The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-06-22
BY TELEGRAPH.
MIDNIGHT REPORT.
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

New YoRK, June 81.
The Herdlfs Lima correspondent says
General Hoyey was given grand reception
by the Government. In presenting his Gre
dentials the Colonel in few words expressed
the cordial feelings entertained by the United
States toward their younger and more south
ern sisters, and Colonel Prado, the Provis.
ional Dictator, replied in high terms Of the
great Republic and the personal character Of
the excellent representative at his court.
The Herald Havana correspondence says
the new policy of the administration is re-
pressiye and restrictive one, very obnoxious
TO the Cubans, NOSE especially by contrast
with the former generous treatment Of Gen.
Dulce.
violent hurricane visited Basamo on the
9TH
Regla, town opposite Havana, lost %
houses by FIRE on the lst.
Advices from st. Thomas state that about
200 troops had left St. Thomas TO Join the
foreign legion in Mexico.
By the late fire in Wauquess, Porto Rico,
over seventy buildings were destroyed. Most
of the English and American residents were
abandoning Hayti on account Of the great
disorder occasioned by the great FIRE at Port
au Prince some weeks ago.
President Baaz is on his last legs 10 ST. Do
mingo. The reyolutionists are pressing him
so closely that it is supposed he will take to
flight very soon.
Martinique had suffered considerably from
drouth, and Guadaloupe had been dreadfuliy
decimated by the cholera
| The Herald states that Daniel Green, an
American citizen residing in MexicoS about
| fifty miles back of Mazatlan, has filed a state
ment with the American consul g. Maza,lan
Of certain outrages committed on Lin by the
French. He was arrested in MAJ ..lan on the
| 10Th of April lest and kentin prison until the
/ first OF May without accusation or hearing
| He was then ordered 10 leave Mexico for
California, and while under this injunction he
enters this protest.
I The morning papers contain the following
specials from Washington:
The receipts on account Of the Internal
Revenue for the present year, up to the 10Th
inst. inclusive. amount to S29a,Olh, sSb,
leaving less than ono million dollars TO com
piete the three handred million dollars, the
estimate made at the Bureau Of Internal Rev
enue. Il is now believed that the receipts of
the fiscal year ending with the s0th of this
month, will amount to three hundred and six
million dollars from taxes for internal revenue
alone. s
The iron clause of tariff bill is troubling the
|
parties are not satisfied with . duty of ten
dollars per ton, but are urging twenty, and
even thirty dollars,
The Judiciary Committee, with only two or
three members attending, resolved lately to
remodel the entire judiciary system OF the
country, and make one less Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court, bnt this action has
since been reconsldered, and next Friday is
set apart for rediscnssion Of the matter,
when the project IS likely to be defeated.
4ne Post Office Department 10 instituting
suits against all post masters in the insurrec-
tionary States who stand indebted to the
Government.
The bill for the relief of the iron clad con-
tractors sill sleeps in the Committee o.
Claims, where it will no doubt remain the
rest of the session.
The bounty money accruing to the cficerl
aud .aen Of tue following named vessels, viz
Benton, Cairo, Carondolet, Louisville, St
Louis, Monadnock, and Queen Of the West
for the destruction Of the enemys vessels q
Memphis, ia June, 1869, is now ready fo
: payment in the 4th Auditors office.
Orders have been received to distribute ant
pay the prize money to those engaged in tn,
,, fight at Mobile in August, 1864. This will b,
ready for payment in about two months from
the present date. The total amount involves
in the matter is $767,Q ,Q98 go.
The steadman 4 Fullerton commission lef
Mobile for Mississippi to day. They will no
visit Arkansas on tais trip but conclude thel
! investigations with Texas.
I Senator Poland has completed the exami
) nation of the bankrupt bill and renorted t
, the Senate Judiciary committee. They vii
probably report it to the Senate and th
farther consideration of the subject will b
postponed until December next, onthe gronn
that there is not time to consider it this ses
sion.
! The evidence before the Fry Conkling inves
tigation committee has all been taken
! Among the witnesses examined yesterday wa
Mr.. Raymond, who testified that Theodor
. Allen, whom Conkling made such charge
against, WAS credible witness.
/, "A 1sMss special Gays Judge Thomas, of th
Virginia Circuit Court, who recently refuse
to admit the testimony Of . negro in cas-
where colored men were not concerned, o
= the ground that he must be governed by th
law Of the State and not Of the United State
= was indicted by the United States grand IN,
! at the recent session Of Judge Underwood
court at Richmond. No steps whatever ha,
: been taken 70 arrest Judge Ihomas under ii
: indictment.
2 II is said there are several screws loose
:, New York among the Federal Office holder
The high protective tariff men are eettir
70 alarmed lest their various interests will not
% fully cared for BY the Ways and Means cor
ie mittee There are several gentlemen he
!, who have impressed the committee ve
e strongly against the expediency of adopting
"a high protective tariff. The COMMITTEES 4
e also in receipt Of letters frpp prominent M
9 frop yariou5 sections Of the country aeais
= spch . course.
Z Judge Cardigan, In the court Of eomn,
e pleasthis morning, declared the excise Il
e uaconstitatio1al. The question ~ Is eall
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