The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1850-04-11

| RTMr. Clemens, Senator from Alabama
| in late speech. spoke Of the poor factory
girls Of the north, expressing great curiosi
~ 10 know whether they Jared in toll and
as we'll rs the slaves Of the south. Miss
Harriet Farley, edilrcss Of the Lowell Oier-
ing, herself factory girl, has written to
the Boston Atlas, replying toa portion Of
Mr.. Clemens enquiries. We quote from
her letter.
s.My own room for this night, contains
bed-sofa, carpet, dressing table, chairs.
white curtains, pictures, ect.. and lantlci-
pate respectable quantity Of sleep. M,
landady is widow, like her Of Main, will,
her only son, also two little nephews.-
These with eight boardsrs, constitute her
family, though the house, with the usua!
elastic capacities of these structures, can
be made to accommodate as many more.
These girls appear lady.like and intelli-
gent.
zone Of the queries Of the Senator is,
l.What is the kind and quantity Of food
which the operatives eatg ! presume he,
wants to know just how many pounds Of
hoe.cnke they are allowed to stow away.
am happy to be able to satisfy him def
nitely upon one point; for as one Of the girls
assures me, they eat MS much as they ,cant,
I will give my bill Of fare to-day: Breakfast
-cream, toast and inince pie; there was
fresh biscuit and other etceteras upon the
table. Dinner-fried sausages and cold
corn beef, with baked potatoes, SO fair and
mealy that if the Senator found any as
good at Washington hotel, he was FORUM
ate man; bread, pickle, and other furnish
ings were not wanting. Second course
--hot pancakes and cheese. Supper-ho,
cakes, as light and fair as the tiny snow drifts
when settling on the window-sil; apple pie
pumpkin pie and cheese; cold pancakes.
and cup-cake as light as sponge. lsbonld
not fail to mention that tea was served
morning, noon and night, and coffee in the
morning; aud that all was 30 nice that
fear we erred By eating more than zee rant-
ed--by granting to Nature more than was
sufficient for her ample demands.
"flow many, asks our querist. spass
annually from the mill TO the poor-house'.
| have passed the inquiry to my good host
ess, who cannot remember one, though she
has been connected with mills nearly
twenty years. She saws there was girl
who came here from Salmon Falls, who was
crazy, and they put her into the poor house,
; but she rasnt mill girl.
IL have been here nearly week among
these operatives, endeavoring 10 enlarge
the subscription list Of the sOffcring.' /
have obtained among them two hundred
and forty subscribers and should have found
many more, but that they had previously
made arrangements for the magazines want
ed during the year. Some were taking the
Union Magazine, Grnham's, or the Lad,'s
Book, and sometimes two of these, with
several papers; or some Of the expensive
works now being pubIished-in numbers; but
they would hnve patronized me had come
sooner. And some few refused because
our work was not sufficiently elevated To
meet their intellectual wants, in which ca-
ses had no reply, save the humble polite
invitation to add 10 its merits by contribu-
ting to its pages."
VRoMANTIC INCIDENTAL gentleman on
one Of our steamboats, on late trip TO New
Orleans, lost a coat which was taken ont OF
his berth whilst the boat lay at Natchez-
Upon the upward trip the boat stopped al
the same place; and some one, unobserved,
placed ia the clerks desk bundle, which
proved to be the lost coat, with the follow
ing note:
NArcHEz. Jan. 18th, 1850.
Mr.. Clerk Of the Steamer r-:--Being
about to take to myself partner for life,
one in whom all the graces and loves have
combined 10 make perfection perfect, and
withal has the golden recommendation that
has caused 80 many within tho past two
years to brave storms by sea privations and
tolls by lnnd to pick from mother earth
what shall now pick with the grentest
ease from one Of mother Ewes daughters.
Being, as before said, about to marry, had
not decent suit ofnpparel TO do the thing
up brown, aud concluded to borrow from a
class Of community who, it is said, have
great souls and gond stock Of jewelry and
soiortb. Your Office could not get into,
stepped into the second room aft and got a
coat which now return with the thanks Of
one greatly obliged. and may be, is the
hnppicst fellow in Gods creation. Pat il
in the same place, and tell the fellow what
good he has done 10 one who is too honcst
to steal, and won't ask q favor.
ENTIRE Nous.
/ TRUE AS GospEL-The Salem Gazette
very truly remarks: There is no such
thing as doing anything gratuifousty in
printing Office. Some body must pay for
every thing that is done. Not n line can
be set that does not cost money for setting.
Either the publisher must pay the whole.
or the advertiser pay his share This Is
literally true, and vet there are few more