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Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-03-02
I,rs.cunssr don, seem to prosper, !

lxrS.cumssr don't seem to prosper, at
,,groad speed, half as much as It promised
-. ~ davs since. The committee that
.x,s gong 10 cut and slash matters right
,b-,ush "a quick time seem to be butiing
49, rams arsips. serions obstacles that
-, ,Aem 10 halt by the WY. Strange
,..,e r Affairs that Republican Congress
80, ;apeach a Republican President with
,,,.nmueA stumbling and hating by the
~ his hardly possible that any man
-, b. . good Republican President and not
seserve impeachment. The very fact that
h Is a Republican President 10 strong pre-
.amp,ive evidence that he Is worthy OF i'm
rc.chnent without hesitation, and the same
rale w,ll apply with equal force to members
sf,h, Radical Congress. II is strange that
rh,e the late tempest was raging to such q
t,,f,l extent under the Radical TEAPOT that
,hs President was not dccapitatei in
.,,,,er. Flu, every day the fires grow
,.olle- ana the chances Of impeachment for
r,o,,,,on of the civil tenure law, less and
los STRANGE indeed, and disgraceful that
- --s,, Conrrcs e, 81 far outside Of the
-. ~ tho Constitution SO drunken q
,,,,.rsss too. ona so given to rank immor-
.l.is. ana 81 aar9if in stealing millions Of
money f.m ~ PEOPLE through whisky
-i,.. ,obace, rings, and pra,ical rings gen
.raly--srrarra o1eed is il thar they can't
irr.a.., a psssllent, Wonderful imbecili-
,y ss.e, of deep compassion; when will
,he,r troubles have an end
Look out for troublous times; terrible
thing happened last week Tout west, !"
area, conservation every body better lock
GU, for treason. sra,egems, treachcries, and
s,oil.: for the morning oracle proclaim
that the DRNocaAr has become awfully
a.u ise Of soldiers,-particulsrly abusive
OF their widows and orphans! Soldiers
" b scech you all TO take notice, and be
ware, Soldiers widows, and particular,
soldiers orphans should appear upon n
etreet, lane or road unless attended by
valiant G1-ette man-a sober ono a. that
Don, run any risks, don't permit you
selves to be publicly swallowed alive, whe
the Gdzsttc vAliar,s stand 80 ready and I
anxious TO help You; the editor, for instanc
Who forced ia, (post) Office upon re,ur
cd soldier, ist because he loved soldier
and couldn't bear 10 stay in Office himss
while there was soldier out in the col,
When the DsnocnAr ghouls go abou, ea,ir
soldiess, soldiers wives, and soldiers .
phans alive. let them fiy to the bosom Of Il
editor OF The Gazette. Ito knows how
81 for You; he may lay down his life {
you--but not il he can help il.
Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-03-02

HulmOn1c A1fe syrup, for tho Cure
or lpcipient Con sumption, Coughs, Co'ds eroup,
Asthma, Liver Com plants, and General Debility.
For Dc eral years ave been urged b. kind rit nds.
who have used, and been benefited by, nv Life
syrup, 10 put 1t up for general sale but few know
the large expense now thst the country IL hoodep
with Patent Medicines. which attend the same For
yeas was eactai' 70 az - as lhe eaptai e,
the operations Of my Venetian. Linimsnt business.
Bat thanks TO the generous public. who have aprre
without any 10 my large business in tina
medicine. The fouBdat on OF my success attribute
to attending TO the m snufacture OF every drsp my
self and shal do the same In regard TO my Pulmone
Life syrup. The Ingredients perfectly harmless.
but act the Lungs and Liver with astonishing eff
feet. Price IS cents DEPOT No 70 Cort'andt Street
New York, near Jereey City Ferry. Sold by the
Druggists and Storekeepers
Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-03-02
TO YOUNG MEN.

no arrest Seminal Losses, to conquer bad habits
i and remove the effects Of early Error. eend 70
cents to GALES'S HEAD DISPENsARY, Louis
vile, Kentucky.
Having had tan years' experience in this speciality.
patients suffering from any disease whatever OF pri
confidential nature. and ladies troubled with
any Of tho ailments peculiar the EEK, by enclosing
25 cents above, with brief statement OF case will
receive particulars for self treatment by return mall
and thus avoid quackery We also have Narix
Clasp which guarantee TO cure varicocele In four
days. The Electro N netic Preventive. Those de-
string 10 limit their ofsprifs, enclose stamp
for pamphlet, containing engravings and explana-
tons OF the above preventive. with an essay on the
subject Of prevention. All correspondence conf
DENTAL Address all letters TO J. ). WILLIAMS,
Drawer s47, Louisville. Ky oct24-d&w1y
Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-03-02
AUTHENTIC DOCUMENTS,

vfcKsHyaG, MISS, Aug. Q, 1868.
Dr. Jous RciL-Dcar Sir IL am happy to state to
you that have used your valuable Ceiron Bitters
with great hcnea; 10 myself In general debility and
prosirstion Of my fstem produced ~ the nBhealthy
around VII kebrrg. l confidently reconmend W use
to al persons ~he ere exposed 10 unhea thy climates
II n
Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-03-02

