Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-02-11

ro,ton was then, 40 now, Offering for ssls
.uy quantity Of real estate, and Q. 3. Whis.
l.r and Burrows L Prsttyman were retail.
mo drv goods, boots and shoes, hats and
cans. hssdWars. qussnsware. and aal the
etce,sras usually found In 6rst-ssass esunffy
The Weekly Dispateh 10 veil allsd With
.A,srt;seneuts Of patent msdicinss. bot
ssranse to say, they ere al such - are nov
on-hsrs ~ be found or heard Of. Patent
mad;einss. with few excsptiene, have 81
chs,eed names since then. whether for the
h.,ter or worse ws can't say. What namsa
tl,sv will go by twenty years hence re-
mains to b. seen.
nrs MONIES CORRESPOND.
ENCE.
DEs MONIES, Feb. 10.
Epuoa DEMOCRAT The long railroad
d.cu.sion was terminated By the HOUSE
.econdins the previous question and
amending the bill SO as to strike out the
words which rendered the company liable
TO any general law on the subject Of tariffs.
The bill was passed and returned to the
Senate with the amendments shich do not
in any degree effect its original intention.
Dudley and other radicals tried TO defeat
the bill restoring the stolen swamp land
funds 70 the counties, on the ground ths,
many Of those counties were in arrears on
STATE revenue. Rector, Walling and Irish
toek the ground that this was . specific
fund over which the State had acquired
control only through the crininality Of her
officers. and therefore it could not be ap
plied to any deficit Of the counties. The
Senate title was agreed to and the bill
passed.
am panied to record that the Smith
family is not represented in proportion to
its members, in the House. Smith is sim
ply Duplicated, being equalled BY johnson,
and excelled by Brown, who 10 quadrupled,
and by Wilson, who 10 implicated. In the
Senate the nearest approach to duplication
is Smith and Smythe. The House is very
much married, there being only six single
men on its floor. Il 10 widowed TO tho ex-
tent oftwo. The rest are graduates in the
domestic relations"
The Jolly member ofthe House 10 Adams,
the license law Republican, Of Dss Moines
county. lie does his own thinking and
does it well. Is the Lilliputian Of the
House, as Sanborn is the BsobdignAg, being
about five feet high and ten feet in circum-
ference. He 10 an intelligent legislator, and
tells q Dutch story better than Rotterdam
or any other dam Dutchman (Lineoln)
ever heard.
The most unfortunate member Of the
House 10 Ballinger, Of Mahaska. Unfortu-
nate in that be made bull on his first sp-
pearance in introducing and speaking upon
: resolution to restrain swine Certain re-
porters picked him up, and be attempted to
punish the reporters, which resulted in
their goose quilts being sharpsned and
stuck into him deeper A jolly old gentle.
man. he is, y no deserved kinder fate.
The darkest skinned member is Smith, Of
Harrison, of whom it 10 told that when =
witness before Justice Of the Peace a few
years since, the opposing attorney moved to
exclude his testimony on account Of color,
and quoted the code Of 1851. The Justice,
unaware Of the existence Of the revision Of
1850, sustained the no,ionl Mr.. Smith is
an effective legislator and a modest mem
Der.
The oldest Representative is your fellow
citizen, NJ. G. Davis. Verify the Methusa.
leh Of the House. lie watches proceedings
with m eagle eye, aided by his specs"
and commands universal attention when be
rises to speak.
The lawyers captured the Senate, there
being 30 in that body to l6 farmers, 2 ply
.icians, real estate brokers, 2 millers, l
editor, builder and three merchants. The
Senate mas but single members and no
widowers. In religion, in the Senate, the
Liberals Gncluding the Universalists) lead,
having 8; Baptists, 4; NJ E.. 8; Presby-
teriau, o; Episcopal, . : Congregational, 2;
Lutheran, !. Senator Woolson requests
inquirers to look a, Romans NV fer his
religious belief, which would indicate ,ha.
he intends to mind his own business, and
noe interfere with the religious belief of
others. Hedges and HOLMAN, Of Lee, re-
port themselves "sound" on the religious
goose. Senator Rice enquiries "What is
rightf" And echo answers right" France.
Prussia and Ireland have each Senator.
respectively, Knoll. Matthies and Smythe.
The 'land o cakes" has the honny Scot.
Mcmillan, Of Marion county. The oldes:
Senator is DIR. Robertson, GO. The young
est, Traverse. 26. Average age Of Sens-
tors, Az. Years in Iowa, average, IA. The
heaviest Senator is Wells Rice, OF Marshall
county, who enjoys the distinction Of hav-
ing beaten his own father, who was the
Democratic candidate.
The Radicals are trying 10 hide the cloven
foot which they exposed In the House on
Saturday, BY tabling the license bill and re-
ferring the wine and beer bill, by to-day
introducing . Senate bill for . license
which was referred 10 the Intempsrate Com
mit,ec. The prohibitory men are on . wool.
gathering excursion, and may perhaps pass
this bill In the Senate, with the uud erstsnd-
ing that it will be defeated in the House.
This, TO bold out hopes 10 those Who sss
futilely seeking repeal Of the present pro
hibitory law by the radical Republican par.
ty, by putting on showing Of relsntiue.
Senator Cones addressed the Senate Al
some length upon the motion to refer. I
hoped to send you synopsis of his remarks.
but am unabls to do 80.
The House has spent much time TO-DAY
discussing the proposition to assume State
control Of wrighrs Manual Labor School /"
This school is stablishsd in Henry county.
eDdev control Of the Quakess. The build.
ings are located on IA 900 acre. Of land
the whole being the product Of legacy
from Mr.. Wright, Of Philadelphia. Il il
proposed to appropriate to it {l5, 900. for
which the State 10 to have the privilsee Of
confning in that school juvenils ofFsndern
at % much per month per cepita. Tbers
ere serious objections to the plan, il indeed
it 70 not positively uncoustitutional 70 eive
aid to On entefprise in the property Of which
the State has no vested title.
wrote you yesterday Of the Common
Pleas Court bill. Much Of the legal talent
Of the State has been sumueoed here In
consultation upon il. Judge Burt, Of Du.
buque; Williams, Of Clayton Hubbard.
Of Linn; Rethroeh, Of Cedar, and man '
other q and incumbent judges have il
tsrn been here end approved the measure
This WAS the coolest morning Of the "a.
een, The calomel being - below sefo.
Letters must close before msilp. Just =,
I clese Burnett, (Rad.) Of Museasine. hea
msved to reconsider the vsts BY which the
license bill was tabled. Cnaroeo.
Nsw OaLsASs MlNsrasls.-Next Thur,.
day evening this far-famed troupe Of Min.
strsls opens at the Burtis Opera Heuss 70,
three nights. The Company is now Dor
for ming in Rock Island, and tho linton