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Western union. (City of Hannibal, Mo.) 1850-1851, 1851-05-08
Great Auction Sale!

Great Auction Sale!
IN Monday morning, the 9TH of May. a, 10 o'clock,
vi will sell ~ithout 'cscirc, the entire stock of goods
belonging 10 the late firm OF Rhodes Smith consisting
OF callcocs, muslin de LANES, apacas melIos, cloths
and cassmcrcs, silks bonhcs and great variety of
staple aud Fancy Dry Goods
Also, an extensive assortment OF Boots aud Shoes
Shoe findings, and hats and caps.
Also, groceries and QuccnsWarc.
The sale viii continue from day 20 day and night 20
night, until the stock is entirely sold. Merchants aud
others viii hnd II 10 their interest 10 attend the sale
Tcrhl>-GtS5i! may "
G. NJ. SMITH
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"a arrtgu

On the 9th ul, BY Elder John NJ Johnson. Mr.
BENZ. L. FORD 10 Miss EMILY JANE kElrHlf,
daughter OF Capt Joseph keithly, both OF Pike coun
ty.
Western union. (City of Hannibal, Mo.) 1850-1851, 1851-05-08
MORE NEW BOOKS!

MORE NEW BUUXS
lust received, from New York, P',ila. 1JsI~fy1
y delpha. Baltimore, Louisville, and ~. i.HxfI2
Louis, an extensive assoIt mcn' oil BOOKS MANY
and STATIONERY, embracing histories biographies
poems, miSccanies Latin, Greek, nut French books,
scientific works, juveniles, toy books Bibles aud les
tamens Of every szc and quality, hymn books lor all
denominations, a great variety of moral and religious
books muse, instructors for all musical instrument
school books of every kind, blank books of every size,
cap and letter paper oi every quality, fancy note aud
billet paper plain aud fancy enyelopS, waters. visiting
cardS, card cases, albums, portfolios, water color
paints and brushes, dawIu1 paper, Bristol boards per-
oated boat -, houne, boards wall and window paper
maps, slatrs aud pencils, ink ands, ink, sand boxes
sand, quilts, steel pens, pen holders, writing and draw
ing pencils gold pens gold AID silver pencil CASES lei
Ter stamps, cngraygs aud pictures. 10 short, every ar
tice usually kept in the hest book stores all OF which
will be sold very cheap for cash, wholesale retail.
| ! embrace this opportunity 10 tender my thanks ia
those who have patronhed me- and invite them, and all
others to call, and cXamin my stock. Ersign of III,
BIG BOOK.
! .mayly F. McELRoY.
Western union. (City of Hannibal, Mo.) 1850-1851, 1851-05-08

Constitutional Amendments proposed
at the first Session of the Sixteenth
General Assembly of the State Of
Missouri.
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I'LL HAXXH||
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On tho Isl inst, Mrs. JANE 4. VICTOR, ,
Mr.. John L. Victor, of this city.
Western union. (City of Hannibal, Mo.) 1850-1851, 1851-05-08

COFFE EDO sack prime Rio Coffee in store an for
~ sale by Il nov2yl CIV, CAPLlNGER
Western union. (City of Hannibal, Mo.) 1850-1851, 1851-05-08
FOR SALE,

FOR SALE.
n EXTRA CAMERA and apparatus cheap for
cash, or TO exchange for good property. 10 any
re wishing 10 travel this is a pleasant and lucrative
isness Instructions given in the art on sonabe
erms. apr3 !. BALLARD.
Western union. (City of Hannibal, Mo.) 1850-1851, 1851-05-08

Splendid LOT of Dress silks. Call before they are
"A ali gone. For sale by aW2Iy
COLIINS& BREED.
Western union. (City of Hannibal, Mo.) 1850-1851, 1851-05-08
DRESS SILKS.

CALlCOES Of all colors and descriptions for sa
~ cheap by Iapr2iy1 COLLlNS& BREED.
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1851-02-13
fFlon, .1rltur's Home Gaselle.
SINGULAR MARRIAGE.

