Tbe emigration to tbe Wasboei mines is in
creasing. It is believed tbat an average of
fifty people leave San Francisco daily for
the mines, and emigration is proportionately
large from ail parts of the State. There is
danger tbat tbestook of provisions in Carson
Valley cannot be kept up to tbe watts of tbe
rapidly increasing population, as tbe roads
over the mountain* are in wurv hart enrtdirton
and transportation on merchandise is twenty
five to tbirtv dollars par owt. Flour at Car
son Valley has advaaoed to fifty dollars par
owt
VrsnPISe*! Peak.
LBAVEVWOKTH,
April If.
The Pike's Peak Express, from Denver tha
12th, arrived here last night, with $8,000 in
gold, per messenger.
The sfcond outgoing Pony Exprsss was
met at O'Fallon's Bluffs.
Emigrants were arriving at tbe gold region
rapidly, and preparations for mining wsre be
ing rapidly carried forward.
from Wasltinften.
WAMIINOTW, April 19th.—Tbe Senate to
day ooniirmed tbe appointment of Frank
Wooten, ua Secretary of State, for Utah.
The Committee on Elections have report
ed in favor of Mr. Howard, Rep., against
Mr. Cooper, tbe sitting member in tbs Miob
igan oontested saas.
II
DIED,
Hear Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa, oa tha SSth
inst., Qsorfe W. Toy, late of Urbana, lUiasis, in
the 84th year of his age.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS,
OKUINA*l'K NO. I.O. ac
AN ORDIN ANCE repealing Ordinance No, 166, «a
Ordinance concerning the salaries of offioars.
Be it ordaintd by the City Covncti of ih* City of
Keokuk i
Seetiea 1. That Ordinance No. 115, an Ordinance
aoneeming the salaries, be and the earns Is hereby
repealed.
Passed April 20, 18«0.
WM. PATTERSON,)Mayor.
Attest: B. 8. liaaaiAU, Clerk.
•IHIBOIDT *IRi Ant E CO.
No. 18 Wall-at., New York.
CASH CAPITAL, ALL PAID IN, $200,000.
