The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1850-12-26

Provisions--in pork and bulk meat nothing do
Ina: prices 6rm % last quoted. Lard active
Tiercs leaf 81, common s, No. 2, o.. Barley
mo sales reported. Prime aud choice 87a87l
fair demand. Hides green sa:ted 81 and dr.,
Aint 9. llogs arrive more literally, S3,75a4, OO
dividing OH 200a2i0 lbs.
Tho Sacramento Times eays-We have seer
persons from various portions Of the mines, Q
whom we learn that the CHOLERA has spread 4
but svery limited extent. A few caees had oc'
CURED ai Nevada City, Rough and Ready, ont
other towns. Gov. Burnett has issued procla
NATION setting forth Both December as . day o.
thanksgiving and prayer.
The Yuba mines have generally yielded from
~ 10 $40 per diem TO each miner
A very destructive fire has taken place a. Sac.
ra,nento City--amongst the buildings destroyed
were four large hotels.
WASHINGTON CITy, 20.
SENATE, Yesterday, adjourned I'll Monday.
IlorsE Daniel +. Miller, Of Iowa. was intro
auced by Mr. Vin,on, qualified, and took his
scat.
After some unimportant business. the House
vent into committee OF the whole Oh the state OF
The Union, and took up the private ca.ender.--
Result Of days proceedings: two private bills
passed. Adjourned over till Monday.
ST. CHARLES AND MISSISSIPPI RAILROAD.
We learn from the Kane County Demo
crat, that The people arc moving in the con.
slruc,ion Of this i,npor.an, line u in,er-com-
munication.
DR.. WArrE, Acting Commissioner, hav-
ing returned from 40 exploring tour, I" The
Mississippi river and thence 10 Rock Island,
in company with thu Engineer appointed 10
run the preliminary line Of tho road, com-
muuicates facts to The Democrat, showing
tho practicabiity Of the work. lie says,
the whole route, is most favorable one Tor
trading. Rock islund is abou, lbs miles
from S, Charles, and in all probability,
scarcely one mile will be lost by crooks aud
curves, rs is the case in all the other ronds,
even in this prairie country SO emphaiical-
" marked, MS 10 be appropriately termed
a,he railroad country" TIE western halt
Of the route is one uninterrupted level, re.
curing nothing but diiching and throwing
up, 10 complete tho road bed. And such
unequallcd facilities does The whoIe route
possess, forty miles of the ems, end lying
upon level SUNNI, prairie, uncut By
streams or ravincs, that from the most care,
ful general observation which The Engineer
was enabled 10 make, be believes that the
whole gradin. will no, much, il any exceed
$1,000 per mile. The people upon every
section and point Of the route, are wide a,
wake upon the subject. and particularly al
Rock islsnd city. We were ngrceably sur.
pr:sed at mol finding the whole city pledg-
ed aud absorbed in The La Sale road, as
was reprcsented. So far rs we could de.
terminc during short stay in the city, a
great majority Of the people prefer this
route 10 Chicago, and tnIl share Of the
capital and influence of,hc city will be civ
en- in this direction. No doup, now remains
nf our ability /, command the requisite
funds for the preliminary snrvey. md our
arrangements now are 10 start the full COM
pany on Monday next, 10 complete the Ell.
tire survey, n.,p mud report, rs expeditions
" ns possible. 80 Chicago Journal.
DAviD PArL BRowN-THE FUGITivE
SLAVE LAw-arhis g~n,'emtn. who - n
distinguished lawyer from Philadelphia.
and has been employed rs counsel tar mn
nv fugitive slaves, in letter IN the Penn
svIvaniau, upon tho Fug,ive Sl,ve Law,
say., tint owing 10 the Gnskiliul manner
in which this law Is drawn, "great misses
q. the communltp nre excited and terrified
bv numerous Imaginary evils, that prnhabl,
were never intended, and That certainly Do
not exist. consider f!fe law, in some res
pccis, mnch better ihzn that Of 1898, aud
] can only consider il worse in regard 10
the or pdrtc, Testimony. which il allows TO
he introduced, Ia affect the question Of hu-
man liberty. Still, have M fear OF the
law, in the hands Of upright judges. do
no, understand tho h,beas corpus to be sus.