The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-10-03

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Trainer sAee-ssush AHss4saa A.
vtess-A Few Orleans Eaisar s~n-
mensA - Washingten BY President
JeAnsen-Ths Csntemplated Fsnian
Invasion = Heavy Robbery 1T Geld
springs, n. II.
NEW YORK, Oct 2.
The Herald says Santa Anna is now nego-
tiating for q loan of So 0O0, 900, for the pur-
ton in Hexico, aud is assured Of snceess in
the negoti4tien IN . few days. A number Of
Federal officers called on him yesterday to
offer their services in his new campaiGG
It is believed BY those high in authority in
Canada that Secretary Seward has used his
diplomacy TO bring ABOUT the league between
Santa Anna and the Fenians.
The session of the National Methodist
Episcopal Church was held yesterday, A
resolution expressing sympathy for and prom
Using aid to the Methodist Church in Ireland
was passed. The day was principally occu-
pied in the transaction of business, and the
evening in addresses and devotional exer>
cises
az Five fresh cases of cholera were reported
inthis city Yesterday afternoon. Burial per-
mits for thirteen cholera dead were issued.
The report Spr last week showed total of
4s7 deaths, of which 3s were from cholera.
nc ShoANia has osnih aHPSaicu oh oofCt-
nors Island.
Geo. IL. Goddard. secession vigilance
committee man Of Arkansas, was arrested in
this city yesterday afternoon, on a warrant
issued by Justice Clark, of the Supreme
Court. Complaint was made by VIM. NJ.
Newman, of this city, who alleged that the
prisoner, with others composing a vigilance
committee at Camden, Ark. seized his stock
Of goods worth 500, 900. and ordered it to be
ft,rnad tn tha Can o1
The prisoner was ordered to find bail in the
sum of $4,000.
$. b. Chittenden was nominated for both
the short and long term of Congress by the
Third District, at the Republican convention
Brooklyn last evening.
Richard Shairwell, one Of the murderers of
James A. Housemrn, in Fayette county, Pa,
in April last, was executed yesterday at the
town of Fayette.
The coronors Jury in the Communilaw
drowning case, were discharged yesterday
without agreeing to verdict. The coroner
will submit both views to the grand jury, and
Monahan will remain in custody to abide the
results.
The Tribune saws the Republican Unionists
have carried almost every town where they
seriously tried, including quite number that
were against them last spring aud that there
is scarcely o township which does not show a
Yesterday Robert Walker, well known as
trotting trainer, who kept hotel adjoining
the Contreyille course, was found dead on the
track of the course with a hole in his head
made by psto ball. No person has been
seen in the neighborhood. and the affair is
wrapped in mystery. He was exercising
horse at the time.
The Ueralds South American correspon- /
dence says the idea of making peace with |
te raJ Ga
the Chilisns. They are anxious to carry the |
war into the enemy's country, and demand |
that their navy shall appear before Cadiz. |
The Secretary of Foreign Affairs remarked |
at a dinner during the last week of August |
that Chill would ever regard Spain in the /
light of a natural enemy. 1t is very doubtful /
ii any agent would be received who might I
come from Spain to propose terms of peace.
Defensive operations in the vicinity OF Val I
paraiso are still making. Three steamers,
purchased here by McKenna, are being fitted |
out aS ships of war
Tucker, the ex-rebel, who was appointed /
Admiral Of the Peruvian navy, has been in
stalled commander n-chief of the allied /
squadron. Montro, the Admiral who mutt. /
MED on account of fuckers appointment,
was still in confinement with his ofilcers.
From the Central American States the |
news is unimportant. The seat of Govern /
utrAt VI I1DuuufAo WaS hbVut W uc fCu1ps eu /
to Gracia.
A heavy earthquake visited the city Of San /
Salvador on the 20th OF August. No damage |
done.
Meesquera, President of Columbia, was
prosecuting the ship canal scheme across the |
isthmus but had declared he would not per |
init the secession of the State through which /
il was proposed TO run it from the National |
Government The New Grenada Legislature |
have resolved TO disobey certain instructions
of Meesquera, and matters have become so /
emhroiled that serious consequences may be |
expected
The Heralds N 0. special says on Satur- i
day Mr.. Bacon. of the Crescent newspaper, +
received a summons from President johnson /
and left for the White House.
Prominent Southerners just from the North
report that popular sentiment is entirely with |
Congress, and this creates much alarm among
the politicians.
The PicayuHe has changed its editor, and /
il is understood that il will IN future advo
cate the adoption otthe constitutional amends
ment. The Bee also gives the amendment a
tacit support
A Herah Washington special says the Su
perintendent OF Indian affairs. for Arizona
Territory, reports that train near Prescott I
was attacked in August last, by party OF loo |
indians one white killed and one wounded,
aud thirty three indians killed.
A HeroIds special says at Toronto, Can
ada. yesterday the Fenian prisoners were
served with copies Of the indictments against
them. The 18th Royal Hussars had ar
rived from England. 1t is now believed that
the Eenians will attack Canada along the /
frontier of Missisqnai and Huntingdon. The |
force of regulars is now about II. 900 effective |
men and about A cannon. There are Qn the |
rolls "a, 900 militia but not more than Is, 600 |
are considered effective.
A HeraId's Poughkeepsie special, ofthe 1st, |
SAYS heavy ROBBERY was perpetrated at Cold !
Spring. New York, yesterday morning. The |
thieves entered the store of Mr. Cooley, and |
stole theretrom large quantity Of silks, vel |
vets. ribbons, &c, amounting TO $4,000. |
Mr. Cooley has offered reward of $50, 900 |
for the arrest OF the scoundrels The Hud |
son river at the present time is infested with !
q gang of thieves from New York to Albany. |
The pirates ascend the river in small sailing |
crafts. aud depredations are being committed |
all along the bank.
Stafford, recently shot at Sing Sing, while |
attempting to escape, was one of the leaders
of the gangs from up the river Reports reach
Us of harness, silver ware and clothing OF !,
every description being carried away from
different points, and in almost every |
instance strange looking vessels have been
seen in the localities where the robberies
were perpetrsted the day previous to the
theft
A Heralds Panama correspondent says the
agents of the Peruvian Government have |
purchased the ocean steamer Idaho, 2,646
tons. She WAS built in New York for the
United States Government but rejected by
the Navy department on account of the
Dickinson engine She viii be armed with |
eight heavy guns, and will cruise the Spanish |
Main to make seizes of Spanish merchants
men.
The steamer CITY of Paris, from Liverpool, |
on the 10Th, has arrived, and the American |
War steamers Colorado, Frolc and Omotora, |
we're at Southampton.
The important French circular note alluded |
10 through the cable, some days since, is
spoken Of BY the English press - be-
ing',of the highest importance. Its au-
thorshrp is attribnted To the Emnernr Both [