The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-03-07

Professor S. c.. Bartlett, the new Presi.-
dent of the University Of Vermont and State
Agricultural College, is native Of New
Hampshire, and graduate of Dartmouth Col.
lege, of the class Of 1885. He has also for
four years been distinguished clergyman Of
the Congregational faith. He was at one
time professor in the Western Reserve Col
lege at Hudson, Ohio. and at present is the
leading professor IN the Chicago Theological
Seminary.
The writer of an article published by the
Aorgenblah, of Silesia, charged with sshaving
ridlculed the relic known - the holy coat of
Ireyes, appeared few days ago before the
tribunal Of that city, and was condemned to q
weeks Imprisonment The editor Of journal
was also sentenced TO fine Of twenty thalers.
Alta meeting of the trustees of Union
College, Rev. Lawrence p. Hickok, d. D.,
was elected president of that institution. DR..
/ Hickok has acted as vice. president of the
College since lS49. During the later years
or Dr. Mott lie he acted as acting president.
The Bostonians are getting dissipated
! i he Jrdrefter saws that -sthe participants m
the masquerade last night reached their places
! OF business before noon, with the cowl doffed
and the scowl donned They will resume
their true characters after nights rest IL
sd AiidN iAeTt art the most hopeful
that faneuil Hall will not be a lager bier
saloon: the Granary Burial Ground will not
will not have a caurt house over its graves.
and the Old Station House viii not fall into
the hands of spectators. The Trareutr also
speaks OF the winter just passed rs, upon the
whole, very pleasant one. Scarcely d rail-
road train in New England has been DELAYED
by snow, and the cost Of keeping tracks clear
will be trifling
An immense church and college edl6ee is
to be erected in the town of ST Metnrad,
Spencer county, Indiana, by the Roman c ath-
oles. The building is to have front of
| three hundred and ten feet. with two wings.
each one hundred and eighty feet in depth.
1t i TO be Of free stone, "a beautiful and very
! fine quality of which Is abundant in tn i'm
mediate vicinity Of the town. Work will be
! begun soon the weather becomes favor
able The building will be three stories high.
with half story attic. This will lie The
largest church and collegiate ed6ee Ia In
diana.
| The Oil Springs Chronicle, of Canada
West, SAYS that an extraordinary oil well has
just been discovered in Canada II Welded
on the 2lst Of February 2259 gallons Of oil
in one hour, which WAS ut the rate of .Go1
barrels OF thirytwo gallons each day.
4 A California paper saws that the culture
I Of raisins promises 70 become an important
feature IN the industrial future of California.
/ The Sacramento TatoR speaking of sar pies
sent 10 that office, SAYS they are full Of sac
carine matter. juicy and plump.
The youngest daughter OF Mr.. P. T.
Baruum vas married IN Bridgeport Yesterday
to Mr.. Nathan Seeley, OF the firm Of Sdeley 4
Stevens, of this city A large company as
senbled TO witness the ceremony. ahd all
/ liquors were banished from the marriage
I feast.
The New Orleans papers mentions the
/ sale Of two large plantations, Twenty-Five and
twenty six miles above that city. for Sll, 600
! They contain four thousand acres, and pro-
i duced five hundred and fifty hogsheads of
( sugar in 1860,
/ The Milwaukee Bar rec ommeDd the pas
! sage Of bill now before Congress, 10 estab-
I lish intermediate courts Of appealLetgden the
I district and circuit courts and the supreme
court All appeals from Judgements and in
terlocntory orders would be taken I'd these
courts, and thence 10 the supreme court
/ The Bastrop louisiana Dispatch sal IS that
/ trade and industry are reviving in that sec
I ton. The Planters Bonner makes the same
statement, and SAYS that the negroes are do
I ing better than they have for years past 1t
- sttA7 S1'Ati6 @NNSAnNc at0AA tlt 4IIhN
I district.
The Sugar Planter, published at West
I Baton Rouge. thanks the freedmens Bureau
for the absence OF idle negroes. The Planter
/ learns that a number Of the planters still IN
dulge in the hope of again making sugar
4 crops, although il may not be fer tvo or three
/, years.
The Cincinnati Times describes the stu
pendous bridge, now nearly completed, be
tween that city and the Kentucky shore Of
the Ohio. Ii i two thousand feet long, and
has span of nearly eleven hundred feet,
which Is said TO be the longest in the world.
Throughout the central part of Indiana
the late cold weather has materially managed
the prospect for a fruit crop, and peach buds
are very generally killed. All the more ten
4 der varieties ofcherries are in the same con
\ dition. Rasberries of the European varie-
ties where they were not protected have suf-
A fered severely.
The Lynchburg, Virginia, Ne1rs says that
valuable discoveries Of iron have been made
in Amherst county, three miles north of the
James river canal. and that company have
leased the mines and are about to erect fur
naces. 1t also says that there are abundant
indications of petroleum in the same vicinity