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Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-10-09
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A New York correspondent gives some
interesting facts - TO what il costs in the
eourse OF year to keep a hrst-class hstsl.
He says: The bills OF . FIRST class hotel fer
supplies are enough to support good many
hmiliss, especially if they practice econe-
my, and don't keep dogs and horses and
Saratoga trunks. For example, ] will give
yea some items from the balance sheet Of
the Astof Housa, the eldest fi1t-elass hotel
il the city. The Astor House pays SIS 900
year for groceries, including $1,000 .
vsar fos Aous and ~ 900 iee bs1tsr. (whs
would suppose that its butter would cost
nearly three times - much % lie -four !;
but 80 they tell moi The marketing bill
10 about 81 sc. 000-they pay one man from
City five to sixty thousand dollars for beef
alone, and the balance Of the hundred gees
for mutton, veal pork, poultry, vegetables.
| fsh, etc. The milk and cream for the Az
tor cost $4,000. about two-thirds Of il
being for milk. and ons-third for cream
Eggs cost about $4,000, the average use
being one hundred dozen daily, or 81. 1000
dozen annually. The gas bill 10 $4,000.
and the coal bill pretty much the came /;
friction matches cost dollar and half .
day, or about $500 year; . good many Of
these are not used IN the house, but find
their way into the pockets Of the patrons.
Who would think Of paying for wooden
toothpicks, when anybody can white one
with little troubled A million are used
every year in the Aston House, at some
thing less than hundred dollars. Brown
| tissue paper, cut to about the size OF COM
mon note sheets. costs about 81, 200, and
sometimes great deal more, according 10
the patronage the house has received. The
bill for liquors for the bar-room is heavy
one, but, fortunately for the proprietor, the
amount received from the patrons 10 gres.
deal mere. With al these figures staring
him in the face, man who can keep no.
tel is entitled TO oil the praise Of his fellow
citizens, and can be set down in the list Of
philan.hropists and practical bsnefactors Of
his rsce.
Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-10-09

Hy Srdss Or the Govsrnsr. @.4
ses-lA~'tll .ehsrif q: Sscts Cssssy.i
Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-10-09

jso. ?. COOK. =. ,. cocA. J. WILSON pRURY.
COOK Il DRURY.
A rTORNElS AND COUNSELORS AZ LAW
"A OHice cor ner Of Main and ed Sta tar2dw.
Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-10-09

A CINCINNATI newspaper says that the
expulsion Of eighteen colorsd members
from the Georgia legislature
was nothing but high bonded act Of re
bslion against the authority Of the United
States"
Now, if the expulsion Of eighteen negroes
By the white legislature Of Georgia 10 IAN
act Of highh handed rebellion against the
United States" what kind Of . highland.
ed act' is the expulsion Of some dozen OF
90 white members BY the negro legislature
of louisiana
Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-10-09
lCANfEILIAS.

PARSONS 4 CO., eFer stock equal to any ever
grown In the country The attention Of f1ant-srcw-
eeeia iav,ssd = ours, which ass vsry healthy md
beAutrful. They can ~ fufn1shed fro0 - per iol
anwards, according toans cd quality. For let and
pgteso o1ozsD q RI060O0, n. II
Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-10-09

Notiss 10 hereby given that the Board Of
Registry will be IL session in the different
districts 1t the following places, and dates
% fnllsws:
1svas6ip-At @. Borsnan's, in Gilbert,
Thursday, October 9Th.
Al John Ny er's tavern on the Harrison
street road, on Friday October 9th.
At II. 6tsGbsn's tavern on the Dubuque
road On Saturday. October 10th.
At ". &. Stsinbergs. In Black Hawk, on
Monday, October 18th.
!, At Pstsr Jscobssn's, corner Locust and
Border street., on Tuseday, October 1oth /;
for Township snd First Ward
he Board viii ct . the absvs places
I'D dates Iron = =. te7p.a.
By ssdss d the 0sasd. ssa.
.49 i. A. q. ouAia411aS.
s-s N. .4ssa ssss TeWa1klp Och.
Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-10-09
With our twelve years ex.
perience in this market. and
large corps Of assistants, we
can BUY or SELL BREAD
STQFFS and PROVISIONS
to the best advantage.
UNDERWOOD d co.
GENERAL
Commission Merchants
No. 1888 Washington Street,
CHICAGO.

