Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1863-03-10

All packages, from any part OF the
State, put on hoard Of any OF orr lines
Of pablic transportation, and addressed
to Mrs. Anne Wi,tenmysr, care Of
Par.ragc & Co., ST. Loais, Mo- will be
sure to go where most needed, free Of
charge, or rather the Government will
pay tho charges.
I confidently appeal to the patriotism,
liberality aud humanity Of the good peo-
pie Of Iowa, that this call be promptly
and fully me.
SA.urL J. HARDWOOD.
4 wrITER signing himself Union, in
a Michigan alminis,rs ton newspaper
organ Of tho Chandler persuasion, says +:
my conntrymen, let me warn ysu, a.
you value republican government and
your personal liberty, to reject with
scoFn any proposition ci peace, coming
from what source II may, tina. does not
contemplate the preservation OF the
country a. 9 whole. the elevation Of the
laborlng classes, ard the untlersal eaaaa.-
cipation Of he human race"
Thua it seems the war is 10 continue
until We not only emancipate the ne
grpes in the South, but secure freedom
TO the whole human race. TLess are
the abolition party t~ac,lcs, and there IL
as much hope OF success in tie latter
, enterprise &C in the former.
TnE New York Harold gives an az.
lorn. of the death Of Thomas Jcficrson
Shelly, coach drives for the United
States Hotel, New York, who died fron
aufi ocstion 90 Friday. Ills weight was
FIVE hundred t5oo) ponds. About
eight yeara ago he commenced to grow
lat, aud has gradually increased weight
until i, waa with lliiiculty that he could
breathe. He was such a curiosity that
Barnum at one time exhibited him al
the Museum. Shelly vas thirty-nine
years 0! a-e, AID a natisy oI iiai..os!,
4 I'm luoN or sPElcu-Aluxander lIar.
ris, n member Of the Lancaster county
(pcnn.) bar, was arrested at York, on
the goth ult.. by the Provost guard. on
the charge Of say ing that he would as
soon DO called a seccssionist as an aboll
zionist. A writ OF hadeas corpus soon
took him from the hands OF the military
authorities, and, after q short examina-
tor, he was discharged by Judge
Fisher.
FIRE Ar MorNr NERNoN.-The green
house vt Mount Vernon was burned on
Friday Of last week. The original green
house, built By Washington, was burned
in 1887, and the one now destroyed wal
erected by Judge Bnshrod Washington,
while he was the owner OF Mount Yer
non, same forty years since.
FREE NEGROES IN OHIo.-Over eighty
thousand laborers of Ohio have petition
ed the General Assembly Of Ohio TO
pass a law excluding in the future negro
and mnlatto immigration into that State.
The majority Of that body being aboli-
t%ionists, declined to comply with the re.
quest.
Srrr,ur ny AcrouSr or Auot frroy-
IsM.-Lewis Carr, a wealthy citizen of
posey county, Indiana, committed sui
eide on Saturday last, by hanging him
self with a log ctain. lie was a ~yiolant
abolitionis', and became insane on the
subject Of aoo,itionism.
! TIM TuAMas T,NSeL.-I. is at last
Intended TO make the Thames Tunnel
something more than a damp. nnpleas-
ant show. a railway is to rua through
it, and TINS connect the railways whose
termini are at the northern sido OF The
river with those to the south.
The SEA SERrHNT.-The real genu-
inc original sea serpent 10 said to have
been caught on the east coast OF South
America. lie was one hundred aud iity
feet lorg. with a head and tail like a liz
ard, and it took six men TO carry one Of
It's ribs.
GES. ScolT.-Geu. Scott ono. more
begs to be excused by correspondents.
Rheumatism in the hand makes il diff
cult TO write. Hence the mass of mae
k~uowledged letters, mostly asking for
autographs, is daily increasing upon