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Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-10-09

Our assortment of SOLID SILVER and
PLATED WARE is unsurpassed, consisting of Spoons
Forks, Knives, Ladies' Cups &C., which will be sold at
unusually low prices.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-10-09

ID. TO BOOT AND SHOE MANU-
HWlFACTURERs - D. WHTTTEM0REs Dressing
Backing and varnish, T. sale by gallon or barrel.
Ut GODDARD a EsTABRo0K's Boot and shoe- finding
Store sargents Block, Of Main and southbrdge
streets d3m y23
ID u A n ID C.
Boarding, BY the week or day at No. u Thomas stree
...a, al, KENDAL.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-10-09

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~ me use Of the new preparation Of Crystal Gold
only arrested from decay but vertically 10 the comfort
and utility Of the original structure '
- Sensitive Teeth filed Of Teeth DESTROYED and
Teeth extracted WITHOUT PAIN. -
- Terms reasonable for good practical opera lions
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Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-01-08
IS 1T TRUEp

One Of the strongest declarations
which the discussion of the Florence
wildcat has brought forth, il the ~
sertion that the prosperity Of this city
il owing entirely to Cook Il Sargent's
shinplasters. Is it truea Is Daven-
port built on sandy, shiuplaster foun-
dationi When a citizen Of Davenport
is asked by stranger, what makes
Davenport what she is, does he answer,
"Florence wild-cat"l II the Florence
that has kept the wheels going for the
past two yeara, what great fools we
have been! We have always supposed
that the position, the enterprise, and
the advantages Of the city had made
her the commercial metropolis of Iowa,
but it seems we we're mistaken. "Wild-
cat money" has done it all. Eternal
gratitude to the Wild.catters! Now,
admitting that Davenport is nothing,
and Florence every thing, why should
not Florence be redeemed in Illinois
currencyi Does all this talk about the
blessings Of Florence afford any reason
for refusing to place Florence on q par
with redeemable funds?
Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-01-08

o. psobjsm 70 solve: TksE While Cook
1 Sargent have their own monied 10
soarcsA and seven tsntAs Of the mon
led wealth ef this community TO aid
thsm, they cannot furnish for Florence
money at 7 per cent. discount, one
tenth Of the necessary funds to meet
the foreign liabilities Of our merchants
only.
For stating the facts, and At the sug-
gestion Of . respectable portion Of our
business community for asking Of Cook
4 Sargent after they had been sustain
ed by the confidence Of the entire COM
munity through = financial crisis that
has shook our country from center TO
circumference, to place their circulation
upon a par with Illinois and Wiscon-
sin funds, that our merchants who can,
may pay their debts, We are charged
with . design to injure Cook 4 Sar-
gent and the business Of this city. We
console ourselves with this reflection !:
"Poisc tho cause in Justice equal scales.
Whose beam stands sure, whose rightfal
[csuss prevails. :"
Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-01-08
Our Currency.

"Our shinplaster currency, based
upon the confidence of the community,
blessing rather than curse is an ar
gument that we meet with in the Ga
zette, upon the streets and every place
where the subject is discussed.
Now there can be no doubt that
many come to our city from abroad to
use in the purchase Of goods &C.,
currency that cannot be used to ad-
vantage at other points, but it is no
less true that our merchants receive in
exchange for their wares and merchan-
die, kind Of currency that they can
not convert, so as to enable them to
pay their debts, and that for this reas-
on, the credit Of our city abroad, is
getting into bad repute. It will take
our merchants and business men years
to reculDrate, and recover that same
good name and character abroad that
We had before this circulation got
foothold in our midst.
Before this money got into use our
merchants and business men could de-
posite their money in the Banking
Houses and receive interest upon their
balances. But now their balances are
much larger, remain longer on de-
posit, yet they receive no interest.
The whole monied wealth Of this
community, and our credit abroad, is
being converted into and consists of
Cook + Sargent's and Burrows d
Prettyman, indirect promis. to pay at
SOME fstsve day vithoxt interest. And
yet We are told thst it is q blessing to
be able TO convert our monied and 9TH
er resources into such q safe and rel;a-
Ns position.
No one doubts the ultimate ability
ofCook 4 Sargent to redeem Florence,
bit We stand in need Of immediate re-
ks9 and the past sixty days instead Of
ane'ioratiag our coalition, has plung-
. ndssPss into tn whirlpool offinan-
- d1Gsal6sa, and We have this curl
Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-01-08
HOr the Democrat.

