Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1863-12-30

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- - eath q alleglanes has ben I'D.
3 - = number OF rebel officers
'oluV4 y Nsvssrs, N. o., who
nsss -, eosp isse our Iises 70 -.
~ : - pardon offered BY the President
80 eslsg istslIisssos tat large so.-
~ ~ - No elt4aasd, Who intend to DO
i2ewiss = ~ earliest opportunity.
80 Wilpiogton papers announce
- arrival Of : great sumbsr Of block.
sde-sansing stsamers. A refugee just
hstteed says thst twesty three arrived
shers the night before he left.
Five hundred conscrpts and substi'
tatsss under . strong guard, passed
through Ciooisnau on Monday from
New Hsmpshire, for different reg ments
e which they have been assigned. They
were oil uniformed but not armed.
The impression At Washington is that
the Democratic Presidential convention
VIII be postponed until July, and that
Ch'c"go will be the place.
II has tssnspired in official quarters
that, although 1t one time named for the
place, Gen. Ro.ecrans has not and viii
not nov he ordered TO the command OF
the DeOartmanA ~ A;..onri
The War Department has refused per
mission to the agents Of Boston, Wor-
cester, and other cities and towns in
Massachusetts 10 enlist cootrabsn % 10
the Warrington District and at Fortress
Monroe, to be credited to the quotas oil
those place. in Maosac busctt.. The en-
listments already made in this city and
In Georgetown for Rhode Island we're
without the sanclion Of the Authorities.
Toe effsbt Of the large demand for
corn for d'still ng purposes upon the sup
ply for military and or Iinary consumP-
tionis attracting in attention official cir
cle' The decrease in the crop this year, a.
shown BY the agricultural report for No
vember, exceeds one huodred and thirty
millions Of bushels. The decreased ex-
port demand will compensate for por-
ton OF this def ieucy. The expectst'or
Of al additional, tax GU high wlues h.s IN
creased the demand for corn and Othe
grams tor dsti ling PURPOSES, aud III
iuti,nated that, il view Of The large neces
sites of the government, which mus. b
supplied while the war lasts, The militia
~ orders forbid dog th" dlst"laison
grain in Kentucky aud Tennessee vii
be extended TO Onio and Illinois at a
early day. The present extensive con
sumption Of corn for dist lat on wi
thus be checked, and the pri,es Of graf
be reduced to the benefit Of the gove. n
ment and other consumers.
The Washington correspondent OF tn
Journal Of Commerce gleaos from Of
fetal sources the following interestio
statistics OF gold and silver Tb
smount Of gold deposited at the Ph'a
delphis Mint during the last fiscal yes'
was t3,40l,374; a. the branch mint i
San Francisco $l7 ,936,ol4.'; and at tn
Asssy Office in New York Sl,sl2,1O6
making a total Of S23,l49,495. Tn
silver deposited at the several place
amounted to $l,674,602, Of which $96i
s79 we're deposited At San Francisco
The total coinage for the year smouute
to 424, ess, ATT and the number OF per
MES made during the year reached Al,
$4,000, which is the largest numbe
ever coined in one year. The value {
the old cents that have been deposile
/ at the Philadelphia mint for exchang
Tor cents Of the new issue, from 1857 /
Me present year, was s2s7,536. Th
image OF al our mints from the four
" IN OF the govei nment t. the prescr
"a, a period OF seventy and q ha
l1fra. amounted t. $ss9,635 ,497. Nov
. exdend;,urts Of tue goverumer
y the last year amounted to STA, 70v
s, it appears that after paying thi
sm in gold aud silver, it would tax
ith;n $l74,925, 500 Of all We ever coin
Lea 10 p y over this fraction Of our ma
Il tionaI debt.
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