The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-11-07
CITY NEWS.


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You eau ave nessy By buying Jour gro
eeriss for cssh q Roberts = Albsn-
Foa SALs CasAr.--A large coal store, With |
drum, al complete, suihhls for store, -. |
loon or Office, d n. N. Bossvick's, IS Main
street. II
How to spend long evenings pleasantly:
Eat hickory nuts, walnuts, butternuts, pop
corn, apples, and drink sweet cider. fou
can get oil Of them n Cox / Twins. II
IT will be to your interest before purehas>
Ing elsewhere, to call and examine the stock
Of dry goods ss Phillips L Ksrr's, g Main
street. They sell . good article d very low
figures. A good chance for selection in dress
goods.
Why comfortable rooms, in = pleasant
part Of the city, with boarding, for small
family. can be had At reasonable rates, BY
applying 70 W. r. Bidleman, as bis shos
store, No. o. Main street. 6-3
ONLY THREs Ni0nrs Mons. Tie great
Book Auction a Howe Tyler's viii posi-,
lively be discontinued after Saturday night
OF this week. Wsssy again that the stock 10
the largest and best ever brought to this city.
Go tonight.
Oss of the 6rss lessons in economy is
learned by the purchase Of goods where you
can get the best bargains. That's 80. Then
70 to Hess, Stern 4 Co.'s for your clothing,
gents furnishing goods, DC. You will be
sure to get the worth Of yoar,moneY.
ir is reported that Thurlow Weed said
befors the election that il New York should
70 Democratic Seward must 60 cut Of the
Cabinet Well, New York has gone, and
We hope that Seward may be made to 60
"kiting" in red hot haste. He is the author
Of ''ali our woes, end loss Of New York,
pot the least.
THn rush of business at the New York
Store 10 evidence that goods have touched
bottom. Ysrd vide Sheeting At l2A cents,
Standard Prnts At l2l cents, and DslAines at
20 cents for best brands, reminds us strongly
of old times. Gregg 4 Son are deter.
mined to lead in breaking down prices.
We have had surfeit Of election news,
and don't like to contemplate the subject just
now. The truth is we feel slight nausea,
little bit faint or 80 ct the pit Of the stomach,
and shall have to wait the allow process Of
digestion and assimilation.
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As SOON as we can get our head from under
the surging waves rolling in from the East in
such On overwhelming flood, we intend to
demonstrate, after the fashion Of that old
Diluvian chap We have oil heard Of, that
there has not been much Of shower after all,
down in York State and "tbs Jarsiesn
A GREAT and good Book will be offered to
our citizens by C. f. Short, Agent. We
refer to the Travels OF Rev. d. A. Randall in
Egypt, Sina and the Holy Land. This work
on the sacred places of the East is one Of
thrilling interest to all classes. especially
those who appreciate Biblical literature Of a
high order. The book is large, elegant and
cheap. Each subscriber receives a valuable
gift. II
TnE Copperheads have felicisa,ed them
selves for months past over the idea that the
negroes would eventually be exterminated,
and tina, they have already decreased very
greatly since the war.
General Howsrd's recent Report destroys
this cherished dream of the Democracy and
shows that the colored people of the South
are thriving and increasing in numbers qnite
rapidly.
The Democracy will have TO come pha,
rosh or Herod on the negroes and kill off
their pickanlnnes, II they would approach
the realization of their programme of exter.
mlnation.
Tx friends of freedom and equal rights
have been defeated both in Italy and New
York; and for the time being the enemies of
liberty and equality will boast and triumph.
The Rebel and Copperhead Democracy sym.
pathise with the Papal despo,sm and the
French bayone,s which sustain il, and the
myrmidons Of despotism, civil and religious.
sympathise with the cause of the rebel arts.
tocracy now as they did during the war. But
there is a better day coming for the oppressed
OF all lands, for
Freedoms battle once begun,
Bequesthed from bleeding sirs To son
Though bafilsd or is ever won
God purposes aud mans aspirations in.
sures the final victory to the friends of Lib.
srty and the Equal Rights of Man.
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LAST evening We attended the monthly Con-
cert given BY the scholars Of the Unitarian
Sabbath School, the object OF which is 10
raise funds for the relief of the suffering
poor of the city. Everything passed oa
pleasantly, and each scholar did his or her
part admirably. Below va give the order Of
exercises:
Essays by Arthur G. Buck and Willie
Tucker.
Declarations BY Albert Neuse, Perry
Bowman, Ella Hiatt, Lewis Ayres, Lizzie
Heath, Debbie Howard and Eddie Welsh>
man.
Dialogues BY Lydia Miller, Lydia Ayres, Ad
die Vail. jennie Farmer, Cora Patmau and
Vim. Tucker.
A Solo in French, Miss Lydia Miller.
REPORTS from the Committee and Treas.
urer..
Song" Something TO do in Heaven ),
THE Springfield Qllinoi.) Journal has or,
pressed in single paragraph the real ph,lo,-
ophy taught by all history, and derived a,
we'll from the teachings Of Revolution, and
the deductions Of reason. Ifthere be God
In Heaven Who rules nver n = ;rb.h;t.... -
earth, then the Journal is right:
There can be no permanent settlement o,
any great public question, except mon ,hs
eternal principles Of absolute Justice. Fo,
twenty years preceding the late war tho
slavery question was settled semi Annually.
BY one or the other Of the great political
parties that then ruled the Government, and
every year some compromise legislation was
originated for the express purpose Of making
z maj arrangement of that agitating ques
non. But none of these settlements were