A young lady correspondent, who taxes
be nom de plume Of :sRpse Rover relates
10 following romantic incident, as having
tcurrej in 4 village somewhere 10 Ten
essce. Truth is often stranger than fic-
ou.
II have bcen playing the part Of brides
haid ever since wrote last, aud have there
bre, but little time left in which to indlte
bis epis,le. One Of the marriages, at
bhich cfficia,ed in the capacity mentioned,
bas quite a romantic affair: and, rs no
srm will bo done, I will give you the par
cuIar.- -suppres.ing tho names, however.
After the union Of the couple, to whose
h,rriace we were bidden, they had scarce.
sat down before another stood up and
esired 10 be joined in the holy bond. Tho
Minister wns much surprised, as he had ex'
ec,ed to of1iciatc but once; but, feeling
hat il vas not his business to inquire into
he WINS md whereforcs that he was not
breadvised, he asked for the necessary au-
hority. and il then, for the first time, oc-
buried to tho bridegroom. that license
vas Indispensable to the consummat'on o.
Dis happiness. lie exclaimed: :.
"This shall no. interiere;" and immed''
htely left the house, saying he would re'
burn in a few minutes.
"Wbilo he was absent, we learned mat
y few minutes before the union Of the first
couole. this young gentleman, in "A lively
eonyerss,ion with several sprightly and
mischief loving girls, had told them ihas he
VA, obou, 10 make proposition to test
heir courage, (of which, il seems, they had
been rather boastfully speaking,) and this
was nothing more nor less than that ne
would challenge either one Of them TO mar
~ him as soon as the expected ceremony
MAS performed. Several Of them shrunk
from the ordeal; but one Of them, more
|coursoeou, than the rest, accepted the
challenge, thinking that he would "oack
|ou.," before the ceremony was tin'sheo'
.some Of the company told tho young Ia.
|dv. during tho young gen,lemsns absence
that she had better not 90 50: unless s"c
was seriously inclined 10 have him Tor '''os
partner. She replied that sho was ss de'
termined as himself, and was not TO be "on'
done !" and seemed 10 think that i cou!d
be nothing moro than n joke, All argn
mcnts were in win, 30 that, when 'ne
Young gentleman returned, and presented
the license. tho having procured il at the
clerk. ofFice-it being the county sea-
where We we're nssemb'cu| tne e""!
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1851-02-13

A FORTUNE SOMETIMES 4 MISFORTUNE.
"A man named Henry Woods, 10 New
York, hearing the other day that be- had
been left legacy Of $1,000 by the death
Of q relative in Scotland, Immediately quit
work, %. drunk, and the next morning wss
found drowned in ono Of The dockst
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1851-02-13

The FIRST PRINTED BooK.--N is q re.
marksbls and most interesting fact, TIM,
the very first use to which the discovery
ofprinting was applied, was the production
Of the Holy Bible. This was accomplished
at Men,z between the years l45O aud
1855. Gutenberg was the inventor OF the
art, and Faust, a Goldsmith, furnished the
necessary funds. Had il been single
page, or even 40 entire sheet, which was
then produced, there nigh. have been less
occasion TO have noticed il; but there was
something in the character Of the affair.
which il not unprecedented, rendered ie
singular in the usual current Of human
events. ass t
This bible was in two folio volumes,
which have been justly praised for tho
strength and beauty Of the paper, the OK.
&C, ness Of the register, and tho lustre Of
the ink. The work contained twelve hun.
dred and eighty two pages, and being tho
first ever printed, Of course involved along
period Of time. and an immense amount Of
mental, nanual, and mechanical labor,
and yst, for a long time aftsr il had been
finished, and offered fos sale, not . single
human being. save the artists themselves,
knew how it had been accomplished.
Ofthe first printed Bible, eighteen copies
are now known 10 be in existence, four OF
which are printed on yellum. Two Of
these are in England. A7s
a s. tfs
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1851-02-13

aGo IT Doors.n-A Mrs. Boots, Of Penn.
sylvanis, has left her husband, Mr.. Boots.
and s,rayed to psrts unknown. We pre-.
sumo that the pair Of Boots are rights and
lefis. We cannot say, however, that Mrs.
Boots is right: but there Is no mistake tha'
Boots himselfis is left.
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1851-02-13

