.
John J. Daries. G. NJ. of Independent Or
der of Odd Fellows of the State Of New FORK,
died in Brooklyn this morning. He was also
at the time of his death Grand Scribe of
Grand Encampment, and a representative of
that body in the Grand Lodge of the United
States. He had been member Of the order
a quarter of a century.