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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-06-27

The State Convention of the underlined
met in Des MONIES yesterday. The local OF
the Register made the ''grand rounds oi'ne
hotels, ''looking up the sages OF the rickety
organization in iowa, and says: 'Nith the
present crowd, the Convention will not De
nearly as large as last year; and as they know
their labor will be one of fruitless result, we
wonder that as many come up here as have
already made their appearance. What they
are going to do to-day no one knows. Some
few delegates are in favor Of out>radicahng
the radicals by declaring in favor OF not only
negro but calico suffrage. That these pupils
Of the Chicago Times will have no voice or
influence in the Convention is patent to all
who can spell niger or Democrat.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-06-27

Chicago Live stock Market.
By Telegraph CEtcAo9 june %
Recepts-lsl Of cattle; "a Of hogs, cars
| OF sheep.
Cattle-choice to prime s. soas 20; fair good d 10
| a. IS common to medium s. 7oGe 60
Hogs-choics 70 prime s. soaeof fair to good IS TO
1 O. Co. common to msdam s. 7o25 As.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-06-27

The big blow which passed over our city
Sunday night was a general blow all around.
At Quincy it was very severe, even more 30
than here, and as our exchanges from Iowa
begin TO arrive, we are informed that 1t was
widespread and did no little damage. In
the towns along the river it was about as
severe as here. In Polk county it blew down
an African church. In Jasper, Poweshiek
and Iowa counties, it turned over barns
blew off chimneys and roofs, upset fences
and scattered things in confusion In every di-
rection. The gale here, it will be remem
bered, was very strong, and it is really sur
prising that we escaped so easily-twistine
limbs from trees and the prostration OF lev
fences was all the damage it did in this city
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-07-31
From the New York World.
A6aira in Ten

Not even Mexico, in the most anarch-
ical period of its turbulent history, was
ever so badly governed as is the "recon-
structed" Safe of Tennessee at the
present time. We ask honest and peace
loving men to behold, in the regime of
blood and violence which prevails in
that green and beautiful State, a speci-
men of what Southern State is when
governed in accordance with the prin-
ciples of the Republican party, an ex-
ample of what all the Southern States
will be when tho Federal troops are
withdrawn and the reconstructed"
governments are in operation. The fact
that such ribald old reprobate as
Brownlow is Governor of Tennessee does
not essentiallyvary the case; the mischief
is in the system. The system will raise up
BrownlOws wherever il is tried, differ
ing from the brutal Tennessee despot
only in falling short of the unrivalled
coarseness of his blasphemous and RI
bald tongue. The essential vice of the
system is that it is government from
which the intelligence and respectable
ty Of the community are ostracized; n
government in which an ignorant and
reckless minority rule the majority of
the citizens. Such system is precisely
fitted to bring the worst man in the
community to the top. The man who
can appeal most successfully to the low
est and coarsest passions, who is
the most unscrupulous, brutal, and
strong -willed, is best fitted to
rise in government founded on
ignorance and Ostracized hatred.
If the disfranchised class could freely
vote, the evil would be rectified in the
first election; when the government
would come to represent the will and
the intelligence of the majority. But
under the diabolical Republican regime
the majority can obtain redress neither
by voting nor by fighting. They are
ostracized and cannot vote; and if they
should attempt to assert their rights by
force, they would be met and crushed
by Federal soldiers. The only remedy,
the only road to peace, lies through
the overthrow of the Republican
party in the Northern States,
and ousting it from its control
of the Federal government What
Tennessee is to-day, the other ten States
will be when they shall have followed
it into the Union through the Repub-
lican portal. They will have govern
ments resting, like that of Tennessee,
on white disfranchisement and black
suffrage; and no government of that de-
scription is capable of preserving peace
and maintaining order. The shocking
scenes of bloody violence which are
how eDacting in Tennessee are pre-
cursors of the horrible pandemoninm,
the "hell let loose" which will soon be
q spectacle to men and angels all over
the South ...
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An q lopcnieut.
From the Fort Wayne Gnd) Democratl