MEssRs EDITORS The editorial in the
Gazette Of the 7th, headed "The Democrat
on Shinplasters." contains some things that
the senior EDITOR knows to be wrong. In the
fret place, he knows that the proprietors of
the Democrat had nothing more to do with
those issues than to print them; and in
proof OF this. | would ask the senior editor
Of the Gazette to extend his memory back
to about the first of November, when call
cd on him In his editorial room. Ithen gave
him my reasons for issuing those checks,
stating that it was impossible for me to
make my collections, for every rs cents
collected l had to give Is cents in change, or
not make my collections. This could not
do. and l thought the subscribers to the
Democrat could not find any fault under the
circumstances. in receiving them in change
for the paper. Inever designed that they
should circulate as change any farther than
this. and have repeatedly refused to give
them out to merchants, when asked for them
atmy news stand. The senior Of the Gazette
stated at that time that they would take
them for the Gazette, and wished me TO
give them the job Of printing them. Offering
- a sample Of what they could do. the
checks of j. II. Eldridye, which consider
ed inferior to those printed by the State
Democrat. Had he not considered the
checks my own. he certainly would not have
offered to have done the printing.
l do not wish to have any controversy
in regard to ShInplasters with any one. l
consider them n~isance, and regret that
ever issued them; nor have l anything to
say in regard to the course of the Democrat
in reference to Florence or Burrows 4 Pref
tyman's checks But in justice to the edi-
tors Of the Democrat, | deem it my duty TO
cay that they were opposed to issuing them
at the time, and have always refused to take
Shinplasters Of any ones issue of me in pay
ment for the paper.
In regard to the carrier of the Democrat
refusing to take enc OF my checks In pay
ment for the paper or the Address, they
both pronounce it false in every particular.
have only few of those Shinplasters now
in circulation, and will redeem them in ST.
yer at my News Depot, and guarantee that
they will not again get in circulation.
JNO. GILLETT.
Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-01-08
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Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-01-08
0UMMARY.

JHR FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES OF FLORIDA
ESDED.-The treasurer of the State of Flori-
da gives notice that all kinds of current bank
paper will be received in payment of taxes,
for which specie is the only legal tender
The Governor has promised to recommend
to the Legislature that the act be legalized.
A Frenchman. giving an account of his
travels in the United States, says, that on
board the steamboats, he felt the same de-
gree Of security that he should have expert
enced had he resided in the third story of q
house, the basement of which was q powder
magazine, with the next house burning
down.
LAUNcH.-A splendid ship of l,4OO tons
called the "Gerbane," and built for E. F.
Gerbane. . heavy ship contractor Of New
York, was. on Thursday last, launched from
the yard Of Mr. George Thomas, In Quincy.
Mass. She 10 ornamented with figure head
Of the owner.
In Alabama farmer very recently had
his butter seized by the clerk of the market
for short weight, he gave % reason that
the COW from which the butter was made
was subject to the cramp, and that caused
the butter to shrink in weight
TIN ATLANTIC TELsGRApH CApLE-The
government has decided that the steam frig-
ate Niagara shall be again despatched ~
lay the telegraph cable across the Atlantic.
Chiel Engineer Everett, U. g. n, has been
granted leave to assist in the operation.
Goit, Bobtail, he's gaining on you," il
now rendered classically, Proceed Roberto
extremity, the gentleman in the rear il sp-
Proximating to an inconvenient vicinity to
the longitudinal appendage which subtends
the lower extentions of your caudal elonga-
ton.
They WANT WORKING Mrx-The Van
Buren, (Ark) Intslligencer says that Arkan-
sas wants working men TO develop her re.
sources and make her wilderness bud and
blossom like the rose. Here il chance for
the bread and bloed men Of New York"
ma. "said little urchin, peepipe from
beneath the bed-clothes, "Ma. I'm cold
where h the bed coverf-"lie still. NV
dear, aaid the mother. until your sistcr
comes home from ehurch-uhe has rot Il -
. crinolina"
Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-01-08
Coal! CONI!!

YNR00BNDOU0E Excitement ut the Coal Yard OF tn.
y Henry O. Coal Co ccrnsr Of 9TH and Brsds SIS.
SIN fuEtAes sedacsion IN the pTics Of Coal. The
nrnry g: OoI g. a. Lowrey, Price \ Col ars
geng " II coak "a screened st their nine free from
bSsek ~, tc at thetr Ooal Yard. corner h and
Betty sareetss q eGate psT bashel, and II that
ooAa1eseA - hish, and v found necessary. they
win osiveS their cesl nae o. Charge pat IN the graae
Jan 6diw !. LOWRY. PRICE 4 co
Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-01-08
CsrH ~ DAvBNP0RT.
pnday leoenang, Zen. D 106o,
ou1 JOB oYyICn.


