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Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1864-11-01

Ham, Caps, Furs, 0loves-thiokef and
faster and more Of them arriving at Far
rands, and selling like hot cakes. Go there
for everything in the line, and you will be
more than suited.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-02-27
idiots,, he yelled at them. swoald you see

idiots!. he yelled at them. Would you see
They looked at each other Water ;
Yes that was what was wanted. They re-
membered their practice of the previous eve
ming One found q wooden pail The other
emptied upon the floor the contents of the
tin pail the widow had borrowed They went
to the we'll they brought water. To
throw on her. Yes, that was what he said.
And together they dashed sudden drench-
ing food over the poor woman, as if the
swoon we're another fire TO be extinguished.
These fellows obeyed orders terally-aner-
it which Lysander now failed to appreciate.
He swore at them terribly. But he. did not
countermand his last order. Accordingly
they proceeded stoically to bring more water.
Lysander had got his mothers head Oh his
knee and she had just opened her eyes TO
look and her mouth to gasp, when there came
another double ice-cold wave, binding, stiff
ing, drowning her. Too much of water hadst
thou, poor lone widow!
l-sLysander let fall the maternal head, and
bounded to his feet, roaring with wrath. The
brothers, imperturbabie, with the empty pals
at their sides stared at him with mute won
der. ffaEs Esst Eaua.gn f.zaxsEe
Captain, dat was your orders. You say,
| sPring vasser and trow on We pring vas
ser and trow on. Dat is ALL
But didn't tell you to fetch pailfulsp
This sentence rushed out of Lysander's soul
like rocket, eliminated in a loud, explosive
oath, and was followed by a shower, of fiery
curses falling harmless on the heads of the
unmoved Teutons. They waited patiently
until the pyrotechnic rain ceased, then an
swered. speaking alternately, each a sentence,
as If with one mind, but with two organs.
Captain, you hear. Last night vas de
house afre. You say, Pring wasser.' We
pring a little. Den you say to us, Tam you +!
why in hell you shtop?' And yon say, Ven
Itell you pring vasser, pring till say shtop
Yum time more to-day you say, Pring vasser,
and you never say shtop. You say, 'Trow
on We trow' on Vat you say we do. You
not say vat you mean, dat is mishtake for
vou.' T 90 @@ssf 81 -
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-02-27
THUS IT IS.
ZEE AurnoR o. ..rvIeE 90 ;


The ianguid world went By me as found
A jewel on the ground; EA
Under silent weed
A nameless glory, set for none 70 heed.
Stoop, see and wonder ~ was my joyful cry
But still the languid world went only byssN
drew it forth, and set it on lnil,--s
They passed it still; &
Some turned 90 look, ~ 49, 1
And said IL was a pebble from the brook.
dewdrop. only made to melt away
A worthless mirror, with borrowed ray.
Then on my knees shouted forth its praise
For nights and days:
81 See with your eyes
diamond, shining only for the wise
How is it that y love not at first sight -
This unfamiliar treasure of sweet light,'
set fs On nv breast. Then, With 4 sheer,
They came more near;
- They knew the gh-----
And secret of my Praise-the thing was mine,
They LETT il to with bland disdain,
And Rugged their tinsel to their hearts again.
showed it TO the dearest soul had
---- q Come aud be -giadi ------
Let them go by
Coldly he answered, g If you love il so,
anismy sin,s Il cried with bitter tears,
That no man hears.
III fling it down
some nobIer hand shall set il ina crown.
1 shall behold it honored ere die ~
But no one could have loved il more than i. -
Temple Bar.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-02-27

