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Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-06-02

Bill ARD TABLE
SHARP'S PATENT CUSHIONS
are we'll known to be superior to all others. Pa
tented November 1859. Mandatory
l4s FULTON STREET, NEW YORK.
Now and second hand Tables, Bale, Cues, Trim
Iaings, DO. &c.
% II ID Il II 8 b NJ all
WILL RECEIVE
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Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-06-02
Rifo Inland And LII lns. lgeDcy Of
JOHN l.. swIrs.
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4
i Iowa, Jan. 1st, 1863.
The name Of the Company 70 :
surance Company Of Hsr
Hartford, Conn.
The capital ST. OK Of the Comp
The amt Of capital stock Paid
The assets Of the Company q
Pal
100 shares Park Bank
stock, n. Y. Go
100 shares Continental
Bank stock, n Y II
100 shares Metropolitan
Bank stock, NY
100 shares Importers and
Traders Bank stock,N Y
80 sh ares Bank of Repub-
lie bank stock, NY
100 shares Market Bank
stock, NY
100 shares Shoe and Lea
ther Bank stock, N Y !
100 shares Merchants Blk
stock, NY
SO shares Bank Of Com
merce bank stock, Bos-
ton
IS shares Hide and Lea
thor bank stock, Boston
100 shares Safety Fund
bank stock, Boston
100 shares Revere Bank
stock, Boston l
50 shares Union Blk stock:
Albany
l04 shares Mercantile BIZ
rtock, Hartford
100 shares Charter Oak
Bank stock, Hartford
50 shares Phoenix Bank
stock. Hartford
50 shares Etna Bank sto'k
Hartford
50 shares Merchants and
Manufacturers Blk stock
Hartford
rs shares City Bank stock
Hartford
ITO shares Bank Of Hart
ford County bank stock,
Hartford
$50 shares Exchange Ba'k
stock, Hartford
10 Brooklyn City Water
Bonds, 81 900 each,
3 Hartford City Bonds,
81 900 each
10 Indiana Central Rail-
road bonds, 81, 900 each
Certificate Ohio state
| Stock
IA Hartford / N. Fl. r. r.
| Bonds,
5 Connecticut State bo'ds
Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-06-02
METROPOLITAN

open DAY AND EVENING. THREE OF
~ the best Tables in the State, and In the bet
order, can 30 found at this Saiooa. Choiee
W.L6ES, LIQUORS, LIE, &C.,
At TIE BAR.
Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-06-02
Total assets Of the Company
LIAnLrrIIs.

Losses adjusted and due, viz: Fire,
nothing; lnland Navigation, nothing
Losses adjusted and not due,v Fire,
nothing; Inland Navigation. nothing
Losses unsdjusted and in suspense,
awaiting proof, viz: Fire, 81 $4,000;
Inland Navigation, $4,000
Losses claimed but resisted by the
Company, viz: Fire, nothing; In.
land Navigation, nothing
All other claims against this Company
nothing
Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-06-02
$500, 4OO. 90 $1e5,5lO.OO

$500, 10000 $165, $1,000
Accrued interest on In
vestments, payable jan
uary 1st, 1862 $l,5S522
Balance on books due from
Agents 5.733.37
Cash on hand and in
banks 23.35S99
Cash in hands Of Agents
or in transit, less com
missions and charges 100000
Loans on mortgages Of real
estate 2094O0O
Loans secured by pledge
Of bank and other silks 44,759oO
Office furniture and libra
~ 1,l2s37
Total assets ---$30o,3149 5
LIABILITIES.
No liabilaties on banks or
others, due and not due.
No losses adjusted i due.
Losses adjusted and not
due $4,1s4.51
do reported unadjust.
ed, or in suspense wait
ing further proof l7,515.00
No other claims against the Company.
Tho ruo of the Company limits the amount Of
any one risk to $4,000.
The greatest amount allowed to be insured in any
one city, town or village varies according to its
size and class Of property.
The greatest amount allowed to be insured in any
one block, varies as in the preceding.
No part of its Capital or earnings are deposited
with any State or States as security for losses
therein.
Act of incorporation is same as heretofore filed.
c. 3. BOWERS, President.
G. c. WAITE, Sec'y.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-10-31
The Draft In MARYLAND.

