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The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-06-30
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THIS splendid estatiishment, being In the most
. thorough renovation and y Ill receive much adj
iional new furniture which will renderi it one oethe
bssi and most cony enieRL and pleasant resorts in
Chicago. The Proprietor return hanks for liberal
patronage. AZ A. J. SINK q Go.
Apl IS, dim 9A3 Proprietors.
w s. MILLER, late OF the firm OF Aver, upham
" . & Miller thasing dsssolsed from tina. concern
on The Ist OF March ixst), has formed the mes
Water street, CHICAGO, and having been so fortnn-
ate as 10 receive their Sprtng-stoek Of Groceries,
In advance of any other House In their line, induces
them to offer their stock Tor net, cash, at lower
prices than can be found s.any other House in the
city
their Stock lie large, ard entirely new, sad con
sisis, in part aaIg
1900 Chests Tea goo Boxes Glass,
900 bags coffee. 1890 kegs nails.
500 Hnds suger, 500 Boxes Raisins,
800 Bbis aeia-so.. 100 " Goldfish.
1@9 ~ syrup, 30 Tierees Hate.
<lse, q splendid assortment OF Wooden Ware
nd Yankee Notions.
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The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-06-30
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Prcpristor Of the


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The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-06-30
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WILLIAM Y. DANIELS, ~
IMPORTER AND DEALER IN

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The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-06-30

A beauufuiresitenco OF hipAsy street, bstw cen il
and 3D. SroaEls. : kiteheu., reli eisteTn. oothoa-ss.
lot 3oy6o, terms easy
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Houses and Lots.

A new house on 9th Street, soxss, ons story stone
I'd and ID stories frame, ID Feoms, clsts rn, well, sta-
BILE for I harsas. lot eGal5g, rent 500, cheap FER
-, lou; terms good.
The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-06-30

First rate business lsts on First, Second Gai Third
streets; also, 90 beautiful lots in North favsupori,
and 3 Large amount o. unitnproy ed land 81 scott eoun-
~. Apply 10
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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-03-28

THE NEW GUANo IsLAEDS.-The existence of
the newly discovered guano islands in the Pacific,
to which several vessels have been despatched, by
the American Guano Company, of which Mr. A.
G. Benson is tAe president including the flag. ship
Independence, Com. Mervine,) belonging to the
L. S. Government and from which intelligence will
soon be received is still further confirmed by the
testimony of Capt. Netcher, who recognizes in the
published description of these islands the precise
locality visited by him in the year 1874 and where
he saw the head-board erected by Capt Baker the
original discoverer, over the grave of one of his
crew He mentors as a curious circumstance,
showing the innumerable focks of birds frequent
ing that region that the top of the board was per-
forated and very much worn away by the claws of
birds alighting it, Capt N cruised around the is
lands eleven months.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-03-28

INTERESTING MEETING-There was a meeting
at Madison Wisconsin, lately, of settlers of that ter
ritory previous to 1886. A correspondent of the
N Y. Tribune says
Il was struck with the hale, hearty lock of these
pioneers. Most of them looked as able as any
body of men to go out now and undertake the lay
ing of the foundations of a new State. saw but
on in the entire company who seemed enfeebled
by age or labor. Very few of the heads were
whtened. On the whole, they looked in the very
prime of vigorous, active life. And yet these were
the men who, twenty, thirty and thirty five years
ago, stood up in this wilderness, and with axe and
gun commenced life where now dwell more than
six hundred thousand human beings, and where
the arts and rcfnements of civilized life abound in
a measure to satisfy the cravings of almost any"
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-03-28

