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Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1864-08-31

r ANDS INJOIlNSON. MUSCATINE, IOWA
IL Poweshiek, Jasper. Jones. Louisa Des-
Moines, Calhoun, Carroll, Cerro Gordo and Frank
lin counties.
GEO. l.. DAVENPORT, Executor
Or JOHN l.. COFFIN
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pAiSlCIAN AND SURGEON. Office IN
- basement OF state Bank Building Residence
9th St, bet. Bardy and Perry streets. nolydw
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IT OwENTHAL, ROTHsCHlLD : CO.. NAN
- facturers Of Plug Toh0coo.Ciesr,
wholesale dealers IL Lsaf, Zine Cut, bnokina
and Tobacoo and - South Wstoe Htroo1 .Ohi11
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FRESH FAMILY GROCERIES

MIS- DOOLEY
Family Grocer.
HEEPS CONSTANTLY ON HAND. AT
N his old stand, corner of Fifth and Brady
streets, a large and most complete stock OF the
best Groceries, comprising
TEAS OF ALL KINDS !
Co!iees and Sugars,
Syrups. Molasses, Candies,
Soaps, Starch, Wooden Ware,
Dried Fruit, Spices,
Soda Salt, Kerosene,
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DIR. ii. W.. McCARN.
y. w. n. BAKER,

DHllClAN AND SURGEON. Of'tlCE IN
room over Post Office. Residence Gust side
Of Brady-2d door from 9Th 81 July ldwtt
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Passengers get the full benefit Of the aboxe y
nnrch asing tickets at the Grand Trunk Ticket Of
A. A. nrIx En- Desrbon street, Chicago, ~ Clark
srees Chicago, "a Main street W a ~.
= = HiBBARD, West n Ag't W. Cent
&. J. BRYDGES. kansgias Drsssss. 1
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tfshA Convention permanent
~ organized.

CHICAGO, Aug. 30.
no.veatiou called to order ct 10 O'Clock
~ che Chsir0sn.
~ prosssdisgs opsasd with prayer ~
D,ehoe Whitshoose.
0"rniteee on Credentials then reported
..s,..e ~ edn,ssiou a delegates from the
T:,,,toriee and District Of Columhis, also
- I'D hoth deleestions from Kentucky,
eech delegation to cast halt . VOTE Report
adopted. .,,
Huehcs. chairman committee on ofgeni..
eesloe. reported thas che committee hso
unanimously agreed npon Horstio Seymour
:, Preetdsne. who took the chair smtost
prolonged spplsase. One vice f1es'"e"'
rom each State was apponted.
On motion Of Coz OF Ohio Amos Non
dali. President National CONSERVATIVE com-
miitee. had leave to present co'nmonics
ION, containing the proceedings anu scslon
al tho Conservative Union Nationai Con'
vention, held 10 this city yesterday.
The widest applause followed tho read
ine Of . resolution BY the Secretary recon-
mending Mcclellan for the Presidency.
Mr.. Guthrie, chairman u ~ esmmittee
81 resolue ons, stated that the SEVERAL res
,lutions referred to said committee yssDsr-
dav. had been referred to the sub. commit
&c and there was reason to believe they
would be- ready to report this afternoon
furthermore there was fair prospect Of or.
wing ct . harmonious conclusion and pro-
posed recess until 4 o'clock. After con.
,idersble discussion the motion was put
and carried.
The attendance to-day, both inside and
,utside, 10 even greater than yesterday and
he enthusiasm seems to DO on the IN
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nFFICE In FAIRBANKS BLOCK. CORNEp
~ OF Brady and Second streets IN stairs IN
venport Iowa. Special attention given 10 treat.
meni OF Chronic diseases and Female compiant.
o. every variety, and treats Cancers and alI dis
eases pertaining thereto without using the knife
BY new process-safe and eficctual in all curnble
cases Office hours from u. IN. to 4 y. m.
Address Box 800 enIA dA,.Iv
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-02-05