La ExtaNe a II Lszs q. NFNash
TEE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND HARMLESS COS
METIC IN THE WORLDS.
II viii not Injure the most Delicate Skin
Its presence on the face cannot be deected il can
10 removed only by washing; and when Renewed
will leave thu ~ softer smoother and whittier than
before RI srancates every dis o0satien OF the face,
whether caused By exposure 10 III we'hcr. or By dis
esec, and bestuw- upon all faces the
RADIANT COMPLEXION OF THE YOUTH.
A single trial proves all these statements.
And the entire safty with which It can be used,
makes it success complete.
" Ask for La Rue's.-ree that the name OF La
Rue Co il blown In the bottle, aud our trade mark
at the top Of the front LABEL. sold BY all Druggists
and Fancy Goods Dealers. Price Ore Dollar pei
bottle CHuRCH . FLINT Proprietors.
Hartford, Conn.
&c Wells a Co. New York Geo. G. Goodwin
D Co, Boston, Mass, Wholesale Agsnts.
Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-03-02

N ,,,s.;iis Correspondence Of tbs Cleveland
Ledger
crORGB D. PkENTICE
N -

& LNniNTiil9 iuFftSP
/ GEORGE D. PRENTICE.
| Visited Mr.. Prentice first. lie was
writing with difiiculty,in the editorial ioom
Of the Journal, which was the second story
ora lead.colorcd brick building, tnlersbly
we'll battered and au,iuua,cd. Ills ewes al Q
good with the aid Of glasses, but his arms
are feeble, If not partially palsied. He is,
think, 10 bis sixty fourth year, and al
The manhood OF his time has been commit
ted to career Of fevessh action, the days
devoted to caustic commentary, ~iih ieis-
urely accidents OF poems writ between anu
wnen the bitterly tonight politica' camp
agns came he was all alive, and eloquent
aud defiant, the strongest quiii-dtiser west
Of the Allegheny Mountains.
II va = life 10 tire a bald eagle out. He
came here from Connecticut, being an origi-
nal Yankee, with enough Of the breath OF
Long Island Sound in his lungs 10 keep
him . generation or two, and the circum-
stantIalities ofa conservative community,
II they ever quite awakened him to questions
Of reform, made him useful beyond al
panegryic as . magnificent nationalist. lie
was the better half Of Henry Cl,y, and
his strength was spared TO the brink Of the
rebellion, when, almost alone. be grarp'ed
the Journal 10 the north bank OF the Ohio,
and saved the State from expstSiation and
pilage. Then his ovsr-taxed body itself
re oiled, and Mr.. Prentice has teen little
since excsps the occupant of his editorial
chair.
found him nevertheless, with clesI
memory Of even minute and most remote
tribes, and . general elegance of address
which was 70 him in Kentucky scarcely le,i
essential than talent. His hairs are thin
his limbs slight he still wites poem oc-
asm, but the death Of his favorite son broke
his spirit simultaneously with the failure o
his body.
found it hard to recall the gallant an(
hopeful presence that had SO often looked
down pistol barrel in those days when 4
be an editor here WAS also to be . soldier
lie accepted the Kentucky civiliz stion will
the true Yankee grit, and fought his way in
aide Of it.
Once man met him on the sidewalk en-
fired deliberately 1t his heart. Prsntic
knocked him down and put his foot on him
"Get upr' he said, II don't care to XII
you"
They met again, years afterward, at
Kentucky watering place; the assaiiant vi
dying Of consumption, and he came up,
coughing specter, and thanked Prentice f
his life.
Mr.. Prcntice said Of journalism in Il
days of Clay, and the journalism Of Il
: present:
, ut did not take tho money nor the ents
, prise in those days that are now req lire
A newspaper did not try to do much; p
!. l,tic Al head was mainly necessary. Now u
i newspapers are able to get on without al
J. politics in some instances
4 III your life were to go over again, wou
you choose journalism for . profession -
Il don't know he said with . smile,
z dare say would"
Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-03-02

Costfveness il aggravated by
The use Of strong purgatives. The only rational
tseatment Ia some gentle laxative and tonic lite Dr..
HArnsos's PERisrALsrc Loxuen. These never
weaken but gradually restore natnre. They remove
Oppressios. Dissnsss. III adache. and every form OF
Indigestion. also, theonly proper ssmedy for Piles,
either blsstiipg o. otheswlsa
Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-03-02
MARRIAGE A ~ ID CELIBACY.
And The Hannine a of Tina Nanhuad.