son, Abbott and Blanchard, retired into an
adjoining room, where he was informed how
he had been followed-how his movements
had been closely watched-together with
other circumstances which had tended to his
arrest. rhereupon without any unusual--in
fact any perceptihle emotion, he fuliy con-
fessed bis guilt. h,
Green stated that on the Day Of the murder
he visited the bank twice, and the first time
he found conductor there who left pair of
skates. Immediately on entering the bank,
he said, he walked into the directors room,
and seeing that no one was there, he drew
his pistol-a six-barreled Smith & Wessons
revolver--placed the muzzle within foot OF
Young Converse's head, and fred, the ball
taking effect under or back of his ear-the
shot telling him to the floor. He instantly
discharged a second barrel, the shot from
which took effect in the temple, while his vic
tim lay on the floor. -----------
The murderous deed having been consum
mated. Green seized the bills in the drawer
amounting to about So, 900, and thereafter re
paired to his office. After detailing these
facts, Green informed the persons presen
that portion of the money was concealed il
a piece of neyspaper.in an old boot in th'
postofice, where $6l5 in bills on the Nader
Bank, were subsequently found. The balanc'
of the stolen money, Green said, was secrete'
underneath the flooring in the attic of the
Volunteer" engine house, and making searcl
there, the detectives found SS,454, all Il
Maiden Bank bills, making, in the whole
! 81 ,O69. 7as h.,. fs.,.s. s.s~.-
Green further stated that about ten day
before the murder he purchased the .pisto
with which he committed the deed that b
loaded the pistol in every barrel, and kept
in drawer in the postoffice until the 18th da
of December last, two days before the mur
der, when he took it from the drawer and car
ried it about his person. He is a man of small
stature, being scarcely over five feet and al
| inch or two in height; was twenty-seyel
years of age last October, and has an estima
BILE lady for wife, who has an infant bu
three or four months old. The agony of hi
wife, on being informed of the arrest of he
| husband, can be better imagined than de:
| cribed 1t is represented as having been c
the most heartrending description.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-02-27
laundering operations on the St. CrOix.

The Saltwater Messenger gives some inter-
esting statistics of the numbering operations
on the st. Croix river and its tributaries in
Polk county and vicinity. 1t is enabled to
give the following details from reliable sources
of the lumber which will be cut the present
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-02-27


A You've HERo.-A gentleman, while pass
ing through street inhabited by poor people
in New York, heard an infantile voice from
basement crying Helpl helpp He rushed
in and found little fiye-year old boy holding
a bed blanket around his little sister, years
younger, who had caught her clothes on hre'
and the little hero had succeeded in exun-
gushing the flames The boy, in answer 70
the inquiry why he so wrapped the bed-blanket
around his sisters burning clothes, said BIS
ma told him that was the best way to put OUT
the fire; and as to why he hallooed- Help!
help - that he was afraid that he could no'
succeed, and wanted some one TO help nm
He was then asked why he did not leave DIS
sister and 60 out into the street and cry LOT
help. He answered, with tears IN his eyes
and a fixed determination of countenanee,
No, never would have left her. She was
Hly sister. Had she burned up, would nave
burned up too
What is polygamy ?" asked Ike, who
had stumbled over the word in the paper,
Mrs. Darlington looked severe. Polygamy
said she, =" is where men have an al hbeTt"S
privilege of marrying a pieurisy OF wives,
God bess 'em, when they can't take care o.
one as she ought to be, with cotton Tanner
forty cents yard and -four at fabulous pri-
ces."~ Ike was satisfied, and immersed MN
self in notice of Clark's skates.
An offender fined second time Is not
necessarily refined.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-02-27


To carry on these operations it requires,
besides regiment of men, 700 horses and
oxen, and cash capital of about half mil
lion dollars. After this lumber is foated
down the streams. it is sorted over. and the
greater portion of it RATED in the log. This
immense labor is all done at this place, and
viii require more than the number of men
now in the woods to drive and raft the whole
amount in one year. Besides the rafting,
present appearances indicate that not far from
$4,000, 600 feet of this lumber will be manu-
featured, before it leaves the St. Croix Lake,
of which about %, 200, 900 viii. be manufac-
tlred at the mills in, this city. ~ al.
The sale of this years lumber win bring
into the country, at present prices, upwards
of million dollars. Courage, friends, eour-
age With a propitious Providence and
plenty of water we viii have a gala day in
Saltwater next summer efo'iI-- 80,
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-02-27

A lady was once declaring that she
could not understand how gentlemen could
smoke. at certainly shortens their lives"
said she. II don't know that" exclaimed a
gentleman; there's my father, who smokes
every blessed day, and be is now seventy
years CID" swell" was the reply, if he had
never smoked, be might have been eighty by
this time"
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-02-27

IS WARM WEATHER IN, ENGLAND,---Mr. Con-
WAY, of the Boston Commonwealth, writes from
London, January 9th, as follows: s.
The weather here is this year unparalleled.
I have seen violets, roses and crocuses which
have grown out of doors week ago; and on
the last day of 1868, boys gathered ripe
blackberries in Devonshire. ep l-3a
Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1864-08-09

