The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-12-30

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dsmaed b. the New Orleans Dslss. the
most ultra Of an the soulAsEn nswspapess.
- going unnecessarily and without occasion
Into an aresmeat on the asbject Of slavery.
The Deiis sees no reason why the annual
message Of the President shoUld b mere
laborcd argument. nor does any body else.
| - late letter from Havana says thst
the .African Slave Trade appears 10 pres.
per. despite oil the eForts made to check I.
Scarcely a~eek elapses that we do not
hear Of Afticans having been lsndsdin come
one Or other part d the Islsnd."
The Demokras. very influential
German paper Published at Harrishurgh,
Pa, Displays At its editorial head, a. sOur
first choice for President in 1860. SrKsaSs
A. DopeLAs. Of llIinois."
The bfuisers Of San Francisco, Cal
itoroia. have adopted substitute for the
slurg shot and billy. a steel shield fitting
closely TO the back ofthe hand. blow from
which Is pretty certainly fatal.
1 - young man 10 Cincinnati. who fell
heir few months since, to twelve or lif-
teen thousand dollars, has already, it is said
been fieeced out Of six thousand. by q set Of
gambling sharks
/ The population Of New York Is dy.
ing away at about the rate Of one in every
seventeen minutes. day and night. all the
year round.
l The St. Louis Herald complains that
criminals, after serving out their terms in
the Illinois penitentiaries, are furnished with
money and packed OF to St. Louis.
| The product Of hickory ruts, in the
Northwest this year has been unusslly hea
| Wy. and large numbers Of them are daily ship
ped Eastward on the Lake Shore lines o
r abroad.
Two persons were frozen to death
near Fl. Atkinson. Iowa, during the late
storm.
| Milk sickness is prevailing alarming
II in the Mackinaw Bottoms, Illinois. Over
100 head OF cattle died in one week from
the disease; one farmer lest 20 fne cattle
II is still spreading, ard the people dare moi
touch or taste meat, milk or butter in that
region.
The same iron ore furnishes the
world. the plowshare. the pruning hook, the
needle, the craving tool. the spring Of Q
watch, the chisel. the chain. the anchor. the
compass and the cannon ball.
Il The last accounts from Arizona,
state that there are not over one Thousand
inhabitants in the proposed new Territory.
i The President Of the United States
Has issued an order for the arrest of Corne-
ll'usK. Garrison, Charles Morgan, and Gen.
] WIN. Walker to answer the Accessory
Transit Company in plea for trespass, for
eoasertipe..ss disposing Of the goods and
ehatties oftbe Company to the value OF ST.
COO 600; and also ssnrther ssa Of 81 .O0o,-
900 damages for inserruptiae their basi-
ness. 49,.
The steamer Knorpi!'e, built for The
New York and Savannah line, and owned b.
w. Fl. WEBs. was burned, at her dock. in
the former city, on Tuesday evening last.
She cost 20o.00o--insured for half tina,
| amount.
~ Washington correspondent say.
an opinion prevails in private, diplomatic
and army circles in that city, that, in the
late battles in Nicaragua. Walker had TO
contend With French troops; and the cor
respondent hears that call will be made
forinforma'ion on this subjectby Congress.
The building occupied as the Jewish
Synagogue of Mobile, Alabama, was de-
stroyed by fire on the night OF the 18th in
slant. L. is supposed TO have taken fire
from stove in the basement Of The bull
ding The Presbyterian church adjoining
it was saved
The Eiitor of the Cleveland Plai1
Dealer suggests himself for the office o.
Postmaster General in Mr. Buchanan's Cab
incl, Nobody else would ever have thought
of such an ehsurdity.
| a young lady in Boston. spiritua
medium, predicted her death, which tool
place at the hour stated. A post morten
! examination detected twenty grains Of anti
mony in her stomach, and more in tumble
Of water in her sink. She evidently com
mitted suicide.
The aggregate Of the real ind perso
nal estate in the United States is Sc, dowr
by the Secretary of the Treasury at S11 .3l7,
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