The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-04-29
BY TELEGRAPH,
MIDNIGHT REPORT,
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

NEw YoaK, April %.
The Tibune's special says that the amount
held by the Ereedmen's bureau savings banA
| in the South. on the lst instant. was Sl72 ,OC0
! since which time the same has been largely
increased.
The receipts Of internal Revenue yesterday
was Sl7S,237.
Munroe, Mayer, and Nixon, Alderman o.
New Orleans, have been p.rdoned. Admiral
Farragut disapproved the charge against
Munroe that he attempted to procure the as
sassinaton of Commodore Baily.
| A man named Peter August Madison, ha,
been arrested in Washington, supposed to be
an accomplice of Probst, the Philadelphis
murderer.
| The President has ordered the suspension
Of the execution of four Rebel guerllas CON
victed by conrt martial of the numbering of five
Union soldiers.
Residents Of Birmingham, England, have
sent the Treasury Department 81, 800 in gold
| for the benefit Of the Freedmen.
Senator Morrill, has been directed. by the
| District Committee, to report bill granting
suffrage to educated properly owning citizene
soldiers and sailors, of color in the District.
The Heralfs special says it is reported, OF
good authority, that the Spanish Minister
proposes to accept the mediation Of the
United States in the Spanish Chillian com
plication, referring the claim of Spain to oul
Government. and abide the decision.
Representatives Conkling, jerks, ani
Bousweli, and others are at work upon tha
new bankrupt bill. Such bill as they viii
agree upon is pretty snre 70 pass. 4,
The House Judiciary Committee are still
at work upon JEFF. Davis case. The minor
| ity of the committee complain OF the unjust
proceedings Of the majority in not allowing
| latitude for cross examination of witnesses
A report is looked for soon.
The statement that the Secretary Of tht
| Treasury declined to put the FIVE per cent
Loon apon the market is untrue. The subjecl
has been undeg advisement, but no decision
will be reached in week.
1 Since last report by the health of3oers
there have been a. new cases Of cholera nd
mitted to the Hospital Ship, and Eve deaths
leaving 90 cases still in the hospital. The
cases among the adults ere Of mild chArae
ter, while those among the children are sever
and will probably prove fatal.
The sioops Of wsr, Saratosa and Pofts
month, per order from Washington. have beer
sent to the lower Quarantine to Be used :.
hospital ships. .es
The Commrciars special says Chief yns-
tice Chase, and other leading radicals will =
content If the constitutional amendmeat, IN
trodaced by Senator Wilson yesterday, OF Il
sqa'ssslent, can be adopted by the Recchstrut
~; Swinbnrne, health officer, has pub.
iished letter stating tha. the sick ners
transferred from the Virginia. in the eame
manner in which they have been trnnsfered
under Qnarantine rules in this mort for !
quarter Of q .ccntaary. That, - evidenee 3
the efficiency with which he has thns ~ -,
the desease. the mortality in the virr;n;a
since her arrival here, has been iess N,
half a. great, as that which occurred at Hsli
fax, among passengers OF the Eagland.
diepstch has been received here from Halifax
sa4tinG thst the passengen of the EnSlAne
who were len there. are nov we'll, and IL
mot dealh has occurred il tAs ueek paeet
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