AMERICAN SURGEONS IN THE RUSSIAN SERVICE
There are al present twelve American Surgeons serv
ing in the Russian army in the South OF Russia
Esht of these Marshall of California; Smith of New
Orleans; Weems Hank and Johns n, Of Baltimore.
Md; Hart of Memphis, Tenn; PaIke OF Illinois and
in the Crimra Drs Bostwick of New York city; Oh
yer of Boston, Mass; Morton. of Nashville, Tenn,
teen other, have served in the Crimea of whom five
have died thers seven have returned and one died at
Berlin, on his way to America DR. Draper Of NsT s,s
of march 1885 Dr. King of Charleston, 5. G., died
OF typhus fever at Ksrtsch, on the 10th Of March
1856 Dr. Mcmillan of New Orleans, died OF choie
ra at Sebastopol in June, 1885, DR. Jones, OF MARY.
land died of cholera at himpheropoL on the 2ath OF
October, 1855; and DR.. Denipger. OF Reading, fenn
died Of cholera, at Smpheropo, on the 2oth OF Octo
Der, 1855. Dr. Stoddard, of Baltimore, Md died AZ
Berlin, the 2ia OF January, 1856. Dn. Harris OF
Neg York, Turnipseed and Dayaee, OF south Caron.
ma; Henry. of Mobile, Ala; Eid1dse OF Maryiand'
Reed, OF Norristown, Penn, and Loit, Of Georgia.
have retired from the Russian service.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-03-28

NAVAL NEws.-An officer on board the United
States ship Macedonian, under date Hong Kona
JAN Is, says:
1.-The vandalia is just down from Annoy, and will
ssjl soon for Manila. The movements of the Maze
DOMAIN are not yet certain. When this reaches you
both ships will have been absent from the United
States over three years, and the of service of
Ell their original crews must have then expired and
thew without exception, will be receiving the one
quarter additional pay allowed to men kept over
their time The Macedonian started from the United
states with Two hundred and seventy souls board
but now Notwithstanding she has been constantly
eruiting her crew by new enlistments she has but
two hundred and twenty aboard. The deficiency is
to be accounted for by deaths desertions and the
number invaded hone. Twenty-Five deaths have
occurred, ami about fifty invalded and returned TO
the United states. We anxiJusly and i'm
patiently awaiting the San Jacno, cent to on. ice"
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-03-28

A NEW MOTOR,-We learn from the Selma (Ala)
Reporter that the stream of water from an artesian
well in that city has been turned upon a large
wheel at the Central warehouse, to draw up the
freight car from the river 70 the top of the bluff
The power was sullicien. TO draw up the loaded
car, and the Reporter anticipates that the proprie
tors will find the experiment entirely successful
This enterprise of going down five or six hundred
feet inte mother earth" 10 top and bring up one
of her natural elements wherewith to work ma.
chinery, is striking instance of the power of hu-
man genius.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-03-28

The new dome of the Capitol building at Wash
ington will cost, according to the estimate of Mr..
alters, the architect, about million of dollars
It's construction was commenced with an appropri-
alton of 100000.
Capt. Ingraham has been confirmed by the
Senate as Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance
and Hydrography, vice Commodore Morris, de-
ceased
VIM. Bonsfeld, supernumerary at the Coyent
| Garden Theatre, 29 years old has been sentenced
to death for the murder of his wife and three chill
| dren
| Miss Louisa Guptn, OF Provincetown, Mass,
| took arsenic about a week ago, and, refusing to
| take any counteracting medicine whatever, she
| died on Saturday night Cause, "love."
| It's tie opinion of western editor that wood
| goes further when left out of doors than when
well housed. He says some Of his went half a
| mile.
The pitch, tar and turpentine warehouse Of
| Blessing and Wakefield, in New Orleans, was
| destroyed by fire Thursday night. Loss $4,000.
Thos. S. Singleton. for many years collector
| of the port of Newberp, North Carolina, died on
the I'd inst.
The Legislature of Alabama has passed law
prohibiting gambling on steamboats,, under heavy
penalties.
Mrs J. Thomas died at Midway, Ga, on Sunday
last, at the advanced age of one hundred and ten
years.
The charter of the Ohio American State Coun.
Gil has been revoked by the President of the Ma
tionai Council
The ladies of South Carolina have raised SIS.
500 for the purpose of erecting monument to the
memory of Calhoun.
The sentence of Donovan who was 10 be hung
at Buffalo next month, has been commuted TO inn
prisonment for life.
Sarah Haycraft formerly courtesan, who !.
under sentence of death at St Louis, was baptised
on Thursday last.
Judge Conklin, appointed Minister TO Mexico ~
President Fillmore, has come out in favor o. To-
publicanism.
There are so counterfeit notes In elrcniatioh ""
the bank of Charlotte, n q. Good mifaiioh
The Springfield tMas. Republican notices the
appearance Of the blue birds harbingers oi
Crawford johnson, charged with shooting oscar
Bunkiey In Norfolk, has been acquitted
The anniversary Of the Bible Revision AssociA'
ton will bc held In Louisville, April 10Th.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-03-28

