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RAILROADS.
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~ AND AFTER MONDAY, JAN. 2ap i-tr.
:, ana until further notice. trains will leave
,avFnport daily, Sundays excepted, M follc y.
IL freight ~ -.o0 =
Trans aTtlse y Davenport daily, Sunday e.
'epted, az follows.
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All trains over this route are in direct connesio
i Chicago with trains over both the Michigan
southern, Michigan Central, Pttsburs, fort
Wayne and Chicago Railroad to and rom De,roit-
Toledo, Cleveland. Columbus. Cincinnati. pi;is,
burg, punsirk Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Albany.
New FORK, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washing
ton. Also A. LaSalle with trains Of the Illinois
Central Road-North to Gaena and South 10 81.
Louis and Cairo.
Passengers are reminded Of the necessity o.
gvin. distinct directions rs 10 the destination OF
heir baggage, also to procure tickets before taxi
ng their seats in the cars, as the conductors col
ect fares only to stations the line Of the Chi.
age and Rock Island Railroad
JOHN +. TRACY, Superintendent.
Davenport Jan. %, $50. Diff II
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~ undersigned have this day entered into Co
Partnership for the purpose Of carrying on the
publication Of the DAILY AND WEEKLY Demo
Graf AND NEws, Newspaper to be published in
the City Of Davenport, Scott County, Iowa, also
the Job Printing Business connected with said
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style Of Richardson, West Il Co.
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J. r. Ponds Improved Patent Excelsior
Machine. Patented October 1858.
HAVING PURCHASED THE RIGHT TO
l. l. manufacture and sell the bove machine ia
the State Of Iowa, hereby give notice to all who
have washing to do land who have not that We
prepared 10 fill all orders that may be made on
Us.
Call ard see, and be satisfied that we have
The Very Best Washer now in Use.
They can be had on Third street, near corner Of
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w AafEstG'E'ON IL EVERETT
Including lew n Mount vernon.


In the Engraving oi Washington. ThcscsDlead
ID ngravings arc from original paintings by llci
and are euyrarsd on steei in the highest style a
Art They are each 2sx.,5 inches each coNrAIN
ING SIX SQUARE FEET. so many coarse, miscI.t.
Bile pictures have been palmed upon the public =,
works Of art-and especially in cheap, black
muddy engraving that ii is difficult to convnr,
persons Of taste that they are safe in orieriLa
what they have not first seen. We have paid IL
first artists their own prices, amounting 70 MAJ
THOUSAND DOLLARS, to produce EHGRavISes REAl
LY BEAUTIFUL a. well a. THE BEST PORTRAITS, MI,
that shall DO SPLENDID ORNAMENTS TO ANY PAR
Log ,4,- Opinions that can be relied on.
~" The EditJr Of tkc .Ntc Iork Cbser,tr st5
"These engravIngs are genuine works Of art-tl,
likencsses are admirable. The portrait of III
Everett will take precedence Of all othcrs."
- The Wv York Christian Adrocate says
"They are among the finest engravings hal
eycrseen and TIE PI BIISllERS ARE FULLY
RE- POSSIBLE FOR ALL THEY PROMISE
TERMS. ALMOST GRATIS.
We vii scUd rosT PAID, securely packet in roller,
Either Engraving and - Magazine, on,
year. for s3.
Both Emgrayings, ana - Magazine Oh,
year, forSi.
.ey~ AGENTS who remit $50 at time, VII
have an extra cory Of each engraving. The
Magazine are
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DIR. i. MCDONNELL
VETERINARY SURGEON MR.. "

XyTOULD RESPECTFUL LY INFORM Es
w his friends and the public in gen. ~
eral that he cal be consulted at his Horse -->--
lnfrmary, On Sd street, between Brady and Perry
all diseases that the Horse is subject to. After
acquiring all the Modern Improvements in the
Science Of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery ms
expounded in the English and Continental Cole
e.. ne feels happy in saying be will give salts
faction.
All diseases warranted cured if durable, or nc
charge.
CONSULTATION FREE.
Residence on 9Th Street, between Rock Island
and Iowa. n6-d&w
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IN0URA NOE.
FIRE, INLAND & LIFE.
CONWAY INSURANCE CO.,
MASSACHUSETTS.
Cast Capital and surplus S254,000
HAMPDEN INSURANCE CO.,
SPRINGFIELD, MASS.
Cash Capital and surplus $4,000
NORTH AMERICAN ms. co,
oFHARTdoRD, CONN.
LORILLARD ms. CO.,
OF NEW RoRK.
Cash Capital s262, 800
MANHATTAN LIFE ms CO.,
or NES YORK.
Cash Capital $4,000
CITY FIRE INSURANCE CO.,
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Capital $500. 600
w. SOUTHWORTH, Prest.
G. N. SCRANTON, Sec'y.
FIELD& KAUFMAN, Agents
Lahrmans Block, 2d-st,
H.fIELD;A Agent, Davenport, Iowa.
Office next door to the Post Office,
Rock Island, Ill. octl.
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Pennsylvania Central Railroad.