Mr.. LINCOLN has had several thousand
copies of the Amnesty Proclamation
struck off. They are printed in large type,
and at the close is the following notice,
from which we gather that what were
called during General Washington's Ad-
ministration Commissioners of Par
dons /" are to administer the oath and re-
cord the restoration to civil rights:
The book wherein to record the taking of
the above oath by such persons as may apply,
is in the custody of f., at, who is au-
torized to administer the said oath to such
persons of that vicinity, and is required to give
every person requesting it certificate in form
be authoritatively provided, sufficient evidence
of the facts certified to entitle the holder to
the benefits provided in said proclamation:
CERT1FIcATE-I do hereby certify that on
day of-186-, at the oath pre-
sented by the President of the United States
in his proclamation of December eighth. eigh-
teen hundred and sixty-three, was duly taken.
subscribed and made matter of record by -
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-02-05
Rich Pickings of New York Lawyers.
We clip the following from late New

We clip the following from late New
York correspondence of the Poston Post !:
Some of our eminent limbs of the law are
fobbing immense fees nowadays; the incomes
of the most favored advocates being almost
fabulous in amount. Twenty five thousand
dollars a year used to be considered well
worthy any lawyers while and the hope of en-
jOying even tithe OF that sum has made many
an humble bar-tenders mouth water. But in
these trOublOus and litigOus times the big-wig
lawyers look upon twenty-five, thirty. or even
forty thousand dollars as no great affair of an
income, and retainers OF one, two and three
thousand dollars drop into their hands with as
little concern on their parts as One-tenth the
sum was wont to inspire ten or n dozen years
ago. To prove that political prominence paws.
may instance the case of leading Democrat
ic lawyer who last year received one hundred
and twenty-five thousand dollars for conduct
ing two suits, and also the case of the most no.
tOriOus of our Radical Republican ATTORNEYS.
whose fee, in a certain celebrated Mining Com
panys law suit, was one hundred thousand dol
lars worth of the COmpany's stock-which he
realized Oh " at sXty-f cents on the dollar.
just think of sixty-tive thousand dollars as a
single counsel fee! l ought to add that most
of the p. ointment lawyers of New York are in
the enjoyment of incomes ranging from thirty
thousand to seventy thousand dollars year.
Talk about the uncertainties of law! Surely,
the only doubtful or uncertain thing about it
so far as the lawyers are concerned-is
whether they couldn't get more if they had the
cheek to ask it! Their motto would seem to
be borrowed from SCOTS Marmion-"CHARGE,
Chester, CHARGED"
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heavy armies now organizing for purposes
of invasion.
His Excellency President Davis grayely
tells Congress, in his message, that he has
means of enforcing the respect of ma
tions, particularly that of Great Britain,
and simply by declaring paper blockade
of the ports of the Northern States He
states, unhesitatingly, also, that paper
blockade exists along the three thousand
five hundred miles of the southern coast,
and expects the Southern Confederacy to
forget that only one month before, when
at Wilmington, North Carolina, lie had
assured the people the whole force OF the
Confederacy would be given to protect
them, since theirs was the only port not
closed by the enemy. Had he extended
his peregrinations to tie mouth of the
river, he could have counted twenty
blockading vessels lying off this Enclosed
port The rema; nder of the three thou
sand five hundred miles of southern coast
has been closed effectively by a paper
blockade, and Wilmington alone remains
open to commerce, subject, it is true, to
the risks of capture incurred in passing
the twenty vessels of war lying in wait
We will say to Congress and to Presi-
dent Davis that a careful study of the last
census report of the United States will
correct or destroy many perturbations in
their minds as well as our own. Let them
legislate so as to increase the number of
cows, and think no more of the negro
The land, then, instead of being desolated
by war, and the inhabitants gaunt with
privations and misery, will flow literally
with milk and honey, as in times of yore.
A census taken now, as recommended
by his Excellency Mr. Davis, in the same
manner as that OF 1880. over the districts
that might be effected, would show plainly
the waste of war. How many men be-
tween the ages of eighteen and fifty would
be found wanting? How many peaceful,
industrious inhabitants would be found
absent, having. through thousand chan
nels, found their way into the free States,
actually filling up the houses in every part
OF that land. so that none are untenanted :?
How many of the houses in the region
passed over hy the contenling armies
would now be found occupied? How
many negroes would be found absent
ready to return with muskets in their
hands? How many horses, cattle, sheep,
hogs, &C., would be found remaining
What has been. the produce of our fields
last year in cotton, sugar, corn, flour,
peas, potatoes, cattle and bacon, and what
amount remains unconsumed?
Bnt above all, what progress have we
made? Is the slave power more secure
than before we seeded? Are we in such
a condition as to promise ourselves, even
with reputation of all debts, both at home
and abroad, exemption from duties and
high taxation? What have we to hope
for, both as regards slavery, or the pros
poets of a Southern Confederacy?
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The New Royal Heir.