LIE OHEATESI DiSCuSEMt OG AhC NA"~''
There has Just been brought to light the
application ot power rhich is to supersedc
entirely the presenS steam poarer of the
,corld! This announcement may slagser
Some, bu. the discovery, when il shall be
diyulged, will stagger them thousand
times more.
Ii has been made BY an Eastern man,
who has completed his models--one OF
which will be deposited at Washington as
soon as patent rights shall be secured 20
the different European countries. The
machinery 10 entirely perfected--lhe pow
er is motive one, and steam has no par!
ia creating il. So simple aud economical
are the principle and application, that two
tons or coal will be sufficient TO drive the
largest ship Of the line around the world.
We are not at liberty, now, TO dlyulge
more Of this wonderful discovery; but We
predict, with the greatest confidence, ina,
a short time only viii clapse before total
revolution will take place throughout tho
world in our motive power system. IN
deed, we assert, with the same confidence
that the year 1850 terminated the sover'
eighty ofsteam. *@t
This is no chimsrs. we mean what we
say--and time, brief in point Of doratlon'
will evolve this wonder, a. present hid as
with n gauze, only from the pablic eye, to
the establishment Of Christendcm--a, as,
constituent far greater than that produced
by the discovery Of steam or tho ,nsgne',c
telegraph. -Germdntoun Pa J Telegraph
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1851-02-13
AgsIvlL OF JENNY LIND.

Ag2IYAL OF JENNY LIND.
Tell. We saw her! yes, we did.
Il was nine o'clock st night;
fot cloud the azure hid
And the moon was shining bright.
rhen We saw her, the immortal
Jenny Lind,
From common rail car portal,
As Pat would say
ssDsscind.r'
We saw her rather dimly,
For the shadows fell down grimly
From The cars and things around;
And her bonnet and her veil
Were an eye-proof coat Of mail,
While the smoke from out the rail
Road locomotive schimbly''
bid the atmosphere abound.
4 We did not see feature
Ofths ear enchanting creature,
Nor catch single smile from her lips;
/ Nor did we meet glance
From those eyes that 80 entrance;
But that hat, and veil, and oil,
And her comfortable shawl,
That in graceful folds did fall,
Der her bust, and waist, and hips
Them we saw
With pleasant awe!
land we felt the mighty truth deep impressed
That beneath that veil and shawl,
! The gown and pet, that IL all
That clothes her form that dressed,
That glorious creature Uas,
No mistake about il pos'
And we trembled in onr boots
Like man does when he shoots
For the FIRST time in his lie, deer or moose,
/ A fever N agur shake
With tendency to make
Your body pimpIed o'er like goose.
Twas more than We could bar,
So We leaned against a car,
While singing In our ears,
Like the music Of the spheres,
A gentle stealin' thro' US
Said meIodionsly t,u
She Is thar.
Jenny's thar,
But echo did not answer, not as We know Of
Uhay?
! And we heard her honey tones,
Go thrilling through our bones,
And doubtless we shall feel them week;
Yes that sweet, soul-probing voice,
In whose power we all rejoice,
That could teach new song to bird,
We have heard!
It's true! we heard it say
And long, oh, long the day
In orr memory will stay
In silvery sounds we heard her
Most deliestely murder
The English Of the King.
Yes! we heard her say, and her say IS like .
sing,
(The engine Of the train had just began to
shriek,)
When from the coach she said,
As she forward bent her head:
"Ko on, trirer, querk' 10 on queek!r'
Twas TOO much Tor US to bear,
We shnddered, gasped Tor air,
Fell, and tainted, then and there.
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1851-02-13
FEMALE EDUCATION.

