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Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1857-08-18

TWIN CITY BOOK STORE,
NEWS DEPOT AND CALCULATING LIBRARY,
I'd st., opposite L. Claire Houso-New York, Boston
Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Chicago and ST. Louis Da-
DIS received every day. s. II. STARR. AGENT.
Will he sold at Auction {!
7NHE lot doors East Of the Episcopal church on
L Fifth street Lot Is IL feet front by $50 Z, ct
decp, running to an alley The tale will take place
on the premises ON
Saturday August I'D, 1857,
at II o. lock In The morning, and will BE- sold TO the
highest bidder without reserve
TERMS: $500 in hand Balance In 6, IL, Is and
"a months with interest.
The purchaser will have an opportunity to pay for
the lot by the rise Of property II is in part the
city which Is rapidly improving. aud will demand
any branch Of cit, business AMI 'rade.
a mortgage on the lot will BE- CURED for the
amount OF the deferred payment AMI the title deed
guaranteed by the vendor to the purchas T.
N. B.-The sale will take place on Saturday II
fair, II not on the next fair day.
N. VAN TUfL, ROB. s. SKINNER
Auc.oReeY.
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Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1857-08-18
NEW CURTAIN FIXTURES.

DATENTBD In 1889, the hest ever offered in tbis
y Aariess fer sale y GOULD 4 eTEERE, at the
House Deasaint Hock Second street nth door sbovs
Psrry GOULD SrDERE
ApytI ~. ar rpvuss Hevr rcnv
Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1857-08-18
FANCY CASSIMRRRS, CLOTHS,
ONE PRICE STORE.
II. III. P WrEs - Go.
(Success0rs to Ed,Sard Aiden.)

WHOLESALE AHD RETAIL DEALEAs IN READY
Z MADE CLOTHING, CLOTHS, CASHIERS,
VE0TlH0 AND GEHTLEnkN's
FURNISHING GoODs.
Lave now In store over Gao 90 worth 81 the
III sb we mentioned Goods which NUT e sold
We have overhsuled our whoe stock and marked
our Goods dOwn At least fifteen per cent. and have
resolved from this day forward to sci, at one
price, and low that zoo defN competition We
connected With the Weil-known estAbis 81
Huntington, wadsworth Parks Of Chicago and
Boston. and We buy Goods At manufacturers prices,
with these facilities think can ofIer you
great bargains. Particular attention paid 70 the
manufacture Of Custom work Call and us
Store opposite eClaire Row At the old stand OF Ed
ward Alden.
r. II. PARKS, & co.
Davenport, Nay 6, 1857
Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1857-08-18
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HAVING established himself IN NJ p,ecs IN me
H bastnsso q onv0 Z D1A0 PLATs6o, p roeoees
- ~ ~ ss1sss ~ Aos saver p3a1eA Dsw Plates
Vlguree a1epoa1 - til - - Dssss - hursA
Pjus LiGAtag np1b rslnlo. window Sash, t1assi.
ass and AsrDsss tsim1ings plated 70 sr1sv - shest
netios. An vert warranted eqsal tothe bsst.
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Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1857-08-18

New Goods, New Goods.
II II. PARKS co. are now opening one OF tn
H. richest stocks Of
Cl0ahing, Cloths, Vessimss, Gentle.
mems Furmishing Goods, &c,
ever offered In this market. We are connected wit
the largest establishment in Chicago, and having "a
cilities for buying that rare pledge ourselves
not TO be undersold by any house ia the West. We
have disposed OF oil our old goods and opn this week
WIN ~ .ntire new stock. Persons wishing anything
In our line Will do wei 70 give us call
Pedlais and country merchants are requested 10
examine stock before going east,
Particular attenton paid 70 the manufacture Of
custom work. Mr.. Dunn Is some to give you .hts"
Our store 10 opposite Leo aire Row the stand
OF Edward Alden. n, HPARKS L Co
April II. dtf
Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1857-08-18
Thermometers F.! Thernoneters

VERY useful to show HOW HOT IT Is" ct 75c,
' 81 co, 81 Is and u 50 each, at
No. % Brady street, near the Post Once
July1idtf Ell ADAMS
Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1857-08-18

Denton House,
NORNnk Of Third and lows streets, Davenport.
~ only squares from the 4 X Depot. Gua,an-
teed 70 b. - good House any In the city. Ira
veiers stopping m Davenport will md d the Denton
House ali the comforts Of coed home, Comprising
cissn rooms, clean beds, good attendance, and q
cheefs al compliance with every reasonable demand.
Charges reasonable and no humbng
SETH SHOVE, BENZ DENTON.
Agent. nc23is67dAwIy
Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-02-28

"The election is over The great issue is decided.
The people have trumphed. he cause oi reform
has been gloriousy vindicaled"
Thus jublantly discoarseth the .fita, the
morning after the election in San Francisco.
The same paper contains an account of a
woman who had been dead two days, whose
husband was too poor to defray the funeral
expenses, and who was left by the authori-
ties unburied, What a glorious thing Is a
Vigilance Government.
Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-02-28
SnecinlI.cIisIatiOn.

