Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-07-30

i, Providence, X. L., on the 2Gth, in three ,
heats. Time-2:2oS, 2:22f, 2:22t.
During the week ending July 22d. there
we're I5l deaths in New Oricaus--tcn from
holera and two from yellow fever.
Hon. David Mace, cx.mcmber Of Con-
,ress, and Postmaster at Lafayette, Ind,
suicide at his house, on Friday.
The Wisconsin Radical Convention for
he nomination Of State officers will assem-
bic at Madison, on Wednesday Sept. 4th,
loon.
Italy offers to garrison thciCity Of Rome
With national soldiers, to protect i from
The anticipated attack of ne party Of action
under Garibaldi and Mszzini.
Gems. Sherman, Harvey AMI Terry. have
been appointed on the Ihdian Commission.
The Commissioners will NEE, in ST. Louis
on the IL, Of August.
The importation Of dry goods at New
York were little over three millions in
June; year ago they were seven.
A Southern paper denies tho story that
a Virginia negro - gradually turning white.
but declares that several white men are
turning black with amazing sapidity.
A Mississippi papers thinks General Ord
vas omitted from the vote Of thanks be.
cause he was the only commander who had
failed to get up riot.
The Hawaiian Minister and Secretary
welles were in consultation for long time
Yesterday relative to the building of several
war vessels for the King Of the Sandwich
Islands at our navy yards.
1t ia believed in L"hdon that war DO
tween France and Prussia is imminent. A
private dispatch from Berlin saics that
"prussia Is sc,vely urging forward her
prrpnrations fof such an event.
The case Of Rev. Tying, Jr., charged with
preaching in a Methodist church in defiance
ol the prohibition Of the Rector Of the par
lsh, now under investigation in the Epis>
copal Church, New York.
The military investigation Of The fogging
Of Hendricks, which our readers will recol-
lect occurred some time since at Fort Sedge-
wick, is now in progress. The general ims
precision 10 that both Col. Dodge and Lieut..
Lantz will be cashiered.
/ The government OF Honduras, - an in>
| ducement TO settlers, cxeinpts all emigrsnts
from duties and taxes for three ycars after
arriving. admits their stock, implements.
furniture and provisions free, and gives land
and money TO each able-bodied settler.
A female Blondin, who calls hcrself Rosa
Celeste, is going to walk across Niagara on
tight rope some time during the coming
month. In vindcation Of the modesty OF
her sex. it may be ssid she can do il with
a. much IMMUNITY as Blondln himself, for
the river below is not navgahlc.
a negro confined in the Union City, Odin
county, Tenn, jail. made his escape few
DAYS since, proceeded to the house Of an
elderly lady named Cheisum, residing near,
outraged her person, and then fed. lie
was followed by her sons, overtakcn and
returned To the scene Of the outrage, where
he was shot, and then beheaded.
The death Of ex- King Ohio, Of Greece, is
announced by the cable.
The remaining portion Of table rock was
blown away from the tAa,n rock on Saturday
afternoon.
The failure f,he Unadla National Bank
Of New York State is announced. Liab'li'
$2o 900 assets 100000.
The culture Of the banana plant has been
introduced INTO California with . prospect
of its being success.
a movement is on foot in New iorh
. among prominent Republicans, TO nominate
, Horace Greeley for the Presidency.
+ Reilly, charged with completely in thu
: recent tenian outbreak at Kerry, Ireland
has been found guilty of high treason.
The Philadelphia Ledg,r denies that Their
is any cholera or any other epidemic dseas
+. in tina, city. as asserted Ivy telcgraphic dis
patches
, A quarter az n million of fractional cur
!. rency was sent from the Treasury Depart
, men. las. week, to the United States dc
pository mt Chicago.
The Empress carlottA is said to be hope
A lessly insane, and so violently so ~ TO hav
q attempted to co mint suicide on several oc
n caslons. i.
: Whisky drinkers will he inscrested i
c knowing that Cincinnati rot>ght is sent
: Robertson county, Ky TO be shipped theme
: as genuine bourbon Of til. best brands.
I Near .Icilcr. ,nville, Ind, on Thursda,
p last, three negro men met and assaulted tw
r white girls, and but tor timely interference
would have accomplished their heliish de
: signs. Lynch law is threatened in case o
their capture.
On Thursday evening last, Orents
Lodge No. 81, A. f. A NJ, Of Chicago
dedicated their new hall, on La Sale street
near The Chamber Of Commerce. The Lodg
room. the decoration of VIII ch alone cos
over $50 900, is said to be the finest N th
United States The ceremonies were im
dres-ise in the h'ghet degree.
The Brazilian Government has found
nece- airy to resort TO the issue OF So, 900
(, coo paper money 10 arry on the war il
which the Empire is engaged with Para
quay. Paper money is one oil the evil ef
, iects of war, and in its consequences it be
, comes the jus, punishment Of nations VIII
, 20 to war without Just cause or necessity.
An Improvement in the preservation o
wine has been made in France, consisting Q
the application OF an air pump instead q
, heat 10 remove the air bubbles from tn
, wine. These air bubbles were supposed I,
, be caused by vegetable matter, but howeve
! this might be, the new process of expellin
E them Is an Improvement, it is said.
{ Brownlow was not only in favor of max
ing slavery perpetual but he wa for whip
ping them veil, while they were slaves.
The impeachment committee has spen
CSC, 900 in procuring testimony, which
Just thirty thousand times its worth.
A Mrs. Warner was the 4th Of July ora
tor At Richmond, Wis, and she made th
. national bird scream melodiously.
, It's stated that an American company i
n negotiating for the purchase Of Queen Char
= lottes Island from Great Britain. The isl
and is SAID to be rich IN mines.
' Dan Rice says he is not going TO detile
b fair rec I'd Of thirty seven years as res
, peetablc Snowman, by becoming . membs
9 Of Congress.
A New Orleans editor says he counte
j ls3 alligators in sail Of six miles along
bayou. The Boston Poet thinks this 10
y stron & allegation.
. There are or twenty thousand acres
land in Alabama planted in sweet potato,
4 this year. which will produce eight hundre
!. thousand bushels.
II is announced that BY the LIST Of Noven
Q Der seventeen gold mines will have bee
/, opened in Spottsy lvanis, Culpepper, Ofanl
is and Lousiana counties, Virginia.
= A Washington telegram to . New Iol
paper says that the entire fillibustcriu
II =,