Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1865-06-26

| The streets OF Madison, Wisconsin, are
being worked by chain-gang Of vagrant.
and prisoners.
A Nebraska City paper says that twenty
millions Of pounds Of freight will be trans
ported from that place thus season via til,
great central route to Salt Lake, Idaho ant
Colorado.
II is at last definitely settled that Payne
the assassin, is . son Of the Row Geo. Pow
ell of Florida. lie belonged at first to Lees
army, and was detached for service with
Mosby's guerrillas, within whose roaming
ground, Yarrentown, where Payne has been
is located.
TnE California end of the Pacific Railroad
now employs 1890 laborcrs, 800 Of whom
are whites, the remainder Chinese. Cars
are now running thirty six miles from Sac
ramento, and fifty miles more Of the track
will be laid by September. Within year
the road will approach the summit Of the
Sierra Nevada.
Vermont folks propose to celebrate the
fourth Of July BY placing piece Of heavy
toned ordnance Oh Snake Mountain, which
would speak distinctly to all the people Of
the Chaplain Valley, from Whitehall IA
Plattsburg. 1t is also in the programme to
make grand pyrote display, which
would be visible to the greater part Of the
people Of Western Vermont
They are getting up party of 100 men
at Leavcnworth to start "a buffalo drive v
about the 10th Of August Each man is to
furnish his own horse, arms, personal outfi,
and 5000. They propose to go upon the
plains, drive from 5000 to 5000 buffa.
oes, herd and tame them and bring them in.
to the States. The President of the associ
alton, w. j. Holman, says the thing can be
done, snd that each man who invests his
5000, has fair promise of 5000 in re-
turn. The expedition expect to be out from
eighty to one hundred days.
The amount of gold now in existence is cs-
timatet1 at 81 ,S62, 900. 900; of silver s., 700,-
O00, 000--making the total Of precious metals
now existing &lO,562 ,Ooo, 600, with an av-
eragc annual product ofgold throughout the
world Of over $27l 600, 900. of this amount
the American gold area produced, in 1862,
STA, 900, of which $4,000, 600 came
from California alone. The aggregate Of sill
yer mined in 1868 was sec, 0OO, 900, Of which
America produced 81, 00O,O 900. The whole
amount of gold and silver mined in the Uni
ted States since lsiS is estimated Al 81 ,s15,,
600, 900.
A monument TO the victims Of the Balti
more massacre of April 18th, 1861 was dcd
icated at Lowell, Mass, on Saturday with
impressive services Two Of the soldiers
killed by the Baltimore mob were residents
Of Lowell, and were the first dead Of the war,
il we except the man accidentally killed by
an explosion after Ft Sumter had surren.
dered The monument was dedicated on
the ninetieth anniversary Of the battle of
Bunker Hill. A flag was sent from Bslti
more, With a inscription Expressing the re.
grets Of the now redeemed Msrvland for the
madness OF four years ago. The main fea-
ture of the occasion was the speech of Gen.
B tier.
Gophers, blackbirds, pigeons and sand
hill cranes are contending strongly with the
farmers for the possession Of the corn crop
in Scctt and Waseca counties, Minnesota
But The grasshoppersis The great plague in
counties up the Minnesota River. Farmers
in Lacrosse and Brown counties report
they have eaten up everything green in
many townships. In attempting to cross
the river they have become 20 thick on the
surface Of the water that . complste bridge
has been formed. They ate fifteen acres Of
spring whest clean, nesf Fl Ridgely, which,
was nom enc 70 eight inches high. The
pests are about three -qaarters Of On inch H..
length wings not yet formed, and their pro-
GFess 10 necessarily slew, but their ravages
correspondingly sure.
Docrcs. want you to prescribe for
!. IT, ...,, !ns acctor feels her p6les. '.Thsre