1t is gratifying TO observe in the history
of our legislation. that special acts, designed
to benefit some individual or company, or to
promote some particular interest, are be-
coming much less frequent than formerly.
IL had almost become the custom, apparent
ly to judge Of the merits Of a session of tho
legislature, by the number of bills it had
passed, without regard TO their Importance,
or to the effect they would have upon the in
terests and general prosperity Of the State.
To such an extent has special legislation
been carried in California, that n compari
son of our statutes with those of some other
States, must result in the humiliation Of our
boosted intelligence and superiority Pub
lie opinion, the wants of young State rap.
idly increasing in population and interests,
and the inauguration by Governor Bigler,
of the veto, during the session of 1865, have
done much to eradicate this evil. Perhaps
the peculation of some Of the State officers,
has occupied too much OF the attention of tho
present session, to give time for the consid-
Grafton of special acts, but whether this is
the case, we will not pretend to say, and only
express the hope that the legislature will
continue to be engrossed with the consider
alton of public interests alone 10 the end Of
the Session Let them continue in sending
bulk head schemes. spark. catching bills and
all other special acts to the indefinite table,
where they left the bill to regulate the
prices of freight and passage on steamboats,.
and leave the capital of the country free to
follow its most productive channel.
Notwithstanding the many special acts
which have received the sanction of the au-
thorities, and enabled great capitalists, like
pike in fish pond, to devour the smaller
prosperity are too numerous in the past his
tory Of the State, to warrant the belief that
there is nothing but deterioration in the fu
ture. 1t is not by legislation, but by tho
energy and prudence of the people, that we
have made these advances. The object of
government is. not to legslate for the inter-
ests of any class, or Of individuls, but to
protect the people in their persons and prop
erty. The Legislature will best promote
the interests of the people, by leaving com
modites to find their fair price, industry
and intelligence their natural reward, idle
ness and folly their natural punishment; by
defending property, by diminishing tho
price of law, and by observing strict econo-
my in every department Of the State
Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-02-28
sroyIne, Saturday, February 2Sth, 1857.
X. ". Reforms.

Some of those who tried to be leaders in
the Know Nothing ranks, don't like the po-
sition in which they are now placed at ALL
and are struggling in the throes Of party
DEATH to show that they were really the
reform party Of tho State, that they are not
dead yet, and are not willing to give up the
ghost and spoils of office. The Sacramento
Union, taking its cue from an article in the
Nevada Journal, has labored for several
days past, with great earnestness to show
that the Know Nothing Legislature are en-
titled to the credit, Of everything creditable
that has been accomplished during the past
two years, and that the Democracy had just
members enough in the Senate, to be re-
sponsibe for everything Objectionable, that
was done at the session Of 1866. Profound
and ingenious politicians! They cannot see
themselves driven from their political para
disc by the flaming sword of an offended
people. without showing them what great
benefits they have conferred upon the pub
lie, and the many evils they have to expect
from the party which a majority Of the peo
pie have now called to administer the affairs
of State, and who just now, are holding a
grand Senatorial inquest on the body of de-
funct Ki-yi-ism. The efforts of these jour
nails are in imita ton of the howl of Robe
spereis head after the guilotne had severed
it from his body.
The Union lays great stress on the
I" Funding Act" and the law designed to
protect the State Treasury, by creating
Board of State Auditors, who were required
to count the money monthly, in the Trca-
sury and report the same to the public.
However good these laws may be of them
selves, they have been of but little practical
benefit under the administration of Know
Nothingsm, for, after laborng several days
to show the beneficial laws enacted by that
party, the Union says: cit must be admitted
the Board of Examiners failed to carry out
the provisions of the law, which requii ed
them to count the money monthly" So.
thus it would seem, from the showing Of the
Union, that the Legislature passed good
laws, and that the Know Nothing officers
failed to carry out their just provisions If
there is anything satisfactory to these or
gans in the conclusions which they force
upon the public, We arc not disposed to de.
priye them of the full benefit thereof The
Democracy of California never made such
havoc with public affairs as the past two
years have witnessed, under hnOw. Nothing
management. live take the Union as au-
thority, the Treasurer and Controller are
not alone culpable, but nearly all the State
cflicers have been dcrclict in the discharge
Of their official duties. Under such circum-
stances it cannot he a matter of surprise
that the people should change their rulers,
and place men in sflice who feel the respon
sibilities of their positions, and knowing
their duties, will not fail to disc barge them.
There will be no impeachments, no plunder-
ing of the Treasury, under Democratic rule,
and there would have been nothing of the
kind now, had the balance of the State Off
GERS carried ont the provisions of the law.
Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-02-28