Tie Capacity ~ this load Is nor e9uat 70 a,,g
IN The Cotn.fr4
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EMPLOYMENT.

d. m A MONTH AND ALL EXPENSES
eDs)UPAID.-ln agent is wanted in every town
and county in the United States, to engage in a
respectable and easy business by which the above
profits may be certainly realised. For further
particulars, address DIR. J. HENRY WARNER, COR
ner 18th street and Broadway, New York City,
enclosing one Postage Stamp.
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TIE INTERNATIONAL HOTEL


Accommodating over one thousand persons, in
which visitors can have their meals, or, if they
desire, they will be served in their own apart
ments. The fare served in the Saloons and Hotel
is acknowledged by epicurcs to be superior to
that of any hotel in the city.
J. TAYLOR, Proprietor.
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The knickerbocker,
GOLy'> Lady's Book,
The Atlantic,


BbIackW OOus
~" BY special arrangement, the entire year
subscription to the Magazines is paid by u
to heir publishers, and subscribers receive then
supply for the year direct from their respective
publication Offices. The cost Of the engraving
is paid only'by the difference between the Lowest
wholesale and the regular price Of the Magazine
80" Engravings sent at once, and subscriptions
to periodicals commence with current issue, ~
less otherwise ordered. Money nj our risk il
proof is retained Of having been malcl.
First inn ressions are best, therefore sens car
ly. Address,
q. IL. BAILEY ~ CO.,
Al WV. HALL 4 So>'s Music Store, 3iJ
BROADWAY, NEW YORK.
- CnAs. g. PLuMER receives subscription
and delivers engravings 70 subscribers, in Baven-
port. Specimens can be seen at his Store.
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Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-05
AbolItIon rIce,,ua IN Bo.tou.

BOSTON, November 3.-The summary dis
solution of the John-Brown meeting at Ire
mont Temple, to-day, is viewed with general
satisfaction. The Abolitionists were largely
outvoted throughout by an assemblage en-
bracing many leading business men. After
the chairman had pronounced the meeting
dissolved, Fired. Douglass, Sanborn and
few others manifested some resistance TO the
Police, and were elected from the platform
and hall. During the uproar, Rev. J. Stella
Martin announced that a meeting would be
held in bis church in the evening In re-
sponse to this announcement, the Baptist
Church (colored) in Jay-street was filled at
an early hour. The edifice was small, and
large proportion of the audience was black.
Here Wendell Phillips, John Brown, jr,
Fred. Douglass and other leading john
ions freely, with little interruption. A woman
named Chapman appeared to preside. Several
policemen were stationed in the church.
Outside there was an immense crowd and a
strong force of police. The disturbance was
confined to noisy demonstrations, though
the crowd seemed very anxious to get hold
of Redpath. The meeting broke up about
ten o'clock, and the audience dispersed
quietly. Some of the leading spirits were
hooted at while passing through the outside
crowd. Frank p. SanbOrn was acting Presi-
dent of the meeting. In anticipation of a
riot, the Second Battalion of Infantry was
held in readiness at their armory, by order
of the Mayor. The police force, however
was amply sufficient, and the day and even
ing passed with a good-natured but quite
patriotic excitement.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-05
ILterestiug Chemical Analysis Of Pee
.


