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The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1850-01-24
REMARKABLE ROCK.

One of the most remarkable rocks OF
which we have any knowledge, has lately
been diseSyered in the middle Of the iland
sea, Lake Superior. By gentleman who
has lately returned from Copper Harbor,
we learn that shaft oftrappe rock has very
lately been discovered, rising in the lake
from $50 to 200 miles from land, and
ascending above the surface Of the water, a
distance Of not above four feet. What rem
ders it more extraordinary is that il stands
alone, and all around it, so far as examina-
tons have been made, no bottom has been
reached by any Of The headlines used on
the lake, and the point OF the rock itself
does not exceed an area Of more than six or
seven feet square, and as far as observation
of j, has extended, it does not appear to
enlarge in size as it descends. II has al
ready, he states, become source ofalarm
to the mariners who navigate the lake, who
take special care in passing, to give it as
wide berth ns possible.
II is too smali--too remote and danger
Gus to admit Of a light, and therefore its re-
moval will doubtless pertain to the duty of
government. A single blast from bore
Of sufficient depth, would probably do it; but
the surface OF the rock being SO near that
of the water, and the space SO narrow as to
forbid any regular lodgment for workmen,
they would have to be attended constantly
by vessel Of sufficient size to resist any
sudden storm ON the lake; and would also
have to be kept constantly under way, as
no harbor, or even bottom for an anchor, is
within days sail.
The discoverers relate that the rock ap-
pears to be place Of general resort for the
salmon trout Of those lakes, as they found
them there in almost incalculable number,
having during their short stay, caught sev-
eral barrels with no other instrument than
a rod Of iron, on one end of which they
turned hook. They tried; with all their
lines on board, for sounding. Immediately
around the rock. but without success. Such
a vast column, could il be exposed to view,
would laugh into ridicule CIeopatra's 3
needle, Pompey's pillar, the Colossus OF
Rhodes, Of any production Of ancient or
modern art.-Detroit Free Press.
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1850-01-24
SLOW AND Sure.

In forty years of steady work, SO Eastern trav-
elers say,
The Chinese made porcelain cup of Oriental
clay
In Bagdad they form easily n hundred in day;
But princes seek and prize the one-the others
thrown away.
The chicken walks from out its shell, and
goes its food to find,
While helpless lies for mouths and years the
child Of human kind,
Which yet, by gradual growth, o'ertops all else
in strength and mind,
o slow of thought! remember this-be thankful
and resigned!
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1850-01-24
SACRAMENTO CRY,
California, Oct. 20th. l349.


Mr.. SANDERS, Sir:-lt may not be unnterest-
Region. can give YOU but faint description
Of the country, manners, and customs of the
people, business of the country, the amount OF
gold collected, the constant arrival Of emigrants,
&c, I therefore viii confne my remarks to a
description Of Sacramento City, and the prices
current.
Sacramento City is situated in the valley of
the river from which it derives its name, shaded
by large scattering oak and some few button
wood trees. It was laid off in the fall of l849
BY Capt. Suffer on the Sacramento river two
miles below the mouth of the American Fork,
and one and half miles from Capt. Suffers
Fort It then bore the name of Barkadera.
have been informed that up to the first of June
last there were not more than half dozen
buildings in the place. About that time immi-
grafton commenced. A company from New
York purchased an interest in the town and
named it Sacramento City. Since then busi-
ness has increased very last and the town i'm
proved rapidly. 1t has indeed become City OF
extensive business.
The buildings are mostly constructed oflight
frames covered with cloth, and hundreds oftents
are occupied by the emigrants in and around the
City. Some have families and some have not.
From the manner Of building the town is called
the Rag City by many persons. The inhabitants
are fast preparing more convenient mansions for
the rainy season. Within the last two weeks
from fifty TO one hundred frame buildings have
been put up, come covered with boards, others
have been shingled and Of some the roofs have
been covered with heavy canvass. There are
some very good frame buildings that have been
built at very great cost, and but one brick
building. There are some frames that have
been entirely covered with zinc plate Some
houses are built of iron, and some of sun dried
brick, or adobes.
think may safely say, that there is more
money in circulation and more business done in
this city than in the city Of St. Louis. The num-
ber of inhabitants is estimated at six thousand.
There are now lying in the river adjoining the
town abou. fifty vessels. THEE small steam
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1850-01-24
PLOU G HING.
By OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.

