Local Matters

WADSWORTH has returned from the East, and will open this morning, some entirely new styles of Shawls and Reglans, to which he invites the attention of the Ladies.

WANTED. – By a gentleman hand his wife, a bed-room and a sitting room, furnished, and board in a small, quiet family – one where there are no other boarders preferred.  Address box 429, post-office, giving name and residence.

THE DOG LAW. – A number of dogs felt the force of the dog ordinance yesterday, eight of them being killed by one officer.  We understand no dog is to be spared, no matter how aristocratic his connections, if those connections don’t furnish him a muzzle.

A FIGHT. – during the bacchanalian revelries which celebrated the partial victory of the Democracy on Saturday evening, a savage fight occurred at a saloon on Second Street, in which one man was badly cut with a knife, and others met with contusions of different kinds.  No complaint was made.

THE SUN hasn’t shown its face in our neighborhood since election day, probably disgusted with the result.  We don’t wonder at it. – But we hope Old Sol won’t take it too much to heart, and shut down on us altogether till next election – that would be punishing the innocent with the guilty.

DENSE POPULATION. – Twenty-nine votes were cast, by occupants of a ‘boarding house’ on Front street, at the Fourth Ward polls, on Saturday.  There’s lodging-room enough in said house for half that number to sleep standing.  The rest are probably accommodated on pole bedstead run out of the windows, a la poulet.

FLORAL HALL. – We refer to the advertisement of Messrs. Westphal and Co., in to-day’s paper.  The establishment they are fitting up on Brady street is just what is needed in our city.  The seeds and plants obtained from Floral Hall can be relied upon as fresh and thrifty.  Citizens and farmers can depend upon getting articles of the best quality and at low prices at Westphal & Co’s.

A MIRAGE. – The people of Chicago were treated to a splendid exhibition on Thursday, in the shape of a mirage, a phenomenon of not unfrequent occurrence in that vicinity, though this was considered one of the most beautiful ever witnessed there.  The opposite shore of Lake Michigan, with its villages, forests, bluffs, and though sixty miles off, were plainly visible to the naked eye.  Wish we could have one over this way, so that we could see Island No. 10, and the army in Tennessee.

FIRE IN ROCK ISLAND. – About 2 o’clock last Saturday morning a fire broke out in the furniture store of C. K. Norris, in Rock Island, which, with the crockery store of Lee & Williams, and the millinery store of Miss Jennings, was consumed.  Not an article, except the books, was saved from either of the former stores.  Mr. Norris’ loss is estimated at from $2,000 to $3,000, fully insured. – Messrs. Lee & Williams’ loss was about $3,000, insured for the full amount.  Miss Jennings’ loss from $300 to $500, and also covered by insurance.  An unoccupied frame building, also insured, was burned.  As the wind was blowing a gale, sparks communicated to a shed on the opposite side of the street, which in burning injured a brick building occupied by Mr. Johnston as a flour store.  It was also insured.  Our neighbors have had so many fires of late years, that everybody over there seems to be insured.  Very little alarm was given by the above fire in this city, and the occurrence was afterward forgotten in election matters.

INCREASE OF POPULATION. – That our city has largely increased in population during the last year, is quiet evident from the vote on last Saturday.  During the year nearly three hundred voters left Davenport, having enlisted in the various regiments formed in our State.  The aggregate number of votes polled on Saturday was larger by 160 than last year; thus showing that we must have gained about 450 votes, equivalent to an increase of two thousand to our population!  Of those who left, all the Germans and two thirds of the Americans were Republicans, or at least 300 of the 450, yet the Democrats, so largely in the minority last year, now elect their ticket, thus showing that all the new comers are Democrats.  As, of course, no skullduggery was practiced by our Democratic friends, this may be regarded as one of the most remarkable occurrences, on a small scale, of this eventful year.

PENSIONS, BOUNTY, &c. – We direct attention to the card of Geo. F. Worthington, Esq., Washington, D. C., in to-day’s paper.

CITY ELECTION. – With a clear majority of at least two hundred in our city, the Republicans on last Saturday suffered themselves to be defeated from purely local causes.  In the first ward, for instance, forty-two straight Republican tickets were polled with the name of the candidate for alderman erased, not that the voters had personal objections to him, or favored his Democratic opponent, but simply because they did not like the manner in which he was nominated.  This may be all right, but we must confess we cannot see it.  If Republican’s think their principles are right, they should not elect men to represent them even in Council who will go against them on every occasion that any political question is presented.  In the first four wards in the city where in each the Republicans have a large majority, the Democratic nominee for Marshal received a majority, showing that a large number of Republicans voted for him.  Although the Democrats elected the larger portion of their ticket, it is very evident that they did it through Republican votes, and as they are therefore indebted to Republicans for their victory, we hope they will not crow too loudly, nor claim the election as purely a Democratic triumph.

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APPORTIONMENT of School money made by the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, April 7^th, 1862:

Davenport City	4684.63
Davenport Township	1157.23
Le Claire City	616.24
Le Claire Township	620.50
Winfield Township	1012.39
Pleasant Valley Township	292.50
Princeton Township	195.15
Buffalo Township	537.85
Hickory Grove Township	443.00
Rockingham Township	183.47
Blue Grass Township	521.10
Liberty Township	346.45
Allen’s Grove Township	242.80
Cleona Township	167.45

Amout to apportion $11,570.97.  Number of children, 8,149.  Amount to each child, $1.41 99-100.

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SUPREME COURT

(APRIL TERM.)

CALEB S. BALDWIN, Chief Justice.

G. G. WRIGHT, Associate Justice.

R. P. LOWE, Associate Justice.

Lewis KINARY, Clerk.

MONDAY, April 7.

The Supreme Court Met yesterday at their room in Grant’s Block, and organized, after which they adjourned till Tuesday morning.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, April 8, 1862, p. 1