ORT0INAr N0rYCu
.SoAiOH.
Tas SfA1s OF Iowa.
scott County.
10 the District Court, Ia and Sor. said
County.
Christian krosgsr,
".
Frans Friedrich koellnsr,
Johann Peter koellner.
Dseaet Jaco6 koslsnsr
Eesd'nand koeilner
Hans Heinrich KoesinAe.
To the abeve named defendant, you and
sass ssysa ere hereby astiasd, he. thsre.
Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-10-09
Ladies. take l'arsicalar Notice
the REAL vElPAu FEMALE PILLS

hE NEAL vElPAU FEMALE PILLS
WARRANTED FRENCH.
These rle. - celebrated Macy ysars ago in Paris,
for Vie rsef Of female irregularities. and atsswards
for thss criminal employment In practice Of abor
tion, ere now Oqessd Tor ssle for The lTst time IL
America. They have been kept In comparative OBJ
security nom the fact that the originator DR.. vetpsu
. physician IN Paris, Of great wealth, and strict
conscientious principles. and has withheld themfron
gsnasal sse lest they sho nld be employed for snlaw
Iul purposes.
IN overcoming Female Distractions. Falling Of the
Womb. Whites. Green sickness. Suppression, Retea
ton. or lmmoderate Flow of the Monthly Dis
charges. Nervous and Spinal A.cctions Pains IN the
Bach and Limbs Fatigue on slight sxsstiOn, Palpta
ton Of Tho Heart, Hystcrirs. etc., and will effect
cure when an other means have failed and, a.
though : powerful remedy, DO not contain calonsl
antmooy. Or anything hurtfnl 70 the constitution.
TO married. ledies aAd young girs who hsvs never
been fegn- a>ed. shsy are pssulasy suited. They
wins IN shest time, bring ON tbs monthly psrtot
With regularity.
CAu-ios. LsAiss sAoald nsvsr taks the .
whom there 10 ~ rssson to believe themselves pres
0AAs, S6e they I'm - sure 70 produce mioeayago.
LAdise can p-ocuro . hoA, oAlad non the syeo Of
the eufous y lbeng one dollsf and si1 postage
0eAnpeto j. w. 4AC04BxR, 0eoeral Agent fos
the United sotes md Caasdas. ct Abany. n. r.,
HARRISON ! STARKS. Ag'ts. IS Brady 81.
Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-10-09

A TTORNEYS AND COCNSELLORH AT
II. Nv b. Il. corner Of Second and Brady
streets, Davenport, Iowa. nov4df
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-03-05

The Aboltionists have been telling
us, for half century, Of the degrade
ton and bestiality ofthe negro through
the baneful influence of the oppression
of slavery. But no sooner has slavery
been abolished than these same philan.
thropists contend that tho degraded,
bestialized subject Of it is fiji 10 sit upon
juries, to exercise the elective franchise,
to take his seat in State or National
Legislature, and to discharge all the
high and responsible duties of intelli-
gent manhood. Now there is an incon-
sistency somewhere. Either the tales
of cruelty and atrocity were not true,
or the negro is in the degraded condi-
ton he was represented to be in. The
Abolitionists were either liars before
emancipation or they are knaves since.
The negro is degraded or he is not de-
graded. If the former, it is wrong and
wicked to clothe him with the privileg C
which should only belong to worth and
intelligence. II the latter, then the
thrilling tales of cruelty, which have
been poured out from pulpit and press
for half a century, have been deliberate
falsehOods.
This is the present dilemma of the
party of great moral ideas. They have
either to write themselves down as II
ars or fools. Impartial History will
probably not be embarrassed by this
difficulty and will rank them with both
classes!
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-03-05

in the Electoral College, by counting
in the seventy odd votes which are to
be thrown by Congressional machinery.
In the name Of the negroes, from the
ten Southern Satrapics- what then shall
happen? Will the free and intelliaent
white citizens ofNcw York, Ohio, Penn
sylvania, Indiana, Illinois, New Jersy,
Connecticut, Now Hampshire, Califor-
MIA and such other States as the Dem
ocrats may carry--wil they, with a le
gal, constitutional majority OF more
than half Il million white voters, be
likely to submit with patience to hav
ing their legal votes overcome, and
their legally selected candidates for
President and ice-President defeated
by the swinding, degraded and umcou-
stitutional votes Of the ten military
Southern provinces, in which only
black men are allowed u voice, and in
which the helpless whites are held
down under black barbarous subjuga-
ton by the bayonets Of this usurping
Congress and its military allies Well
perhaps the constitutional party
may and then again they may not.
Very much will depend on the charac-
ter, courage and capacity Of the man
they have duly elected PrcsidcuI; and
who is sought to be denied this right
full position by Congressional usurpa
ton, military violence, black igno-
rance and unconstitutiona fraud.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-03-05
Consent vs. Force.