A GREAT COUNTRY To give the English some
idea OF the extent of our domain which they have
recently talked so much about annhilating at a.
single blow, we would state Gays New york
paper that the distance between New York and
New Orleans is more than equal to that separating
London from Constantinople, or Paris from 81.
Petersburg. BY the land route between N. York
and Astoria, the distance is equal to that between
New York and Bremen. By the water route the
London
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-03-28

The TRAGEDY IN MADISON COUNTY, n Y.-It
was mentioned under our telsgraphic head yesser
day that woman named Ward the wife of one
Matthew Ward, in Madison county, N. Y. had
murdered her four children in cold blood The
Syracuse Journal of Monday after alleging tha,
the husband is drunken, worthless fellow, saws:
"It appears that the husband had neglected his
family and treated them in most cruel manner
The wife and mother has threatened that if be did
not reform his ways and help her to take proper
care of the children, she would murder them and
take her own life. He needed not her threat but
persisted in his brutality. Yesterday morning he
left his home to go fishing the Lake, and during
his absence she executed her threat taking an axe
and with it cutting the throats of four of the 1--WE
children, the youngest of whom was only two
months old. The oldest of the children aged about
eight years, escaped only by running away, she
vainly pursuing him with an axe in hand for some
distance. She then returned to the house where
she had perpetrated these shocking acts, and seiz-
ing her husbands razsr attempted to commit sui
eide by cutting her throat She did not cut deep
enough, however, to render the wound fatal, and
when discovered was literally covered with blood
and suffering the most intense agony"
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-03-28

GROWTH OF THE UNITED STATEs.-In 1850 the
population of the United s. ates 20 24 l67; for
1855 it is down at q 368 66i Increase in five years
497 or 18 per In the northeastern States
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts,
Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York. New Jersey
and Pennsylvania, the increase for the five years
amounted IL per In the southeastern States
Delaware Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South
per cent; in the southwestern States, Kentucky,
Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana Missouri
Arkansas and Texas IL per cent; and III the north
western States, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Mchisan
Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota, the increase was %
per cent.
The maximum and minimum of increase in the
States composing these four divisions follows
Observation-Disclosures husetts IA and Vermont per
cent southeastern-Florida 26 and Delaware and
South Carolina per cent, increase in Georgia Y
per cent Maryland next greatest per cent) south.
western-Texas IS and Alabama per cent; north
western-Minnesota 500 and Indiana 20 per cent. In
the States enumerated it will be that the largest
increase was in Minnesota, and the smallest in Yer
mont.
In the northeastern division the largest increase of
wealth. from 1850 to 1855, in New York and Con-
nechcut 80 per cent; and the smallest per cent,
IN New Hampshre southeastern division, largest in
crease III Florida, 100 per cent Georgia and Virginia
20 Maryland III per cent? smallest, per cent North
Carolina; southwestern. largest increase 100 per
IN Texas smallest, per cent Tennessee; (Kentucky
S8, Louisiana 30) northwestern, largest 30 Iowa;
smallest, 40 per cent, Indiana. In 1875 the opul
ton of the United States will be about sixty nal
lions.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-03-28

HAZEL-EyED GIRLs.-Ma.or Noah says that s'a
hazel eye inspires at fret PIttonic sentcent which
gradually but surely expands into love as recurcly
founded as the Rock of Gibraltar A woman with
hazel eye slopes from her husband never chats
scandal sacrifices her husband comfort her
own never finds fault, never talks too much too
little ALWAYS Is entertaining iutellectusl. agreea-
bic and lovely creature" I'VE never knew" says
brother editor, "but unnteresting and unamiabe
woman with hazel eye, and she has n nose which
looked as the Yankee snys, like the iitte end Of moth
ing whitfield down point" The grey Is the sign of
shrewduess and talent. Great thinker. and captain.
have it. In women, il irdicstes better head than
heart The dark hazel is noble in insRnicance, in
lis beauty. The blue eye is amiable, but may be
feeble The black-take carei
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-03-28

