Local Matters

We call attention to the notices for Ward Meetings in the 4^th and 6^th Wards.

PLEASE REMEMBER Prof. Abbey’s ‘Sabbath School Children’s Musical Convention’ commences to-day at 3 p.m., at the Congregational Church.  Free to-day.

E. W. BAKER, for City Marshal, – subject to the Nomination Convention, to meet this afternoon, at 2 o’clock p.m., at the Court House.

R. KRAUSE, at No. 36 West Second street, is just opening his spring stock of hats and caps; also, cloths, cassimeres, trimmings and ready-made clothing.

REMEMBER the nominating convention this afternoon.  Candidates for important offices are to be balloted for, and every Republican who can spare the time should be at the Court House.

WARD NOMINATIONS. – We publish this morning calls for the 4^th and 6^th Ward nominating conventions to be held on Monday evening.  It is about time the other wards were moving.  Will their committees attend to this?

INDEPENDENT MEETING. – The German voters are called upon to meet this evening, independent of party, at Lahrman’s Hall, to take into consideration city politics and probably the nation generally.  We’ll keep an eye on it.

NATIONAL ARMORY. – We are indebted to Le Grand Byington, Esq., for a copy of the Report of the Special Committee appointed to inquire into and report upon the expedience of establishing a National Armory west of the Alleghany Mountains.

THE inquiring public are informed that we know Mr. Sanders wits neither drunk nor mad on Wednesday.  His recommendation to hang the traitor Phillips was written during his sober and rational moments. – Democrat.

Mr. Richardson was either mad or drunk when he wrote the above.

KEHOE & CARHART’S New York Store have now on hand a full stock of domestic goods; also linen and wool table covers, linen towelings, embroidered curtain muslins, Also a large stock of prints, dolaines, bleached and brown muslins, linen bosoms.  They have just opened a fresh lot of the ‘Imperial Clasped Hoop Skirts.’

SORGHUM REFINERY. M. D. L. Dutcher commenced yesterday hauling stone preparatory to erecting a building for the purpose of a refinery for sorghum syrup.  He has located it on the river some five or six miles below this city.  We understand that a party has it in contemplation to erect a similar establishment within our city limits.  It will require several small establishments to refine all the crude syrup that would seek this point, if it were known that the proper facilities were here offered for that purpose.

DOGS. – Owners of dogs will consult their own interest and benefit community generally by permitting the quadrupeds of the canine species to run at large without check or muzzle, on and after the first of April.  This is particularly desirable, as the laws forbid the shooting of game at this season of the year, and we have several marksmen who are anxious to try their skill, and the ordinance prohibiting shooting within the corporate limits is to be suspended as a speciality for the space of sixty days.  Read the Mayor’s proclamation to that effect.

THE RIVER is still filled with floating ice.  Thursday night the main body of the ice moved down and gorged at the point, leaving the middle of the river quite clear in front of town.  A large portion of the ice took the unusual route by the slough inside of Maple Island, crowding the [Ad] Hine out on the island.  Capt. Galt has been to great trouble cutting out his boat, so as to have her ready when the river should open.  This unfortunate occurrence will delay her departure, if she isn’t knocked to pieces by the accumulating ice.  The Wm. L. Ewing arrived at the Point early yesterday morning, but unable to get further, turned back down the river, - The Fred Lorenz arrived at Muscatine yesterday, and is expected to arrive here today.

ARCHITECTURAL. – We saw in Mr. W. T. Carroll’s office a day or two ago, the plan for an entire block of stores on the square opposite the post office.  The plan divides the front on Second street into twelve stores, and on Brady into nine.  Each of the former will be 25 by 90, and the later about 23 by 90. – The building will be three stories high, built of brick, with store fronts of iron and glass, and iron caps to the windows above.  The whole block is to be finished uniform.  In the center of each half block on Brady street will be a grand stair-case, leading to the upper floors, which may be used for offices.  In the rear of the stores, on Commercial street, it is proposed to erect shops 18 1-2 by 46 feet, and two stories high.  There are six of these on each half black.  If the building should be erected according to this plan, and it has been approved by Mr. G. L. Davenport, the block will add very much to the architectural beauty of our city.  We understand it is proposed to lease the ground to parties who will put up buildings in accordance with the plan, and some stand ready to do so as soon as the owner’s consent is obtained; and work may be commenced the coming season.

