The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-12-05

Gold closed at 81. .40f in New York yes.
terday. ~ :
"A great temperance dsmonssration took
place at Nashville, Tennessee, the ether day
The trial of the robbers Of the train on
the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, at
Franklin, Ky, has been postponed until the
10th of December. sA
The Fenian excitement continues at ST.
Louis; money is being collected, arms pur.
chased and companies feined and drilled.
Much interest is manifested in the anticipated
outbreak in Ireland.
"A man named s. H. .Wasseu hes been
vctimiziug the merchants Of Dayton by buy.
ing small amounts Of goods after bank hours,
passing bogus $50 checks in payment, and
getting both his purchases and good pro,
portion of change
1t is reported among billiard men that
match is about being made between Dudley
kavanaugh and Joseph Dion for purse of
$4,000.
"A FIRE in Wyandotte, Kansas, on the
night Of the 29th ult. destroyed q grocery
store, hotel, and three or four tenement
houses. Loss fifty thousand dollars. sa
- H. Reeves Pollard and j. NJ. Hanna, Of
the Richmond Examiner applied for permis>
sion to see JEFF Davis, but were denied nc.
cess TO the fortress.
The Western Union Telegraph Compa>
ny successfully laid cable across the Ohio
river at Maysvills, Ky, on the 30th.
-Itis understood that some of the i'm
portant appointments made by the President
in the regular army will NEE, with opposition
in the Senate.
i consequence of the non.a arrival of q
number of the members of Congress. the |
proposed mass welcome has been postponed i
until Monday next
The New York Common Council have
agreed 70 allow the United States Govern |
ment portion of a battery enlargement for |
barge Office, at nominal price.
"A racy breach of promise case, wiggin |
vs.. Russell, in which the plaintiff laid dana>
ges at 100000, was concluded in New York |
on the 29th ult. A verdict WAS rendered for /
the plaintiff in the sum of 5000.
Clement c. Clay, accompanied By his
wife, arrived at Fort Mouroe on the 29th. and /
shortly after his arrival he called on JEFF Da.
Wis. The meeting was most cordial.
The Stewart divorce suit, which has crea-
ted considerable interest in New York, has
resulted in verdict for the plaintiff, on the
ground of criminal conduct Of the wife with
one kneeland
Thanksgiving day seems to have been
generally observed 10 all the cities and towns
throughout the West. At New Orleans it
was scarcely observed at all, only the Gov
ernment offices being closed and services held
in few of the churches.
--Disunion reigns in the Austrian Cabinet
on several points of domestic policy. The
Minister of Commerce proposes the abolition
of the usury laws, and the diminution of the
days set apart for religious festivals. This
proposal is strongly opposed by Count Belle
redi, who is also averse to the increase Of the
laws relating to Protestants, and to the in.
PRODUCTION Of civil marriages.
The Philadelphia Corn Exchange Asso.
ciation have entered into a contract for the
immediate erection of their new and spacious
building, at Second and Gothic streets which
is to take the place Of the old William Penn
Mansion, which was built before the close of
the seventeenth century. 1t was occupied by
William Penn in l699.
The Boston Journal states that ex- Gov
Boutwell,, in a lecture at Lewiston, Maine,
last week, said that President johnson and
Mr.. Seward had known for more than a year
that John Surra,t had gone to Rome and en-
listed in the army Of the Pope. This state
ment made before the announcement that
Surratt had been demanded, given up and had
escaped from custody.
The Hon. Newton Bateman, of Spring. I
field, Illinois, has just received q draft from
California, for Sl,52l 46, forwarded by Hon.
John SWEET, Superintendent of Public In
struc,on of that State, being the first install
ment OF funds contributed by the public
school children of California for the national
Lincoln monument. No one has entered
more generously and heartily into this patri-
otto enterprise than Mr.. SWEET, nor have the ,
school children of any other State nobler /
record in connection Herewith than those of
California.