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Han A. c. DopGE-We are under obl'-
,o,;ops 10 our Senator in Congress for
bound copy of Herndon's Exploration oil the
Valley Of the Amazon, with accompanying
maps. The style in which Congress no"
gets up these works entities them 10
pace in the library, instead of, as formerly
being used as waste paper. ..
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hrs HICKMAN & PARKER
JOHN H. MORTON
uApnwARE ESTABLISHMENT.

NEXT DOOR TO THE POSI- otfi'E'
Tn, subscriber confines his business |" nara ~ale e
every de sc,,,tion including Tools flle> fchee-""'
- what, ,.r els. arpert.ins to the business
Aso """'e' W. W. II. IiiLDRErH
Davenport. June 9h 1888. 81!
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HoRATIO G. BARNER,

ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR At LAW,
lie Claire, Iowa.
viii practice hi. profession IN The Courts 81 ,nS ~
Judicial District. also III the supreme ah'
Courts of this STATE! "a, a. ,..,re,,,, ~; =,
lhc oeA ., 'e''''> Junr O. ls,o 33-ly
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MANY Hoes.--A train Of forty-two cars
came down from Columbus over the Colum-
bus and Xenia and Little Miami Railways,
the other day, having on them three thous-
and seven hundred and si1ty-tour hogs,
weighing about one million two hundred
pennds =. Caicapo Fye.s B kE
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By Telegraph.
Great Fire in New York City.
LATER FROM CALIFORNIA.
Losses BY the New York Fire.
FIRES AT READING, Penn. LOUISVILLE, Ky
AND PORTLAND, Me-.
New YORK, Jan. Sc P. M.

New YORK, Jan. S---6 p. M.
| The steamer Empire City, recently ashore
| at Barnegat, has been got off and was towet
to the city to-day. She was but slightly
damaged
NFw YoRK, Jan. O.
The immense pile Of buildings on Broad.
way, known as the Metropolitan, including
the new and splendid Lafarge hotel, was
totally destroyed by fire early this morning
Several adjoining buildings on Broadway
and Mercer street were also greatly damag-
ed. The hotel had Il large frontage on
Broadway, built in the costliesi style of mar
BILE. and extending back to Mercer street.
The Metropolitan was formerly known as
Tripler Hall.
The fire commenced in the hall at 10 o..
clock, and in about two hours the whole
building was in ruins The loss must be
livery large, and next to the st. Nicholas the
I.afarge was the most costly in the city
The hotel was unoccupied, not being entirely
finished The weather was intensely cold
and the tiremen worked to much disadvan-
tagc. Nothing was left of the hotel and
hall but the walls, and they were entirely
leyeled by the firemen to-day.
LATER.-The aggregate loss by the fire
at the Lafarge Hotel is estimated at SI37,-
600, viz-Hotel $4,000, Metropolitan
Hall $3.50 900. furniture $4,000. The
ipropr.e.ors Of the Hotel were Wright. Lanicr
l. Co., and had leased the premises for S5l,.
600 per annum The two Laniers were ole
hotel proprietors from Macon, Georgia -
They were with their families occupying
| Al. 4 -l,y or
with their lives. Ex-Ad. Barr was also
partner in the firm of Hertze & Co, and had
just opened jewelry store in the building.
Their stock were principally saved. There
was an insurance of $4,000 on 'urni-
turc, $4,000 of which was in Macon
house.
The ship Commerce, of New York, Capt.
Whttlesey, from New York to London Dec.
81, was lost at sea on the 2ith. The ship
Andrew, Foster, from Liverpool for this port,
fell in with her and took off the Captain and
crew and 2l passengers and brought them
to this port.
Ship Commerce was valued at Sl50,000,
and had a cargo of flour and grain valued at
100000.
AKRON, O. Jan. 10.
Judge llumphrvvllle, THIS aiterhooh' seh-
fenced Jas Parks to be hung on the twenty
sixth day of May next. The prisoner as
serted that his plea was true as heaven
he could say nothing more He received
the sentence without any visible emotion,
Notwithstanding the Court and audience
we're completely overcome. After the Court
overruing the motion for a new tra' this
morning. his counsul gave notice thai they
should apply for writ Of error and stay OF
proceedings.
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r C.. EADS.