In THE MUp.-The stage from Marysville
last evening, got swamped in slough about
five miles below town The water coming
into the body of tho coach, to the great
fright of several lady passengers. The
extra sent down from Oroville. brought the
passengers safely into town.
Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-02-28
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Royal News from Scotland I!
Read and be Instructed.


"Can'st thou not minister 10 n mind diseased;
Pluck from the memory II rooted sorrow,
RuZe out the writ en troubles Of The brain,
And with some sweet OblN NOns ahtidute;
Cleanse the stuffed bosom ol thai pUrI.Oiis stuff
That weighs upon the h, art r'-ht'g If scotland.
The hint which is conveyedin 10 the above poeiical
inierogaliye, at once seized upon by the Whole
meCicul fraternity OF scotland, and has at length
suited in the discovery of the vertab!e sweet OBJ
liyous aniidote" which Mr. Macbeth SO much need
ed for his wiie's infrmites and Is universally
known and presented TO the world 10y the name Of
0rIATE BALSAMiQUE, OR, CURE FOR
WOUNDED CONSCIENCE, and all, who by meaus
of their rash conduct ana evil doings haye like Mrs.
Macbeth, become troubled with rooted sorrow,'
shonld procure this wonderful remedial agent
at the Drug Store of
RANDALL McDERMOTT,
Montgomery street.
Where every variety Of DRUGS, MEDICINES, OILS
CAMPHENE, GARDEN SEEDS. &c SC. are con-
stanty received fresh by daily Express, and exchang
ed in large quantities for astonishngly small
amount of cash. fy26G
Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-02-28

HALLUcINATIoN.- The Nevada Journal
thinks the American party still lives. Some
people imagine they can feel pain in the
toe of an amputated leg.
Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-02-28

SHIPPED.-The Know Nothings raised a
Ro,os in the Treasury Department, and the
Democracy shipped him. Is the brig inner
lean build'
Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-02-28

PARDON OF SToNcIFER.-The Governor
has pardoned Stoncifer, who was sentenced
to be hung yesterday in Sacramento
Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-02-28

eg" The Nicaragua Steamer Orizaba, arrived at
San Francisco a. an early hour yesterday morning.
She brings news from Central America of highly
interesting character, to the publication of which we
devote the most of our available space.
Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-02-28

EFFECTS OF THE WET WEArHER.-Sev-
eral brisk fsticuffs occurred in town on yes.
terday.
Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-02-28

STATE FUND.
DR..
Amount received on Poll Tax. . 3,l49 %
Amount received on Property
Assessments. ........... o,o0S W
Amount received on Foreign
Miners Licences. .......... o,'oZ 90
ceuces 7G2 80
Amount received ON Military Tax 262 81
Total receipts. .SlS'Zoo 10
CIR.
BY amount paid Assessor per o ..
ulem. .,.,,....... .ss.s''''S SoV w
Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-02-28
COURT HOUSE AND JAIL FUl

DR..
To amount received of Sheriff on
Assessments on Property
Tax for 1866 and 1856. 80. 81 1888 AZ
Or.
BY amount paid on cash warrants l,2S7 10
BY Treasurers commission on
above. 38 e1
BY balance in Treasury to data Il
1888 ~
Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-02-28
Grand total disbursements. 1,4Sl 10

Total balance on hand. 50 23S II
WM. LATTIMORE,
Treasurer Butte County.
By amount paid Auditor and
Clerks fees. 162 10
BY amount paid State Treasurer 1866 45
By amount Treas Commissions
and mileage. ge..........,.... 577 9s
Total disbursements. SIS, ,266 Is
Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-02-28
REPORT OF THE COUNTY TREASURER.
County TREASURER OFFICE, !
Oroyille, Feb. l3, 1851.

