Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-02-10

.EGusL ATlvE COREgEsPOND.
ENCE.
Especial Correspondence to the davenport
Democrat.
DEs MorSss, Feb. 9th, 1865.
Eu,ros DEnoonAr lite Sunday, but !
can't heIp that. It's cold too, with glsrins
shroud Of snow, thin ss bsggar's blanket
over the ground.
The lseislasivs mill has gsound "ths Be-
vision Of 1860" between the upper and
peths, miIl-s,ons for anotes wsss. and TO-
dsv rsssesh. Every member be conc hsss
20 beeet Law, else he hes lived in vain. II
h. cannot amend the school law % - 70
co,.r some Quarrel With The sub-direstor in
his district, he pitches into the revised code
Of 1860. That book hes nv warnsst sym
pstbv. Born into calf-skin. with an imper-
feet index, it has been amended until no
man knows its meaning. Parts OF It have
h..c amended twice and thrice. During
the present session new Senator intro
duced bill rspealing a portion Of il, which
IN, committee ascsrtaned had been utterly
rspsaled and done away with four years
ago, That Senator came just four years
.oo late TO write his name With "the few,
the immortal" SC.
Mas Dickinson wss the sensation Of the
veek lust past. She 10 not the gentle Anna
Of two years ago. Her racs for shsksls has
made her seraggy and coarse and wrintled
like Lucy Stone, Train. Oady Stanton, and
other female orators. Her voice. which
ers. gurgled like the seductive cooines Of
the pink-eysd dove, nov SAW thrsssh
YOU, tympanum like The .natin salvo Of .
battery Of Shanghai roosters. The Niger 10
hu speciality. Ifshe sees ghosts walking
the uncolumned cir. they arc black spirits.
None fought and fell but niggsrs. The
pretty death speeches in field and hospital
all we're made BY niggsrs, and none but
colored troops fought nobly. She was
rough on Grant, and her speech has bad the
fec, to delay in the Senate the eoucurrent
resolution nominating him for the psesi-
dsncy. The Grant men in that branch
have found il necessary TO have help, and
their Macedonian cry" was answered BY
prayer from their chaplain, Rev. Rice. that
the country might be delivered from that
pesticoas government which walketh in
darkness and wastcth at MONDAY.
Nothing efgrave import has bssn passed
by the Assembly - yet. The G., r. /. L
p. K. r. bill has been crueifed fos two
days in the House, and will probably Dst
be brought to vote until after the recess.
| The principal opposition to It is BY parties
| in the interest Of the Chicago and North
western corporation, who look upon the de-
feat Of this bill - long step toward con
sslidation Other parties between here and
Council Bluffs have thrown the question Of
| location of the line in as further compli-
cation, much, imagine, to the injury Of
their section, as the question really involv-
cd in the bill is ret whether the line 10 to
run down the Turkey valley, or to Adel or
Winterset, but rhether the road 10 TO be built
at all on not. II consolidation with the c.
4 N. W. results, the line will nsrer 60 past
Des Moine'. Davenport, lows City. Maren.
90, and oil the towns and counties on the
line have for years looked forward to the
day when they would be on grand
Through line The counties west Of here
have had the same interest and the Same
aspiration. Those counties number only
5000 people, and yet the representatives Of
that small number seem blindly bent on
sacrificing their own interests together with
those Of the 100000 inhabitants Of the
counties on the line between Dss Meinss
and Davenport, BY casting the road, bound
hand and foot, into the consolidating
clutches Of the Northwestern Company.
Such infasuation was never seen since the
anti.deluvians persisted in swearing that
"the flood" would be only summer
shower.
Many members have already anticipated
the recess by going home, and the coming
week will be dull.
| Prominent as the leader OF the Democra-
| cy In the House is Hon. T. s. Wilson, Of
| Dubuque. After Col. Babbitt, he is the
Oldest settler in the State, having been here
81 years. lie was one OF the frst Federal
Judges Of the Territory, and hos more late
| " served long and we'll on the bench Of his
District. His legislative experience num-
bers many sessions, and in correct knowl-
edge OF parliamentary law, and . Just con.
| ception OF the courtescs and amenities of
| legislation he has no superior in either
| House. Another member Of the minority
deserves mention here as q most active leg
islator, and wise and efficient part;ssn-P.
q. Wright. Of Alamakee. Always watchful
OF the public veal, cautious, never caught
mapping, experienced in legislation. having
been member Of the last House, his ser
| vice, both to party and State, could III be
spsred.
Your readers have heretofore bsen kent
posted on the movements for and sesirst a
license Law. Whenever it was sought to 10
struct the committee BY . resolution. the
prohibltory men have voted it down. and
have o. q. Introduce your bill for license
law and let 1t so to the committee, TO be
considered and reported upon." On YES
terday Mr.. Werner, OF Lee, introduced ! II.
| cense law, which was unceremouiouslv Ia.
bled. by the very prehibitionists who had
promised to vote for its reference Th;,
breach Of faith WAS followed By The intro.
ducsion, By Rippey. Of Greene. Of : bin r..
psaling the wine and beer clause II vaa
moved 10 table this; on which The l;c.r..
law mon and democrats voted ''no'', keep
Jog the promise they had made to let IN
these matters 20 to the committee. althoucb
they were absolved from its Observance ~
the bad faith Of the radicals and prohib;.
tisnists. The motion 10 table w. IN s.d
the bill was fsfsfsed 70 che committee
It 10 rumored to-day, that Cotton. vho
cares nothing for license law. only a its
advocacy may ride him into Consree. i
drilling = reconsider their action. IA nj.
tor what they do. their bad faith is on ,sc.
ord against them, and their beins seared =.
70 . retreat from their present posit;on v;il
only initiate againss them a. thas h.,
where politicians are judged for desds don.
in lhs lsgis'aturs-the polls.
The important measures now pend;n.
aud that will be the overshsdovior m..s'
uses OF tho session, are the Railroad hill -.
fsrred to, the Reform School, the relief for
the University, the new capital hill ~.
insurance law, and the Law establishinr ths
Court Of Common Pleas. Thia latt.s ,.-
embraces the following features. Each IN
dicial district is divided into common plss.
districts, whose judges have entire cosaroi
6rst, Of oil probate business exclusivel,
abolishng the concurrent iurisdi ton vhich
now exists bstwssa the county ana distr;o.
courts in The settlement of estates. S.e'