Clear the brown path to meet his coulser's CLEAN!
I.o, on he comes behind his smoking team,
With bright dew-drops on his sunbnrnt brow,
The lord Of earth, the hero OF the plow!
First in the field before the reddening sun,
Last in the shadows when the day is done:
Line atter line along the bursting sod
Marks the broad acres where his feet have trod;
Still where he treads the stubborn clods divide,
The smooth, fresh furrow opens deep and wide;
Matted and dense the t1ngled turf upheayes;
Mellow and dark the ridgy corn-fe ceaves,
Slants the long track that the level plain;
Through the moist valley, clogged with oozing clay,
The patient convoy breaks its destined way:
Al every turn the loosening chains resound,
The swinging ploughshare circles glistning round,
Till the wide field one billowy waste appears,
And wearied hands unbind the painting steers.
These are the hands whose steady labor brings
Ihs peasants food, the golden Pomp Of kings;
This is the page whose letters shall be seen
Changed by the sun to words Of living green;
This Is the scholar whose immortal pen
spells the first lesson hunger taught TO men;
These are the lines, Heaven commanded Toll,
That ill thy deed--the charter Of the soil?
Q, gracious Mother, whose bengnant breast
Wakes all to life and uls us all to rest,
How thy sweet features, kind to every cline,
Mock with their smile the wrinkled front Of Time9
We stain thv fowers-they blossom o'er the dead;
We rend thy bosom, and il gives us bread;
O'er the red aeld that trampiing strife has torn
Our maddcnIng conflicts scar thy farest plain,
still thy soft answer is the growing grain.
Yet, our mother, while uncounted charms
Round the fresh clasp ofthine embracing arms,
Let not our vigor in thy love decay,
And thy fond weakness waste our strength away.
No! by these hills, whose banners, now displayed,
In blazing cohorts Autumn has array ed,
BY yon twin crest, amid the sinking sphere,
Last to dissolve and first to re-appear;
BY these fair plains the mountain circle screens
And feeds in silence from its dark ravines;
True TO their home faithful arms shall toll,
To drown with peace their own untainted soil:
q re
II her chained bandogs Faction shall unbnd,
These stately forms, that, bending even now,
Bowed their strong manhood to the humble plough,
Shall rise erect, the guardians OF the land,
The same stern iron in the same right hand,
Till Graylock thunder to the parting sun,
The sword has rescued what the ploughshare won!
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1850-01-24

Twill now give you some idea of the expense
of building.
Lumber per foot from 5Oto 8oc.
shiuglcs, per thousand, $50 to S8o,oO
Brick. $4,000
Nails are cheap, Ihave seen them sold at auc-
ton for s4,OO the keg, Of one hundred lbs. At
the stores they sell for 25 cts. per ID. Many
things are taken off from the boats and sold at
auction for less than cost in New York city
There are great many taverns and boarding
houses here named generally after the States.
have enclosed in a letter TO Mrs. Brown two
dollars IN California gold for you, she will hand
you this letter with the gold, you will please
forward me the Davenport Gazette for one year.
Respectfully, II. BROWN.
n. B. do not wish this letter to encourage
any one TO come to California, every country has
its advantages and disadvantages. may per-
haps IN future give you description Of the diff
cullies and fatigues of a journey to California,
by land, with the disadvantages man meets
with here. E-,e.e-.., /2et7v9N Fl. B.
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1850-01-24
Hertz Ben Pipchas, a writer in the Jev.

