Mr* Geo. E. Hubbell, formerly om of the
editors of the Davenport Demoorat, publish
es a communication in the News, in which
ho states that the present editors of the Dem
ocrat demanded and were paid $500 by the
M. & M. and C. & R. 1. Railroad Companies
for its advocacy of the Cedar Vailejr Railroad
Loan, last November.
He also intimates that the vfrulent and per
sistent attacks of the Democrat upon the
State Bank and the several Branches are
prompted by a determination to levy blaok
mail in that quarter.
Bock i»t*nd Hri«|* aa Pire.
On Thursday lattt the Rook Island bridgo
took fire, as is supposed, from the sparks of
a locomotive which passed over it a fewmin.
utes before the firo was observed. A couple
of barrels of water standing near sufficed to
extinguish the fire, which, had it not been ob
served very soon after its breaking out,
would have destroyed the bridge.
({^"At the late State Convention of the
Democracy of Pennsylvania, an Anti-Le
compton delegate, after the passage of (he
resolution of confidence in Buchanan's ad
ministration, proposed a resolution to the
effect that it 11*c sense of the Convention
that the Republican candidates would be
elected by 50,(H)0 majority.
TAX SAL*.—The eastern
Kaekak ta a Itraaisr.
Neighbor Teesdale, of the Dee Moines Cif
ixmf visited Keokuk, a abort time since, for
the first time. In bis home oorreepondenoe
he epeaks freely of the town, and favorably,
as will be seen by the following extraot:
Keokuk having been evil spoken of lately,
our expectations were not very high atrung.
