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Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-12-21


and elegant illustrations. Hurd 4 Houg
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in advance. Call for II at the News Depo.s.
TESTIMONIAL OF RRsrRcr. cr.-Resolution Of
coincidence passed by Adar Lodge, Dec
18th, in sympathy with Bro. c. II. Ed
ridge. in bis afiiction:
LoDaR Rooxs,
DAVENPORT, Dec 18th, 1867.
We have heard with regret Of the sad be
reayement Of our beloved brother, 9. II.
Eld,idge by the death Of his wife, Mrs. J
Eldrldgc, and knowing how great must be
his aiil.ction in the loss Of one whose faith
fulness and affection as = wifo, was only
equa,ed by her eminent fitness and devotion,
as one Of the best Of mothers, and to these
being added the possession Of such amiAble
Qualities ~ made her friendship pleasant
and endearing to those who knew her best,
and above all as follower Of Christ, striy
/ ing amid all the adverse influences Of this
present evil world 20 live the life Of an hum
bic, consistent Christian, all Of which must
have made her such loving companion as
makes the loss sustained BY our brother the
greatest trial that can befall him Of an
earthly character. Remembering, too, the
motherless condition Of bis precious little
ones, our hearts are not only moved with
sympathy for the sorrowing husband, but
with the tendesest compassion for the ten
der lambs. which, may the Good Shepherd
ever cherish near bis own heart Of love.
Therefore, in view Of oil these touching 3
considerations, we. as Adar Lodge, Of the
|. .. of q. ssTemplers, do tender to our
brother and bis family, our sincsrest sym
pa,hy, and earnestly desire that. in their
deep affection. they may be sustained and
comforted by One who has promised to be a
help in every time Of need, and that the
balm Of consolation may be applied by tht
Great Physician, to the soothing and heal
ing Of those wounds which tie ruthles.
hand of death has made, and that in some
glad future day the broken links may bt
again united in that land where parting ant
bereavement are unknown.
Approved by the Lodge and embodied il
the minutes.
GEo. II. JONES, Recording Sec'y.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-17
THE FALL IN GOLD.

The decline in the premium on gold to 1881
is an advance of the value Of the paper dollar
of the Government and the banks to IS cents
in gold. Although gold touched 1884 on the
nth of May, 1865, and averaged 100 for week
afterward, there has been no period since July,
1862, when it has stood for month at as low
a figure as it stands now. The principal cause
of its present ebb is that the Government has
recently paid out about 100000 in gold, and
on the 1st of January will disburse about
S2O,000,0O0 more, leaving the net hoard then in
the hands of the Sub-TTeasury but little
over $8O,0O000O in gold, which is at
least $GO0OO,OOO more than it should be,
unless the Government means to use il imme
diately in resuming specie payments. We
have already Shown that our Government has
twice as large reserve of gold in proportion
to its liabilities as the banks of this country
or Of England ever required to enable them to
continue specie payments If the Government
should offer to resume tomorrow, it could
hardly count and pay out more than S2,000,000
a day in redeeming the greenbacks which
would be presented. Its customs receipts would
amount TO hlf a million a day, leaving the
net drain only one and half millions per day,
at which rate it could stand a run upon its
gold for 81 days, even if the whole country
were so insane as to combine against the
Treasury and present the last frsction of paper
it owed But it must be apparent that resump-
ton would in few days bring paper up to a
par with gold, and that after that time no
more notes would be presented.
Meanwhile, among the other agencies which
are contributing to the decline in gold, is the
greater clearness of the political horizon. and
the notwithstanding with each passing
day-that the Southern States are rapidly re-
organizing on plan which. il not universally
acceptable, will at least be peaceful, and will
restore the Union on the sound and immOyable
basis of equal rights for all men, whether white
or black, ignorant or learned, loyal or disloya,
rich or poor. IL is pretty certain also, that the
Rebellion will have no political martyrs,
whose blood might SOW the seed for new
harvests of malcOntents and rebels Mr..
Davis will not be punished for fighting
for Slavery, nor will tho country be cOnyulsed
by displacement OF the President hrcause he
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-17

