The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-10-24
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MIDNIGHT REPORT.
j FRON NEW YORK.

NEw YoRK, Oct. %.
There wns IN immense mass meeting at
Cooper institute to.night to listen to An ID.
drea By Speaker Coifax. The hall Vas
densely crowded and thousands were unable
70 gain sdmittascs- He spoke ever two
hesp anidst immesse applause He closel
lin speech BY proposing three cheers for the
principle that Yoysl men should rule the coun.
try which the blood of loyal men had been
shed to preserve. The course Of the Repnb.
lioau party had been patriotic. and it had de-
served we'll Of the country. In reconstruct-
ing the South the condition of guaranteeing
security for the future should be insisted on.
The terms granted the rebels BY the Consti-
tational Amendment we're magnanimous to
. certain degree, but we're spurned. 1t was
3 mistake to suppose that any change Of sen.
timent had taken place in the South. They
had fought to the last ditch, and had only
surrendered when overpowered by Grant, to
whom they owed more than any other man.
If tomorrow Foreign war should occur
they would be found arraigned against the
United States. m
Mr.. Colfax then proceeded to argne
that the reconstruction acts Of the President,
the Amnesty Proclamation, Gc,, we're uncon.
stitutional, and were virtual usurpations, and
commented in severe terms on his treatment
of Generals Sheridan, Terry and Sickles and
Stanton, who, he predicted, would be re.
stored to bis Office on the re>assembling of
Congress.
This morning four laborers, engaged in
demoiishng an old house on Espenard street,
which gave way. One was killed and the
other three severely injured.
Hon. Isaac n Arnold of Chicago will de>
liver his lecture, Personal Recollections
and Character of Lincoln at the Cooper
Institute to morrow evening.
Dale's silk mill, at Patterson, has been at
tacbed by Government officers, having, the
revenue officials alleged, defrauded the reve.
nue. of So, 900 by making false returns in
1861 and 1862. The mill, which is a most
extensive one, is to be kept running, in the
charge of an agent Of the Government.
The removal of Collector IhomasE Smith,
Of the Eighth District, is currently reported.
The specific charge upon which his removal
is said to have been effected is, that in July
last $50 barrels of whisky were shipped from
Dubuque, Iowa. consigned to the Collector
of the Eighth District. To cancel the bonds
upon which this whisky was shipped it was
necessary for Smith to certify that the lot
had entered the bonded warehouse in his
district. This he did, stating that it had been
entered in the bonded warehouse uf S. C.
Boehn l. Co., the night before that establish.
ment was destroyed by fire on the 18th Of
July. An investigation showed, however,
that the whisky did not have time TO reach
this city from the date of shipment from Du
buque, and the identical $50 barrels were
traced to other places. Collector Smith, al.
though held responsible for this cer,hcation,
had no pecuniary interest in the tran ssctiop,
but was probably made the victim of colu-
sion.
Hon. Thaddeus Hill was nominated by the
Republican State Committee for Comptrol
Ter. to fill the vacancy caused by the declina.
ton of Mr.. Hulburt. Hill accepts
The oistillery Of Finley & Co. was seized
to. day for alleged fraudulent returns.
The Express says Mr.. Finley is Secretary
Of the Executive Committee of the Distillers
Association, and in him the Secretary of the
Treasury reposed great confidence, giving
him letters of recommendation TO travel over
the State and organize D.stilery Associa-
tions every where, that the Government
might be protected
Several minor seizures were made
The Executive Committee of the National
Union Republican Committee met to day at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The following per.
sons we're present: Gov. Ward of New Jer-
sey, Chairman; Hon. Saml A. Purveyance,
Pa; Jno. B. Clark, n. h; Hon. ii. II.
Stark, Conn, and Hon. w. H. Hoffman, Md
After the transaction of the private business
q full meeting of the National Union Repub.
lican Committee was called to meet in Wash.
ington on the 11th of December, to decide
upon the time and place for holding the Ma
tional Union Republican Convention.