Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-01-27
CHICAGO.

CnlCAoo, Jan. 25-Wash;ngton soecia Is
say u bias been c1mnara'lveiy quiet TO day.
The House was in session TO allow memb. re
- deliver speet hes written entirely for
hcmc r,rculitinn The senate held no sVs-
Sinn to-day.
rhr White House Is thronged with !.
ar, mostly western politicians, Gcsirous 10
ase Tie President
here is good authority for saving there
w4l TIE no reduction oi the tax on tobacco.
senators Wilson and Fessenden expect
toacbate tae Reconstruction bill on Monday
TIE feeling among radical Senators is to
continue the debate on the bill until vote
caa lie taken, without referring il 10 tie
judiciary Committee.
The leading Democratic politicians have
been in council tc- lay on the time and place
q holding their Nations Convention Gin
,auna'i scems to be the favnrte place PEN
d.tton stock IS in the ascendant
lie President has applied IL Gen Grant
ior the information called tor, by Congress,
which legiiima'cly belongs 10 the War D..
paItment ana ought 10 have been submitted
- SECRETARY stanton Generai Grant fur.
nis he'd the Information IS il related to the
Military Districts ot the Southern States
TIE President persistently refuses to allow
any thing "a bc issued through the War Do.
partmen,
John Kane, for many years resident Of
this city, and Going business in small s,ay
on Clark street, recently received iniormn-
ton that BY the death Of q relative in
Europe, he had come into a handsome for
tune. lie started 10 clam his property III
person, bn, tt Jersey City was picked up in
The stree; by the police, he having become
insane from the, fleet upon his mind If
having come into torture
X dispatch from Nashville, Tennessee,
announces the death IN That city OF Alr.
Wesley, icr mai, yea.snr old and respected
citizen of Chicago.
CHICAGO, Jan. 26--A Washington special
says that Secretary McCulloch had lengthy
regard 10 changes In revenue officials in the
West.
Representatives OF two rival companies
who propose bridging the Mississippi river
at 81. Louis are here. working industriously
against each other. The fight seems 10 be-
between Chic go and st. Louis capitalists,
and considerable interest is manifested IN
the result.
/, is understood the National Republican
Executive Committee will meet here on
Monday to decide upon = plan for carrying
on the approaching Presidential campaign,
and To look after the New Hampshire cleo.
ton
The Chicago Times Washington special
says Stanton has had under consideration
the question OF revoking the orders of Gen. |
Grant for the discontinuance CT the Freed !
mems Bureau In Kentucky and Tennessee |
The President has repeated his determin- |
alton 10 remove Internal Revenue Commits. |
sioner Rollins, and said that il the change |
did not take place within week II would |
be. berause the Senate would not confirm his |
The claims Of Leslie Coombs to the Ker- |
lucky Marshalship are being pressed by |
many Republicans on the ground Of his |
past services in the old Wing party.
Horace Greeley was on the floor Of the
House on Saturday.
A Washington special says We have
official information from Kentucky which
represents that since the Issue of the cir
cular fixing the time for closing the Freed.
mems Bureau in that State, the ou,raccs
uron Union men and freedmen have more
than ccub e.
Light snow falling L. Jay and tonight.
Second meeting al Tie Young Mems Chris
lian Association il the Museum lecture
room. this evening, WAS very largely atte,l-
deJ, aud OF a most interesting character
There were manufactured in Chicago.
curing the year ending December 3lst.
1861. 1886 bbls beer, 1903 bbls ale.
2.ss2 bbls porter, resulting N revenue 10
tue Government Of S252 .Ssi.
BY returns completed Saturday.it appears
the total population al Cook county is
Sl4, %; the population OF Chicago proper
is put AT 2l6 SAC.
Police officer Jas Caldwell, who died in |
three hours after drinking glass of cider, |
appears oy ina inquest, was poisoned.
Early this morning, man name,l Chas.
Reddingion wss found in an unconscious |
condition, and badly wounded, lying in the |
doorway Of NJ. 90 Randolph street. 4
gambling he'll Is located up stairs, Af,er |
the man became partially conscious, he was |
slill unable to give any account OF Attire