Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-04-24
\. WEDNESDAY. APRIL Pa. 1867.


The Straits o! Mackinac are now open to
navigation.
tx Mayor Monroe Of New Orleans. has
gone - live Ia Csasds.
The French Pssss ID reported outapckea
''srsesisg he Lsxsasars question.
Sishep Spauiding's health i Improving.
Assgrs ~ 10 The let Leuisvills nsvslty.
The japanese have assived ID New Yssk
sity.
Rear Adnisl q. Il. Ben and Lisussaant
Commander Abbott hsys bssn placed on
che retired liss.
David Smith N old and highly esteemed
eitivss of Toledo has bssa shsl 81 ssri>
oas'y wounded By bsfgle.
Five inches Of sosv ELL in Madison, Wis,
on Sunday last,
The President Is to visit Raleigh, n. G.,
On the 4th Of May-the occasion being the
erection Of monument over his fathers
grave.
Secretary Seward 10 on . visie..te his
home in Auburn. lis expected that he
will sddress his fellow citisens on The affairs
Of State previous 70 his return TO- Washing
ton.
Thsgnats ere destroying the cattle along
the Mississippi rives. Ons planter near
Commerce, lost fifty head last week.
The Journal Of St. Petersburg says the
sale Of Rus sian America will prove event.
ually advantageous, - the Commercial in
tefssts Of both countries will b promoted.
Tho President has been invited TO extend
his visit to Columbia, 8. 9.
Ar. Motley's resignation has been accept
Cd and there Is nov ., Austrian Minister.
A rain and hail storm 10 tho vicinity Of
New York, on Sunday last, did considerable
damage.
Attorney General Etansbersy i preparing
instructions to govern the South under the
Military Dsspotism Act.
Prussia 10 said 70 have disappreved Of
compromiss Of the Luxsmbufg question
proposed BY the grsat neutral powers.
JEFF. Davis has refused to apply 70 the
President for pardon, - he says II would
be equal to acknowledging bic guilt
The Surgeon General has issued an tm-
por.ant Military Circular. for the purpose Of
preventing the introduction and spread Of
cholera.
Tho United States Revenue offers made
IN impostans seizure Of distillesv and REQ
tifying establishment in Williamsburg, n.
j., on Aonday last.
South Germans, natuyalized - citizens Of
the United States, arc in danger OF being
held to military service on revisiting the
States which have entered into the now fa>
nous secret treaties Of Pfussia-Bavaria,
Wistemberg and Raden.
A ere st Toledo, Ohio, on Sunday, de-
stroyed property to the amount on $20O, 900.
England has about four hundred steam
ploughs and cultivators in operation, saving
the labor Of about twenty-five hundred
horses.
The st. Lawrence river is reported Is
having overflowsd its banks in many placss,
causing much suffering throughout poi tions
Of Lower Canada.
The Key City FIGURING Mills, It Dubuque.
sxpledsd On Monday afterneoa, complstsIy
devastating TIE bsildins and killing several
employees. The shock vas felt throughout
the entire city.
The Indians on The Smoky Hill route are
again reported - numbering aud robbing
the whites. The Sioux and Chsysnnss are
moving westward in large bsdiss, and COM
mitting various depredations.
Spain promises to give England full salts
faction and indemnity for the seizure of the
Victoria. but her replies to the temnnds in
the case Of the Tornado continue cvasive
and unsatisfactory.
The Herald's Mullinser, Ireland, COZ res.
pondencc, reiterases the assurance Of the
approach Of another Fenian rise, far more
extensive than that Of the 9th OF March,
for the execution Of which he says . COM
prehensivc plan is being arranged IN Lcn-
don, Paris and D, bin.