The London Times has displayed ed
itorial announcement of (" the happy
event - in the royal family. 1t says, i'll
the course of lis remarks:
For the moment, this loyal congratu-
lation will be the first feeling in the heart
of every Englishman, but the impulse will
be supported by the solid reflection of the
addition made by this happy event to the
stability of the royal succession Her
Majesty, indeed, is happy in a numerous
and healthy family, and her dynasty seems
to all human anticipations, established be-
yOnd all the usual chances of mortality
We are happily free, too, in England, from
the domestic troubles which seem now on
the verge of plunging Europe into war,
and have been one source of the dislrac-
tion Of our immediate neighbors But it
is impossible to be too secure. The mere
mention of the confusion which disputed
SUGGESTIONS still produce on the Continent,
is sufficient to make US thankful for any
additional pledge of the permanence of
our royal house; and the existence of two
heirs to the throne in direct line is vis-
ible earnest of stability which will be as
welcome to the nation as to the royal fam
lily itself.
Providence seems, indeed, while per-
mitting confusion and gloom to settle on
almost every other country in the world,
to have chosen to shower upon US every
blessing that a people can receive. In
whatever direction we look, we find no.
thing but subjects for gratitude, and the
only shadows of gloom or anxiety on our
prospect are cast by the quarrels and con-
fusion of others. A firm and equal ad-
ministration of the law, freedom un-
known in any country either of ancient or
modern times, security for life and prop
erty which appears incompatible with any
other form Of government, and unparal
leled public and private wealth, are estab-
lished and adorned by Throne which
rests as deeply in tho heart of the nation
as it is rooted in its constitution. The
passions Of national antagonism or politi-
cal enmity which spread misery and blood
shed over the Old and New Worlds, are
checked at the narrow channel and at
the broad sea which separate us from Eu-
rope and America; and we present e
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-02-05
Sober Reflections on the State of the
Country.

Mr.. JAMES W. MoCUL1ooH, of the United
States Treasury Department, who, from
the nature of his dnties is styled the
"Comptroller of the Currency" has just
issued pamphlet containing sugge tions,
and very wholesome ones too, to the man.
ayers and operators of the Irrational
banks " that have been organized under
the system of the present Secretary of the
Treasury. Mr.. MoCULLocr, undeterred
by. any fear of having his "loyalty" inn
peached, discusses in this pamphlet in a
practical manner the duties these banks
owe to their own and to the public inter-
est, and as warning to them he unveils
the actual condition of the finances of the
United States He says:
Bear constantly in mind, although the loval
States appear superficially to be in a prosper
GUS condition. that such is not the fact. That
while the government is engaged in the sup
preston of rebellion of uneXampled fierce
ness and magnitude, and is constantly draining
the country of its labOring and producing pop
ulation, and diverting its mechanical industry
from works of permanent value to the con-
struction OF implements of warfare; while
cities are crowded, and the country is to the
same extent depleted. and waste and
extravaganza prevail as they never be-
fore prevailed in the United States the ma
ton, whatever may be the external indica-
tions, is not prOspering. The war in which
we are involved is a stern necessity, and must
he prosecuted for the preservation of the gov
ernment. no matter what may be its cost but
the country will unqueStiOnably be the poorer
every day it is continued. The seeming pros
perity of the loyal States is owing mainly to
the large expenditures OF the government and
the redundant currency which these expendi
lures seem to render necessary. Keep these
facts constantly in mind, and manage the af-
fairs of your respective banks with perfect
consciousness that the apparent prosperity of
the country will be proved to be unreal when
the war is closed, if not before; and be pre-
pared. by careful management of the trust
committed to YOU, to help to save the nation
from financial collapse, instead of lending
your influence to make it more certain and
more severe.
The prediction that the apparent pros
perity of the country will be proved to be
unreal when the war is closed, if not BEFORE"
coming as it does from the Treasury De-
partment, should not fail to have its due
weight upon the public mind This is not
the time for extravaganza; it is the very
season for economy and thrift.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-02-05
LOGIC OF THE CENSUS TABLE.
Unanswerable Arguments Against
the Economy Of Slavery.
DeBOW'S Review on Southern In.
duStry.

