The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-07-25


John B. Long, was nominated on the 18th
BY the Democrats Of the l4th Ohio District.
David Torpee, is the Coppsrhead candi-
date for Congress, in the 9th Indiana District.
-Gen. VIM. Hammond, was nominated by
the Republicans of the ,1st Indiana District
on the 10th inst. - =
The crops look 20 we'll about Madison.
Wis, that farmers are expecting their spring
wheat to go twenty-five bushels to the acre,
General Ord has issued orders discontiu-
ming the Military District of Illirois aad Wis
consin, on the slst inst.
The distillsry Of H. G. Msaaine, in Mad.
ison, Wis.,, was seised on Saturday By United
States officers for violating the revenue law.
The Memphis Railroad Company VII
commence running trains TO Louisville.
August 9Th, going through in eighteen hours.
a disease anaoue the cattle Il reported in
San joaquin county, California. They die
suddenly IL
- The third and fourth instalments of nsd
Rayer cotton prize money are now ready for
distribution.
"A Joliet Qll.) dispatch says: ssGeneral
Birney has carried Joliet and WILMINGTON for
Congressman. The county is for Birneyn
The police arrested Al liquor dealers in
Brooklyn on Saturday night for violation of
the excise law
The woods on Long Island, in Suffolk
county, have been burning for several days,
causing heavy damage.
Mrs. Barron, widow Of Commodore y.
D, Barron, has lately had her pension, with
oil arrearages, restored to her She lived in
North Carolina during the war.
-Four men have been arrested for robbing
United States bonded warehouses in New
York and Jersey City of some $4,000 worth
of silk velvet
The Portland Advertiser, lately burned
out, will appear on the 1st of August, as a
circular informs us, with new type. new
yigor, new Immortality
An attempt was made on the night Of
the 10Th to cut the levee, four miles below
Memphis, by unknown persons, who we're
probably frightened away by passing steam.
er.
While it is believed that the late rains in
Central Illinois have not seriously damaged
the small grain and hay crops, they have in
sured, beyond future contingency, a very
large yield of corn.
The Senate Postal Committee finally
agreed on Saturday to report favorably on the
nomination of A. W. Randall to be Post.
master General. This will make his confirm
alton sure.
Jeremiah Jones, proprietor Of the City
Hotel, at Piqua, Ohio, and his son, about IL
years old, and Mr.. Bowers, a farmer, were
killed by lightning on the 21st, while stand
ing under beech tree about two miles from
that city.
General Howard has sent officers to
South Carolina to investigate an alleged case
of shooting colored man 10 a church at Co
lumbia- The victim, finding the colored gal
lery full, ventured on to the whites side, and
was Immediately killed.
Mr.. Seward, having prophesied that the
Mexican question win be settled within nine
ty days, we may definitely settle upon four
years as the actual time which will be con.
sumed in bringing about SO desirable a con.
sumation.
The COMMISSIONER .of customs has re-
ceired information Of the capture of four or
five smuggling vessels off the coast of North
Carolina. Some of The cargoes are consider
ed quite valuable.
Hon. E. B. Washburne still lies quite
Ill at the house Of Gen. Grant, although
somewhat convalescent He has leave of
absence for the rest Of the session. with per
mission to delay his report on the Memphis
affair until next ecember.
The President has not yet got through
with the Moses business. To delegation of
blacks who visited him on Saturday, he reit.
Grated that he was :" the true friend of the
black manl' The negroes will fall to pray.
ing that they may be delivered from any
more such friends.
The police in Charleston have succeeded
In ferreting out and arresting a number of
colored men charged with being implicated
in the murder of B. s, Rhett, ESQ. The
parties have been committed for trial, and
one of them confessed that he committed the
murder with the assistance of another who
instigated it.
We find the following in the Philadelphia
Bulletin: "When the Attorney General bade
adieu to the President, the latter jocosely re-
ferred to him as
Speed, the parting gusst.'
The attempts of Congress to induce Mr..
Jackson to keep shady, by passing things
over his head, are deserving Of all praise this
hot weather.
The House Committee on Foreign AZ
fairs have completed an elaborate report on
the subject of the neutrality laws, and will, it
is understood, recommends a thorough revis>
ion OF the statutes affecting our neutral rela
tions with other Governments.
Gen. Rushing, Inspector Of the Quarter
masters Department, left Washington on
Friday for genral inspection of the Depart.
ment on the plains and throughout the De-
partment of the Pacific. His trip is with a
view to reduction, and will embrace Kansas,
Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Montana,
California Oregon and Washington. He
will be absent several months
The following is statement Of the cash
on hand in the U. 8. Treasury on the 2lst
INST; U. 8. notes, s6,476, 600; national
bank notes, -, l64; fractional currency 81
eoo,7so; gold, 80, ls7, ,sss; silver, s2o, o,oso;
cents, s4ss; 5-cent coin, 900 and cent
5000 surplus issue q. s. notes, $se, ,2s2,
25; total cash in vault, $s7,47s, ,45e,5s.
Gov. Dennison has written q private
letter explaining fully his reasons for with
drawing from the Cabinet. Mr.. Dennison
says he was almost certain for several months
past that he could no longer remain in the
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