Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1865-08-17

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y gave public dinner to-day TO Ill return
cd Scldisrs, ct the Court House square,
Judge Richman addressed the assemblags.
TEE SoLprsa's FslsxD.-This 10 the title
orN stss campaign paper, poblnhed BY Re :.
turned soldiers at Fairfield, Iowa, the second
number ofuhich is before %. Single copv
for the campaign, fifty cents.
OPthossand i've hundred and four M
tioual Banla have been established in the
country, With total issue Of 4le5, 7o4. 400.
and IN aggregate capital ofes7o, ooo, 900.
GnApsA-~we vers 1t NAuvoo Yesterday
the vineyard Of the western ststss, and
although the grapes are rotting consider
ably, owing to the wet weather, tboy exp<et
At least an average yield this season.-heo.
kuk Constitution.
m-Lsut. Darnua Of IL Gfsy Bsasd
Regiment, has a sweet potato vine "a feet
long, and another 20 feet long and Al inches
in circumference, at his homo 10 Fort Msdi
son, and he wants some one u beat them.
We learn from the Eddyville Star. that the
U. $. Express Company have established .
line from Eddysills u Leon (Decaasr coun
~ via Abba and Charlton. The Western
Stage Company do the heavy work. 81
Monroe Housell, young man about Is
years Of age, Was killed few nights since
by the timbsrs ola falling barn. lie Was >
resident Of Henry county. We CLEAN from
the Mt. Pleasant Home Journal.
The following namsd gentlemen have
been elected Directors Of the projected rail-
road from the Missouri boundary 70 Cedar
Rapids, via Davis, Wapello, Keokuk Iowa
and Linn counties: II. H. Trimble, j. b.
Weaver, .. y. Wanlen, +. L. Burton, j. II.
Sanders, I. A. Morgan, II. NJ. Martin. |.
Morris, and W. W. Walker.
NATIONAL BANK.-The Plain Dealer de-
votes considerable space in its last issue, to
informing the public that Fort Madison is
in need Of a National Bank, and urging its
citizens TO cease paying tribute to Peoria,
Burlington, and other neighboring cities.-
Davenport affords two national banks, and
should think that Fort Madison could SID.
port one.
AAAnaDsasu>
A soldier writing from Nashville. Tenn.
on the SUBJECT OF reconstruction. says:
Nov, my q soldier - idea Of rcconstruc.
ton is this : Let every heretofore rebelljous
man ''roconsttuct" himself. The he viii he
prepared the better tn RECONSTRUCT" his
household, then his town, his county, and
hnally his state, and not have to be ''rccon-
structed' by the New York nor Chicago
Irijuuc
Yes, Mr.. Editor, I say, as a soldier who
has served in the Union army since Nav,
1861, that my idea and plan dad the ri ght
to suggest one) would be to let Tennessee,
ami indeed all southern states, reconstruct
themselves.
Now, perhaps, the very men who have
done all to place the south in n position for
reconstruction, viz /: the soldiers and the
truly loyal their supporters may, after
oil, have some very good IDEAS Of recon-
struction A for Reconstruction on a
"ncgro suffrage basis" We, the soldiers, the
loyal southcrncrs. the loyal Of the north, all
oppose, and it can never be. Il
Tho ''ncgro suffrage" scheme is not Just,
nor is it necessity, nor will We have it.
Respectfully, W. F. JENKINS,
I'd Iowa Vet Inf.
-Ndshriue Union.
DURING the recent flood ut OntOnagon.
LAX Superior, five children Of one Btthuel
Draper were drowned. The father was
away. and the mother, an Indian woman.
aud her children were asleep when the wa
ter came into their shanty. One Of the
children was drowned before the terrified
mother could get them out, but she dashed
its body and three of the others on her
back and 20 her sides, aud took the fifth in
her arms, and waded to tree near by, to
which she managed to tie the corpse. in the
vain hope Of preserving It for burial, but the
tree soon gave way and swept down the re-
sistless torrent, AID IN her maternal efforts
to save the rest by swimming to second
place Of safety, the frantic mother felt the
child in her bosom expire, and saw the 9TH
ers swept under tho foaming pillows, and
buried from her sight forever. The mother
climbed a small tree, where she remained
over two days for the river to subside, and
on Sunday reached tho Forest Landing, Il.
most exhausted with cold and hunger.
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Silk AND WINE IN New JrgssY.-A pro-
position has been made to the Agricultural
Bureau by A.olio Valtei,ina OF Lombardo.
Italy, to colonize 81 Italians in the State of
Now York or New Jersey, for the purpose
raising silks or wines The proposer agrees
10 furnish 100000 grapevine and 10, 900
mulberry trees, and will trans port laberers
to this country for $4,000, one half to be
expended in the purchase of vines, trees,
silk worms, implements and other expenses
He says he has perfect knowledge Of the
business, and that such a farm or plantation
could be put IN operation in three or four
months. The first two years the production
would DC nominal, but the third year it
would pay aprofit, and theiitth year he cs
Inmates the production at the enormous fig
ure Of $4,000. lie says the climate OF the
State named is adapted to the culture q
wines and silks, and it only needs exper.
fenced workmcn to develop the capabilities
Of the soil, which will render US entirely in
dependent of foreign nations for wines and
silks, which can be- produced in this coun-
NY as pientifnlly and. as cheaply rs in Italy.
lie refers to Hon. George Z. Marsh, Amcri-
can consul at Turin, as a guarantor Of his
ability to perform what he proposes.
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The New York E'eeniny Post a republican
paper, in speaking Of the Mississippi consti-
tUtlon, says:
ut needs but the most triiling changes 10
make it model instrument for any free
state the black stain Of slavery is not wo-
ven into its texture, it is not even printed
upon ITS surface; it s seen only in hi: OF
rag stitched sn ut the end and even in the
patch, which may be ripped off in five min
utes by the convention, the object Of those
who framed tho consttution appears to have
been more TO guard the comfort and safety