and al cliques-whether political or
financial can we'll afford to laugh
1t the idle talk of the Gazette, about
our being controlled by this or that
man, or any set Of men.
But their is another matter equally
productive of smile. 1t il TO hear it
stated about the streets, that Messrs.
Cook 4 Sargent, for the small sum OF
three hundred dollars, which was ap-
piled TO the infirm eyes Of the editors
of the Gazette, enabled those infirm
eyes to see with remarkable clearness
Of perception, the advantage which
holders of Florence bills have over
those who hold other kinds of curren-
cy. II il one Of the most remarkable
instances Of cures by use Of quack med
icincs, which We remember ever to
have heard. We speak now upon tho
supposition that the report is true
but We do not believe the story any
more than We believe another, which
is, they offered to apply plaster to
our eyes.
It's not to be supposed for q mo-
ment that Mesars. Cook Il Sargent
could be induced to believe for a mo-
ment that such things could be done
much less is it to be supposed that
they would undertake to do such q
thing.
For ourselves, we refntc it, and
would like to have it distinctly under
stood, that this paper is free and indie
pendently, doing its own thinking and
acting-edited by its own editors, and
them alone, and speaking their scnti-
ments, and that freely and fully. We
have, thank God, been able, so far, TO
pay all our debts when called upon,
and hope to be able to do 80, and only
hope that everybody else will be a.
fortunate.
We wish it to be known that upon
the question Of currency we speak our
own sentiments, and not only ours but
the sentiments Of a large portion Of the
community.
We know that there are men here
who signed the statement favorable to
the Bank of Florence, who wonld have
been glad had they not done so. They
do not care to have their names known
for reasons which are easily seen-but
they sustained us in the movement, al
. meeting in behalf Of q good currency
and express their satisfaction daily. We
know we are right in the matter, and
though, a. is manifest in the Gazette
the owners of Florence would be pleas
ed to hear nothing more about it, we
shall continue to express our senti.
ments and insi,t upon continued action
by the gentlemen, until they place
Florence money in the position of ILL
nois and Wisconsin. and we hone to
hear nothing more about our being
owned and controlled by any man OF
set Of men-if we do, we may be temp
ted to give, for the benefit of the edi-
tors of the Gazette, the remark which
is reported to have been made by one
Of the firm Of Cook Il Sargent with
reference to that paper, and the price
at which it could be had.
Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-01-08

TvHD subscriber. while engaged IN diseing well
L On his lArn, In Peasant Valley, ocsst county,
discovered beautiful article q etone, veSy similar
70 the celebrated Atheas Marble, ussd II Cook 0sE.
gents Danking House. Il y capable o. recoiving Z
me polka, sn1 WORKS very cosy. Dels nov psspsY-
~ 70 opsa ~ euarTy, whea - WI - mettsd 70
f1Snieh Il ~ ~ Quontiy Desired, - y hleehs =
any sise.
Specimens g thie oosas On - sosn 6 ~ sDso.
wAaA fusoAee DaStts1loss wln = Qlvn.
u1G6Y o1A0DHu,
Hsanas vdnW. osult sssaty, I'm, = - u
ole ~ 1oo1. ,
Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-01-08

eGvHh Las0e anA Ceone1ssus Uoasl has bssn leased
i By Tie propgtseus, thosUughly repassd and reo0-
vsted Dessly fasnsAsd throushout, Ia the BEST nan
ner, With sPDIuo DEDs and LOOTED WITH Gas.
No rains viii te spared 70 make the PA1K HOUoB
the "A Ne. /" House u ths CITY; IL bstng much ne
largest and pleasantly situsted IN ccntra ocssson
N ths coguer Je0ssson ed Dabu9ue streets, near
the City Pass, with comfortable aecommodsttons for
Two Hun1red Guests.
TDRM0-in conSosnity 70 the timer.
Good sod Uepacous otabilng sttached 70 the house.
J. fAUhDELr.. Proprietor.
Nov9Adtf fH0Tmssiy Of the q dsds House.
Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-01-08
HOWARD DARLINGTON vAo9tN0TON SOWN1EuD
Davenport, Iowa. West Cnsster, Penn.
DARLINGTON & TOWNSEND.

r DAN, DISCOUNT AND LAW OFFICE, NO. g.
IL Nichols Block, Corner Of Brady ana Second st's
Davenport, Iowa.
R.pecls att nttou Rvsn to the investment Of Nom
ey upon unncsmbe cd Real estate Security. Money
Loaned on Oommission Titles anined and abstracts
siven, when desired. Ali Legal businsss promptly
attended TO.
RErERnNcEs -Messrs. Cook b Sargent, Mess1s.
Allen & Clark, Mr.. Geo. l. Davenport, Dsvenp II;
WIN. ". JsGsris, Dsq, Cashier Bank Of Chester Co !,
Penn.; John TWeedle, Esq, Albany, N Y; ssibson
ESQ Cashier Bank Ct Baltimore, Baltimore, Nd.
De .3Sdtf
Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-01-08
JAMES r. MORTON.
NASHVILLE AGENCY OFFICE,
uIoKoRY GROVE, SCOTT CO., IOWA.