Professor B. Silliman, ir., has recently
published the results of an exhaustive ana
iysis of the oil obtained in such quantities in
the oil regions of the Upper Allegheny. We
find his report at great length in the We
mango Spectator. Much oflit is of interest
TO the chemist only, and other portions of it
Of general interest. The products of the oil
as developed by the retort, were eight. Only
the last two or three appeared at all stifened
by cold of l5o below zero, while the first
three or four products retained perfect de-
gree of fuidity. Exposed to the air they
suffer no change. These oils are all COM
posed of carbon and hydrogen in nearly the
ssme numerical relations. Corrosive quail
ties were absent, showing its fitness for lu-
bricating purposes. Exposed for many days
in an open vessel, at regulated heat of
2l2o, the oil gradually rises in vapor. The
oil is nearly insoluble in pure alcohol, but in
ether it dissolves completely.
For -gas-producing it is unapproachable.
1t produces nearly pure hydrogen gas, which
from common burner smokes, but in an
Argand burner consumes its smoke. Other
products for producing gas are, however, less
expensive. Fourteen quarts of the crude oil,
distilled in a metallic vessel $500 Fahren-
heit, produced 100 ounces of light colored
oil, with density of .792.
By application of still higher degrees of
loss on the whole amount of oil was about
ten per cent, made up in part of coally
substance remaining in the alembic, and in
part by losses incident to the mechanical ap-
pliances necessary to the experiment.
The chemist then goes on TO speak of the
various other products of his experiment.
He says the parafline obtained does not exist
ready formed in the original crude product,
but is the result of the high temperature
employed in the distillation, by which the
elements are newly arranged. He is not
| prepared to say that it would be desirable,
in o pecuniary sense, to manufacture this
| product in pure state. The result of the
distillatien was TO obtain over ninety per
cent of the whole crude product in series
| of oils having valuable properties.
Mr.. Silliman concludes that the only lamp
in which the oil can be successfully burned
is the camphene or chimney lamp. Burning
| fluid can not be manufactured from this oil
On account Of its smoke, the oil can MOI
agreeably be burned in common hant
| lamp.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-05

THE TRUE MEANING OF TRAEsCENDENTALIsM
The word, transcendentalism, is in frequent
use, but is not always correctly understood.
Amy thing which is peculiarly abstruse or
absurd, which is highly metaphysical or in
tensely silly, which is so profound that no
bottom can be discovered, or so shallow that
il can not even be SKINNED, which contains
the best lesson of wisdom or the shabbiest
philosophy Of the pretender, which is ex-
pressed in the simple language of Plato or
the bombast of q modern newspaper serib-
bier, is indiferently called transcendental
But the true Specification is this: The basis
of Locke's philosophical system is that all
knowledge is received into the soul through
the medium Of the senses, and is to bejudged
of and analysed by the understanding. This
may be called the sensuous philosophy.
Kant, on the contrary, denies thai all knoWl-
edge is received through the senses, and
maintains that the highest and universally
received truths are communicated TO a fac
ulty within the soul, transcending the mere
understanding, which he denominates pure
reason, distinguishing ii from the under
standing. According to this system all per-
ceptions Of the true, the beautiful and the
good are revealed to the pure reason; while
II Is the province Of the understanding 10
determine upon external things, such rs
facts, scientific laws, sc. This philosophy
is named tTanscendental.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-05

The London Review contends that poetry
is not one of the progressive arts and gives
a sketch of the processes through which it is
continually revolving;
Poetry is not one Of the progressive arts.
In the course of single generation, and that
one of the earliest in a nations history, it
will often attain to power and excellence
which no future efforts may surpass and the
accumulation of one age is so far from prov
ing an assistance and benefit to the next,
that it rather enfeebleS its successor, induc-
ing it to place o false reliance upon resources
not at its command, and acting as a stimu-
liant to extravaganza of effort only to pro-
duce poverty and perishabeness Of result.
AS general rule, poetry may be said to be
passing through three processes which ever
lastinglY repeat themselves. First is the
rough period, when intellect and fancy are
sufficiently awakened to strive vainly with
the obstacles ofundeveloped language. Then
the era of triumphant genius, which makes
all the material around it flexible 10 its will,
and of its own Instinct lights upon the COM
binations and the laws which insure lasting
success. Then follows the age of merely
initiative effort, when men strive rather to
be something like that which their predeces-
sors had been than to rival them in new
fields. Soon people find out the way of pro-
duciug something which looks so like the
originals bequeathed TO them, as to pass cur
rent for a material combining equal excel
lence with the advantage of greater ease and
cheapness of manufacture.
This goes on until the initiative invention
has been carried to utter exhaustion, until
production becomes so easy that every one
can produce; and then the natural effect
takes place. The reaction acts in with O
sudden stopping and stagnatiOn; and at last
new sources break away into fresh path Of
their own, and new era of genius begins
to be initiated, and to pass away, as before.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-05
Municipal Elections.

