Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-12-17
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dence in Mt. Vernon.
Capt. James Sewers, Of the 18th Iowa,
has resigned and gone TO hi. home in
Oskaloosa. Ill health was the cause OF
his resignation.
BY documents transmitted to Congress,
il appears that Secretary Stanton's fees in
California, for one year, as attorney for
government, were $4,000.
The London Times thinks that Prince
Nicholas, the youngest brother Of the
King Of Sweden, will be elected 10 the
Greek throne.
Letters Of Secretary Wcllcs show that
Senator Grimes has recommended and
had appointed six Midshipmen from Iowa,
being more than the State Of New York
is entitled to. An investigation is TO be
had at once.
We are informed by II. ID. Merritt, of
Fort Dodge, that a disease called tho
black leg is very fatal among the cattle
ia Webster county. 1t is exclusively
confined to young cattle Its cause and
its remedy are alike unknown. The
same disease has prevailed considerably
in Illinois but until recent date, It's
ravages were not transferred TO Iowa.
A paper manufacturer on the Kenne
bee i,tofms the Portland E,'ess th.i
here ia no lack OF Iag> in Ma ne that
among those upon whom he has hereto
+ re depended Tor supply he found one
with ten tons, another with teen, an
other with five and so or, but all hold
back, rcn ing TO lell, thinking to get,by
aud by, fifteen or twenty cents apound
Terrible CONSERVATION was created IN
the MI yankee depot, a few days age,
by sold or Of a departing ree'men,
sslng a young woman by mistake, be.
levlng her to be his wife. She WAS on
~ appe4sed upon discovering that the
martial blunderer IA. a very handsome
hskerando and that his ~ile's bonnet
was identical in shade and ,rimmlt &
with her own, which had led to the MIS-
take moreover the gas was not turned
Oh.
The New York World says with truth
that nothing could bc done 50 likely TO
plunge us IN the anarchy OF the Spanish
American Republics As the pcrversion OF
the war for the consi,tntion into Wal
Tor abolition. Tie desc a,ion it will
produce at The South, the fierce, fatal and
iocurable divisions it viii prodnc. at tho
North, will give loose rein to all the bad
passions engeudered in aper'od of great
civil conyulsion.
Il is said that . large con,raband
trade is done by New Yo,k merchants,
Who tit out vessels with ca,goes Of pro
visIo ns ostens,bly for the Mexican mar
ket, brt ,h.t they run INTO RIO Grande
or rome other ha,bor on the Texan
coast, where they take on board cotton
or hides, and il they escape capture
thereby, make good thing Of TIE ven.
turc.
One of,he best private libraries ever
collected at Washington, has lately been
sold Ut aucticn. 1t contains about 2 500
volumes, and the prrson Who owned II
cn,ered the Patent Office ms \ me. senger
about w,nty years age, worked him eli
up to The honorable position OF Chief
Examiner IN said Office, md hay ng been
removed, net with various misfor,unes,
aud committed suicide by cutting his
throat with q carving knife.
The City Council of Galena, on the
sth inst, passed resolution requesting
GOV. Yates to demand OF the Federal
government the return Of Madison Y.
Johnson and David Shcean to the State
of illinois and tina, If any charge is
preferred against them, they shall have
speedy and public trial in the courts of
that State. A Springfield correspondent
of the st. Louis RepuDtican says that, in
compliance it'll this request, Gov. Yates
has requested Mr.. Stanton to release those
prisoners.
The "WHAr Is Ir."-Nava officers
have peercd at and rumin,tel over
strange naval machine which the Gov
eminent has recently constructed at the
BROOKLYN Navy Yard, and of which prac-
teal Use is about 10 lie made. Ii is
unique craft. aud has h-en appropriately
called the What Is It," Ii is of wood,
nearly square. and about fifteen feet wide
by twelve high, and mounts a gun OF ~
most AS nondescnpt character as the
battery. 1t is termed an experimental
battery. II is evidently intended to be
and placed beneath the bot.
tom of vessel, when. by means OF cleo
tricity, the gun will be discharged, AMI
the contents be thrown through the bot
tom OF the ship.
CHICAGO Pork TRADE.-The receipts
Of hogs during the past week, up to date
Of December 10Th, were 42,7SJ live, and
4,i26 drcsscd-sho~ing total Of 46.9ll,
against 5000 the previous week, sos
during the corresponding week of 1861,
and 1852 in 1860.