The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-06-26

John Tyler, Jr., son of the late ex-
President, is lecturing,

John Tyler, Jr., a son of the late ex-
President, is lecturing.
"A Georgia paper. announces that Gen. |
Joseph E. johnson has been appointed Pres
ident of the Charleston, Memphis and Iopes
ka Railroad.
james S. Page, bankrupt speculatof In
corn at Chicago, having been expelled from
the Board of Trade, has resorted to legal
measures to compel the Board to admit
him.
The proprietors of the Pittsburgh Post
have been presented with an elegant silver
service by the Southwestern Relief Commits
sion, as a memento for valuable services rem
dered the suffering women and children OF
the South.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, at the recent
banquet ofthe Massachusetts Medical Society,
suggested this toast The Medical profess
sion-so full Of good people that its own
storyNtellers have to go outside OF 1t to ind
their villains.
The Ion. Charles D. Drake, United
States Senator from Missouri, Is now sojourn-
ing in Philadelphia. Senator Drake Is the
guest of Commodore Oliver S. Gibson, with
whom he served as midshipman more than
thirty years ago.
The London Spectator says that the
same Tory enthusiasts who complain bit.
| terly because Burke, the Fenian, is not
hanged, will honize Davis, "the man who IS
responsible for the most unproyoked, wicked,
and murderous war of which modern history
makes mention.
! One Colonel Schumacher first discovered
| coal in PENNSYLVANIA in 1871, but the people
had no faith in the discovery, and Schuma-
ker after loosing eight years labor md
large fortune, subsequently became insane
and died in the lunatic asylum in Phladel-
phis, after q years confinement as mad
man.
One OF our western exchanges says:
4" We notice in an Indiana paper the mar
rage Of Mr.. Thomas n. Lyon to Miss Molie
Lamb another scriptural prophesy in pro-
cess Of fulhllment - The lion and the lamb
shall lie down together, and -aftera while
q little child will lead them. =
General Halpiue, in his Citizen, says
that when President Lincoln was first in-
formed of the arrest Of jeff. Davis. by Cen
eral Wilson, he expressed his regret for IT.,
and illustrated his views by telling the famous
story of the man who drew a white elephant
in lottery. The point of this statement is
blunted by the fact that Davis was not arr
rested by Colonel Pritchard until nearly four
weeks after the assassination Of President
Lincoln.
The Crown Princess of Prussia, who was
lately in Paris, and, with her husband, be.
trayed q lively interest in the United States
Sanitary Department of the Exhibition, is
said to resemble her mother, although palmer
than Victoria was at her age. She is the
oldest OF the Queens children, and perhaps
the best, and many English people were dis
appointed when she had her nose broken in
connection with the succession by the Prince
Of Wales.
The family Of the American Minister at
Paris, General Dix, has attained marked So
cial popularity, and the Saturday receptions
are largely attended. A correspondent no.
ticing one Of these names, among many 9TH
ers, Mrs. Moulton. Mrs. Ronalds, Mrs. Reed
and Mrs. Coddington, as four American
beauties. 1t is a little remarkable that not
one Of those thus indlvidualized is unmarried.
The Columbia, 5. c., PhGnir says that
of all the rebels who have expatriated them~
selves, J. Z Benjamin is the only one who
has prospered, or shows q desire TO remain
away. 1t saws three-f0urths Of those who
have went to Mexico have returned some
went to karope, and very few may still re-
main in Mexico. And it has been the same
elsewhere Southern colonies in Brazil and
other places have proved failures.
The reader viii probably remember the
accusation made against General Banks a
year ago, by those who were opposed to his
nomination OF His having been shamefully
intoxicated during a visit TO Portland, Maine.
In spite Of the charge, and the pertinacity
with which it was urged, General Banks was
renominated and re elected, and he then in
sisted on a rigid investigation into the
charge. committee was appointed, the
inquiry was had and We learn from the Port
land Press that the committee unanimously
reported that the charge was utterly and to-
tally false,