From the Fort Wayne und) Democrat.l
A young man named Bennett became
enamored with another mans wife, re-
siding on the Bluffton road, eight or
nine miles south of this city, not long
since. On July 4, Bennett and para
mour went off to neighboring place,
and, it is rumored, they enjoyed the ma
tional holiday in manner satisfactory
to them, if not to the fair but frail wifs's
husbands honor. The conduct of the
parties came to the knowledge Of the
husband, Jacob Miller, farmer we'll to
do, who upbraided the partner of his
bosom, but finally forgave her, and all
went merry as a marriage bell for few
days. Mrs. Miller is represented to us
as good looking woman, rot burdened
with the weight of years, in fact, pre-
possessing in appearance, and inclined
to be a little gay, affectionate in her
manners, !kind in disposition, and with
al lust the kind of a woman to be. won
by a heartless libertine. One day this
week Mr.. Miller was surprised, upon re-
turning to his home from his labors in
the field, to find that his wife was no.
where to be seen, and soon learned
with feelings of dismay, that she had
left him for the embraces Of Bennett
for whom she had "hankering."
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Pre,,ou kim and Miss surrat.

The Evening Telegraph of Monday ap-
peared very indignant and very much
shocked in consequence of the state
ment in some paper to the effect that ex-
Senator Preston King, of New York,
drowned himself because of remorse for
his having persistently refused to admit
Miss Surratt to see the President while
her mother was under sentence of
death. This is no new story neither Is
it without foundation, and pretty strong
foundation. 1t is well known that
Preston King was "On guard" ut the
White House at that time. Who placed
him there or why he was placed there
we know not but he was there, and
turned deaf ear to all Miss Surratt's
most earnest and eloquent pleadings to
be permitted to see the President in be-
half of Ter convicted mother.
The mother was eXecuted-muTdcred.
Not even the recommendation to mercy,
signed by majority of even the mill
| tary officers who condemned her on pur-
chased testimony, was allowed to reach
the eyes of the President. The White
House was hermetically sealed against
any and all of her friends, even her
weeping daughter, and Preston King
was the instrument by which it was
thus sealed. Not long after Mr.. King
drowned himself. Why' He had no
other great cause of grief; nothing to
make him desire to leave this world.
He was in good health, he was wealthy,
he occupied an honorable position in
society, held lucrative and an honor
able Office (the collectorship of New
York, and was blessed with everything
calculated tc make life desirable. Why,
then, did he commit suicide' Was i
not the ghost of the murdered Mrs. Sur
ratt, and the grief-stricken form of her
daughter, that drove him to the des-
perate deed
He perhaps was responsible, too, for
keeping the President ignorant of tie
Recommendation Of Mrs. Surratt to Ex-
ecutive clemency, as he was of prevent
ing Miss Surratt from pleading with
the President for her mothers life. He
had served as o wretched tool in the
hands of Stanton and Holt, to cousum-
mate the murder of an innocent woman,
and the consciousness of all this proved
too much for o man naturally as kind
hearted as was Preston King. Under
the course of this damning conscious
ness life became insupportable, and he
put an end to his wretched earthly ex-
istence Such is the belief of many who
ars familiar with the facts above stated
and who we'll knew Mr.. King, and no
affected indignation Of the Telegraph can
change their belief.-Philadelphia Daily
Netrs, .,
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-07-31
From the Louisville Courier, July %.
mad Lauxhabie Accideat-
Young Lady Falls Through q


