Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-12-02

More ana There ana Evosyvhere.
- Mr.. Rarey, the American horse-tamer.
was operating at Liverpool with great success,
at last accounts.
- The Pennsylvania Railroad Company are
making arrangements TO light their care with
gas. carried in sufficient quantities on the
trains.
We learn that Gerrit Smith will 20 to
Europe 80 soon as he shall be sufficiently re
stored to health to bear an Atlantic voyage
and the fatigue Of travel.
Efforts are being made in some Of the
Southern cities to raise . subscription for the
widow Doyle, whose husband and two sons
were murdered In Kansas by Browns party.
- The delegates 10 the Charleston Conven.
ton were appointed by the Mississippi Democ-
raey on the 18th ult.. and we're instructed to
support Jefferson Davis for the Presidential
nomination.
The Legislature Of jefferson Territory
pixies Peak has adjourned after perfecting .
code Of laws for the overnment of the Terri
tory. Elections were to be held on the first
Monday in January.
The official paper at Washington states
that the export movement during the past fis.
cal year, ending June 30, 1859, according to the
commercial and navigation returns in the
Treasury Department exceed the in ports about
eighteen millions Of dollars
- Senator Seward passed through Utica on
the Both inst, on his way to Auburn. An i'm
mense crowd of people met him at the depot.
Bells were rung, and q salute Of 100 guns were
fired by the Utica Citizens Corps There was
great excitement in the crowd
The Oldest church now existing in the
United States is enc near Smithfield Isle OF
Wight county, Va. 1t was built in the reign
Of Charles !, between tie years 1850 and 1885
The brick, lime and timber were imported
from England. The timber is English oak,
and was framed in Europe.
The use of gas is becoming quite general
in this country. The Monthly 0a,light Jour.
nal for December contains returns from three
hundred and sixty-two gas companies. repre-
sentirg an aggregate capital Of ffty.two mil
lion three hundred and ninety>four thousand
nine hundred and fifty dollars.
Governor Wise has pardoned young
woman about 10 years of age out of the peni-
Tertiary. She is from Wheeling. and very
pretty. She was convicted Of receiving stolen
goods and was sent to the penitentiary for one
year. The girls story is that the goods were
brought to her by her lover, and she, not sup
posing that they had been obtained by undue
means, received them.
"A down east officer was nicely tricked
day or two since. He with requisition in bis
pocket from the Governor of Maine came to IL
linois to bring on MIR. Cilley, charged with ab-
Quoting the daughter of Mr. Witherell Of Dex
ter He secured the object of his pursuit, and
Al ~ Tor ID
wing at Montreal, the prisoner informed the Of
ficer that he had concluded to tarry in Victo-
ria's dominions; and he did, being in foreign
country.
A young member Of the bar thought he
would adopt . motto for himself, and after
much reflection, wrote in large letters and
posted up against the wall the following :
''Suum Cuigue" which may be translated -
ent coming in expressed himself much graft
fled with the maxim, but added. /" You don'l
spell it right" Indeed then how ought i,
to be spslt!' The visitor replied, sue kn
QUICK"
A committee has been appointed by thu
Legislature Of Kentucky, to report on the ex-
pediency of the removal Of the seat of govern
ment Ct the State from Frankfort to Louisville
Louisville is prepared to proffer to the Stat,
the magnificent court house. which cost abou
half million Of dollars. 1t is large enough t,
afford offices for every business department o
the Government. together with halls for tn
use Of the two branches of the Legislature.
The Supreme Court of Ohio has lust de
cided a case brought up from Hooking county
in which the question Of the right Of chldrel
IS To no o1rpintoJ int he
Schools of the State, was decided The decis
ion of the Court was that the children Of ne
groes have not such right.
In this State, the law isel, decides the ques
ton to the effect that the children of negroes
shall not be admitted into the schools will
white children. Yet in Chicago there i
scarcely public schools in which white chill
dren and the children of negroes are not pro
miscuously termingled-Chicago Times.
"A gentleman, on a visit to Washington
one day very cody opened the door of tn
Senate Chamber, was about to pass in, whel
the door keeper asked, Are you . privilege,
member 2" "What do you mean by that
asked the stranger. Tho reply was "a COVER
nor, ex-Member of Congress, or a Foreigl
; Minister" The stranger replied that he wa
q minister. From what court or country
asked the official Very gravely pointing up
the stranger replied, "From heaven sir" T,
this the door>keeper waggishly replied, "Thi
government at present holds no intercourse
with that foreign power"
The General Convention of the Republi-
can party is to be held at Chicago, on the 18th
of June next. This location is most strikingly
indicative of the sectionalism and abolition
tendencies Of that party. Taking the eviden
ces of the Republican press for judgment
there is no such Abolition hold in the North
But few weeks ago two general Abolition
Cow entions were held in that city, and no
where was the sympathy for John Brown il
his work for forcibly aboishing slavery in tn,
States Of the Union, more intensely manifested
During the discussion attending the location o
the Theological Seminary for the North> west
by the Old School Presby tersn Church, The
Republican press of this State pronounced
Chicago as the hot-bed Of Abolitionism. Mos
appropriately, then, has the place been chosen
for the Republican Convention. In no othe,
location would that party be received with
q more lively sympathy.-Indsan Senti'
mel.