Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-10-26
STATE lTE MS.

MUscATINE county is making up still
another company for the war. 1t is
more than half full already. Muscatlne
is the banner war county Of the State,
we believe.
AKTILLEKY.-Some of the young men
OF Iowa City, are taking steps towards
forming an Artillery Company at that
place, as we learn from the Reporter.
TIE Dubuque Times announces the
arrival and departure Of Anthony Troll
lopc, the great English author, and
his wife.
THE Dubuque Uuicm says that the
100 men now encamped at that place,
are armed to the extent of one wooden
broad sword.
The same paper says that an attempt
is being made to force into circulation
in that city, the notes of the Western
Bank of Canada, and advises the public
to beware of them. That is right. Let
US keep trash Of that and similar kinds,
out.of the State. We have paid for
seeing the animal, and bear its scratches
yet. Keep him out.
RAILROAD ExrENsIoN.-Thc Marengo
D'nocrat understands that the NJ. IL NJ.
Railroad Company intend running trains
fourteen miles further West during the
ensuing month. Presume they will not
90 any further this Winter.
MAnonAAL county, says the Times, has
$50 men in the field Marshalltown,
with fighting population Of 200, has
sent 100 to the war.
The Dubuque Board of Supervisors
recently contributed 81 900 to the relei
of the families of the Dubuque county
volunteers.
The steamer Des Moines Belle has
been lying below Keosanqua for some
time, waiting chance to get through
the lock.
VI. DE TocoUEvlLLE, in a letter con
tanned in the recently publish ed volume
Of his corrcsI ondence, makes the follow
INC allusion to America: :" must say
that America is a poer robustus. Yet
cannot desire, as many persons do, its
acknowledgment. Such an event would
inhlct great wound on the whole hu-
man race, for it would introduce war
into great continent from whence it
has been banishcd for more than a cen:
tury. The breaking up of the Ameri-
can Union will be a solemn moment in
the history of the would. / never met
an American who did not feel this, and
l believe that it will not rashly be un-
dertaken."
FAILURE OF CorroN GROWING IN
JAMA1cA.-Owing principally to the
lazlness OF the inhabitants Of that island,
the cotton crop will amount to nothing.
The soil is good enough but must lie
titled. The Jamaica Tribune, very
tqrscly remarks that Gin Jamaica all
persons are peculiarly noted for their
in clinaton to work as little as possible"
and little can be hoped from the expec-
tation that negroes would work with
more alacrity in the culture of cotton
than of sugar. eff Manchester folk
want cotton" this writer says, they
"must do more than find the capital
they must secure also the labor to pro-
ducc it.
CIRCULARS are being sent out, under
Senator Summers frank, asking contri-
buttons for the purpose Of distributing
copies Of his recent speech. in favor of
making the war one for the emancipa-
ton OF all the slaves. Speeches meet
ing with popular response do not re.
quire such efforts to force them into
notice. Chicago Journal.
1t is very unkind Of the journal to
intimate thus, that the great Abolition
Senator meets with such absolute dis
favor among the masses. Verify the
great anti-slavery candle is Pickering
in the socket.
.
WE COMMEND to the attention of the
quill end steel-pen warriors the follow
ing sentence from Washington letter
"A General like McClellan-a nan who
has done SO much, and who is ready TO
do more, and who will fulfill eyery ms,
expectation Of his country if he is per.
mitted to take his own course-must
be entirely trusted. Those who hamper
him, no matter what theory they may
suggest, are assuming fearful response.