Below we print entire the article published
in 'De Bows Southern Reriew,' Ga publication
long and well known in the financial and COM
mercial world as one of sterling reliability and
great value for which the Recie,c was sup
pressed by order of JEFF. Davis, and its editor
thrown into prison.
1t is true we have believed that cotton
is king it is undeniable that we possessed
monopoly for its production, arising out
of variety of causes, but it is not true
that it will grow nowhere else Indeed,
we find that the production of it in vari-
Gus countries is increasing in geOmetric
ratio, and that in year or so the South
will no longer be needed to supply the
commerce of the globe what we vanly
hoped would grow nowhere else.
Shall we not learn from our enemies :?
What are the causes of their prosperity !?
Why do even the laborers of the North
live with a degree of comfort often un
known to the wealthy planters of the
South?
The statistical reports accompanying the
census of 1860 establish fully the results
of material conditions; and, if we admit
that the people of the North have really
hardly felt the war up to this point, we
must look to and examine the material
conditions which surround them
They cannot be more prosperous because
there is no slavery; certainly it is cheap
er to have slave who labors for you than
to labor yourself; therefore slave labor is
the more economical, or rather, it was,
before the time of Henry A. Wise and
John Brown. Considering the present
condition of the country, and prospective
ly also, it may be well supposed, as it al
ready is by many in the slave States, that
it actually may be more economical to
labor for ourselves than to maintain ne
groes for that purpose.
We have taken to raising cereals, and
have succeeded SO badly as to make it
matter of doubt whether we will not have
eaten everything before the time of greens,
which, when boiled with jowl, are so priced
by the first families of Virginia.
In the meantime, the production of cot
ton is slipping away from us, and we have
already slipped away into unknown depths,
and are drifting to fearful and to an un.
certain future. Let rs turn, then, as ad-
vised by Gil Bias when he assumed the prac.
tice of medicine, "to see what other prac-
titiOners are about"
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-02-05
NEW SERIES-NO. 53l.
roreible Levy on New York Bank

FOrcible Levy on New York Banks.
Considerable excitement was rife among
the bankers in New York, last week, in
consequence of a folcible levy on them for
city taxes. It seems that by virtue of
law of Congress, exempting from taxation
the capital of banks which was invested in
United States stocks issued after February
25, 1862, several of the city banks re-
fused to pay the assessment of the Tax
Commissioners on such capital, and early
last year they got decision of the courts,
sustaining them in their refusal. In con-
sequence of this decision Of the courts
the Board of Supervisors applied to the
Legislature, last winter, for law assess
ing the bank capital, the law was passed,
and the Commissioners again entered the
amount of capital Of each banks upon the
books Of personal estate. The banks con-
tinued to contest the point, twenty of them
associating together for that purpose, on
the ground that the State law was in con-
flict with that passed by Congress. The
Supreme Court this time decided against
the banks.
Due notice was served on those banks
that neglected to pay, and after proper
time the Receiver issued his warrants in
due form for a forcible collection of assess
ments. The warrants were placed in the
hands of Marshal D. S. Holden, who COM
menced serving them.
The Marshal, accompanied by Mr..
Hone, the Deputy Receiver of Taxes,
first set oct for the Bank of Commerce,
whose assessed capital was $8,S31, ,105,
for which Mr.. Holden demanded tax of
$179, ,4OS 48, besides interest on the same
: for nOn-payment in due season, amount
ing to SCOTS S8 more. A formal demand
was made for these sums and was refused.
The Marshal then went into the inclosure
occupied by the clerks and officers, follow
ed by Mr.. Hone, and unceremoniOusly
helped himself from drawers and safes till
he had obtained the exact sum total re-
quired by the county. The money-all
legal tender-he handed over to Mr.. Hone,
who again counted it, and on finding the
amount to be correct, they departed with
it to the Tax Receivers Office. During
these summary proceedings the bank Off
GERS looked on with bitter feelings, char
acterizing Mr.. Holdens act as grand larce-
ny, and while they did not seek to prevent
him from taxing what money he wanted,
they called every one around them that
was in the bank, to witness that an agent
of the city was robbing them. A receipt,
of course, was rendered for the sum taken,
but it was refused. This is the course of
the litigant banks, under advice of their
counsel.
On the same day the National Bank
was visited, and a tax of $2e,7O with
$97l interest, collected in like manner.
Similar scenes occurred in other banks,
and up to Saturday morning the following
amounts had been levied on by the Of
ficers:
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SAINT PAUL. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY s. 1864

