Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-05-06
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NEW YORK.
NEW York, May 4.-Henry Ward Beech
er really joins the Holy Land expedition
Seventy thousand Germans, it is said
have engaged passage to the United State
The new Prussian conscription ls~s are
driving many from the country,
New YoRK, May 5.-Sevsrai cases o.
brutality on the part OF gs,lcemeH m"alus
prisoners have occurrsa ,a"y. e nsa
in ~ r.. dsssifully mntilaslng Il. entirely
d.sa,c.is~ ole nooe, the 0lncsr charging the
nrisossf with usine thrsateniDg lAsguage
r. ain. but IL va proven that be he'd not
J and the prisoner was discharged.
Portions Of Coney and Barrow Islands
have boeu selected for guarantee boarding
and lodging stations.
The nassioa Of Aaroa A. DsomW, In
Jamaica, Long lslsad, together with ito con.
tenls was destroyed By 6se lass Friday
night. The loss . estimated II from go. 600
to 100000. insured for $4,000 Fire the
work Of an incendisYy.
| There was a collision on the Erie Rail
road II Monroe Station on Friday night by
which several cars were badly smashed up.
/ IL Is reported that NO quo VILE tuJuscu
| Counterfeit plates tor ones and fives on
the Peoples National Bank Of Michigan,
legal tender one dollar bills together with
$4,000 in bills already printed have been
found By detectives near Dobbs' Ferry
Tho Herdld'x Metamoras correspondence
| of the Path nit says an cinissary from Max
imilian bearing letters 10 Mosquera saying
that Oueretaro could hold out no longer,
was captured by the Liberals and the BEARER
executed.
Juarez had issued u decree withdrawing
all privileges from citizens Of European
countries who recognized the empire, and
abolishing all treaty stipulations with those
| bowers
The Herald has . dispatch BY cable dat
ed Rio Janciro April 18th, stating that the
Emperor Of Brazil had issued decree de-
claring oil slaves fsce-the mandate to take
effect within 20 years; all children born
hereafter 10 be free from their birth.
The HsrdIds special says active measures
hsve been adopted to dispense relief to thu
destitute Of the South under the COngres
siOnal appropriation, i've hundred thous
and dollars 10 Georgia contracts tor 81. OOO
bushels Of corn and 10000 pounds Of bacon
and pork for Alabama $1,000 bushels VI
corn. One hundred and fiity thousand
pounds of pork have been shipped 10 Aobil.-.
twenty four thousand bushels Of corn have
been sent a. South Caroline. In l.ouisiapu,
North Carolina aud Tennessee there 10 not
quite 20 much being wanted. Lesser
quantities have been furnist.cd bat sufficient
n meet the estimates.
Robert Toombs Of Georgia has rect nifty
written letter accepting the situation and
saying NO true patriot In the Iuth will for
sake his native land. Let W remain here
md nrdoa v0e he ehn f. vop IF DAD O., t,,,;I.@
up our wasted places.
RocHKsrRR, N. Y, May A great FIRE
this morning. involving the l0si OF over
100000. begun soon after midnight and
continued ill 3 this morning, when II wa
checked. Three or four men were buried
in the ruins. The charred and mangled
bodies Of John Pike. Henry Forceler and
J0serh W0rnett, we're taken from the ruinl
and conveyed to the dead house. II il
feared several other persons perithed. and
further search is being made for bodies.
NEw YoRK, May g. The lIerald's
[ harleston special says: Senator Wilson
was compelled 70 abandon his visit to Sa-
vannah and remained IN Charleston yester-
day. lie proposes 10 wind up his South
eia eimpaign by visit 10 Kentucky and
Tennessee. In his second speech in Charles
ton, he said that he would favor conliseation
in the svcat Of freedmen being oppressed
BY the planters for voting the republican
ticket.
Among the rumoss last night Was ono te
tho cffect that Isaac Newton, Of the agsicul-
tural department 10 TO DO suspended, and
ex>Gov. Holbsook is 20 be appointed in hil
place.
From Augusta. Ga, report comes that tws
U. 8. soldiers have been hung in Edgstielt
District, 8. e., BY posse Of citizsne N,
prstext is given for the Outrage. By th,
latest accounts IN officer Of the army with
. guard were on their way to investisat,
The matter.
A meeting Of the Rspublicaa Club o.
Petersburg, Va, wss recently held in thai
city, At which shout enc hundred and 0ity
persons were present. The plstfosa Of thi
Richmond Convention Vas sdsptsd and Z
committee was appoisssd - make asraage-
osnts for the establishment Of Republicar
paper In that city and TO procure and raise
within the city limits the 8. flag.
The Herald's Boston special says: john
Leighton, who ives arrested on charges con,
nected with mining stock operations, has
been released on giving bail in one hundred
thousand dollars.
Tho Times special says: The time Of th,
Attorney General has been 80 fully engaged
with the injunction cases that he hes moi
yet completed his opinion on the disfran-
chising clauses Of the reconstruction act.
The Judiciary Committee are now al
here.
Col WcathesbY, Of North Carolina, ii
among the late arrivals Of witnesses. III
will DC remembered as the gentleman who
had conversation with the President las
November, in which the President advises
him against the adoption Of the constitu,
tional amendment, it 10 on THE point that h,
will be questioned.
The Tribuns's special says: The fiieadl
Of Je6. Davis have sent him request tha
he formally petition The President for par.
don.
United States District Attorney Chssdlsl
tonight 6led . written eequess with u
President for On order o. The connandant
Of Fortress Msases to delivss II. Davis "a
the U. 8. Marshal, n saoe ~ pseessl
shall y issued - bsisg ths psissoss bsobss
The U. 3. Oisssit OeaEs - Judes Uedee,
wood. The order viii probably b isessd
in aeseedanss With thae rsqssee os.osssew.
The i0pssssisa pssvails that whsa NJ.
Davss GETS int Tie ssseedy Of ~ MassAal
esd under The Jurisdiction Of ~ Oosst ths
President csasss 70 have sodlssl svse The
prieo0sr. This b . mistake, the Pessidsal
can pardon either before % altse The trial 81
the accused end bic authority 70 rslsase
prisoners b not elected By The question
whose custody be nay b d.
The report originating in New York eve
ming paper that Pest Master General Ran
dali had tsndessd his sesieuaton . the
President, 70 be used q The lsttes's disefe-
ton, b un6esnded. Il 10 dsoisd By beth
the Psssidsat end Gov. Randall.
A Telegram fioo Gen. Sherman q So.
Leais. recsivsd 70 day, says thas Gen. Green
Clay Smith b b il thAs city end sleste for
Montana % messoW.
Arms have bssn cent to that territory,
aud il 10 uadsrsteod that with these arms
the people Of the territory will b able Ia
protect themselves.
Gen. Augar will soon be among the 1ndi.
ems Who have cccasioned the alarm to Acting
Gov. Aeagher. The arms not 10 be used
unless Gen. Sherman shall sanction the call
Of actual necessity.
WASHINGTON.