Hertz Ben Pinchas, writer in the Jeu-
isa Chronicle, says: sit requires not the
gift ofprophecy TO foresee that, in less than
a century, France will behold Jew seated
in the presidential chair Of tho Republic; /;
we need not the skill Of soothsayer to
foretell that. in less than half century,
the United States Of America will own .
son OF Abraham for their ruler; and We
need not look to the planets for the assur-
ance that. in less than quarter Of . centu-
nv, the Lord Mayor Of London will worship
his Maker at the altar Of the synagogue"
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1850-01-24
rIMPORTANT TO FARMEIss.

tIiE SUBSCRIBER having the exclusive Agency
Tor the sale of McC5rmick's Improved Pat
VHgnian Reapers, in the following named
nfies TO wit: Scott, Muscatine, Louiso, WASH
(on, johnson and Cedar; would respectfully
70 the Wheat Growers thereof, that now is
time to send on their orders. An oyerwhelm-
demand is anticipated for the coming harves.
! $50; therefore all who arc desirous Of ob,ain-
one Of tho above named Reupers should at
D to il Immediately.
ANDREW ]. HYDE, .4cent.
B.-Blank Orders will be left at the Store
Burrows & Pre.tyman, in Davenpori; also a,
residence Of the subscriber in Peasant VAL
for the accommodation Of those whom the
rn, may not see. Other points will also be
Piled and notice given thereof. A. J. II.
lecember Goth, l849. l5-tf
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1850-01-24

EouALITy.-A Claimants Argument-
"Lor, sir them as forks about hequality
don't no nothing about il" said the driver.
"'Spose we was equal at this ere minute;
why we should bejust like old Rhodes cows,
grazing; we shed all on US get good
feed, and just as we'd done, some precious
thief or other would quietly drop ia and
milk U.s."
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1850-01-24

An INCIDENT IN THE L,fE of THE DrKE
OF WELLINeToN.--In the neighborhood Of
his fathers residence in the county Of
Meath, the future Duke, then a lad, was
enc ola party, which, after the manner of
the times, bad INDUCED in free po,ations
until the late period Of the night. Mr..
Wellesley, or as the name was, Wesley,
managed to escape from his companions.
and retiring to his bed, fell asleep. His alb
sencc was observed, and his retreat detect
ed. 1t was determined that he should re-
turn. One Of the party, more or less
drunken than the rest, snatched up loaded
pistol, and carefully drawing the ball with
which it was loaded, proceeded to the bed
side to discharge the powder at the head Of
the sleeper. He fred, Mr.. WELLESLEY was
Of course awakened, and was forced to get
up, dress himself, and was brought back in
triumph to the party. In the morning,
however, It was found that the ramrod Of
the pistol had passed through ibe pillow
close by where the head Of the future con.
queror ofNapoleon must have been. With
al the care that his assailant had taken 10
draw the ball, he had left, unconsciously, in
its place the ramrod; and but that the same
potations that confused his perceptions, un-
steaded his hand, when he pointed the pis-
tol at the Young sleeper's head, that might
have ended the career Of Hon. Arthur We'll
lesley.
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1850-01-24
REMOVAL.
)AVENPORT POST OFFICE.
Arrival and Departure Of Mails.
Arrives. Closes.

Arrives. Closes.
EASTERN.
Pndays, Thursdays Mondays, Wednesday,
Saturdays ut Gam Il Fridays ut 3 p m
NORTHERN.
(esdays, Thursdays Mondays, Wednesday:
Saturday IL m. & Fridays l2 a. m.
ria Riuer Route.
fdnesdays and Sun Mondays G. Thursdays
daysa pm at l2 m.
SOUTHERN.
Pndnvs, Wednesdays Tuesdays, THURSDAYS
Pa Fridays at l2 M. and Saturdays at l2 m
d. C. ELDRIDGE, P. NJ.
OFFICE HOURS.
Ppen from A. M. to 4 P. M. and from r,
TO p. NJ.
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1850-01-24

The Albany Dutchman states there has
been discovered down east substitute Tor
tobacco '.just as nasty and great deal
cheaper"
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1850-01-24