The draft has commenced in Mary
land. The Baltimore American says:
Upon some counts of the State, where
the disloyal sentiment prevails, the draft
will fall heavily. Calvert county has moi
sent a single volunteer to the field
Charles but one, Montgomery only seven,
Prince Georges two. and St. Mary's four.
Theae counties have therefore nearly
their whole quota to raise, whilst their
able-bodied population has been reduced
by their young men going South. Some
other counties are also largely deficient.
Baltimore county has but one third OF
her quota in the field. Caroline has, next
to Cecil and Kent, done best among the
Eastern Shore counties, and has but Sc
men to furnish. The aggregate quota of
the State is 1888, number of volunteers
3.343-leaving a deficiency of 5000 to
be filled by draft.
The draft, we learn, will be enforced
with vigor and promptness, wherever the
enrolment lists are completed on Wednes-
day next. Where the lists are not COM
pleted it will take place as soon thereaf-
ter as the enrolment is finished A suffi-
cient military force will be provided to
protect all officers whilst in the discharge
of their duties.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-10-31
A Prayer for Our Armies.
BY BISHOP GREEN, OF MISSISSIPPI

Almighty God, Whose Providence
watches over all things, and in Whose
hands is the disposal of all events we
look up to Thee for Thy protection and
blessing amidst the apparent and great
dangers, with which we are cncompassed.
Thou hast, in Thy wisdom, permitted
the many evils of an unnatural ano de-
structive war to come upon us. Save us
we beseech Thee, from the hands of our
enemies. Watch over our fathers and
husbands, and brothers, and sons, who,
trusting in Thy defence and in the
righteousness of our cause have gone
forth to the service of their country
May their lives be precious in Thy sight.
Preserve them from all the dangers to
which they may he exposed. Enable
them successfully to perform their duty
to Thee and to their country, and do
Thou, in Thine infinite wisdom and pow
er, so override events, and so dispose the
hearts of all engaged in this painful
struggle, that it may soon end in peace
and brotherly love, and lead not only to
the safety, honor and welfare OF our
Confederate States, but to the good of
Thy people, and the glory of Thy great
name, Through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-10-31
Resistance to the Enrolment for
the Draft in Pennsylvania.

In various sections of Pennsylvania a
very bad, disloysl disposition has been
evinced by Irish citizens, instigated by
Democratic politicians. They have been
shamefulIy imposed upon by Rebel SYM
pathizers, who have falsely assured them
that the draft and all proceedings under
it were illegal Although the draft was
to have taken place yesterday, it was i'm
possible to complete the enrolment in
the town Of Blakely, Luzerne county. un.
til the day before. Several fruitless at
tempts have been made to complete the
enrolment and on Friday last military
company was taken to the place, when q
fight with the Irish ensued. The militia.
ny was obliged to fire upon them, killing
four or five, and again on Wednesday zoe
of the military, with small cannon
were taken up, when the affair assuming
a serious aspect, the Irishmen desisted
from their opposition, and the enroll
ment was at last completed.
The same trouble has been experience
led in Carbondale. The same class of cit
liens residing in the lower wards, have re-
sisted SO stubbornly that the enrolling Of
ficers have been entirely unable to com
plete their labors.
Also in Scranton the same resistance
was shown, but the officers succeeded in
completing the enrolment Baltimore
A nlerican.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-10-31
An Army Anecdote.

The Monticello (Fla.) Friend publishes
the following:
DR.. Palmer, Surgeon of the I'd Florida
regiment, relates good joke on himself,
which happened during one of the holly
contested battles below Richmond. 1t
appears the Doctor always endangered to
select building for hospital as near
the point where the battle ragged as posi-
BILE. On this occasion no suitable build
ing could be found, and the shade of q
tree was resorted to. Upon approaching
the place, an old gentleman, in citizen
dress, was observed reclining at its trunk.
Dr.. p, surprising him to be a straggler
from one of the regiments, demanded to
know what he was doing there. The on
ly reply made by the old gentleman was:
~ reckon there is room enough for both of
u.s." The Doctor manifested some dis
pleasure at this very unsatisfactory reply,
but proceeded Immediately to clear the
ground for the reception of wounded
soldiers. Presently a courier rode up,
exclaiming, Dispatches for Gen. Lee."-
The supposed straggler Immediately arose
and received them. DR.. Palmer was as
tonished and chagrined. and commenced
retreat. when Gen. Lee observing him,
cried out; Don't leave, Major, there is
room enough for both of u.s."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-10-31
News from the South.