Shame on us, that we, who boast OF hav.
ing raised woman, in the nineteenth cen
tury, in the position she ought to hold, so
educate her that not one Of her powers,
physical or mental, can ever attain full
and healthy action. Better 60 back to the
days Of our great grandmother, and Be con-
tent with DiIworth's Spelling Book, and As
semblys Catechism; nay, better 60 to far
earlier days, when neither cstechism nor
spelling book detained the damsel from the
distaff or the loom, than rear, for the COM
ing generation, race Of nervous wives and
sickly mothers.
When the boy runs mcrrly after his ball
or chases in the race, or leaps over the
bound, the girl must walk demureIy in the
garden, because, forsooth, running, and
leaping. and jumping are ungraceful 10 the
girl. When tho boy runs freely over the
hills or through the woods in the summer,
or consts down the hill or skates rnerrily
over the pond in the winter, the girl, un.
trusted, unbenefi,ied, walks pensively BY
the side Of her teacher, to the village, or
takes two mile airing in the sleigh, once
week. See never pitches the QUOT, new
er throws the ball, never slides down the
bill, never roams through the woods, be-
cause, save the mark! these are deemed
unfeminine In fact she never thoroughly
exercises her body at all, and in conse-
quence, soon becomes unable TO endure any
kind OF physical fatigue.
s.Fit only for boys" said principal Of a
largo female institute to me, the other day.
when demonstrated with him on the i'm
portance Of these and other like exercises
for the girls. For boys, indeed! And has
not girl got physical system 10 be devel
oped, aud matured, and Investigated? Has
she not fatigue to bear, obstacles to enconn-
ter, hindrances.to overcome, enterprises to
carry out, duties to discharge: Has she
not the burden oflife to carry, and ito toll
some road 10 travel for herself? In her own
sphere does che not require, throogh life,
all the energy, strength, and endurance OF
which her system shall be capable! It mat
ters not whether she is to live in the midst
Of fashion, Or to move quietly in the circles
Of country lie, or 10 find her lot on mission
ary ground, or to struggle against unfore.
seen adversity,-all that can be made Of
her during her years Of education, physical
", morally, and intellectually. she will
need. To every woman, whatever situa'
ton she may occupy, life is a fact stubborn.
enrnest, real, to be shaped and moulded BY
her own efforts, or to be borne and endured
BY her own for,i,ude. Happy is she who
is prepared for it, not by her own despair
ing efforts in after life but BY the judicious,
careful, and thorough discipline Of early
education---N. Y. Com. Ado.
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1851-02-13
VOLUME IO.-NO. %.

rs editor Of the Bridgeport Conn Standard
Jenny Lind-he did, and seizing the pen
frenzy wrapped, thus gave burstto his feel
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1851-02-13

A SINGULAR CoINcrDENcE.-Lord Nor
pe,h, now the Earl Of Carlisle, recently
delivered a Lecture on Amsrics. 1t was
chiefly his Memoranda Of bis tour through
this country. Among other things be men
tions the following curious incident in
Rochester,
AT Rochester an odd coincidence occur
red to me-ssriking enough, think, to be
mentioned, though il only concerned my
self. After the arrival of the railway care,
and the usual copious meal oftea and meat
that ensues, had been walking about the
town, which dates onis from 1912, and then
contained 10000 inhabitants, and q ! was
returning to the ho,eL | saw the word
Theatre written up. wishing tosee eve.
ry,hing in new country, lcIimbed up some
steep stairs, into what was little better than
a garret, where found rude theatre, and
ruder audience, consisting chiefly Of boys,
who took delight in pel,ing ono nnoiher.
There was something, however, At which
| had right to foel surprised. 10 play
house Of strollers, at a town nearly 800
miles in the interior Of America, which thir-
ty years ago had no exisience-thus com.
ing ia the mereet chance, saw upon the
drop scene the most accurate representa-.
tion Of my own house, Naworth Castle 10
Cumberland.
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1851-02-13


CAprrAL PuN1snMENT.--The Chinese are
certainly an odd people. Mr.. Lyn'on late
" made communication TO tho Atlantic
Society Of London, descriptive Of mode
Of fpunishmcnt, peculiar to the criminal code
Of The Celestial Empire. A Chinese uer-
chant, accused and convicted Of having
killed his wifa, was sentenced TO die by the
total deprivation Of sleep. The execution
took place at Annoy, in the month Of June
last. The CONDEMNED was placed in prison
under the serccillancc Of three guardians,
who relieved each other OF every alternate
hour, and who prevented him from taking
any sleep, night or day. he lived thus
for nineteen days, without having slept Tor
a single minute. At tho commencement
Of the eighth day, his sufferings were so
cruel, that he begged, - great favor.
thu, they would kill him By strangulatlon.
Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-09-13
KETTELL & MOORE.
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From education, from position, from association from
interest, from choice they are Southern men, Their
defence OF Southern rights is defence of themselves
and all they hold dear that it has been warm unre-
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no man who has read their sheet will deny To doubt
VIII continue to be presume that the pr-
iehhavs heen instilled into them
from thelf Dlrln can be eradeated at period of life
when men rarely change their views Thew at least
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Northern Sentiment.

