Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-12-24
mcial Paper Of tie City and County.
WEDNESDAY MORNING.. dec. %. 1862
Late News BY Last Nights Nails.

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CrNcINNArI News, 22p.-Reports to-
day from Lexington and Paris, Ky, are
that . guerrilla force numbering ovel
1000 horsemen have appeared at Mount
Sterling, and that they are moving to
wards the Coyington and Lexington Rail
road, to tear up the track and preve.,
supplies from reaching Gen. Granger's
force, now in the Interior of that State
A number Of Union citizens came down
from Faris to-day, and represent con-
siderable alarm existing in consequence
of the enemy's approach. There is every
reason to believe that the rebels will yet
make Kentucky . battle field, and are
now completing arrangements in Easte, n
Tennessee to move force Of 10000
through Cumberland Gap to the Ohio
river. They will meet with a warm re
ception, as the government have already
several hundred immense guns stored in
Co.ington, ready to be mounted on the
Notifications should an exigency arise.
1t is not improper to say that rumors
are afioat that General Gratis almost en-.
tire army will abandon Mississippi for the
present Also that the expedition down
tho Mississippi river may not move for
several weeks.
In intercepted letters from Knoxville,
the following list Of prices at that point
Is given: Per pound--common tea, SIG;
soda, $3.50; sugar, Is cts; bacon 80 to
40 cts. salt, Il cts. coffee, 80; flour
$50 per barrel wood, $40 to $50 per
cord. The latter seems incredltabIe. but
it is so written. Apples, IS per bushel
pins, { per paper; boots, $50 per pair;
hats, SIS to S35 each; calico, 5Octs. per
yard.
A letter from slavetradcr SAYS he is
buving negroes in Richmond for 200
and 81 800, and selling them in Georgia
and Alabama for 81 500 and 81 600.
At Murfrccsbo,o boots were &55 per
rair; jean pants, $50; needles 25 cents
each; pins IS cents per paper; dress
coats, $50; butter, & and $3.50 per ID.
chickens, $l.5O and e. each; eggs ii
per dozen. One fellow paid $50 for
cotton hat.
CAIRO News, o2d.-The capture Of
Holly Springs is confirmed by q railroad
agent, who saw the cars burning when he
left.
The railroad between Holly Springs
and Oxford was to have been finished on
the 18th. Between Oxford and Grenada
it is broken in several places, and repairs
have not yet begun. No repairs arc
being made to the Memphis aid Charles
ton Railroad from Memphis TO Grand
Junction.
At Lexington, Tenn, skirmish took
place last Friday, between the 5th Obi ,
Cavalry, Tennessee regiment under & o.
uawkins, and considerable body O,
rebels. wherein our troops were BADLY Gu,
up, and large number taken prisoners,
among whom was Col Hawkins. lie
and Others afterward escaped, ar d reach
ed Trenton just in time to be taken again
by the enemy, who had just captured the
town.
Gen. Sherman moved from Memphis
on the 18th. II was supposed he would
endeavor TO flank the rebels, who aye
fo,titying on the Big BLACK River. Most
Of the Confederate srmy is said to be near
Grenada, where they are are trying to
bring things into shape, and make show
of order, then retreat to the Big Black,
and there make stand
WAsHNGroN News, 22d.-Lste last
night it was discovered that tn, efforts
made by Secretaries Stanton AZ ID blair tc
induce the President not TO accept tn,
designations Of Secretaries Seward anc
Cha,e had succeeded, and that, in addi
tion, the President had written then
letters, desiring them to emain, believing
as he says, that it Is Incompatible will
the public interest TO them 10 leave tn,
Cabinet at the prese mt time. Therefore
this morning, boz n Chase and Sewart
returned to theV departments.
The Senate .ial caucus is very mucl
disgusted at I lis sudden turn Of atfairs,-
the oPponep IS claiming that the retention
OF the Cao' net il an anti-radical triumph
though N ners do not see it in that light
MIsc ELLANEous.-The 42d and 43c
Iowa tgiments, now incomplete, are T.
be co nsolidated. Summers Of Ottumwa
now Of the AID. will be Colonel Of tn
reg .mcnt thus formed; O'Brien, now O
thu 42d, Lieut.. Colonel; and Dr. Nc
q orisk, OF this place, now OF the 18th
Surgeon. The new regiment will be th
42d.
The Quincy Herald says that the sen
timent Of the Democracy Of Illinois, so ia
rs it has yet had an expression, seems I
point TO Col. Wm. A. Richardson, Of ths
city, ~ its choice for United States Sen
ator.
Dr. ?. Gregg, Of Rock Island, has bee