The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-07-18

NEWS 14Dmo. - 2F4
-Governor Swans, Of MaE3laa1
dents pet renegade, has oEga.
;nents il that State, unifosn =
end oiicered BY rebsl o0s.a T
Ca c,.n, !. v,ry much exercised own
- ...,,.r ~ - not, thus FIR dilo6ses4
~-...S.a,. n Is very clear thas ~ bordSr,
49, sssss sstss = aivs - ssaaAy /
- rtuble than the hostile rebel States,
sow that the VT 10 over, and for that mat
tery<Aey - issisg - vas. ~-,
--Itisreported from Washington that the
Presiden costsmpaAsss rseoving sheridaa
and appointing Rosssesu h his ssssd. before
be sends in his veto Of the Reconstruction
Bill.
--CAaripo,i SAYS: ut is said that Presi-
dent johnson will pay visit TO Paris. His
ob;ect il to examine carefully our ibefal
Laws. He viii have 70 bring : nicfocopsl
with him.
-Spurgeon, it appears, suffers from the
sout. In sermon, the other day, the rev.
erend gentleman humorously put the govt
among the good qualities which he inherited
from his fsther. Mr.. Spurgson assured his
friends that he did not preach with his legs,
and as he had no govt in his tongue. his MIN.
isterial labors were not likely to beinterfered
with.
The Erie Nspach .sayE "Judge Nc
Candless is fond of his joke. A witness was
on the stand from whom the questioning law
yer, Mr.. DeCamp, could extract nothing.
think you may co. said the lawyer. Yes, ne
may de.camp,' said the Judge.
The President sent to the Senate on
Saturday the nominations of HenryJ. Ray
mond, Minister to Prussia; George Bancroft,
Minister to Austria; and John Hay, Secreta.
| ~ Of Legation at Vienna. G. s. Franklin.
Naval officer at New York; james h. Booth,
District Attorney, Delaware. The nomina-
ton of Henry j. Raymond was, together
with other diplomatic nominations, referred
to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Gen. Fitzpatrick, our Minister to Chill,
has written letter Indignantly repelling the
accusation that he has been guilty of intro.
ducng an abandoned woman into respectable
society at Santiago, and that he had been
picked up drunk in the streets. In addition
to saying that he has instructed his lawyer in
| New York to prosecute the authors could
they be found he says the first charge must
| be known to be untrue by every man of COM
mon sense; and as to the other, he says he
has moi drank drop of liquor since be has
been in Chill; that he did not drink in tina
army, and never did drink intoxicating
drinks.
The crown which the Empress of Aus
tria wore during the ceremony at Pesth was
made for Mary Theresa, but never used by
| that Princess. 1t is of silver but so studded
| with diamonds and pearls that the metal is
scarcely visible. One of the diamonds is
valued at 10000 forms, and one ofthe pearls
at 1900. Two rose diamonds, close together,
are so alike in shape, size and cutting that
they seem to form single stone. Eight
others have each the volume OF good-sized
bean.
The Manhattan, Kansas, Independent
mentions the case of q farmer "who last year
| raised upon one acre, which he cultivated
with sweet potatoes, crop whose value more
than paid the cost Of raising it, besides the
original cost of his farm of one hundred and
| sixty acres, and the interest of seven per cent
of the present value of his whole farm, stock
and utensils.
The Senate hive laid the nomination of
Raymond, as Minister to Austria, on tie
table for the present. That is the place for
it, if there is no room under the table.
-Copperheads, Canadians and Rebels, are
rivalling each other in hard swearing on be-
half of Surratt, but their stories don't hold
water.
-Swinton writes to the New York Times
Atlanta has been twice laid out--fitst by
some city founder, to the deponent unknown,
who thirty years ago fixed its site here on
what was then mere wilderness of wooded
hills; and, secondly, three years ago, by
Sherman, who, ere he took up his march for
the sea. deted the place from off the map
The curious difference in the sexes in
the way they go out of town to escape the
heat OF summer is remarkable. Men go with
as few clothes rs possible, and as nearly as
propriety will admit, sit in their bones, as
Sidney Smith desired Ladies, on the cons
trary, want to visit the sea shore, or the
mountains, in the interests Of dress makers
and milliners.
The health of Hon. John Bell is gradu>
ally filling. His mind is still clear, but the
| exhaustion Of his physical system is extreme.
| He resides near the Cumberland Iron Works
in Tennessee which were formerly source
of immense revenue to him. But. TIE war
wrecked his fortune, health and social and
political reputation, and the old man is pas
! sing q way from a generation with which it is
his misfortune that he has no sympathies.
| After the last cable dispatches, dated
Paris, .lny 10th, Eve, should read, Z" In re
sponse 10 an appeal of the Pope for assists
ance in r.pellng anticipated attack on the
City Of itone, Emperor Napoleon notified
| the hins ~ Italy OF the threatened move
ment IS Carloads. The batteries formerly
| erectt by the French around Rome, aud not
the old Roman deienses, are TO be rebuilt
and strengthened for defensive operations"
TIE present income from the Peabody be-
quest to promote education at the South.
| which 1t has been determined to devote pFin-
cipally to primary school education, is
S60.0D0.
THr case of Gerrit Smith, agt. the Chicago
Tribune for libel in connecting Mr.. Smith
with the John Brown raid into Virginia, has
been continued to the next term OF the Court.