Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1864-01-14

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receipt Of tobacco in the New O.lear
market from Connecticut
Or. Lord, cx- Pses'dent Of Dartmou,
College, Is spoken OF a. the Demncra
nominee Tor Governor Of New lamp
shire. :
The loss Of life on the French "a;
ways 10 only one in seven n,ilions Q
passengers.
The New Orleans Heayuns Announce
that It has received from Matsmoras "
mountaio Of . potato, big enough 70
the dirnsr Of q company OF fa"isht'
soldies'," weighing eleven and three
quarter pounds.
The Providence Journal says that i,
that city the transactions in print clotli
for the p o. ,esf has been 1922, 500
pieces, against 3.0i6.400 pieces.
The musket. ,bst we're imported dur
ing the fret year Of The rebellion are
gong back tn kutops in large quantities
The steamer Bavaria took out 10000 on
her last trip. The sppculstors found the,
would not "go Of" At sat.factory prices
II i. The Law in japan that no Fl, 0.
cypress tree can be cut down w,thcul
the consent If = mag s,rste, and for tv>
cry iu!i grown tree that is fs.led q sap
ling must be plaaied.
II I. said that there 10 large party 10
Congress. d. posed 10 race the reve' NC
tax on whi.ky to one dollar per gsllon,
instead of 90. sniy cents, the Lighest tax
proposed in the committee.
Brig Gen. Seymour, Of the Depart
meot o' The scn,h, .tates that ''Gteek
/. ire is only one Ut the numerous hum
bugs Of tho day, and that not shell
containing i. has been known to enter
CharIetton. On the contrary, il has been
complete failure, from the premature
explosion caused by its use,"
IT, the Superior Cou.t At New Bed
fo,d, Conn, on Mon lay, person Vas
sentenced to confinement. at hard labo,
10 the house of correction, Tor oLe year,
for dissuadiug witness from attending
court.
A large steamship (the SCOTIA ran in
to b ayy stone pier IN Eagland aud to
tally DESTROYED il; tbs vessel itself was
untnjured. The best and the strongest
made ironma,led chip could not stand a
blow such Ms steam ram like this cop! d
give, driven at the highest possible
speed.
George Thomp.on, the notorious Eng.
li.h abolition,st, will arrive in this coun-
try about TIE 22d. lie comes to stir up
strife and dissensions among the Amoii'
car people. and aid Phillips, Sumner,
Greelv 4 Co., 10 their work Of destroy
ing the Union. lie was here on q sim.
ar IN rssion several years ago. and SO
stirred up the lndi NATION OF the people
as to be mobbcd at various points.
A case of apparent death occurred in Bef-
liz few weeks ago, and actually created no
little sensation. The wife OF well to do mer.
chant, after short sickness, suddenly expired
il the night. Next morning the corpse was
carried, by women called in to prepare it for
the funeral, into retired apartment, where
the usual operations Of washing, &C., we're per
formed upon it. The husband went out in the
course of the day to make tho scecas"sy ar
ranccmen,s for the burial, when, during his
absence, the neighbors were aroused by fearful
shrieks proceeding from the dwelling OF the
deceased On entering the neighbors found nc
one ut home and iindin: the door OF the room
from which the cries issued locked, they broA
it open, and to their horror discovered that
the corpse had ,sen fsom the dead In les:
than forty eight hours the woman would have
| been buried in a living tomb--a c,suaity which
though happily prevented in her case by
speedy recovery f.om the ct, it is to be feared
carries IF no uncomfortable number Of persons
every year.