Charleston, Oct. 23.-The enemy advan-
ced yesterday morning in two columns,
against Coosawhatchie, and the other a.
gainst Pocotaligo. He was repulsed from
Pocotaligo by our forces. At Coosawhat-
chic he succeeded in gaining the railroad,
but before he could do it much damage,
our troops came up and drove him off,
The railroad and telegraph wires are now
repaired and are in working order. The
enemy's gunboats are anchored below
Coosawhatchie.
Oct. 24.-The affair at Pocotaligo result
ed in complete victory for us. Our loss
Is killed and 40 wounded. The enemy
left 40 dead on the battlefield. His tota
loss. confirmed by accounts of prisoners
is rot less than 200 killed and wounded
We took 80 small arms. The enemy
force consisted of six regiments with ont
field battery and two boat howitzers.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-10-31
A Demand for Foreign Interference

-
From London Herald, Derby Organ,) Sept. 1871
There lisa degree Of inhumanity in the
attitude on this question assumed by the
European powers which seems to us to
call for the sternest censure. We are
standing with folded arms and a placid
expression on our faces, while America is
being made desert, and Americans, most
yaliantly, are hacking one another to
pieces. Will it advantage us at all that
the spirit of the country should be broken,
a whole generation of young men slain or
MANNED In the cruelest of unjust wars,
lel.d the benefits the world might receive
from this thriving and once happy con-
tinent postponed for century? Let us
do something as we are Christian men,
1t does not matter what they call it,
Term it arbitration, intervention, diplo-
matte action, recognition of the South, re-.
monstrence with the North, friendly in
terferance or forcible pressure Of some
sort-whatever form or shape our action
may assume, let us do something to stop
this carnage. For each year of this war
at least 200, 900 men are slain in battle
Millions may be said to be wounded or
stricken with diease; and for every one
killed, wounded or sick, a family is mourn
ing.
A territory larger than Europe is given
up to horrors that might have figured in
Dante's Inferno. Over fair Virginian
plantations, and homesteads in old Ken
lucky, by the rivers of Tennessee, on the
prairies of Missouri and Arkansas, among
the cane and rice fields of Louisiana and
Georgia, red handed war strides triumph
ant. What have all these people done
that they should be so directly visited?-
The cause of this war lisa chimera, fatal
infatuation. Let us not be content with
mutterng this ourselves, let us tell the
Americans what we think of it, and cry
hold! while something yet remains for
Americans to fight about. If our gov
eminent will not do this we must hold
them in part responsible for the contin
uance of this plague of civil war, thi
standing outrage and aggression agains
God and man.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-10-31
Fighting for the Fat Gourd,

The true object tor which the Lincoln
Government is prosecuting the war, is
well illustrated in an incident which oc
Cured during the Federal occupation Of
the gallant county of Jackson, Ala. A
patriotic matron, annoyed, but not at all
intimidated, by the unlimited visit of q
Federal soldier, asked him-"What are
you Yankees fighting for, any how?"-
He returned, for answer, the styreotyped
one-"Why, for the Union and the Con
stitution." "Well," said the matron, 81
suppose you found the Union and the
Constitution when you stole Mrs. Sim
mons fat gourd, tother day."
The North is fighting for the Southern
fat gourd; in other words, to enrich them
selves on the fat of the land at Southern
expenses, but they are much more likely
to throw all of their own fat in the fire,
saws the Huntsville Confederate,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-10-31
Gen. McClellan's Order.

