The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-01-05

Gold closed at sl.ssf in New York yes.
terday.
Seven negroes were wantonly shot in
Memphis ON Christmas day, the outrases oc-
curing in six different quazters of the city.
The revenue and trade returns Of Grea,
Britain are very satisfactory, and indicate
that the Chancellor of the Exchequer will be
able to exhibit surplus Of nearly E20O,OOO.
The debt of the city fNew York, at the
close ofihe year 1866, is S3l,55l, ,Os9, which
will require an increase of the taxes for the
next year as compared with that of the last,
when the levy amounted to SIS, s,203,9 1852.
The St. Paul Prcss publishes statement
showing that forty-five million feet of logs
and fiftytwo million feet of lumber was run
out Of the St. Croix river in 1866. The guam
tity estimated to be cut this winter is ninety
millions LAUNDERING in the woods is back
ward for lack of snow.
-Thad. Stevens, though not graduate,
was once student at the University of Ver>
mont, at Burlington, and in return for favors
received, has made liberal donation to the
) fund which the Alumni of the institution is
raising to endow the Professorship of Mental
and Moral Philosophy.
Havana letters to Dec. 26th state that
the financial panic has almost entirely aba.
ted. The Banco Espdgnol paid out the FIRST
day of the run 100000 in gold, and then re-
dueed its payments TO S250,00 per day, in &C.
cordance with authorization from the Caps
tain-General All the banks except Rossier
Co. had resumed payment, and 1t was sup.
posed that the latter was hopelessly insol>
Vent.
Owing TO the immense number Of fraud
uent claims presented in the Quartermaster
Generals Office, Gen. Meigs will recommend
to Congress the passing of an act providing
for three Commissioners for each of the
States, who shall hold their sessions in the
several States, and there require the claim
ants to appear in person and identify them
selves, as well as establish their claims by
oraltestimony.
The Legislature Of Kansas meets next
ces of Hon. S. c. Pomeroy and Ross, the
latter appointed to fll the vacancy caused by
the death of Gen. Lane, are to be elected.
1t is generally conceded that Mr.. Pomeroy is
to be retained. The other contestants are exs
Gov. Carney, Representative Clark, Judge
Thatcher, Hon Charles Robinson, first Cow
ernor Of Kansas, and some twenty others un-
known to fame.
In list Of Cincinnati "solid men, in
the Times of that city, the estate of n.
Longworth heads the list at 81, 900,
then follow two at $4,000, 600, nine at 81
100000, nine at $1,000, 900, thirty nine at
5 200, ooo, and forty-nine at $500, 900. ia
cob Strader's estate is put at S1,0o0,00o;
Miles Greenwood is marked Sl,5oo,00o; w.
S. Groesbeck, 81, ,ooO, 900; estate Of Mr.. Pot
ter, of the Commercial, $4,000, 900, &C., &c.
The Commissioners Of Indian Affairs at
Washington has received despatch from
Fort Laramie, confirming the reported massa-
ere of United States troops by Indians. The
despatch says; "An Indian arrived from
Tongue river has reported that large party
of Mennecojous, Uutes, Ogallallas, Crows,
Unkaphappas, Blackfeet, and Sansaracks,
left the Tongua river on the 18th ultimo for
Fort Phillip kearney, and on the 22d Indians
were discovered near the Fort. Brevet Lieu-
tenant Colonel Fetterman, Captain Brown
and Lieutenant Grammond, with ninety en-
listed men, left the Fort TO give them battle.
Nothing more was heard from them, until Z
party, sent out from the Fort, found them at
distance of four miles, all lying dead, Col
ing been massacred.'