GENERAL LAND AGENT.
u III Buy ScI, and Locate Land Lease anS colrc
-xsst r other debts and promptly remit proceeds
~, ,nxes and attend saIcing of every Kind
con. ertea IN his line at business
o,xee second Floor of lie Claire's New guilding
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Total arrival Of alIons .oI'b3.
The total number of arrivals in 1859 OF
foreigners was 3OO,993 and Of aliens
and citizens, 40,l44-showing decrease
this year Of some thousands.
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Emigration to the United States During the
Year 1858.

The following table is taken from the
records of the Commissioners OF Emigra-
ton:
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THE GREAT SNOW STORM At THE EAST

The great snow storm of Thursday, Dec.
29th, is represented by the Eastern papers
to have been one Of almost unprecedented
severity. The snow completely blocked
up the passage of trains on the various rail-
roads leading to Boston, and all Of the mails
were entirely intercepted. The snow in
the streets of Boston drifted to the depth Of
| five feet, and along some of the sidewalks
was cut down, leaving solid wall on either
side, ranging from three to five feet in height
A train of three locomotives and one or
two cars having started out on one of the
Boston roads, encountered snow drift that
proved too much for it. The train was un-
able to proceed, and the snow soon drifted
over it, the wood and water being exhausted
and the fire being put out. The express
train which left Boston at O'Clock had two
engines, but only reached Birmingham, %
miles, at p. NJ. There il got an addition
al engine, aud proceeded mile and u half
further, at which point it stuck fast in big
snow drift, and could neither get forward or
backward. And here, with frozen up en-
gines, the train, with over sixty passengers,
nine of whom were ladies', were obliged to
remain from p NJ. on Thursday till 9
A. NJ on Friday--twenty full hours. The
snow was SO deep that it was Impossible,
without great effort, for passengers to wade
back to Framingham. Several attemptedit.
and part of them were frost bitten on the
Journey.
At the hour mentioned on Friday MORN
ing, the train was dug out by an extra loco
motive and Irish force, and arrived at Spring
field that afternoon, having been over 3 !
hours from Boston to Springfield. East OF
Worcester, the snow is piled up in high
drifts, in some places not less than ten feet
deep. In many places in North Chelsea,
the snow is full twenty feet for distance Of
forty rods. The citizens Of the town were
obliged to turn out en- massc to open the paths.
The tide rose unusually high in the harbor,
and ovcrhowed number of wharyes, but
caused no great amount OF damage.
train Of three locomotives left Providence.
on the Stonington depot in the morning OF
that day, and got back in the evening, har-
ing accomplished during the day fre miles.
The snow was level with the top otthe cars,
in several places. for the distance Of quar-
ter of mile Chicago Tribune
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Congressional.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 10,

