Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-01-31


This. That asA the Other.
The State Of New York - thees hundred
and thirty one bssts Of issue
"A 81. Paul paper estimstas the fur trade
Of Aissssots 10 DO worth o25o.Ooo annual
ly.
The past week the Protestant churches Of
New Oilesns have held regular meetinss for
prayer for the success Of missions in India.
The President has sent 10 the Senate the
name Of Thomss Hoynr, - Masshsl Of the
Northern District OF Illinois
Spain has sxpreased . disposition highly
favorable 10 the settlement Of our claims
against her.
Two sets Of Delegates viii 90 from New
York. from Georgia, and from Illinois, to the
Charleston convention.
"A resolution has been introduced into the
Senate Of Mississippi to srnd . commissioner to
Virginia. in view OF the danger impending over
the South.
The city Of Leavsn worth, Kansas, was IL
Illuminated with gas on Monday evening for the
first time.
The Illinois State Peniientisry 10 to be en-.
tirely removed f. ON Alton to the new quarters
at olist, before the lst Of June next
The Cincinnati papers are rather disturb
ed At the idea Of the number Of free blacks
who will rush to that city from the States that
are passing lave OF expulsion. They will only
be paupsrs.
The power of the press in England IL IL.
Illustrated by the fact that leader IN the Lon
don Times, . few weeks since. brought $4,000
s.erling to . charitable asylum.
-Sueing a newspaper editor Tor libel Is
about sensible a. boiling brickbat to get
lamp oil out Of it.
-On the morning Of January first, Paris
was enlarged 90 Is to draw within its limits.
three hundred thousand new inhabitants-
Paris now contains . population Of million
and half When completed, the new city will
be thirty miles in circumference and ninety
two gates.
The London Post urges the early consid-
Grafton BY Parliament of the question Of the
confederation Of he British North American
provinces, v b ich in the event Of . dissolution
Of tn Amer can Union, would hold the bal.
auce of power ON the continent; that 10, our
Northern States would unite thsmselvss with
Canada.
An Indian WAS literally baked to death 10
Hannibal. Oswsgo County, last Thursdsy.-
While under the influence Of liquor he had
been induced by An Irish woman to enter an
oven, which was Z large, old fashioned one OF
brick, where che confined him, intending to
take him out in short time Meanwhile the
was heated for some purpose. and he
was allowed to remain in this hot prison for
nearly an hour, when found blistersd and
swollen and entirely dead.
The New York Poss speaks Of the " men
who poured into Kansas and conqured it for
freedom This 10 just what We have charged
namely, that the free>eoilers went to Kansas,
not as settlers to cultivate it, sol but as con-
their own will This 10 what produced forei-
.ble collision-wa. murder. robbery.
Gov. Chase. in his last message. says Of
the Fugitive Slave Law, that it 10 an unconsti
tutional and odiOus enactment. Bates, of Mic
souri,, in his published letters, considers it to
be constitutional in every respect, but it is in
favor, if it il decided negatively, Of another
law more stringent in its provisions OF relief
And these two men are candidates for the Re-
publican nomination for President and are &C.
crsdicted ex onents Of it's consistent princi-
plss.
The two houses Of the Virginia Legisla>
ture have recently passed bill authorizing a
loan Of half . million dollars for the purchase
OF arms and munitions Of war. The buildings
of the pulic armory at ORichmond are to Be
put in complete order, and . which master
armorsr engaged a. a salary of twenty fv.
hundred dollsrs The Governor 10 authorized
to purchase all materials and munitions and
patent rights in newly invented arms that may
be necessary tor the operation Of the armory.
"A writer in the Richmond Wing, address.
ing the home spun wearing ladies Of Virgins,
says:
Allow me here to cay that conscentiously
believe the salvation Of Virginia, and Virginia
institutions, depend now mainly, il not wholly
upon the women OF Virginia. Show to the
and that. if you need be. you will sooner re-
than purchase farthings worth from North
ern house, or from the merchant Of Richmond
who does so purchase.
"A we'll known citizen Of Cincinnati Mr..
Joseph Schierberg, late partner in the mercan.
tile firm Of Cohurst d Schierberg, who is now
vsling in Europe, has hsen arrested in the
Grand Duchy Of Ogdenburg, Germany, upon
the claim that he. although an American citi.
Ecu, owes lnSt Duchy tnIHtATy seIVico MT.
$. Immediately wrote to Mr. Wright. the Amer.
lean Minister at Berlin. and expected to secure
. prompt release. The Cincinnati Inquirer
says
Mr. Schisrberg left this city about the fret
CT Oct Der, 1859, for Havre and Paris. Hc
went for his health, and designed to remain
ateent . year. lie has resided In this city
about twenty five years, und was not over
eight or nine years old when he arrived in this
country.