oD,,.cs r,.;ycr, ,uirl &c. which is his greatest
ard rlfaicnt political crime. lt is bcbeycSt'
ai.1. Nat Congress VIII gi,o stcldincss To tho
-oa, o. public discussion, which had nun Wild
on financial questions. and that 10 imitation OF
lcg.' tenders. no rcpudiatiyo measures, no
Suicidal onslaught on the National Banking
business, aud no measures calculated to raise
the ale Of interest and deprtcatc the market
value OF tle public securities viii be tahcu
Those political causes, with diminutiOn Of i'm
DoIts aad increase of exports, are combining
with the release OF S3O,0OO,000 of gold from the
Sub-1'rcasury TO lower the premium, which may
reasonably be expected to rccede still further
before tle middle OF January.
imported goods, and those manufactured from
cotton and wool. were first affected by the close
Of the war and the decline in gold, and hence
dry goods and clothing are among those living
expenses which have been first reduced Pro-
visions and breadstufts remain at about the
same price, as in May, 1865, when gold was NJ
its present figure. Rents and real estate will
be the last to come down. The uncertainty
which prevails on the point whether the Gov
eminent will do anything toward the resumption
of specie payments, still delays business ana
represses enterprise in many directions This
state of uncertainty and distrust throws out
of employment a large number of operatives
and wCrkingmen and women, and destroys
the fruits of much labor and toll
on our farms and in our mines and factories.
Capital dare not run in debt when the cur
rcncy in which the debts are to be paid - liable
at any moment to be enhanced in value 30 per
cent. Business men dare not invest when
property, relatively to money, IS liable to tau
on their hands by such TuinOus percentage
Labor suffers and staryes on account OF the
paralysis imposed on capital. If specie pay
ments were at once and promptly resumed
few very serious changes i'll value would take
place The amount Of gold which would
come into circulation, out OF its vaults
and hiding places, would more than exceed the
onantitv of greenbacks which would bo pre-
scented for redemption, and retired in conse-
quence Of resumption. Our currency aiter re-
sumption, would be az great in volume "a now,
or greater, and consequently, prices woulu be
nearly the same then in gold ~ they arc now
in paper The business OF the community
would rapidly expand, every form of private
and public credit iwould become more cx-
tended, and yet more sound, with q
return to specie payments, and our
business communities would enter at once
on career of great industry, activity. aud
prosperity Under these circumstances the
prime need of the hour is individual and na-
tional economy, and speedy resumption OF
specie payments. Hold on to your greenbacks.
Their rise in value from this time forth until
actual resumption must be as steady and sure
as their fall in value under the disastrous IN
iluenccs of the ChicLahominy campaign, and
the other defeats and disasters Of the war.
He who has the greenbacks ought soon to be
able 10 decline the gold.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-17

Petroleum V. Nasby's amusing account OF
the meeting at the grocery Ton hearing from
the New-York election) to take steps to col
lect from the expected Democratic Congress
tho value of niggers emancipated in Kentucky,
has been parodied in serious earnest in the
Kentucky Legislature, where, on the 10th inst;
"senator Turner from Beaire offered Joint resolution
providing for the appointment OF select committee Oh
five from the SeUate and five from the House Win I'D
structOD 10 report early practicable the asst SEQ
value slaves taken from the citizens OF kentueky ny
Federal Executive proclamation by acts OF Congress ana
b. the amendment to the Constitution OF the Cpitsd
states known as the Thirteenth Articles ana also tho
value OF such slaves taken from each county IN this Com
monweath and that said committee report what steps
arr necessary aud proper 10 enable the citizens OF this
state 10 obtain compensation from the Federal OVen
Inent FOR such slaves taken. one OF the Senators
thou Qht IL was clearly constitutional right that the
people OF Kentucky should receive compensation Tor
Slave property taken from them, IA Kentucky occupied
different position from other states She voted against
the constitutional amendment and dld not lose hor
slaves By state action other states did Tue rc'ou-
ton was adopted Yeas, 25; Nays, g."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-17