THE GREAT PILL-TAKER.-lSl7. Died
at Heckington, aged sixty-fve, Mr.. Samuel
Jessup, an opulent grazier, Of pill-taking
memory. fIelived in q very eccentric way.
as bachelor, without known relatives; md
at his decease possessed Of n good fortune.
notwithstanding most nordinate craving
for physic, by which he was distinguished
for the last thirty years ofhis life, as appear
ed on trial for the amount of an apotheca-
rvs bill, at the nssizes at Lincoln, short
time before Mr.. Jessup's death, wherein he
was defendant. The evidence on the trial
affords the following materials for the epit-
aph Of the deceased, which will not be tran
scended by the memornb ia ofthe life ofany
man: In twenty -one wears (from 1871 to
lSl6) the deceased took 226,934 pills, sup
piled by respectable apothecary at Bot'es-
ford; which is at the rate Of lO,S06 pills q
year, ortwenty-nine pills each day; but as
the patient began with more moderate ap.
petite. nnd increased it as he proceeded, in
the last five years preceding 1916, he took
the pills at the rate of seventy eight day,
and in the year 1914 he swallowed not less
than $3.50. Notwithstanding this, and
the addition Of 10000 bottles Of mixture,
and juleps and electuaries, extending alto
gether to fifty-fve closely written columns
Of an apMhecary's bill, the deceased lived
to attain the advanced age Of sixty-fve
years Ercry- Day Book.
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1850-01-24
WHOLE NUMBER 1876.
vAsrsEss or RArlwAY WoRss.-Tbo

VAsTNEss OF RAILWAY WCRks.-Tho
great pyramid Of Egypt was, according to
Diod'rus Sculns, constructed by three hun
dred thousa nd--according to Herodotus, bv
one hundred thousand men. Il required
for its execution twenty years. a nd tho labor
expended on 1t has been estimated as eqniv-
aent to lifting 1913, 100000 (ffeen
thousand seven hundred and ,hirty-,hree
millions) ofcubic feet Of stone, one foot high.
Now, in the snme measure, if the labor ex-
pended in constructing the Southern divis-
ion Of the present London and Northwest
ern Railway be reduced to one common de-
nomination. the result is $4,000. 600, 5000
twenty-five thousand millions) Of cubic
feet Of similar materia! lifted to the sano
height, being 1,267 100000 (nne thousand
two hundred and sixty-seven miilions) of
cubic feet moro than was lifted for the
pyramid, and vet the English work was
performed hy about 10000 men only, in
less than FIVE years.
Again, it fas been calculated BY Nj.
Lecount, that the quantity of earth moved
in the single division (ll2 miles 10 lengthy
Of the railway 10 question, would be suffii-
cient to make fotpath, foot high and
ward broad, round the whole circumstances
ofthe Garth; the cos, Of this division Of the
railway. in penny pieces, being sufficient
to form copper kcrb or edge 10 it. Sup
pose, therefore, the same proportionaie
quantity Of earth 10 be moved in the 7l5O
miles Of railway sanctioned bv Parliament
at the commencement Of ls4S, our engi-
neers, within about fifteen years. would. in
the construction Of our railways alone, have
removed earth sufficient TO girdle The globe
with road one foot high and one hundred
and ninetv-one broad.--Sir F. Heads
Stokers and Pokers
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1850-01-24
THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI.
REV. ALBERT BARNES.

Ivisitedthe FalIs9fSt. Anthony. know
not how other men feeIwhen standing there,
nor how men will feel century hence
when standing there-then not in the West,
but almost in the cep're ofour great nation.
But when stood there, and reflected on
the distance between that and the place Of
my birth and my home; on the prairies
over which had passed. and the stream
the '.Father Of Rivers''-up which had
sailed some five hundred miles into new
and unsettled lsnd-where the children Of
the forest still live and roam-l had views
Of the greatness Of my country such as !
have never had in the crowded capitals and
the smiling Villages Of the East. Far 10
the distance did they then seem to be, and
there came over the soul the idea Of great
ness, and vastness, which no figures, no
description, had ever conveyed TO my mind.
To an inexperienced traveller, too, how
strange is the appearance of all that land! J!
Those boundless prairies seem as if they
had been cleared by the patient labor Of
another race Of men-removiDg all the
forests, and roots, and stumps, and brambles,
and smoothing them down as if with mighty
rollers, and sowing them with grass and
fowers-a race which then passed away.
having built no houses of their own, and
made no fences, and set out no trees. and
established no landmarks, to lay the foun-
dation Of any future claim. The mounds
which yon here and there see, look, indeed.
as if a portion Of them Ind died, and had
been buried there: but those mounds, and
those boundIess fields had been forsaken to-
gether. You ascend the Mississippi amidst
scenery unsurpassed in beauty, probably,
in the world You see the waters making
their way along an interval of from two To
four miles in width-between bluffs Of from
hundred TO five hundred feet in height
Now the river makes its way along the east.
ern range Of bluffs, and now the western,
and now in the centre, and now it divides
itself into numerous channels, forming
thou ands Of ofheautiful ulislands-c.vered with
long grass, ready for the scythe Of the now
er. Those bluff, rounded with taste and
skill such as could be initiated by no art of
man, and set out with trees here and there
gracefully arranged ike orchards, seem to
have been sown with grain to,ie summit;
and are clothed with beautiful green. You
look out instinctively for the house and
barn; for focks and herds; for men. and
women, and chldren-bnt they are not
there. A race that is gone seems TO have
cultivated those fields, and then to have
silently disappeared-leaving them for the
FIRST man that should come from the older
parts Of cur own country, or from foreign
lands, to take possession Of them. It is
only by process Of reflection. that you are
convinced that il is not so But it is no,
the work Of man. 1t is God who has done
il, when there was no man fhere-save the
wandering savage, Mike ignorant and un-
concerned as to the design of the great
processes in the land whore be roamed;-
God who did all this, that he might prepare
It for the abode Of civilized and christian
people.
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1850-01-24