County TREAsURER's OFFICE,
Oroville, Feb l3, 1851 )
u tie Honorable Board Of Supervisors Of
Butte Cotafy
GENTLEMEN, annexed you will please
ind my report of receipts and dis isbursements
from all sources from the 1st day of July
1856, to the 3lst day of Dec 1856, inclusive,
showing II balance in the County Treasury
OF twenty two hundred and thirty eight dol
lars and twelve cents (223S l2) ON the vari-
Gus funds more particularly set forth on the
Last page herein, all of which is respectfully
submitted
Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-02-28
A LIBERAL REV ARD

"TILL BE GIVEN TO the person who found a
w purse containing $50 or 500, on The seat OF the
Z. 3 Water Closet Thursday, II II Is returned 70
The owner J. b. c.. ST. Nicholas Hotel
February %, 1l57.
Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-02-28
w A NJ T e D 4!

A COMPETENT PERSON TO furnish supper for
"a the Saint Paitfcks Ball, TO be held at Musical
Hall in this town. on the l7th day of March for from
300 ~ 700 persons, per Bill OF Fare to be seen at
the subscribers Liquor Store. Security given and
requiF,u for the fulhment of such contract as may
be entered inso. CUSHION Il C0LAHAH,
fy26 Montgomery street.
Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-02-28
SCHOOL FUND.

DT.
To balance in Treasury July let
1856. ....... s 844 As
To received from State Treasurer 1,202 IS
To received on assessments per
Collector. 400 65
$2,447 95
CIR.
BY amount paid County Supts.
warrants as per vouchers. Sl,O47 oil
BY balance in Treasury to date l,400 Al
81, 2,447 p5
Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-02-28
INDECENT SICK FUND

To balance in Treasury July lst
1896. 6............. .......
To received from Sheriff on AS
SeSsments. ......,........
Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-02-28
ROAD FUND.

To balance in Treasury July lst
1906. ...............
To received from Sheriff on Asses
mentS. .........
Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-02-28
Atlantic Items.

WALKER SUCCESSFUL!
Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-02-28

Seven Days Later ircm New York!
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-10-10
Alabama Intelligence.
The Mobile Tribune, of Wednesday, has the foil

The Mobile Tribune, of Wednesday, has the follow
ing:
Commodore John G. Robinson yesterday presented
to the Catholic Orphan Asylum, Protestant Orphan
Asylum, and Cant-get-away Club of this CITY, one
hundred and fifty dollars making fifty dollars to each
The donation was part OF the prize money won by
the yacht Coquette. ....l-r.
The Commodore had only $3.50 in the prize, all of
which he has generously given away. One hundred
of it was distributed among the of the Coquette.
The Selma Reporter states that Dr. Duma, of Co.
umbiana, committed suicide on the 2sth ut by TAX
ing laudanum. The Reporter thinks the prediction,
that the comet would strike the earth, 50 worked on
his mind as to lead him to commit the act.
On the night of the 2sth ult, Mr.. John Lane, who
resided near Claiborne, was killed by negro woman
She inflicted wound with hatchet on the right side
of the head, just about the ear, which caused his
| immediate DEATH a.s- ~ s~a.r
Three prisoners escaped from the Jail of Haynevile
on the night of the goth ult by breaking the lock
their cell. They were recaptured before the next
morning by number of citizens and pack of hounds
! A recent number of the Columbus Sun says:
| We understand that in very few days, some five
or six miles of the Mobile and Girard Railroad will
be open for the transportation Of freight and passen
gers. This will place it within five miles of Union
Springs, to where it is hoped it will be completed in
very short time. The road is being pushed forward
with great energy, and we hope the day is not fal
distant when we may be connected by this line either
by the new route proposed, or the old one with the
| Gulf 80. '...---.H... .tl- 4
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-10-10
Important from Utah.

