The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-09-06

Gold closed at l48i in New York las
night.
Fifty thousand dollars have been sub.
scribed toward building new opera house Il
Mobile.
The terms Of peace between Austria and
Italy are in rapid progress toward settlement,
and it is generally believed that peace will
be fully and finally consumated between these
powers in ten days.
Senators Williams and General Schenck,
of the Joint Special Committee of Congress
on Retrenchment and Reform, have been in
Washington for the past three days, making
preliminary arrangements for an investiga.
tion into the operations, regulations and
management of the cotton business by the
Treasury Department.
There is q loud clamor among the Cop.
perheads for the decapitation of another
official head-that Of Judge Otso, Assistant
Secretary of lhe Interior.
Gen. Howard is in receipt of reports
from the Assistant Secretary Of Freedmsn's
Affairs from several counties in Virginia, of
highly encouraging character These re.
ports show that in most of the districts the
freedmen are contented and INDUSTRIOUS and
in the main self-supporting.
The Republicans of the Twelfth Ohio
District have nominated General Wells S.
Jones for Congress. This completes the Re-
publican Congressional nominations in Ohio.
j. G. Lamb, Connecticut Democrat.
has been appointed Assessor of the Third
Revenue District, Connecticut, vice Jesse s.
lily. good Republican and faithful officer,
removed. Lamb was delegate to Philadel-
phia, and has his reward.
-Sedalia had an election on Tuesday last
on the adoption of the school act. The Con-
servatves organized to defeat the act, ap.
pealed to the people to vote against " taxes
for the purpose Of educating negro children
&c, and got beaten, the vote being l30 for
free schools and Ga against.
Senator Trumbull and a number of the
leading linton men of Chicago have deter.
mined not to give the sanction of their pres.
ence at the laying of the corner stone OF the
Douglas monument, on account of the seem
ing determination of the President to insult
every loyal man wherever he speaks.
The rebels of Greenb.ier county, Va,
held meeting at Lewisburg the other day.
The Union Monroe county, Register learns
that the first" citizens were present. The
notorious bushwhaeker, Hounshell, who or
dered Union women to be tied and sen,
through the lines, was chairman of the com.
mittee on resolutions, and indorsed the pol.
icy of Andy Johnson
The Congressional canvass in the Burl-
ington, VI. District excites more local in.
terest than any election held in the State TOR
twenty years. Hon. Portius Baxter, the
present member, is opposed by Judge Romeo
Il. Hoyt, of St. Albans, Radical Republican,
and there is Democratic candidate named
Waldo Brigham. The Democracy poll about
1000 votes in the district, but the Repubh-
can vote [l2,ooo) will be, it is expected,
nearly divided.
ihe Hostou iFohsItpt says large por>
ton OF the eminent citizens designated BY
the Massachusetts, Republican State Commit
tee to welcome the loyal men of the South at
Philadelphia next Monday, will attend and
greet that noble band of Unionists. Those
obliged by imperative business engagements
or other causes TO decline the invitation to be
present, send letters to the committee full of
encouragement for the cause