SPRINGFIELD, MASS, December 3. The
vote for Mayor to-day was tie. Five
Democrat and three Republican Aldermen
were elected. The Common Council stands:
Republicans IA, Democrats 4.
FALL RIVER, MASS, December BE. A.
Burlington, Republican, was re- elected Mayor
to- day, with the entire Republican ticket for
the City Council.
New BEDFORD, Mass, December 3.-Isaac
@. Tobey, the Citizens candidate, was re.
elected Mayor, with large majority of the
City Council on the same ticket.
LAWRENCE, MASS, December a. Joseph
R. Baker, Republican, was elected Mayor by
400 majority. The City Council is Re
publican.
BRIDGEPORT, MASS. December 3.-At the
towe election to-day the Democrats carried
the Board of Selectmen, and a majority o.
other town officers. The average De-
mocratic majority is thirty.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-05
The Dre@rlne.s oG ,,lll.. Msn%o.h moth oavo-Tho


..a Eject Of Music There. ..
A correspondent of Dwighfs Journal Of
Music says; ..I =.
''were you ever in the Mammoth Cave?
It is, with all its wonders, the most God
forsaken, dreary, gloomy spot, mortal ever
entered. Yet there is some strange mystic
power in the place to trsnsfgure the weak
est, most wretched music into harmony fit
for the celestial spheres. .1
You know, in the first picture of Coles
Vogdge Of life, the gloomy river of the past
from which floats out into life and light the
little boat of the baby voyager. The stream
issues from dark, rocky cavern, mysterious
and unknown. Such q stream is this on
which we are embarked. Silent and gloomy,
dark and mysterious, it serves as type ofthe
past and the future-of the past mystery
whence all life evolves, Of the inscrutable
future whittier all life tends.
The feeling of security is not very great.
The boats sink down almost to tho waters
edge, and the perpendicular slippery rock on
either side offers no ledge on which a ship
wrecked voyager might find q temporary
footing. Above, sometimes so low that you
must crouch, 70 avoid it, and again so high
as to be scarcely visible, rises the rock-roof,
whilethe water in which you glide is thirty
feet ia depth, and as cold as the brow of q
corpse. There is no sound but the rippling
made by the boat; not a cricket along the
shoreless stream, not fish to plunge up and
flash a moment in the air before returning to
its watery home-no symptom Of life-no
sound, no motion, save that made by our
selves.
"Hark there is sound Far off a
delicate shade of music, so faint as to seem
| the ghost of some wandering echo. But by
degrees it increases. 1t becomes clearly
defined. Rich harmony, trembling with
strange sensuous wildness, fiuttering around
the rocky projections, swelling in waves of
harmony to the arched roof above. Now it
appears to come one direction, now from an
other. Anon ahigher note or strain is heard,
like some clear voice rising above a mighty
chorus. Never did syren sing more magic
songs to listening traveler-never did the
mysterious maiden Of Burleiburg chant more
etitrancing melody to the unwary boatman
who floats along the mOonlit Rhine.
Suddenly turn of the boat brings you
opposite a break in the perpendicular rocky
| shore, and, perched upon o mass of broken
rock you see party Of four negroes playing
upon violins and cornet. Those are the
| syrens, these the Lurlines of Echo river
| Out on the earth's surface their music would
be merely quaint and odd, but here, in the
Mammoth Cave, it is weird and unearthly.
Floating away, out ofsigbt of the above
minstrels-who are, in fact, the barber, boot
black, or waiter from the hotel at the moutl
of the cave-their music resumes its super
| natural tones and effect, and so, until W.
land at the opposite shore of the dark river
it haunts the ear with its peculiar harmony
while ever after it forms the most vivit
"reminiscences Of visit to the Mammotl
Cave.n
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-05
Life and Fashion in San francisco.
A V m