Mrs. Sophia Myers was pardoned by Gov.
FentOn on the strength Of petition signed by
forty seamstresses in her employ, and of an
affidavit that the woman on whose testimony
she was convicted had spoiled the work in
trusted to her. On the back Of this testimony,
Justices Bowling and Kelly, who had con-
victed and sentenced her, united in the follow
ing solicitation:
"The undersigned Justices Of the Court Of Special SEES
sions before whom Sophia Myers YVES convicted IN said
Court sympatbiZng With her frepds, anq taking INTO
consideration the Of the defendant and that she has
already suffered imprisonment Of over four months
would respectfully unite IN recommending her TO The
Executive clemency, believing that the punishment
which she has already undergone amply sufficient &e
of course Gov. FentOn could do no other
wise than listen to this recommendation. No
body imagined that he had acted otherwise
than in accordance with the best lights afforded
him. but important facts were concealed by
those making the application.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-17

In the Senate yesterday a bill was intro
duced to reOrganize the Department of State
and the foreign service; also bill TO app0r-
ton the National currency among the States;
also a bill to tax the stock of National Banks.
The Cotton Tax business came up, and MIR.
Morrill, moved that foreign cotton be exempt
from duty after April 1. The debate on the
bill occupied the remainder of the session.
In the House bills and resolutions were offered
to pay balance of bounties to murstered-out
non commissioned officers; to Limit admiralty
jurisdiction TO fix a day for electing Congress
men to abolish the bonded warehouse system !;
to prohibit the circulation of any money not
authorized by Congress to allow 20 per cent
of duties to be paid in currency after July,
1868, 40 per cent next year, GO the next, ~
the next year, and the whole in 1872 ;
to extend pre-emption and homestead laws 10
Idaho: to inquire into the eXpediency of re-
moving the Capital; resolving that the House
will never consent to retire from its position
and fixed purpose of protecting all men as
equal before the law, (passed, III to 323
changing the time for electing Union Pacific
Railroad directors to the first Wcdnes-
day after the 4th of March, (passed y
TO inquire into reduction of the Navy
(passed). Mr. Butler tried to suspend the rules
to get in his resolution to pay in gold only
such debt as the law expressly demanded, and
all the rest in currency; but the House
refused, Yeas IS, Nays s3-15 Democrats in the
affirmative and IL in the negative. Gen.
grant withdrew his recommendation for 20 per
cent, advance in salaries of War Department
clerks. The Deficiency bill was passed; an
amendment by Mr.. Stevens increasing by 20
per cent the pay Of all employees in the civil
service who now have less than $4,000 year,
was adopted 70 to 70, but was afterward cut
off and the bill passed without it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-17

The Chicdg0 Times il one of the abest, and
certainly one of the btterest, Democratic
Journals in the country. Its politics are very
bad but its enterprise is unsurpassed, so that
il is one of the very best newspapers IN the
North West.
The Times, however, has one remarkable pc
cnliaIity-it has ideas of its own aud does not
fear to express them. Nearly year ago, 1t
demonstrated against the undemOcratic folly and
Incanncss of keeping -Four Millions Of native
citizens in state of perpetual hopeless serfdOm.
I'm other words. it insisted that the Democratic
party should be- Democratic, if only for SYM
metIy's sake. And, while it has since been as in
tenscly Copperhead on most questions as TIE
Richmond Examiner, it does not yet realize
that its party can gain anything by keeping
M a warfare against enlranchising the Blacks.
IIereupOn, purse has been raised-S5OOOO,
saws one report $4,000 says another-and a
new Democratic organ is TO be started at
Chicago to run down The Times. 1t will, OF
course, never venture to have an opinion OF It's
own, but devote itself to indorSing, expound-
ing, and clarifying the last Chicago Platform,
until the party gets new one, when IL Will
faithfully transfer its allegiance TO that, ana re-
sumo the task of indorsing, expounding and
glorifying. For the sake of its readers, we trust
the platform will contain some IDEAS not en-
bodied in the old one.
There is not another country on earth
wherein partisan intolerance Is SO hefce' SO
eyacting, so irrational, as in this. We open
few gazettcs which we like less than me
Chicago Times yet, in behalf of Free Speech
and the dignity of journalism, we hope for It's
triumph over the foes in its own household.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-17

