Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-05-01

The military household Of the Emperor of
Russia is unusually numerous, being COM
posed Of aids de camp. adjutant generals and
generals. The first named are II in num-
Der, making the military household alto.
gether consist of 21O officers.
The Russian journals publish an account
of the losses sustained by New Russia and
the Crimea during the late war. We have
already mentioned to what state the build
ings at Sebastopol were reduced at the seige
where only fourteen houses remained un-
injured. Throughout of the whole of the
Crimea 1872 dominial estates and lO5 Tartar
villages were destroyed. Four fifths of the
beasts Of burden died from epizotic disease !;
considerable estates were abandoned, and
certain localities remain to the present time
entirely depopulated. In the interior of the
Crimea the towns Of kganrog, Mariopol,
Berdianski and Genitchek suffered most
500 owners lost all their property, estimat.
ed in value at two millions and half of
roubles. The other localities of New Russia
suffered less than the peninsula, and never
the:ess, the special commission appointed to
examine into the losses estimate at IL, $780,
600 roubles the damage suffered by Resa-
rabia and by the governments Of Eksterino-
slaw and Cherson.
Accounts from Beziers, France, gives a
melancholy description Of the injury caused
in that neighborhood by continual bad
weather. The Herault has ovefowed its
banks, and the entire plain is covered with
water from Beziers to Florence. The
farmers who suffered so cruelty last autumn
from foundations are destined, it is feared,
to undergo further trials
The Official Journal of the Two Sicilies
publishes complete list Of ell the victims
Of the earthquake at Naples, Of December
l6, 1887. The total number of dead amounts
to 1880. and the wounded to 1859. 1t ap
pears throughout the list that, contrary TO
what 10 the case in battles and other circum-
stances in which human life is at stake, the
number of dead has greatly exceeded that
Of the persons more or less seriously injured.
The London Post of I'd April. says 1T
than any Of our WEST India colonies from
the effects Of negro emancipation. and that
the grand obstacle to the revival Of idustry
in that island is want oflabor. This al i'm
portant subject engaged the anxious atten-
ton Of the Assembly during the past winter
and the result was an elaborate immigration
act, and we cannot help thinking that Lord
Brougham's ancient zeal In favor Of the
persecuted African has led him to regard
the scheme with degree ofhostility which
it does not at all deserve.
The London Times of 29th Of March says:
We are not among those who believe that
free speech in France would compromise
our friendly relations. There is. indeed,
much more danger in the irritation which
has no vent but in private society. If the
French are offended at any act Of ours. We
would much rather that they should de-
clare their anger In speech or An article
than that they should brood over the wrong
real or fancied, and resolve that . day Of
reckoning shall come.
A lively discussion took place in the Prus.
sian Chamber Of Deputies In the sitting Of
the 9th Of March. on the subject Of politi-
cal rights Of the Jews. According to the
18th article Of the Pusaian constitution, the
exercises Of political rights 10 independent
of the religious confession Of the citisen.-
The present ministry, however, under the
influence Of the neutral party, has Of late
interpreted article - in manner most un-
favorable TO religious liberty.
Letters from the departments Of France
mention that arrests continue to be made
in considerable numbera At Strasbourg,
Moulins, Periguex and Bergerac, persons
have been taken into custody. The ORDER
are severe respecting the vinshousss and
cafss, over which the strictest surveillance
10 exercised. and those places Of public On.
tsrtatnment where politics are talked ere r
BE- closed the moment they appear 70 pre-
sent the slightest danger.
Tn Last LIvMG Elscroa or WAaxorox
~ PamuDxr o. nan United SrArra- Hay-
ing sssn paragraph In some paper, within
few weeks. saying that the last persor
Who voted for Washington was dead. I nov
contradiet that assertion. -.
| There i living in this town, person By
the name Of Capt Samuel Hurd, who VA
born in February, l76a, and h therefore u
years old. He was drafted for the Rsvolu
ton. but his parents thoaght 20 much o
their Sammy that they woald not let hin
O. He 10 9 hale, hearty Old man, ani
; peouiaee veil 70 80 hundred yeara H'
hpesaa!y dsef IN one eas. aad entirely q