Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1865-09-02
NEWS

LAvE0A, sept. I.74no AI@es CITY o.
Mexico sSsss posdsas r. July list s.ys.
Tho Frsnsh eoart 0ershals ars pssiying
the eesnty ~ shooting Annually forty
thousand Aexicans.
The Estaselle. the French organ declares
ths Empire failure and advocates French
protectoFate over them, or the country must
be absorbed BY ". Mexican independence
It says, 10 impossible. There 10 centanuAl
fighting with frequent imperial disater. The
patriotism Of the people u increasing and
the parties Of French troops are gone. The
breach between MAMMALIAN and the French
is daily widening.
1t is said that the Spaniards stole and dcs.
troyed large quantities Of fine goods, princi-
pally the property of American merchants,
which had been stored at different places,
and now Gen. 0andoFa, the Spanish com
mander, having withdrawn his troops from
the interior, has blocksded the principal
parts OF the Republic because the Domini-
clan Government will not submit to his
naughty and unreasonable demands in the
peace treaty, thus preventing the exporta-
ton Of large stocks OF tobacco belonging to
Americans as well as Europeans, and to
affect this blockade the Dominicians have
determined to commission privates to prey
on Spanish commerce, and an agent, author
lied to issue letters Of marque, has already
left for the United States and Europe.
The Heralds Richmond correspondent
says The order reyoking the pardon of Mr.
Dudley, President Of the York River rail-
| road, emanated from President Johnson
himself, in consequence Of Mr. Dudley,
| subsequent to receiving the Executive elem
ency having INDUCED in thoroughly dis
loyal language.
10 III hot tot ~, In
ceiving rebel money up to the present time,
| in liquidation of liabilities due them
The Hernld's Fort Monroe correspondent
says: The report that the military authori
ties has Just had q conversation with
Jefferson Davis, when the latter, among
other things he had to say, disclaimed
| any acquaintance with the notorious Cap
tain Wertz, or knowledge Of the inhu-
man treatment to which our prisoners at
Andeisonvillc were subjected is unfounded,
in truth. Except Gen. Miles and officers on
guard Duty no officers had any converse
ton with JEFF Davis, or had been allowed to
| visit him.
| One OF Pres't Johnson's sons had had long
interview with him few days since, and he
is the only civilian to whom this privilege
has been conceded, and his conversation was
| limited to general inquiries as to his health,
| &C.
| The Heralds Washington special says: 1t
is understood that Wertz to day, the 3lst,
placed in his counscl's hands his voluminous
documentary evidence, to prove that in es-
| tabishing the dead line within Anderson
| vile prison yard, and shooting prisoners
| who crossed it, he in the first instance acted
under direct orders of the rebel Gen. Win
der and more lattcrly by the emphatic or
ders of j. A. Seldom, rebel Secretary of War
The Commission now trying VERT, de.
cidcd TO reject the. testimony OF Sergeant
Boston Corbett, which appeared in the
record of this Court, two days this week, on
the ground that he is q inonananiac upon
the subject of the Andcrsonvillc crucltes. =
The records of the Andersonvile prison
captured by Gen Wilson, are missing One
of the clerks OF the q NJ department, whe
accompanied the expedition and in whose
/ hands the records were last seen, has been
placed under arrest by the military author
, tiles until he can give Il satisfactory account
: of The disposition he made Of them. 1t is
thought by some that the records wcr,
stolen. instead Of being lost, for the I,urpos,
+ OF prcy cniing them being used as cyidenc,
. against Vert.
Mr Kennedy. late of the Census Bureau
is conditonally offered the Presidency Of the
United States Telegraph Company, at a sal
ary OF 5000 per year
The Timer Washington special says:
Both the President and Secretary of War
are decidedly in favor OF u trial by the civil
court and at the earlies, practicable moment
/ OF jeff Davis. The chief difficulty has been
! to find II proper tribunal. The President
looks with favor upon Knoxville, Tenn.
where Davis committed an overt act OF trea
son by melting Instruction in a speech to
his army In case he i, tried before Chcl
= Justice Chase, Norfolk, Va, will be selected
: This is what Davis friends desire. The
statement that the grand jury OF this Dis
trict had found true bill against Davis fol
= constructive treason, does injustice to the in
y tcllgcncc of that Jury, AS the one that drew
/, the bill of Indictment was for an overt act
e II may be further said, that wherever tn,
II trial does take place Gen Butler in commune
linn with the Attorney General, will take
: prominent part as public prosecutors. Tn,
< whole matter has been under considerable,
i at recent Cabinet meetings. where the ques
ton of mode and place was SO far decided n
to rcndr the trial an event near at hand.
The income receipts to-day arc far ahea,
of those of any one previous day The,
amount to $243, III ,521, which is S42O,o0
ahead of any former day. The entire re
ceipts for July amount to sos, l59,s l4, ant
D there Is reason ,i believe that this sum vii
be increased 10 5000, 600 by oct list