The. Old Guard says: "The Mongrel
traitors to the government formed by
our forefathers have murdered more
than million of men in perpetratinq
the monstrous crime of turning this
government from one of conss Mt into
one of force. Onr doctrine is, that this
government must be restored to the
free basis of consent, or self-govcrn-
ment; and, therefore, that all which has
been done by the force principle must
be repudiated and utterly wiped OUT
There is no other road back to the I'm
ion that dates from Washington's time.
The man who talks of restoring the Un
ion without utterly ignoring oil that the
coercive and despotic principle of the
war has done, certainly needs q new
head as we'll as new heart. If we are
not permitted to say that such man Is
a knavs, we must be allowed to think
him a fool. Are these hard words ?
But are they not true2 Who will, who
dare, attempt to reconcile the coercive
principle of military rule with the free.
dom of States9 a,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-03-05
WashingtOn's Birthday.

The Rump Congress refused to adj
journ over one day as mark of re
spect for the memory of Washington,
and even refused to have his Farewell
Address read on the 22d of February.
There is nothing surprising in this in
famous disrespcct of the great Rebel of
the Revolution which resulted in the
independence Of the Thirteen Colonies.
Seeing that they will not even recog-
nize as a State in the Union old Vir-
ginia, which gave him birth, and in
whose soil his ashes now repose,-it
can hardly be expected of them, to join
with the people elsewhere, in honoring
his birthday. 1t is best for them to be
consistent in this, as in other things, all
the way through.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-03-05

THADDEus STEPHENS. vile man
who is equalled only by Brownlow, is
said to be eighty years of age. Like
Brownlow, also, he is very feeble, and,
as the readers of the Home Journal are
aware already, has to be carried to the
Capitol Building. He is the Ringmas-
tel who whips the Radicals into the
support of all he proposes. He is the
main one in the Infamous Impeachment
business. The Nashville Banner says
that instead of preparing to bring An
drew johnson before the bar Of the
Senate, he had better be preparing him
self for the bar of his God.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-03-05

As Gen. Sherman's name has been
brought into the controversy between
the President and General Grant, it may
not be amiss to state that the President
is in receipt of letter from General
Sherman, which is understood to have
this paragraph in it "If Stanton won't
resign, and there is no other way Of
getting rid of him, vlterior measures
should be resorted to-" This letter,
together with one other Of very i'm
pOrtant character, may reach the pub
lie eye If the unfortunate controversy is
pressed any further.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-03-05

A Radical paper in the interior of
Alabama puts the following interroga.
tions to q brother Radical Of the other
wing:
Were you in the Federal service, in
the late WARP
When you came out Of the Peniten-
tiary TO join the service, had you serv-
yourtimc outS
Was the regiment you entered, tho
one out of which you were drummcd?
Did you ever steal horse3
How many2
Arc you all expert in slandering q
gentleman, when you can't make any
thing out ofhim?
Arc you q good boot Ticker, for
ioaves and fishes, &c.
Are you not ashamed Of yourself,
generally, when in the presence fgcll~
tlemcn?
Don't you feel mean?
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-03-05
All About a Nigger Gal.

A Washington City dispatch to the
Louisville Courier says:
The Senate occupied greater por-
ton ofits session to-day in consider
ing the case Of Kate Dostie, one of its
employees, who was forcibly elected
from the cars Of the Washington and
Alexandria Railroad few days since,
because she presumed to take a seat in
the Car allotted for the use of white pas
scngers. Mr.. sSumner led off, and was
followed by other Senators in learned
disqnisitions as to the manner in which
the injured female could best obtain re-
dress. Mr. Conkling called the atten
ton Of the Senate to the fact that as u
body it could not properly act as coun-
sci for Kate, and finally the matter was
referred to the District Committee.
But. the Rump Congress never occu-
pies any of its time in considering the
scores of rapes, by negroes, upon white
girls and women. We could, ifso dis
posed ill column upon column of our
paper every week with such crimes
committed in the North by negroes
We have before us now case of rape
by negro in Pennsylvania upon q
white girl II years Old Congress has
no investigation for white women, but
is excited about an insolent negro be
ing forced to ride in negro car If
the negro was only white, it would
make no difference to eject.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-03-05
Letter from Hon. Is. F. Perry
Condition of Affairs In South Carolina
Depreciation OF Propcrty--A Plantation
Of 1000 Acres sold for S..