The Constitution is not altered since Willard Fill
more gave Milton Clark money to aid him in his
flight from Slavery, and we heartily approve the
deed. We think it reflects more credit on Buffalo
than all her Rusts and H K. Smith can do in the
way of manifesting their peculiar zeal for Law and
Order tor the next ten years We trust Mr. Fill
more's generosity will have many imitators, and
Mr.. Rusts constitutonalism very few.
The Fugitive Slave Law, we hear cannot be
repealed Perhaps not. But 1t may be portray
ed, andit shall be- Ii is the most internal libel on
the name of Law which any Legislature has en-
acted within lifetime. 1t is an act from which
Christendom recoils with abhorrence-the shame
and grief of Republicans, the exaul+ation and glory
of Aristocrats, throughout the civilized world
The champions of Freedom and Progress through
out Europe hide their faces when it Is named; hap
py are those who are able to disbelieve It's exis-
tcnce 1t is an act which would seem to have
been framed expressly to deny the axiom, that
Law is the dyinely appointed shield of the weak
from the violence ofthe strong, ofthe frugal labor
from the rapacity of the luxurious idler, of the
simple and timorous against the swoop Of the cum
ming and daring. To pretend that any just man
would take pleasure In its enforcement, we must
! believe that an audience feels disappointed and
wronged by the spectacle of Antonio escaping the
whetted knife of Shylock. If this law cannot pres
emily be repealed, there is so much the greater
need of rendering it detested and infamous, so that
no one be found base enough to enforce it who
would not be the hangman of his brother for g
dollar--so that freemen shall loathe it, and sayeI
holders be ashamed oft 4
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SEWARD CoMING soUTE-OR THE USIoN OF THE
VINES FOR TIE SAKE OF THE 0FFIcEs.--H the
Compromise party succeeds IN Georgia, as 1t has
done in Mississippi. clearly of opinionthere
viii be an effort to reconstruct the old wing party
The platform of the Seward and Fillmore wings
of New York will form the basis of the Union
This will be dis:asteful dose to the southern
section. but for the sake Of the Offices, and par
" triumph they wiz swallowit.
The Nashville True Wig rejoices over the re
Cancellation between the silver grey and Sc
ward wings, and approves the basis on which they
have met Its language is as follows
g We publish, this morning the call for con
vention of the wing party Of New York to be
held in Syracuse on the 10th. OF September next
That there will be perfect union of the party IN
New Ork upon the basis here laid down, there
can be no doubt, and it is certainly great cause
of graduation TO the wings of New ork. that
while their opponents in the midst OF dlssen-
tons, they may look to future contests with well
founded hope of united effort for the success OF
those great ends of public policy for which they
have SO often batlled. >
The '.basis'' to which the Nashville paper re-
fers, is the following resolutions adopted by the
committees of the rival faction at Albany. The
wilmot proyiso is distinctly adopted, and the right
10 agtate for the repeal of the fugitive law Is as
expressly reserved yet il sutsthis Nashville paper
published in a slave State. Ii will be recollected
also, that the National Inteigencer, and the Re
public, have endorsed this freesoil platform.
That the wings of the State, as body, are
iaferibiy opposed to tie suJjecton Of any territory
Of the United States nor free, % Iaees nposag an
voluntary ser.tude except as a punishment for
crime: and they rejoice that no proposition to that
effect is pending or is likely to be presented
while. at the same time, they unqualifedly ac-
knowledge the right of every sovereign State to
regulate its own municipal institutions, in such
manner as its people may deem most conducive to
their safety and happiness without interference,
directly indirectly, by citizens of other States,
or subjects of other countries.
That the law of Congress, and of the State Ie-
gislatures, pronounced constitutional by the judi
cial tribunals, must be enforced and implicitly O.
beyed and that while this is cheerfuIy recogni-
zed as the duty of all, subjects of the laws yet
the right of citizens voters IS equally undeni-
able to discuss, with full and mutual regard fol
the rights and interests of all parts of the coned
eracy, (Which is as necessary now to maintain, as
II was Indispensable to achieve the blessed Union o.
these States, tie eapediency Of such lars and the
propriety of any of their provisions and to seek
by constitutional MEANS. their repeal or modif
cation. "--NadiSonie7e