UIVKVkI 0BOvb, UOVS1 W. IOWA'
IAvIH0 disposed OF bis interest In the StOrc bust.
IL nsss In the village has opened 90 once for the
Transaction Of . General Agency Bustrcss for the
sale Of lauds, drawisg conveys and taxing april
cations TO- In.ursocs o. Town properly, osllectins
notes and accounts, etc.
A.so-sttsoding 6uits before Justice Courts IN the
County,
He viii also keep Register Of Laod for sale 10 this
and sajonlng counties, giving fail description, and
the Terms Of Sale Of the same.
Also-a stock EstSsy Boob, In which - entry will
be made on app,casi0n ot estrays taken up 0ther
wise, with Description Of the game and where they
may b found.
refer 70 any respectable lawyer In Davenport.
Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-01-08

MAMMOTH
0lafleaary 1 Blank Deek Meuse
n. r. DURxErS C0..

-. =. DURkET = CO.,
NO. 1872 LAKE STREET, CHICAGO
WnoI..sAl. :.d as:.lI dealers In III Kids Of
&c, -.
Rsep esastastly = AsnA. Oh kads q blank booHs.
sscA o, Idgsss, Journals, Day Rocks, Cash Books,
Check Books, Reueips Books, Bill nooks Time Books
oAesp covered AeaoraDdum and Pass Books, Tuck
uenoSsndum books Of III sizes and styles English
mseslic Denofandums with rubber straps, Bankers
kin1 q blank book u use ether On hand Or msAe 3
order, On very short notice aad In the best manner
We would also call attention our large stock Of
Writing and Blank Book Papers
oOesisting in part Of plain and ruled Cap, e.ter
and Note. Also, Fiat esp. Grown, DENY Royal,
osper Royal. and Imperial Papers.
Dyaseing Papers and Railroad Stationeryl
Whstmans DENY, Royal. Super Royal, Imperial,
Elephant, Double Elephant, Cucumber, Atlas, and
AntsqusTssn. both smooth and rough, German,
Preach and English Roll drawing paper, % any
length Trscias cloth SoxSs inches vide Tracing psper
in sheets or roll.
Brown Z Sons Profile Z Cress SECTION Papers
Field Books, Transit Books, Level Books Camel
and Sable pencils, India Ink. Newmans and windsor
Newtons water eolors, IN half and whole cakes.
Mathematical Instruments in sets aud seperste,
Scales Protrsetors, Pa. aiel Rtles, Pocket Rules,
&c, &C
CHESTERMAN'S METALLIC TAPES
Of oil lengths, Surveyors Chains, 50 and 100 feet in
length. ANY instrument not on hand when wanted
viii BE- ordered from the east on short notice. and
furnished 1t manufacturers p.ices.
OFFICE STATIONERY!
Bvery variety Of once stationery, both Foreign and
Domestic, kept constantly on hand,
Burley's Celebrated Fountain Pen.
which ior durability elasticity and nrnusss are un-
surpassed By any other pen now in use.
ANll'S PogS'coeSStODa Presses
We hsvsth agency for "Hals Celebrated Percussion
and Lever Seal Presses" the best and most
mical seal press now use, for Banks, Railroad Or
Hces, Couny Ofices and Notary Public Any orders
forwarded 70 will be stts nded with the
despatch.
Letter Copying Presses,
Of al sizes and styles from the small letter press At
~ 50 to the large Railroad way bills, 1T e75, with
books " atch Of all sizes
Blank Book Mamufac tory
We have connected with our store Arst class
Blank Book Bindefy, where We are prepared ~ furn
sh 1t short notice, any kind Of blank books with or
without printed headings and Of any desired pattern;
also . full assortment Of Binders Stock.
Country Merchants
are particularly requested to call and examine
stock before going to New York. We think it Is in
our power 70 offer them inducements to buy Of us
which will render trip TO the East unnecessary.
All orders promptly attended toby
wholesale Retail stationers and Blank Book Nan
ufactuTers,
100 Lake Ot., C1a1CaGo.
lun 0wt
Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-01-08

davenport City Laundry,
SHIRT JM.AN'UE.ACTORT i!
ooRxKR THIRD AND SCOTT srREgM
THB undsssagnsd has established . Laundry and
i Shirt Mandatory o. the shove location, where
she viii b hoSDy TO secsivs orders for ssytAiug IL
her line Closo received every day IN ~ week sx-
ospA Saturday, anA The sA0e VIII - carried 70 and
from the Laundry
Decl6d80 0R9 j. KBU0DOY.