The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-08-21

Gold closed at 1881 in New York last

night
NO official order renting mgrtial Law
in New Orleans has been yet promulgated.
-Thad. Stevens has been nominated BY
reclamation a. the Union candidate for Con.
gress.
Paul on Wednesday. A steamer arriving
there from St. Louis had been quarantined.
Major General Scho6eld has been ap
pointed Assistant Commissioner Of the
Fresdmen's Bureau in place of Gen. Terry
A circular from the Surgeon General. o.
interest to applicants for positions in the ar
my Medical Corps, is given this morning.
A grand Union rally was held At New
Albany, Ind, the other day, At which 6,0Ot
persons were present
ID. A. Finney was unanimously nomi,
mated yesterday for Congress in the Twen
tieth Pennsylvania District.
There is great activity in the Indian De
partment at Washington, supplies and annu-
ties being constantly forwarded TO the West
"A teachers convention will take place a
jackson, Mississippi, on the first Monday in
September next.
Three children, named Murray, wers
burned to death in barn, near Owen Sound
Canada, on Tuesday night.
John Phelan was fined ninety dollars q
Rochester, N. Y, on the 18th inst, for bitins
off John Dutton's chin.
The house of Mr.. Worhington, at Ross
Clare, Ill, was set on FIRE on the night o
the 18th inst, and the owner perished in the
flames.
"A meteor passed over San Antonio, Tex
~ on the night of the 25th ultimo, which wa,
so brilliant as to illuminate the entire city.
Twenty Eve or thirty persons we're pois,
oned at Clifton, Green county, Ohio, OF
Tuesday night, from eating bad cheese, None
of the cases resulted fatally.
Deacon Smead, Postmaster at Madison
Ohio, an aged and highly respectable citizen
was gored to death BY bull in that tow
last week
M. R. Thayer, Philadelphia. declines te
allow his name to be used as . candidate fol
reelection to Congress.
A Convention of Underwriters, repre-.
senting Ohio and all the Western States, ii
to meet at Freeport, Illinois, during the pres
ent month.
On the evening Of the 30th inst the
house of Jackson Moore, of BelvilIe, Ohio
was struck by lightning. and his eldest son in
stantly killed
Gen. Garfield was yesterday unanimous
ly nominated for reelection to Congress, BY
the Union Convention of the Nineteenth
Ohio District.
The total Indebtedness of Indianapoli.
on the 30th Of March last WAS $210, ,244 80,
and the estimated expenses for the year end.
ing March soth, 1867, were $207, $50.
Hon. T. A. Plants, the present member
Of Congress from the fifteenth Ohio Dis
trict, was yesterday nominated by acclama
ton for reelection.
Mrs. Martha Stewart and Mrs. Roberts
of San Antonio, Texas, recently had an i'm
promptu 6ght with revolvers. Mrs. Stewar
was badly winged.
The New Haven Comm Courier an
nornces that Col. W. NJ. Grosvenor, late ed
itor of that paper, is to assume the chief ed
itorship of the St. Louis Democrat.
Judge Walker was nominated yesterda
by acclamation for reelection to Congress
from the Fourteenth Ohio District.
-Hegerman's drug store in New York
was destroyed Yesterday by FIRE. The tots
loss is $l25.0oo.
Another cholera vessel has arrived q
New York, the bark John Martin, from An,
werp. Eighteen deaths had occurred on he
passage.
The income of William B. Astor for tb
year 1865, was one million one hundred an
ffy>four thousand and ffty-nine dollars
Cornelius Vanderbilts income for the sam
period was six hundred and twenty-thre
thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars.
The sum called for by the army payma,
ters for the last bi-monthly payment Was g.
100000. Two years ago, when the army "
in full operation, the amount required for th
same period was $50, 900, 900.
Our Philadelphia dispatch states tha
many of the delegates to the approachin
Convention Of Southern loyalists will remsi
in the North for some time, having made nj
merous arrangements to speak in favor of u
Republican candidates at the fall election.
AT the international horse fair ut Buff
10 the other day, ''Skinnewaha" was winn,
ofthe race of6ve-year olds, and "Silas Rich
"a Chicago horse--tha. between beaten no
ses. A grand race for 5000 between De,
ter and Geo. NJ. Patchen is talked Of
The delegates to the late Conglomera
Convention at Philadelphia have nearly Z
departed from the city. A few remain to u
sist Clymer in his defeat in the race for Go
ernor Of Pennsylvania The Southern deli
gates are said TO be abundantly satisfied vi
the results Of the Convention.
On Thursday night the dead house, sit
ated near the United States Arsenal, At Sal
Louis, was fred and totally consumed, I,
gether with Eve bodies. This outrage is su
posed to have been perpetrated by soldie,
The Mayor offers reward Of $500 and d
Board Of Health one Of s., 900 for the d
covery of the incendiaries.
Governor Fletcher, of Missouri, has
sued proclamation bearing upon the pss
ent and prospective condition of the Stat
in which he says the combined power Of .
National and State Governments will bs 10
to enforce obedience to the laws of the n
ton and State until such laws ass modi6
or repealed in . constitutional manner, or d
clared void by competent court
The Kansas State Josrnal says that Go
ernor Carney, Of Lesvenworsh, Has return
from the East, AFTER protrssted vi6t on b
siness connected with the railroad intere,
Of the State, in which il ID understood hs '
eminently successful. The Leavenwosth .,