JEWISH SYNAGOGUE. – Rev. Dr. Loewenthal, late of Buffalo, N. Y., has arrived in this city, and is to take charge of the Jewish Congregation lately organized in this city.  The meetings are held every Saturday in the hall in Forrest’s block, corner of Third and Perry streets.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, March 29, 1862, p. 1

Addison H. Sanders

ADDISON H. SANDERS was born on the I3th of September, 1823, in Cincinnati, Ohio. His education was begun in a printing office of his native city and completed at Cincinnati College. In 1845 and again in 1846 he came to Davenport, where his brother, Alfred, was struggling to put his Gazette on a paying basis. During each of these visits he stayed several months, taking editorial charge of the paper and thus relieving his overworked brother, so that he might bring the business department into better condition. When the city had grown large enough to demand a daily paper, Addison H. removed to Davenport, in October, 1856, took editorial charge of the Daily Davenport Gazette and continued in that position until he entered the Union army. At the beginning of the Civil War no newspaper in Iowa had wider influence than the Daily Gazette of Davenport. Early in 1861, Add. H. Sanders was commissioned aid to Governor Kirkwood, serving with Judge Baldwin of Council Bluffs and later in the year he was placed in command of Camp McClellan, at Davenport, where the Union volunteers were mustering for the organization of regiments and for drill. The Sixteenth Regiment was organized early in the winter of 1862 and Governor Kirkwood was so impressed with the excellent work and superior qualifications of Add. H. Sanders, that he offered him the position of colonel of the new regiment. But having observed the disadvantage of placing inexperienced officers at the head of new regiments he declined the command, urging the selection of a regular army officer for the place. The Governor and General Baker realized the wisdom of such a selection and Captain Alexander Chambers of the Eighteenth United States Infantry was appointed colonel and Mr. Sanders was commissioned lieutenant-colonel. The regiment received its "baptism of fire" at the desperate and bloody battle of Shiloh and at Corinth, Lieutenant-Colonel Sanders was wounded very severely. He did gallant service during the war, often in command of the regiment. At the Battle of Atlanta, July 22, 1864, Colonel Sanders was taken prisoner, suffering everything but death in the Confederate prison and when exchanged was so low with starvation and fever that for a long time his recovery was doubtful. On the 2d of April, 1865, he was discharged from the service for disability, having been brevetted Brigadier-General for gallant conduct on many battle-fields. Upon his return home, he was appointed postmaster of Davenport. In 1870 he was appointed by President Grant Secretary of Montana Territory and became acting Governor. In 1872 he was appointed Register of the United States Land Office for Montana. He returned to his old home at Davenport where for many years he has done editorial work on several of the daily papers. As a writer, General Sanders has for a third of a century ranked among the ablest in the State.

SOURCE: Benjamin F. Gue, History of Iowa, Volume IV: Iowa Biography, p. 230-1

Alfred Sanders

ALFRED SANDERS, pioneer journalist, was a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, having been born in that city on the 13th of May, 1819. Like his brother, Addison H., he received his education in the printing office and at Cincinnati College. In 1841 he came to Davenport, Iowa, where in August he established the Davenport Gazette, a weekly Whig newspaper. It was from the first a model typographical journal and gave particular attention to the local interests of the new city and Territory. The young man was but twenty-two years of age and possessed all of the enthusiasm and ability to "work and wait," that characterized the youthful adventurers who hesitated not to leave the comforts of civilization, to help found a new State. For twenty-one years Alfred Sanders worked in his chosen field with undeviating faith in a brilliant future for his journal, his city, and State. The "old Davenport Gazette" was, under his administration, among the most potential forces in helping to lay a sure foundation for the upbuilding of one of the most beautiful and substantial cities of Iowa and no paper in its day contributed more largely toward the material development of all that is most desirable by good citizens, in the growth of a State. Alfred Sanders never sought office and held steadfastly to the career of journalism which he had chosen in youth; was an active member of the Christian Church and died at the early age of forty-six, on the 25th of April, 1865.

SOURCE: Benjamin F. Gue, History of Iowa, Volume IV: Iowa Biography, p. 231-2