PENNSYLVANIA PoLITIcs.-The Union Opposi
ton Convention, composed of Wings, Americans,
and Republicans. which met at Harrisburg, Pa.
Tuesday organised and appointed committee 10
report resolutions.
The committee reported series of resolutions.
recommending a union of all the elements in Cd.
position TO the national administration, which in
reference to the Missouri Compromise and the af
fairs of Kansas and Nebraska, is condemned as
having forfeited the respect and confidence of the
people; opposing the extension of slavery in ter
ritory consecrated to freedom or to territory
now free and charging the administration with
pandering to foreign influence and repudiating it
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-03-28
RICHMOND, FRIDAY. MARCH 2S =I856

s..ssk snsosk TWENTY-FIVE SHARps RIFLEs-On
ao.n.y omnaay evening last Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
% M his congregation with spicy account
=. Ill nls Iesent military campaign at New Haven
sno .wentY-nve rifles which he had taken the lib
org on piedging from Plymouth church, TO aid In
aI arnhng the kansas emigrants from Connecticut -
,.;s,,.a eAfxed that he would not take up the con-
,'hgn' die OF grief upon learning that such an act
hao oeen committed on the Sabbath but he would
request all persona who desired to contribute one
rine or more, (prce S25 each.) to confer with him
aiter tne service. The Rev. gentleman proclaimed
himself good for one rife, at least and two if ne
cessary.--N T. Jour Com
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-03-28

DETENTIoNIE IN THE ICE.-There is said to be 3
man now living in Cincinnati who with others.
someSyears ago, sailed out of st. Johns, New.
foundland, in the month of March, in a vessel
bound for the coast of Labrador on a sealing yoy.
age. Before reaching the coast. and when about
one hundred and fifty miles from land they run
into ice and fast in it for sixty days: and dt.
ring their long imprisonment in the ice field not a
sail was seen. This fact is mentioned in order to
show that there is still good to hope for the
the ultimate safety of the steamer Pacific
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-03-28

GOLD IN NORTH CARoLISA.-The American
Eagle, published in the county of Franklin, North
Carolina, states that the slaves at the Ports Gold
mine in that county, now the property of T. K.
Thomas Esq. found few days ago several mug
gets of gold, making about 81 05O, one piece was
worth between $500 and S900-almost pure gold
Another piece was worth about $l20-intermixed
with quartz-with several others worth from 10
to $40
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-03-28

COTTON AND RICE AT AUCTIoN--The cargo of
cotton and rice ofthe schooner E. w. Gardner,
bound to New York, which put into Norfolk in dis
tress was sold at auction in that city on Monday;
40 bales Sea Island cotton, damaged were sold at
l0I cents per lb % bales Southern at cents; 100
tierces of Rice at 3074 cents.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-03-28

OPPOSITION OF MARs.-On the I'd of April the
planet Mars after an interval of more than TWEEN
ty-five months, will again come into opposition to
the sun, and to its least distance from the EARTH
during its present revolution 1t therefore on that
day will rise in the east the goes dow in the
west, and even in the twilight may be recognised
by its brilliant red light. Indeed, for some time
past il has been about 2. NJ. the most conspicu-
Gus object in the southeastern sky.-BOSt. Times
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-03-28

A WELL. BESTOWED PENsION.-The English
Government has granted a pension of ECO per
annum to Mr. Francis =. Smith, the inventor of
the screw propeller in consideration of the servi-
ces he has rendered his country, the first propo-
Ger and filter of the screw to the mercantile ma
rine and fleet of Great Britain.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-03-28

CAssIUs CLAYs EFFECTs.-The Lexington OBJ
server ofthe 10th inst, adyer.ses public sale to
be held at the residence of Cassius n. Clay, in
Madison county, Kentucky, consisting ofland, cat
tie furniture 'also about twenty-five slaves men,
women and children, which will Re sold during
said Claws life"
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TERMS OF ADvERTIsINo.