The removal of clerks in the Departments
at Washington is creating great CONSERVATION.
Let the good work go on. There is still a
good deal of work to he done on the Pacific
Railroad, and these stout young men, whose
lusty energies are being dwindled away by a
clerlkship in the departments, and enervated by
the demoralizing influence of service under
Andrew Johnson, and life amidst the diSsipa-
tions of the capital, are Just the young men
who are needed in ourIW estern Territories and
newly-fonung States5to " make two blades OF
grass grow where only one grew before
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-17
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'WvUIIcK's-Ths Eyening-"The Rivals" D. W.
Walacf, T. l. Davenport ,. H., y
Mr. d. 7. Bowers q, As;5.,,r,
OLYMPIC TnEArER-This Evening-"A Midsum-
m Nights Dream" ann. plooI
N,rro,s GAHDEN-This Evening" The BLACK
Gs.t Psrseuue Ballet Troupe. Nile AuguS'e SoniAe'
c,vrSw,y H,LI-This Evening-Charles Dickens
..n c,seda and Mr Bob Savers Party iron FleA"loA'
NtyyYoRK THEATER-This Evening" Under the
0ssRghtv The WoHel sisters 80 =, .,,
FprNcH THEATER-This Evening" La Famille
BesOiton' 80 ca
T,rTu-AvF THEATRR-This Evening" 1e Grand
o.ssa BesS' Mr. LemngSel, Mrs Howard Watkins
RARNUs's AMERICAN MUsEUM-Day and Evening
Sis Soops to ConquerA Living GOla-Naa Ambursa Co.
Asnsgerie-sa00OO CurosiieA
BROOKLYN ACADEMY or MUsIC.-This Evening
"The Graud Duchess Of Gerosteih'
NEw-YORK CIRCUS, FOurteenth-st.-Ihis Evening
Heats Of EauestrianlsuL Piau. the Russian athlete
BUNYAN HAIL, Union Square-Ihis Afternoon anu
I,euBg.-"1be Pilgrim -
DoDwORTH HALI--This Evening.-"Nasts O"ii-
eaturana-" Lecture ~ W. H. Merton .
ExmBuIoN OF Balls STATUE OF FORREST 40
COKIoLASus DAY and Evening at No b4 BIosavay,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-17

II is proposed by somebody to establish an
express company whose business shall be to
fake care of the baggage of travellers. What IL
commentary on the management OF our Iall-
roads and the patience of the public Every
railroad company is required by its charter to
transport a reasonable amount of luggage for
every passenger, in the same train and without
extra charge If the railway officials did their
duty with toler,ble care and promptnesS, there
would be no room for n company like the one
proposed. Yet everybody must admit that If
properly conducted, it would be great con-
yenience; it would save many trunk from
being dashed TO pieces by rough porters, broken
open by dishonest Engagement, lost, le1t be-
hind sent to the wrong station. The aggraya-
ton would be that we should not only have TO
pay an express agent for doing what we were
entitled to have done for nothing. but good
share of the profits would 90 to the very raii-
road companies whose acknowledgement made
the profit possible.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-17
HYPocRIsY or THE SOUTH ON SUFFEIGE,

HYPOCRISY or THE SOUTH ON SUFFR1GE!
The Democratic party proposed few years
ago to let the negro vote, on the ground that
he would vote just as his former master
told him; yet, by refusing to carry out their
own proposition. showed that they did not be-
leve it to be true. The same party still con-
tends that the negro will only vote as lie is
told. If so, why do MT somebody tell him to
vote the Democratic ticketY
The Democracy are very active in publishing
reports that the Radicals are securing the votes
of the negroes by offers of land and yet the
only negro who has secured land by voting was
one near Richmond Va, who had farm pre-
scented him by the Conservatives for voting the
Democratic ticket. He was right. Suffrage is
good, but farm is better lie IL vote the
Republican ticket for the rest of his life, and
own his farm besides. When the Conservatives
can afford to buy up cOlOred votes so expen-
siyeIy, the negro is in fair way of getting
his rights. The Democracy are proclaim
ing in one breath that the negro is in
power in thesSouth and that they are planning
insurrrriions. Who ever knew the party in
power to get up rebellion against the party
out of powerP They are also publishing q
great many crudely invented accounts OF fear
ful negro outrages in the South, IN which the
outraged and innocent white man fires the gum
and the violent and uncomfortable negro is
shot through the heart.
But the subjects on which the Democratic or
gans harp most fcclingly are the "black and
"tan conventional They forget that from the
time the Apostle baptized the Ethiopian, and
doubtless before The Heaven OF the Christians
hope became a black -and-tan convention
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-17