THE FRENCH MINISTER. NJ. THIERs.-
The following story is told of this parsonage
in late Paris paper: An aged sister, liv-
ing at AK, came to Paris to ask assistance
from him, when he refused to see her. An
enemy of Theirs advised and assisted her to
open an eating and issue card ms
follows: "Madaple Repert, sister to M.
Theirs, formerly president of the council Of
ministers, has opened an excellent table
de hote. Mt three francs head, wine incln-
ded, at Rue do Ia Vile Eveqne, No. 2S.'
A card was sent to Thiers, and he soon pro-
cured proper situation tor his sister. i
was the correct way to moriifv and vey one
who sprang from poor and low family
and forgcts himself.
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1850-01-24
NEW MUSIC.

NEW MUSIC.
SUPPLY just received by ex-
a press at the the Rock Island Book Store.
fptember 9th, I849.
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1850-01-24

COPAL VAlkNESII.
OPAL Vnrnish Nos. ! and 2 just re-
ccved and for sale by A SANDERS.
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1850-01-24
TO sPORISyIEN.

LOT Of superior wnter proof percus-
son cape, also patent Gun-wads, for sale
e store Of II. A. PORTER.
n' 18th. l9-lf
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1850-01-24

In my last gave you an appalling account Of
the ravages Of the cholera, and the destruction Of
property, on the route to California, far have
travelled on the road. shall again begin At
Fort Laramie. The road from the Fort to the
South Pass is very rough, difficult to travel and
mostly mountainous. There is little or no tim
Der, from the Missouri here there is great scarci-
The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1850-09-10
THE STATE OF THE COUNTRY.

II is impossible for any one acquainted with
the course of affairs not to perceive that they
fast approach a deciding point for Union OF Dis
union.
The troops Of Texas are now, we understand,
on their march to take possession of Santa Fe,
and in spite of Col. Muuroe, the United States
soldiers and the self-established governments of
New Meyico, to enforce the civil authority of
their sovereign State,
The California bill has passed the Senate,
admitting that country as a State, in defiance
Of its having formed itself, and applied for adj
mission, regardless of all propriety and prece-
dent, and of the rights OF the Southern States;
and Notwithstanding its overgrown boundaries,
Sufficient for an empirel shutting the Southern
States from all the Pacific coast.
This bill is now before the House. If it be.
come a law, the State of Georgia, having
pledged herselfto call together her Legislature
to take steps to resist it and other Southern
States having also thus declared their determi-
nation a secession from a Union to which
they are no longer bound, and in which they
can no longer remain in honor and safety, will
inevitably and of right be the step taken by
them, let who viii attempt TO hinder. We
published last week the protes, against the adj
mission of this country, which was laid on the
table ofthe Senate. This is an able document,
and the objections therein set forth are true.
We have a right aud are in duty bound to re-
sisi a fnal disregard Of these reasonable OBJ
%jections, We rely upon the House, It rests
with them what shall be done.