Hon. b. +. Perry of South Carolina,
in recent letter to friend at the
North, details for his eilifcalion the de.
plorable condition to which the Radi-
cal policy has reduced the people Of the
Southern States. We copy the conclu.
ding paragraphs:
Property of all kinds, and especially
real estate, has deprecated in value
one-half or two-thirds during the past
year. No one is disposed to purchase
anything, and foreign capital has been
driven out or deferred from coming
here for investment. Property sold by
the Sheriff brings nothing. The Mar
shal ofthis State told me the other day
that he sold a plantation, we'll improv-
ed, containing two thousand acres, in
Horny District, at public auction, to the
highest bidder, for five dollars. Mules
brought only five dollars apiece.
A great many persons are moving
from the lower country, where there
are SO many negroes, and that section
of the State is destined to become a will
derness. The same thing must occur
in many portions Of Mississippi and
other States. A gentleman just return
ed from Mississippi tells me that lands
which rented last year at fourteen dol
lars per acre are now offered at two
dollars per acre, and no one would take
them.
Unless there is & rcaction at the
North, and better legislation for the
Southern States, they will he MI incu-
bus to the Union, utterly destructive of
the whole Republic. The present mill
tary force will have to be kept in to
maintain peace between two races, ap,'
there is no certainty of their ability to
do this long. l have for some tim,
thought that when the negro govern.
mcnt went into operation it would be
impossible to preserve the peace of the
country. A war of races must ensue,
and it will be the most terrific war of
determination that ever desolated the
face Of the earth in any age or country.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-03-05

The Jackobins have refused to al
low Mr.. Thomas, NJ, c. elect from Ma
ryIand to take his seat, and the reason
alleged is that Thomas cannot be pera
mitted to take the oath of Office requir.
ed by the Constitution of the United
States, inasmuch as he allowed his mi.
nor son to leave the parental roof aud
serve as a rebel soldier, and furnished
him with a hundred dollars to carry out
his purposes, all Of which was aid and
comfort and encouragement to the re.
bellion, which he was forbidden to
give, for which in forbearing to make
known that purpose to the proper au
thorities, be was guilty oftieason Is de-
fined by the existing law.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-03-05

The New York Express ola late date
says that boy in that great city, where
100000 men are ready at a moments
call from Andrew johnson, was trying
the other day to sell small American
flags on the street; but people passed
him by as if they had no use for the ar
ticle. What, indeed, is the use offs flag
without government to sustain it?
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-03-05
The CalMness Of Determinatl 0A--
Not the silence Of Despair.

A correspondent of tho New York
Express, formerly an old Wing, down
in Louisiana, writes to that paper as
follows:
"We have been wondering for IS
months past how the Northern people
have managed to keep SO quiet in view
or what Is passing before their eyes.
they must know that the chains forged
for ten Of the States will lust as easily
| fit the limbs of the other twenty-six.-
power that Is daringly adequate to
strike down local government In tho
great expansc Of territory that reaches
from the Potomac to the Bio Grande,
is certainly able to rcpeat it north of
the Potomac and west Of the Ohio. Tho
Northern people thus see and feel the
gradual approach of an alarming and
despotic changein their form of gov
ernment, and except in the protests of
the press and from the lips of public
speakers, we witness no signs Of tho
spirit of resistance which the audacity
ofthe attempt and the peril of its sue.
cess, would seem naturally to provoke"
10 which the Express responds Pa
tience, patience, good friends The
stiffness which is brooding over tho
North is not apathy, is not Indifference,
is not submission to usurpation, or
tyranny,-but the calm that heralds in
the storm. The great heart of the Peo- p
pie for the moment is too full for ut.
terancc.--but the time is near Mt hand
when the Tyrants and Traitors, who
are now tearing down the Temple of
Liberty by piecemeal, will be summon
ed by them to account--bcfore the
chains that are preparing for them can
be put on their limbs. The govern
ment, which these sappers and miners
are now cndeavoring to upset was cre-
ated by the People, for the People, and
BY the People it will be maintained at
whatever hazard, and at whatever cost
The SERVANTS Of the people may assume
to be their MAsrERs,-but wo to all
such assumptions and all such betrayals
O.: trust, when the day Of settlement
comes.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-03-05
That's tho ring of the true metal.
A T1Mr1y T,rssoN Manv farmers