Annoying mad Lauyhable Accident-
Young Lady Falls Through @
Buggy.
One of these annoying, yet ludicrous
accidents, which will happen in the
best of families, occurred on Sunday,
not over thousand miles from this
city. A dry goods clerk had an engage
ment to take his love out buggy riding
Early in the morning he appeared be-
fore her fathers door with one OF those
spider like vehicles which are proba'
bly, constructed with q view Of ascer'
tanning how light buggy can be
made, and at the same time be servicea'
BILE.
The lady is sweet l6, beautiful, and
Just little bit of what is termed "fast. y
She is full of life, fun and frolic, and is
decidedly embonpoint, weighing abont
l40 pounds. As the young gentleman
drove up, his lady love was standing
OH the top steps at the front door with
her venerable father, who had his gold
specs elevated on his forehead, in order
to get a distant view of his future SON.
in-law.
Adonis jumped out of the buggy pre-
paratory to assisting the young lady in,
but she suddenly took one of those
strange freaks to which the dear sex
are all subject. The buggy was stand
ing about four feet from the steps, and
considerably below the step upon which
stood the young lady. She probably
wanted to convince her lover that she
was not clumsy if she was fat, and
thought that this would be good time
to show him her agility. BE that as 1t
NAV, she gave jump and landed in the
centre of the buggy. Ifshe had stopped
there, all would have been well, but
alas The thin boards of the bottom OF
the buggy, unable to stand the pressure,
gave way, and the young lady contiR-
ued her descent.
There was piercing scream; a
plunging horse with n young man hold
ing to him: bundle of muslin in the
buggy, and two little gaiter boots
pointing to within six inches Of the
ground under it. Paterfamilias rushed
TO the rescue and detached the horse
from the buggy. He then got up. on
one side, and young man Oh the other,
anu tuoy atpOinptCu w ia'oo y y'"nS ...NJ
up. 40, stop, STOP. You are killing
me-" she cried. The boards had broken
in the center, aud the long, sharp splin-
ters extended downwards, and when
they attempted to raise the young lady
out of her predicamcnt these sharp splin.
ters would catch in her le-pshaw.
Did you ever see wire mousc-trap! II
not, 90 and get one, stick your finger
through the entrance funnel and try TO
pull it out. You will then understand
the sad fix that our young lady was in
on Sunday morning.
The old man comprehended the situa-
tion in a moment. He told the young
III an to get down and break the splin-
ters off. Young lady screamed. SO,
DON'T" and young man wouldn't. AT
this stage of the proceedings a practical
neighbor came up with a hatchet, and
the young lady was soon eStricated
from her unpleasant situation, and dis
appeared behind the front door,
We don't know whether the young
lady sustained any serious injury or not,
and we are not going to ask any ques-
tiops of that young man.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-07-31
New Jersey Polities-Protesf Of n New
Iersey Politicians


The following propositions and pro-
test are put forth by prominent mem
Der of the Republican party in New
Jersey-a Republican who loves his
country better than party:
Suppose that during the rebellion
each State of the Union, in its turn,
had been Overrun by the confederate
arms and compelled to submit to the
confederate government; that under
the protection of that government an
ordinance of secession had been adopt
ed in each State, confederate flag
floating over its capital, and cOnfed-
crate Legislature assembled within it;
that this state of things had continued
long enough to prevent the election OF
a Union State governments for at least
one term, and that afterwards and final
ly the cause of the Union and the Con-
stitution. had triumphed, and the rebel
lion been suppressed, as is now the case.
what would have been the legal and
constitutional result of those facts?
1t is far from impossible that these
events could have occurred. If the re-
suit of Gettysburg had been reversed,
they probably would have occurred.
The New York riot was only slight
cropping-out of a spirit existing
throughout the entire North. What,
repeat, would have been the legal and
constitutional result of these facts
Weuld it have been that all the States
had committed suicide, that there were
no lawful State governments, and there
fore no lawful States, and therefore no
UnioRe Would The triumph of the
Union arms have given force and vital
ity only to ordinances of secession, and
have reduced the Constitution and the
Union to a nullityi Either this would
have been the result, or else there is
only one other alternative, that which
the Republican party, in its hour of
sorest trial, by its Representatives in
Congress, pledged its faith and its
honor solemnly before high heaven
should be the result of the war o
maintain the supremacy of the Consti-
tuition, and to preserve the Union with
all the dignity, equality, and rights Of the
several States unimpaired.
That was pledge more binding than
an oath. pledge on the faith of which
thousands of millions of dollars, and a
hurdred thousand human lives were
offered up a sacrifice to restore to the
Union "with all their dignity, equality,
and rights unimpaired"-those Stales
which the American Congress has just
voted with deliberate and cold -blooded
perfidy to put under the heel of an ab-
Solute military despotisn.
1t is idle for the less insane portion
of the Radicals to stink away from the
doctrine of State suicide; either that
doctrine is we'll founded, and there is
no such State Of the American Union ex-
isting as the State of Virginia, or else
the action of Congress has not so much
foundation as a grain of sand to stand
upon. Absurd, preposterous and con-
temptible as the doctrine is to all in
telligent and rejecting minds, yet the
Trumbulls, the Fessendens, and the
Frelinghuysens must stand squarely on
it without wincing, or confess them
selves guilty of a usurpation-of an as
sault upon the Constitution Of their
country, not surpassed in magnitude
and audacity by secession itself.
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University Of Virginia.