The Washington correspondent of the
New York Express, writing of the order
issued by Gen. Mcclellan to his troops,
just after Lincoln's emancipation procla-
nation, forbidding the discussion of po-
litical matters in camp, says:
The late order of Gen. Mcclellan to the
army of the Potomac, relative to discus.
sions by officers and soldiers, concern
ing public measures determined upon
and declared by the Government" has
been received with much favor by con-
sentative men in Washington. 1t is, of
course perfectly understood that the Or
der refers to discussions Of the emancipa-
ton proclamation, which has undoubtedly
excited great deal of adverse feeling in
the army, the original republican OF
contact with the negroes of the South;
whilst the democrats are more firmly fix
ed in their political principles than be-
fore they knew anything of the practical
workings OF slavery. Among the vast
majority of officers and mon, the procla-
nation has excited the most bitter ami
madversion, particularly since it became
known that the rebel government was
CohoiucIiuE VIC cApcuicuCy vi uuOpllHS
a retaliatory policy, on which the soldiers
of the Union, who abhor Abolitionism
and all its priests and partisans, are to
| become the victims of the sword or the
hangman, should they fall into rebel
hands after emancipation measures shall
be inaugurated. You may rest assured
that the sentiments of the army have
been very freely expressed; and in some
cases, the feeling of Indignation has been
so profound as to require little fostering
to ripen into something nearly akin to
mutiny. have myself heard many Off
GERS and soldiers declare most positively
that nothing shall ever induce them to
fight in support of Abolitionism. They
say they are in arms to vindicate the con-
stitution and the laws of the land and
will never consent to be made tools in the
hands of designing fanatics, to add still
| further to the horrors of war already of
the most sanguinary character. These
observations are suddenly hushed, since
the issue of Gen. McClellan's order, and
no further difficulty on the subject need
be apprehended for the present. The
army will wait till the LIST of January
next, to see whether the Government
really intends to carry into effect polio,
certain to draw from the desperate chief
of the rebellion system of reprisals
whose character, is already foreshadowe'
by the resolutions offered in the rebe
Congress, and is sufficient to make hu
manity shudder,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-10-31
Sound Sentiment from Washington

SOunQ sentiment from washington
Washington Correspondence ofthe Chicago Times.
By issuing this proclamation of eman-
cipation, Mr. Lincoln has taken that step
which the radicals have been striving to
induce him to take ever since his inaugu-
ration; and he has now thrown himself
irrevokably into their arms and taken his
stand upon their platform. They are
worse disunionists than jeff Davis E
Wigfall. They have declared, not aay
louder since Mr.. Lincoln's Inauguration
than before, shat there shall be no @sfe
slave States in the Union" although all
their efforts since that event, havebeen
steadily directed to accomplish HAT re-
suit. Ever since the war began, they
have declared that the Union shall never
be restored with slave States in it; that
the slave States were now cut off the
Union, and that no slave State should ever
again be admitted into the Union. They
have now accomplished their purpose, so
far as it is in their power to do so. The
President, after struggling with them up
to this time, has at last given way before
the pressure" and has given them all
they asked ofhim. They brought on the
war in order to abolish slavery; and, al.
though they concealed their purpose un-
til the Northern people were so commit
ted to the war that they could not draw
back, now at last, the mask is thrown
off. No sane man can shut his eyes to
the fact that the war is carried on by the
present administration, not to restore the
Union us il was, but to abolish slavery.
If there be any latent Union feeling
still existing in any remote corner of any
of the Southern States, this proclamation
will crush it out forever. The Union
men of the South, if there be any, will
see in it the deliberated, expressed inten-
ton on the part of the Government to
rob them of their property-to reduce
them to poverty. 1t is the cruelest mock
cry to talk of compensation. Every states.
man, every man who understands the
financial condition of the country, knows
that it is as much in the power of Mr.
Lincoln to pull down the sun in heaven
as it is to make any compensation what
ever to loyal men in the South who will
be reduced to penury and want by tn,
operation of this proclamation.
1t is idle to suppose however, that i
will have any general effect so far as slave
ny is concerned. 1t may cause insured
ton in Maryland and Kentucky, and
may reduce to poverty many widow an,
true Union man in those States, who wi,
look in vain to Mr.. Lincoln for compen
sation. But its chief effect at presen
will be to unite the Southern and horde
States as one man, to carry on the war
and to resist to the utmost government
which thus proclaims its purpose to i'm
poverish their people. The effect of thu
proclamation will be, then, to carry oil
the war indefinitely, and to furnish to tn,
South additional means of doing so, t,
the extent of tens of thousands of mel
from the border States.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-10-31
An Act.
To Establish Places Of RENDEZVOUS for the E:r
animation of Enrolled Men.