PHrLADrLPHIA CONFERENCE.-The Philade,.
Tr;,,;s Ma,b,s;st Ghnrch r. wss at
bracing about hundred preachers The terrific
ry within the bounds includes twothirds of the re-
gion between the Delaware and Susquehanna. an
of the State of Delaware and the Eastern Shore OF
Maryland and Virginia
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-03-28

TEACHER BEATEN AND STABBED BY puprr.
AT school near Millgrove, Ohio q few DAYS
ago, the teacher. Harrison Kelly, being about to
punish apupil named James Wullam aged II was
struck a stunning blow by the latter with a club
and the next instant was stabbed with dirk knife
Most of the muscles of the left loin were severed
and for some time fatal result was apprehended,
but the teacher is now recovering, though he will
probably be a cripple for life = Chicago Democrn.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-03-28

THE Z. s. CUTTER DoBBIN-Some fear re-
specting the fate Of this vessel twhose life beat
was picked up on the 18th inst will be entertain.
ed until she Is heard from. SIZE was one of the
six built for the Government at Somerset Mass,
by James Hood and completed about the latter
part of June, 1853 They were brought to the
Brooklyn Navy Yard, where some improvements
were effected in their hulls. After this, the Doh
bin went TO an Eastern port, and thence to the
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-03-28

A MELANCHOLY CASE OF INsANIry.-we nm.
derstand that Alexander Wheelock, of Orange,
who has of late exhibited strong symptoms of in
sanity, recently went to Boston and purchased
two expensive eoffins, two pair of grave stones
and a revolver. Soon after his arrival home. he
attacked his wife, diseharging three barrels of the
revolver at her, but without effect. His revolver
was taken from him by force.
Soon after he attacked her with club. slightly
iniuring her. He then attempted to take his own
life by cutting his throat with razor. but was
frustrated in the attempt He has since been ia.
ken to the Bratteboro, Insane Asylum.-Greenfeld
(Mass) Gazette March "a.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-03-28

TOBACCO IN MIsSoURI.-The Brunswick (Mo) De-
mocrat says that the amount of tobacco that will he
shipped from that port and Keytesville Landing may
be estimated at 26O000 lbs, of which 1000 eco wifi
be put up IN Brunswick, 500 600 in Keytesvie l00-
600 at Bedford as much at Chilicohe. and perhsrs
10000 lbs lat Linneus; besides further crop to be
shipped by planters amounting in all to 1000 hhds or
Whereabouts The average price is about s4 IS per
100 lbs. The amount of money TO be paid into the
hands of farmers for this staple is not far from $780,
900. The tobacco to be shipped from Brunswick will
be mostly strips of which there will he between 800
and 600 hhds., the remainder lugs and leaf
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-03-28

THE FLOUR AND GRAIN TRADE OF BosToN-
The receipts last year at Boston were as follows
Flour, I0l2,929 bbls corn, ,Gs4 09O bushels oats
$4,000 bushels wheat, "o4 600 bushels shorts, 342,
900 bushels
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-03-28

SLAVES FOR KANsAs.-We perceive by the St
Louis papers that steamer arrived there on Fri
day last from Louisville, with between fifty and
sixty slaves belonging to families who are on their
way from Kentucky, TO Kansas.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-03-28

CURIOUS LIBEL SUIT.-A curious libel suit is OH
trial in the Superior Court Of New York The
plaintiff alleges that the defendant, who is boy
about II years of age, stole the chemise Of the
plaintiff, who is a young girl, and upon it drew
some improper and obscene characters that he
did It up in an envelope. addressed it to her. and
handed 1t to her while she was tending store, say
ing that 1t was bundle for her that he had found
IN the street. She opened it and the figures were
e1posed 70 the view of those in the store.
whereby she was injured in good name. fame
and character, sc. She therefore prays 5000
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-03-28

THEOLOGICAL INsTITUTE.-The Universalists
of New York have applied for charter for a Lii.
brary and Theological Institution to be located at
Canton, n. Y. They have subscribed $50, 900,
and say they will raise 1000 for it.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-03-28

EXTENSIVE TELEGRAPHING.-The Joint, Bri.
tish French and Sandman Submarine Telegraph
Company has completed its arrangements for
continuing the line from the coast of Africa by
way of Alexandria, Jerusalem, Damascus, &c.
to Calcutta, whence it must ere long be extended
to Melbourne, the British capital of Australia,
altogether a distance of 1880 miles,