Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-09-24

Canaan ............... $50
Total. .li,Ioo
Population in 1880. :. o,7O7
Increase in ten years. .9,Os1
sMt. Pleasant is in this township.
BLANK Boots FOR THE FAIR.-The
McGregor Times says that Boyngton,
The book-binder, has completed two
large blank-books for exhibition at the
State Fair. They are the hahdsomest
blank books we ever saw. Those who
want to sec books worth Que hundred
dollars each, should call at the bindery
and look at them.
A CHAP at North McGregor, last week,
got mad at his wife and deliberately
broke all the furniture belonging to the
matrimonial partnership. In few days
he will get bis senses and beg his wife.
pardon.
| The MUsCATINE JOURNAL announces
he publication of the Muscatine DAILY
Review. We have not seen it up this
way yet.
there is lady living in this county,
nearly 60 years of age, and one Of a
large family, and also mother Of large
family, who has never lost by death,
either father, mother, brother, sister, hus-
band or chic. Singular circumstance,
We call it, bellevue Courier.
Iowa.
All our accounts from Iowa lead to
the belief that the election in November
will be an exceedingly close one. III e
canvass is going on with much vigor,
and the Douglas men are animated bv
nnwearled zeal, such only as can be call
cd out by noble cause and an accom-
plished leader. The Electors on the
Democratic ticket and their assistants,
aud volunteer speakers, drawn into the
contest by spirit Of true patriotism, are
all at work. Were it not for the ius ne
policy Of President Buchanan, who has
forced the formation Of an Electoral
ticket with which, in Iowa as elsewhere,
the people have no sympathy, but which
he has commanded shall be done, in or
der that Douglas may be defeated and
LincOln's election insured, we should
have no doubt about the vote of the
State being for Mr.. Douglas. AS it i,
here will be hard fight for it. The
Black Republican majority in the State
a year ago was some 5000, and we are
advised that great gains have been made
IN many counties. Ia the Southern Con-
gressional District, where Curtis, ram
pant Back Republican,, was elected two
years ago by some 600 majority, there is
little doubt of his being beaten now by
an equal or greater majority. Mr.. Cole,
his Democratic opponent, meets hum on
every stump, and fl4ys HIM wherever he
meets HIM. The Congressional nistric,
is, withal, Democrat c, as was shown
last year when Dodge beat Kirkwood
for Governor, and Cole run ahead of
the highest ofhi opponents on the Black
Republican ticket for Supreme Judge.
Since then, what with the unpopuiA,i,y
OF Curtis, and the superiority of Cole
over h m on the stump, no one doubs
the success of the latter. This will be
victory in one halt Of the State atal
events. In the other District, SamueIs
is running his Black Republican oppo.
nent beautiful race, and gaining on
i'm at every step. The majority which
he has to overcome is large, but to the
man of energy and activlty-impelled by
the conviction that he is right, and his
opponent all wrong, and that his country
demands an extraordinary effort, nothing
Is impossible. Iowa is worthy of bet
ter government than the Black RepubIi-
can rule with which she has been caused
Tor years, and We hope that the people
VIII rcvolut'onize the political character
OF the State in November.-4St. Louis
Republican.
GREAT CANAL Project IN ILLINOIS.
While Virginia is ebout to push to its
consumnation, upon a grand scale, the
James River and kanawha Canal, we
perceive that the cnterprising people of
Illinois have in contemplation the great
project of connecting the waters Of Lake
Michigan with those Of the Calf of
Mexico by an uninterrupted channel Tor
steamboat navigation! The citizens Of |
Chicago have revived the original |
scheme CT the Illinois and Michigan
Canal, which comprised ship cauaI of
sufficient capacity to float the largest
class OF vcsse that could navigate The |
ILLINOIS River, but which was given ND
'oi want OF means, after a considerable |
portion OF the work had been completed
'or ordinary canal boats only. The
probable cost is estimated at from ten IA
twenty millions Of dollars. The con-
centrat'on OF the commerce and interests
OF vast region in Chicago seem. to
warrant this gigantic enterprise.
POPULATION OF BosroN.-The total
population Of Boston, by the census lust
completed is l77.626. In 1850 it was
l36,sSl. being gain Of 4O,745. This
does not include the outlying suburbs
OF Cambridge, Roxbury, Charleston, and
Chesles, which would augment the total
population to 276,OOO. The progress
Of Boston in the last five wears haa hne