The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1849-08-02
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENTS
PEN SLASHES--NO. 3.
ny os cola.

mated the spirits Of mortality s.frail,, is this.
No burning sun. no clouds, no dust-everyihing
ENTHUSIASTICALLY glorious A cool, refresh
ing, and invigorating breeze-cloudless sky--at.
mosphere pure as virgins dream!-All nature
animate and inanimate, beautiful as q Poets
idea--sweet as the songs Byron sung--loveli-
er than pen can write, or words name! O the
happiness, the bliss, the rapturous thrill, Of such
morning, such an hour, in the scorching, sui
try, longitudinal days Of midsummer. When
Fahrenheit measures caloric by 100 degrees, ana
the sight Of woolens, beavers, or stove pipes,
gives one the Mysteries, and an involuntary sigh
-"For lodge in some vas, wilderness
Some boundless contgui,y Of shade"
Its enjoymcnts are Of the unu,terable, the indcs-
cribable kind. The truth is, we are too full o,
happiness, too full Of joyousness, at such times,
to attempt through the fecb!eness Of language
an ut,csance OF the cause.-the cause Divine. I
will no, try-it would be time wasted-words
for nongh,, il should-and then why need /.
The sweet little birds all around me are HYMN.
ing its praises with voices far more eloquen,
than mans, and you, and thousands of others all
over our beautiful land, are doubtless indulpjnr
"brim ful'' in the same joyous feelings which
Its loneliness imparis TO me. ., il all days were
like 10 this, all mornings as bright-the mir al
ways so pure, the sky so blue, the flowers 80
sweet, the fields so green, and the birds SO mer-
~, what Paradise this world Of ours would be
-almos, Toe pure me,hnks for such sinful worms
40 we-almost too lovely, for other than Seraphs
born--and rsre ii so, | am sure that even then,
we should not b, satisfied We should not be
happy; there would be some '.yoid unfiiled---
some rainbow Of hope !, spanned-some flower
Of happiness unbossomed-some wish unreal-
zed--some Joy unconierred--we should be the
same restless, discontinued, and fauls-fnding
mortals then, that We are now--wha, we had
We should complain of, and wha, We had not,
we should sigh for. This is so-,his is on, ma
ture--this 10 '.mmortality tabernacled in the
ilesi'--the "Divinity that stirs within U.S.
There is nothing earthly tina, can long satisfy.
Or happily the anxious, longing spirit. Were
there nothing else, this alone, would prove the
world not It's home. II was created for hi sher
destiny. IL here well spen +, il shall inherit a
"faradise" where the sony Of birds, the bloom
OF flowers, the drapery Of the wood, and the YER
durc OF the fields ever gladden., and glorious
mornings like TO this, are eternal l seldom
moral ze--excusc this thought which has quite
unlnten,ionally strayed into this place.
hope YOU have not commenc, reading my
"Siashes,' friend s., with "Chapier Of News
IN expectancy, for if you have, you'll find il .al
a DREAM when you have finished the dull lines
The tact OF II is we have no ..news' here lately.
The weather has been SO intolerably no, that
every bod has KEEP. sshady"-takcn lemonades
and ice creams, s'eoong," and left withou, why's,
or wherefores, the old hot world to wag along
and take care OF itself for while, as hes. i. could
The experiment has worked well So far, and
nothing disturbed the Silly profoundncss of the
retreat, but the sepulchral groans Of few hy4-
n'sh Locoiocos, which broke upon the 'ssummcr
ar" lew days ago, In anguish dire, as our Lo-
coioco Postmaster was very unexpectedly, but
quite tremendously invited TO the re,iracy of
.'prlvate liie," through the po,eness Of aInele
SAM" aud good Wing reinsta,cd and initiated
into the pecnnary sn.les and voluptuous pros
poets OF the "hirih.n
Just al this time all kinds Of business are dull
here; end except the ring of anvils and the car
peniers hammers, our days seem more like the
quiet OF the SACRED SEVENTH, than the worldly
six. But quic, as il is here, and ligh, the labor
OF our pale faced Clerks, and easy the hours Of
our Merchants and thoughtful, mannuve. no
"Wheat Spectators" i, is a busy time ain the
the country.' Our farmers are jus. in the mids.
OF their harvest, and a heavy one /, is. Our
wheat in This section will be very fair CROP
The rust has done considerable injury, Blu. far
less than in most other parts Of the State. The
corn crop here promises now to be . fine one,
and potatoes and oats, also look well. We need
rain very much, and unless we have some prc,,,
soon, full crops will suffer.
Our third Plank Road is being rapidly pushed
ahead, and is expected to be ready for the whca,
trade this fall.
Notwithstanding the grea, hea, and dryness
OF the summer, our village is blessed in remar.
kable degree with heahh-no burning fevers.
agash chills, or dca,hly Cholera, ye, intrude,
but health with oil its blessings is widely ours
But this we cannot long expec,-sick ness will
By and by come. The ruthless destroyer, death,
will be here; and those who least expec, it
youth in its bright dreams, and sunny skies-and
manhood bold, with nervous. thought, and daring
limb, may be the frs, TO be summoned away
lie who wisess lives, will hsppics, die.
Milan, o., July 10th, l849.
TIE GoLD DoLLAR--Three hundred
and sixty thousand, five hundred and thirty.
nine gold dollars lave been coined at the
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