The Washington Union, Of the lst inst, furnishes
the e'following interesting intelligence
e. A letter, dated Fort Kearney September 5tf, re-
ceived in this city yesterday, states that party of
returning Cafornians, who passed through Salt Lake
on the 18th Of July, report that the evening before
they left that city the Mormons arrested Mr. Wilson,
whom the late Surveyor General Burr left in charge
of the Office, and, with rope around his neck and
pistol his breast, compelled him to several
questions which they propounded about Bell, Mogo,
and others. Mogo was connected with the surveyor
generals office. The Mornons made Wilson promise
to bring Mogo to them during the next day before
they released him. Mogo obtained information of
these proceedings and imme diatelyq the city
leaving his wife behind, SO preciptate was his re-
treat. They went in pursuit Of Landon and the other
clerk but Landon escaped by jumping ont of aseeond
story window. He went that night somewhere south
and the reports that he was oyertaken and killed
As these Californans made but brief stay, they
were unable to ascertain what became Of Wilson.
/ They also say that the Mormons were making pre-
parations for fight did not conceal their hostile
intentions. Elder Kimball, in his harangue in the
Tabernacle, laughed at the idea of sending United
States troops to Utah, and said he could g take his
wives thirty or forty of hem and whip the twenty
tive hundred troops, and come back and do good
visions for the army would come into the valley but
| the troops would never enter Salt Lake City.
| Tive companies arrived at Fort kearney on the
5th of September en- route for Salt Lake. and the
fifth and tenth regiments of infantry were at that lime
4 at Fort Laramie, for the same destination
The writer also confirms the report that Col Hoff
man had seized 500 kegs Of powder which the Nor
mon trains were taking to Utah.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-10-10
Ntm @rltans 4ailp Crescent,
SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 10, 1857.
Later from Texas.

r
By the arrival yesterday of the steamship Opelou-
sas at Berwick's Bay, we have Galveston papers to
Wednesday last. The Civilian says:
1t is now rendered certain, we believe, that the
coast As a consequence, the ships of the Southern
Steamship Company will be at liberty to arrive and
depart they proper by which it probable the
trips Of each OF their vessels will be increased, as
they have heretofore unnecessarily lost time at the
termini.
A recent letter from Falls county says that the
weather in that region is delightful and cotton crops
turning out remarkably well. Falls will furnish
from ten to twelve thousand bushels Of corn to the
neighboring counties. The country is remarkably
healthy. ,.
The corpse Of murdered man was found on the
5th inst. near Houston. He had been shot in the
side and his throat cut, but nothing was known re-
gardng the circumstances Of the murder.
+ recent letter to the Civilian says:
A recent enterprise in Jasper county is creating
great sensation. Florida tobacco is raised there to
Of three upwards of $780, and many are culti
vating it on larger scale.
From the Houston Telegraph Of Wednesday las'
we extract the following: = ,<g{E. 4 I. r..
The Central railroad brought in over sixteen hun
dred bales Of cotton in the month of September The
income of the road for that month was over $4,000.
The Harrisburg road is, we believe, doing verJ
large business this fall We glad of this, for ths
enterprise of its proprietors and managers deserves
reward, -l.-- ..s....- q -
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-10-10
WEATHER AND onors.-Ths ouachita Register Of

WEATHER AND CRors.-The 0uachita Register Of
the LIST inst. says: s..5l59sS.s
For few days past we have experienced delight
full fall weather-eool pleasant and bracing. We
learn that cotton picking is progressing finely every
where throughout this and the adjoining parishes. In
localities the yield promises to be quite hand
some. The river continues to fall slowly.
The 0pelousas Patriot of Saturday last says
The weather for the last week two has been sea-
sonable and delightful Though the previous heavy
rains had seriously injured the cotton the fields are
now white. and pekers buy farmers hoping to rea,
lize twosthirds OF crep. In some places the boil
worm is committing rayages, but in Others it is not
found. Some neighborhoods will make full crops,
and some not more than half crops.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-10-10
THE ALBION COOPER TRAaEDY.-The Portland
NIeA Advertiser Of the S0th ult has the following:

lHE ALblON SOUfEh 1hAdEUfs-luc EuItlAuu
(Ie) Advertiser Of the S0th ut has the following:
The bark R. b. Knight, Capt. Luscomb, from Hay-
ana, arrived in our harber yesterday morning. having
on board two men, Peter Williams and Abraham Cox,
who perpetrated the horrid butcheries on board the
brig Albion Cooper. The officers Of the cutter. in
their boat, went down and took possession OF the
prisoners and they were subsequently placed in the
custody of the Deputy q. s. Marshal Quimby, and
Immediately lodged in jail On the passage home,
the boy Fahey, was attacked with the black vomt,
of which he died. ana was buried at sea on Saturday
His death, however, will not affect the case OF the
mnrderers, his deposition had been taken in Hay-
ana, before the U. 8. Consul,
The culprits freely confess the commission of the
atrocious deed, and relate with shocking eeolness
the most sickening details of the offence. mere
deliberate unproyoked and wicked murder was never
committed and the fends seem 10 have engaged m
il from little other motive than delight in human
blood All the sea.faring and commercial portion Of
our community are greatly exasperated towards the
wretches and will rejoice to see the extreme penalty
of the law inflicted upon them. They will have an
examination before Judge Ware, of the u s. District
| Court in few days. a5,st5f ~