| WASHINGTON. Jan. 10.
| SExATE-During the proceedings this
morning Mr. Fish presented the petition
Of Henry f. Brown for the gift of l3 pieces
| of brass cannon wherewith to cast an
eqestrian statue of Washington at New
! York.
| Mr.. Bright presented bill granting loO,-
600 acres of land to various counties to con-
struct continuous railroad from Lake Erie
to the mouth of the Ohio, Mobile and New
Orleans. making a total of 1000 900 acres
The company to carry the mails and trans
port munitions of war free of cost.
HousE.-Mr Dean announced the death
of his colleague, Mr.. NJ, when. after the
adoption of the usual roso u ions. The
House adjourned
Mr.. Mullenhury died at the residence of
Mr.. Broadhead at O'Clock last night.
In consequence of the death of Mr.. Mul-
lenbury, Mr.. Cass has deferred his speech
on the Clayton Treaty to Thursday.
A dispatch has been receive here from
Jackson, Miss, announcing the nomination
by Dem. Caucus, of Albert q. Brown, for
U. $. Senator.
| PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 9.
| Both Councils have made the subscription
of 5000 600 to Sunbury and Erie Road, and
passed. strong resolutions to Erie folks to
hold on break of gauge.
The War Department intend sending the
keystone State in search of the San Fran
cisco. The revenue cutter Forward and
two pilot boats left here to day for the
search.
The machine shop of the Reading Rail-
road Company at Reading, VAS burned last
nicht with several engines. Loss, one hum
dred thousand dollars.
pITTsBuRG, Jan. 8, p. VI.
Persons arrested ut Erie and brought here
to answer for contempt OF court, have been
committed to Jail.
New YORK, Jan. 8.
The steamer Star Of the West, from San
Juan, and Geo Law, from Aspinwall, arrl-
we'd this morning The former with 40
passengers and Sl,3OO,0oo in gold. The
latter $50 passengers and $54O,0Co in gold
The large cab mannfactory Of Henk 4
Chober, in Franklin sire IT, was burnt down
,-day at noon. The French Protestant
Church adjoining was much injured
! Enoch Folsom, deputy sheriff, was shot
to-day-at ll3 Chambers street, by man
named Lovett, on whose goods he was levy
ing
The steamship Union, Of the Charleston
line, which arrived here at noon, has been
chartered to go in search of the San Fran
cisco by the government.
LOUISVILLE Jan 9.
Eight warehouses, situated on Water St,
were destroyed on Saturday. Loss $4,000,
Boats from below report the lower Ohio full
of ice and navigation suspended. The
number of hogs killed here to date is iOo,-
600.
. PIrrsBu RGlI, Jan. 10.
A Young man named Stephen Hague OF
Aneghe ny City, was fatally stabbed in the
region of the heart last evening about nlne
O'Clock, in an ati'rav with young man OF the
name OF Hosack.
New York, jan 10.
DR.. Lutheran, a physician celebrated Tor
his cures of disease of the eye and ear, was
found dead with paper in his hand and
Epistol on the table. There are suspicious
of his being murdered. He is from Eng
land.
PORTLAND, Jan. s.
At SIX o'clock this morning, fire broke
out in the Custom House building, Wash
Iinrton street. At s O'Clock the entire edl-
fee was in ruins,
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It il stated thst Mrs. Miller, a daughter of
Gerritt Smith, fthe millionaire freesoil abo-
litionist, and member Of Congress from tho
western part of New York; excites great
deal Of curiosity IN Washington. by appear
ing in full Blooner costume. Mrs. Milleris
quite handsome and young. and her dress
consists Of a Scotch plaid frock, which comes
down to Ter knees, and pants, with morocco
bootees. and jaunty biack hat and feather.
such as the Indies usually wear on horse.
back. In addition to her Bloomer dress sho
had over it, hen saw her, black velvet
sack. richly trimmed with bugles. and other
tasteful ornaments, just such as you might
find on many fashionable lady, but it ap-
peared in odd contrast with Bloomerism
Mrs. N. has an intelligent, expressive face,
with fine eyes. Gerritt Smith is burly.
good looking old gentleman, and his costume
is like any other plain dressed citizen. The
eccentrcties Of them both make them SUBJ
jeets to be stared at, which, perhaps. they do
not object to. t~f
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--- JAS M, DALzELL & BRO,
Commission and Forwarding MaTcAan's
FRONT AND PERRY SITS,
tan, pAvESroRT, Iowa.
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B. SANFORD,

0EyER OF SECOND AND BRADY sihEh's'
DAVENPORT, IOWA.
Dealer in all IDS of
Drugs, Chemicals Paints, Oils Varnlshes' Fu''y'
Glassware, &C.
A complete assortment OF groceries Ii.i ''r
1onlcctionar, Ne. Choice Liquors, Tor Ncaici Pul'
foh,rco Snur .Sro In short alno everything ~
the line of Drugs and Groceries; all OF the pes' "'s
aud at the lowest prise
Davenport. June Oh, le33.-o
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.s--=-s4-s- ---'--'-77s
JONATHAN PARKER,

COUNTY SURVEYOR.
p.iIcnce Garner of West Main and Fourth sts W
e.c in IN, Court House. All orders promptly arha-
al 10 Davenport. Sept 10th, le53--4-"t"E
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n r. CLAUSSEN,

Attorney at Law and Notary fuoiic'
Huy. Sells and Locat land warrants ana o"! "'''
''' sells Real Estate.
DAVENPORT, IOWA. ,.,
MI.
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SINGULAR PuENoMENoS.-The Bel
fast Journal says that in a portion Of
the Penobscot River. short distance
above Prospect Ferry, where the
river widens to the lr, adth of about q
mile, a great commoticn was discover
cd in the water several months since,
50 that the surface was much disturb
ed. ana stones and Garth seemed to.
be thrown up from the bottom. This
Iupboiling still continues mt intervals
and experiments show that at least an
acre of the river bed has sunk from a
depth of seven to depth Of fourteen
tathoms. A sulphuric gas is emit
ted from the water during its periods
Of commotion, and it is said that two
distinct shocks ofan earthquake have
occurred since the commencement Of
the phenomena. These disturbances
are undoubtedly of volcanic origin,
though the phenomenon is very remark
able for this region.
IMPRESSIONS AT FIKsr SieEr-This
subject being brought up at the supper table,
was getting "talked over" when the lady
who presided '.o'er the cups and tea" said
"she always formed an idea OF person at
first sight and that idea she found was a
correct one
"Mlmma,' said her youngest son, in a
shriIl voice, that attracted the attention Of
all present
"Well my DEAR said The fond mother.
"what do you wantr'
II want to know" said young America,
.what you thought when you first sar me?"
There was no answer 10 the query; but
we learn a general litter prevailed. and that
"Charlie" was taken into the kitchen inn
medately by the scrvant.-Forest City
Dem.
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P10PRIET0RS BUSINESS CARD.
THE
9av port q axotte
Published every Thursday Morning,

