The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-01-19


NEWS SUMMARY.
Gold closed at sl.sss in New York yes.
terday.
The 37th regiment colored troops is to
be mustered out.
A new gold bill will be reported this
week.
A detachment Of French troops from
Mexico has arrived in France,
The British Government advises Greece
to preserve a strict neutrality in Candian
affairs.
A violent tempest in the bay of Naples
on last Monday night, wrecked nty>four
vessels, but only a few lives were lost.
Ten or twelve Republican Congressman
have protested against the confirmation of
Cowau as Minister to Austria.
During the present troubles in Japan bnt
three ports are open to American shipping.
The steamer Sunny South, laden with
. cotton, was burned near Selma on Friday
night. Loss Sl75, ZOO.
Daniel Lawrence, of Milwaukee, was
scaldedt to death at the gas works of that city
"A FIRE at Milwaukee destroyed Ruksur' $
clothing store. Loss S5, 600
The Union Pacific railroad, Kansas
branch, is completed twenty miles west of
Fort Riley.
Preparations are making at the Spring
field armory to commence making breech>
loading guns.
-Collyer and McGlade fought a prize
fight at Harrisburg, Pa. Collyer winner
The Hudson River railroad will, on and
after January II, sell tickets and check bag
gage only over its own road.
The FIRST train from Kansas City to
Santa Fe started for the former place a few
days since.
I'm three-fourths of the year 1866,
2S6, ,496 persons arrived in the United States
from foreign countries.
The Exchange Bank, of Greencastle,
Ind, failed on Saturday. Liabilities
100000.
Thomas II. Maxwell, James Burke and
Patrick Norton, Fenians, have been tried
and found guilty at Toronto. Sentence was
deferred in each case.
The ship Thomas Humphrey from
Liverpool to New York has been lost on the
English coast, only two men being saved:
The vault of the Farmers Savings Asso
citation at Platte City, Mo-, was entered by
burglars recently, and 81 $50. 90 in currency
stolen.
The dentists of New York, Connecticut
and Vermont are going to raise S80o,0o0 to
defend their case with the Indian rubber
patentees.
Eleven passengers were wounded, some
seriously, by an accident on the Virginia and
Tennessee Railroad, near Dublin Station,
Va, on Sunday night.
The Iron Mountain, and Cairo and Full
ton Railroad have been sold again by Messrs.
Mckay & Read, the purchasers from the
State. They cleared 1876, 200 by the trans
action.
The New Orleans Investigating Commit.
tee are going to inquire who is responsible for
garblng Gen. Sheridans dispatch in which
he characterized the riots as murder by the
city authorities.
The chair occupied BY President Lincoln
when assassinated, has been turned over by
the War Department to the Interior Depart
ment for safe keeping.
Patrick keatng, Fenian, was tried and
acquitted at Toronto. John O'Connor and
Daniel Quinn were fonnd guilty; sentence
deferred.
Waiter Brown, Of Portland, Me-, has ar
ranged rowing match with Hamil, of Pitts
burg, for four thousand dollars, over FIVE
mile course.
-Adolphus Swartz, just from Vienna,
ing to leo 600 forms, was arrested in New
York.
Cincinnati has divorce case fifty per
cent more scandalous than the Stewart case.
Forty lady witnesses we're on the stand.
The Secretary of the Navy has dismissed
all the officers of the new Ironsides, alleging
that the vessel was burned through their
carelessness.
Secretary Stanton is to give evidence to-
dav relative TO the removal of the South
Carolina murderers from the Tortugas to
Fort Delaware.
The published reports of the test oath
decisions are said to be sincomprehensible"
by the Judges who delivered the opinions
The same opinion is held by everybody
else.
The annual meeting of the African Col
onization Society occurred yesterday. The
receipts of the year were S3s,153 disburse-
ments, 1884 Muah of the funds we're ex-
pended in the purchase and fitting out of The
ship Golconda, which carried 600 emgrants
10 Liberia in November. Additional freed
men 70 the number Of GAO, are ready to
sail.
Two colored boys who escaped from
their former masters in Montgomery county.
Maryland, were on Monday before the SUI
preme Court Of the District of Columbia on a
writ Of habeas corpus. After hearing, the
Court ordered them returned to their old
master, on the ground of evidence that they
had been, under the Maryland statute, ap-
prenticed after their emancipation. The
counsul for the children relatives pleaded
ill.treatment by their master, and that their
mother had died from neglect and hunger in
the woods. After the dicision of the Court
an appeal was taken, but before action
could be had the master departed with the
children.
VALrE OF FIVE PoixT PRoPERrY.-"Bur>