Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-12-02

We are credibiy informed that sub.
alitutes are to Be had in Wisconsin at
pficss varying from $50 to 5000.

psicss varying from $50 to 5000.
Two pieces Of brass button, shot in.
to the arm Of soldier at 1uka, were re-
Gently extracted at Vinton. So says the
Eagle.
The 22l and 33d regiments Of Iowa
volunteers arrived in St. Louis on the
2lst inst, and were quar,ered in Benton
barracks
GEO. B. UpToS having declined the
Republican nomination for Mayor Of
Boston, F. w. Lincoln has been select
ed, and accepts.
The New York Post mentions the
fact that about the only kind Of paper
hat isn't scarce is Chases paper, and
that is depreciatiog instead Of rising in
price.
TwExrY Of the drafted men Of Mon.
tour county, Pennsylvania, absolutely
refuse to submit TO the draft, and have
40 far defed the efforts of the Marshal
to induce them TO yield to the law.
The 10th regiment leaves about leo
Of their men behind in the kcokuk hos
pital. This reduces their effective force,
who 90 along, to something like eight
hundred and fifty men.
As A STUDY in The difference between
real and bogus greatness, says the New
York World, read tn. accounts OF how
Mcclellan and how Fremont acted when
relieved of command.
Respecting the liability to stamp du-
~ of checks drawn By bankers, trokers
and Others on themselves in the adjust
ment Of outside accounts, the Conms
sioner of Internal Revenue decides thst
such checks are subject to stamp duty.
'IuREK rebel steamers were recently
buiit on the Clyde for the rebels. One
was lost in an experimental TIP; a sec
oni has Just been wrecked near llayana,
and the third is supposed ty the Charles
ton papers to be lost.
COY. OLDES, Of New Jersey, has ap
pointed Richard S Field, Of Princeton,
United States Senator to I'll the vacancy
occasioncd by the death OF Hon. John
Il. Thompson. The term expires on the
4th of March next.
The Boston Post saws that the new
Richmond correspondent of the London
Times is no other than William L. Yam
cey. The New York Herald says it j.
the brother of the "uon. Bob Lawlcy,"
who lately undertook to thimble zig Mr..
Ten Brock Ly public bet.
IRoN CLADs.-The Government has
completed, or in process Of construction,
tifty.one iron clad monsters. They car
ry two hundred and tifty>eight guns.
They vary from three Hundred to five
thousand tons burden, the average be-
ing one thousand tons.
A Bro DEMAND.-The government has
made a requisition upon the railroads
ccntcring in Chicago for ten locomotives
and five hundred box ears, to be at once
forwarded to the Cumberland Valley fol
Gen. Rosencrans. This will be heavy
drain upon the roads, as they have more
freight now than cars to haul it with.
BEFORE the war broke out, 100000
persons were supported in England b,
cotton 3O,OO0,O0O spindles employed
in the production Of the yarn, and the
capital absorbed exceeded $3.50, 100000
Four ii tbs of the cotton consumed in
England-sOo, 100000 pounds = we've
American.
A NUMBER OF ladies' Of Dalton, Ga,
recently went to the State depot and
demanded some salt They we're di
rected to the ccmmissary's office, When
they repaired th.her and demanded
81 salt or blood That officer concluded
to give them the former.
ABour one half Of the drafted men in
this county, says the Racine Journal,
seem to have had very sudden desire
to visit Canada. Ia some towns more
than one half have left. There seems to
be defect in the draft law. ~ it appears
to be nobo iy's business TO bring them
10 camp.
TIE number Of deaths that have DC.
cured among the children in our city
within the last few weeks is truly alarm
ing. We have had no less than from
three to live funerals day for some time
past; and the mortality is not confined TO
infants of tender age, but those of more
advanced years are daily falling victims
10 fever and other malarious diseases
LeucenrorM BuUetin.
Tue war seems to stimulate rather
than retard railroad improvements
There are no less than four railroads in
progress in Pennsylvania, forming yari-
ons connections with New York and
Philadelphia, and the West. The strug-
gle between the two cities is quite ami
mated, to sec which shall command the