Extract from letter dated Dawson. Iowa, April ~,
1856, to DR.. Brandfeth. from andrew Logan, EsQ
my wife became an invalid. Our physicians rep
resented her as incurabe. ! then called two
other physicians and the three held CONSULTATION. and
pronounced her assumption. then discharg
cd ali the phy sican-, and determined to trust to
your Pills. got nse boxes, which o. took accord
Ing to the printed ,irettions. by the time theec
were used up, there appeared change In her con-
diiou for The better. / then bought fifteen boxes.
and she continued to take them for three months
when her health was entirely restored"
PERMANENT AND WIDESPREAD SUGGESTS
the best evidence OF the goodness OF BRANDRETHS
PILLS They should be in every family, ready for
the hrst symptoms OF disease occurring.
Principal ONCE, Brandre,h House. New York See
"B. Branireth. in white letters, in the Government
stamp. Sold ~ all Drgpis's.
The ladies OF America, from their peculiar habts
are sad to be the - unhealthy in the world also
TO suffer most when about to become mothers. DR..
vcpau's Pills are great blessing to all ladies', ~
they regulate nature. Sold BY all Drug
gists HARRISON & SrARks. ACTS. s. Brady st.
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The Markets.

New York, January l4-Noon.-Flour
and wheat dropping. Corn lc. lower. Rye
quiet. Oats a shade better. Pork dull.
Lard quiet. Whiskey nominal. Cotton
firm at 163l@17c. Freights firm. Tur-
pentine, $3.50. Rosin steady; common
strained, So; strained, S3.37R. Gold,
l4l7s. United States bonds-Old, 1lO5s;
new, LOG. Evening.-Cotton a shade easier ;
sales of 5000 bales at 1870. Flour more
active; prices unchanged. Wheat dull
and heavy. Southern white corn. Sl.25@
s1.35 others unchanged. Mess pork droop-
ing; old, S21.1O; new, S22lO. Lard firmer
at i3@135S. Groceries quiet and steady.
Turpentine, 53954c. Rosin steady.
Freights frmer; cotton, per sail, $3.50
7-16c.
Money unchanged. Sterling, 95sG92.
Gold more active at al 3s9l4l1a. SOS,
'62, coupons, 1O9L. North Carolina IS, 81.
BALTIMORE, January 14.-Cotton dull
and nominal. Flour-There is some de-
mand for shipment. Wheat scarce; prime
to choice southern, S2.75g92.S5. Corn
quiet white declined &c.; yellow, steady.
Oats dull. Rye-Nothing doing. Bacon
active; shoulders, llc.; bulk shoulders,
9G914c.
LOUISVILLE, January 14.-Corn, 75@sOc.
Mess pork, s2lG$2l.50. Lard, l25A@l3c.
Shoulders, 9%c.; clear sides, ~
WILMINGTON, January 14.-Spirits tur-
pentine advanced 2Lc.; firm and active at
49G5Oc. Rosin steady at $2.l21ac. for
No. 2. Tar, sl.S5. Cotton advanced;
middling, l41ac.
SAVANNAH, January 14.-Cotton opened
active and closed quiet and steady at &c.
decline sales, 5000 bales; receipts, 1000
bales.
AUGUSTA, January l4.-Cotton opened
active but closed heavy, sales, 1850
bales receipts, COZ bales; middling, Az
@15c.
CHARLESTON, January 14.-Cotton active
and advanced No.; sales, l, 100 bales; re-
cepts, 1880 bales middling, l6gl61ac.
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Congressional.

WASHINGTON, January IA petition
was presented for an appropriation to char
ter vessel and buy provisions for the suf-
fering poor in Sweden.
The following were introduced: A reso-
luton gradually reducing the army; a bill
removing political disabilities from Cover
nor Patton, of Alabama; bill amending
an act for the safety of travellers by steam
vessels; a bill reducing the number'of
Major and Brigadier Generals; bill re-
storing lands confscated by the States
lately in rebellion.
Mr.. Davis's amendment to the ConStitu-
ton, providing for tribunal to determine
Constitutional questions, was discussed.
The AUTHORIZATION bill was resumed,
and discussed until adjournment.
House. The Committee of Ways and
Means reported the cotton tax bill, as
amended by the Senate, with resolution
of Inconvenience ; which was adopted
The Secretary of the Treasury was
q
of furnishing the national banks with
circulating medium.
A bill was reported by the Appropria-
ton Committee for the payment of claims
on account of seizures of and damages
to vessels, cars, and wagons, or for lands
occupied for Notifications South during
the war.
The Reconstruction Committees bill
was resumed, and discussed.
The Speaker read communication
from General Grant concerning the fol-
lowing from General Meade:
"Unless the pending bill in Congress
directing the military to fill the offices IN
their departments rescinds the test oath
in the provision to select qualified voters,
am informed that its execution IN this
department will be entirely impractical
ble."
Adjourned.
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The Reconstruction Conventions.