SANDERS & DAVIS,
a &ygTrr BUILDINGS, CORNER SECOND AND BRADY
sTRkErs, DAVENPORT, IOWA.
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JAMES THoRINGT0N,


FOR
..Pi ueer Line of Packets for Australia"
L. STATES LIFE INSURANCE.
ANNUITY AND TRUST COMPANY,
PuILADrLrntA.
,rrpSaI INITIAL INSURANCE COMPANY
I,,.a CINCINNATI, ONO.
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WIN. J. HENRY,

John w. WILEY,
Grocery, Produce, and Provision Dealer
Front, between Main and Brady
sta, Davenport, Iowa
txD A
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ts.leefsd fer fAs 0ssssss-
Fiction. Ef


"a great portion of the heaviest work Ia
the grading between Lyons and Iowa City
is done" 81
Mature seems to have prepared place At
which a rail track might leap without diff.
Guilty, the old Father Of Waters There
is, we learn, no other point where road can
cross except by draw bridge asp srrar
'.The Lyons l. C. R. r., the faythest Gd-
raaced, the most direct route through cen.
tral Iowa, and behind none in importance.
IoDo Rep.
1--WE are fully as confident as we ever
were. ofthe completion and profitable work
ing Of ths Lyons Road. It is a sure thing.
whether Congress shall donate a foot Of
land or not, to aid its progress. .''-Iosd CITY
Reporter.
'.Whether there is to be bridge at Dav.
export or not, there will certainly be sus-
pension bridge at Lyons, and thus an eastern
connection. Mus. Jour.
Facts.
Iowa Central r. R. Bonds 90. 30:
Sale Of stoc's Jan. 7th, 1854:
$1,000 Lyons Qowa) Central Railroad
Company's lst Mortgage I per cent.
Convertible Bonds, due in 1873. $1,000
each, 4o@ 35, s bonds withdrawn.
Railroads and Stock Companies must
stand excessively low in public estimation,
when the bonds Of the formet bearing seven
per cent interest are selling at 40 cents on
the dollar, and tire shares Of the latter can
not find purchasers at two cents on the dol
lar. The subject is pregnant with material
for the reflection of the Stockboard OF this
city OF the questionable rropriety Of dealing
in such secur.ies'-T. Y. Mer. Jour. 4
r. Il. GayeH..
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DAVENPORT BOOK STORE

wv. H. Holmes &c co.
zrlsku KEEP constantly on hand,
Z1Sk1| for sal. 10 dealers, at WHOLESALE
EW@0 RAIEs. Il good stock OF
nVv ,rplyc PRINTING CAP LETTER, NOTk
sND ENVELOPE PAPEks--ES EioPEa'
PENS PENCILS. Il BLANK BoGkS:
AMI al r.taii air a>serai e Miscellaneous DOORS
S.so.i ookS. Stationery. ,.,,
WtlIANB NlNpaW PAPERS.
A., , ASH raid far RAGS. NJ. l.. i.ire Row,
Second air.et, Davenport. iowa. 'Hhe - iSi''
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The steamer Empire City, recently ashore
at Barnegat, has been got off and was towet
to the city to-Gay. She was but slightly
damaged.
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SCENES IN Lospos-A Foo THAT WAS
4 FoG--A PUBLIC ExEcUTtos.-From
1 London letter to the New York Cour-
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DIR. Lutheran, physician celebrated Tor
his cures OF disease OF the eye and ear, was
found dead with paper in his hand and
pistol on the table. There are suspicious
Of his being murdered. He is from Eng
land.
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D. G. MG0WAN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
avn RE3L EST.iT re II Il r y '
Davenport, Iowa.
IOGes on Brady Street, orer 'he F's' op'I
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A Young man named Stephen Hague of
Alleghe ny City, was fatally stabbed IN the
region of the heart last evening about nlne
O'Clock, in an afirav with a young man OF the
name Of tiosack.
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At SIX o'clock this morning, fire brok
out in the Custom House building, Wash
ington street. At s O'Clock the entire edl
fee was in ruins, E
The Empire County argus., 1854-02-04