In the L. $. Senate two months ago, MI
Wilson. Chairman Of the Military Commit
tee, said.
The Government had sent cen. Grant
for,v-cirht thousand rciniorcemcn.s slncc
The commencement of the march tow@rd
the rabe, capital If we had fifty or one
hundred thousand fresh men to send to iiis
supper: to-day, his riaiiou feopt1 2" ~ en-
vithia sirty doys.
Why were not the fifty OF one hundred
thousand fresh men called for: Can any
body tcly Was it because 1t vas not desi-
rablc to end the rebellion within sixty days,
or ~ this time: Let the people look INTO
this matter, and inquire why half million
men arc called for now, when it is conceded
that they cannot be used until the campaign
of next year, and when fifty or one HIND
red thousand men called into the field sixty
DAYS ago would have ended the war ere this
Let them ask whether they are called upon
to fight for the suppression Of the rebellion
and the restoration Of the Mon, or to fight
for the Negro
Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1864-08-09


81 T&Aukr DsrAarsns, JuLr Is, 1864.
NOTICE ishers4y Ssen Tia subscriptions will
y rtceis 30 BY a. Treasury sfthe United States.
the several Assistant Treasury and designated
Depossitaries, and BY the National Banks desin-
a;ed and qualified Depesitaries ard Financisi
Agents for Treasury Notes PAYABLE three, years
from August IS. 1854, bearing inseref ct the rate
Of seven and three-tenths per cent, per annura,
with semi-anuus' coupons attached payable in
lawful money. -
These notes will be convertible 81 the option Of
the holder a. maturity, into SIX per cent, gold
bearing bonds, redeemable after FIVE and pay able
twenty years from August 10, 1867.
The Notes will be issued ia denomination Of
fifty, one hundred. one thousand, and FIVE thous-
and dollars, and will be issued in blank or paya-
bic TO order a. may be the subscribers
All subscriptions must be for fifty dollars, or
some multiple Of fifty dollars.
Duplicate certificates will be issued for all de-
posts. The party depositing must endorse upon
the origirci certificate the denomination Of notes
required and whether they are to lie issued III
blank or payable TO order. When endorsed II
must be left with the officer receiving the de
pcsit, to be forwarded 10 this Department.
The notes will be transmitted to the owners free
Of transportation charge soon after the receipt
of the original Certificates Of Dpos; as .hey can
b. prepared
Intereat vi!l be allowed 10 August - on all d,
Post, made prior to that date, and will be paid
| by the Department upon receipt Of the original
| ccrticaiicu.
| As The notes draw intercs. from August Is, per
| sons making deposits subsequent to that date
must pay the interest accrued from date Of note
| 10 date Of deposit
Parties deposi'ing twenty five thousand dollars
| and UPWARDS for these notes at any one time vii
b. allowed 3 commission Of ne-auarcr of one
per cent, which will be paid by ths Department
| upon the rcpceipt Of Of bill for the amount
! certified TO by the officer with whom the depo sit
WAS made. No deductions for commissions must
| be made from the deposits.
Officer receiving deposits will see that the pro
| per endorsements are made upon the original
certificates.
| All officers authorized TO receive deposits are
| requested TO give to applicants all desired nfor-
| nation, and afford every facilay for making
Subscriptions
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Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1864-08-09