A TIMELY LEssoN.-Many farmers in
this and other sections have made moth
ing by planting cotton, The vast ma
jority profess to have lost money; while
many have been ruined. On the con-
trary almost every farmer in Northern
Georgia has made money by raising
wheat and corn. One man, in county
near Atlanta, who, even before the war,
never made any money on the exclu.
sive cotton sensation, cleared three
thousand dollars this year by raising
wheat. The lesson should not bo lost,
Ga. San.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-03-05
John Jacob AstOr left Halleck.

John Jacob Astor left Halleck, who
was for years his confidential clerk, on
ly two hundred dollars year. Hal
lcck often used to joke Mr.. Astor about
his accumulating income, and perhaps
rather rashly, said: "Mr. Astor, of
what use is all your money to you? l
would lie content to live on couple of
hundred a year for the rest of my life
If l was only sure oft" The old man
that, and with bitter sat
ire reminded Halleck of it in his will.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-03-05

Ho, FOR LIBER1A.-Fiftecn hundred
freedmen Of Lowndes county, Missis
sippi, have signed their names to an
agreement to emigrate to Liberia, says
apaper Of that State. They expect to
be sent out under the auspices of the
American Colonization Society.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-03-05

a Code in tie Doss.-Eyery has bad
cold about this time, Smith and Jones
among the rest A corner dialogue
between them sounded something like
this: Smith-How'd ys do, Jonesf !
Jones-Prstty dwell, odly I have . bad
code. How are you Smidth , Smith
Il hsb sobting Of . code id the doss,
too; but it's getting dwell agsid. Joasa
= What bediVid did you takef Smith
I suutfed up laudadnh ad bwateE Do
you take adythigds Joncs-Do, !
jl,dst grid and bear Il; but ! bust say.
Dab q code ID the dose"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-03-05
Fashions.

We saw three lovely young ladies
upon our streets the other day. One
had on long dress that trailed in the
dirt Another had on q dress that
lacked some 4 inches of touching the
ground, and though it gave her girl
ish appearance, it was remarked by sew
eral bystanders that the short dress
was. decidedly the most appropriate,
least cumbersome and most attractive
for the street. We thought so too.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-03-05
The Democratic Convention of
MiSSissiDDi,

Among the resolutions passed We
notice the following:
Resolved, That the Constitution Of
the United States has delegated no
power to Congress over the right Of
suffrage in the States Of the Union, nor
to prescribe what persons shall hold
office therein, nor to amend the Con.
stituton and laws OF the several States
on these subjects.
Resolved, That, by the Constitu.
ton and laws of the State of Mississip-
pi, white males of the age of twenty
one years and upwards, and citizens Of
the United States, are alone qualified
electors and Office holders, and that no
Others have right to vote within the
limits of said State, or to hold Office
therein; and that, therefore, the acts
of Congress, prescribing rules whereby
negroes are claimed to be authorized to
vote or hold offices in SAID State, are
utterly null and void, and Of no et.
feet.
That's tho rino of tho true metal
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-03-05

Some people never think of a reve-
nue. stamp when writing a letter; yet
some letters require stamping as much
as note or deed. Under the internal
revenue laws, letters acknowledging
the receipts of either drafts, checks or
money, exceeding twenty dollars, are
subject to a stamp duty of two cents,
the same as If q formal ecoipt had been
given for so much money. This fact
Is sometimes forgotten, or is not known,
even by good business men.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-03-05

In neighboring city there lives an
Unmatched couple, who seldom allow a
day to pass without indulging in vio-
lent quarrels. One day, after the wife
had exhausted her stock of invectives,
she pointed to cat and dog, who were
lying together near the stove, and ac
costed her husband with
"Look at them beast; they don't
quarrel"
.Ahr replied the confident husband
"tie them together and then see."
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-03-05

The Hon. JoHx BKLL--We copy the
following paragraph nom the Shelby
vile Uaios:
This once able statesman Is still alive
and lives over on the Cumberland n0v.
He 10 now upwards Of seventy years Of
age and compared with his Sbrn9 e1lf
u bat . wreck. His health y hg -
nsAns good, ~ b II 49, -
drsad ssnnone which Nh ~ -
fron earth d Stsfnity.