Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-10-15

This village hes Of late occupied .
couspioqDus Pee u NOT = Of the cam
p.ip on ~ Upper Rtonae. A cor.
rPondens q she i" York World
describes It: w
Dsrnestown j. representative OF the
thviftlsss little villages scattesed through
the rural districts Of Maryland and Vir.
gina. A few decsying, paintless houses;
an old tavern ; two cheap gsoossiss .
dozen tumble down fences these, With
p:gs, negroes and chickens, constitute
the make up of the place. There may
be church AMI school house, but hare
not seen them yet. ! had nearly for
got,sn tie natives whs Ase = etq6d esd
yhiftIess Is the same race Of other SINH
lar ohivalrous locslities. Few Of them
know the height Of Sugarloaf," the
distance TO Great Falls, or other local
facts which Yankee boys Of ten would
naturally learn and remember. Such
people seem 70 have neither sense, IN
timent nor faith only kind Of blind
affiliation with the South, and hopeless
devotion to the decsyiDg system which
is their heritage and curse.
ARCHBISHOP HuesEs, one Of the pur.
est and most unAinching patriots in the
Union, and who has used al his great
influences 70 swell the rank and file Of
the Federal armies, has, with his usual
marked ability, replied to the incendiary
abolition article published in the last
number Of Bro,onson's Revieso. Among
other things the Archbishop atters the
following sentiment, which 10 90 literally
true that We commend it to the consid-
Grafton Of the abolitionists
"Now, we Catholics, and a cast ma
jo,ity Of oyr byavs troops, have not the
slightest idea Of carrying on war that
costs 90 much in blood ard treasure just
to crafty clique Of abolitiooists in the
North. II it we're generally known that
this is one Of the purposes Of the war,
the drafting of troops would become i'm.
mediately necessary would
be few indeed-and the business Of re-
cruiting would become even Stacker
than it is now said to be-
Bishop Hughes might also have sd-
dod that "a vast majority" Of the whole
nation have no idea of fighting an abo-
lition war. They fight for the Union
not for negroes.
In A PREDlcAMENT.-The officers
captured at Lexington we're released on
their parole for thirty days, At the ezpi.
ration Of which time they are to report
themselves to General Price. At the
rate he is retreating from Missouri, it
will be necessary for them to get astride
| Of the tail of comet or meteor to over.
take him.
SPIES The Philadelphia American
says it was determined last Friday, at
Gen. SCOTS headquarters, that IN i'm
mediate advance of the Federal army
should be made, and the next day the
Rebels retreated. This singular coinci.
dence proves that spies are still about.
The GOVERNMENT BAKERlEs.-The
basement Of the Capitol building a,
Washington has been converted into an
immense bake house. In the building
there are eight large ovens in full oper.
alton, employing forty bakers, and turn.
ing out from 10000 to $4,000 twenty.
two ounce loavcs per day. In the vaults
outside Of the building, there are six
double ovens, employing sixty bakers,
and producing daily $4,000 to 10000
loaves. One hundred and sixty persons
are employed at these bakeries, receiv-
ing from thirty-fivo to forty-two dollars
per month. The monthly payroll
amounts to over six thousand dollars.
BANKRUPTCY IN FRANcE.-Bank-
ruptcics are increasing fearfulIy iu
France. According to official returns
there we're only a,54O bankruptcies de-
clared throughout France in the year
1865. They increased to a,7l7in 1856.
The following year there were 1875
hankrunts oranted and in tha wear 1874