Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-01-24
DAVENPORT. IOWA THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY "a 1851


kE CAA1wE CO8W 8WbsStONUkNCEs
LIZ CIArsE. lows, Jan. %.
MK.sRs. EDroas As Wss expected large
crowd assembled U hesr the diecuseion o
Cfl,teDdens Compromise. The house va,
6lisd TO overlooking With men. women end
ard children Laurel Summers began the die.
cl.non in favor Of the Compromise. and val
foilowed in . short time by Capt. Foster. com.
msrdsr-in-cLie! Of the Ls Claire detachment
OF Wide Awakes. Who made % eloquent
speech IN tarov Of tie Compromise. In the
cour.e Of time. after . number ofspeaher. had
held forth. an individual By the name oi
Brown. (vulgary supposed to be related to old
John Brown, martyr,) volunteered . spsech.
which consisted Of sbolitiouism intsrmized
with little backbone pluck. ete. which
vas received with mingled grovns and hissss
from the audience. He sat down abashed. A.
ter the diacussion vas through il vss proposed
to take vote Of the sssemblage on the ques-
ton 10 which the ladies and boys we're not de-
barred from their rights. The whole house
arose in favor OF il. while not single strsg-
cling Wide Awake voted against it, The
triumph was announced amid thunders Of ap-
plsuse. SO stands lie Claire on that question.
Qusskyl-Whsrs are the Wide Avskes
V no Lo.sted that they would wear tLeir caps
six months from the election.
lsDAss.-Fivs miles srom Ls Claire. 10 I'LL
no's, are csmpsd. soms three hundred Iniians,
VITO pay Us daily vists. much to the delight OF
the DO % and terror Of the ladies They seem
10 have plenty Of money. but pretend that
they are starving Dealers in fire water" are
doing a good trade 10 conss quence Of their
proximity. PArsIoT
Our PosT OFFICE--Inasmuch as there
are large number OF persons among our pat
roIs who DO more or less business at the Post
Office, j. will not be uninterssting to then. to
know something Of the sx,snt Of business car.
lied on al that establishment. As there are q
iargs rnnter Of Individuals. also, Who have
prospective hold upon that concern, they will
feel themselves under renewed obligations TO
US for little information upon its financial
''"''s''e''
u''"s '"' 'oo"' '".'' ""' "a''e' ~
'"'s los' o"'e 'o9'izs 'et'srs' tue Pos'"ge On
which 1T tiJee cents per letter wou'd amount
to t5.lS3.S7, but as the amount Of postage on
letters s"ries.we ma the actual amount !o,SoS
~. lh's oi course does mol Include newspaper
postage ""'en 10 e""s'oerao'e item. Ahs
c''nPir'son which 'his bears with isa9
'avora'ie' the proceeds OF tha' year having
oeen so'oos. !" comparison VII" osaer r'st
omces o. tue ota'-' psvenport 'ases the LAD
Inc last published statistics s"o" that the nett
proceeds OF the different foss Offices to be:
pavenpol'' ss'oei
Des Noinss. ................. a.2oS
burlington ...................... 9,seS
SaoI,s "1."e i'9o i'sso
The rev.uus arising from tba ,a,. Of ho.e.
ws. abon, s75o for ,hs na., v..-
In the entire Union ". find but f;ftv po,,
off,es the nett nroceeds of vh;cb vsrs o.e,,.r
than thi. and We here venture tho as.sr,;o,
th.. thsre ia not one. the bps;ne.s ~ vh;ch
has been conducted to the higher a,i,fac.ioo
Of Government or 10 thu neorla whom IN.
o'f 'ers serve Our ros' Master Mr.. Ma''' and
us competent Ass'S''n', ar' o"s'ns"' may
'e'' ''''' '""' ."''' '"o's" '''uo"s
""'0 'e' "'e' WV" vac ""4""'"e' "PP'o'
they understood their business. ,h.. they al.
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