The WOrid-which is constantly harpiDg on
the ignorance of the Blacks, and making that
a reason for denying them the Right of Suf
frage-fav0rs its readers with the following:
A soCABBLE OVER tn. MORO SCHOOLS ~ BALTSoRs,
MD-AbOnt year since, during the administration Of
the Radical municipal authorities In Baltimore Nd, he
CITY Councils took up the subject Of Negro Education
I'm the city and passed ordinance compelling The Board
OF Public School Commissioners 10 take charge OF ten
gro schools then operation under the management OF
Freedmans Bureau Association, and also authorizing
the Openng OF schools for the children OF cO0red pa
rents upon the same basis and subject 10 the rules
OF management as the white public schools" An apprO
patIOn Of $4,000 made 70 carry the ordnance into
effect which amount was soon exhausted, and the Edu.
cati0nal ASSOCIATION" applied FOR more By TINS le,
however, a Democratic Mayor and Councils had been
elected by the people, and the bills presented Tor negro
schools repudaed the ground tbat tey were not
OF money for their support Illegal The schools are,
therefore, to be closed up, until further legislation
Is had upon the subject. .|I|.'
Can anyl one guess hon long the schools
must remain closed up,' before Conservatism
will provide the means of reOpening themY
May not Washington City, Texas, aud every
other locality where Democracy and Rebellion
have borne sway, help us to answeri
NEGRO schools we are told, are "nOt
"authorized by the State laws" of Maryland.
And negro childen are not allowed to enter
the msnamed Common Schools. If, under such
regime, the Blacks should remain ignorant
how long will that excuse their exclusion from
the electoral b0dyq
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-17

Fabrics and increase the products OF our fur
naccs and factories and this, VIC trust. viii. to
some extent. be done; but this must he work
of time, and will be powerfully, desperately re-
sisted by very formidable party; so that the
relief from our presenf trouble chat seems near
est and roadiest involves a heavy mgation
from the cities to the farms and prarics. And
this cannot commence too soon.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-17

portion 70 the number Of registered voters.
There are 10000 registered voters, Of whom
$500 arc white and 1900 colored. It is be-
iieytd b. those best informed that 10000 whites
wiz vote Cor a Convention. The Convention,
without much doubt, win DC carried, and of
the delegates elected two-thrds will be Re
publican il viii be seen that the registered
whites number within 10000 OF the highest
vote ever cast in the State. The Conserva-
tives are moving to prevent their followers
from voting.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-17

We print in our shipping intelligence this
morning accounts of the late storm, as ex-
perionccd by vessels near our coast The
steamship LadOna, from New-Orcans, was
driven $50 miles to sea; the ship Sacramento,
from Boston, was dismantled in the South
Channel, and the crew of the MOdena, from
Africa, were badly frOst-bitten. The second
mate was lost overheard
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-17

Before the Bounty bill actually becomes
law, we trust it will be remembered that the
persons to be enriched by it are not soldiers,
but claim agents. Nearly all The claims for
additional reward for patriotic service long ago
passed out Of Highlands of the original owners,
and we are now asked to submit to heavy
tax for the purpose of putting money into the
purses of a class of men who are the very last
in the world that ought to get rich.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-17

If the report is true that President Juarez has
appointed Senior Romero Minister of Foreign
Affairs, our neighboring Republic may be con
graduated upon a capital appointment for one
of the most important public offices. Senior
Romero while in Washington showed an ability
from which even the French could not with
hold the tribute of recognition.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-17
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