To Establish Places Of Rendezvous for the Er-
animation Of Enrolled Men.
The Congress of the Confederate States
do enact, That there shall be established
in each county, parish or district in the
several States, a place of rendezvous for
the persons in said county. district, parish
or city, enrolled for military duty in the
field, who shall be there examined by one
or more Surgeons to be employed by the
government, to be assigned to that duty
by the President, on day of which ten
days notice shall be given by said Surgeon,
and from day 20 day next thereafter until
all who shall be in attendance for the pur-
pose of examination shall have been ex-
ahmed; and the decision of said Sur
geons, under regulations to be established
by the Secretary of War, as to the physi-
cal and mental capacity of any such per-
son tor military duty in the field shall be
final; and those only thus ascertained to
be fit for military duty in the field shall
be required to assemble at camps of in
struction.
Sec. 2. There shall be assigned to each
Congressional District in the several States.
three Surgeons. who shall constitute a
Board of Exemption in such district for
Cuo purpOso Spccilcu III tuc IOrtSOlllE
section, any one or more of whom may
act at any place of rendezvous in said dis
tricts.
Sec. 8. When it shall appear to any
Surgeon attending such place of rendez-
vous by the certificate Of respectable
physician resident in that county, dis
trict parish or city in county, parish,
or district, that any enrolled person there
in is unable to attend on account of sick.
ness. it shall be the duty OF said Surgeon
to file said certificate with the commen.
dant of the nearest camp of instruction,
and il the person named therein shall not
within reasonable time report himself
for examination at said camp of instruc
ton, or his continued disability certified
by the certificate of respectable physi
clan of his county, city, district or parish
he shall be held liable as absent without
leave of his commanding officer.
Approved. Oct. IL, 1862.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-10-31
A Sharper"

IL is stated that an officer of compa
ny lately made good financial specula
ton, (if gross fraud can be called good
in recruiting in Connecticut. He enlist
ed about thirty men in Hartford, sold
them to another captain at $40 head
got his own pay and bounty, and then en-
listed as a substitute, selling himself fol
$3.50; got the cash, went into camp, rar
the guard at night, went to his own town
procured the town bounty of 5000, anc
then, with pocket full of rocks, disap
peared.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-10-31
Speech from a Consul.

The French residents of Mobile, Ala,
last week presented NJ. Portz, the French
Vice Consul there, with cane. In a
little speech acknowledging the compli-
ment, the Mobile Tribune says that
He regretted that the South had not
yet been recognized by his Government,
but from his full conviction that France
would always be found in support of a
rightful cause. he was satisfied that this
act of justice would not be long delayed;
and that this hope was now stronger than
ever in his mind, from the tenor of his
recent advices.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-10-31
J JACKSON ONCE SuRRouNpEp.-An arr

JACKSON ONCE SURRoUNDED.--An army
correspondent tells the following Incl
dent that occurred in Maryland between
Stonewall jackson and the ladies. They
surrounded the old game cock (he said,
"ladies, this is the first time ] was ever
surrounded,'O and cut every button off
his coat, and, they say, commenced on
his pants, and at one time it was feared
he would be in the uniform of Georgia
Colonel minus all except a shirt collar
and pair ofspurs. For once he was bad
" scared.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-10-31
Buffers Rule in New Orleans.

The Beast Butler has CONDEMNED Uriah
G. Patterson, of New Orleans, to be con
fined for six months at Fort Pickens, al
hard labor, with twenty-four pound bal
attached to his leg by a chain, for ian in
sulting and sedicious report to the au
thorities Of the United States"
1t appears that Mr.. Patterson register
ed himself as an ''enemy of the Constitu
ton, as interpreted and executed by the
present Abolition Government of the
United States, but friend to the Consti
tuition and Union, as interpreted by the
immortal, pure Henry Clay"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-10-31
Connecticut Election.

As the returns from the town elections
in connecticut come in they continue to
exhibit large democratic gains. Thus far
the vote shows that forty-six have gone
democratic, twenty.eight republican and
fourteen fusion. Last year sixty-four of
the same towns went republican and
twenty-four democratic.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-10-31
Abe's Niger Soldiers.

Richmond, Oct. 23.-On Tuesday last Jo-
seph A. Graves, Commemorative Attor-
ney of Surrey county, j. M. SILVER. I'M
Gle of Mrs. Allen of Ciaremont, and a
youth named Geo. Graves, went over to
jamestown Island where they where sciz-
ed by negroes and shot by order of ne
gro protesting to be Colonel of Yankee
regiment of blacks. THE victims held
high positions in society, ard the affair
has produced much sensation.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-10-31
pa- The Boston Traveller, speaking of

In some portions of the State workmen
are scarce, in consequence of the drain
for the war. The laborers upon the
wharves of this city have society which
numbers over 500 members, who are
pledged not to work for less than 25 cents
per hour. Shoemakers are in demand in
all the manufacturing towns, and we hear
OF places where masons and other me.
chanics cannot be obtained at any price.
The same state Of affairs exists in other
States, and especially in largo cities.