The NEXT SESSION OF THIS INSTITU
tion will begin on the first day of October
ls67, and end on the Thursday preceding the
ith of July, lS6-
To be admitted a. a student, the applicant
must he sixteen years of age. There IL no pre-
-cribed curriculum of studies In this Institution
Every student may select the schools he Will at
tend but in the A Academic Department he must
attend at least three, unless by leave of the
Faculty he bc allowed To attend less than three
The method of instruction Ia By lectures and
t.bOOks. accompanied by daily examinations
The University is divided into three depart.
ments
I. Academic. -
Wm. Z. Peters a VI. Prof of Latin
T. L. Gilderslcevc Ph. D.. Prof Of Greek
NJ. Schcle DE We're. LID, Prof OF Modern
C6. 5. venable. a. NJ. Prof. Of Mathematics
LeOp"'2 j. BOeck. Adjct. Prof of Applied
Mathematics.
Francis Il. Smith, a. ~, Prof of Natural
Philosophy. "a
S Maupin. A. VI, Prof Of Chemistry.
ITO be appointed Sept IthJ Prof. Of Technol.
ogy and Agricultural Science.
W II. McGuffey, DID, LID, Prof Of Moral
Philosophy.
Geo fred Holmes, LID. Prot. Of History
Literature and Rhetoric
III. Law.
John B. Minor, LID. Prof of Common and
Statute Law.
S o. Souiball Prof Of Constitutional and In.
terDstional Law, Mercantile Law and Equity.
III. Medical.
10 be appointed sept. 4th, Prof Of Medicine
and Obstetrics ~" 't.Eg.,H U"s.
J. L Cabsll, N. d, Pref Of Physialory and
Surgerv.
J. $ Davis, N. D., Prof. of Anatomy and Ma
terra Medfca
S. Maupin, ~ D, Prof Of Chemistry and
Pharmacy
]. z. Chancellor, NJ D., Demonstration Of
Anatomy. $4,000
The aggregate expenses Of the student, for the
session Of nine months, exclusive Of textbooks,
clothing and pocket money, will b. about ~ foi.
lows:
L For the Academic Student attending
three Professors. S16O.
II. For the Law Stndent, attending the fun
course Of Law, s965
Ill For the Medical Student, attending the
full Medical course sf5
Of these sums, respectively, f225. tZl0 and
$50 viii be required In advance. and tina balance
10 the progress Of the session
For Catalogues, giving details nf the organiza-
ton OF the schools plan Of instruction e1 pen@es
&C, address Wm. WsTteubaker, Secretary. or
= MACPIN, Chairman Of the FAcultr.
julyl3 =. T.. University 81 Va.
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Kon,f Erniernize.

The negroes in Virginia, under the
lead of the AfricaniZed white men, are
already clarnOring for Office. Lindsay,
the negro orator and preacher from
Richmond, is canvassing the State, and
demands that there shall be an equal dis
fributioa Of all the Offices.
If the Africanized whites be not con-
tent to divide equally with the negroes
in the nominating conventions. then he
declares that they will elect their own
Governor and members of Congress and
a portion of the Legislature. He de-
clares that the negroes are going to
have their own way, aud If the white
men want their assistance they will
have to come TO them.
They insist that the President shall
be a negro, and have already brought
ont their candidate, one Langston, q
negro from Ohio, who is now canvass
ing in Virginia.
The New York Tribune is terribly dis
gruntled at this manifestation of negro
impertiHence, and declares that the Re-
publican party has succeeded in the last
two Presidential elections without the
assistance of the negroes, and it sees no
IchbOu WY tucs CahbOt uO cO dSoih'
Greeley will have nothing to do with this
contemplate demand of the negroes
for office, and gives them TO under
stand that they are not near so power
full as they seem to imagine themselves
to be.
Congress may pass the most unjust
and unconstitutional laws, force upon
the country aud the oppressed South
ern people universal suffrage, which is
equivalent in some of the States to
turning over to them the whole ma
chinsry of the State governments, and
the Tribune defends and approves the
act. But when the enfranehised ne
groes claim that the ri ight of suffrage
carries with IL the corre.ative right
to have representatives OF their own
color, the Tribune thinks their demand
impertinent, and their claim preposter'
ous.
The colored people of the South will
soon find out who are their friends, and
what class of white people are most dis
nosed 10 do them Justice.
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For the Wheeling Daily Register.
FISHING LINES.