A correspondent writing from Saratoga
saws that gambling is carried on there at a
fearful rate. Thousands change hands
siaily. and the young men, soldiers home
from the war with their pay in their peck
cts, young Caliiornians, and old gentlemen,
arc infatuated, and the betting is high
Near the | S. Hotel is large double brick
house All is quiet around it, Men 90 in
as if TO A Sacrifice. No sound issues from
the dwelling 1t is kept by Morissey, and
is. out Of New York, the largest gambling
house in the country. 1t is kept in style.
All the machinery is well adjusted, well oil
cd, ard moves without friction. The table
is elegant and costly wines and yiands are
spread in profiision 1t bears the name Of
a Club House" and many public men who
hold the rcputc and life of men in their
hands, are said to board there. But thous-
ands arc lost and won within that quiet re-
treat Morisscy can be seen at any time at
the United states iio:,l, dressed in style, a
short, athletic, powerful man. quiet AMI OF
few words, He came to New orh in 1852.
from Troy. lie was then a fighter, poor.
drunken and brutal. lie came to whip Bill
Poole and his party, to whom he bore
deadly hate He was engaged to protect
the ballot box in a ward election. II. then
arranged the fight with Sullivan, and became
the champion Of the fancy. He has made
money, i, sold 10 be worth S500ooo, is a
great stock operator, and keeps several Of
the largest gambling houses in the city OF
New York. He is steady man now, drinks
nothing, and does not gamble himself. tie
has q lease Of the race track for the races,
and brings up, at his own expense, detect
ives from New York, TO keep pick pockets
away, and to preserve good order All
around the Club House are gambling
tables all open TO the eye. room is Sc
lected, small, semi-circular table, bound
with green baizc, tokens to represent coin,
four men to run the machine, all the dupcs
that can be induced to sit down, with about
ten or twenty who play against the bank,
! but all really in the ring, with an apparent
fairness in the mode, but so conducted that
in nine chances out of ten the bank must
win, and the person loses Here from early
morn, all the day long, till the small hours
that tell that tell that midnight has gone,
men sit and sguandcr money and character.
Scarcely Il word is spoken, and all that is in
subdnea tone, and the game runs on, car
rying untold wealth into the till of the bank
and despair into the heart, aud frenzy into
the eye of tn" loser. Clerks. sons OF noble
mothers, officers who have fought brayely
for the nation, young husbands and fathers,
are daily carried over this moral cataract
NlayIa, and are seen no more. Dcs dc
these, it has become fashionable to for !.
clubs OF wealthy men, and 20 TO 100 a,
from which all are excluded who are not in
ylteu, and have q great game of cards with
the small stake OF 50 or $50 TO give piquan-
cy to the game. These men do not want
money, bat the excitement Of the chance
they seek. and some cut from these scenes
to deeper play.
Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1864-08-09
ITO Whom IL sM:sy Concern. -

Mr. Lincoin's Mougn Lincoln to the HeId
ro', March 4, 1861. Commissioners, in
II declare that ~ IS, 1854.
have no purpose, nj 10 " HON 1t may
nrcrLy OR iND,REerLr,, Concern:
to interfere with the Any proposition
institution Of slavery which embraces the
i'm the States where ID restoration Of pcac,,
exists. ! believe ! the integrity of the
have NO /. A " + l. I. whole mon, and Ute
RIGHT TO 20 50, and abandonment ~ sian
have NO iNcilsArio> sry, and which com 5
10 do SO. The ~ and with al an.i.-
nlGnr Of each State to GRITTY that can connsi
order and control its the armies nov 1t
own domestic institu- var against the nj
lions according to its ted States, will be re
Judgment EIeIrSItE- re,Ycd aud considered
~ i. ESSENTIAL to the by the executive GOV
balance Of poker on ornament Of the | nj
which the perfection ted States, and viii
and ENTRANCE Of our be met by liberal
political fabric de-. terms on substantial
pend. and collateral points.
A. LISeoiN and the bearer or
bearers thereof shall
have safe conduct
both ways.
Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1864-08-09

Col. Richardson Of the North Iowa Time
McGre1f, csstcnclatcss rc'noval'so On
sago. Il. II
We ,<srn Asm The IndisndA Baassr TIT
sscciv forshs detection Of horse thieves
i about to be organized in Warren county.
u,ish P. Fnney, of Dokosa Hamboit
county, was drowned in the Des Moinss
river few days since.
John Jo;ce, formerly prcssman in the
Office Of the Muscatine Journal, died lately
in hospital a, Colliersyillc, Tenn.
On the Goth ult, ship arrived at New
York from England. with rails for the ex-
tension Of the Dubuque 1 siox City rail-
road to Iowa Falls, and also with iron sufii-
Gent for astecs miles Of the Cedar Falls 4
Minnesota Railroad.
Charles II. Plum. an Iowa printer, was
killed a few weeks since in Aashoe my
Nevada Territory, in an aii'ay.
Pike Township, Muscatine county, has
subscribed for the Orphan Home s23l 30.
Besides this it has contributed two life mem
bcrships, and seven so subscriptions. 50
SAYS the Muscatinc Jonrndl.
The Clarinda Page county, O'serrfr say
there are several tracts Of land in that coun-
tv. that fall under the provisions OF tht
homestead Law, and may be had ny actual
settlers hy five wears occupancy and
small outlay Of money.
A gentleman passed through last week
with atort thousand head Of sheep ioi
Crawford county. They were bought IN
Michigan during the drought and cost ion'
dollars per head, including transportation
4 nool lnvcst,nent-N ero3o .Lais.
Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1864-08-09

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is one dollar. post paid money refunded by the
agent If entire satisfaction is not given
Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1864-08-09
The Singer Sewing Machines


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Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1864-08-09
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Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1864-08-09

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