a correspondent Vi the NEW 1Ofk 1tHleS
says:
New York is equally if not a more ex-
pensive place to live in than San Francisco;
rent for the same kind of house is greater
than in New York. Servant hire is cheaper,
to be sure, but then marketing here is quite
as reasonable. There a lady housekeeper
has the satisfaction of seeing her Bridget
wearing better clothes than she herself pos
sesses, which is Of itself great satisfaction
70 any lady, for she knows where she can
borrow in case of need. There's no use in
talking, women, be they high or bethey low,
run as naturally to clothes as a Newfound-
land dog takes to water, and in this place
the sole aim and object of their lives appears
to be to out dress each other 1t does me
good as sit up at my window on the corner
commanding view of our ''vanity fair" to
see them sailing along, feeling so good when
they think they have something new no one
has.
There's such a toss of the head, and even
their very ribbons seem to say, "How what
do you sayH Bridget, who inspects all her
mistress's clothes and tries them on in her
absence, boTrows the pattern on the sly, and
has one made just like it, and then gives
warning and leaves her place for the pleasure
of having two or three days time to sport
her new garment. There's great run here
on new style of feminine overcOats that are
so terribly ugly and unbecomlng, Bridget
won't adopt them even; they seem to be a
cross between a Zouave cloak and an over
grown paletot, giving the wearers "fast'
look. They are altogether too masculine to
be becoming. San Francisco follows New
York, and has run very much to purple. It's
all purple, from head TO foot. The earliest
birds in the fashions in this country are q
set of fast young ladies who have great
deal of correspondence by express.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-05

A FELIsE MusIoIAN-A Cat Playing tie
Gutar-The Peoria (Ill.) Union says there
is cat in that city which has become SO
much attached to the music of guitar that
she will sit for hours in a listening attitude
when it is being played, and evince signs of
displeasure when the music is brought to a
close. 1tis even limited that she can tell
when the instrument is out of tune, and if
played upon in that condition will COM
mence mewing, and will endeavor to effect
her escape. A few days since the notes
were heard proceeding from the front part Of
the house, when twas known that no mem
ber of the family was there, and curiosity at
once led them to find out the cause. Upon
opening the parlOr door, they discovered
Miss Pussey busily engaged in paving the
strings of her mistress's guitar, which was
reclining in corner of the room, and SEEM
ingly much delighted at the music emAnat-
ing therefrom. One of the household had
visited the room short time previous, when
the cat, watching her opportunity, had prob
ably obtained access to her new and favorite
study. -...rg-- ~r-f
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-05

Characteristic Letter of the Late NeapOI-
iLnn Tyrant on COncess TO HIS People.
Ferdinand III, otherwise Bomba, the late
King Of Naples, returned the following char
acteristic reply to letter from Louis Phil
ippe, in which the latter advised him to
make some concessions to the wishes Of his
people: ..
To initiate France, if ever France can be
initiated, shall have to preoipitate myself
into that policy Of Jacobinism for which my
people have proved feloniously guilty more
than once against the house Of its kings.
Liberty is-fatal to the house of Bourbon; and,
as regards myself / am resolved to avoid, at
all price, the fate of Louis XVI and Charles
X. My people obey force and bend their
necks, hut woes me should they ever raise
them under the impulse of those dreams
which sound SO fine in the sermons of philo-
sophers, but which are impossible in prac-
tice. With Gods blessing, will give pros
perity 10 my people, and a government as
honest as they have right to; but l will be
king, and always. NY people do not want
to think | take upon myself the care of their
welfare and dignity. have inherited many
old grudges, many mad desires, arising from
all the faults and weaknesses of the past
must set this to rights, and ] can only do SO
bY drawing closer % Anstria without sub.
jecting myself TO her will. We are not o.
this century. The Bourbons are ancient, and
if they were to tFy to shape themselves ac-
they would be ridiculous. We will initiate
the Hapsburgs. If fortune plays us false, We
shall at least be true to ourselves. Never
theless, your majesty may rely upon my
lively sympathy and my warmest wshe!
| that you may succeed in mastering that un'
goyernable people who make France tbs
curse of Europe.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-05
From washington,

WASHINGTON, December s. Naval esti-
mates for the year are over $ll, 100000.
The Presidents Message makes eight
columns of the Constitution newspaper.
Three and a half of it are devoted to
secession.
Dispatches from Fort Scott to the Interior
Department, dated November 20, say busi-
ness of the Office has not been interfered
with, or likely to be. MontgOmery's raid
amounts to nothing.
The Presidents Message is now being
read in Congress