Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1866-11-19

A cheese factory is to be started next
season in Chickasaw county, Iowa.
The national Union majority in Delaware
10 ,5l6.
Geo. Peabody has donated $4,000 to
Kenyon College, At Gambler, Ohio.
The Illinois State Union Prayer Meeting,
q Springfield, which has been in session for
some time, is numerousy attended.
About ten thousand acres Of Agricultural
College land in Wisconsin have been sold
thus fer, at one dollar and twenty five cents
an acre, one quarter down, and the balance
on ten years time.
= :. The indianapolis Hersid, which made On
assignment few weeks since, will probably
be continued under the auspices Of the
johnson men Of that city.
The third party Of excursionists for the
Central Pacific Railway, from Boston, New
York and New Jersey ,..arrived At Quincy on
Saturday last.
The State Commissioners sold out the
Missouri Iron Mountain Railroad Saturday
for 5000, 900. The injunction was previous
" filed BY the New York bondholders, and
Is not vet decided. and may affect the title.
A proposition to cut of the Ohio and Mist
sissippi Railroad from Cincinnati by com
pelling them to tear up their track in the
corporate limits, Was debated Saturday in
the City Council, and vii. probably pass At
the next meeting. This is on account Of
the fact that the company refuses to dis
charge . debt Of several hundred thousand
dollars due the city.
Gen. Heintzelman has gone to Galveston
20 assume command Of the district Of Texas.
Nearly million and half in gold dust
will soon arrive at St. Joseph, Missouri, ,fiom
the Plains.
The Territory Of New Mexico 10 clear Of
Indians, but the frontier military posts, being
unoecupied, are full Of them.
The ice on the Upper Missouri is begin
ming to seriously interfere with navigation
Miners are still coming down the river from
Montana in large numbers, some rich, 9th
ers psonilcss.
The bill making hsbitual drunkenness q
sufficient cause for divorce has passed tn,
Vermont Legislature, thirteen to eleven. with
an amendment requiring that the drunken
ness must be Of two years duration previ
Gus to the finding Of the bill.
A sudden change vas made in the Chica
70 postofice by the President Saturday.
Geseral Osborne Wss removed, and Rober,
A. Gilmore appointed 10 his place.
A well-known eastern Democratic politi-
clan had On hours interview with the Pres
idsnt Saturday and found him ind,sposed to
make any more removals from ofil e on po-
litical grounds.
He also learned that the Presid ent intend
ed to leave the reconstruction question here
after entirely in the hands Of Congress, and
that he intended no factious opposition to
this body, and that he resented with indig-
nation an intimation that he did not intend
70 execute the laws which had been made
over bic veto.
Mr.. johnson also added, that several
prominent southern men were urging upon
him the propriety Of declaring for universal
amnesty, and for impartial suffisge. He in
formed them, be said that his views in the
matter had already been expressed in mes
sage to congrsss.a at the last session and 10 his
letter to Gov. Sharkey. lie was in favor Of
impartial suffrage, and ~ for Extending .
general amnesty, he could not now decide