nearer approach to those happy Isles which
the ancients imagined in the Western Seas
than any one but a poet would have antici-
pated a century ago. Even the evils we
dreaded most are softened to US. What
threatened to be an inevitable famine to
three millions of our population is con-
verted into an additional evidence and
means OF prosperity: and now we are
gladdened with new CLEAN Of happiness
pn the brightest feature in our prospect. -
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-02-05
VOL. XV.-NO. 81
MIS- rRESS GLENARE,
BY LIZZIE DOTEN.

A virtuous woman s Mistress Glenare
Or at least so the world in its judgment would say
With an orderly walk and circumspect air.
She never departs from the popular way
weighed;
Her friends are selected with scrupuous care;
And in all that she does Is her prudence displayed
For virtuOus woman Is Mistress Glenare!
Her youth has departed, and with it has fled
The impulse which gives to the blood new start
Which Oftentimes turns from the reasoning head,
To trust to the wisdom OF God in the heart.
Thus the robes of her purity never are stained,
And her feet are withheld from the pitall and snare
Where nothing is ventured. there nothing is gained
o, yirtuOus woman is Mistress Glenare!
She makes no distinction of sinners from sin;
Her words are like arrows, her tongue il u rod;
She sees no excuse for the evil within,
But condemns with the zeal of partialist God
On background OF darkness of sorrow and shame,
Her own reputation looks stainless and fair;
so she builds up her fame through her neighbors'
o, virtuous woman is Mistress Glenare!
She peeps and she listens. she watches and waits
Nor Satan himself is mere active than she,
10 expose in Or sinners the faults and bad traits
Which she tears that the Lord might not happen
to see.
When the Father of Spirits looks down from above,
On the good and the evil, the frail and the fair
How must he regard, with particular love.
This virtuOus woman-gOOd Mistress Glenare.
o, Mistress f,lenare in the drama of life
fou are acting a Uory respectable part:
You have known just enough of its enviOus rife
10 deceive both the world and your foolish
heart,
But say, in some moment of clear common sense,
Did you never in truth and sincerity dare
TO ask the plain ques ion. aside from pretence,
How you looked to the angels, dear Mistress
Glenare?
The glory of God has enlightened their eyes;
NO longer through darkness, lh.y see but in part,
AND the rOees OF YOUR Righteousness do not suffice
10 cover the lack of true love in the heart
Iou look shabby and ilthy and ragged and mean :;
Even with those you condemn you but poorly
compare.
&c! wash you in Charity till you al Ie cleans
lou will change for the better dear Mistress
Glenarc!
Your thoughts have been run in the popular mould
Like wax that is plastic and easily Inelts;
Til now like nOndescript 10 and behold!
You are neither yourself nor yet any ese
or tender compassion forgiveness and love-
Your nature has not especta6ie share:
1ou are three parts of ent and of the dove
very badly prOpOrtiOned, dear Mistress Glenare
Your nOblest and purest affections have died:
Like summerdrle roses your spirit within;
Your heart is grown arid, and scarce is supplied
With sufficient vitality even TO sin
But would you be true to your virtuOus name.
There is one we commend to your tenderest care:
To deal with her wisely will add TO your fame:
That poor, s'n'u woman is-Mis ress Glenare!