NUhIh CAhuLlNAs
RALEIGH, N. c., January 1.-THE State
Reconstruction Convention assembled in
the capitol to-day. Eighty five delegates
answered to their names. q. W. King, OF
Lenoir, was chosen temporary chairman,
and J. P. Andrews, of Raleigh, secretary.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
CHARLESTON, S. G., January l4.-The
State Reconstruction Convention met here
to-day, SO white and 65 colored members
being in attendance. The 90 delegates
constituting a quorum being present, L.
J. Robertson, of Columbia, was chosen
temporary chairman. The permanent or
ganization will be effected tomorrow.
The choice for preside mt lies between Col
lector A. G. Mackey, of Charleston, and
W. G. Whittemore, Massachusetts, man,
hailing from Darlington district. The pro-
ceedings to-day were quiet and orderly.
GEORGIA.
ATLANTA, GA, January 14.-Resolu-
tions were introduced to-day to draw
$50, 1000 from the State treasury for per
diem; to recommend Congress to donate
the public lands to the negroes, and thus
give them an opportunity to demonstrate
any capacity for self-government they may
have.
A resolution commendatory of General
Hancock was indefinitely postponed
ayes, 1913; noes, Is.
a resolution was adopted, Ga to a, de-
claring it inexpedient to interfere with the
legislation of the last General Assembly
authorizing the issue of bonds to pay the
Indebtedness of the State. A motion to
recognize such bonds as binding on the
State failed for want of second.
The Article On franchise was reported.
It gives to negroes the right to hold office,
and DISTINGUISHES up to January l, 1869,
all persons disfranchised by the fourteenth
article of the Federal Constitution and all
unable to register under the Reconstruct
tion acts.
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Abiding to the statement that the depot