TO OUR FISHING PARTY AT FISH CREEK.
You all took lines with you to catch
Some fish, by hook or crook,
/ send these further lines 30 you,
Though without point or hook.
The fishes look on you as foes,
But il they're troublesome,
With pike and halberd we will march.
And to your succor come.
And though tbs hoped-to ireland true
You'd do no dirty work,
There be some fnny uHs you should eaten,
That hail from down below Cork.
Be satisfied with small fry, and
Don't think to capture whales,
For, IL YOU do, most surely from
Your ewes must fall the scales.
I see you now sit round your spread,
Bones picking, sharp and blunt,
And, while the sapid juices oil
Your tongues, crying "Boni stint
There il no rose without a thorn
Aches pinch all human hearts;
France is a tiesh.pot land, anu yet
1t has its bonyparts.
Let carpe diem die We carpS!
Your motto always be,
Then loaded lines will be the only
Draw.baeks you shall see.
And if the worms yoa use for bduS,
The Ash won't bite and snatch,
I'm sure your Bates will nibble at
The fish you chance 10 catch.
And il, when comes your Ddre.in,por,
And out Of port he ruu,
lust bring him 30, such things, 6y George
Such thlnJs must not be done.
Before YOUR dinner take horn
A long tin horp-and sound IL;
Such music trhets the appetite
And draws crowd around 1t.
Perhaps psalm on Sunday from
Your thrOats may chance to flow;
I'm sure no salmon that you catch
Will e'er that same way 60.
And though no bar-bed at your hooks
To nibble feel inclined,
II TO your tavern You return,
A bdr.adid you may find.
And may the wee. eyed god of sleep
Not leave You in the lurch,
When such Is chary It's right hard
To roost without a perch.
Then, when--your time and pleasure up
You 'bout-face, homeward bound,
We hope though some things make You mad
You'll all return, seine and sound.
WOLFRAM.
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The Thomasvillc, Georgia, Enter
prise tells with great enjoyment of the
discontinue of the Freedmen's Bureau,
in the persons of three Of its soldiers, by
three Georgia women-"small. delicate
ladies'" the paper calls them. The
soldiers had enGeavored to aid negress
Occupying and possessing" shanty
belonging to Mrs. King, the elder of the
ladies'; but were ignominiously put to
fight, after being rolled in the dirt mn
der heavy trunk, with which the
Amazons had resisted their attack.
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From the Nashville Banner, s6th. J

From the Nashville Banner s6th.
In the course of our rounds yesterday
we met a gentleman from ObiOn, who
gave us the particulars of a horrible at
fair which happened recently in that
county, few miles from Union City,
Kentucky.
About two months ago n negro maa
stole watch from gentleman in I'm
ion City, for which he was arrested and
lodged in Jail in that place. Last Fri
day he broke Jail and succeeded in eva
ding the officers of the law, who search
ed the surrounding country for several
miles. 1t subsequently wasascertained
that he was concealed Friday night IN
piece of woods near the farm house OF
Mrs. Chorum, q widow lady residing
about three miles from Union City. On
Saturday he entered the house while
her sons were absenS and demanded all
the money she had on the place. Mrs.
Chorum stontly refused, whereupOn the
villain sprang upon her, choked her to
the floor, and committed outrages on her
person too horrible to mention. Hear
ing some one approach, he fled just as
he was commencing search for the
coveted booty, and had thrown out the
contents of bureau which was in the
room.
A few hours afterward Mrs. Chorum's
two sons returned. and, hearing of the
outrage, made diligent search for the
perpetrator. After tracing him through
some of his haunts in the county, they
learned that he had gone to Hickman,
whittier they at once followed, and ar
rested him last Monday. Their first inn
pulse on seeing the monster who had 50
tiendishly outraged their mother, was
to kill him On the spot, but after a brief
consultation, it was determined that the
scene of his crime should also be the
scene of his punishment He was ac-
cordingly taken back to 0bion county,
and in field, near Mrs. Chorum's house,
was placed against the door and shot.
So enraged were the young men at the
remembrance of his hideous deed that
their vengeance followed him even after
death. Assuring themselves that the
shots had proved fatal, they procured
an axo and completely severed his head
from his body.
Mrs. Chornm is an aged lady and con-
nected with one of the best families in
Obion county. The rough usage she re-
ceived brought on mental and bodily
prostration, from which grave cOnse-
quences were at first apprehended.