Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1865-08-05

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missioner Sor South Carolina.
Dusueus.-In 1883 il bad population Of
1891, Of whom IS were colored. In 1866
Il has. 10 STA, 81 whom IO2 are colored.
Gen. Bdkuap ID now stopping 1t his home
in Keokuk. Il is expected that Congress
win take him into the rsgular army, end ~
crease his pay. q strtrr
A man IN one Of the upper counties n
this State, 6s years Of age. recently married
a girl only 10, to the great indignation Of
the ''natives."
Ths lndepsndsnce Conservative says hat
child three years Of age. son Of Q. Wal
worth, residing near Winthrop, was drown
ed Thursday week, by falling int veil.
The libel suit for $4,000 damages, in
stitutcd BY B. I. Kenyon ssainst 7. W. Pal.
mer, Of the State Register, terminated on
Wednesday in vereict for the defendant.
Col. John Connell, late of the 2sth Inian>
try, who lost an arm in the service OF his
country, will receive the appointment Of
Federal Assessor for the Fourth District, in
place Of Hon. g. N. Jerome, Of Iowa City,
who has rendered his resignation.
The Anamosa Eureka gives the following
statistics: The number Of dogs in Jones
cssntv il 2,106. Estimated cost Of support
at $40 each per year, 1880. Value Of
sheep destroyed by dogs during the past
year, tl,323. Total expense Of keeping
dogs, $2S,2s3. Paid by county on wolves
and wild cats, $163. Value of SHEEP dc
stroyed BY wolves and Wild cats, 1852.
At the British Museum about 4, $50 vol
umcs are used in the reading room daily
the number Of readers has been about 1906
900, or 800 per diem. Thirty eight thous
and eight hundred and forty-tw volumes |
have been added to the library during the |
past year, of which $3.50 were presented,
2S,426 were purchased, and 1886 acquired
by copyright. Eight hundred and nineteen |
maps, charts and plans have been added, in
1926 sheets, and A aliases complete. Two |
thousand three hundred and seventy eight |
pieces Of music have been obtained. The
total number Of articles received by this do.
partment has been 1926 Of which 1888
were received under the national copyright |
treatise 300, 900 stamps have been impress
on these articles
President johnson says that neither the
President nor Congress has any authority
to prescribe the qualifications Of electors in
the States; but our "loyal supporters Of
the Government" don't believe it and there
fore refuse to endorse his policy in this great
matter. They oppose the Government
that Is, in their vocabulary, the Administra-
ton, and on their own theory they are ''dis-
loyal"
The radicals in some of the Eastern States
are now taking the ground that President
Lncon's Emancipation Proclamation is law
to the fullest extent, and that the freedom
it conferred upon the slaves is freedom in
its largest sense. Whoever curtails them
Of the right to vote and hold office takes
takes upon himself to annul the Proclama
ton and remand them to slavery in paftial |
sense.
A company has been organized and is
about to commence operations in mining
coal, within and near the limits Of St. |
Joseph. Their machincr ia already on the
road from the East in the hands Of skilful
operators. The papers Of that city look up
on the success Of this interest and conf |
dencc.
Gen. J. Dolsen Cox, republican candi |
date for Governor Of Ohio. in answer to a
call for his opinions, from the Obcrlin fanat
les. has written long letter against negro
suffrage, whcrcupon he is attacked by the
negro suffrage press, and it is estimated that
his letter will lose him the votes Of 10000
fanatics and negro worshippers.
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A letter from one Of Speaker Colfax par
ty says 1--WE arc perfectly sure the Pacific
railway, so far as engineering difficulties and
expensive grading ere concerned, can reach
Great Salt Lake City With not a tenth part
of the expense it cost the Erie or the Penn.
sylvania Central roads to cross the noun
tains lying in their way.
Out of $50 banks in the United States, !
only 253 have escaped the attempts at im |
tation by one or the other Of the many spe
cics Of frauds; and out of this 253, at least
l4S am not worth countertsiting so that in
round numbers, out Of 300 bank notes 49,
sued but 100 are not counterfeited.
A RExARKAbLs CorsfY.-The Sparta En- |
gle mentions the remarkable fact that Com |
pany X, Of the 43d Wisconsin regiment. |
which went out from Monroe county . year |
ago. returned to Sparta without the loss Of
man by disease or otherwise. Eighty one |
went out-eight once Game back; and this |
Notwithstanding the company has been in |
one or two engagenieh.s, md endured Oh !
the hafdshsps incident 10 chimp Nc: We
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