Abiding to the statement that the depot
at Christiansburg isfull ofproduce awaiting
shipment, the Roanoke Times says that this
is the case at every station west Of Salem,
on the Virginia and Tennessee railroad, the
rolling stock of the road being too limited
to meet the demand upon it for transpor-
tation. Per- contra, the Lynchburg Virgil
MAN ascertained at headquarters that on
Monday morning there were but ten car
loads on the whole line awaiting tranship-
ment.
A grandson of General Putnam, of Re-
volutionary fame, has large gang Of men
at work near Scitico, Connecticut, digging
for the snug little amount of 100000,
which the spirit of Benjamin Franklin tells
him was buried there in the shape of gold
bars and precious stones number OF years
ago by Spanish pirates.
General John A. McClernand, who COM
handed the Thirteenth corps at Vicks-
burg, is out in sharp letter, saying that
General Grant never did his corps justice
in his reports, through malevolence to its
commander, aud the proofs are on file in
the War Department. General Grant, he
SAYS, would stand very differently in the
public estimation if his real character were
known.
The New York Commercial advertiser
states that Hartford accident insurance
company lost $4,000 by the recent rail-
road accident at Angola. Five persons
were insured at $4,000 each. The entire
insurance cost fifty cents.
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NATIONAL BANKs.-On Monday in the
House Mr.. Blaine, of Maine, introduced
the following bill in relation to the taxa
ton Of national banks:
Be it resolved, de-, That the words
"place where the bank is located and not
elsewhere" in section Al Of the "act to
provide a national currency" approved
June 3, 1864, shall be construed and held
TO mean the State within which the bank
is located, and the Legislature of each
State may determine and direct the man.
ner oftaxing the shares of all national banks
located within said State, subject to the
restriction that the taxation shall not be al
a greater rate than is assessed upon other
moneyed capital in the hands Of individual
citizens of such State.
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THE Successor OF BISHOP HoPKINs.-By
the death of Bishop Hopkins the place OF
presiding bishop in the Protestant Episco-
pal Church of the United States now be-
longs to the Right Rev. Benjamin Bosworth
Smith, D. D., of Kentucky. Both he and
Bishop McIlvaine, of Ohio, were conse-
Grated at the same time with Bishop Hop
kins, October 81, 1882; but the consecra-
ton of Bishop Smith was second IN the
services Of the occasion, and he is, conse-
quently, next in the order of his success
sion. He resides at Frankfort, in Ken
lucky. He is native of Rhode Island,
having been born in Bristol in 1894, and
graduated at Brown University in the class
of 1916. He studied theology with Bishop
Griswold, who then resided at Bristol, and
was ordained deaconin 1878 and presbyter
in 1919. He was for some years settled in
VT, and afterwards in Vir-
ginia, when he removed to Kentucky. He
is man Of great excellence of character,
and belongs to the Evangelical or Low
Church party Herald.
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ALEXANDER II. STEPHENs's VIEW OF AZ
FAIRS IN THE SoUTH.-Alexander II. Ste-
phens, in conversation with friend who
saw him recently in Philadelphia, took a
very Respondent view of affairs in tho
South. He pronounced the future before
that section Of the country fraught with
gloom and disaster, and can see nothing in
the policy Of reconstruction but the opera
ton of fearful scheme, whose ultimate
result will be the destruction Of either the
black or the white race. Every day, he
says, it becomes more painfully evident
that the estrangement between the races
is widoning-on the part of the negroes
from the effects of such instruction as
teaches them to distrust and oppose the
whites, and on the part Of the latter from
an adherence Of the negro leaders and an
instructive aversion to be ruled and legis-
lated for by ignorance and semi barbarism.
From what fell under his own observation
in Georgia he was unable to detect any
thing like spirit on either side tending to
mutual sympathy of sentiment and in
terest. Radical emissaries from the North
have sown the seeds of evil dissension with
a terrible earnestneSs, and the diametrlc
opposition of the races now visible all over
the South must, in the very nature of
things, lead at some time or other to tear
full collisions. This inevitable result, Mr..
Stephens declares, as dispassionate OBJ
server, forces itself irresistibly on his at
tention. A war Of races, desired by some
and indiferently needed by others, is, to
his mind, consequence as sure to happen,
under the Radical method of RECONSTRUCT
ton, as it is impossible to avoid if the pre-
cedents of history or the impulses that
control human nature be taken into &C
count.
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l,rrrrn FROM AN ONO RADICAL Con.

LETTER FROM AN OHIO RADICAL Con-
GREssMAN-HE DoN'T LIKE GRANT AND
THE LOOKS OF THINGs.-The Ashtabula
(Ohio) Sentinel makes the following ex-
tract from letter from General Garfield,
in which he thus speaks of his vote on i'm
peachment and Of the financial aud politi-
cal outlook
"You have seen the result of the i'm
parchment movement, and / hope our
friends will see that it was the only wise
course. Perhaps my course may have
offended some; but with ell the facts be-
fore me I could not do otherwise. Far
greater questions than impeachment are
pressing for settlement and on their solu-
ton hangs the fate Of the Union party.
Finance will be the leading theme Of politi-
cal discussion for the next ten years-per-
haps longer. On this question both parties
seem to be in an inexplicable middle. I
should not be surprised if it appears before
long that our only escape out of the bond
Reputation scheme on the one hand, and
the fight between the contractionists and
inhationists on the other, is by the road to
speedy but gradual return to specie pay
ments. This would put both these quar-.
rels to rest forever, and take away for a
time the occupation of thousand dema-
gogues.
"The Presidential outlook is anything but
pleasing. The current for Grant seems
irresistible, and if it be not checked or
controlled it will result in nominating him
without platform or pledge. Indeed, some
of our friends are so mad as to advocate
precisely that course. hope that some
movement will compel the party to make a
solid platform for the nominee. There are
many halfhearted Republicans who would
drop the negro. IF our party shall dare to
be so unutterably base as to abandon this
unfortunate people now, it will deserve
and receive the deepest political damna-
tion ever visited upon men. IF the negro
be abandoned he will, before ten years are
past, explode our party as he did the De-
mocracy in 1861. There is no path for us
but the onward one. Let US live or die by
our principles. Either is honorable. Life
on any other terms is ineffable disgrace"
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Stanton and Grant,

WASHINGTON, January l4-9 O'clock
Mr.. Stanton issued an order this afternoon
informing the employees of the War De-
partment that he had again taken posses
sion of the portfolio of the war Office.
Mr.. Stanton to-day drew nearly $4,000
from tho pay office, being his salary for the
time of his suspension.
The President in no way recognizes
Stanton as Secretary Of War.
1t is understood that charges of insubor-
dination hang over General Grant, but no.
thing definite is known. The feeling here
on the subject is quite feverish.