Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1863-05-04

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A young lady named Katie Walker
was iined t25. in the Provost Court OF
New Orleans, . week or 70 siucc, for
makisg and having il her possesaion
confederate 6sgs.
The value Of property liable to con6s.
cation in the Distiict OF Columbis 10
estimated At seven millions Of dollars.
The Vermont sugar season u over,
and the makers are disappointed. MOI
much more than half the amount made
last year has been made this.
The Richmond E-aminer says inst
the present campaign viii sven 'ne
Confederate debt to 81 ,0oo,ooo,ooo.
A letter from South Pass, in Southern
ul;oo;, ,sys There are good prospects
far fruit Strawberries will be ripe in
ten or twelve days."
The "No Cards mania 10 extending.
We notice that the Canada dapeas at
t.eh " No cards Issued" to their funeral
notices.
Work has commenced on the tele.
graph line from Darlington TO Ot,umwa,
in this State. The line will probably be
completed BY tho LIST Of June.
Posters Ia Carthage, Hancock. COLL.
announce the sale oil sia colored men at
auction, BY o Justice OF the Peace, to
discharge fines and costs incurred ~
them.
The Sioux City Register says that the
settlers of Dakota are under great ap-
prehensions thst they will net be pro.
tectsd from Indian incursions. The
REGISTER editorisly assures the Dsko-
,ans that they will be protected by q
sufficient force Of troops.
A woman was walking in Philadel.
phia street the other evening, With box
Of matches in her pocket, when she fell /;
tho fall ignited the matches and her
clothsr we're set on FIRE; in her alarm
she started to run, thereby tanning the
flames, and she became SO badly burned
that she soon after died in the hospi.
tai.
The Washington correspondent Of the
Baltimore Sun gives on the authority OF
. distinguished republican official that 1t
has been determined finally that Gene
raj Mcclellan is not TO be again called
into the military service. 1t is under
stood tina, his report is just now ready
fer transmission 10 the War Department,
accompanied by request that it should
have an early publication.
1t 10 reported that the War Depart
ment has been put 10 possession, thro
the agency Of tho M'Dowell Commission,
and by other means, of evidence strong
~ sustaining against several officers 10
the Western armies, the most serious
charges, particularly that Of having sold
their colored servants and other men
who have boeu freed by the Presidents
Proclamation, for cotton and money.
A STRANGE RIvER.-Father Missis
sippi 10 most selt willed and peculiar
stroan. He has refused to acquiesce il
any Of the seductive effort Of Genera
Grant to change HE course 7" q
Vicksbarg and has continued and still
continues with persistent obstinacy in hi
old fashioned way TO the gulf. But whiI'
Gen. Grant has been unable with oil hi
digging to coax or drive him out of hi
accustomed channel at Vicksbug a
Napoleon he has taken an opposite freal
and has voluntarily abandoned his ole
bed. Tho bend ten miles below White
river, which is about thirty miles around
has been cut of by tho river unaided By
spade, dredging machine or contrabsnd
The new cut oil shertens the rive, som,
twenty miles and is already so large tha
stsamboats:pass through il with case sne
safety.