Hon. A. G.. Bradford has introduced the following
bill in the Assembly
AN ACT
TO PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS NOT PARTIES TO
EXECUTIONS, AND OTHER PROCESS.
The People Of the State Of California; represented IN
Senate and assembly, do enact as folo,cS:
SEC. L. That when any sheriff or others officer
shall levy any writ of execution or attachments or
any other order or process, on personal property,
claimed by any person not party to such process,
nor named therein, such person, his legal attor-
ney or representatives, may make oath to his her
or their right and title to the property levied on
and on the claimant or claimants entering into bond,
payable to the plaintiff in the execution, with two
or more sufficient securities, in an amount equal to
double the value of the property so levied on to be
estimated III the sound discretion of the officer ho-
ding such process, conditioned for the payment of
the plaintiff therein to all damages which may be
assessed against the claimant OF claimants by jury,
in case the claim be not sustained or shall appear to
have been made for fraudulent purposes or for de-
lay, and that he, she or they will we'll and truly
deliver the same property to the sheriff or other
officer if the claim be determined against such
claimant or claimants, it shall and may be lawful
for the sheriff or other officer to postpone the sale of
the property claimed until the next term of the
court from which such process issued, and deliver
the same to the persons making the claim, and Civ
ing the bond as aforesaid. And it shall be the du-
ty of the sheriff or other officer to return the bond
with the execution to the proper Office, and the
court SHALL thereupon direct-if the parties do not
voluntarily make it-an issue to be made up be-
tween the parties to try the right of property before
jury at the same term, unless good cause be shown
for a continuance; and the jury shall give such
damages against the claimant or claimants, not less
than ten per cent the value of the property lev
led on as may in their opinion be just to the plain
tiff in case they certify it their opinion that the
claim was fraudulent or for delay; in other cases,
five 11roui1o1 tbot tbo b,,rti, of
shall be upon the plaintiff in execution And in
case the right ofproperty be determined against the
Claimant, and thesum be not Immediately thereafter
delivered TO the sheriff OF other officer the bond taken
as aforesaid shall operate judgment against the
claimant and his sureties, and execution may issue
against all the obigators therein for the amount of
the value of the property levied as aforesaid, and
the damages assessed by the jury and costs And
Ill laws authorizing sherif's uries, or other laws
conflicting herewith, are hereby repealed
The Empire County argus., 1854-02-04

WoMAN's LovE.--Iow few women have ever been
in love. How few ever marry from election! They
marry because they asked, and because the mar
riage is suitable. 1t is their vocation to be married.
parents approve and they have other attachment.
Any obseryant person living in society, where there
must be struck with this fact Cupids quiver mus
be exhausted his arrow blunt, as he pierces few
hearts now incline to think that girl really in
love, one who has the evident symptoms of the NAL
ady, would be thought very improper; yet have
often fancied that there must be man born in the
world for every woman; one whom to see would be
to love, to reverence to adore; one with whom her
sympahes would entirely blend, that she would re-
cognize him at once as her true lord. Now and
then these pairs come together, and wo to her who
meets this other self too late! Women would be
more merciful if they did not, through ignorance
and thoughtessness, measure the temptation of 9TH
ers by their own experience CREME.
The Empire County argus., 1854-02-04

1t is strange how hearts beat in sympathy, that
yet are strangers to communion and fellowship !
in life there is not too much of beauty yet we
cude from the heart the very holest of all beauty
by shutting up within the soul our own thrilling
thoughts of life and its unsyllabed emotions. So
its false and unnatural etiquette Not tie woman
of genius and truth, for she is observed of ALL and
she dare not say to the heart that beats with the
same inspiration as her own, closely to me, and
let us commune together,"-no to the man of high
and holy thought, for he is singled out pattern Of
propriety, and communion with strangers would
but touch the tongue of gossip with slander, and
render his life bitterness. Society has bound the
world of emotion and truth with false BARRIERS and
the heart that longs for friendship and communion,
above the hollow profession of etiquette, must com
mune alone with ITSELF and go on thro life, with its
longngs unsated, except, perhaps, as it revels in
the beauty of the world of poetry.-Pdcyfc.