The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-08-01

rails. Its capture Is anticipated.
Violent reform demonstrations continue
in London.
Mr.. Mcpherson new Political Manual is
out and having q large sale.
William Lindsay, well known citizen O.
St. Louis, died last Sunday night.
The Army bill is said to have found ia
vor with Gen. Grant, Secretary Stanton and
military men generally.
Statements concerning the Equalization
Bounty bill highly important to soldiers, will
be found in our dispatches.
The Bounty Bill will cost the Govern
ment seventy-6ve or eighty millions Of dol
lars.
Martial Law has been proclaimed in New
Orleans by Gen Bayard, and Gen. Kautz has
been appointed Military Governor.
-Hamill the champion oarsmAn, who Wis
tied England and was beaten in a sculling
match there. has arrived in New York.
The Juarez party in Mexico think Maxi
milan will shortly play himself out Very
comforting if it we're all likely; but We have
had that promise often of late.
The Paymaster General says it will take
three years to examine the accounts Of the
soldiers to whom the extra bounty under the
recent act is due.
Cholera is fast assuming an epidemic
form in New York city, but the number Of
deaths the past week is much below the
number of the week preceding.
South American news show restored
quiet among those States. Some expert
ments in the peculiarly Southern and pleas
ant pastime of attempted assassination.
The members Of Congress have nearly all
parative solitude, Butternuts and Ny Policy
men. The Lord have mercy upon it
The Austrian Consul, in New York, Mr..
Charles F. Loosely, has opened subscription
in that city at the Consulate for the relief Of
the Austrian soldiers wounded during the
present war.
The Ficksburght Sun, that used to be,
whose light was extinguished during the war,
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ispublished now al Granada, Miss, and gives
q mild butternut light simply as g The SUM-
The new Army bill which the President
signed, provides foF 81 regiments. 45 of which
are infantry. There are regiments oil col
ored troops, and 4 regiments of veteran re-
serves included n this bill.
If anybody dopbts that the Atlantic Ca
bic noW open Tor public business rs "a big
thing let hun look at the rates for trans
mission Of m ssages given in our dispatches.
and forever thereafter hold his peace.
Specials direct from Europe to the New
York papers via the Atlantic Cable will be
found in our dispatches. Verify, the world
moves. Events transpirng in the Eastern
world can reach here before the hour Of their
occurrence.
An arnstice has been agreed on be-
tween Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, and the
other German States The terms Of it look
to the complete restoration of peace to Eu-
rope.
Lord Derbys Cabinet is mellow and lovely
in its temper towards the United States. 1t
processes itself anxious to remove the irrita
tion cansed by England's shabby neutrality
during the war Hope it won't stop with
professions, but do justice now and be decent
hereafter.
Head Center Stephens has issued an ad-
dress to the Brotherhood. He counses the
cooperation of the American Brotherhood
with the Order in Ireland, as necessary to
success He says the struggle in Ireland
will come off this year.
of the acts of Congress Immediately
preceding adjournment the only important
bill which is lost is that admitting Nebraska
into the Union as a State.
The President did not notify either house
that he had signed it. He has, therefore,
reserved his signature, which secures its de-
feat.
During tbs last nights session of both
Houses Of Congress every effort vas made TO
pass bills for the relief Of contractors, war
claimants, lobby schemes, DC. But there
was wholesale slaughter Of them, and net
one of any account got through either branch
The lobby we're present iu full force On the
floor of the House and in the corridors, but il
received nothing.
The number of rations issued by The
Freedmens Bureau during ten months to
destitute whites and blacks in the South was
seven millions nine hundred and twenty
three thousand FIVE hundred and sixty nine,
of which upwards Of two millions were drawn
by whites Most Of the suffering among the
latter class was in Alabama and Arkansas.
The United States Express Office at Wy
andotte Kansas, was robbed of three pack
ages on Thursday night last, one Of which be
losss was unknown. Mr.. Marsh, the section
boss on the Missouri River Railroad, was al
so robbed of $500,
On Monday night Of last week, maj
named House. living near Atlas, Pike count
Iliaoin. with his wife went into the stabl
loft Ia sleep, to avoid the excessive heat
During the night terrific st orm came up, ar
the rain fell in such torrents as to raise th
stream near where the stable stood to such
height as to sweep it away. The woma
and three horses were drowned
The General Convention of Universalis,
which will convene in Galesburg. Illinois, O
the third week in September, will undoubtet
~ be the larges, ever held in the West, if nj
the largest meeting of that body ever held
the United States. Ministers from New or
and Massachusetts have already written I
their intention to be present, and we presun
that hundreds of the prominent clergyme
and aymen of the denomination, East m
West, will be in attendance.
Gen Woods, in command Of the Unite
States troops in Georgia, officially reports
case of lynch law in Wilkinson county th,
equals the incredible stories Of the old slave
ry regime. negro, under arrest for mul
der, was taken from the Jail, seized by me
Of tso or three hundred persons, and by the
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